Preston James

The Klamath Basin is blessed with the arrival of a baby boy!

The Staff of Sky Lakes Medical Center add our congratulations and very best wishes to Sheena and Chad on the birth of their beautiful new son Preston James.

Birth Statistics

Weight: 6 pounds and 14 ounces

Length: 19 1/2

Time: 11:50 p.m.

Date: Thursday, October 1, 2009

Delivered by: Arielle Metz, M.D.

Baby's Doctor: Tracy Graham, M.D.

Origin of the name Preston . . .

Old English - Priest's settlement or priest's farm.

Thursday, October 1, 2009 - A Day To Remember . . . The Weather

Local High: 61

Local low: 26

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The sun rose over Klamath Falls at 7:05 a.m. and set at 6:48 p.m.

In the financial world . . .

The Dow Jones close was 9,509.28

and the Minimum Wage was $8.40

A market basket of consumer prices looked like this . . .

Loaf of Bread: $2.49

Gallon of milk: $3.85

First class stamp: $0.44

Average new $201,000.00

New Car: $21,750.00

Populations . .

Klamath Basin Population: 71,000

U.S. Population: 306,432,523

Preston shares his birthday with these other interesting people . . .

1945 - Rod Carew - Major league baseball great who set records for stealing home (7 times in one season) and won the league batting crown seven different seasons.

1924 - Jimmy Carter - 39th President of the United States from 1977 to 1981. He was the first President to have been born in a hospital.

1781 - James Lawrence - U.S. naval Captain during the War of 1812 who gave birth to an American Navy tradition with his famous proclamation, "Don't give up the ship."

There have been some other notable events on this day in history . . .

2000 - Katherine Drexel, founder of an order of religious Sisters and untiring crusader for Indians and blacks was canonized, becoming only the second American born person to be recognized as a Saint by the Catholic Church.

1971 - Amid parades, balloons, famous mice, ducks and many other characters, Walt Disney World opened in Orlando, Florida.

1908 - The Ford Model T was introduced by Henry Ford. Retail price for the automobile was $825 and Ford proclaimed you could have any color you wanted as long it was black.

1903 - The Pittsburgh Pirates defeated the Boston Pilgrims (now known as the Red Sox) 7 to 3 in the first game of the first ever World Series.

1890 - Congress authorized the designation of 1512 acres of natural beauty and splendor in central California as Yosemite National Park.