Shelby Faye

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

The Staff of Sky Lakes Medical Center add our congratulations and very best wishes to Katie and Mickey on the birth of their beautiful new daughter Shelby Faye.

Birth Statistics

Weight: 6 pounds and 11 ounces

Length: 19

Time: 10:58 a.m.

Date: Thursday, October 8, 2009

Delivered by:

Origin of the name Shelby . . .

English - from the Ledge Estate

Thursday, October 8, 2009 - A Day To Remember . . . The Weather

Local High: 70

Local low: 28

The nation's weather extremes were 101 recorded at nationHighLocation and 7 recorded at Lake Yellowstone, Wyo.

The sun rose over Klamath Falls at 7:12 a.m. and set at 6:36 p.m.

In the financial world . . .

The Dow Jones close was 9,725.58

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: 306,460,439

Shelby shares her birthday with these other interesting people . . .

1922 - Dr. Christiaan Barnard - South African surgical pioneer who performed the first successful heart transplant in 1967.

1890 - Eddie Rickenbacker - Fighter pilot, industrialist, and the most celebrated American air ace of World War I having won 26 air victories in Europe.

1869 - J. Frank Duryea- Inventor who, with brother Charles, of one of the first automobiles and the first to be built and operated in the United States - in September, 1893.

1846 - Elbert Henry Gary - American lawyer and first chairman and CEO of U.S. Steel who introduced employee stock ownership, profit sharing and safe working conditions.

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

1956 - New York Yankee pitcher Donald Larsen, recorded the first ever perfect world series game, no hits, no runs and no walks in a 2 - 1 win over the Brooklyn Dodgers.

1890 - In one of history's most incredible solo military actions, U.S. Army foot-soldier Alvin York single-handedly took out a German machine gun emplacement, killed 25 enemy soldiers and captured 132.