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Show New Year's Babe An All Around First The New Year was two hours and forty minutes late in arriving arriv-ing for Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Mecham,but that it did arrive is evidenced by a baby girl born to the Mechams at 2:40 a.m., January 1, 1947. The Mecham baby, the first to be born at the Roosevelt hos-ptial hos-ptial in 1947, can claim several other firsts, to-wit: She is the first child born to Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Mecham; she is the first grandchild of Mr. and Mrs. Virgil Vir-gil Mecham, and the first grandchild grand-child of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Ellis, parents of the mother. Topping the list of the babe's blue ribbons she is the first great-grandchild of Mr. and Mrs. James Lemon, of loka. |