One of my earliest memories involves the old compress building. My brother told me it happened on his birthday, February 13, 1933 and I was too young to possibly remember it, but I can still visualize the scene from our front yard on East Street. There was a lot of publicity that a lady was going to parachute from an airplane and land on the courthouse lawn. Everybody in town was watching for her to land. Airplanes were scarce, and the idea of a lady jumping out with a parachute was really big news. We only lived a few blocks from the courthouse, so had a good view. The whole neighborhood watched and watched, and when she jumped I never did see her, but the rest of the family did. The wind blew her away from the courthouse and she landed on the roof of the old compress building on Blair Street, which years later was Griggs Equipment Company. She had jumped from the plane, but when she landed she was afraid to jump the distance from the building to the top of a boxcar parked next to it so she could climb down the ladder on the boxcar and get down. The fire department had to get her down. Frances