16 Dec 1936
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Newspaper
Corona Daily Independent
Location
Corona, California, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1936
Page
1
The article highlights a rare photograph featuring the president's grandson, noted for boosting enthusiasm at the family's birthday celebrations. The image underscores the younger generation's ties to the presidency and adds a personal angle to public appearances.
Mae West headlines a new modern comedy at the Corona theatre tonight. She plays a farmbound city belle pursued by three suitors, with Randolph Scott in a backwoods inventor role and Warren William as a press agent who blocks romance. Filming on the Ashcroft ranch adds authentic farm settings.
Corona High School hosts an alumni homecoming on December 26 at the school. Miss Mary G. Brown leads the committee with dinners and reunion activities planned. The program features a 1931 class one act, a 1936 library reception, and a historic game pitting former stars against the 1937 varsity team. Banners trophies and memorabilia from past years will be displayed.
The Pacific Union Conference of the Seventh day Adventist, including California Arizona Nevada Utah and Hawaii, will hold its annual convention in Riverside January 18 to 27. About 300 to 500 delegates are expected with 2000 to 3000 attendees overall. Sessions are in Civic Memorial Auditorium with President Glenn A Qualkins presiding. Delegates from the General Conference in Washington DC will attend alongside multiple officers.
Plans call for extending the highway from Ensenada 15 miles south along the coast and inland toward interior Baja California. The route would boost access to guest ranches and hunting grounds, attracting sportsmen. A connecting road may link at Mexicali with the new Baja California highway near San Felipe.
In Carmel California UP report vagabond poet Don Banding says he will file a formal complaint with the city council alleging that a flea infestation in the upscale artistic colony has made life there nearly intolerable for him.
A reported incident at Santa Anita ends with a driver driven home after thieves allegedly confront and rob the victim before leaving the area. Authorities investigate the motive and collect witness statements. No injuries reported as the victim reaches safety.
Four initiates received second degree burnings this morning as they joined the Dunkers club after the initiation rite. Councilman Joe Copley underwent reintroduction but resisted rivals to earn the badge. A special collection funded a 25 pound candy box for under privileged children via the welfare department. Guy Geming announced a program about a one armed flute player who lost a limb to a Jersey mosquito bite. The act showed how the player could hold the instrument and still pick up pennies. The show included phonograph records played by a noted printer with pantomime by Frank Newsom. Next week Arthur J. Blakeley will present The Dunkers Christmas Dream.
Walter Thompson of Osagi City Kansas 66 recalls his lifelong attachment to his home region born in a cabin on the current site. He preserves fragments of the cabin where he was born as friends recall hunting and fishing memories in the state. J Gardner of Afton Wyoming arrives in Corona to spend holidays away from snow and stoves.
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