Council Opens 180 Acres to Industry in Northeast Corona
City Council voted to abandon 250 feet of Quarry Road to enable Parkridge Road realignment and create a large 180 acre industrial area behind the Santa Fe Railroad in northeast Corona. County and private owners have negotiated for right of way to connect Easter Street and the freeway overpass, with plans following a 53 acre subdivision at Parkridge and Corona avenues.
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Council
Corona
County Road Department
Parkridge Road
Easter Street
Santa Fe Railroad
Ralph Pfiffner
A. C. Keith
Santa Fe Railroad Co
Keith
Quarry Road
Pfiffner
Corona Avenue
It’s Time to Get Busy by Corona Civil Defense Group
The Corona Civil Defense and Disaster Advisory Committee urges broad disaster prep beyond nuclear threat. It aims to reframe Civil Defense as readiness for fire, tornado, flood, earthquake, and even bomb. It promotes civic spirit, criticizes complacency, and targets doubters and overreliance on mutual aid.
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Texas
Cottonpickin’ Enterprises
Billie Sol Estes
Corona Civil Defense and Disaster Advisory Committee
Riverside flood control study faces budget stall
City Council asks Supervisor William Jones to urge Zone Two of the Flood District to approve a $14 000 study in Corona foothills needed to qualify for federal flood control funds. Corona has pledged about $5 500, while growers doubt extra money can be raised.
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William Jones
Riverside County
Zone Two
Corona
Congress
Bryant
Redlin
Landry
Melville Stark
Stark
Thome
Pfiffner
Beardsley Named Senior Investigator for Weights and Measures
Charles H. Beardsley of 633 Ford Street is named Senior Investigator in the California Bureau of Weights and Measures. He has eight years as Deputy County Sealer in Riverside County and will assume duties on June 11. He and his wife have lived in Corona for 15 years.
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Charles H. Beardsley
Ford St
Bureau of Weights and Measures
State of California
Beardsley
Riverside County
Corona
Insurance groups donate for Corona Traffic Survival School
The Corona Board of Realtors pledged 50 to fund a projector for the Corona Municipal Court Traffic Survival School, following a donation by the Corona Insurance Agents Association led by Everett Brame. The gift supports a 16 mm projector to show safety films. 25 students graduate in two weeks with classes planned for June 19 and 21.
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Corona Board of Realtors
Corona Insurance Agents Association
Corona Municipal
Insurance Agents Association
Everett Brame
Brame
George Pope
David N. Strausser
Howard Blakeley
Realty Board
Blakeley
A. J. Velthoen
Corona Camera Shop
Governor pays jaywalking fine for Brown rally guest
Gov. Edmund G. Brown's office paid a five dollar and twenty five cent jaywalking fine for Norman Goldman a 38 year old from Garden Grove California. Goldman was ticketed after crossing a street to shake Brown's hand at a political rally on Sunday.
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Los Angeles
UPI
Edmund G. Brown
Norman Goldman
Garden Grove
Calif
Goldman
Brown
City Hall and Civic Center Sites Put Up For Sale
City Council moves to sell City Hall library and parking lot as one parcel to fund repairs at the Civic Center. Bids for painting and plastering estimated at 3,000 dollars. city employees may perform work to save costs.
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Meyor Lawrence Thome
Civic Center
Eighth
Main Streets
City Hall
West Sixth Street
Ralph Pfiffner
Ganahl
Cecil Green
Louis Keller
Thome
Riverside
Harold Harris
Pfiffner
Green
First Refugee Family Arrives From China
The first refugee family from Red China admitted under the President's emergency program arrives at Chicago O’Hare. Eung Se-Suey 45 his wife Eng Yuk Pina as well as daughters Mee Han 16 Mee Won 12 and son Leng Bun 9 travel from Hong Kong via Japan and Alaska. The father Frank 69 a Park Ridge restaurant owner is ill with liver cancer and stays home. Eng says the family hopes to help others come and thanks the President.
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Chicago
UPI
Red China
United States
O'Hare
Hong Kong
Japan
Anchorage
Alaska
Eung Se-Suey
Eng Yuk Pina
Mee Han
Mee Won
Leng Bun
Kennedy
Eng
Hung Eng
Park Ridge
Ill
Frank
Ena
Johns-Manville Denies Price Fixing Charges
Johns-Manville and Keasbey Mattisor face Sherman Act charges reported by the press but deny any price fixing or trade restraint. Herbert Morton Ball of Johns-Manville says there is no basis for the accusations and notes related patent infringement actions against a foreign importer. The firm argues competition is welcome and cites a Miami court ruling upholding the Johns-Manville patent.
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New York
Johns- Manville
Philadelphia
Keasbey & Mattisor
Ambler
Penn
Herbert Morton Ball
Johns-Manville Corporation
Johns-Manville
United States
Ball
Weather Outlook for Los Angeles Area
UPI reports the U S Weather Bureau forecast sunny conditions in mountain and interior desert zones. Temperatures will rise gradually across deserts and mountains today and across most areas by Wednesday. High yesterday was 73, low last night 48, noon today 71.
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Los Angeles
UPI
U. S. Weather Bureau
Civil Defense Chairman Laments Corona Cooperation Shortfall
Corona Civil Defense Chairman William Landry told the City Council that the city and the Board of Education have given little cooperation to the Civil Defense Advisory Committee. He cited overdue service annexes and missed federal aid qualification, and urged the council to hire staff to handle civil defense tasks. The council voted to direct the city manager to complete the needed work and report back.
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Jim Heck
William Landry
Corona
Civil Defense Advisory Committee
Board of Education
Landry
Council
Nexes
Lawrence Thome
Redlin
Relph
Ken
House approves $4.67 billion foreign aid bill short of Kennedy target
The House Foreign Affairs Committee backed a 4.6685 billion aid authorization, 21-4, trimming 210 million from Kennedy’s general aid and 600 million from the Alliance for Progress. Senate review favored a 4.662 billion version as a buffer against communist pressures. Kennedy had sought 4.8785 billion.
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Washington
UPI
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Kennedy
House
Thomas E. Morgan
D-Pa
Alliance For Progress
Latin America
John Sparkman
D-Ala
Senate
United States
Senate Foreign Relations
California Awards from Safety Council for Traffic Programs
The National Safety Council cited California and 24 municipalities for traffic safety achievements in 1961. Los Angeles and others earned honors for accident records and traffic engineering while special recognition went to West Covina for no traffic deaths.
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Chicago
UPI
California
National Safety Council
West Covina
Los Angeles
Alhambra
Pasadena
Pomona
Riverside
San Diego
el Cerrito
Escon
OAS Ends Truce Amid Algerian Turmoil
In Algiers the outlawed OAS ends its four day lull and launches new terrorism. Two Moslems are killed as observers doubt the group gains from FLN talks. A pirate broadcast warns of continued scorched earth policy unless a future agreement is reached.
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Algiers
UPI
Secret Army Organization
OAS
Algeria
Algerian National Liberation Front
FLN
Provisional Executive
Algieria
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Corona Johns-Manville
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