City to Mail Parking Ticket Envelopes for Fines
The City of Corona and the Police Department will start giving parking ticket envelopes with preaddressed return postage. Motorists drop in the pink slip and a dollar, mail it, and the city covers the postage. City Manager William Mount says the plan cuts clerical work and speeds payments, inspired by Larned Kansas.
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City Hall
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Larned
Kansas
Survey Indicates 14 000 Population In Corona by 1959
The Pacific Southwest region of the NAM estimates Riverside County will rise from 170 046 in 1950 to 282 000 by 1959 with Corona counting about 14 000 if county trends hold. The report notes faster gains in Indio and Palm Springs and warns that high taxes could hinder capital investment and job creation.
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Riverside County
Pacific Southwest Region
National Association of Manufacturers
Corona
Indio
Palm Springs
Pacific Southwest Research Council
NAM
California
Eisenhower
Warren
Imperial
Tulare
Missed Paper Delivery Offer at Daily Independent
A man is at the Daily Independent office until 6 30 p m to deliver papers missed by subscribers. Later deliveries cannot be made.
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Daily Independent
Pvt Elbert L Fish Heads Overseas For Duty In Germany
Pvt 1/c Elbert Luther Fish left last week after a 10 day leave with his parents Mr and Mrs J W Fish at 1709 Mountain avenue Norco. He departed by plane for Camp Kilmer New Jersey where he awaits overseas orders for duty in Germany. Fish graduated Corona high school in 1950 and joined the U S Army in 1953.
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J. W. Fish
Mountain Avenue
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Fish
Camp Kilmer
N. J
Germany
Pvt. Fish
Corona High School
U. S. Army
Women in Home Gardens Rally Against Feedlot
Housewives in Corona Home Gardens oppose a proposed cattle feeding yard north of Home Gardens, fearing flies and odors in their neighborhoods. The plan by H C Williams and Carl Denk was previously rejected north of the Santa Fe tracks. planning officials may decide later this month with County Supervisors to review. Local petitions surged after a Friday article, with 149 signatures on Monday and more possible.
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Corona Home Gardens
Home Gardens
County Planning Commission
McKinley Street
Magnolia Avenue
H. C. Williams
Carl Denk
Santa Fe
Corona
Planning Commission
Carl Abernathy
Ladies From Home Gardens
Riverside County Planning Commission
Court House
Riverside
Los Angeles
Paramount
Norwalk
Santa Ana
Record Landing Made in Bell XH-15 Copter
Bell test pilot Elton J. Smith completed a near 16 000 foot auto rotation for a record landing in the XH-15 high altitude helicopter. Engine trouble forced a power cut and a 10 minute glide ending with a safe touchdown at Bell’s heliport near Fort Worth Texas.
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Elton J. Smith
Aviation Week
McGraw-Hill
Smith
Ft. Worth
Texas
Club Opens Lake for Kids Fishing Saturday in Corona
The Corona Rod and Gun Club announces a Saturday opening of its lake on Cota Street for children under 12. The event starts June 18 at 10 a.m. with supervision and instruction by club members.
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Cota Street
Corona
Rouby C. Sullivant
Fish and Game Commission
Corona Chamber of Commerce Leaders Meet to Review 1953 Plan
Corona Chamber of Commerce leaders and new President Virgil E. Wilson convened a June meeting to review progress across recreation streets highways industry membership community advertising agriculture and retail. Wilson praised chairmen and stressed ongoing work through December to advance Corona's development.
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Virgil E. Wilson
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Key Chamber
Toby’s Cafe
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Corona
Experience with Open Door Proves Most Are Honest
Carl Dunlavy hobby shop owner found his store at 610 East Grand Boulevard unlocked for three days while he and his family were away. Customers entered, browsed, and no items vanished, money untouched, confirming rare honesty. He joked about starting a self-serve business.
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Carl Dunlavy
East Grand Boulevard
Dunlavys
Dunlavy
Baseball Standings Summary for AL and NL
Washington and Cleveland records shown with runs scored and allowed. Cincinnati leads NL with six runs to seven in the given line, while Brooklyn totals indicate a 9 to 17 scoreline with a subnotation.
License Initials Designate How Car Is Used in Trinidad
Airline era style travel notes cover car licenses H P R T meanings in Trinidad and a vivid tour of Pitch Lake and Port of Spain. The piece blends historical nods with local color, noting oil fields, coconut plants, Maracas Beach, and a cemetery path sign near Port of Spain.
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Phillip
Caribbean
Queen’s Park Hotel
Mesabi Iron Range
Churchill
Maracas Beach
Mount Baldy
Maracas Falls
Manzanilla Bay
Sande Grande
Port of Spain
Gedar Hill Cemetery
Legion chief warns Korea truce not peace with unbeaten foe
Lewis K. Gough national commander of the American Legion told an audience in Merced that a Korean truce cannot be treated as peace. He said the enemy is unbeaten and dishonorable and noted the Legion backs Eisenhower’s push for a military victory while relying on the president’s assurances.
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American Legion
Lewis K. Gough
Merced
Gough
Korea
Eisenhower
Russians Offer Turkish Concessions on Dardanelles
Paris dispatches report Moscow would withdraw 1945 demands on Turkish provinces Kars Ardahan Artvin and on joint fortifications of the Dardanelles. Russia also drops a new Dardanelles convention idea excluding others and seeks limits on warship use while Turkey maintains fortification rights.
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Soviet Union
City Recreation Vacation Program Announced By City
Director Carl Plate outlined a summer recreation plan beginning next week with staff including Mrs. Peg Hendrick supervising social activities and crafts. H. L. Looney leads at City Park for baseball and softball for boys 12 to 14. Roy Merk oversees at High School La Casita for younger boys. Stanley Wolfson directs La Casita activities. Dances for teens weekly at La Casita and Panthers REC with Thursday high school dances. outdoor play equipment installed. meeting set for Monday at La Casita to plan summer activities.
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Carl Plate
Peg Hendrick
H. L. Looney
Roy Merk
la Casita
Stanley Wolfson
Panthers
REC
Panthers’ Rec
Director Plate
Graduation Night at Corona High School 1953
The Class of 1953 will hold graduation tonight at 7 15 on the Senior High football field. The Corona High School band will play Pomp and Circumstance as Seniors march to the field. Salutatorian Helen Garl and Valedictorian Elizabeth Reed will deliver the speeches. Visitors should arrive early for good seats. parking is available at the baseball field on Vicentia Street.
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Corona High School
Helen Garl
Elizabeth Reed
Vicentia Street
Man Pleads Guilty in Tem Escal District Court
William Carl Cotton of 1041 Commercial Street arrested for intoxication at Fourth and Main streets on June 10. He pleaded guilty and was fined $35 in Tem Escal Judicial District Court.
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William Carl Cotton
Commercial Street
Fourth
Main Streets
Temescal Judicial District
California adult education cap in school funding bill
In Sacramento opponents of nonessential adult courses won a point as the final school apportionment bill limits adult education to 200 per pupil. The bill directs about 370 million dollars in school funding with 212 per elementary pupil 280 per high school student and 380 per junior college enrollee.
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Sacramento
California
Riverside County
Nelson Dilworth
Hemet
Ike Warns Against Control of Natural Resources
President Eisenhower addressed 5,000 at Garrison Dam North Dakota. He warned against concentrating too much power over natural resources in Washington while noting the federal government has a major role. He spoke at the dam completion ceremony and then departed for Rapid City with Senators Mundt and Case.
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Eisenhower
Garrison Dam
N. C
Washington
Missouri River
Rapid City
S. D
Karl Mundt
Francis Case
South Dakota
Defense Chief Warns Congress Over Air Force State
Defense Secretary Charles Wilson told the Senate Appropriations Committee that Congress and the nation would be dismayed by the Air Force’s true condition when the Eisenhower administration and Republicans took power. He cited security limits and said more would be revealed in a closed session, noting Truman’s goal of 143 wings and a shift to a 120 wing temporary target. He argued the 20-division force could prevail in war, praising the atomic cannon’s mobility and usefulness, while opposing public discussion of Nike missiles.
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Defense
Charles Wilson
Congress
Air Force
Eisenhower
Wilson
Senate Appropriations Committee
Truman
Russia
Congressman Claims New A Bomb Has Massive Air Power
Republican Rep. Leslie Arends of Illinois says the nation’s new atomic bomb has the explosive power of more than 12 000 World War II B 17 bombers in a defense of the administration’s five billion dollar Air Force budget cut.
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Leslie Arends
Illinois
McCarthy Accuses Lehman of Franked Letter Campaign
Senator McCarthy charges Senator Lehman with a gross abuse of franking by mailing 100,000 postage-free letters attacking him. Lehman denounces the accusation as intimidation and notes the letters were sent legally by many senators.
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Sen. Lehman
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Joseph McCarthy
Wisconsin
New York
Herbert Lehman
Lehman
Senator Hollibaugh Dies of Apparent Heart Attack in Sacramento
Huntington Park Assemblyman Jonathan Hollibaugh, 61, an economy bloc leader, collapsed outside his hotel near the California Capitol after lunch and died on arrival at a Sacramento hospital. A Iowa native who moved to Huntington Park in 1933, he recently pushed a tax collection bill linked to delinquent tax lists printed in local papers.
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Jonathan Hollibaugh
Sacramento
Justin Hammond
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Corona Daily Independent
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State Capitol
Iowa
California
Stag party raid nets ten arrests at Rolling Hills venue
A Rolling Hills event hosting gambling games and dancing women led to ten arrests. Five women were charged with lewd display and five men with gambling and resisting arrest. A vice squad officer described partygoers bursting from the venue in a mass exodus.
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