24 Jun 1946
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Newspaper
Corona Daily Independent
Location
Corona, California, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1946
Page
1
A shipwrecked sailor is offered a world update before rescue, while a jokesy parade of vignettes follows. An old man seeks youth pills, a school morning misfire, and Edison quips about time and patience in the face of delays. A clerk and a child comic cap off the strip with a nickel on the counter.
In the Cleveland Nation Forest five look-out points monitor fires. Spotted smoke is reported to the Corona Forest Ranger Station on E Sixth Street, and exact locations are mapped to dispatch nearest stations. Fire hazard readings, taken at 8 am and 4:30 pm, use wind, moisture, and temperature to set a danger level of low to extreme. Extra crews mobilize when danger is high or extreme. Most fires start in foothills and can flood canyons after rains. dry streams threaten irrigation in summer. Read daily fire warnings with weather and urge caution with cigarettes and matches in National Forests.
Pro OPA groups press congress to save price controls as the expiration nears. Taft warns conferees are split and may disrupt if no agreement tonight. Key issues include decontrol timeline, item bans, and a decontrol board with subsidies under debate.
The Moscow daily Pravda denounces the Baruch atomic bomb control proposal as a US bid for world domination and a monopoly on bomb manufacture. It criticizes the plan to end the big power veto and accuses private monopolies like DuPont of shaping atomic industry.
At a 1946 1947 budget meeting Corona School Trustees discussed reinstating agriculture in the Corona schools. Superintendent Frank E. Bishop noted government funds won’t arrive until after program start, estimating first year costs between 4500 and 6000 dollars. Trustees decided to wait before reestablishing the program.
Corcoran Lions Club announces a benefit stag party on August 1 at Fullers Rancho to aid ill engineer A. H. Shorty Hanapel. Proceeds go to hospital expenses and recovery costs as he regains health after a stroke. Tickets will go on sale soon and Lions members will sell them.
William Hart, silent film star, dies in a Hollywood hospital Sunday night at age 75. Separate reports note the actor's death as part of a string of wartime and political items crossing the nation this week.
Clear tonight and Tuesday with passing coastal clouds in the morning. Temperatures rise to a high near 88 and a low around 51. Windy conditions persist and forest fire danger remains medium today.
Dr. Cecil E. Hays and associates announce a new chiropractic office at 518 Ramona beside the post office, opening July 1. Hays, with 25 years in practice, will relocate with his wife and two sons from Hollywood where he ran an office and rest home. His son Jack, 19, recently discharged from the Navy, serves aboard the transport APA 144 General Hodges. Lee, 9, remains at home.
The Board of Equalization will prosecute wholesale beer practices to curb a black market amid shortages. Licenses must prove a legitimate supply and avoid future delivery contracts. Retailers warned to scrutinize fine print as wine purchases rise to secure beer.
Retail sugar prices rose one fifth of a cent per pound while refiners' ceilings climbed one tenth of a cent. The Office of Price Administration said the boosts compensate refiners for falling earnings and higher labor costs.
Eleanor Haren formerly Eleanor White of Corona earned honorable mention in a Southern California High School contest on The United Nations held April 12. About 30 Corona juniors and seniors entered. papers of Eleanor White Haren and Mary Ellen Schumacher were sent to New York for judging. Certificates of Merit were awarded on Class Night. A luncheon at the Biltmore Los Angeles followed on June 22 at 12 15 p.m.
Edgar C Thrupp, inventor of a quake forecasting system, warned the worst tremor of the year would strike between now and July 10. A Seattle area quake caused notable damage in the Pacific Northwest while Paris ministers began Balkan peace talks and faced a snag over Danube navigation.
United Nations Security Council rejected a Polish proposal urging all UN members to sever diplomatic relations with Franco Spain immediately. The move was reported as defeated by the council, with no immediate action taken.
An American Airlines public relations officer said Earl Browder was put under surveillance by British immigration officials after landing at Croydon from Paris without a transit visa. The official noted the matter was resolved and Browder is to depart for the United States tomorrow.
Police investigated two crashes in Corona with no injuries. Richard W. Bryant and George D. Parsons collided at Lincoln and Ontario streets Sunday at 12 43 p m. Tilman G Summit and Oda Lee Davies collided on Sixth Street Saturday at 1 40 a m Summit was slightly injured. A pickup owned by R R Fuller was taken by a Fuller employee without consent and later found abandoned in San Bernardino.
John L. Howell, who passed nine bad checks in Corona last Thursday, has been arrested by the Los Angeles Police Department and is in custody there. Warrants exist in Riverside Laguna and several other cities. Most checks ranged from twenty to twenty five dollars.
County Clerk G A Pequegnat lists area party committeemen from the recent election. Republicans include John Richards Crawford P Teague Janet W Gould Ruth G Bethurum. Democrats listed Virgil A Cunning Johr As Hamner Dan Huck Meda Mix and iiban K Tarwater.
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