Safety Crusade Urges Drivers to Sign Pledge and Display Sticker
Local Corona committee led by auto dealer Lyle Swaney invites car dealers and insurers to join a statewide drive endorsing the Safety Pledge. The effort, backed by the California Safety Council and newspaper associations, seeks a 20 percent drop in traffic fatalities from last year.
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Lyle Swaney
Corona
California
Association
Corona Daily Independent
Arizona
Phoenix
California Safety Council
Corona Water Committee Seeks Corona Vote on Taxes
A Corona civic effort urges voters to decide whether Corona should join the Metropolitan Water District by petition drive. The group cites a 2 to 1 Corona vote against MWD formation and lists organizers including Ted Todd and Jack Hammond.
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Corona Water
Corona
Metropolitan Water District
MWD
WMWD
Ted Todd
Jack Hammond
John Burns
Joy Jameson
Marion Featherston
Frank Ranney
Howard Hall
Lyle Swaney
Dar
Todds
Citizens National Trust marks 51st anniversary and growth
Citizens National Trust and Savings Bank of Riverside marked its 51st anniversary on June 28. A. M. Root Jr. announced new steps including a merger with Desert Bank offices in Palm Springs Cathedral City and India. The bank’s total resources rose to 139,186,980.16 and deposits to 124,450,344.50 with 16 offices across Riverside and San Bernardino counties.
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Citizens’ National Trust & Savings Bank of Riverside
A. M. Root, Jr
Corona
Citizens
California
Desert Bank
Palm. Springs
Cathedral City
India
Riverside
San Bernardino
Magnolia Center
Arlington
Blythe
Banning
Cathedral
City
Colton
Hemet
March
Air Force
Base
Palm Springs
Perris
Rialto
Rubidoux San Bernardino
Elden Smith
Waril
J.C. Ralphs
C. B
Ellingen
Key Insurance Agency SOld to Brames in Corona
John P. Key announces sale of the John P. Key Insurance Agency as of July 1, 1954 to Everett and Helen Brame. Key will stay on in the Corona Theater Building office to handle insurance and greet friends. Brames bring extensive insurance backgrounds in Illinois and California.
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John P.key
John P. Key
Everett
Helen Brame
Key
Corona ‘Theater
Corona
National Bank
Brame
Illinois
Marine and
Indianapolis
Marine c
All Risk
Hartford Fire Insurance
Southern
California
Los Angeles
John. P
Key Insurance Agency
Helen
Indianapolis “Insurance Office
McDavid-Stevenson Insurance Agency
Dojwney
Calif
Turner
Helen” Brame
Corona City finances secure bonds for sewer outfall project
Corona City sold bonds at 2 percent to Bank of America with a 659 premium to fund a new sewer outfall system. The deal lowers interest versus a prior 34 percent school-district issue, with repayment over about 15 years. City Attorney Ganahl keeps union bargaining stance unchanged. Council denied sidewalk waivers for Muratore and the Prices, approved fair sign, and eyed a 5 cent tax hike to 55 for next year.
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Corona City
America
William C. Henning
Corona
Th Bank ‘of America
Bank ‘of America
Bank of America
Weeden & Co
Los Angeles
Sam Muratore
West Sixth Street
Sixth Street
Sherman On
Sherman Street
Muratore
Sherman Avenue
A. K. Whidden
Ben B. Sampselle
Gerand
Mabel Price
Vicentia Avenue
Buena’. Vista
Thief Steals Coffee and Provisions at Packing House
Police report a Sunday night burglary at the Orange Heights Packing House on Pea street. A thief or thieves entered through a window under the orange chutes and stole 10 pounds of coffee, five packages of sugar, about 20 cans of condensed milk, a blanket, pillow, and a new tool box with tools. Total value about 83.83 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Orange ‘Heights
Lowery
Fire engines respond to trash box blaze near La Tapatia
Fire units rushed yesterday afternoon at 3 25 to a trash box fire beside La Tapatia market area. Reports from the department indicate crews extinguished the blaze and prevented spread to adjacent structures.
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Planning Commission approves eight new subdivisions in Corona
Three proposed subdivisions gain tentative approval boosting total to eight in development. City Building Inspector Hoersting projects about 300 new homes with current and tentative builds. New tracts lie near Lincoln and Olive Buena Vista areas with protective fringe-area zoning sought to ward off undesirable industry and fumes near citrus groves. Public hearing set July 26 for Corona Assembly of God zone variance on Lincoln Avenue. Ruddell granted variance at northwest corner of Belle and West Grand Boulevard. Mary D Smith receives home occupancy permit for telephone answering service.
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Planning ‘Commission
Corona
Charles Hoersting
Lingoln
Olive
Assembly of God
Lincoln ‘Avenue
Eighth
Tenth
William B. Ruddell
Belle Avenue
West Grand Boulevard
Mary D. Smith
PEEPING TOM PICKED UP BY CORONA POLICE
Miguel Pedroza 55 of 130 South Main Corona was seen Sunday night peeping into a home window. He was arrested by Corona police and sentenced to ten days in county custody by Judge W S Caudill. Angela Perez signed the vagrancy complaint in Temescal Judicial District court. Born in Mexico, Pedroza listed laborer as his occupation.
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Miguel. Pedroza
Ike and Churchill Seek Broad Cuts in World Armament
President Eisenhower and Prime Minister Churchill urged a general and drastic reduction of world armament. They called for using atomic knowledge for human betterment instead of destruction.
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Lke
Winston
Merriman- Smith
U. P. White House
Washington
Eisenhower
Winston Churchill
CHS Plans New Bleachers for Visitors at Corona High
Corona High School will install 590 seat steel bleachers on the visitors side of the football field this fall. Bids are sought to replace the old north side wood seating. The project is funded by a $2000 gift from CHS Student Body, which will also contribute a share of gate receipts until the estimated $4500 cost is covered.
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Corona High School
George Kibby
CHS
Kibby
Realtors Study Plan To Improve Industrial Area
The Realty Board discussed forming a corporation to fund sewer water and street improvements in the northwest industrial zone. Committee chair Karl Erickson proposed using voluntary subscriptions to finance early work facing Sherman street, with returns to contributors plus interest when properties sell. Roscoe Sowell led the meeting. William Bradford from Fay C. Gregg's office was introduced.
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Realty Board
Karl Erickson
Howard Blakeley
Ray Shook
Sherman Street
William Bradford
Fay C. Gregg
Ed Jacobs
Roscoe Sowell
Stolen Ford Sedan Recovered Near Yellow Cab Stand
A blue Ford sedan owned by Ewing Miller of 215 E Sixth was reported stolen during the night of the 27th and found yesterday by the Yellow Cab stand. The car had disappeared from a used car lot at the same address.
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Ewing Miller
Finns End Week Hunger Strike Over Arrest Bail
In Los Angeles the flying twins George and Charles Finn entered the seventh day of their hunger strike protesting their bail after a citizen's arrest of an attorney. The two men remain physically fit despite the dispute over fees and the money owed between them.
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Los Angeles
Flying Twins
George and
Charles Finn
Quentin Reynolds Wins A$175000 Damages Verdict
A $175000 damages verdict was awarded to Quentin Reynolds in a suit against AreaTeRook and Westbrook Pegler. The case involved alleged coercion by the columnist and related defamation claims. The decision marks a major win for Reynolds as details of the trial emerge.
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Quentin Reynolds
AreaTeRook
Pegler New
Coer
Westbrook - Peger
Guatemalan Junta Led by Col Monzon Seizes Power
Col Monzon's bloodless coup ousts Diaz's govt in Guatemala, frees 600 anti Reds, imprisons Communists, closes Tribuna Popular, and promises talks with Castillo's rebel forces while Arbenz Guzman flees to San Salvador. OAS urged to bar Communists from Americas.
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Monzon
Guatemala
Col
Arbenz Guzman
Ec Acation
Arbenz
Rebe Monzon
Honduras
Carlos Castillo Armiaz
Carlos Enrique Diaz
Diaz
Col. Castillo
Castillo
Communist Party
Arbeng
Tribuna Popular
Jacobo Arbenz Gugman
San Salvador
Security clearance denied for Dr. Oppenheimer by vote
The Atomic Energy Commission denied J Robert Oppenheimer security clearance by a 4 to 7 vote, upholding a 2 to 1 Personnel Security Review Board decision against reinstating his clearance. The plan to return to Princeton was denied. only one member voted to restore.
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DR. Oppenheimer
The
Atomic ‘Energy Commission
Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer
Oppenheimer
AEC
Clearane
Princeton Universit Fe
Lewis
L. Pisses
Eugene M.zuckert
Thomas E. Murray
Joseph Kell
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Forthé
Koeneit Crusade
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Corona Traffic Safety ‘Committee
Daily Independent
Chamber of Commerce
Robert B. Snedecor
Dick Fare
James Pauly
Chamber Retail
Gore
Corona’s
J. Key Insurance Agency
Brames
Haskins
Coronans
Dr. Haskins
Sixth
Ramona
Corona Police
Organization OF American States
House
Western Hemisphere
Congress
Senate
IGN
Clifford R. Hope
R-Kan
House Culture Committee
Hope
Congressional
Agriculture
Ezra T. Benson
Benson
England
Wimbledon
Maureen
Little Mo) Connolly
San Diego
U. Ss
Nam Dinh
Hanoi
State Department of Agriculture
Joseph D. Nunan Jr
New York
Nunan
Internal Revenue
Walter Bruchhausen
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