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Newspaper
Coronado Compass
Location
Coronado, California, United States of America
Date
Aug 14, 1947
Page
6
New officers for Coronado Unit No. 450 of the American Legion Auxiliary were installed after a turkey dinner at La Avenida Cafe. Past President pin awarded to Mrs. Helen Voris. New president Margaret Bowman led the last business meeting at the Library Park Clubhouse yesterday.
The Coronado Yacht Club reports in Santa Barbara the Tu Tu skippered by C J Ackerman placed fourth in Lightning class while Bean Bag with Georgia Weisgerber finished eleventh. Other first race results list Val iant Pronto II Betty Surprise Winsome Angela Comono. New member Maurice E Hatch USN Ret registered Little Dipper Penguin. Visitors include Harry Pletcher Ward Saga and Richard Conklin Break a Heart headed to Acapulco. Club forms new house committee and updates house rules. Friday game night to be chaired by Mrs Charles Allen due to Acker man’s absence.
Coronado Planning Commission approved placing Quanset Huts on the new Boy Scout Headquarters site on Glorietta Bay near the Amphibious Base. City Council gave favorable review. The panel also set new meeting dates and planned reviews of civic committees and zoning changes to R-3 prohibiting hotels and motor courts.
A rural paper recalls humorous vignettes and morals from a small town. A churchgoer finds his crowd in a modest congregation while a tailor defends a 30 day delay with a joke about creation. A storm wires a town as reporters test danger and a village editor seeks a sensational print.
Beatrice Pearson Karen Morley and Robert Walker star in Keith Winter's The Shining Hour at the La Jolla Playhouse beginning Tuesday August 19. The cast features The Hasty Heart hitmaker and Private Hargrove actor with a slate of motion picture veterans.
Kenny Watkins the Los Angeles battler and former California middleweight champion faces Allen Faulkner a sensational Buffalo newcomer in a10 round main event at the San Diego Coliseum on Friday night.
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