Rotary Club luncheon and medical topics headline city brief
Wade Ambrose discusses Tuna and Deep Sea Fishing at the Rotary Club luncheon at Hotel del Coronado. Dr Meyer Wiener will lecture on Eye Surgery for the Los Angeles Research Study Club next Friday and Saturday, with a later trip to Washington as honorary consultant to the U S Bureau of Medicine and Surgery. Pop Millar leads a paper drive for Junior Traffic Patrol funds on Saturday January 22, while Becky Harvey notes fashion trends in The Compass Society. Road grading and a garbage transfer ramp near Silver Strand ranch are announced, with ten of 225 acres reserved for dumping. Mark Brown notes a January 18 alumni basketball game and calls for players.
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Wade Ambrose
Westgate Tuna Cannery
San Diego
Meyer Wiener
Los Angeles Research Study Club
Wiener
Washington, D.C
U.3. Bureau of Medicine and Surgery
Pop” Millar
20 30 Club
Pop” Pe
Silver Strand Ranch
Renge
Ity
City Manor
Andh
Science lecture to air on KFWB Friday evening
A lecture on science titled Practical Religion will be broadcast over station KFWB in Los Angeles next Friday January 14 at 8 p m. The speaker is George Channing S B of San Francisco a member of The Christian Science Lectureship program.
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Staon Kfwb
Thirteenth Church of Christ
Ientist
Los Angeles
George Channing
S.B
San Francisco
Christian Science of
Coronado Hospital backs March of Dimes appeal
The Professional Staff of Coronado Hospital endorses the March of Dimes campaign and urges generous support. They note a statewide polio rise with nine confirmed cases in the area and describe efforts at local facilities and research funds to combat the disease.
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Coronado Hospital
Childrens’ Pool
Charles Free Elected C of C Head in Coronado
Charles Free was unanimously elected president of the Coronado Chamber of Commerce at a special board meeting. He pledged full cooperation and a membership drive this month. The board also named new officers and directors and authorized urging the city to improve trash removal and to add a police sign at Pomona Avenue and Glorietta Blvd.
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Charles Free
Coronado Chamber of Commerce
C. of C
Free
Leo Hanson
Schroeder
Charles Kerg
Rev
Carson
Jo Aertson
Henry Weston
Chamber
Coronado
Police Department
Pomona Avenue
Glorietta Blvd
Planning Group Names Eight to Study Ranch Use
At the Planning Commission meeting eight officials and residents were named to a special committee to study Silver Strand ranch use. The panel will evaluate development as a recreational area and whether to sell subdivide rent or lease the property.
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Planning Commission
Silver Strand Ranch
Chiirman
Mark Beauchamp
Commission
Howard Fuller
J. R. Goodbody
Glenn Wade
W. T. Vandiver
Ben Seymour
H. H. Ritter
Charles Archibald
Byron Johnson
Beauchamp
Gas Company Urges Economy to Prevent Cutoff
San Diego Gas & Electric asks Coronado and San Diego gas users to curb heating now to avert service cuts in districts. Coronado district manager Paul Corriere says cooperation is essential for continued operations during the fuel emergency. If cuts occur, five days may pass before service is restored after the cold spell ends.
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Coronado
San Diego Area
San Diego Gas & Electric Company
Paul Corriere
Corriere
Islanders wallop Kearney 44 22 in Metro opener
Coronado led from the start behind John Kurtz 22 points as the Islander cadets defeated Kearney 44 22 in the Metro League opener. Tom Brown added 8 and Dick Tulley 6. Coronado led 23 18 at halftime and limited Kearney to 3 in the second half.
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Islanders
Wallop
Kearney
Metro
Dick Milero
John Kurtz
Coronado
Kearney Hi Five
Kurtz
Coronado Cagers
Tom Brown
Dick Tulley
Islander Lighties
Bee
Casaba
Chula Vista High
Carruthers Gym
Coronado Debuts Radio Platter Party for Community
Hundreds of youngsters packed Coronado Beachcombers for the first weekly radio platter party on San Diego’s KSON. The event, from 11 to noon, is sponsored by Village Hardware Beachcombers Village Theatre and The Coronado Compass and will return next Saturday with more prizes and acts.
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Coronado
San Diego
KSON
Village Hardware
Beachcombers
Village Theatre
Coronado Compass
Ted Burrell
M.C
Paul Pressley
Marcia
Wanda Huffman
Celeste Walker
Peggy Laing
Smart
Circus Room
Hotel del Coronado
Burrell
Free Bros Market celebrates third anniversary with Saturday event
Free Bros Market will mark its third anniversary with a gala barbecue and food exhibition next Saturday at Tenth Street and Orange Avenue. Manager Charles Free says the event will feature demonstrations displays music and barbequed beef sandwiches for all visitors in a tent beside the store. Coronatians are invited to attend.
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Free Bros
Free Bros. Market
Tenth Street
Orange Avenue
Charles Free
March of Dimes Drive Starts Friday in Coron ado
Coronado launches its 1949 March of Dimes drive led by Lions Club volunteers who will place contribution boxes in local businesses. Louis Pollack cites 358 polio cases as motivation while the county chapter reports 1948 expenditures of 166,596.54 mainly for nursing care, medical services, hospital costs and rehabilitation with only 294.89 remaining.
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Coronado
Nation
National Foundation For
Stone
San Diego County
National Foundation
Pollack
Coronado trio attends national football coaches conclave
Hal Niedermeyer Coronado High School athletic director and head football coach leads three Coronadans at the American Football Coaches Association convention in San Francisco. Clyde Williams and Charles Smith also attend with Villanova head coach Jordan Olivar, while snowbound Midwest coaches miss the gala and Benny Osterbaan is honored.
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Hal Nidermeyer
Coronado” High School
American Football Coaches Association
San Francisco
Clyde Williams
Naval Air Station
Charles Smith
San Diego State College
Ern
Midwest
Association
Benny Osterbaan
University of Michigan
Coronado
Coronadion
Jordan Olivar
Villanova
Nevada
Wolfpack
Wyoming
Philadelphia
Villanovans
Coronado Chamber Reports 160 Auto Tags Issued for 1949 Licenses
Coronado Chamber of Commerce reports 160 car owners registered for 1949 licenses and $2249 funds deposited to the State Motor Vehicle Department. The chamber executive secretary, Mrs. Florence Brown, notes the office hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily except Saturday.
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Coronado C. of C
Coronado
State Motor Vehicle Department
Florence Brown
Chamber
C. of C
Committee Named To Study Beach Pavilion Project
Coronado C of C board forms a five member committee led by Charles Free to study a summer beach refreshment pavilion as a fund raising project. The panel includes Louis Pollack Louis Millen H Burkheimer Richard Watkins and Col John D MacMullen to prepare preliminary plans for possible action by the Chamber Board and city authorities.
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Coronado C. of C
Coronado Compass
Charles Free
Planning Commission
Free
Louis Pollack
Louis Millen
H. ©. Burkheimer
Richard Watkins
John D. MacMullen
Chamber Board
Coronado
Central Beach
Admiral Ingram plans to resign as All-America official
Jonas Ingram of Colorado, High Commissioner of the All-America Football Conference, said yesterday he plans to resign by January 21 after a Chicago meeting to patch up differences with the rival National Football League.
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Adm
Jonas Ingram
Coronado
Chicago
National Football League
Coronado Youth Club Forming Advisory Board Meeting
The Coronado Youth Club advisory board met to plan a year round program at the Youth Center. Funds from last fall totaling 202 dollars plus 15 from the City Employers Association will be split for high school and junior high activities including dances social events and new sports and musical equipment. Attending were Keir Brooks Mrs W W Harvey Mrs J W Pumphrey Daryl Foley Marcia Brooks and others. A two teenager program was proposed and will be announced after the next meeting.
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Coronado Youth Club
Recreation Commission
Coronado Compass
Cameae c
City Employers Association
Keir Brooks
W. W. Harvey
J. W. Pumphrey
Daryl Foley
Boys’ Federation
Marcia Brooks
Miss Brooks
Coronado's First Snowstorm Astonishes City Elders
Coronado residents witnessed a freak snow event that blanketed Orange Avenue palm trees briefly as temperatures ranged from 39 to 48 degrees. AP carried the story nationwide, while locals Herbert Rhodes Walter Shortt and Kenneth MacArthur offered astonished quotes.
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Coronado
Bay Area
Weather Bureau
Orange Avenue
Tenth and
Herbert Rhodes
Walter Shortt
Kenneth MacArthur
Rhodes
Herb
R.H.W
Coronado Water Trial Delayed to January 18
Superior Court postponed the hearing on the Otay River Basin dispute to January 18. Coronado observers argued Otay River waters are dedicated to the city while San Diego noted the utility supplies Coronado’s water. The judge gave Otay farmers 15 days to file a clarified complaint defining basin boundaries.
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Coronado
San Diego
Ctay
California Water & Telephone Company
Otay Basin
J. R. Goodbody
Otay
Charles F. Blackstock
T. B. Cosgrove
Coronation man badly injured in El Cajon hit and run
Emerson Otte, 31, of 477 B Avenue, was seriously injured when his car collided with an unlit hit and run vehicle on a State highway east of El Cajon early Saturday. His car overturned, landed on its wheels, and Otte was treated at La Mesa Hospital for internal injuries and leg injuries after the other car fled.
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Emerson Otte
B Avenue
la Mesa
el Cajon
State Highway Patrol
Otte
Highway Patrolmea
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Compass’ Society
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Mark Brown
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Ecture
the Peoples
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Alfred Laing
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John Schroeder
Lee Mather
Elmer Muhl
R. K. Eastman
Clyde Bowman
W. T Booth
Laing
Clarence Anderson
Albert Bram
Alan Laing
GAS Company
Radiorogram
Orange
Beachonibr
March OF Dimes Drive
Football Conclave Inc. F
Hal Niedermeyer
Adm. Ingram
All- America
Chamber of Commerce
Coronado Water
Coronation
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