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Newspaper
Coronado Compass
Location
Coronado, California, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1949
Page
2
Navy recruiting starts last Monday with enrollments in the Coronado and San Diego area handled every Monday and Wednesday evening from 7 to 10 p.m. at the Recruiting Office NASR Training Center Gate 9 Harbor Drive San Diego.
Henry Bornsen and Mrs Bornsen of Coronado returned home last Monday after attending Western Auto warehouse show in Los Angeles. The two day event previewed new holiday season goods and was reported by Bornsen.
The 39th annual California District Attorneys Association convention begins at the Del Coronado in San Diego with a three day session. San Diego District Attorney Keller says Professor O W Wilson UC will speak at the opening, followed by Attorney General Fred N Howser and discussion of the Governor’s Crime Study Commissions. Governor Earl Warren and Lieutenant Governor Goodwin Knight are expected to attend.
Jack S. Lee of 1745 Mullinnix Drive was sentenced to two days in jail by Judge E S Wattawa on a hit-run charge after a collision on Alameda Boulevard near Ocean Boulevard Saturday night. Police say Lee struck Robert T. Pratt of 1922 Mullinnix Drive as Pratt and passenger Seaman Allen Parks attempted to report the incident, knocking Parks to the pavement before Lee fled. Lee was also to be tried for a battery charge in Wattawa's court Wednesday afternoon.
San Diego Red Cross appeals to Coronado women with nursing aides certificates to volunteer at the Community Blood Bank. Since 1949 Nurse's Aides, led by Joyce Corbett, have assisted in the donor room, aiding stored nurses.
Coronado hockey fans follow the new Municipal Hockey League now in its third week. Games are held as double headers at Glacier Gardens every Thursday and Sunday evening, showcasing teams in early standings.
The fourth annual Imperial Beach beauty pageant will be held July 24 with 32 entrants. Coronado girls are urged to contact Mrs. Nelson at 550 Donax Avenue. First prize is a Hollywood color screen test. second prize a $200 scholarship to a San Diego modeling and charm school. Event sponsored by the South Bay Recreation Committee with local civic groups. Dorothy McGregor, a San Diego High School graduate studying to be a singer, among entrants.
The library adds several titles across fiction and non fiction. Notable books include Harriette Arnow Hunter's Horn Georgette Heyer Arabella Lewis Gannett Hill The Universe and Dr Einstein Lincoln Barnett and J Frank Dobie The Voice of the Coyote.
Rabbi Monroe Levens of Tifereth Israel in San Diego will address the Kiwanis Club at its Thursday luncheon at the Colony on Working Together in the American Way. He arrived two years ago and has expanded the congregation and helped finance the new Tifereth temple near El Cajon Boulevard.
Oriental Arts displays Jewel Trees and Peking potteryware from a 1941 China shipment to Mr. Moorhouse aboard the Nitta Maru. The cargo, stranded when U S assets were frozen and the ship returned to Kobe, survived bombing now on view after the war with two of twenty five cases intact.
Bargain baskets and gift items including cookie jars pots and water pitchers appear at a street sale on Orange Avenue. Folding stands at three ninety five are offered with tie or porch options. A four item face set costs one forty six.
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