Coronado sees strong county band showings in festival
About 30 county high and elementary school musical groups gathered for the County Music Festival in Coronado. Coronado schools earned Superior and Excellent ratings, highlighting local student musicians despite three wartime years with limited practice. The piece advocates a summer band concert season with help from Youth Music Sponsors Club and Recreation Department, suggesting Library Park as a venue and inviting adult musicians to join an annual al fresco series.
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Coronado
Coronado Civic
Library Park
Spring Fever and a Writer’s Fable of Spring
A brief verse notes spring fever as bunk and mixed inspiration. The speaker critiques a poem about busy bees and cross eyed fleas, attributes the misfire to nature or a bug, asserts talent despite solitude, and defends verse writing with a cautious claim of possible better themes.
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Scuttlebutt notes Gerry of Gerry's Coffee Shop praising the bugle as folksey. It recalls aviator feats Caroline Mars and historic Dornier D O X flights and parries with youth center needs and a St Patrick's Dance to fund Coronado's Youth Center with community groups and a Mormon Battalion heritage.
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Gerry
Thanx
Uns
California Speaks on Policy and People
A collage of quotes from notable Californians and visitors criticizes federal spending and socialism while offering wry remarks on politics and human behavior. Lane D. Webber warns of insolvency and chaos, Andrew Ivy recalls ulcers, Benson Ford champions progress, and others weigh in with skepticism and humor.
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Lane D. Webber
L.A
Andrew C. Ivy
Univ. of Chicago
America
Panny Andrews
S.F
James Keller
Calif
Globe
Stork Club News births at Naval facilities and local homes
Notices report multiple births: Shila Louise Long born March 9 to Maj. F A Long USMC and Mrs Long at Naval Air Station Quarters J. a son born March 12 to Lt Comdr P L Vissat USN and Mrs Vissat at E Avenue. a son born March 8 to Lt. Comdr W B Koozer USN and Mrs Koozer at Coronado Hospital. Carole Anne Saunders born February 18 to Mr and Mrs James W Saunders at 463 E Avenue. Charles III born March 12 at Naval Hospital San Diego to Ens Carlos Dew Jr USN and Mrs Dew. Bruce Alan Schreiber born March 11 at Balboa Naval Hospital to Charles E Schreiber Jr AFUSN and Mrs Schreiber.
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Shila Louise
F. A. Long
USMC
Long
Longs
Naval Air Station
P. L. Vissat
USN
W. 8. Koozer
James W. Saunders
E Avenue
Carole Anne
Naval Hospital, San Diego
Charles III
Ens
Carlos Dew, Jr
Dew
Carlos Dew
Trenton
Tenn
Clifford K. Rathbone
Providence R. L
Charles E. Schreiber, Jr
AFUSN
Old Pewter At Library Exhibit Shown At Coronado
The Coronado Library presents an unusual display of American pewter tankards and plates, highlighting rare large and small pieces. The show notes many pieces were melted for bullets during the Revolution, making such items scarce. A unique pewter painted coffee urn appears in the reading room case, with the art ending with the inventor. Also on view are tea pots and early rat tail spoons.
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Coronado Library
St Patrick's Dance for Coronado Youth Club Benefit
The Coronado Youth Club hosts a Friday night dance in the Circus Room titled time of your life with sparkling music and entertainment. Proceeds support the club’s activities and programs.
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Circus
St. Patrick's Dance
Circus Room
Coronado
Australian regimental march adoption and other empire notes
Sydney reports Waltzing Matilda adopted as regimental march by the Queen's Royal Second Foot Regiment now stationed in Berlin. Adelaide asks who disposed of a venomous brown snake found in King William Street. Melbourne Deering and Gearon families host a 247-member party at Camberwell Hall. London fines bus conductor Herbert Newcomb for calling a passenger a twerp.
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Queen’s Royal Second Foot Regiment
Berlin
Deerings
Camberwell
Melbouren
Victoria
Camberwell Hall
Edward V. Deering
Gearons
Dandenong
Herbert Newcomb
London
New World to Old Continents A Library Bookshelf Preview
Coronado Public Library offers a catalog preview featuring fiction and non fiction reads. Highlights include costain's tale of Montreal and New World dreams, Ellery Queen detective fiction, and biographies of Maria Mitchell and Bertrand Russell.
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High Towers
Thomas B. Costain
Doubleday
Montreal
France
New World
Wormwood
Martha Bacon
Random House
California
Italy
Rampart Street
Everett
Olga Webber
Dutton
New Orleans
Lafitte
the Steel Mirror
Donald Hamilton
Rinhart
Ellery Queen
Little, Brown
Patrick Quentin
Simon and Schuster
Chicon Itza
Mexico City
Peru
Mabel D. Erwin
Macmillan
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Orange Avenue
Henley
San Diego
Secon
Louis Millen
Marvin K. Chase, Jr
Richard H. Watkins
Pacific Coast
KFMB
KFI
So Ya
Radio Hospital
Wees
KNX
Apn
CBS
KSDJ
Emerson and Philco
Vale Iding
By Dick Watkins
Caroline Mars
Alameda
Dornier
Lake Constance
Fulfi
Marching & Chowder Society
la Alta Sociedad Espanol de Marcha Y
Olla Podrida
Mormon Battalion
Bay Area
Society Ag
Fea
Tommy Chatfield
Trianon Orchestra
St. Patrick’s
Ed Rh
Stork Club News
Church of
Episcopal
Christ Episcopal Church
H. O. Nash
Ninth Street
C Ave
Sacred Heart Church
John Purcell
C Avenue
Christian Science
First Church’ of Christ, Scientist of Reading Room
Orange Ave
Church OF Jesus Christ OF Latter Day Saints
Mormon
Coronas
Maronie Hal
Orange
Methodist
St. Paul's Methodist Church
David Lee Mounts
Presbyterian
Graham Memorial Presyterian
Kenneth Baird Carson
Tenth St
OC Ave
North Island Chapel
North Island
Sydney
Australian News-Letter
Adelaide
South Australia
Wm, Woodward
King William Street
That
Woodward
London Newsletter
Liverpool
Chester
Leeds
London Times
Bengal
Jean Renoir
India
M-G-M
Rumer Goddens
Mysore
Clyde DeVinna
Trader Horn” Fame
NEW
Ageey Books
The
Coronado Public Library
George Baekeland
Agnes E. Benedict
Adele Franklin
Appleton
Walter R. Stokes
Rinehart
Eliot Elisofon
Mitchell V. Charnley
Radio
Helen Wright
Maria Mitchell
Nantucket
Vassar College
Bertrand Russell
Chan
Bill English
Morrie Swanson At the Piano
Jerry
Imperial Beach
Palm City
Nester
C” Avenue
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