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Newspaper
Coronado Compass
Location
Coronado, California, United States of America
Date
Nov 03, 1948
Page
5
Coronado reader shares vivid notes from Paris Rome and London in a travel column. Describes fashion shows at Paquin Paris shifts in dress and street style, Rome’s ancient ruins and Mas casino music, and London theatre scene with Olivier and Hamlet. Mentions perfumes prices and a lingering sense of global travel.
Early day photograph from Union Title Insurance and Trust documents shows Campo the fort-like store built by S and L H Gaskill. Bandits attacked December 5 1875. defenders wounded and three outlaws were lynched by unknown parties. County later restored the fort-store with Ellsworth Statler donation and help from local historical groups.
Saturday Evening Post features Gen Holland M. Smith in a preview of Coral and Brass. The Marine hero discusses Tarawa Makin Saipan and Iwo Jima as three pivotal Pacific battles. Coronado figures Maj. Gen. John T. Walker and Vice Adm. Wm. L. Calhoun are named.
Excerpts from Councilman Abel's report outline how a City Manager would oversee Coronado administration. Key provisions cover department heads chosen by the Manager from Civil Service lists, a 90 day waiting period for new Managers, salary setting, daily consults with department heads, and unified executive control across city operations.
The Coronado Woman's Club reports a strong response to its drive for clothes and packaged goods. The Welfare Committee supervised packing for Scotland with 125 women’s garments 57 men’s garments 120 children's items 55 pairs of wool socks 200 food items including rice and jello six quilts and blankets. Mrs A J Toering, now in Glasgow, will distribute the quilts and blankets among Scots people.
Miss Margaret Deering daughter of Mr and Mrs William F Deering of Coronado received a feature in Title- Trust Topics from Union Title Insurance Trust Co. The 1940s Coronado high school graduate now works in San Diego as an escrow expert and noted horsewoman. She previously served as secretary to a North Island division officer and later as Red Cross assistant field officer at the Amphibious Training base in Coronado.
In the Coronado exchange the number of telephones rose to 6549 from 3053, adding 3496 subscribers over ten years. M. R. Hebner, district manager, announced the coast-wide Pacific West growth shows a total of 3,659,000 telephones in 1948, about five and a half times 1938's gain.
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