Local Group Attends Bond Issue Meeting At City Hall
An enthusiastic local crowd filled City Hall for a bond issue meeting led in Mayor Abel’s absence by Mrs. A M Hurst. Speakers urged voters to back land purchases for a city hall and police station. City Manager Fuller called for acquiring the hog farm land on the Silver Strand while Chief Jordan highlighted jail conditions.
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Archiald D. Abel
A. M. Hurst
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Howard Fuller
Silver Strand
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Pop Millar to Be Guest of Honor at Scout Radio Program
KYOR will host Girl Scout reporter Ann Burnett in a 4 20 to 4 35 pm interview with Pop Millar as the honored guest tomorrow Friday the 26th. The program features Millar reflecting on radio work and Scout activities.
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Pop” Millar
Kyor
Coronado
Pop
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Eporter Ann Burnett
Dorado Parent-Teachers Association Meeting Announced
The first Dorado PTA meeting will be held next Tuesday at 8 PM in the High School Library. It is an informal introductory event inviting parents from Elementary, Jr High, and High Schools to meet the faculty. refreshments will be served and both fathers and mothers urged to attend.
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Dorado Parent-Teachers Association
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Ealing
Coronado Rotary Luncheon Postponed to Tomorrow
This week’s Coronado Rotary Club luncheon at 12 10 Wednesday has been postponed to tomorrow. An inter-city meeting with the newly organized La Jolla Rotary Club will be held Monday.
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Coronado Rotary
la Jolla
Coronado City Employees Ball at Hotel del Coronado Oct 9
The Coronado City Employees Association invites the public to an informal ball in the Circus Room at the Hotel del Coronado on Thursday October 9 from 8 p.m. to 1 a.m. Arthur Murray dancers perform with Charles Fitzpatrick and his orchestra providing music. Tickets cost 125 and proceeds support the civic welfare fund.
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Coronado City Employees Association
Hotel del ‘Coronado
Arthur Murray
Charles Fitzpatrick
Civic Welfare
Lone Member Holds Fort During S F City Council Session
Captain H H Ritter retired U S N was appointed to fill an expired term on the Coronado City Council and was the only member present as the rest of the council and staff attended the League of California Cities Convention in San Francisco. The local group was to return to Coronado the following day.
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H. H. Ritter
U.S.N. Ret
Archibald D. Abel
A. M. Hurst
George Neal
Guy Stanley
Terry Kuehler
League of California Cities
San Francisco
Coronado
Noted Anthropologist to Give Free Lectures in Coronado
Malcolm Farmer director of the Museum of Man will present the first in a winter series on the Culture of Man tomorrow afternoon 3:30 to 4:30 at the Coronado School of Fine Arts VFW Building 6th and Orange. Lectures run monthly on the last Friday noon or afternoon and will use lantern slides and materials from the museum with no admission charged.
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Malcolm Farmer
Museum of Man
Coronado School of Fine Arts
VFW
6Th and
Orange
Coronado
Pacific Coast Gas Association Holds Convention at Coronado
More than 450 delegates attend the Pacific Coast Gas Association convention at Hotel del Coronado this week as industry representatives gather for meetings and networking.
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Pacific Coast Gas Assn. Holding Convention
Pacific Coast Gas Association
Hotel del Coronado
History of Coronado Picture Feature Returns Weekly
The Compass presents a weekly History of Coronado column featuring a historic scene or event and invites readers to donate or lend photographs of notable local residents from the past.
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Ritz Hotel a Coronado landmark and former Hinde home
The Ritz Hotel at 959 C Avenue in Coronado began as Capt. Charles T. Hinde’s two story home built around 1885. Hinde, an early Spreckels partner, remodeled it into a larger house and helped fund the Episcopal Church. After his death his nephew owned the property before Mrs Glynn Robison bought it in 1944, converting it to a naval officers and families community home with 60 beds.
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Charles T. Hinde
Spreckels Brothers Commercial Company
San Diego
Hinde
Evansville
Indiana
Mr. Babcock
John D. Spreckels
Glynn Robison
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