Nichols Resigns As SAMA Head
Major Don Nichols announces resignation as superintendent of San Rafael Military Academy after 11 years with five as head. He buys Palo Alto Military Academy near Stanford, will leave SAMA June 9 and start new duties June 19, thanking San Rafael residents for support.
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Don Nichols
San Rafael Military Academy
Nichols
Palo Alto Military Academy
Stanford University
Marin
San Rafael Chamber of Commerce
Red Cross of Marin
Red Cross Disaster Relief Committee
Rotary International
Elks Club
F.A.M
Brookline
Mass
California
California National Guard
Infantry
Sa.m.a
Palo Alto
San Rafael
Baseball Scores National and American Leagues
Philadelphia and Chicago games were won by Chicago and Cleveland in separate clashes. Voiselle and teammates led a 5 to 3 American League victory, while Cleveland edged Washington 3 to 1.
Marin Musings: Candidates Question Hall at Kentfield
Rafael Marin relays lively county school superintendent forum notes. Dr. Wallace W. Hall moves first to answer, while Percy Bliss asks about campaign speeches elsewhere. In Sausalito, jokes about sewage disposal spark chatter as Police Chief Doyle assists a curious visitor at the Alta Mira.
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Kentfield
Wallace W. Hall
Dr. Hall
Percy Bliss
Free Chest X-Rays Slated Next Week
A miniature X-ray unit will set up in San Rafael at Bianco's Garage on Fourth and E streets next Wednesday and Thursday for free chest x-rays. The Marin County Tuberculosis Association and county health department sponsor the program to detect tuberculosis early. The unit operates 10 a.m. to noon and 1 to 5 p.m., with results available within a month.
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San Rafael
Bianco
Fourth
E Streets
Marin County Tuberculosis Association
County Health Department
New Novato Unit Santa Venetia Tract Approved
The Marin county planning commission approved Gallinas Village at Santa Venetia and Meyers tract No. 3 at Novato after debates on flood protection and lot sizes. Hillview subdivision plans were withheld pending detailed information. neighbors protested but approval was delayed for two weeks.
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County Planning Commision
Gallinas Village
Santa Venetia
Meyers Tract
Novato
Val
Hillview
Highway 101
San Pablo Road
Puerto Suello Hill
Commission
Marin County
Mary Robinson Gilkey
Gordon Voorhies
P. J. Tarrant
Woodies
Voorhies
Girl seeks 75000 damages in Marin truck crash suit
Five year old Dorothy Graf of San Anselmo sues William Kracher for 75000 and seeks medical expense repayment after a May 5 truck crash on Merced Avenue. She sustained a fractured leg pelvis injuries and bruises. Michael Chapman also injured. Defendants include Arrow Truck and Auto Rental Service and unnamed firms.
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Dorothy Marie Graf
Sierra Avenue
San Anselmo
Marin Superior Court
William Kracher
Bonaventure Graf
Dorothy
George Corwin
Morton R. Calvin
Kracher
Arrow Truck and
Graf Child
San Rafael General Hospital
Alto Shopping Center Plans Move Forward Near Avilla's
The county planning commission approved a rezoning for about four acres along Camino Alto near Mill Valley. A group led by Mary Thomas must finalize site plans with the planning staff including a service road parking areas and building sites. Petitions signed by 145 Alto residents back the project citing need for a shopping center.
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Alto
County Planning Commission
Avilla’s
Camino Alto
Mill Valley
Mary Thomas
First Polio Case Of Year Reported In Marin County
Marin County reports its first poliomyelitis case of the year, a young Stinson Beach housewife and mother of three currently hospitalized in San Francisco. Health officer Dr Clarice Haylett notes rising adult cases and urges hygiene and crowd avoidance, plus prompt medical attention if illness appears.
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Marin County
Marin County Health Department
Stinson
Haylett
Ma- County
Fireman's Family Benefit Fund Grows to 5500
Cash on hand in the Firemen's Special Benefit Fund for widow and four Miller children exceeds 5500, per Marin Fire Commission President Walter Castro. Ticket sales from a vaudeville and motion picture show at El Camino Theater continue tomorrow night. Checks may be mailed to Firemen's Special Benefit Fund, P O Box 496, San Rafael. A handicap bowling tournament runs tomorrow to June 4 as another benefit, and union approval was granted for a Tony Martin dance band appearance at American Legion hall June 16.
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Aubrey I
Jack) Miller
Walter Castro
Fire Commission
el Camino Theater
P. O. Box
San Rafael
Marin Bowl
Castro
Tony Martin
American Legion Hall
Traffic Boys Rewarded With San Anselmo Picnic Outing
More than 100 traffic boys from San Anselmo schools were rewarded today by the San Anselmo police department with a picnic outing at the Town and Country club in Fairfax. Special guests were traffic boys from Kentfield and Fairfax.
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San Anselmo
Town and Country Club
Fairfax
Kentfield
Fairfar
Sausalito Eying Waterfront Strip and Zoning Plan
Sausalito plans to acquire a waterfront strip from the old Northwestern Pacific ferry slip to Richardson street by legislative grant. The state lands commission would lease the land to the city during bill passage. Public hearings on a consolidated zoning ordinance are set for June 14 and 28. hardship provisions and a variance process are included. A 56‑space metered parking lot layout on the Northwestern Pacific site was approved for final engineering.
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Carl Spring
Sausalito
Ehlen
Thomas Keating
Richard McCollister
Planning Commission
City Hall
Spring
Federal Public Housing Authority
Sausalito-Marin City
Northwestern Pacific
John Oglesby
Guilty Verdict In Marin Superior Court For Bad Check Passer
Harry Lawrence 32 of Sacramento was found guilty by a Marin County jury of passing a fictitious check at a local grocery. Sentencing set by Judge Edward I Butler for tomorrow at 1 30 p m. Deputy District Attorney Arthur Lebow led the case. defense was Tom Fitzgerald. Lawrence had prior dismissals in other Bay Area counties.
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Harry Lawrence
Sacramento
Yesday
Marin Superior Court
Edward I. Butler
Lawrence
Arthur Lebow
Tom Fitzgerald
Bay Area
Lebow
Superior Court
A. E. Bagshaw
Harold Q. Provost
Mill Valley Carpenter
Bagshaw
Wallace Myers
Robert Carter
San Anselmo
Greyhound Faces Fare Boost Merger Plea at PUC Hearing
In San Francisco state utilities counsel urged consolidating Greyhound Lines fare increase requests with San Francisco bay commute fare talks. Greyhound opposed the move. The panel debated timing as Marin County costs and driver wages underlined the challenge of proposed rises.
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San Francisco
J. Thomason Phelps
State Public Utilities Commission
Commission
Pacific Greyhound Lines
San Francisco Bay Area
Allen Matthew
Greyhound
Phelps
Contra Costa
Marin
San Francisco Peninsula
New Greenbrae School Bids To Open June 14
Bids for a new Greenbrae elementary school and additions to Wade Thomas and Brookside in San Anselmo will open Wednesday night June 14 at 8 30 PM in the district superintendent’s office San Anselmo Superintendent Robert A Rickless notes the Greenbrae wing will house a kindergarten and three classrooms with admin facilities as the first phase of a potential 17 room school Costs are set at about 80 000 funded by a 94 000 bond approved last December The Wade Thomas addition of two classrooms can be converted to a small auditorium at an estimated 40 000 Brookside four classroom upgrade for primary grades costs about 60 000 and will match the design of the recently expanded wing Bond proceeds total 132 000 to cover both projects.
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San Anselmo
Greenbrae
Wade Thomas
Brookside
Robert A. Rickless
Kentfield
Schultz Development Company
Contractor Suing Over School Job
Soule Steel of San Francisco sues over an elementary school project in Marin County claiming $8 779 is owed for steelwork at Redhill School San Anselmo. The suit says the San Anselmo Elementary district and County Treasurer Gail Apperson withheld part of the payment and names Louis Epp as the subcontractor.
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San Francisco
Redhill
San Anselmo
Marin Superior Court
Gail Apperson
Soule Steel Company
Louis Epp
League of Women Voters Marin Sponsorship Promotes Discussion
The event proceeds under the sponsorship of the League of Women Voters of Marin aiming to engage residents in civic dialogue and voter education. Organizers emphasize nonpartisan discussion and community participation to deepen understanding of local issues.
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The
League of Women Voters of
Marin
Contract Ends Spread Of Strike To Marin County
AFL clerks reach a long term contract with Safeway and Purity in Marin County restoring 200 workers to 65 dollars per week with employer paid hospital and life insurance. The deal retroactive to December 15 1949 avoids a strike expansion and preserves wage talks after December 15 1950. Teamsters oppose the step and reject recognizing picket lines where Safeway meets the clerks wage scale.
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AFL
Safeway
Marin County
Alameda
Contra Costa
San Francisco
Purity
California Grocers Association
Marin
East Bay
California
AFL Teamsters
Steamsters
Fire Inhalator Rescues San Rafael Man After Heart Attack
San Rafael firefighters revived 70 year old Charles Pinza after a heart attack at 12 25 PM using an inhalator and a machine manned by Capt. Arthur Coots and driver George Canessa. He was moved to hospital in improved condition.
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San Rafael
Charles Pinza
Treanor Street
Arthur Coots
George Canessa
Pinza
Permits Granted for Pumps on Highway Right of Way
County Planning Commission approved two service stations on highway frontage under a new policy to allow pumps within future freeway corridors. Owners must remove pumps at their expense when freeway construction begins. adjoining landowners must not object. E. C. Wood gains Alto site near Modern Appliance. Standard Oil builds a Ignacio station costing about 50 000 dollars. The state highway division backs the plan, claiming it speeds frontage use without delaying projects or raising future costs.
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Perce
Highway 101
Sous Wien Teteleraeanow
Planning Commission
E. C. Wood
Alto
Geo
Jones
Standard Oil
Rancho Rafael
Eugene
Ignacio
Walter J. Carroll
San Francisco
Bay Area
State Division of Highways
Harold Summers
J C Penney Building In San Rafael Sold To Dr Hazeltine
Dr Matthew Hazeltine, a San Rafael physician, disclosed the sale of the $100000 J C Penny building in San Rafael to himself and his wife Mildred. They leased the building to J C Penney and have no remodeling plans, buying as an investment.
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J.C. Penney Building
San Rafael
Dr. Hazeltine
J. C. Penny
Matthew Hazeltine
Mildred Hazeltine
Alastair M. Boone
San Francisco
Edmund B. McDonald
Percival Scales
Kentfield
Howard Sparrow
Larkspur
Hazel
Marin water district owner injured in fall at Valley Ford ranch
W. C. Billangree, owner of the Laurel Grove creamery in San Rafael and head of the Marin Water District, is confined to his home this week with a broken rib from a fall last Saturday off a step ladder at his Valley Ford ranch. He is recovering at home, though the injury was painful.
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Bill
W. C.billangree
Marin Water District
Laurel Grove Creamery
San Rafael
Valley Ford Ranch
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Lade
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Rafael Marin
W. P. Cline
James Doyle
Shep
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Alta Mira Hotel
Sally
U. S
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Apt
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Santa Venita
J. D. O’connor Construction Company
Venetia Harbor
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Clara Meyers
Court Street
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State
M. C. Frailey
Public Utilities Commission
Com
Thomas H. Kuchel
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