Desultory Descriptions Of Roman Circus Delights
William Penfield notes that Roman circuses hosted chariot races gladiatorial shows and games to amuse spectators. Desultors or leapers were skilled riders jumping between horses as they circled the arena. The term desultory stems from Latin desulire meaning to leap down and describes aimless conversation.
Worry Clinic and Amanda Case Sparks Partisan Debate
A fragment from a Cook County Hospital discussion recounts Amanda, 35, pregnant with her 10th child by different men while on relief. Family members disparage welfare, taxes, and moral decay, urging support for a nationalist booklet How to Save Our Republic. The appeal asks readers to mail a stamped envelope and 20 cents for copies.
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Chicago
Cook County Hospital
David
Daniel
Cook County
Republic
Dr. Crane
British Firms Win Contracts Amid Illicit Payouts
In London AP report British firms Imperial Chemical Industries and Simon-Carves Ltd won a 12.6 million contract to build a polythene plant for Red China's National Technical Import Corp. The article notes total earnings around 300 dollars per month and references subsidies of 400 dollars per month for workers, with details tying to illicit activities and several individuals amid the contracts.
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London
Imperial Chemical Inmonth
Dustries
Simon-Carves, Ltd
Red China
Inical Import Corp
Sun Chemical Reopens West Coast Site in San Leandro
Sun Chemical Corp reopens its San Leandro office at 1850 Williams St as the West Coast headquarters for its Chemical Products Division. The site will serve as a sales office, service lab, and warehouse for organic pigments, colorants, textile finishing chemicals, and paper industry chemicals with potential future manufacturing. The Chamber of Commerce cites $50,000 in renovations and a local staff of four.
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San Leandro
Sun Chemcal Corp
Williams St
Chemical Products
Chamber of Commerce
San Lorenzo School District Begins Registration for 1960
San Lorenzo students must enroll before the September 14 opening. Registration runs daily from early morning to mid afternoon across multiple elementary and high schools. Parents bringing kindergarten pupils should provide birth certificates and polio immunization records.
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Ashland
Bay
Colonial Aces
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Dayton
del Fey
Grant
Tesperian
Lewelling
Linda Vista
Lorenev Manor
Martin, Russell
Sunset
Village
Barrell
Bohannon
Edendale
Washington Manor
AL Arroyo
Marina High
San Lorenzo High
Convicted Kidnapper Sentenced in Castro Valley Bank Case
Geralds Sciarrillo, 27, of San Hanon Village, convicted of kidnapping and robbing Castro Valley bank teller Mrs. Jeanette Collard, 38. He received one year in state prison after a high speed chase, forced her car to Eden Canyon then returned to Castro Valley.
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Geralds
Sciarrillo
San Hanon Village
Sutton ‘Vane
Alameda County Superior Court
Jeannette A. Collard
Omega Ave
GI Bound Over In Theft Case
SAN LEANDRO An Air Force private bound over to Alameda County Superior Court for trial on grand theft charges. Larry Gene Christian, 21, faced preliminary examination in San Leandro Municipal Court before Judge Gerald P. Connitt. He is accused of stealing a valuable coin and camera from the Schroeder home in Hayward where he stayed as a house-guest last June.
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Air Force
Hayward
Alameda County
Probation on Dope Charge in San Lorenzo Stakeout
Robert Lee Smith, a 67 year old Hayward laborer, was placed on three year probation after being convicted on possession of narotics for administration. Deputies arrested him June 16 during a stakeout at the San Lorenzo Mole near 390 Albion Street.
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Robert Lee
Smith
Culp Ave
Hayward
San Lorenzo
Albion SL
Youth Faces Theft Trial in Alameda Court
An Oakland youth Cecil R. Moody aged 18 from 62nd St. was held to answer in Alameda County Superior Court on a felony charge of attempted robbery of an AC Transit bus in San Leandro. Moody appeared for preliminary examination before Judge Gerald P. Connit in San Leandro Municipal Court. He allegedly pulled a gun on bus driver Bradshaw and attempted to rob $13 in bus fares.
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Oakland
AC Transit
Alameda County Superior Court
Cecil R. Moody
62Nd St
Gerald P. Connit
San Leandro Municipal Court
Bradshaw
Miss Bradshaw
Moody
WHS Gains Top Accreditation
Fremont Washington High School earned the maximum five year accreditation from the Western Association of Schools and Colleges for the second straight time after a three day review by five California educators led by Ernest Wulzke. The committee praised strong instructional programs, student conduct, and openness to new ideas and noted improvements in staffing and facilities since the 1958 evaluation.
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Fremont — Washington High School
Western Association of Schools and Colleges
Robert Callahan
California
Washington
Irvington
Wall
Ernest Wulzke
Ofgnacia Valley High
Concord J
Jerome Disque
Prefsor of Education
San Franc State College
John Nolty
James Lick High
Donald Mitchell
Pittsburg Unified School District
Dean Chamberlin
Callahan
Isyi
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