14 Jan 1970
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Newspaper
Pasadena Independent Topics
Location
Pasadena, California, United States of America
Date
Jan 14, 1970
Page
1
Letters recount grievances with the county assessor, alleging inexperience and bias after a neighbor’s higher assessed value. Officials cite market value as key and confirm appeals rely on comparable data, while a reader questions banking stop payments and loan responsibility rules amid a separate consumer complaint about a camera warranty and license delays.
Dr Alexander Goetz a Caltech physicist died at 72 after cancer at his Alladena home two days after receiving the West German Order of Merit. A Rockefeller Fellow at Caltech 1927 30 he held about 40 patents on smog particle research. Funeral Saturday at Pasadena Presbyterian Church Tree Man Chapel private interment arranged by Lamb Fortraal Horpe survivors include his widow Lydia Scott Goetz a son Alexander F H Goetz Bowie Md and a daughter Mrs Hugh D James Seattle Wash
Funeral plans are set for Claude L Boyd Jr a Star-News pressman and State News employee for 16 years who died Friday at age 54 in Wilson. Services will be held Wednesday at Turner Stevens McGann chapel. He is survived by his widow Margaret and his father Claude J Boyd Sr both named in the notice along with his Odd Fellows Lodge membership.
Audubon Elementary with 100 students, 80 percent black, launches a four part program to merge school and community. PTA and teachers create on campus library, take home books, and a three day per week folklone class. Parents tutor, while fifth and sixth graders craft African robes and dances to boost self image.
Dennis C Modjeski of San Gabriel has been installed as the 1970 president of the San Gabriel Valley Bar Association. Officers include Robert R Shelley vice president Netl Be zaire secretary Emmett A Tompkins Jr treasurer and Laurence Clark Chester B Anderson Marvin Jabin and Merrill Wesley Francis directors.
In a Star-News feature, Tack Culver listed by a Muir High School teacher as a prop department head at Pasadena Civic Auditorium is described as a master electrician. He claimed not to have been a student of Muir stage technology teacher Robert Carroll. Narcotics Talk Sgt. Charles Elrog of the sheriff s narcotics bureau will guest speak at Woodrow Wilson PTA meeting at 7 30 p.m. today.
Pasadena City College explored a Saturday College to serve high school seniors with college credit. South Pasadena High School hosted the first in a series of district meetings. PCC officials cited transfer data to UC and Cal State, and noted PCC serves about 30,000 people annually across 72 adult and vocational locations.
A fire at South Pasadena Junior High in a home economics room damaged stoves lighting fixtures and walls totaling about 1700 dollars. The fire started in a classroom slave and spread before students were released. no injuries occurred as gas company personnel investigate the cause.
Sierra Madre Area Association president Jean Astrin announced a campaign to delay a proposed concrete water channel in Sierra Madre Canyon. The group has joined the Council for Planning and Conservation and alerted the Los Angeles Sierra Club, pledging funds and planning door to door efforts to keep the canyon in its natural state.
Officials announce phase two of Route 134 Ventura Freeway work between Pasadena and Glendale. The remaining freeway segment between Tate Vista Avenue and Avenue Colorado will close while Boulevard is detoured and a new San Rafael crossing is built. Temporary signals, detours via Club Road, and altered on and off ramps will guide east and westbound traffic. Motorists face daily closures on the Orange Grove detour and intermittent southbound Linda Vista on-ramp restrictions as construction progresses.
Albert Lowe will address Blairigh School PTA on school integration and balance in cafeteria. Guitar classes start at Pasadena WCA with James Barker teaching beginning and intermediate levels. Galapagos film at Pasadena Library hosted by Audubon Society. Glendale LVN officers elected with Mrs Thibert Routin presiding. Pasadena YWCA dog obedience classes begin with limited dog spots. Call numbers provided for details.
Pasadena City College Community Services Division announces a brush-up typewriting course for adults 45 and older. Sessions run Tuesdays from 7:00 to 9:00 pm at Pasadena High School, providing practical instruction and hands on practice.
Br AUL Braswell, son of Mrs Betty Hildie, 500M Washington Blvd Pasadena, arrives in Caracas as education adviser coordinating U S short term consultants in national education reform. Former assistant executive secretary to the National Science Teachers Association with offices in Washington D C.
A patron at San Gabriel live-in Theatre 140 W Valley Blvd San Gabriel robbed the box office after pulling a pistol and demanding receipts. The thief fled with 239 dollars Sunday igi.
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