27 Jan 1971
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Newspaper
Pasadena Independent Topics
Location
Pasadena, California, United States of America
Date
Jan 27, 1971
Page
1
A reader collection from Pasadena area asks about food stamp overpayments, retail and repair delays, debt collection options, and Easter chick sourcing. The letters reference officials in Alhambra and Altadena and mention local stores, court details, and Pasadena laws on selling young chicks.
Ground breaking in Pasadena for a 28 million, 50,000 square foot Ole's Hardware Center marks the seventh store in the chain. The one story facility on four acres along East Colorado Boulevard aims for late spring completion. Key figures include Ole's president Max Knell, VP Harvey Knell, supervisor Warren Darn, and Pasadena official Claude Klug. Garden Town founder Simpson, longtime Pasadena resident, founded Garden Town 42 years ago and recently opened Garden Town Jr. The project emphasizes a large garden and nursery department and self service in hardware and home improvement, with trained clerks to assist customers.
Pasadena health officer Dr. William M. Brown announces a Health Department drive to vaccinate children in kindergarten through third grade against German measles using the new rubella vaccine. Schedule covers multiple schools this week and next, with preschool immunizations for children over one year. The notice explains rubella differs from the 1 day red measles and requires a separate shot.
A year long battle over the will of San Marino founder Joe Crail ended as the Los Angeles Superior Court invalidated the document. Crail's will named six heirs including Lucille Ann, Christine, Joe Jr., and Catherine, and left half the estate to a foundation while the other half would go to seven associates. Judge Benjamin Landis ruled the will violated an agreement with Crail’s wife Lucille. The estate was valued at about 3.5 trillion, with Crail listed as president of Conasto and Southern Federal Savings.
A bottle of ether found by Geneva Beamer in San Dimas's 135 E. 4th St. garage afternoon Monday, when opened it hissed and wheezed. Evacuations followed as the ether, aged between 12 and 2 years, was loaded into a leaded van and detonated at a vacant lot under arson detail supervision.
Lt. Eugene F. Peron of the Pasadena Police Department becomes 1971 chair of the Peace Officers Research Association of California awards committee. Home Chapter of the City of Hope in Duarte hosts a dinner at Zanzibar Restaurant with social hour at 6 31 p m and dinner at 7 30 p m Kurt Hahn to be installed as president. Other items include a free investment course at Temple City High School starting Feb 8, a Pasaden a Stayrim Club meeting, a National Association of Retired Federal Employees luncheon, and a Pasadena Foundation talk on Chromosomal Pulverization followed by a film at La Pintoresca Library.
Pasadena High School Chamber Singers, 24 singers strong, aim to raise 34,000 for a five week European concert tour with a stop in Ludwigshafen West Germany. Fundraising includes sponsorships at 4260 per student, singing for sponsors, selling laundry donations bumper stickers Christmas record art auction candy sales and a spring rummage sale.
California call for bids in Sacramento covers about two miles of eight lane elevated freeway from Arroyo Boulevard to Orange Grove Boulevard in Pasadena. Project links Foothill with future interchange of Foothill Ventura Colorado and Long Beach Freeways. cost around 9.9 million with completion eyed for 1974.
A UC sociologist spent two days observing ideological bumper stickers and concluded their influence is waning, noting the San Diego and Santa Ana freeways as the backdrop. Caltech hosted an aeronautical seminar on the dynamics of paper gliders, lowering the subject to a markedly simpler level.
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