Refund rules and local guidance for Pasadena readers
A reader questions tuition refunds after enlistment and asks if money should be returned. Registrar Burdett Shearer offers an application form and notes documenting orders may recover some funds. The column also covers traffic ticket education classes, hit run complaints, and police guidance on private property violations.
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Burdett Shearer
Pasadena
Cotra Madre
Gerald Wright
Polite Uniformed Division
Pete Ludwig
Ludwig
Return of Sanity on Campuses Sparked by Student Leaders
Ray McConnall reports on a quirky campus scene as Mark Keppel High’s Mike McOnstad leads an activist wave amid Earth Day buzz at Pasadena City College. The piece mixes satire, local intrigue, and editorials about student life, with jabs at past stunts and a note on garden tweaks near City Hall.
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Pasadena City College
Mark Keppel
Alhambra
Mike McOnstad
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Mike
John Lombino
Keppel
Pasadena
Warren Ettinger
Dack Hassler
Hassler
Ettinger
Star-News
Margaret Stovall
Aventia ‘Tribune
Freddy Robleda
Fl Monte
Freddy
Carter Barehep
Joker
Lucie Lowery
Sin City
Charles Rely
Pacific Oaks
Berkeley
Reilly
Judge Cracks Down on Southern California Used-Grease Ring
A crime tale centers on Judge Mortimer Francis cracking a grease theft ring that stole used grease from multiple eateries, resold it, and fueled a peculiar local variant of organized crime while presenting himself as an eco champion. The piece questions the scope of thefts and the impact on diners and fryers across greasy spoons and chicken joints.
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Mortimer Franciscns
California
Digging to China Myth Probed by Caltech Scholar
A feature recalls the old belief that digging straight down from any yard reaches China. Reporter visits Pant Green’s Longfellow Elementary students and Caltech geographer NeMunger to explore enduring geography myths and popular misconceptions among youth.
Through the Earth to a World Beneath Longfellow Essays
Longfellow Elementary students answer the question where would you come out if you dug straight through the earth. Responses name places such as China and space, with imagined scenes of caves water and riches, reflecting playful misprints and student guesses in a classroom page.
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Pant Green
Longfellow
Paul Green
Longfellow Elementary School
San Gabriel Traffic Study Slated Today
The state Division of High Ways will launch a commuter traffic pattern study in East San Gabriel Valley. License numbers of inbound fars on the San Bernardino Freeway between El Monte and Los Angeles will be recorded in the analysis. Motorists will receive mailed questionnaires about trip origin and destination and ramp use.
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High Ways
San Gabriel Valley
San Bernardino
el Monte
Los Angeles
Boys Club Pasadena Opens Spring Ceramics Program
The Villa Street clubhouse of the Boys' Club of Pasadena will host an extensive ceramics program through spring and into summer. Registration is by telephone THON? from 4 to 9 pm Tuesday to Friday and 10 am to 3 pm Saturday.
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Boys' Club of
Pasadena
Boy Scout Troop
Boys’ Club of
MacKengie
San Gorgonio Mountains
Chuck Bradfard
Fragrant Garden lecture at Los Angeles Arboretum
The Herb Society of America hosts a final off season lecture in the Los Angeles County Arboretum lecture hall at 10 am Thursday with Dr. Glenn Walker as speaker. The event focuses on The Fragrant Garden. Open to the public.
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Herb Society of America
Los Angeles
County State Arboretum
Glenn Walker
School Board Defers Meeting
The Pasadena Board of Retaliation meeting was canceled Monday as quorum was not present. It has been rescheduled for 4 p.m. next Tuesday. On the agenda are the schools' ability grouping policy and the first rough draft of the 14-72 budget.
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Pasanena
U S Probe Of Aid Denial Promised
The U S Office of Education will reply in detail in writing to Pasadena Board of Education President Albert C Lowe who charged federal evaluators with misinformation over denying a portion of 293000 dollars in ESAP funds for Pasadena and Inglewood districts under court order for integration.
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U.S. Office of Education
Pasadena Board of Education
Albert C. Lowe
Pasadena Athonis
Ioan Thorsley
Western Regional Office of Education
Pasadena
Inglewood
Inylar Wood
Nan
Pasadena Teachers Association Plans June Meeting
Pasadena Teachers Association calls for a general member meeting on June 1 to push for a mediator contract with the Pasadena Board of Education after deadlocked talks. PRA seeks investigation of district personnel practices by the National Education Association commission, citing resignations of substitutes and broader issues in the district.
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Pasadena
Pasadena Teachers Association
PEA
Pasadena Unified School District
Pasadena Board of Education
PRA
Board of Education
Mary Law Beach
Avlth
National Education Association
Commission On Professional Rights
Miss Casco Pleads Guilty Joyride in Stolen Car Case
Denise Marie Casco 28 of Pasadena pleaded guilty Monday to joyriding in a stolen car while on parole. Judge Frank Wicknem ordered three years in a Van Nuys psychiatric hospital or return to prison, with parole supervision required and a ban on leaving the hospital during the term.
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Denise Marie Casco
Pasadena
Hersel
Miss Casco
Kenneti Mack Robinson
Beverly Hills
Kerry Motors Ltd
van Nuys
Harvey Schneider
Frank Wicknem
Mrs Virginia Unruh Hospitalized Inglewood Illness
Mrs Virginia Unruh wife of former assembly speaker Jess Unruh was admitted by ambulance to Centinela Valley Community Hospital in Inglewood between 7 and 8 am on Monday. She arrived unconscious and was initially in a coma before being placed in intensive care with a reported satisfactory condition.
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Assembly
Jess Unruh
Inglewood
Centinela Valley Community Hospital
Virginia Unruh
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