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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Location
Pasadena, California, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1956
Page
15
Voters head to the polls tomorrow from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. for California primary races including State Assembly and Fifth District supervisor candidates Warren M. Dorn and Roger Jessup. Propositions D E and W seek school tax changes and water district facility expansion amid broad local interest.
Rescue teams and volunteers scoured Bear Creek West Fork behind Cogswell Dam for Donald De, a Huntington Park fisherman missing since Wednesday. Sheriff's officials planned to suspend at nightfall and hand the case to detectives. Heat exhaustion felled a search volunteer. others endured long helicopter sweeps as family members waited at Camp Rincon.
Philip Corrin of Bullock's and California Retailers Assn. urges state officials to curb unplanned private parking growth. He cites high prices and blighted districts from hot dog stands and street vendors. Downtown Los Angeles has 48,000 off street spaces with 18,500 more needed to support tax income.
East Pasadena Kiwanis Club adopts a resolution opposing multiple fundraising drives. The club will not participate in drives for non Kiwanis groups until all campaigns consolidate into one united effort. President William G. Mohn cites aims for a real unified drive to improve public support.
Pasadena police reported eight people hurt in two separate crashes. In the first, Thomas J. Greenleaf and Patricia Ann Campbell collided at Orange Grove and El Molino injuring Campbell’s passengers Patricia Tramuto and Ann De Biasio. In the second, a mother Ella Lee and her three children Ronnie Lee Elzbeth and Mike were injured in a collision at Washington and Lincoln.
Registration for Pasadena public schools begins for children entering kindergarten next September. Children age five on or before December 1 are eligible to enroll when school starts September 11. Parents should bring proof of age, preferably a birth certificate, to register and avoid enrollment delays.
Bill Fields son of Mr and Mrs Jason B Fields will attend Mexico City College this summer. He will continue his college training at Claremont Men's College this fall and is a graduate of Pasadena City Schools.
The 27th annual commencement at Pasadena Playhouse College of Theatre Arts will be Sunday at 4 p.m. with 70 graduates from 23 states and four foreign countries. Charles Coburn will give the address. Gilmor Brown will present special awards. Hugh MacMullan will diplomas.
Dedication ceremonies for the new Temple City sheriff s station at 8838 E Las Tunas were held with more than 50 attendees. Sheriff Eugene W Biscailuz Undersheriff Peter J Pitchess and Supervisor Herbert C Legg participated as Legg presented a golden key to Biscailuz who gave it to Capt G H Carlson, station commander.
Pasadena city employees select seven finalists from sixteen contestants for Miss Crown City. A panel of newspaper reporters will choose the winner to be announced at the Municipal Employes Association annual picnic on August 4.
Susan Cady daughter of Mrs W M Cady 3350 Calvert has been selected by Mrs Mary Hughey assistant director of youth activities at Pasadena Presbyterian Church to serve as counselor at Mar Casa summer camp She will counsel 9th and 10th grade students from June 29 to July 9.
Democrats run a voter outreach with a 40 to 50 person team at N Lake Sy and Stevenson HQs offering rides and babysitting to registered Republicans to polling places. Bradford Mishler leads. James H. McCarthy announces call numbers Sy 3-2018 or Sy 5-2031 for service.
Pasadena and its police department won FBI approval for a crime rate lower than most West Coast cities. The local rate was 2 480 offenses per 100 000 population versus 3 082 for all cities in 1955, below California’s 13 251 statewide average. Larceny led with 1 692 cases, burglaries 640, auto thefts 149, robberies 70, assaults 22 and murders 3. Juvenile crime rose 11 percent mainly in thefts including car theft. Nationwide major crimes fell slightly, first drop in eight years.
An El Monte mother DeAnne Ray 27 and her 15 year old daughter were threatened in their bedrooms by a heavy set dark man. Ray said the intruder grabbed her and fled after she resisted. In a second case 15 year old Annette Walvoord of El Monte said a man ripped the bed coverings and fled after she screamed.
Caltech joins the Institute for Defense Analyses to study military problems. The non profit agency will serve the Weapons Systems Evaluation Group, a 1949 DoD creation. Members include Case, MIT, Stanford, Tulane. M I T president James R Killian Jr elected chair.
Covina topped the Pasadena San Gabriel Valley in May building permits with 1,735,245 dollars and 134 dwelling units. West Covina and Pasadena trailed. Los Angeles County issued a county record valued at 37,975,033 dollars. Whittier's office recorded 8,097,830 dollars in new homes.
The U S Civil Service Commission in San Francisco announced a clerk carrier examination for the Pasadena Post Office. Residents within 15 miles including Sunland and Whittier may apply, with details at the Pasadena office.
County Agricultural Commissioner Harold J. Ryan reported mixed crop effects from April rains and May cool snaps. Fruit crops in Antelope Valley show full yields for apples cherries peaches and pears while strawberries suffer rot and avocados may be sparse barrels. Valencia oranges smaller but sold abroad after frost in Spain. Grain may benefit though Antelope Valley alfalfa hay quality varies.
A June day in Pasadena reached 85 degrees then cooled. Morning low clouds and fog return with tonight and tomorrow morning cloudy, but afternoon clear. Today's minimum was 55 degrees, five below yesterday. No smog is forecast tomorrow by the Air Pollution Control District.
A Caltech graduate student James Albert Cullen, a physics researcher, is to receive a posthumous doctorate at graduation exercises Friday afternoon. Cullen, who died January 5 in a truck-car crash, formerly lived at 315 S Chester. Commencement speaker Dr Henry Allen Moe of the Guggenheim Foundation will discuss Science and Wisdom. Degrees awarded at 4 30 p m on the lawn between the student houses and the Athenaeum.
The column muses on choosing a new school mascot as many teams already favor animals like Trojans Indians Volunteers and Vandals. It notes Vandals’ Southern trips in the past and mentions football chatter in June and Coast Conference interest. It also covers local notices from birthdays to civic posts and a quip about an admiral salary.
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