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Newspaper
Redlands Daily Facts
Location
Redlands, California, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1954
Page
5
Local notes cover a June 12 boys baseball breakfast fundraiser with a $100 donation for Little and Pony League and a Nebrask a picnic in Barbey Park Long Beach. Also notes a chemistry society meeting in Riverside with Aerojet speaker, library hours shifts, a bicycle car crash, and local classifieds and sales listings.
Cpl Fred D Herring, son of Mr Norman Herring and Mrs Herring, 716 West Tagonia Avenue, was discharged from the Army at Camp Stoneham yesterday. He served in Korea for 16 months and is now home.
Fort one awards totaling about 20000 were given to outstanding 1954 graduates at Cass Day exercises in Clock auditorium. Twenty two seniors were named California Scholar students as commencement looms tomorrow at Redlands Bowl.
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Redlands Horticultural and Improvement Society plans its regular monthly meeting tomorrow at 7 pm. H OLE Staniforth will present colored slides of California and the southwest from park trips, after a pot luck supper at 1050 Sylvan Boulevard Sylvan Park. Hamburgers will be provided, attendees should bring table service and a dish. A plant forum invites members to bring garden specimens for identification.
UPA judge fined Anthony Perry 26 dollars for driving a truck without a license after Perry admitted he couldn’t read the simplest traffic signs. He testified that he had paid ten dollars and amended fifty dollars five years ago in a prior drivers test event.
Mrs Ardith Cowdery and Suzie Thomerson presented the girls league awards to Patricia Kochler Janet Sedam and themselves. Michael Armacost led gifts including a class tree planting in memory of Dr Terederic Gremille Huish with the spade given by Armacost and accepted by Douglas Linn. Virginia Cowen served as secretary as Tom Pathson and Tom Jennings held officer roles.
The Chamber of Commerce streets committee proposes three off street parking lots in the central business district. Frank Gilbert reports the plan, with Jehan Denkiter chairing, and aims to present to city council and planning commission for zoning and acquisition decisions based on traffic flow studies.
Chorus rehearsals for A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Mikado start next Tuesday and Wednesday at Watchorn Hall University of Redlands. Erwin Rutt leads the chorus of about 104 for both shows. The Dream opens the 1954 season with two performances on June 29 and 30. The Mikado is set for July 20 and 21 at University of Redlands. Interested singers are urged to attend the initial rehearsal.
Multiple birth notices from Redlands California in June 1954 list newborns Boone Roulston Crowshaw Floyd and a death notice for Nellie May Moore of Yucaipa. Details include parental names addresses and hospital locations with grandparents named and service arrangements.
The Redlands YMCA announces a summer program opening Monday offering daily activities from 9 to 3 including softball, swimming, crafts, tumbling, and lifesaving. Daily and weekly contests will be held with winners announced. aquatic classes led by Bill Belles and staff will run several time slots each week.
June 10 market roundup lists wholesale egg grades AA large 40 per cent and large 38 for candied eggs, with “evire large” 50s and grade A 46 to 48 for large. Retail prices show AA large 80s and medium 99s, with grade A large 46 to 54. Live poultry figures include broilers and fryers around 28 to 32 cents, hens light 13 to 19 cents, hens heavy 22 to 24, and other items such as roasters and caponettes in the 29 to 32 range.
Sally the adult Redlands Zookeeping monkey slipped from a cage during feeding and spent the night on rooftops and treetops. Neighbors chased the friendly rhesus as she hopped fences, wandered yards, and briefly perched on a Cass Street–Chestnut Avenue stretch, eluding keeper Pete Smith until late evening.
Redlands public schools end the 1954 term with an 8 o clock commencement in the Redlands Bowl. It is a minimum day with dismissal around 12:30. Seniors begin with a 7:30 am class breakfast and practice. Commencement exercises start at 8 am, with front-row seats reserved for graduates’ parents until 7:45. Final report cards will be distributed and a 10:30 pm to 1:00 am annual dance follows in Cup Hall.
A parrot named Sally escaped onto a Cross street rooftop in Redlands triggering a hillside search. Neighbors, Gary, Denny and Bruce Watson, and Sally’s owner Miss Smuth chased through yards and trees as Sally clung to branches and used a mirror as bait. Humane officers and police offered help as the city’s Zoological Society prepared for possible capture.
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