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Newspaper
Redlands Daily Facts
Location
Redlands, California, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1961
Page
5
Local Notes reports a missing professor prompting mountain searches while unrelated items outline car accidents sales contests and community notices. It notes a cab collision injuring Charles H. MacRunnels, details local veterans meeting, and Plymouth Village groundbreaking at 919 Cajon Street.
A missing person case centers on Ralph William Berdan a 50 year old physicist and chemist at College of Medical Evangelists in Loma Linda who vanished Monday. Eight San Gorgonio Search and Rescue members led by Deputy Sheriff Willard Farquhar combed Barton Flats area and other ground units from the sheriff's office under Sgt. Henry A. Richardson today seeking clues.
Building permits issued by Building Superintendent Raymond C. Phelps totaled 29300 this week. Two new homes and a swimming pool were applied for during the week. M L Waters took out a 12800 permit for a new six room home at 638 Orchard drive.
Mr and Mrs Jack Irons and son Brad left by car Friday for a three month stay in Alaska They own a 130 acre homestead on the Kenai Peninsula It will be their fourth trip over the Alcan highway. Herbert Van Mouwerik of the Brookside Dairy Redlands graduated today in Washington DC from the Milk Industry Foundation Sales Training Institute Attending were 20 milk company managers and supervisors Dr James M Kenny of Redlands will join a group from the Orange Belt Optometric Society at the second annual Practice Management Seminar Saturday at the Statler hotel in Los Angeles The session aims to give optometrists access to business experts from outside the profession.
United Press International notes there is no documented case of a meteorite impact causing a fatality. The statement counters sensational claims of deadly space rocks, reaffirming lack of verified human deaths from meteorite falls.
James Kendrick, 30, had his death sentence upheld by the State Supreme Court for the a killing of California Highway Patrolman Richard Duvall near Victorville. The trial occurred in San Bernardino before Superior Judge Joseph Ciano. The case followed prior felonies and included an extensive air search for a missing man described as 5 feet 10 inches, 170 pounds with brown hair and glasses, last seen in a 1959 blue Renault.
The baccalaureate for about 150 Yucaipa High graduates will be held in the school auditorium at 4:30 p.m. The Rev. Robert B. Bannister will deliver the sermon, with the invocation by Rev. Ray E. Johnson and benediction by Rev. Charles Browding. The piece notes this as the first event for the first graduating class in Yucaipa history.
Mrs. Carol B. Kennedy of Redlands reports in the May June Audubon Magazine on the Vaux Swifts invading chimneys of Samuel Graham Henton S Brenan and Robert Lynn residences two years ago. A longtime writer, she has also published pieces in Golden Garden Lion's Club Today’s Health and is secretary of the San Bernardino Branch of the National League of American Penwomen.
The 68th Annual Redlands Baccalaureate will be held at 7:30 p.m. in the University of Redlands Greek Theater with 470 seniors in procession. Reverend John de Boer Cummings of Trinity Episcopal will deliver the sermon Sign Posts Along the Way. Reverend Willard A. Schurr will give the invocation as Doris Perry accompanies organ music and the RHSA Capella Choir, directed by Wilbur H. Schowalter, performs.
Public dinner and benediction mark the Orange Show program on June 20 with speaker Brown addressing seniors and officials including Maurice Clapp and Joyce Turney taking part in planning. Awards and scholarships will be announced during the event at 7 30 p m at Redlands Bowl.
Indians regarded tobacco as a fine medicine and English colonists adopted the belief. Tobacco was said to heal wounds, counter poisons, cure gout, relieve hunger, and sober overindulgence, per Encyclopedia Britannica.
Wholesale egg prices by grade and size are listed with AA large at 39 to 54 cents per carton for consumers and various f.o.b. ranges for producers. Poultry prices include ranch fryers at 1245 to 18 cents, roosters 21 to 24, light hens 7 to 8, cross hens 9 to 10, and young turkeys 21, with toms 18 to 18.14.
The Redlands Daily Facts lists William G. Moore as Publisher and Frank E. Moore as Editor. The paper is published each evening except Sundays from the Facts building at 700 Brookside at Center, Redlands, California. It was founded October 23, 1890, entering second class matter the same date.
Cronkite, famed television news commentator, will be honored with Roosevelt University 1961 Founders and Friends Award for distinguished service to principles of American democracy. bronze bust tribute will also be presented to honorees including Marian Anderson, Justice William O. Douglas, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., Edward R. Murrow, and Chief Justice Earl Warren.
Three of four men who escaped Patton State hospital Monday night remain at large. The group, formerly in the maximum security ward, is described as highly dangerous. Henry Ray Carter was captured Tuesday in Fontana and returned to Patton. Search continues for David C. Allen Jr. Manuel Cuernos and Howard W. Brenner.
Redlands Lodge No. 583 Elks invite all citizens to a patriotic flag day observance at the Elks Club house Fourth and State streets at 8 p.m. Exalted Ruler Paul Zatzke leads a program with Herb G. Hedin as chairman, joined by Ralph W. Meyer and local veterans and scouts. The event honors the flag on the 1777 adoption anniversary, a tradition observed since 1908, with participation by Boy Scouts of America, Veterans of Foreign Wars and the American Legion.
Sam H. Armacost, son of Dr. and Mrs. George H. Armacost, will graduate from Denison University in Granville, Ohio, with a BA in economics on Monday, June 12. He served as treasurer of Beta Theta Pi, junior class officer, junior adviser to freshmen, and member of Omicron Delta Kappa. He received the Wall Street Journal medal, made the Dean's list, and helped lead the Denison lacrosse team as an attackman and four-year letterman, earning honorable mention on the all league team. Mary Armacost will join her mother for graduation. she is a Kalamazoo student.
Santa Barbara California reports tradition requires mortarboards for all UC Santa Barbara graduates today. Gretchen the seeing eye dog will wear one though she cannot receive a diploma. The dog belongs to Charles Warren a 24 year old psychology major who has been blind for nine years. Gretchen accompanied Warren at City College and later UC Santa Barbara, remaining his constant study companion. Warren hopes the dog’s mortarboard honors shared journeys and perseverance.
Washington dispatch reports UPI Editor Merriman Smith told reporters at a conference that Kennedy's administration is casual about the news but not restrictive. Aides are more available than Eisenhower’s, yet reporters must dig behind the scenes for details. Sacramento coverage notes a bill on education for emotionally handicapped students moving to committee for further action.
Mrs Elizabeth Mitchells seventh grade social studies class heard a talk by Mrs Merle Bagley who formerly lived in the Islands. She described escape from the islands during the last war using articles and pictures to illustrate people customs and life. She is a former teacher there and now a member of the Pen Women’s Club with many articles published.
Heavy earthmoving on the Redlands freeway reshapes terrain from Highland Avenue to University Street. New bridges, piers, and fill dirt create 55 foot canyons and 20 foot hills. Morrison Street connecting link near Somers due next Wednesday. Detours and curbs scheduled as crews advance, with access changes affecting Rolling Hills and Fifth Avenue Swimming Club area.
Two Southern Pacific trainmen, engineer Frank Teed and general yard master Carl Olsen, were killed when a lumber laden runaway flatcar derailed their diesel switch engine and caused an explosion. Police traced the derelict car to Burbank and alerted Los Angeles Yard crews as the car sped toward the main switch yards. Firefighters fought the blaze to extinguish the flames and recover the victims.
In Sacramento Democrats push a reapportionment plan to retain Assembly and congressional control. A party dispute nagged the majority briefly before settling as Crown and Richards clash over amendments. Brown mediated to urge changes and win GOP votes for the plan.
Mrs. Mary Evans, director of the Redlands Day Nursery for 16 years, was granted an eight month leave of absence from September to May 1962 by the board. The meeting, at 1041 Brockton Avenue, was led by president Mrs. Douglas Armstrong. Gifts in memory of Mrs. Phillip Harris funded new tables and chairs. A refrigerator was bought with Contemporary Club funds after two smorgasbord fundraisers. The nursery seeks an adding machine and a ditto machine to aid work. May attendance reached 83, with 99 enrollments from 71 families. five enrollees were cared for free and 4,720 meals served. Board members present included Armstrong, Witter, Farquhar, Vroman, Klausner, Parks, Walker, Clark, Scott, Mooney, Schoen, Barnes, and Stewart.
Mrs Wary Jean Deshotels a 20 year old Navy wife was jailed for contempt after sticking out her tongue at Municipal Judge Robert I Staniforth who had sentenced her brother for a traffic offense She was released 24 hours later unrepentant saying she did not know it was against the law to make a face and that she always looks like that
Leona Gage once Miss United States in 1957 won her third divorce from Nicholas Bala Covacevich the 23 year old dancer husband. The judge granted custody of their 1 year old son and ordered $175 monthly child support plus $25 alimony.
Edith Piaf who spent 12 days in the American Hospital after an intestinal operation was convalescing today at a friend's country home outside Paris, as medical officials reported gradual improvement and stable condition.
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