San Marino Cobras Plan Safety Checks For City of Hope
Two San Marino car clubs the Cobras and Colonels join civic groups to aid City of Hope. Cobras donate vacation time to perform free in place safety inspections with $1 from every check going to City of Hope, led by Officer Ira W. McKay. Volunteers include John Albers and Bill Bolton among others. Colonels plan fundraising with local clubs, offering honorary cards to donors.
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San Marino
City of Hope
Exchange Club
Cobras
Ira W. McKay
McKay
John Albers
Bill Bolton
Tony Buccola
Len Coulias
Steve Fellows
Bill Gardner
Jay Gould
John Hoy
Darry Kerckhoff
Doc Lamb
Pete Michael
Dan Neale
Bucky Oltmans
Ted Patton
Jim Rosnagle
Bob Roy
Chris Summerell
Phil Thompson
George Weinand
Jamie White
Kiwanis
Rotary
Woman's Club
Lions and City Club
Dixie Best Cherry Pie Contest Winner Named
Dixie Lee Anderson of Blackstone Road will represent students from Alhambra San Marino San Gabriel and Park at a cherry pie baking contest in Vernon. The 16 year old San Marino High student is president of Junior Statesmen and active in church and clubs. The winner will go on to the National Cherry Pie Baking contest next February.
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Dixie Lee Anderson
Blackstone Road
H. F. Anderson
Alhambra
San Marino
San Gabriel
Park
Vernon
Psycho ceramic and other quotes from a Metro daily
A collection of witty lines and observations from a Metro daily column. The snippets critique bureaucracy, consumer spam, and life’s ironies with hints of social commentary and humor.
Football Banquet Set At SMHS Titans Honor Night
The San Marino High School Titans football awards banquet will be held in the SMHS cafeteria Monday at 6 p.m. Joe Reutz of Stanford will speak as featured guest. Varsity letters will be presented by Coach Victor Schwenk with a PTA committee welcoming the players and their dads.
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San Marino High School
Titans Drop Two In Week Opener Without Key Players
San Marino Titans, missing four regulars due to football playoffs, lost 53 45 to Rosemead on December 2 and 46 43 at home to Bonita Tuesday. Standout Koch led scoring with 22 versus Rosemead. Ray Hurd and Fred Nelson each had 15 for Bonita. Coach Garland Lewis says lineup gaps likely cost wins and players may miss more games. C squad beat Bonita 28 27 while B and D teams suffered losses in the same stretch.
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Titans
Rosemead
Bonita
Garland Lewis
Tom Cottle
Mike Bill Cooper
Brad Peery
Koch
Kotchnik
Fred Nelson
Ray Hurd
Bob Twist
SMHS
Lewis
Monrovia
Tuberculosis Control Week Proclaimed in San Marino
Mayor Carson W Ide of San Marino proclaims December 11 to 17 as Tuberculosis Control Week. The document cites 46 new local cases since January and urges citizens to support the Christmas Seal Sale to fund prevention, case finding, patient support, and medical research.
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Pasadena Tubercuosis Association
United States
Pasadena Tuberculosis Association
Carson W. Ide
San Marino
Corson
California
Christmas Seal Sales Hit 56 Percent in Pasadena Area
Reports from Mrs. Kenneth A. Nagel, Pasadena Tuberculosis Association seal sale chair, show $28,175 raised in San Marino, Pasadena, Altadena, versus $28,788 a year earlier. Twenty eight lights on the six foot Tree of Hope symbolize 56 percent of the $50,000 goal, with 44 percent remaining as residents are urged to give to fund the tuberculosis control program.
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San Marino
Pasadena
Altadena
Kenneth A. Nagel
Pasadena Tuberculosis Association
Association
SMHS To Present A Christmas Carol
San Marino High School students will present Charles Dickens classic A Christmas Carol in the Elmer C Neher auditorium on December 14 at 8 p.m. Mary Kinchelo SMHS drama instructor directs the production. The Yuletide show is free to all patrons and friends.
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SMHS
San Marino High School
Charles Dicken
Elmer C. Neher
Mary Kinchelo
Story Of 1956 Olympic Plans At Public Library
A film at the library reviews preparations for the 1956 Olympic Games with scenes from Cortina Melbourne and Oslo. Action shots highlight 1952 Oslo champions while a roll call lists past greats. Admission is free for the weekly program.
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Great International Co
Cortina
Melbourne
Australia
Oslo
Titans Topple Pomona Eleven in CIF Quarterfinals
San Marino routed Pomona Catholic 38 0 at Mt. San Antonio Stadium to advance toward the CIF small schools final. Star back Skip Face benched yet the Titans built an 18 0 lead at halftime and added 20 more points behind Brad Peery George Walker and Bucky Ottman in the second half.
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San Marino
Pomona Catholic Spartans
Mt. San Antonio
Titans
Santa Maria
Santa Barbara
Skip Face
SMHS
Spartans
Brad Peery
George Walker
Titan
Paydirt
Bucky Ottman
Oltman
Christmas Decoration Work Begins Saturday in San Marino
The San Marino Business and Professional association plans Saturday morning decorating in the Chelsea district. San Marino High School art classes are building a Yuletide scene for the display. The intersection will feature a large Christmas tree on each side and Santa Claus in a sleigh with four reindeer coming from the west. The SMHS art class scene will be on the opposite side. A full Santa visit schedule from the North Pole will be printed in The Tribune next week.
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San Marino
Chelsea
Sponsoring
Business and Professional Association
Dave Fiscus
Santa Claus
SMHS
North Pole
The
Tribune
Burglars Continue San Marino Assault
Thieves struck a third San Marino home on Oak Grove Tuesday afternoon, raiding Hazel G. Hermann's house. Entry through French doors, two bedrooms ransacked, a long gold cigarette case and lighter missing, value undetermined.
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Hazel G. Hermann
Oak Grove
San Marino Faces CIF Playoff Tilt at Santa Barbara
San Marino Titans’ third round football playoff game is scheduled for Saturday at 7 30 p m on the Santa Barbara High School field in Santa Barbara California The venue sits on East Street in Santa Barbara
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Santa Barbara
San Marino Titans
Calif
Santa Bar
Christmas Activities Soon In San Marino
San Marino schools announce December holiday activities. Stoneman School will present Gifts for the Christ Child, a new Christmas play by Mildred Rutherford with fourth graders and a full school cast. Huntington and Valentine schools also plan pageants and carols, with toy donations to Riggin Avenue Elementary and the Hathaway Home program.
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Children of Hathaway Home
Valentine School
Valentine Pta
Brownie Troop No. 43
Allen Maxfield
Laurie Ginn Loses Pet Skunk Chanel No 5
Laurie Ginn, 12, reports her pet skunk Chanel No 5 walked away from home on Wembley road. The skunk has been deodorized and is expecting in April. Laurie offers a choice of $15 or a new skunk to the finder. The skunk will not hurt a person.
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Laurie Ginn
Laurie
Wembley Road
City Salaries Consume Major Share of San Marino Budget
San Marino’s 1954 55 fiscal year shows 478 035 in salaries out of 812 656 total expenditures, 58 percent, up from 449 346 last year. Auditors Lybrand Ross note six main expense items and a departmental breakdown led by city manager, clerk, treasurer, attorney and engineer with a 53 100 outlay, up 3 814 from the preceding year.
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San Marino
Lybrand, Ross Bros. & Montgomery
Certified Public Accountants
Burglars Loot Two San Marino Homes
Burglars stole nearly 5000 worth of valuables from two San Marino residences this week. At Mrs. Dona M. Stein’s Old Mill Road home, jewelry and silver services valued over 3000 were taken after an east door was forced Thursday night. At Clair C. Dillavou’s Wembley Road home, 1000 in currency, 250 in watches, miscellaneous coins, and a .32 caliber revolver were stolen after Monday evening entry. Thieves ransacked both homes, and San Marino police are investigating.
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San Marino
Dona M. Stein
Old Mill Road
Clair C. Dillavou
Wembley Road
Dillavou
Cavein Fractures Worker's Leg at Melville Ridgeway Site
Albert Scandoval about 35 suffered a fractured left leg when a south wall caved in in a 20 foot trench at the intersection of Melville drive and Ridgeway road Wednesday at 11 45 a m. A 12 inch pipe broke and struck his leg burying him to the waist.
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Albert Scandoval
Melville Drive
Ridgeway Road
Scandoval
Harry G. Haake Dies Friday at 61 in Los Angeles
Harry George Haake 61, vice president and West Coast manager of Coco Steel Products, died Friday after a short illness at Good Samaritan Hospital. Funeral services were held Wednesday at San Marino Community Church. He lived on Old Mill Road, Los Angeles, for 35 years and was a former Los Angeles Rotary Club president. He served as a WWII Army second lieutenant and was born in Chicago. Survived by wife Mildred Moore, daughter Harriet Jane, son John Custer, and brother Charles J. of La Grange Park Illinois.
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Harry George Haake
Coco Steel Products Corp
Good Samaritan Hospital
Turner & Stevens Mortuary
San Marino
Harry G. Haake
Los Angeles
Old Mill Road
Rotary Club 5
Chicago
University of Illinois
Theta Delta Chi
Mildred Moore
Harriet Jane
John Custer
Charles J
la Grange Park
Ill
Pressure Cooker Plans Included In 274 Year Old Book On Display
A Huntington Library exhibit features a 1749 book by Denys Papin titled A New Digester or Engine for Softening Bones. The work describes cooking under pressure to soften bones and meats, using high heat to stew foods in their own juices without water.
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Denys Papin
Monsieur Papin
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