Week of May 31st Headlines

100 Years Ago: Santa Clara News (June 1, 1917)

• Committee to Boost War Bonds: People of Santa Clara Called Upon to Support Floating of Liberty Loans
• Portuguese Fiesta to Begin Saturday Night: Main Street Being Decorated
• Memorial Day is Being Observed: Schools Closed and Businesses Suspended: Many Residents Proceed to Catholic Cemetery and Santa Clara City Cemetery
• Santa Claran Thomas Cahill, an Employee at Carmelite Monastery, Patents Device for Locating and Raising Sunken Ships
• Arrangements Completed for Registration Day Parade: Celebration to Commence at 10 o’clock: Big Attendance Expected: County Clerk Issues Instructions As to Who Must Register on June 5th, a Holiday
• Postmaster Charles D. South Announces that Every Employee of Santa Clara Post Office Had Made Application for a Liberty Bond
• Post Office Holds Up Mail Intended for Germany, Austria, Hungary, Luxembourg, Bulgaria and Turkey

50 Years Ago: Santa Clara Journal & News (May 31, 1967)

• State Action Needed to Rescue School District: SCUSD Lacks Money to Meet Record $16 Million Budget
• School Bond Barely Squeezes Through: Old Santa Clara Proves Stubborn: Despite Losing in Four Precincts –Bond Issue for New Elementary School Classrooms Passes
• Expansion of Kaiser Santa Clara Hospital: 94-Bed Wing Added Along with Extensive New Parking Lot
• Mobil Oil Co.’s Design for Futuristic Service Station at Corner of Scott and El Camino Real Draws Fire: Cross Between Arizona Flagstone and Disneyland ‘Tomorrowland’ Look Fails to Woo City Council
• Peterson High School Holds $5 Peace Corps Banquet: State Assemblyman John Vasconcellos and Dr. Richard Smith of San Jose State College to be Speakers
• J. H. Wagner, New Principal of Washington Elementary School, Honored at Reception
• Santa Clara Players Opens New Season with ‘Never Too Late’
• Wade Brummal Editorial: El Camino Real Corridor is the Real Santa Clara Downtown

(compiled by Mary Hanel, Historic Preservation Society of Santa Clara)

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