Would you buy eight pounds of grapefruit for 69 cents?

Days Gone By

Fresno Flats Research Library

(Updated: Wednesday, March 19, 2008, 12:00 AM)

Forty years ago

Week's News Capsule's- *U.S. seeks tax increases as gold panic mounts. *RFK enters presidential race. *Nixon predicts LBJ will win nomination. *London police arrest 220 as mob of 10,000 stage anti-American riot. *University of California limits admissions, bars 14,000 applicants.

Congressman Harold T. (Bizz) Johnson announced that the federal Neighborhood Youth Corps has earmarked $49,090 to finance a work experience program for 25 out of school young people in Madera County.

More than 100 people turned out for a spaghetti dinner sponsored by the newly-formed Citizens Action Committee for a second high school.

A petition was started at the meeting urging the Madera County School Organization Committee to take the first legal step to bring a high school to Eastern Madera County. Funds from the dinner will be used for a survey as to the wishes of registered voters in the eastern portion of the county.

Thirty years ago

Residents of Sunnydale subdivision were warned by State Health Department personnel to boil their water before consumption. Recent samples of water supplied to the subdivision showed high bacteriological counts which are an indication of possible contamination. Last week Linton Forrester, owner of the Hillview Water Company which serves Sunnydale, charged that sewage effluent from the Oakhurst sewage plant had contaminated the well which supplies water to the subdivision. State agencies have ordered Hillview to discontinue use of the well.

A Yosemite High School Scholarship Foundation is being organized to provide college scholarships to Yosemite High School graduates. Working to get the program off the ground are Ed Bailey, Harry Baker, Judge Ken Ballard, Sandy Cable, Gloria Richard and La Retta Roope.

The Madera County Planning Commission has given the go ahead for the development of the Pines Tract by B&W Company. The development will consist of an 80-unit mobile home park and a 175-unit recreation vehicle and tent camping park on approximately 75 acres of land.

Midway Market advertised grapefruit, eight-pound bag, for 69 cents and large avocados, three for $1.

Twenty years ago

A proposal has been advanced to mediate the dispute been the Yosemite Union High School Board of Trustees and Principal Jim Fraysier.

The trustees had notified Fraysier that it is not renewing his contract. The proposal submitted to the trustees calls for appointment of a committee to investigate the conflict, details of which have not been made public, and to make recommendations as to a solution.

The Save Our Streams lawsuit over the proposed hydroelectric project on Lewis Creek has been dismissed. U. S. District Court Judge Edward Dean ruled that the suit should have been brought in the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which has jurisdiction to interpret the Federal Power Act.

SOS president Jerry Bishop was hopeful for a favorable response in the court of appeals because of a recent ruling in that court in a similar case.