Week of June 27th Headlines
100 Years Ago: Santa Clara News (June 28, 1918)
*Officer George Lyle Busy This Week Thwarting Automobile Thieves
*Allied-American Fourth in Santa Clara: Thousands of Visitors Expected for Patriotic Event: Celebration will be Most Inspiring Function Ever Held in Our Mission Town
*Constable George W. Lyle to be Grand Marshall of Day in Patriotic Parade and Program
*Open Air Dance on Platform in Plaza Park to be Held on Evening of July 3rd
*Santa Clara Woman’s Club to Sell Coffee and Ice Cream in Plaza Park on Fourth of July
*Jewel Baking Company to be Closed All Day for Fourth of July
50 Years Ago: Santa Clara Journal & News (June 26, 1968)
*School Board Moves For Tax Overide Election — Tentative February Date for Tax Vote
*$619,000 Slashed from School District Budget
*City Debates Gun Proposal: Teacher Foster Lopes Suggests Firearms Control Measure to Keep Guns Out of Hands of Teenagers and Drug Addicts
*Councilman Kiely Calls Commercial Development Plan an ‘Asphalt Sea’: For and Against Arguments for Development at Northwest Corner of El Camino Real and Lawrence Expressway
*After Minor Protests, City Council Votes to Approve City Budget of $21.7 Million for 1968-69
*Police Make Arrests, Seek Additional Suspects: $800 Worth of Firearms Stolen from Window Display of Santa Clara Sports Shop, 1485 Franklin Street
*Santa Clara Celebrates 116th Birthday: Town Incorporated July 5, 1852, Although its Heritage dates back to the Founding of Mission Santa Clara in 1777