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Published on 08/26/1996 All articles from this issue

25 years ago in the Town Crier

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The Sept. 1, 1971, issue of the Town Crier observed that just 10 years earlier on Sept. 1, 1961, El Camino Hospital opened its doors to patients for the first time. The occasion was honored by the El Camino Hospital Auxiliary with a tea for hospital personnel and auxiliary members.

Hospital administrator R. Edwin Hawkins observed that the hospital had grown its facilities from 300 patients to its 1971 capacity for more than 450. Its growth had been aided by the auxiliary which had contributed more than $300,000 in medical equipment to the hospital.

After 14 years as Santa Rita School's principal, Ruth Isle faced retirement with mixed feelings. She anticipated her new freedom, but had regrets at leaving the school environment. She had been the school district's first woman principal as well as Santa Rita's principal from the day it opened its doors.

For the fourth consecutive year, the teen-age girls at the Fremont Hills Country Club captured the 1971 Northern California Junior Wightman Cup title when they defeated the Modesto Swim and Racquet Club. They were coached by Neil George.

50 years ago in the Los Altos News

According to the Aug. 29, 1946, issue of the Los Altos News, Marjorie Eaton of Los Altos was noted for her artistic talents both as a dramatic stage and screen actress and a painter. Her screen credits in 1946 included the role of the ill-treated missionary in "Anna and the King of Siam," parts in an Abbott and Costello comedy and a Sherlock Holmes mystery and as the midwife in "Forever Amber."

Despite the many places her career had taken her, Eaton said she was "at home" in her own adobe-type house in Los Altos.

The 1,200 people who attended the 10th annual Hidden Villa Festival on Aug. 25, 1946, were treated to a horse show and barbecue as part of the entertainment. The all-day event benefited the Peninsula School in Menlo Park.

World-wide Naval Air Transport Service (NATS) operations were inaugurated at Moffett Field on Aug. 26, 1946, completing transfer of the home port of NATS from the Oakland Air Station. Operations at the field included almost daily flights to and from distant Pacific Islands and Alaska, Attu and Kodiak.

According to the Moffett News, the inauguration marked a new era in the ever-increasing duty of national defense.

-Researched by Ellen Shaw

of the Los Altos History House Association