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Published on 10/26/1998 All articles from this issue

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25 years ago in the Town Crier

According to the Nov. 7, 1973, issue of the Town Crier, John Pfeffer, an Awalt High junior, overcame the sometimes enormous problems of bunny raising over a seven-year period and was awarded a $500 4-H California scholarship for his project

The youth, who hoped to go into veterinary medicine or agricultural sciences, planned to attend Foothill College and then the University of California at Davis.

Awalt High School added to the excitement of its homecoming game day on Nov. 2, 1973, with a parade held in downtown Los Altos. It started at 1 p.m. on Main Street and ended at 2 p.m. on Awalt's football field in time for a homecoming rally and crowning of its homecoming queen

Los Altos High's homecoming day activities started with a pancake breakfast. A parade left school at 1 p.m. and marched to Main and State streets, then returned to school in time for a 2 p.m. rally and the crowning of its homecoming queen.

Experts in a variety of fields contributed talent and expertise to widen the youngsters' vistas in an Exploratorium at Springer School in October 1973. Snakes and frogs shared the spotlight in such diverse subjects as computer skills, arts and crafts and science, with students actively participating.

50 years ago in the Los Altos News

As reported in the Nov. 4, 1948, issue of the Los Altos News, the J. Gilbert Smiths turned down an offer of the school board of $19,250 for a five-acre tract of land, part of their orchard off San Antonio Road and Hillview Avenue. The Smiths had asked $37,500, noting that they had put in a well costing $5,601 on their property a few years earlier and that irrigating lines ran through the five acres.

The board planned to automatically start condemnation proceedings so an impartial court could reach a decision on a price that would be fair to both concerned parties. Hearings were scheduled for December 1948.

The board also announced the naming of three new schools in Los Altos. The one under construction in November 1948 on the Hillview site would be called the Hillview School. The planned school on Berry Avenue would be known as the Loyola School and the one in north Los Altos would be called the Portola School.

Members of "New Outlooks, Inc." held a barbecue and dance at Hidden Villa on Nov. 7, 1948. The newly organized club, for people more than 50 years old, was founded to offer new contacts and a fresh outlook to its members.

- Ellen Shaw of the Los Altos History House Foundation