Word: beaches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Either go broke or make a fortune, but don't take a job." Jack Crawford took the advice. He ran a college dance band, saved up $8,000 from its bookings and, after some postgraduate work in geology at Texas A. & M., started buying oil leases in Huntington Beach, Calif, (pop. 6,000). On the west side of town and around it lies one of the state's biggest oilfields, but no one has found oil east of Main Street. From geological and electronic surveys, Jack Crawford decided that another big pool lay right under the shantytown section...
...dawn on New Year's Day, after playing trumpet with Horace Heidt's band in Los Angeles, Crawford hustled to the drilling site. He arrived in time to see his drillers bring in a gusher from a new formation-and start a rush of oilmen to Huntington Beach...
...oilmen bought up leases, Huntington Beach turned into a boom town. New restaurants opened up, boarding houses and nearby motels were jammed. New wells came in and spattered the houses with oil. What was once shantytown became known as Cadillac Lane, as householders collected fat royalties from their property and lease bonuses ranging as high...
Class ties, beach bags, and red and white hats will appear in the Yard this year from Sunday, June 12, to Thursday, June 16, at the 25th Reunion of the Class of 1930, the Class Committee recently announced. The Reunion will include four days of activities for classmates and their wives, sons, and daughters, ending with a formal meeting of the Alumni...
Died. Worthington Scranton, 78, grand son of the founding family of Scranton, Pa., onetime (1906-28) president of the Scranton Gas & Water Co., banker, prominent figure in state and national affairs of the Republican Party, philanthropist and civic leader; of a stroke; in West Palm Beach...