La Cañada History: Vandals strike at La Cañada Golf and Tennis Club

Ten Years Ago

It was learned that a one-time student at La Cañada High School, Army Specialist Carla J. Stewart, 37, died in Tallil, Iraq, when the vehicle she was riding in rolled over. Stewart had joined the U.S. Army just prior to her 35th birthday and was assigned to the 250th Transportation Co.

Twenty Years Ago

A lawsuit was filed that alleged the Jet Propulsion Laboratory caused several cancer cases by dumping toxic chemicals in the Arroyo Seco and the water supply beneath it during its early decades of operation. The suit was brought on behalf of three former St. Bede School students from the 1970s, one of them deceased, who had developed Hodgkins disease.

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Thirty Years Ago

La Cañada High School track mentor Pat Logan announced he was stepping down after 21 years at the school and that one of his early assistants, Dave Appleton, would be taking the job. Logan’s dual meet record as the LCHS coach was 123 wins and 10 losses.

Forty Years Ago

Officials with the La Cañada Golf and Tennis Club (which today goes by the name La Cañada Flintridge Country Club) reported to the Valley Sun that various parts of the facility had been hit by vandals numerous times at the end of 1976, then again throughout January of 1977. “The situation has gotten so much worse in the last few months that we are now pleading to the community for cooperation,” stated co-owner Norman Dreyfuss, who said the club had sustained more than $10,000 in damages.

Fifty Years Ago

In what was being called a possible case of horse rustling, a mare named Hurley vanished from her home corral on Hillard Avenue one day while her owner, an 18-year-old senior at La Cañada High, was at school. The teen told investigators he was convinced someone had taken Hurley, as the corral’s gate had been left tightly secured and she would not have had enough space to successfully jump the fencing on her own.

Sixty Years Ago

La Cañada residents were invited to a Cold War-era six-week lecture series beginning Feb. 7, 1957, titled “How to Detect Communist Indoctrination.” The first featured speaker for the series, being staged at Pasadena City College, was Oliver Carson, identified as an author and propaganda expert.

Compiled from the Valley Sun archives by Carol Cormaci.