75 years ago
July 15, 1944
Internationally famous animal trainer Clyde Beatty, protected only with a whip, chair and blank-shooting pistol, and surrounded by 20 ferocious man-killing lions and tigers in a 10-yard diameter steel cage, brought thrills to a large audience that attended the three-ring combined Clyde Beatty & Russell Brothers circus last night at Myrtle street and Pacific avenue.
Highlighted by the warmly applauded performance in which Beatty put the jungle cats through sensational acts and paces, the show presented the satisfied crowd with two hours of enjoyment which included clowns, huge elephants, performing dogs and ponies, wizards of the tight wire, educated chimpanzees, equilibristic stars, daring acrobatic comedians, accomplished beauties of the high ropes, horses and last on the program — but far from the least — the world’s foremost mid-air marvels, the Flying Concellos.
50 years ago
July 15, 1969
The arrest of two young men by the police last weekend — one of them a juvenile — has cleared at least eight mysterious “bombings” that have disturbed Harborites over the last few weeks, according to David Auer, chief of police.
After an explosion at Sam Benn Park, police obtained the license number of a car seen leaving the park with its lights off, and later apprehended 18-year-old Richard Lee Wyninger and a 17-year-old boy at a drive-in restaurant.
Wyninger confessed to making various bombs at home, and to being responsible for two other explosions in the park, one in the Canyon Court area and five or six others along the highway near Westport.
25 years ago
July 15, 1994
Cosi Hill isn’t what it used to be.
The hilltop is losing its crown in a project to realign about a half mile of Highway 101. The state Department of Transportation ruled the road must be relocated because the old route has been undermined.
This isn’t the first time the state tried road improvements on the hill.
“Everything we have tried in the past has had a mediocre result,” said John Hart, project engineer for the DOT.
So, this time, they’re moving the road rather than trying to shore up from underneath it, he said.
Compiled from the archives of The Daily World by Karen Barkstrom
