Large Audience Enjoys One of the Best Entertainments Ever Given Here
125 years ago – August 8, 1901
The entertainment of music and song given at the opera house on Tuesday evening last was classic in the highest degree. The people of Healdsburg are a musical community and always respond by furnishing a large audience to a first-class musical entertainment. The audience that listened to the excellent renditions furnished by the Knickerbocker Quartet was no exception to the rule. It was a highly appreciative one, and the best evidence of this fact is that every rendition was encored and had to be repeated, so highly pleased were the listeners.
The Quartet is a most excellent one – undoubtedly the best that has visited Healdsburg in years. The special solos on the violin by Bernhard Walther were the very best the writer has heard since the days of Paul Julian. He was repeatedly called back and graciously responded. His wife, Madame Lillian Walther, is a song bird of uncommon genius. She fairly entranced the audience with her classic and Scottish melodies. She is a very attractive figure on the stage, easy of manner and very pleasing of countenance. In conclusion it may be said that the performance was most excellent, and of just such a character as the people of the Sotoyome valley love to listen to.
Strike Did Not Interrupt Local Phone Service
75 years ago – August 2, 1951
Instead of making news, the telephone strike concluded July 29, destroying news in Healdsburg. Not picketed, the Healdsburg office of the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company continued to work on its regular schedule. At several periods during the 101-day strike, the local office was the only normally staffed and not picketed office in the Redwood Empire. Believing that newspaper publicity on the Healdsburg office might interfere with the local telephone service, the Tribune did not carry the story of the strike.
End of the strike came at 6:15 p. m. after a 28-hour long negotiation session. The agreement between the CIO Communications Workers of America and the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company calls for a one-year contract. Agreement was reached on the major issues of: A 10 per cent across-the-board pay increase, shortening by a year the length of service necessary to reach the top pay brackets and withdrawal by the company of a no-strike clause.
HHS Trustees Restore Sports, Band Layoffs, 5-Period Day at Junior Highs Continued in Budget
50 years ago – August 5, 1976
Trustees of the Healdsburg High School District adopted a final 1976-77 budget Monday night restoring sports but continuing most of the other major cuts. All the cuts could have been reinstated for about $110,000. Though the board can make further changes during the school year, as it now stands the schedule for the fall is as follows:Â All district extra-curricular activities are restored, including all sports, yearbooks, newspapers, and high school band, drama and chorus.
Both junior highs are cut to five period days. Elective art, music, sewing and shop are eliminated. The district may restore some band instruction as an extra-curricular activity. The nurse, two music teachers, an art teacher, one history teacher and the adult education teacher are laid off. Cafeteria service is eliminated. Five district paid aide positions are cut, including three for junior high reading programs. Though the meeting was ostensibly a public hearing on the budget, few citizens appeared at the meeting and most of those in attendance were teachers.
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