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1919-1994 VIGILANCE FOREVER - 75 years of The Signal 19

Photo couttesy of SCV Historical Society
Among the valley's firsts during the 1930s was a Fourth of July parade in Newhall that brought the entire community together.

■ The 1930s

epress1on an opt1m1sm

Times were tough, soloists and sermon notes), school news,
Kiwanis news, births, deaths, women's
· but the hometown club news, lost dogs, weddings, ( often
headlined ''Pretty Wedding") and social
paper carried goings-on. There are regular announce-
ments of dances at the Saugus clubhouse.
Newhall School news is divided by
messages of hope grades, and students submit information
after grade one. (In kindergarten and first
By LINDA HOLLINGSWORTH . grade, the teachers submitted the news).
For The Signal A tidbit: "Mr. Dalbey's room, the
eighth grade received the half hour early
the year 1930 dawns, we find dismissal Friday as the girls had a sur-
ublisher AB. Thatcher at the prise for the seventh grade girls. When
elm of The Signal. His column, the seventh graders were dismissed, they
"A Jin Jer Jar" is a steady front-page fea- went to the cafeteria to find cocoa, tea,
ture. In it, Thatcher offers up wit and and cookies waiting for them. All the
wisdom on everything from baseball to teachers were invited and we had a nice
Einstein's haircut. time - Geraldine Bowers."
He considers giving up his column, The front page also features local
but "it gives me a chance to get rid of news. For example: "Last Sunday Alicia
some of my meanness, without hurting Dobbings, her sister and brother went
myself or anybody else - much." hiking and got a few wild cucumbers.
The paper was published at that time They have thorns about a inch and a half
weekly, on Thursdays. The cost for a long. Alicia stumbled and fell into a
one-year subscription was $2, or a single patch of them and is suffering with a
Signal file photo
copy for 5 cents. The front page of the very thorny pair of hands." Lang Station, (above) near the east end of present-day Canyon Country, was
newspaper had as its centerpiece a poem. On the second anniversary of the St. a regular Southern Pacific railroad stop in the 1930s. Note the small dog in
These poems are graceful and,ethere- Francis Dam disaster, the townsfolk front of the station.
al, immortalizing the beauties of child- commemorate the event at the Saugus
hood, motherhood and man's higher clubhouse. Music includes piano solos piece of the great dam that broke. Handsome Man."
nature. They are serious, and innocent - by Mrs. Carol Satterwhite, and whistling The inside pages are devoted to News from the surrounding areas: The
and considered front-page news. solos by Mrs. Smith. "Taken all in all, it California news, ranch news, "A Saugus Enterprise ( edited by members of
The front page of the early 1930s is was a very fitting and splendid obser- Bedtime Story For Children," some- the Saugus Community Club), Honby,
peppered with features on church news vance of the disaster." It is also noted times a "Children's Comer" and much Sierra Pelona Valley and Mint Canyon
( complete with Sunday school topics, that the monument was formed from a long serial fiction, with titles like ''The Please see 1930s, page 20