In the month of September, our little field had 207 planes stop for emergency landings. Before radar, planes sight-landed and the main airport in Glendale was frequently fog-bound. LAX IN NEWHALL - Little Newhall International Airport was the Southland’s major secondary landing strip. Sackrider’s niece would turn out to be Jeanne Feeney, future editor of The Mighty Signal. Sackrider: One of her great-great-etc.-etc.-grandmothers was pressed to death at the Salem Witch Trials. WITCHES & EDITORS: ANSWERS A LOT OF QUESTIONS - Here’s a little trivia for you about Mrs. Quoth the irate Signal: “Papers sold on the strength of such slush are certainly sold on false pretenses, and one can hardly wonder, when the papers are held in such contempt by public opinion.”
She was in Bouquet Canyon, having dinner, at the time of the blaze. Sackrider’s real estate office in town caught fire. Seems the good gray behemoth printed a story about how gangsters broke into a local woman’s bedroom, had their way with her and then tried to burn her alive. He grew famous after the San Francisco earthquake when he set up a table in the ravaged city and made reconstruction loans to citizens - some with no collateral - when no other lending institution would go near them.ĩ0 YEARS LATER, IT HASN’T CHANGED - The Mighty Signal took on The Los Angeles Times for its shoddy journalism. Gianinni founded Bank of America, starting it up first as the Bank of Italy. Gianinni paid a visit to the newly opened branch of the Bank of America in Newhall and no one could stop him. Doelle didn’t suggest a bounty for bringing in a dead human. He asked that the state Legislature make it a mandatory manslaughter charge for any deer hunter who accidentally shot another deer hunter. The bounty on mountain lions was $250 and for the lesser predators, $50.ĮNEMY OF HUMANITY? - At least Thornton was fair across the board.
He pert near got his wish and the result was a plague of rodents in the 1920s and ’30s here. Doelle called for the eradication of every - that’s every - coyote, mountain lion, bear, bobcat and fox in the Santa Clarita Valley. You wouldn’t call TD an environmentalist by modern standards. In the SCV, deer season was near closing with dove season right behind, but duck season was open, quail season opened soon and tree squirrel season was good to go until 1923.ĮNEMY OF NATURE? - Thornton Doelle, local forest ranger (down the line, he’d serve as Signal editor) penned a weekly column called Soledad Snapshots. Persian nobles in the 13th century used to cool their houses by having large caravans led by slaves haul snow down from the mountains.īEFORE iPHONE CALENDARS - If you were a hunter, you really needed to write this information on your wrist. Mentry died, only in 1906, Mentry’s fellow oil pal Demetrius Scofield founded Standard Oil of California.ĮARLY AIR CONDITIONING - This isn’t local by a long shot, but we can blame it on a glitch in the time-warp continuum. SETTING THE STANDARD - Interestingly, same day that Mr. What a way to go - getting bit on the lips while you sleep and your head swells up like a watermelon.
But, it is also known as the Kissing Bug, the Assassin Bug, and the Bloodsucking Cone-Nosed bug. Mentry kept retiring at night and kept getting bitten by a critter with four different names. The poor Frenchman was the poster boy for the phrase: “Don’t let the bed bugs bite.” Seems Mr. SCV Signal News Podcast with Aron BenderīUGGED TO DEATH - One of our valley’s most famous citizens, Charles “Alex” Mentry, engineer, inventor, pioneer and oil man, died on Oct.
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