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Salinas Dam water tunnel completed under Cuesta Grade, World War II week by week
The Telegram-Tribune reports that Manila fell to the Japanese and actor James Stewart is at a pilot training base among other war news. The year dawned with news of American and Philippine troops...
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Japanese internment resolutions, Baywood Park gets electricity-World War II...
The United States had been fighting for seven weeks and the news was bad everywhere in the Pacific and in much of Europe and Africa. The plain facts were that America was woefully under-prepared and...
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Deaths on the home front, World War II week by week
Telegram-Tribune front page from August 4, 1942. Headlines from Stalingrad and about a mysterious local death.The 31 days in August 1942 marked a number of service related deaths for men who would...
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Gas Rationing, Amphitheater Construction- World War II week by week
Nationwide gasoline rationing coming was the headline in the Telegram-Tribune September 10, 1942.Sept. 10, 1942 Gas rationing was the recommendation of committee charged with managing the nation’s...
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Mining Chrome, World War II week by week
Telegram-Tribune headlines about the war and rationing from Feb. 24, 1943.Of the 20 headlined stories and briefs on the front page Feb. 24, 1943 only three were not related to the war, wartime...
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Dance regulations wanted in San Luis Obispo, World War II week by week
High spirited young men heading off to war didn’t always make the best neighbors. From May 20, 1943 Telegram-Tribune Citizens Demand Action of Policing of Dance The San Luis Obispo city council last...
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Cuesta College builds a campus
Cuesta College was moving to new buildings in 1976 after early years in World War II surplus buildings. Cuesta College celebrates 50 years this year and the first major milestone was when voters...
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Camp Roberts Rodeo, Camp San Luis explosives, World War II week by week
Even a break in training for war could be deadly as seen in this excerpt from a May 10, 1943 story. German troops were surrendering in Tunisia May 10, 1943 in this newspaper headline from the...
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Attu Invasion, Memorial Day, World War II week by week
Camp San Luis Obispo dedicated the 12,000 capacity Camp Amphitheater on Memorial Day 70 years ago after a formal parade. In San Luis Obispo services began with a 9 a.m. event at the IOOF Lawn cemetery...
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Camp San Luis soldiers volunteer, World War II week by week
A number of Camp San Luis Obispo soldiers volunteered to work in local hay fields. Farmers were short of labor between the demands of the draft and high wages in wartime industries. Detroit was...
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