Diplomas for 173 at El Cerrito High, Cheers for New Businesses – in 1949

The front page of the weekly El Cerrito Journal for today, June 2, in 1949, offers a glimpse of our city when it was 32 years old and guided by values and news judgment that in part have endured and that in part seem to belong in a museum display case. Here are some of the actual headlines from the paper's front page, followed by our brief summaries of the articles:

Grand Opening
Of Two Stores
Marks Activity

The city's commercial life is growing apace with ith the opening of the Harbor Building at Stockton and San Pablo avenues and the opening sale announced by the owner of the El Cerrito Five and Ten Cent Store, Harold E. Pavey. The Harbor Building will have three tenants: a modern automobile parts store, Friedell Camera Shop and a barber. The Five and Ten, near the Fairmount Avenue post office, has added a significant number of new household items to its stock. 

El Cerrito High School
To Graduate 173 Seniors

The annual commencement exercises at El Cerrito High School – to be held Wednesday night at the school gym – will see 173 diplomas presented to graduating seniors this year. The Processional music will be the Hungarian Comedy Overture, Keler Bela, performed by the high school orchestra. 

Librarian, Assistants
Attend May 25th Meet
At Martinez Library

New procedures to improve library service was on the morning agenda of the annual Branch Library Assistants and Custodians of Contra Costa Library meeting in Martinez on May 25. The luncheon, at a Concord restaurant, was enlivened by remarks from Mrs. Jeanne Van Nostrand, co-author with Miss Edith M. Coulter, of California Pictorial, a centennial publication by the University of California Press.

Dudley E. Miller
Passes Bar Exam

Dudley Eugene Miller of 6706 Moeser Lane in El Cerrito is among the 414 aspiring lawyers who passed the bar exam last April, according to an announcement today from the Committee of Bar Examiners of the State Bar of California. Their admission to the bar will be moved by the committee at the state Supreme Court sessions in Los Angeles on June 7 and in San Francisco on June 14.