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Families of 13 Alzheimer's disease patients filed a class action law suit to order the government to approve the drug THA. Dr. William Summers of Arcadia was the first to report that THA was effective against Alzheimer's disease 5 years ago.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper3401
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
October 20, 1991
Pages
p. B-2
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
October 20, 1991
Pages
p. B-2
Subjects
Summers, William K.
Item ID
3290AN
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Newspaper Index
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Former Arcadia resident David Thornton has been involved in fundraising for kidney research ever since a rare kidney disease began tormenting him five years ago.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper57
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
April 5, 1992
Pages
p. A-1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
April 5, 1992
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p. A-1
Subjects
Thornton, David
Fundraisers
Item ID
57AN
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Newspaper Index
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David Thornton, 24, who suffers from angio-dysplasia, a rare disease that affects the blood vessels, has founded the Thornton Kidney Research Foundation with the USC School of Medicine.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper3453
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
August 29, 1990
Pages
p. A-1 photo
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
August 29, 1990
Pages
p. A-1 photo
Subjects
Thornton, David
Item ID
3340AN
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Newspaper Index
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An experimental treatment for Alzheimer's Disease originally developed 5 years ago by Arcadia Dr. William K. Summers has been recommended to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. The drug is called THA.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper3400
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
August 1, 1991
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p. A-1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
August 1, 1991
Pages
p. A-1
Subjects
Summers, William K.
Item ID
3289AN
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Newspaper Index
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The City Council passed a resolution supporting the Arcadia Coalition for Education, a group of educators and community members demanding more state money for schools.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper1040
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
April 18, 1991
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p. A-1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
April 18, 1991
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p. A-1
Subjects
City Council 1990 - 1999
Item ID
1040AN
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Newspaper Index
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The Food and Drug Administration cleared the way Monday for expanded testing of the drug THA, a promising drug to treat Alzheimer's Disease. Arcadia resident Dr. William Summers first reported that THA was beneficial to Alzheimer's patients in 1986 in an article in the New England Journal of Medicine.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper3402
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
December 8, 1991
Pages
p. A-2 photo
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
December 8, 1991
Pages
p. A-2 photo
Subjects
Summers, William K.
Item ID
3291AN
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Newspaper Index
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A request from a group of parents that the play "Secrets", dealing with AIDS and birth control, be cancelled at Foothills Junior High has been unanimously denied by the Arcadia Board of Education. Sponsored by Kaiser Permanente and performed throughout the state, the play was requested by parents at the junior high level after it was shown last year at Arcadia High School.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper3174
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
January 30, 1991
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p. A-1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
January 30, 1991
Pages
p. A-1
Subjects
Schools - Race Relations
Item ID
3085AN
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Newspaper Index
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Baldwin Stocker Elementary School opened its Baldwin Stocker Information Center, complete with 16 Apple 2e computers and a computer encyclopedia stored on a single laser disc. It will soon feature modems, fax machines and laser discs. Funding comes from the state and from local support groups such as the Arcadia Educational Foundation and the PTA. Photos.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper2767
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
November 18, 1990
Pages
p. A-1, 2
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
November 18, 1990
Pages
p. A-1, 2
Subjects
Schools-Baldwin Stocker Elementary
Item ID
2699AN
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Newspaper Index
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Many of the local Chinese community, including members of the Arcadia Chinese Association, said they support the city council's decision to keep an ordinance requiring 2/3 of any business sign to be written in Roman letters.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper3319
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
January 9, 1991
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p. A-1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
January 9, 1991
Pages
p. A-1
Subjects
Signs and Signboards
Item ID
3217AN
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Newspaper Index
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An anonymous donor apparently has withdrawn $225,000 in support of county botanical programs because of concerns about a proposed merger between the L.A. County Natural History Museum and the county Dept. of Arboreta and Botanic Gardens.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper461
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
April 25, 1990
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p. A-1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
April 25, 1990
Pages
p. A-1
Subjects
Arboretum
Item ID
461AN
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Newspaper Index
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A group of nine former mayors has denounced the City Council's recent decision to ask for City Manager George Watts' resignation.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper78
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
June 14, 1992
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p. A-1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
June 14, 1992
Pages
p. A-1
Subjects
City Employees - Watts, George
Item ID
78AN
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Arcadia will head a group of about 17 cities now teaming up on a regional plan to reduce smog in the San Gabriel Valley.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper319
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
February 2, 1992
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p. A-1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
February 2, 1992
Pages
p. A-1
Subjects
West San Gabriel Valley Air Quality Plan Consortium
Air Pollution
Item ID
319AN
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A group of Duarte residents has vowed to appeal a 3-2 Planning Commission decision permitting the Anoakia School to relocate to a Duarte neighborhood.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper3143
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
June 24, 1990
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p. A-1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
June 24, 1990
Pages
p. A-1
Subjects
Schools, Private - Anoakia School
Item ID
3057AN
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Newspaper Index
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Bea Wyant Chute of Arcadia was among 48 delegates from California to attend the 2nd White House Conference on Library and Information Services recently in Washington, D. C. "Making most of library network: delegate Chute says support is key to better education" by Shelia Thompson.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper956
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
August 8, 1991
Pages
p. A-3 photo
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
August 8, 1991
Pages
p. A-3 photo
Subjects
Chute, Bea
Conferences - Library and Information Services, White House
Item ID
956AN
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Mayor George Fasching blasted a group of nine former mayors for distributing an open letter that accused the new City Council of breaking the law by asking City Manager George Watts to resign.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper83
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
June 21, 1992
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p. A-1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
June 21, 1992
Pages
p. A-1
Subjects
City Employees - Watts, George
Item ID
83AN
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Newspaper Index
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Climaxing a 16-month battle, the state Board of Education in Sacramento voted 9-0 to deny a petition by a group of Sierra Madre parents to have the city join the Arcadia Unified School District.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper2177
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
June 10, 1990
Pages
p. A-1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
June 10, 1990
Pages
p. A-1
Subjects
Pasadena Unified School District
Item ID
2155AN
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Newspaper Index
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A 5-year effort to put $1.5 million worth of computers, laser disc players, videocassette recorders and other high-tech teaching tools into Arcadia classrooms was kicked off by the Arcadia Educational Foundation, an independent fundraising group.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper489
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
October 31, 1990
Pages
p. A-1 photo
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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
October 31, 1990
Pages
p. A-1 photo
Subjects
Arcadia Educational Foundation
Item ID
489AN
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Arcadian Gary Twombley will leave Washington, D.C. to become part of the 1st group of Peace Corps volunteers to serve in Eastern Europe. Twombley, 24, is preparing with 59 other volunteers, including Elizabeth Oewn, 22, of Pasadena, for 2 years of service in Hungary.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper3547
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
June 17, 1990
Pages
p. A-1 photo
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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
June 17, 1990
Pages
p. A-1 photo
Subjects
Twombley, Gary
Item ID
3428AN
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A group of parents plans to ask the school board to cancel the performance of the play "Secrets" at Foothill Junior High since it addresses the issues of AIDS and birth control without, as they see it, meeting state education guidelines because it does not stress abstinence from intercourse as an alternative.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper3173
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
January 27, 1991
Pages
p. A-1
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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
January 27, 1991
Pages
p. A-1
Subjects
Schools - Race Relations
Item ID
3084AN
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Newspaper Index
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The Arcadia Post 247 American Legion members will be leaving their home of 69 years to move to a new meeting place sometime in the next few months. Faced with dwindling funds to finance much-needed repairs for their 2-story hall, the group has sold their property to a development firm that wants to build 40 homes in the area.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper2095
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
June 10, 1990
Pages
p. A-1 photos p
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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
June 10, 1990
Pages
p. A-1 photos p
Subjects
Organizations - American Legion Glenn Dyer Post #247
Item ID
2081AN
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Newspaper Index
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