Alyce Jones works for the Chamber of Commerce as a city hostess helping to make newcomers welcome, working with local businesses and talking to clubs. Biographical notes included.
A memorial trust fund is being set up to finance the education of the children of Steven and Cathy Jones, an Arcadia couple who were killed in and auto accident August 17 near Val Verde.
Dexter Jones, 72, long active in Arcadia civic affairs, died at Arcadia Methodist Hospital. He was a local attorney, a former member of the Arcadia Board of Education and the Arcadia Chamber of Commerce.
Arcadia Chapter, American Red Cross, has received a $20,000 sponsorship check from Herb Jones, chief executive officer of Hinshaw's, to provide a board of directors room in the new facility.
Paul A. Jones has been appointed president of the Southland National Bank, scheduled to open this month at 800 South Santa Anita Avenue. The article gives a brief run-down on Mr. Jones' banking career and educational background.
According to the Arcadia Police Department's monthly activity report for the month of December, which reports statistics for the entire year, daytime burglaries increased while night burglaries decreased. Also, there were no murders, 3 rapes, 2 attempted rapes, 36 assaults with a gun and 13 arrests for indecent exposure in 1987.
Arcadia Fire Department will observe Fire Service Day with an open house at each of the city's three fire stations. Photo and caption. See hard copy of newspaper in Box 51.
The Arcadia City Council has offered a $5000 reward for the arrest and conviction of the person or persons responsible for the murders of 2 Arcadia women who were slain at their homes in the past weeks.
An international businessman was abducted from his Arcadia home and later released the same evening after his abductors demanded he pay them $1 million. He was told that he would be contacted the next day with instructions about where to put the money, but no money has been paid. This is the first kidnapping of this type in Arcadia, although there have been four other kidnappings in the San Gabriel Valley since last October.