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Apricot harvest gets late start; Bilbrey runs for mayor again

Dr. Don Ringer, a local chiropractor, is the new president of the Tracy Breakfast Lions Club.

Stephanie Germann, principal of Villalovoz School, is heading the Tracy Sunrise Rotary Club, and attorney Emma Souza is president of the Tracy Rotary Club.

Tracyites flocked to Lincoln Park for the annual Fourth of July celebration. Hot-air balloons, food, games, entertainment and fireworks were featured.

A dozen Tracy High football players and four coaches traveled to Lincoln, Neb., to take part in an instructional camp at the University of Nebraska.

Dan Bilbrey has announced he will seek a third two-year term as Tracy’s mayor.

Developers of the proposed Tracy Hills project have agreed to pay regional traffic fees demanded by Tri-Valley public agencies.

25 years ago — 1983
Earle E. Williams, retired aggregates-facility manager, City Council member and local historian, has died at the age of 85. (Williams Middle School is named for him.)

Joan Sparks has succeeded Dorothy Zanussi as Tracy’s mayor. Both were elected by fellow council members before the direct-election of mayor was inaugurated.

Bradford Bryant, pastor of the First United Methodist Church, has received his doctor of divinity degree from Boston University.

A dozen residents living west of town have called for controls on noise generated by windmills in the Altamont Hills.

Jean Jardine Wilson has retired from the Southern Pacific as a clerk after serving 40 years with the railroad. She followed in her father’s footsteps as “a rail.”

The Mi Ranchito Saints ended their “June swoon” with a 9-4 win against Oakdale in the Mexican-American Baseball League. Billy Raab, Tom Avila and Rich Garcia led the Saints in hitting.

50 years ago — 1958
Two Oakland men drowned in Middle River north of Tracy during the Fourth of July weekend.

The citizens’ committee backing tax-override and bond measures for the Tracy Elementary School District is headed by Mary Souza.

Carrie Silveira has been installed as president of the Young Ladies Institute in ceremonies at the IOOF Hall (now Moose Hall) on Sixth Street.

West Park School has been judged structurally unsafe by a structural engineer. School trustees have to decide whether the school, built in 1923, can be used for the 1958-59 school year.

75 years ago — 1933
William M. Gates has come to Tracy from Mina, Nev., to be the new Southern Pacific roadmaster. (Gates, a veteran of World War I, was Tracy’s last surviving “Doughboy” when he died at the age of 100.)

Tracyites celebrated the Fourth of July by lighting firecrackers and sending small fireworks into the sky.

A $7 season’s pass to the Tracy Plunge is good until Sept. 10.

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