20 years ago
September 20, 1996
The City Council continued a $25,000 grant for the Manteca Chamber of Commerce to market the community. The city awarded the business development grant last fiscal year. In requesting a renewal, the Chamber asked for an additional $5,000, citing expanded hours of operation and increased printing costs. But the council voted 3-2 on Monday to maintain the status quo. Becky Meredith, the city’s redevelopment coordinator, advised against the $5,000 increase because the Chamber’s application didn’t offer additional service.
30 years ago
September 12, 1986
The inability to house the continued influx of new students is the biggest problem facing Manteca Unified School District, Superintendent Harold Hughes told members of the Parent-Teacher Association Tuesday night. Speaking in Manteca, Hughes told the PTA Council that the school district counted 11,500 students on Monday, about 500 more students than when school first opened two weeks ago. Schools are bulging at the seams and in some cases, operating with twice the number of students they were initially built to house.
40 years ago
September 15, 1976
City planners Tuesday evening reviewed preliminary plans of a new enterprise which will sometime next year occupy the focal point of Ed Cardoza’s new shopping center on North Main Street. “Carl’s” will offer full, family- type restaurant facilities as well as a short–order coffee shop to be called “Carl’s Jr.’s”. The new eating place will front on Main Street in the center of the parking plaza. Cardoza’s main building, which will house Safeway, Value Giant and Sprouse-Reitz, now under construction, is due for completion before the end of the year.
50 years ago
September 16, 1966
Manteca’s Police Department ranks with the best of them in the traffic division category. Manteca, one of 27 cities in the United States to be so honored, received a Certificate of Achievement Award, according to Bradford M. Crittenden, California Highway Patrol commissioner. Manteca Police Chief David Walsh received the letter from the CHP with Lt. Leonard Taylor and Sgt. Larry Cook looking on. Only nine cities in California received the certificate.
60 years ago
September 13, 1956
Enrollment at all elementary schools on the beginning of the second week of school showed 1,746 students, a gain of 73 over the previous year. The enrollment is significant because it does not take into consideration the estimated 100 or more children attending St. Anthony’s Parochial School. Supt. Neil Hafley was authorized to obtain temporary classrooms, either at the unused Baptist Church near Lindbergh School or at the new Baptist Church on North Street.
70 years ago
September 12, 1946
George D. Murphy Sr., publisher of the Manteca Bulletin for 23 years, has accepted the position of secretary of the Manteca District Chamber of Commerce, effective October 11. This action was taken at a meeting of the board of directors Tuesday night. Murphy Sr. also announced that he is selling his business to his son, George Jr., who has been associated with him in the publication of the paper for nearly two years, since his discharge from the navy. George Lucken, city councilman and local insurance man, has been serving as part-time secretary of the Chamber for the past year.
80 years ago
September 17, 1936
If a movement launched by the Manteca Business Men’s Association at a meeting Tuesday noon at Ray’s Quick Lunch is carried out, travelers through this city will see prominently displayed before them a huge road map on the east wall of the Odd Fellows building. President Joe Pfister appointed Dr. L. L. Henry and William Andro as a committee to interview the Odd Fellows and the Standard Oil Company in connection with having the proposed sign painted on the building.
90 years ago
September 16, 1926
Principal H. R. Fewell of the Manteca Grammar School announced this week that the attendance at the local school had increased from 366 on Wednesday of last week to 401 on the same day this week. This number exceeds all previous records for the same date. At this time last year, the attendance was 364. Mr. Fewell expects the attendance to climb even higher within the next week or two.
100 years ago
September 15, 1916
Manteca is favored for a second bank, which is quite a compliment for a purely agricultural town that has been known for less than eight years. L. H. MacDonald and H. R. Parschall of Livermore, president and cashier respectively of the Farmers and Merchants National Bank of Livermore, were in Manteca last week looking over the field and secured an option on the Joshua Cowell corner opposite Jacot‘s store, stating that they will build an exclusive bank building worth $10,000 and will be in the field with a national bank to be known as the First National Bank of Manteca.
