News Scrapbook 1969-1971

.I~.u dL--t- Thursday, August 13, 1970

Seturday, August 8, 1970

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PETER BROW

LI grandma, the Catholic Church her has beeµ filling up i attic since Father Juni- I pero Serra carried the cross up Presidio Hill. The church doesn 'l ha vt that cro s in its collective at- tics but it may have some of 1he nails that held it together. The priests got out the pack- ing crates in 1772 - two years ~fler the mission's founding· Priest folded oriental ve t- ments in big wooden crates for storage in adobe cellars. Wooden statues from Span- ish Toledo in 1300 \\el e wrapped in cowhide and hid- den from Jndian raiders. AI~. TILE li:l'en nails and scraps of tile "ere stacked in dirty piles in unused church rooms. "A per on can almost trace thP first 100 years of an Diego history by going to l'hurch or to the San Diego D1- 1X'ese office:• the late Ben I Dixon, local historian. used to .ay. Guide~ at the mission tell visitors this summer they can "walk back to 1769 hy taking 200 yards of the adobe mission walks." The treasures of the Catho- lic Diocese are headquartered in two places - a 17th Centu- n treasure room at the J.:,w. versit n Die Library ~n m i e t e our- oot-thick wall• of the 1is ion San Diego de Alcala. At the mis ion. the artifact tPll the stocy of Spanish fa- 1ers. s i I v e r workshops· in ·ew pain, the intricate crea- tions or Indian .laborers and he Southwe art tvle that grew up around the founding of the soutll utern missions. 'BEYO ·o PRI E' There has been no value es- timate of the treasures. but ht~torians place the culture! ,·alue of the treasure trove a "beyond price." Here are some tandouts m the mission collection. The largest of the mission hell. - 805 pounds. 75 per cent of which is silver. Jl was cast 1n Lima. Peru. in 1796 and tarted by donke} caravan to • an Diego as the gift of Carlos llI of Spain. The legendary \\ood stat- ue of Father Serra with his ;irms stretched up and his robes hillowin~ in a breeze from San Diego Bay The stat- ue was made in Majorca, :pain, h\o years after Serra died H1 torians believe it was carved by a boyhood friend of j th padre. A pair or 200-year-

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OUR CORRESPONDENT, John Gollo, 19, is bicycle with friend Aaron Horton, 18, from San Diego _10 traveling by

New York City via Canada Photo above was taken pr1ort'I.IM..J • to their departure / ._;. TIP'" f"" . v- ) - (.,,,v-"'J , Young Bicyclists reach Niagara Falls ~~: RRA :..u:sA T W 0 young men who set out in on.Irr to sta) o ary ruads

The young bikers also are hand - delivering a Jet- ter from San Diego Mayor Frank Curran to '.'few York City Mayor John Lindsay The Independent re- cently received a letter from G a 11 o postmarked from somewhere in Ontar- io, Canada. r.aJlo said that they bat- tled headwinds most of the way up the Pacific Coast, ancl wen• blanketed l.>y fog for hours every morning He said that "bicycles are so much better for touring new country. You are much closer to every- thing and can't help seeing a lot of the country." The biggest problem, Gallo said, were the free- ways. Since bicycles are not allowed • on freeways , the two often were forced to go miles out ol their way

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In W hington state, when• t mperat ures along then· route rose over 100 degree ·, there are na frontage rnads on \~e free- ways. At one pom\, he said, they had to make a 50-mile detour. Gallo said that 1he people they have met along the way have varied from a man "who shared his yard and home with us after a short conversation outside a grocery ma1ket to a fat car driver in Ventura who cu\ me off and hit me, knocking me off my bike, and took off without stop- ping." The two plan to r<.'ach Rochester, 'Y., this week and then peddle on in to Manhattan From there, they will Ily back to San Diego.

early in Jum· to b1cycll' to New York Citv this w,•ek reached Niagara Falls afl- ••r travl'ling up th<' west coast to Canada, and ove1 the Rocky Mountains to thi, Gn•at Lakes John r. a 11 o, 19, and Aiuon llot·ton. 1 . who will both (•ntcr lol•al colh•gP~ as In• ·hmen this F 1\1 heg,rn thPir ju111 m•y early on th,• morning of Jun" 11. Rl(Jing 10-. peed blk , ancl mrry- lng a in1n1u1n arn<,unt of gear, thi' two were pon- sort, on the11 trir by Amf'rlran Legion Po~I 7:ll in Linrla V1 ta Diggers Find Large Mission Workshop Area 7 ,70 By PE' 'J<:R BROW A sprawlin work hop com- plex - co ed by ·rt and debm for a ntury is being uncover d at the an go Mis- ~ion , a Univer it o n Die o spoke an sa I yes r ay The new diggings are the first of everal that may uncover a giant rectangular wing of the ong1nal mis~ion and probably will " change historical views the physical appearance of the first mission," historians at USO said . Dr. Ray Brandes - in his fourth year of directing the dra- matic excavations - said yes- terday the new wing - east of the l\lis~ion church and parallel to it - is only in the first phases of excavation. History and archaeology s:u- dents working at the Mission are uncovering the workshop wirig underneath a chicken coop com- plex built in this century. "This is very important be- cause we have done all the dig- ging we can do on the wing we have been excavating for four years," Brandes said. Brandes is speaking of the narrow excavations running east from I court ·ard en- trance to the ission gift shop. Students there have uncovered the south side of the large rec- tangular win which Brandes hopes will someday be outlined by more comp! igtngs. This wing - ro ·hich the ( Continued on b-5, Col. 5) Digg rs reacht•s

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.,.. ...... ESCO DIDO - Early morning clouds are not expected to hide the meteor shower in the northeast sky Wednesday from about 3 a.m. to dawn. "The meteors will appear as bright yellow points of light moving very fast and leaving streaks in the sky," said Rudolph M. Lippert, professor emeritus of astronomy at the Universit of San riega The meteor shower occurs each year between u y O an August 15 and the tiny bits of rock and metal bursting into flame when they hit the upper atmosphere are remnants of a comet, he explained. Temperatures Wednesday will hover in the 85-90 range and westerly winds will be light and variable. Tuesday's highs were 92 at D. M. Ting's Fourth Avenue home, 93 at the Steve Harris home on South Maple and 84 at Skyline Ranch east of Valley Center. Ting and Skyline had an overnight low of 64 while Harris reported 67. - (.U'f:

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versity of San Diego, and the procf's- sional cover at the_ mission.

Ca thQ.lic metal work is represented b~ the u~sian icon, left, at the Uni-

Like the mission. several of the treasures are "story pieces." The story behind a golden icon lrom a Kazan workshop in Russia belore the year 1000 is an example. The icon was passed from mother to daughter 111 an aristocratic family until the Russian revolution - when the jewels were stolen. It came to the church from the late Adm. William Stand- ley. onetime U S. ambassador to Russia. Inside the safe at e library is a copy of Austrian Empress !Ilaria TerPsa·s penal code. "This always gets the stu- dents o[ history,'' said Father Dollen. "When they see the pieturt!s -0f th rack and tbe screw in a liberal penal code they can hardly believe it."

way. uncovered treasures like crystal trading- post beads from Venice of the Baroque period, British ca v- alry short swords, a gin bottle made in China and crystal wa- ter jugs from London. FROM OLD WORLD The collections at the USD library - part ol donations to the church - trace Catholic history of the Old World . Concentrated in a perfectly recreated 17th Century Flo- rentine room are tables from Sistercian Monastery. Russian icons from the 10th Century, bronze door from 16th Centu- ry Florence and the last set of I Aubusson chairs in existence The main sections of the col- lection came from the. David Donahue family of San Diego, The collection is supervised b:v Father Charles Dollen, librar ian-curator. also have

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Area At Mission (Continued) students have taken 60.000 arti- on the newly excavated wing and shows us that this wing probabiy £acts. pieces of pottery hu1lding malPrtals. is "nnw had a " protective wall structu:e known lo h11Ve been ? center for on the outside." This means. the mi s1on living quarters. small Ii- USO profe sor said, that the hrary rooms and 'reception celis. wall was like a rustic. mis,,on · The win:: under the chicken cattle wall with a walk and two coops coonrrls to and runs to lookout lowers. thP north from this uncornred 3 Ttie wing with its protected crt1on,' Bra'ldes. aid wall slanted slightly to the north · from 'he early diggin \le an

NEW WING OF OLD MISSION

lJmyers1tv of San Dieao students and professors begm to uncover a new wing of the old San Diego Mission tha1 µ.,,. ¾ ,, u~• ....:. r ;-- . .) o

has been covered by rubble for a cen- tury. The wing held a blacksmith shop and artifact work areas.