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Historic Hauck's building gets new life with sports bar and grill The brick building on the southeast corner of E. Main Street and Broadway that used to be home to Hauck's Pharmacy was transformed into a sports bar and grill in May 2016. Hauck's Grill is owned by Tom and Karen Gallo, and features barbecue items and locally made brews and food from Sand Dude, Dust Bowl, Hilmar Cheese and Foster Farms.

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Hauck’s Pharmacy West spells tradition Ernie Yotsuya, a local pharmacist, was the new owner of Hauck’s Pharmacy on Main Street in 1973. He was formally associated with Hauck’s Pharmacy east, but sold his interest in the business to Richard Berger to become sole owner of the downtown pharmacy. He returned to the pharmacy where he started in 1968, when he became a partner in Hauck’s, and assured his customers the tradition that has distinguished the store since 1922 will continue.

The Hauck’s tradition began in Turlock when Ben Hauck purchased a pharmacy at the corner of W. Main and Broadway in 1922 and changed the name to Hauck’s Pharmacy.

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Valley golfing tradition alive and well at TGCC

BY PAUL ROUPE

On the back of the menus for Nineteen24, the restaurant and bar inside the Turlock Golf & Country Club, is a quote in bold from the first professional golfer to play the course here, Ian McDonald.

“Finest natural golf course I have ever seen,” he said to a reporter for the Turlock Tribune in the Aug. 1, 1923 issue.

The natural hazards “on eighty acres of rolling ground were wonderful accomplishments of nature,” says the article, which documented how Baker showed the grounds to McDonald and another businessman/golf lover. The shade trees and long driving fairways were touted as attributes perfectly suited for the game, and the surrounding farmland only enhanced the natural beauty.

When that story ran, the course was still a vision in the mind of J.V. Baker, who was instrumental in organizing what was called the Turlock Country Club. On Jan. 15, 1924, 77 acres were bought for $6,000, and by dipping into the pockets of local businessmen and selling them

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1925 group pic: J.V. Baker, Ian McDonald, C.C. Carlson, Frank Stierlen, George Keith, H.W. Rickenbacker and Carl Tell on the Turlock Country Club course in 1925.

100 shares of stock for $100 apiece, the funds raised would get the project off the ground and into the holes.

It only took a few months to get the course up and running, and by the summer of 1924 golfers were already taking advantage of the “greens made of sand and thick groves of trees.”

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Professional golfer Ian McDonald, Mrs. J.V. Baker, Mrs. E.M. Folendorf, Mrs. G. Keith, Mrs. A.A. Austerland and daughter Shirley on the Turlock Country Club course in 1925.

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After the opening of the first nine holes, it took two years to start construction on a clubhouse that would take another two years to build.

From there changes were few and far between, but with every new addition the club offered more reasons to get a membership (which started out at a price-gouging $16 per year).

The back nine was completed in August 1958 with the help of resident pro George Buzzini Sr., who along with members, assisted in getting the 40 acres west of Golf Road needed for expansion.

In 1948 the clubhouse was expanded and remodeled, only to be remodeled again in 1963 with an “ultra-modern” look, according to a brochure from the mid-60s.

Along with a dining room, kitchen, bar, ladies’ lounge, locker rooms and pro shop, the Turlock Golf and Country Club started to resemble the club of today (but not before another clubhouse remodel in the 1980s).

But gazing out the northern window of the restaurant Nineteen24, the 30-foot-by-60-foot pool, which was installed in 1952, is barren. What was once populated with families and rambunctious children is silent now, with only a few workers milling around, making preparations to restore it to its former glory.

Joe Simonds, the general manager at Turlock Golf & Country Club and former PGA pro who knows the course all too well, is happy the club is popular spot not only for golfers, but families.

It used to be strictly for golf, he says, but that didn’t work as a viable business model.

They provide a “family atmosphere, giving the best service to the members because they own it,” he says.

There is a sense that returning to that vibe is essential to the club’s success, which is why the pool is being remodeled. There will be cabanas, games for kids, and generally a place to lounge if you want to get some sun while dad or mom tests a new iron or tries to lower his or her stagnant scores.

One place the club doesn’t plan on returning to is the early days, when women were restricted from golfing on Wednesdays, which was a business day for men and a mid-week break. Thursdays was known as women’s day, but a couple of ladies helped to change that. Perturbed by the fact they couldn’t golf when they wanted to, they set up a Wednesday tee time in direct defiance of the bylaws, which back then stated that female play was a privilege, not a right.

After a brief controversy, the women were allowed to play on equal terms with men. Men put up more of a fight when the board proposed a 50-cent raise in the 1930s, which prompted a few of the members to quit.

Now the club is focusing on what it has been doing well for so long: offering recreation, activities and a place for families to enjoy themselves. Turlock Golf & Country Club has hosted everything from birthdays to Christmas parties to weddings and even quinceañeras.

In addition to the pool being redone, the bunkers are being refinished and/or replaced with new sand, liners and drainage.

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The Turlock Golf and Country Club recently refinished and/or replaced the bunkers with new sand, liners and drainage.

“Consistency is big,” says Simonds. In an echo of Ian McDonald’s quote, he looks to the future renovations but is still firmly rooted in the belief that the 18 holes here are special.

“The layout of this course, its condition, is as good as anything you’ll see in this valley.”

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1 Main Street Through The Years 19 Main Street and Lander circa pre 1900. (We know it is after the railroad was installed as the railroad crossing sign is in the photo.)

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1908 Main Street circa 1950s

Turlock 4th of July parade, 1908

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Main Street circa late 1940s

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This photo has to be after 1911 because the Women’s Improvement League raised money for the installation of three fountains for watering horses in that year. Also, there have “new” motorized vehicles and horses and buggies in the photo.

The interesting thing about this photo from the 1920s is the diagonal parking allowed from both directions in the middle of Main Street.

Photo courtesy of the Turlock Historical Society

Photo courtesy of the Turlock Historical Society

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1920

This drawing was the cover of a 1987 Turlock Journal special edition.

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Main Street 2005

Photo courtesy of the Turlock Irrigation District

SA: Doing the most good in Turlock

BY PAUL ROUPE

Turlock has a history of Swedish immigration, so in the embryonic days of the bustling Valley town it’s no surprise the Swedes were the ones to start a Salvation Army here.

Though the second generation immigrants were the ones who got things rolling on this side of the Atlantic, it was an English Methodist named William Booth who is responsible for the organization’s beginnings.

Back in the 1850s, Booth, who in contrast to his fellow ministers had a wild idea of preaching to the dregs of society in the style of Jesus, aroused the contempt of his peers. They didn’t like the fact that he walked the streets and preached to thieves, prostitutes, drunks and the homeless (who most likely couldn’t afford the pew tax and therefore weren’t permitted to attend church).

It wasn’t until 1865 in London that Booth began what is now known as the Salvation Army, using the Church as a foundation for providing services and ser-

mons to those who would otherwise never get to benefit from either.

According to the Salvation Army’s official background, the first incarnation was called The Christian Mission. In 1878 Booth read a report that said the Salvationists were akin to a volunteer army. He dropped the word volunteer, inserted Salvation, and from then on it steamrolled to every corner of the world.

But back in Turlock, the organization took a while to get where it’s at today.

Looking at the Army’s updated and spacious home on Lander Avenue, it’s difficult to see the meager beginnings in the 1920s and 30s that started it all.

In 1934, the Swedish closed the church where the SA operated, which is on the property where the new Jura’s Pizza is located.

Even now, if you descend into the basement of Jura’s, there is still the emblazoned symbol of the Salvation Army in Swedish hidden under the tile.

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in town. If people needed services, such as for people of all ages and backgrounds. food assistance, then they would have to call It wasn’t long before the 2,700 square foot and someone would help with what they home couldn’t contain the growth and ristermed “service extension.” ing popularity of the SA. There just wasn’t In the 90s, the idea of a permanent home enough room to accommodate everything and for the Salvation Army began to coagulate in everybody, so plans of moving to a new locathe minds of board members. tion started forming.

That was when Dave Ebel, a minister who Just as it had been before the first move, dohad moved to Turlock in 1996, got involved nations propelled the project from dream to with the burgeoning project to help the SA esreality.

The board members raised $6 million, tablish a foothold in the community.

Foster Farms sponsored the food wing, and Ebel, along with the board members, met people from all over were chipping in to get a at Latif ’s on Golden State, with nothing but a new building.

P.O. Box to their name.

When the 28,000 square foot spot on LandFor years they did what Ebel called “dead running…just chasing (the goal to get a builder opened in 2001, it did so without debt or ing).”

Journal file photo financial burden.

Then there was an opening at a location “You loved what was happening,” says Ebel.

The Salvation Army’s gym facility is home to after-school programs, behind the old DMV, so they seized on the adult evening basketball and volleyball games, senior activities, food “It was so exciting to be in that first love, just opportunity and worked out a deal with the distribution, Zumba classes, Promotoras and Home League. The gym is engaged kind of feeling. Everybody was warm also the go-to venue for different special events, including an annual city to move in. and fuzzy and great things were happening. wrestling fundraiser, Women’s Auxiliary Tea, Teen Challenge Spaghetti But the building was trashed.

You don’t see that at every Salvation Army.”

Dinner, NJROTC Military Ball, Can Tree Food Drive and Christmas Dinner Mountains of built up floor wax lingered Sometimes there are struggles with dedicatfor over 700 people. underneath the tile, and there needed to be ing a project of this magnitude, but for the a serious clean-up effort just to get the place Evan’s Telephones pitched in and provided the phone Turlock Salvation Army it seemed that everyhabitable.

Still, they persisted, and Ebel managed to get volun- system. Carpeting was put in. Everything was done pro thing fell into line when and where it should, and today teers to donate both time and services. A contractor put bono because the city saw that there was a need for what it’s hard to imagine a time when it wasn’t around.

“I’m proud of what it’s become,” Ebel says. “I’m glad up a dividing wall to separate the church from the com- the Salvation Army does: food assistance, spiritual guidmunity services. Hendrickson’s gave tables and chairs. ance, activities for seniors and children, a social outlet they let someone like me be a part of it.”

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Rock of free speech

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The “Rock of Free Speech” was firmly planted at the Stanislaus State College campus in October 1965, a gift from a Modesto lumber dealer. Larry McGranahan, Associated Students president, mounted the rock to hail it as the symbol of the “permanent establishment of free

Student Body President Tom Archer is pictured on Dec. 1, 1965 with John J. McFall, during the congressman’s visit to the SSC campus. Behind “the rock” and platform is the library building.

speech of the SSC campus.” He said it represented “the bedrock of free expression governing both the learning process and basic rights of man in a free society.”

Standing nearby was Tom Archer, student body president. Students built a redwood platform for speakers who require more room for footwork. The rock was donated by John Mensinger of the American Lumber Co.

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While the redwood platform no longer stands behind the ‘Rock of Free Speech’ the rock itself remains in the front of the Stanislaus State library. The spirit of the rock is also alive and well on the campus whether it be through protests, religious clubs or even the campus’ student-run newspaper. In October 2017, concurrent to National Free Speech Week, Communication Studies professor Dr. Shannon Stevens held a seminar which explored the First Amendment in light of recent events currently dominating mainstream media.

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During the seminar, Stevens said

that the people with the most offensive ideas are the ones who need the First Amendment’s protection the most. If the speech of white supremacists is suppressed, who’s to stop the speech of feminists or other groups from being banned next, questioned Stevens – a concerning topic for a professor who not only lectures on Gender Communication and Free Speech, but also advises the school’s newspaper, where questionable and controversial subjects can arise daily.

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Automatic detection of stolen automobiles Editor’s note: This story originally ran in the April 24, 1935 issue of the Turlock Daily Journal.

Basic laws of electricity are respected by technical experts, but a group of four Turlock men—none of them an engineer—who dared to “violate” those rules and work night after night, week after week, month after month for several years until they had perfected a mechanical “memory,” which high federal and state peace enforcement officers who have witnessed demonstrations hail as one of the greatest contributions of society’s endless war against crime.

The machine is the “Detectograph” and is a brain child of Turlock Chief of Police E. W. Gaddy. Gaddy, with his son, Ermal W. Gaddy, Assistant Water Superintendent William E. Mitchell and Robert Prusso, developed the machine during nights and Sundays in the Chief ’s woodshed which was converted into a machine shop.

One of the principal uses of the Detectograph would come in the detection of stolen automobiles and license plates. With its keyboard almost identical to that of a standard typewriter, authorities equipped with the machine would virtually make it impossible for a “hot” or stolen automobile to drive on the highways and escape detection.

The Detectograph appears from the exterior similar to a calculating or tabulating machine, except that the keyboard

is such as any found on an ordinary office typewriter.

The device operates electrically from a storage battery, and is adaptable either for office or patrol car use. Its capacity is figuratively unlimited, and can be loaded with hundreds, thousands, or even millions of numbers.

A hypothetical case illustrating the use of the machine: A police car is equipped with the Detectograph which has been loaded with thousands of automobiles reported stolen throughout the state.

The car either is cruising or parked on the highway, and an officer types on the keyboard the numbers of passing cars. License No. 8-L-1539, for instance, is on a car which has not been reported stolen; its owner is driving it. As this automobile passes the police car, the officer punches exactly as one would on a typewriter “8-L-1539.” Nothing happens, so he clears the machine as one would a calculator.

The next vehicle to pass, we’ll say, is No. 6-J-7819, and it has been stolen in Los Angeles. Its number has been filed in the machine.

The man operating the Detectograph types the number and suddenly a sharp buzzer is sounded. The alarm notifies the officers that the car which had passed is a “hot one,” and they immediately start in pursuit—with the wanted car but a few yards ahead of them.

Nearly every piece and part of the machine was handmade by the four men. They worked behind a strong veil

of secrecy and locked doors during their struggle to attain their goal.

The original idea of the need for such a device came from Chief Gaddy who had been experimenting for a long period with card systems in an effort to defeat the faulty and unreliable attempts on the part of officers to memorize a few of the scores of stolen car numbers. This, he decided, was impractical, and he began to dream of some machine—some mechanical “memory” that would flash an alarm when a stolen car passed.

“I thought and wrestled with the idea for two years before saying anything to anybody,” Gaddy said.

Finally, the Chief called in a group of brother officers and his son. “I want you to think about this,” he told them, “and see if there isn’t some answer to the problem.”

Mitchell and the younger Gaddy joined the officer in the belief that perhaps there was some answer. They began drawing plans and then scrapped them to re-draw other plans. Finally, they started construction.

Some parts used in the Detectograph required days of labor. The inventors admittedly were baffled over one phase of their machine, and Ermal Gaddy went to San Francisco where he consulted high electrical engineers.

“I’m sorry,” they told him, “but that simply cannot work. It does not conform with the rules that one must follow in electricity.”

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possible with invention of four Turlock men To some, this would have been a heavy blow to hopes and optimism. But the four Turlock men thought it could work and they set about to find out. And they did.

In explaining the Detectograph, Gaddy said: “It is a machine that the crook cannot use against the officers. Other anti-crime machines have been used by the underworld as well as by the police.

“Many crooks use stolen license plates when they operate on a “job.” With the recording of stolen plates as well as stolen cars, it would be impossible for the crook to travel the roads and highways, were police departments and highway patrols equipped with the Detectograph.

The listing of stolen automobiles, however, is but one of the many possible uses of the machine.

The numerical classification of fingerprints and serial numbers on stolen or ransom bank notes could be filed in the Detectograph, and would slash by many times the period it now takes authorities to check these cumbersome records.

State and federal governmental agencies, police Journal file photo departments, banks, bonding houses, identification bureaus, and automobile insurance compa- Pictured left to right: Chief of Police E. W. Gaddy, Robert Prusso, William nies are among scores of potential the E.ofMitchell, and Ermal W. Gaddy with their Detectograph invention.

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machine, Gaddy explained.

The Detectograph, its builders said, will be within the buying power of even the small police departments of cities and towns with limited resources.

Persons who would see the four men enter the locked structure and stay until a late hour, night after night, were straining with curiosity. One person even went so far as to break a padlock in an attempted entrance. Gaddy’s 7-year-old coal black police dog, Laddie, however, started the prowler on a record-shattering dash for safety.

The machine was guarded day and night until the United States Patent Office granted 30 patent claims on it. It now is in New York City where officials are submitting it to laboratory tests.

In addition to the four actual inventors of the Detectograph, there are two other persons who form the company or owners. They are City Attorney W. Coburn Cook, who is acting as legal counsel, and E. E. Clark, former Turlock man who has been the successful promoter of the Masterwrench, which also was invented by a resident of this city—Homer Mead. Clark is acting as eastern representative for the Detectograph anti-crime machine.

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