Hal Bates with Hilly Rose (left) and Jim Wedworth (right).
From the Hawthorne Rotary Club Weekly Bulletin, October 1970.
HILLY ROSE:
Hilly Rose is an American radio personality and a pioneer of the talk radio format. He currently specializes in paranormal events, with shows available from Fate and guest host appearances Coast to Coast AM. He also writes a monthly column for FATE Magazine.
Rose has hosted talk radio programs on KFI, KABC, and KMPC in Los Angeles as well as KGO-AM and KCBS in San Francisco. He won the California State Fair award for investigative reporting.
During the 1983 Beirut barracks bombing, Rose solicited AT&T to build a communications infrastructure so that troops could contact their families.
Rose authored But That’s Not What I Called About, a book with many autobiographical stories and biographies on many of the major pioneers and leaders of talk radio prior to network syndication.
In the mid-1990s, Rose developed a series of radio shows about marine life for the Monterey Bay Aquarium in Monterey, California.
In 1999 Hilly guest-hosted the Art Bell show, often running a Y2K theme. His guests included such "End -of-the-World" figures as notable survivalists, hackers responsible for stopping all Amtrak trains, builders of fallout shelters, and others.
JAMES WEDWORTH
James Q. Wedworth; Former State Senator
Wedworth, who in recent years operated a horse boarding farm and orchard, died Monday in Newcastle, Calif., near Sacramento.
Elected to the state Senate in 1966, Wedworth, a Democrat, served as vice chairman of the Senate Education Committee during some turbulent years on California campuses. In 1968, he spent three weeks on the San Francisco State University campus during a siege of violence and issued a stinging report to his legislative colleagues.
Wedworth recommended the ouster of university president (later U.S. Sen.) S.I. Hayakawa and his boss, Chancellor Glenn Dumke, and a major revamping of the state college system.
While urging officials to avoid the use of an outside police force, Wedworth recommended fencing the San Francisco campus, issuing identification badges to students, faculty and employees, reinstating campus rules, and suspending noninstructional activities.
Elected to the state Senate in 1966, Wedworth, a Democrat, served as vice chairman of the Senate Education Committee during some turbulent years on California campuses. In 1968, he spent three weeks on the San Francisco State University campus during a siege of violence and issued a stinging report to his legislative colleagues.
Wedworth recommended the ouster of university president (later U.S. Sen.) S.I. Hayakawa and his boss, Chancellor Glenn Dumke, and a major revamping of the state college system.
While urging officials to avoid the use of an outside police force, Wedworth recommended fencing the San Francisco campus, issuing identification badges to students, faculty and employees, reinstating campus rules, and suspending noninstructional activities.
He
described the December 1968 campus scene for the Inglewood Lions Club
as "one of total insanity. The deterioration of morale, the violence and
hysteria, the ridiculous daily confrontations, the damage to property
and persons--all were unbelievable."
Wedworth failed miserably in 1974 in a bid for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination, and left the Legislature shortly after his district was redrawn in 1976.
A native of Illinois, Wedworth moved to the Los Angeles area after serving in the Navy during World War II. He worked briefly for Northrop and then established a franchise bicycle shop.
Wedworth was first elected to the Hawthorne City Council in 1953 and was chosen mayor in 1958. He held both positions until his election to the state Senate in 1966.
He was active in the Elks, Moose, Rotary, Little League, Boy Scouts and Pop Warner football, the Southside Chamber of Commerce, the Exchange Club of Inglewood, the Southwest Community Coordinating Council, the Southwest Health Council and Southwest Toastmaster's Club.
Wedworth failed miserably in 1974 in a bid for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination, and left the Legislature shortly after his district was redrawn in 1976.
A native of Illinois, Wedworth moved to the Los Angeles area after serving in the Navy during World War II. He worked briefly for Northrop and then established a franchise bicycle shop.
Wedworth was first elected to the Hawthorne City Council in 1953 and was chosen mayor in 1958. He held both positions until his election to the state Senate in 1966.
He was active in the Elks, Moose, Rotary, Little League, Boy Scouts and Pop Warner football, the Southside Chamber of Commerce, the Exchange Club of Inglewood, the Southwest Community Coordinating Council, the Southwest Health Council and Southwest Toastmaster's Club.
