Scope and Contents "Robert L. Fisk, who runs a Poway meat market, accepts a California Highway Patrol community service award from Capt. W. B. Terry for saving a man from drowning, at the risk of his own safety, last June 20. Fisk was mainly responsible for righting a car which overturned in a drainage ditch with three feet of water and pulling the driver to safety. He was aided by a sheriff's deputy who happened by." [Similar images in envelope, as well as additional images related to 1970-09-16 article with...

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"In a successful effort to prevent fire, Escondido fireman Gary Taylor washed leaking gas from the impact area of a collision between a large truck and a car Monday afternoon at Mission Avenue and Rock Springs Road. Four were injured."

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"Escondido police officer comforts dazed Ronald Lee Griffith, 19, of 1254 N. Ivy St., Escondido [California], after auto he was driving east on Highway 78 plunged down embankment near Metcalf Street and overturned. Griffith escaped with apparently minor injuries in the accident which occurred early Tuesday. CHP [California Highway Patrol] investigated the crash." Envelope contains similar images of accident.

Scope and Contents "Viewing the main structure of Dixon Dam which was completed by Oberg Contruction Co. last Friday are Jim Dixon of Escondido (left), the dam's namesake and Bob Woolard, Oberg's construction superintendant. They are standing in the midst of what eventually will be the reservoir lake formed by the earth-fill and rock dam. The dam's spillway is at the extreme left while the outlet tower is visible on the right. Currently under construction is the 30-inch inlet line which will bring water to the...

Scope and Contents "Escondido police officers begin to gather data after an incident near the intersection of Washington Avenue and Escondido Boulevard Tuesday in which a laborer Vance Peel 34, was shot and killed by two Escondido patrolmen after he attacked them with an axe. When apprehended by the officers, Peele was chopping at a power pole (right) with an axe which he apparently had just bought". [Other images in this folder taken after the incident and relate to the police investigation including various...