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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Apr 02, 1958
Page
14
James Ragan a Wilson High graduate wins AS Pomona College residency, to serve through March 1959. He is a junior history major from 290 Granada Ave. Ragan previously led his freshman class.
The council approves an immediate bid call for eight shuffleboard and four horseshoe courts to be built in a park at an estimated cost of 8000 dollars while removing the Woodland Clubhouse from Recreation Park plans. President Sam E. Vickers notes the old clubhouse will stay in use until alternative quarters are found. Also authorizes bids for pipe improvements at the Long Beach plant costing 30000 dollars and a 4446 dollar trailer mounted unit to trim brush, plus sale of a former fire station site to Safeway Stores Inc.
City council defered immediate action on a Planning Commission proposal to create a new R-5 zoning class aimed at encouraging skyscraper apartment buildings. The recommendation was sent to the committee of the whole with a public hearing to be scheduled. Councilman John Baker cautioned the policy should not be entered into lightly.
Dr J M Soss promotes a dramatic advance in eye wear with a crystallin plastic lens claimed to be unbreakable and lighter than glass. The new lenses offer a single material for all prescriptions including bifocals and are presented as safer and more comfortable for workers in hazardous trades. Offices are listed in Wil, Long Beach, Torrance.
Signal Hill police arrested Robert Showalter and Charles Ward, both 33, on grand theft charges for offering six drilling bits to M and W Bit Co at a low price. Bits had been consigned to Huntington Beach area wells. eight other bits were recovered by Orange County deputies.
E I Du Pont de Nemours and Co Inc cut prices of tetraethyl lead for motor and aviation antiknock compounds by about one third of a cent per pound. The reductions take effect with shipments Tuesday in Wilmington Delaware.
A listing notes the parcel on Santa Fe Avenue north of 25th Street sold for 18 thousand dollars. The brief entry records the price and location with no further particulars.
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