City OKs Lease at Airport for Major Improvement
City Council approved a yearlong lease with Baker Aircraft Sales Inc for a three acre parcel north of the Administration Building at Municipal Airport. The firm plans a 210000 building for small plane sales. city will collect 389 per month in rent. Existing smaller parcel lease was terminated. Other actions include 24700 repaving on California Ave and 24000 for Skylinks Clubhouse equipment, and raising Lakewood Blvd speed limit to 49 mph citywide, 40 mph Willow to Conant.
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Baker, Aircraft Sales, Inc
Sam E. Vickers
Lakewood Blvd
Long Beach
Willow and
Conant Sts
Two Couples Mark 93 Years of Married Life in Hawaii
A total of 93 years of married life will be celebrated soon in Hawaii by two couples. One couple from Long Beach, California, aboard the American President Lines President Wilson, includes Harold F. Wood and his wife of Los Angeles Harbor. The other couple is from Fort Collins, Colorado, with Mrs Wood’s sister and her husband, Todd and his wife, observers of their golden wedding anniversary. Wood is APL's security chief and has been married 43 years. Todd is a retired executive of Portland Cement Co. in Fort Collins. A special cake from the President Wilson's chef was shared with the couples and relatives before the vessel sailed.
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Hawaii
Longi ‘Beach
American Presiident
President Wilson
Los Angeles Harbor
Harold F. Wood
Columbia St
Fort Collins
Colo
Wood
APL
Todd
Portland Cement Co
Wilson
Hosmer Says Revenue Forecast Seems On Track
Budget Chief Craig Hosmer backs the administration tax revenue forecast for the coming fiscal year noting postwar recession trends. He argues a balanced budget could persist if revenues meet estimates, despite a $9 billion increase projected by the Budget Bureau. He cites 1949 and other recessions where receipts rose differently than predicted.
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Washington
Congress
Craig Hosmer
Seahower
Budget Bureau
Hosmer
Russia Starts Giant Irrigation Project
London UPI Radio Moscow reports a seven year irrigation plan begun to render Central Asia’s Richfield area cultivable. The vast project involves water injection wells across Uzbek, Tadzhik, and Kazakh Soviet republics and expands an area 200 by 85 feet at 96 project.
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London
UPI
Radio Moscow
Central Asia
Corp
France
Abatelstan
Tadjikistan
Stan
Charter changes spark LA County hearing on Thursday
A Los Angeles County hearing is set for 9 30 a m to discuss charter amendments proposed by a nine member study group led by Warren Dorn The proposals include expanding the Board of Supervisors from five to eleven members tightening oversight and creating a county manager and non elected officials for assessor and sheriff The group says public understanding will shape the changes and the board may delay formal adoption until 1960 ballot action
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Los Angeles
Board of Supervisors
Hall of Records
Ap J
Warren M. Dorn
Henry Reining Jr
Sored
USC School of Public Admin
CAO
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23Rd Sts
Skylinks
Harold Woods
Frank Todds
BY Bill Broom
Workington Bureau
E. Broadway
Rose
Smirnoff
The
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Russia
Bob Houser
G. Ross
Atlantic Ave
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Plymouth
Ey Knolls
RCA
Atlantic
Roosevelt, Long Beach
Amen Oes
Paramount
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