Council Warns of Need for Longer Freeway Extension
City Manager Sam E. Vickers told the council that a longer freeway must extend eastward along the shoreline to Alamitos Ave after the freeway terminus and the St. St. Bridge are completed. He warned that without a solution the downtown district will be choked with traffic.
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WM SHIVERS AS TORPEDO HITS HOME
WM Shivers experiences shock after a torpedo hitting a ship prompts him to retreat to his observatory and chair. A council approves a $15,000 contract with De Leuw, Cather & Co. to study Santa Monica traffic control systems amid a divorce case in Santa Monica Superior Court.
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Plane Force Down After Engine Fire At L A Airport
A Trans World Airlines Super Constellation carrying 74 aboard made a precautionary landing at George AFB after an engine caught fire shortly after takeoff from Los Angeles. Flight 43, en route to Kansas City, departed Hoover Better International Airport at 9 15 a.m. from San Francisco earlier.
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Second Boy Dies in Father’s Fatal Dana Point Shootout
A Tucson-turned-Orange County family saga ends in gunfire as Charles Arthur Seyfert, 39, his son Tommy, 10, and Deputy Sheriff Robert Shultz die in a Dana Point street battle. Seyfert’s 14-year-old son Charles Allyn dies later in Newport Beach hospital. The mother, Arlene Seyfert, recalls a perceived religious mission and a plan that tore their family apart.
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Limps Home After Warship Hit By Training Torpedo
The Navy said the submarine Bugara scored a direct midwater hit on the destroyer Yarnall with an armed training torpedo, causing the ship to limp into port under its own power for repairs. Admiral Fenno reported no injuries and only minor bruises aboard, with the incident during a training exercise off Southern California. The torpedo reportedly rose unexpectedly during a training run to pass beneath the target.
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Independent Dad’s Bet Loss Sparks Bank Robbery Turn
A story traces how a father of four, after losing his entire weekly paycheck on horse racing, robbed a Fullerton bank and ended up in jail. The piece contrasts this with Long Beach School District paying 515 million annually for teachers’ salaries and notes educators rank among the nation’s top five percent.
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Fullerton
Page Vs
Long Beach
Dodgers Triumph Halts Cubs Streak In Tight Showdown
The Dodgers defeated the Cubs Tuesday night in a stirring baseball clash at the Coliseum. The win extends Los Angeles as strong pennant contenders while prompting questions about league alignment.
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Boy Drowns in Tub While Mother Out
A 15 month old boy Ernest Moora drowned in a bathtub when his mother Mary Moora left him alone to buy bread from a bakery truck. She returned to find him unconscious under water and died at Seaside Hospital. The family includes Ernest H Moora, a sailor aboard the USS Marsh, and two other children.
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Seaside Hospital
Auto Fails to Stop Hurled Seven Year Old Boy
Seven year old Geary Morgan walked home from Stevenson School with family on Alamitos Street. He urged the approaching car to stop then ran ahead and was struck by a second car that failed to stop, flinging him 40 feet. He remains in critical condition at Seaside Hospital. the driver Mary F Hays, 26, of 1635 East Fourth Street, is named in reports.
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Stevenson ‘School
Alamitos St
Margaret Morgan
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Civic Groups Lose Council Modifies Mental Health Plan
City Council split 6 3 to form a five member committee to study mental health, a move seen as a setback to civic groups seeking state matching funds. The panel does not meet Short Doyle Act advisory board requirements, prompting debate over future configurations and timing.
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