Las Floristas Headdress Ball Opens Charity Show in Beverly Hills
The 3rd annual Las Floristas Headdress Ball at the Beverly Hills Beverly Hultos Hotel features 12 models wearing 25 pound headpieces designed by 12 Southland florists to raise funds for Las Floristas Handicapped Children's Clinics at USC and Rancho Los Amigos Hospital. Designer Felix Collaso and volunteers shaped a feet tall and wide wire sculpture adorned with 3000 ranunculus and 10000 chrysanthemums plus gladioli and bird of paradise. The centerpiece is a styrofoam head atop a Wizard of Oz theme sculpture titled Cast a Magic Spell.
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Public hearing on bill to split Los Angeles County five ways
Long Beach hosts a public hearing in City Council chambers at 333 W Queen Blvd today at 10 a.m. on AB 333 to divide Los Angeles County into five new counties. Assemblyman Mike Cullen invites testimony from residents, with witnesses in the morning and possibly unscheduled speakers in the afternoon. The hearing aims to gather input from Los Angeles County residents before Sacramento action. News on whether South Bay leaders push a new County of South Bay and state secretary’s office guidance on ballot petitions is awaited.
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Dvista
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Sacramento
Culler
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Beach
Secretary of State
Bizarre Long Beach theft spree ends with missing shotgun
A 37 year old Long Beach man chased a map he believed signified a burglar triggering a sequence that cost him his shotgun and over 1900 dollars. Police report a third man grabbed his wallet as he rested on his porch, then a separate home invasion left a 44 year old man beaten and tied, with thieves fleeing with a television and stereo.
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Long Beach
Gene W. Williamson
Williamson
Williams
Richard C. Powell Jr
E. Burnett
Kortz Retires After Decades as Policing Pillar
Kortz ends 42 years in public service after landmark cases including a murder at a bar and a weapon find in a weed-choked lot. He led forgery investigation efforts, rewrote the department manual, and oversaw a new computer system. A bomb incident in 1972 nearly killed him, recovered by investigators.
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Kortz
Kurtz
Miss Welcome entrants sought in Long Beach pageant
The Long Beach Junior Chamber of Commerce invites applications for Miss Welcome. Applicants must be unmarried Long Beach residents aged 18 to 27. Duties include greeting dignitaries presenting civic awards and acting as hostess at major functions. A meeting for entrants is set for 11 a.m. at the Community Playhouse.
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Cinco de Mayo festival at Drake Park in Long Beach
The Long Beach Park and Recreation Department sponsors a Cinco de Mayo festival at Drake Park Saturday from 11 a.m. to 3 30 p.m. A noon soccer exhibition will be held at the playing field located at 951 Maine Ave.
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Long Beach Park and Recreation
State approves Long Beach downtown building funds
A state Ways and Means subcommittee approved funds for a new 100000 square foot Long Beach building at Broadway and Pacific Avenue. Projected completion by late 1978 with 12 state agencies to occupy space now rented in the area. Final budget ratification pending full committee and Senate concurrence. Parking will be limited to handicapped and security personnel.
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Gos. Brown
Full Ways and Means Committee
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Senate
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Pacific Avenue
Veterans’ Auditorium-Public Utilities
Murder trial ordered for baby doctor Wad dill Jr.
Dr William B Wad dill Jr 43 accused of strangling a newborn girl in her crib at Westminster Hospital March 2 ordered to stand trial for murder Arraignment in Criminal Court Santa Ana next Thursday preliminary hearing closed to the press
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William B. Waddill Jr
Westminster Hospital
Santa Ana
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