Dirty campaigning and school fund dance honor memory
Beach Komsing criticizes dirty campaign tactics while noting a Lakewood High School dance for the Damon Runyon Cancer Fund honoring Art Tweedy, a leukemia victim. Readers submit gripes about local issues including carts in parks, using the term ladies, gas billing waste, a shot hole in a window, and right turn on red violations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rphe
Joe Wyatt
Harry Truman
Tom Dewey
New York
Lakewood High School
Belmont Shore
Damon Runyon
Optimists
Art Tweedy
Ralph Bleeker
Bixby
Bleeker
Atlee Arnold
Louis’ Pate
Dept
IBM
Cedar
Beauties Travel In Long Beach For Miss International Contest
Long Beach hosts 10 Miss International contestants arriving for the pageant. Sunday features church services and rest with sight-seeing at Knott's Berry Farm by four contestants. A barbecue at Mrs. Anderson's home welcomed five more including Miss Canada and Miss Tahiti. Two more arrivals were Miss Tahiti and Miss British Guiana with Miss Indonesia delayed to 8 am Monday. The 42 contestants will continue arrival this week ahead of Saturday’s show at Veterans Memorial Stadium. Manny Harmon and Byron Palmer join as hosts for the pageant. A burglary at Crabtree Co. on Coast Highway reports a safe missing with $300 to $900 value after a rear-window break-in.
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Lovelies
Knott's
Berry Farm
Ghost Town City Hall
Japan
Michiko Takagi
Australia
Joan Stanbury
Long Beach
Tahitii
Terra Marguerite Tevira
British Guiana
Gulia Adamson
Ell
Tahiti
British” Guiana
Philipines
Edita Vital
Tndonesia
Slavica Lazaric
Veteran's Memorial Stadium
Manny Harmon
Famuis
Byron Palmer
Harmon
Chicago
Thelhe
Safe
Crabtree Corners
Pacific Ventlon
Coast Hwy
Glenn Crabtree
Palmer
Berlin
Ginger
Rogers
Annie
Iowan Editor Rewrites Way to News Career
Don Ohl, a premed student at the University of Iowa, rewrote a college news feature about a hospital unit preparing for war forty to fifty times before the city editor accepted it. He describes how the intensive rewriting shaped his journalistic skill and led to a career spanning The Des Moines Register, The Independent, and the Press Telegram.
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Don Ohl
University of Iowa
Ohl
Ohi
Iowan
Chi
Iowa City
Lie University
Iowa-Nebraska National Guard
Europe
Hitler
United States
U. S
Verne Langille
Langille
Poland
Moselle
Nancy
France
Paris
Russia
Egypt
Italy
The
Des Moines Register
School of Journalism
Register
California
Independent
Press-Telegram
Ruth
Becky
David
Marie
Richard
County Firemen Elevated to Battalion Chief Promotions
The Los Angeles County Fire Department elevated 11 captains to battalion chief to fill vacancies from reorganization. Promoted in the Long Beach area were Stanley Barlow, Ronald King, Robert McClain Jr., Robert Messall, Daryl Smedley, and Sandy Talbot, assigned to Battalions 6, 1, 12, 3, 8, and 7 with various headquarters locations in Newhall Angeles Mesa City of Industry East Los Angeles Pico Rivera and surrounding areas.
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Los Angeles County
Keith E. Klinger
Klinger
Long Beach
Stanley E. Barlow
E. Mines. Ave
Pico-Rivera
Newhall
Ronald W. King
le Sage
St. Lynwood
Angeles Mesa
Robert L. McClain Jr
Elmeruff Ave
Norwalk
City of
Industry
Robert D. Messall
46Th St
Los Angeles
Daryl DB. Smedley
Atlantic Ave
Pico Rivera
Sandy
Daniel F. Talbot
Lee Ave
Long Beach State Chemists Aid Air Development Project
Researchers at Long Beach State College under Dr Darwin L Mayfield develop silicone stabilizers for lubricants for air travel. Allan D Bike joins as graduate assistant in September. The article lists multiple participants and bridge tournament results from the Lafayette Hotel, with winners from Los Angeles and Long Beach.
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Long Beach State College
Darwin L. Mayfield
Allan’d. Bike
del Amo
Robert A. Flath
Rogers Harold Guiver
Helen Por
Uni Tugal
Los Angeles
California
Berke
Bill Skitiner
Angeles
Jin
W.’Meyer
la Canada
Morris Portugal
Erik Paulsen
Ventura
Lafayette Hotel
Marijuana Plant Seized Near Pacific Coast Highway
Bal State Narcotics Agent R C Grace of Los Angeles inspects a marijuana plant seized by his department and Sgt Willis L Penhollow of the Long Beach Police narcotics squad. The plant grew beside a building at Pacific Coast Hwy and Long Beach Blvd. Penhollow said nearby shrubs were uncared for but the plant had been fertilized and watered. Marijuana produced from the plant would fetch about 150 dollars wholesale. Penhollow said locals denied knowledge of the plant’s care or origin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. C. Grace
Los Angeles
Willis L. Penhollow
Long Beach
Pacific Coast Hwy
Long Beach Blvd
Penhollow
Penholton
Downey Sailor Arrested After Kidnap Attempt Ride
A rejected sailor, Robert W. Rankin, 30, forced Greta Jean Storts, 19, to ride with him for an hour from Downey to Long Beach and back before Downey police stopped them. Rankin was booked on suspicion of kidnapping after throwing and hitting Miss Storts and forcing her to telephone a friend.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Downey
Robert W. Rankin
Downey Ave
Greta Jean Storts
Miss Storts
Rankin
Paul E. Pritchard
Leaside Walk
Belmont Shore
Pritchard
Long Beach
Sailors Slayer Sought After Barroom Fatality in Long Beach
Long Beach detectives hunted a man after a barroom brawl left Navy quarter master Billie Rex Staab dead at Trader Al's Windjammer Bar. Staab, 38, a 18 year Navy veteran aboard USS Conflict, had previously received a commendation for helping capture a gunman aboard USS Uvalde in May 1957.
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Long Beach
Navy
San Francisco
QM-1
Billie Rex Staab
Staab
Stash
Conflict
Thief Loses Shoes in Artesia Drive-In Hold Up
A shoeless robber fled Roxie's Drive-In at 17331 Pioneer Blvd outrunning four patrons after robbing waitresses Roberta Hodges and Georgia Tarkington. He escaped through a service window despite losing both shoes and some foot skin, taking $207. An unidentified patron tackled him outside before he vanished.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Artesia Drive-In
Roxie’s Drive-in
Pioneer Blvd
Roberta Hodges
Georgia Tarkington
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