62nd Towa Picnic May Host 6000
Transplanted Iowans will be plentiful at the 62nd annual Towa Picnic in Recreation Park Long Beach with more than 6,000 residents gathered from the Midwest for a four hour event. Station KTTY will televise portions of the picnic and a noon lunch will be available. The event features a Long Beach Mural Band concert and remarks by Mayor Edwin Wade and Iowa officials.
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Recreation Park
Midwest
Southland
Towa
KTTY
Liam
Io- Wans
Long Beach
Lynch
Iowa
Edwin Wade
H. William Wolfe
Iowa Association of Southern California
Paul Diefenbach
Iowa Association of Long Beach
Lon Peek
James Hayes
Michael Cullen
Hayes
Ronald Reagan
Towan
Cullen
Harold Hughes
Tweety and Susie Sam: Long Beach Birdroomers Seek Name Clash
Long Beach residents Tish and Linda Hathaway shelter Tweety the parakeet and Susie Sam the sparrow in a live-in duo at 6566 Orange Ave. The two feathered roommates, one flamboyant and one shy, navigate meals and chatter as the Hathaways ponder proper titles and cope with neighborhood feathered judgment. Susie Sam thrives on eggs and worms while Tweety resists exotic fare, as the pair share a noisy, affectionate coexistence.
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Long Beach
Flis Ionpla
Orange Ave
Tom Hathaway
Tweety
Love
Tish Hathaway
Parkway
Forlon
Tish
Linda
Susie-Sam
Amy Vanderbilt
Exits L B Circus Moves to Anaheim Preview Parade Planned
The Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus moves from Long Beach Arena to Anaheim Convention Center Arena for two daily shows with a third on Saturdays. A free 3 mile parade starts at 11 a.m. with a police–listed route from Olive and Santa Ana Streets to the Center. The 97th edition tours Orange County, LA, and Long Beach, with strong turnout expected.
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Long Beach Arena
Anaheim Convention Center Arena
Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus
Orange County
Olive and
Santa Ana Streets
Anaheim
Convention Center
Whatelin' Ave
Caliape
Olive Street
Lincoln Avenue
Lincoln
Citron Street
Citron
Stana Ana Street
Santa Ana
Santa Ana Freeway
Manchester Street
Manchester
West Street
Ball Road
Soulth
Disneyland
Katella Avenue
Katella
Long Beach Sports Arena
Los Angeles Sports Arena
Henry Ringling North
Rudy Bundy
Student Observers to Leave for Far East Three-Week Tour
A 10 student group of unbiased observers from colleges and universities in the West will depart Seattle Tuesday for a three week probe of Asian countries from Japan to Vietnam. The tour is organized by Professor Thomas Wright and sponsored by the People to People program with State Department sanction. Participants from Utah, Colorado and Pacific Coast states will meet officials, military leaders and refugees, and will publish reports back to the State Department. Campbell, 19, UC Irvine history major, hopes to become an Episcopal priest and plans a post trip speaking tour to repay his share of costs.
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West
Asia
Japan
Vietnam
Robert R. Campbell
Buena Park
University of California Irvine
UC Santa Barbara
California
Seattle
Korea
Hong Kong
Philippines
Indonesia
Thailand
South Vietnam
Thomas Wright
University of Washington
U.S. State Department
Utah
Colorado
Pacific Coast
Campbell
Sve
State Department
UCI
St. Cornelius Catholic School
Long Beach
Buena Park High School
Senate approves bill creating California crime council
SACRAMENTO The Senate passed by 29 to 1 a Reagan administration bill to form a California council on criminal justice and a California crime technological research foundation. The council will coordinate prevention detection and control of crime in California and fund scientific research into crime control methods.
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Sacramento
UPS
Senate
California
Criminal Justice
Assembly
George Deukmejian
Long Beach
Ronald Reagan
Senate panel blocks 345355 funding for Scripps Oceanography
The Senate Finance Committee killed a bill to add 345355 dollars to the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at La Jolla. The cut followed Gov. Reagan's veto of part of the University of California budget affecting research programs.
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Sacramento
UPI
Senate Finance Committee
Scripps
la Jolla
University of California
Ronald Reagan
Baby Amid Filth Endangers Child in Downtown Long Beach
A 26 year old Long Beach woman Norma Ann Vernon was jailed on charges of endangering health and welfare of a child, contributing to the delinquency of a minor, and marijuana possession after police found her 11 month old infant unfed and on the floor amid drunken adults in a squalid 625 W Ocean Blvd apartment. A 15 year old Harbor City girl on probation was also taken into custody. A bag of leaves resembling marijuana was found in a closet.
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Long Beach
Ranaway
Harbor City
W. Ocean Blvd
Norma Ann Vernon
Gary L. Leming
Bonnie Trevania
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Raymond B. Murdock
Atlantic Ave
Susie
Sam
Lay
Hathaway
Dublin
Ireland
U.S
Matt Phote
Tom Shaw
L.B
Far East
Westminster Memorial Park Mortuary
Beach Blvd
Westminster
Twinooks
dEfferson
Geneva
Patterson & Snively
Fince
Crime Council
Sea School
Lemming
Torrance
Robert Birdsall
Dons Aufter
Zenith
Brown-Potter Labs
Serenity
Rose Hills
Pageant OF Roses Garden
America
Memorial Park
Workman Mill Road
Whittier
Calif
Oxford
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