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Newspaper

Independent

Location

Long Beach, California, United States of America

Date

Aug 19, 1969

Page

11

School boundary change proposed for Cherry Cove area

A resident presented a plan to reassign 35 Cherry Cove pupils from Bret Harte Lindbergh and Jordan to Madison Hoover and Lakewood High Schools citing traffic hazards and long bus rides. Registration drive for ABC Unified pupils opens Sept 15, joining district sites Artesia Gahr High Schools for primary enrollment.

Cherry Cove Lakewood Board of Education Paul Harenski Sparrow Hill Lane Madison Elementary Hoover Junior High Lakewood High School Bret Harte Lindbergh Jordan Jordan High Carson Street Cherry Avenue ABC Unified Artesia Gahr

Norwalk High Students to Attend Citizenship Conference

Student representatives from Excelsior John Glenn and Norwalk high schools join Vice Mayor Bob White in Washington D C for the 24th Annual Conference on Citizenship from September 15 to 17. Ronald Hall Juan Sanchez and Andy Halsey share student body leadership roles.

Norwalk High Bob White Washington, D.C White Ronald Hall Excelsior High Juan Sanchez John Glenn High Andy Halsey Norwalk High School

Bandit Escapes With $1700 After Liquor Store Heist

A bandit used a dive through a plate glass door to raid a San Pedro liquor store early Monday. He escaped with about $1700 in cash and fled the scene.

San Pedro

Fire Blazes After Gas Leak Injures Two In Bellflower

A leaking kitchen gas line caused a flash fire in a Bellflower apartment early Monday injuring two occupants. Walter Muldoon and Chavez Rivera were treated at St. Francis Hospital Lynwood then transferred to USC Medical Center with Muldoon in serious condition and Rivera in fair condition with minor burns.

Bellflower St. Francis Hospital Lynwood Walter F. Muldoon Alondra Blvd Chavez G. Rivera Usc County Medical Center Muldoon Rivera

UC Irvine to Offer Environmental Engineering Courses

UC Irvine will add undergraduate and graduate programs in civil and environmental engineering this fall. Dean Robert M. Saunders says the emphasis will be on applying engineering to protect and improve the environment, with MS and PhD degrees in water quality resources, air resources, transportation systems, environmental systems planning and ocean engineering.

UC Irvine University of California At Irvine School of Engineering Robert M. Saunders Dean Saunders Saunders UCI

Professor Newspaperman Returns to UCI Campus

Dr. B. H. Desenberg, formerly Bud Desenberg founder of the Laguna Beach Post, is named director of instructional media services at the University of California at Irvine. A Stanford graduate with a PhD from Ohio State, he previously led UCI groups and later worked with the Public Policy Research Organization. He will oversee audio-visual teaching aids including photography and television.

University of California At Irvine Bud Desenberg Laguna Beach Post B. H. Desenberg UCI Friends of the Library UCI Oceanology Associates UCI Public Policy Research Organization Stanford University Desenberg Ohio State University UCI

Burial Thursday for L B Builder James Ashbourne

Funeral services are set for Thursday at 3 p.m. in Green Hills Mortuary San Pedro for James Charles Ashbourne 78 a Long Beach roofing contractor who helped create the states first roofing apprenticeship program. Ashbourne died Sunday after a long illness at his home 330 West 19th Street. He came to Long Beach in 1921 and operated Ashbourne Roofs for over four decades earning the Golden Boy Award from the East Long Beach Boys Club in 1958. He helped establish an apprenticeship system and served as secretary of the statewide committee until his death. Surviving are his wife Fern two sons Lyle and Charles a daughter Jewel Kaufer five grandchildren two great grandchildren and two sisters. Friends may call at the mortuary beginning Wednesday noon.

Green Hills Mortuary San Pedro James Charles Ashbourne Long Beach Ashbourne W. 19Th St Fern Lyle Charles Jewel Kaufer

Dyron Bracelet Myth Then and Now

An advertising notice promotes the modern Dyron Bracelet claiming ancient healing beliefs support its effects. It states there is no medical basis, yet users report favorable results and offers a risk free trial by mail order with a $3.00 payment and 300 day refund policy from Dyron Distributing Co. Inc.

Dyron Distributing Co., Inc P.O Los Angeles Calif

How's Your Hearing Model of New Hearing Aid

A marketing offer promotes a free miniature hearing aid model to demonstrate comfort and wearability at home. No cost or obligation is claimed and readers are urged to write for a sample at Hearing Aids, 5230 Clark Ave., Lakewood 90712.

Clark Ave Lakewood

Teen centers in Long Beach push drug education and rehab

A Long Beach program led by Mrs. Smith uses teen centers with 1,200 members to combat heroin and drug use. They offer ceramics photography black history and gender specific classes while launching a school for suspended students funded by the centers.

Orange County Homeowners Get 136 Million Rebate

County Assessor Andrew Hinshaw said homeowners in Orange County received 136,994,240 in rebates for the 1968 49 fiscal year and that householders rebates totaled 750 per tax bill on residential properties. Business inventory exemptions amounted to 26,373,023 and were based on 15 percent of taxable inventory. Both programs are state funded and do not affect local tax rates or budgets.

Orange County Andrew Hinshaw Hinshaw

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