Desert-Stranded Vessel Launched From Cajon Pass to Long Beach
The Navy torpedo retrieving boat, 67 feet long and 28 tons, marooned near San Bernardino for eight days, is launched into the Pacific at Long Beach. A seven axle truck-trailer carrying the craft from Sturgeon Bay was halted near Cajon Summit for permit issues, triggering a county route plan and special permit after a checkered transport saga.
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Navy
Cajon Pass
San Bernardino
Sturgeon Bay
Wis
Long Beach
Cajon Summit
San Bernardino County
Service Force Boss Praises Long Beach Units
Rear Adm. Walter V. Combson, Pacific Service Force commander, toured Long Beach based units and five fleet oilers including USS Hector. He praised records as outstanding and said replenishment services meet 100 percent expectations. He noted this is his first visit since taking command and commended Capt Betzel and crews aboard Tolovana Cimarrot Platte Navasola and A Sh tabula.
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Long Beach
Walter V. Combson
Pacific Service Force
Combs
Hector
San Diego
A. F. Bétzel
Tolovana
Cimarrot
Platte
Navasola
Ashtabula
Anaheim Eyes 35.6 Million Bond Election Plan
Anaheim City Council will consider Tuesday a recommendation to place a 35.6 million bond issue on the November 5 ballot. The Priorities and Ways and Means Committee proposes 17 million in general obligation bonds and 8.6 million in revenue bonds plus breakdowns funding City Hall sewer storm drains library park works and a new substation. The council also approved a state funds agreement of 97 190 for the Burnett Branch Library construction.
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Anaheim
Priorities and
Ways and
Citizens’ Improvement ‘Committee
Edison Co
L.B. Library
State Division of Libraries
Long Beach
Burnett
Fire alarms at Rolling Hills Theater snack bar
Smoke and a small blaze erupted early Wednesday at the Rolling Hills Theater on Pacific Coast Highway in Torrance. Firefighters battled flames from a trash container near the snack bar for over an hour after two maintenance workers reported smoke at 3 am. Damage was mainly smoke-related to the snack bar and nearby area.
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Rolling Hills
Pacific Coast Highway
Torrance
Ed Polston
Millikan Field Circus Comes to Long Beach Sunday
The Escalante and Dean Circus performs at Millikan High School football field this Sunday with shows at 1 and 4 pm. Tickets are free for children via 300 local merchants or at the foundation office 4519 Stearns St, with adult tickets available at the office or gate.
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Ringling Bros. and
Barnum & Bailey Circus
Escalante and Dean Circus
Long Beach
Services Slated for Robert Rife
Robert F. Rife, 68, retired U S Naval Reserve officer and Merchant Marine captain, died Wednesday in Long Beach Community Hospital. A political campaign manager, he chaired the Rossmoor Anti Annexation group and lived in Rossmoor with wife Helen N. Survived by son Robert, he was born in New York and moved to Long Beach in 1908. Services tentatively set for Saturday at 12:30 p.m. at Mattel's Mortuary Chapel with burial at Sunnyside Cemetery. A separate incident: burglars stole $232 cash from Larry Jordan at 1623 West Esther Street.
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Robert F. Rife
Long Beach Community Hospital
Crig Hosmer
Long Beach
Capt. Bab
Los Alamitos
Rossmoor
Helen N
Montecito Road
New York State
Rife
Poly High School
Pine Avenue Pier
Catalina Island
Warts
Pearl Harbor
Naval Reserve
Robert Long Beach
Mattell
Sunnyside’ Cemetery
Orange Avenue
Willow Street
Larry Jordan
West Esther St
Death toll in Hubbs baby case unfolds grim tale
A transcript details injuries and timelines in the hubbs infant deaths. It recounts two babies Hansel and Hansel Schuyler Hubbs, with fractures and skull injuries, and describes parental actions, medical findings, autopsy notes, and the subsequent grand jury decision to prosecute for willful cruelty.
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Hansel Schuyler Hubbs
Hansel Steven Hubbs
Fate
Hubbses
Winterbourne Promoted to Personnel Chief
William D. Winterbourne, longtime Orange County assistant personnel officer since 1958, will become Ventura County personnel director on September 12. He informed the Board of Supervisors of his decision to switch posts. he is 47 and lives at 14072 Windsor Place. He started as a county employee in 1947 after education in Santa Ana schools.
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William. D. Winterbourne
Orange County
Ventura County
Board of Supervisors
Ange County
Winterbourne
Windsor Place
Earns Ana
Anta Ana
Santa Ana Santas Ana
Bungling Doctors Protected by Societies Coroner Says
Dr H B Collam president of the National Association of Coroners tells a Grand Hotel Anaheim seminar that medical societies act as mutual protection groups for bungling doctors. He says organized medicine shows a protective attitude toward members and calls for removing the smug stance and weed out bag apples. Medical negligence is a major death cause needing better investigation.
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Anaheim
Orange County
David M. Katsuyama
National Association of Coroners
H.B. Collam
Grand Hotel
Cotham
Toronto
Ontario
Supervisors Honor Rep Utt for 16 Years of Service
The Orange County Board of Supervisors awarded Congressman James B. Utt a plaque praising his 16 years of public service. Utt plans to display it in his Washington, D C office.
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Orange County
Board of Supervisors
James B. Utt
Santa Ana
Utt
Washington
Hospital contract changes ownership of harbor area emergency unit
Councilman John S. Gibson Jr. said in San Pedro that a revised contract approved by the Los Angeles City Council places ownership of the Harbor area hospital facility at 754 N Broad Ave with Family Medical. The previous owner Harbor Medical Group, and a council hearing on the facility’s policies was scheduled today by the Health and Welfare Committee.
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Los Angeles
John S. Gibson Jr
San Pedro
Gibson
N. Broad Ave
Family Medical
Bap
The
Harbor Medical Group
Council
Grants awarded to Downey facilities for rehab work
The Department of Rehabilitation announced two federal grants for Long Beach area centers. Rancho Los Amigos Hospital in Downey receives 225000 to expand vocational rehab buildings, offices, training rooms, testing areas, and staff. Community Rehabilitation Industries of Long Beach gets 43222 to upgrade its workshop and expand vocational programs for severely disabled persons.
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Department of Rehabilitation
Long Beach
Rancho Los Amigos Hospital
Downey
Industries of
East
Anaheim
Rancho Los Amigos ‘Hospital
Federal Rehabilitation Services Administration
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Buck Lanier
Pacific
Long Beach Naval Ordnance Test Facility
Highway Patrol
Transcontinental Hauling Inc
Chicago
Photos By
Kent Henderson
Service Force
Eye
Millikan Field Circus
Robert Rife
Robert F.rife
Children's Hospital
Heidi
Hansel
Supervisors
Rep
Catham
Dr. Cotham
Downey, L.A
Perss
Telraram
Pon Peat
Chevrolet
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