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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1958
Page
9
A narrator describes an unruly household where pets and insects invade daily life. Ants and termites flood rooms while every visitor, animal, or even injured bird finds a temporary home. The piece tugs at disorder, from cats on counters to a termite control visit and the quirky belief in Parkinson’s Law.
Warren C. Pereau, longtime Poly High head counselor, was named Monday by the Board of Education as principal of John Dewey Continuation High School. He will replace Harmon Clark and bring prior service in Long Beach schools along with degrees from the University of Wichita and Colorado State.
A retired Pittsburgh attorney Paul Milliken Sloan aged 72 quietly ended his life at his home 1745 E 3rd St after arranging his affairs. Neighbors reported a stroke recent illness and the death of his wife Kay last year. Sloan’s body was taken to Motterl and Peek Mortuary per his instructions.
Teamsters union drivers and warehousemen in Southern California threaten a strike that could disrupt trucking across 11 Western states. Locals 405 595 630 and 848, with about 5 000 wholesale grocery workers and 1 800 liquor distribution workers, seek 15 to 20 percent pay raises as contracts expire Sunday night amid a regional tieup.
Vice squad arrested eight people including five teens on narcotics charges after a crash near 1095-D St Louis Ave. Long Beach family members Ralph Skrignano and Patricia Denney died, Elaine Christy Sullivan injured, as Freddie Bridges at high speed ran a stop sign on state road 65 and hit Snyder car. Mary F Snyder and her son William Snyder aged 13 and grandmother Bessie Hart 65 were injured. crash left two dead. Police also detained five youths found marijuana fragments in a car on Long Beach Blvd north of San Antonio Dr during a separate stop.
FBI agents in Wichita, Kansas released Raymond Harry Swentek of Garden Grove after questioning over the alleged theft of a private Navion plane. Swentek, a business partner of John Hintz of Anaheim, said the move stems from a grudge as authorities checked his reputation and found it clean. The former employee theory and partnership dispute are part of the ongoing case.
Twelve women aged 8 to 60 and one man depart for an eight day Hawaii tour led by Earl Thomas. The Long Beach Senior Citizens Chorus, co-sponsored by Long Beach City College and the Sunset Club, travels on DOSB from Burbank to Honolulu. They will tour Oahu by bus, visit Mount Tantalus, attend a Hawaiian luau, tour a pineapple cannery, and dine at Waioli.
Board of Education moves to condemn 33 acres in Bixby for a Walter B Hill Junior High and an elementary campus. Twenty acres on Anaheim Road near Los Cerritos Channel targeted for the junior high. 13 acres on KE 7th Street for the elementary. Newcomb says plan hedges growth and no immediate construction.
A Lugana Beach woman dressed in men’s clothes robbed a Western Union office of 28 dollars on April 29 in Los Angeles. Barbara Mae Wickser, 23, of 616 Virginia Park pleaded guilty in Los Angeles Superior Court. She received five years to life on the robbery count and one to ten years for probation violation, to run concurrently.
Long Beach Native Sons of the Golden West members pick the Girl of the Golden West, a beauty queen, at the Women s City Club. Registrations for girls ages 17 to 28 are accepted at 206 E 4th St Room 142 or at the club on contest night, 8 p m, Wednesday at 1309 E 3rd St.
A hit and run motorist and a teenage companion dragged 72 year old Jane Cunningham to her apartment after striking her at 12 a.m. on 7th Street and Locust Avenue, leaving her bruised and bleeding. Witnesses described the driver as 30 to 36, about 5 feet 21 inches tall with dark curly hair. the male companion had a gauze patch over one eye and a head bandage.
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