Pine Avenue rename proposal stalls at council meeting
A Long Beach City Council session featured a suggested renaming of Pine Ave to Pat Ahern Blvd in honor of Councilman D. Pat Ahern, a proposal met with mixed reactions and ultimately filed away. Other notes teased humor from readers, including a dieting quip about Ahern and a bizarre balloon sleeve ironing workaround.
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Charles Cordray
Long Beach
Pine Ave
Pat Ahern
D. Pat Ahern
Ahern
Ping Ave
Signal Hill
Disabled Vets Get Pay Raise Boosting Groceries
Veterans with service-connected disabilities gain monthly increases under a new bill. LM Lewis, a 32 year old ex Navy veteran paralyzed from a 1944 shell blast, notes his raise from 420 to 450 dollars a month. Other beneficiaries include 21 year old Rowley and 30 year old Sandberg, both 100 percent disabled, as well as East Coast firms increasing albacore payments. The changes aim to ease living costs for veterans amid postwar adjustments.
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Eisen
Santiago Jeower
Long
Lewis
Carl Sandberg
Belmont Ave
San Diego
Sandberg
California
Mey
M. D. Stewart
van Camp
Clifford Weitzistion Hospital
International Assn. of
Thrash Boat Owners
Portable oil well drilling tool touted by inventor L B Brown
L B Man Invents Oil Tool in drilling to average oil well, two thirds of the time is spent pulling up the pipe to change the drill casing. At 46, 18 years a Lowe Geach general contractor, has developed a portable oil well machine with a pipe that allows changing the drill bit without pulling the pipe. The grapple from the surface returns the bit through the pipe. Brown applied for a patent and seeks manufacturing contacts. He believes the invention will enable faster deeper holes at lower cost. He lives near the oil industry and has no financial ties to wells or leases. He has worked on the project in spare time for a year and a half.
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Ocean Blvd
Lowe Geach General
Brown
Asl
Iime
Lee
Mthey
Lee Brown
Long Beach
Queen's Tutor Dies After Long Illness in London
Horace Smith who taught Queen Elizabeth II and Princess Margaret to ride died in a London hospital Tuesday after a long illness. He was 79.
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London
Horace Smith
Queen Elizabeth II
Princess Margaret
Six weekends in jail given in dope case
Superior Judge Beach Vasey ordered six weekends in County Jail for Bellflower youth James Edward Blackwood 28 a shipping clerk of 9053 Park Ave for possessing narcotics He will serve from 7 p m Fridays to Sundays under a three year probation He was arrested May 3 when he knocked at a Bellflower apartment sheriff s officers had staked out In a robbery investigation deputies found eight miscellaneous items in his pocket
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Beach Vasey
Bellflower
James Edward Blackwood
Park Ave
Tony
Halston Denies Drunk-Roll Allegations and Questions
Halston, accused of running a barroom scheme, denied any wrong doing and said he answered no questions asked by police during questioning after arrest. The defense highlighted his statement about no attorney present, while prosecutors pressed about alleged liquor misdeeds and a 1960s incident involving Connie Gibson and a Gyro Room theft.
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Don Maddock Roberts
Halstun
Dep. Dist
Atty
Thames W. Cochran
Helstun
Det
Everett Carroll
Helston
Beach Vasey
Cochran
Carroll
Holstun
Holston
Sha
Connie Gibson
Albert C. S. Ram
Texsey
Connie
Haiston
Sai Sary
Knowleedge
Navy
Forrest McWilliams
M. R
Mushy) Callahan
Long Beach
Clarence Ryder
Joseph Christensen
Lawrence Medsker
Bach
Long Beach council rejects backyard burning test plan
The Long Beach City Council rejected a proposal to test the County Air Pollution Control District’s Oct 1 backyard incinerator ban. With the ban in effect, APCD considers compulsory smog device installation on Los Angeles County’s 3,000,000 cars. Officials plan a public relations push as auto industry studies explore 20 percent reductions via devices on 50 county cars.
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Long Beach
APCD
Los Angeles County
D. Pat Ahern
Charles Dooley
Smith Griswold
Walhfred Jacobson
Grigwold
Los Angeles
Automobile
Auto Industry
Am Sherman
Auto-mobile Manufacturers Assn
Fire Destroys Abandoned Cafe Building Near 1824 American Ave
A fire Tuesday afternoon destroyed an abandoned building next to 1824 American Ave and damaged a second structure at 1820 American Ave. The blaze began in the former Covered Wagon Cafe during demolition. Firefighters confined the fire to the two structures. Owner Carl Frye of 325 Pacific Coast Hwy reported the incident caused a major traffic jam at Pacific Coast Hwy and American Ave.
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American Ave
Carl Frye
Pacific Coast Hwy
Nursery Seeks Mrs B Wilson For Missing Child
Police pursue Mrs Barbara Zoe Wilson who left her daughter Janet four at Kingston Nursery El Monte in June. She may be in Long Beach. nursery staff say Janet is ill and needs her mother. Janet's father serves aboard USS Shelton in Japanese waters. Call Gilbert 81629 with any information.
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Barbara Zoe Wilson
Janet
Kingston
el Monte
Long Beach
Curtis
Wilson
Shelton
Long Beach Labor Day Holiday Traffic and Closings
Long Beach area offices banks and post offices will close Monday for Labor Day. Traffic is expected to stall on crowded highways with weekend congestion. Police urge caution while roadwork remains on U S 40 Donner Pass and U S 50 Echo Summit. Downtown Long Beach will reopen Tuesday night after usual closures.
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Long Beach
Iughyway
Tamest Naliea
Marade
Marine Stadium
California
Hienways
U. S. 40
Donner Pass
Nevada State Line
U.S. 50
Echo Summit
Flacy
Jerville
Subsurface liability debate looms over Long Beach subsidence
City Atty Wathfred Jacobson briefs on liability for damage from subsidence tied to oil withdrawal. He notes California statutes AB 772 AB 930 AB 4163 and court rulings acknowledge subsidence causes and repressuring needs while urging court inquiry into all factors before Long Beach accepts liability. Assembly interim committee hearings set for Oct 3 4 amid a broader plan to form a subsidence abatement district.
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California Assembly
Long Beach
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