Lonely Vigils and a Thanksgiving Birth at Memorial Hospital
A Long Beach Memorial Hospital waiting room narrates the birth of a boy at 3:27 a.m. on Thanksgiving Day 1968. Father Leland Pitts, his in-laws, and a Polaroid grandfather share quiet anticipation as nurses coordinate the delivery and a reflection of life and loss colors the scene.
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Long Beach Memorial Hospital
Leland Pitts
Shirley
Nerve Center
Memorial Hospital
Pitt
Grandfather Braunlich
Long Beach
Welfare group to fete 28 kids at Lafayette Hotel party
Twenty eight disadvantaged children aged 3 to 11 will attend a Christmas party at the Lafayette Hotel hosted by the Welos Club for Western Electric Company employees' children. The event includes a marionette show, gifts from Santa, a Christmas tree, and refreshments with bus pickup from various Long Beach spots.
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St. Nick
Lafayette Hotel
Welos Club
Western Electric Company Inc
Maycie Herrington
Department of Public Social Services
Long Beach
Tony Urbano and Company
Santa Monica
Santa Wayne Goosetree
Elk Feast Trials Stirred by Marinade Myths and Cards
The column recounts a hunter cooking elk in Idaho marinating for 48 hours amid conflicting culinary lore. It also notes 93 year old Minnie Varcoe collecting used greeting cards for missionaries and reports on offshore airport chatter in Los Angeles and Chicago with Parisian and Dutch comparisons.
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Minnie
Dawson St
Temple Ave
Canis Trans Club Mobilizes For Mini Bike Fun In Seal Beach
In Seal Beach a group of youths forms the Canis La Trans Motorcycle and Minibike Club to ride minibikes. Residents praise the effort while officials seek safe, quiet locations. Frank Jacinto, a reserve police officer, helps coordinate with local support.
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Seal Beach
Canis la Trans
Frank Jacinto
Seal Beach Reserve
Rockwell
Navy pilot training strained by Vietnam war and exits
Vice Admiral Bernard M. Strean warned that Vietnam war demands and retirements are reducing Navy pilot training capacity. He said 64 percent of 14,000 pilots leave annually for civilian airlines, risking reserves and delaying construction while Los Alamitos launches first F-4 Phantom II squadron as part of a broader two coast training push.
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Navy
Naval Aviation
Bernard M. Strean
Naval Air Training
Los Alamitos Naval Air Station
Adm. Strean
Adm
Strean
America
Vietnam
JG 3
Los Alamitos
Naval Air Reserve Training Command
Naval Air Reserve
Educators Begin Pago Pago Educational Study
Dr. Donald E. Wilson of Torrance USC charts preliminary needs on Pago Pago with Dr. Wallace R. Muelder of Ojai and Dr. Robert Shanks, superintendent of Burbank city schools, accompanying him on the South Pacific assignment.
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Donald E. Wilson
Torrance
USC
South Pacific
Pago Pago
Wallace R. Muelder
Ojai
Robert Shanks
Burbank City
Hams Plan Busy Holiday Radioing Gl s
Thousands of amateur radio operators will work round the clock to connect overseas servicemen with families this holiday season. MARS operators at Fort MacArthur San Pedro will handle more than 5 000 phone patches and 3 000 radiograms in December. Families may call 831 7035 or 831 7161 to send overseas messages, with El Toro Marine Air Station taking calls at 832 2461 for transmission to abroad and Navy hospital ships.
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Military Affiliate Radio System
MARS
Vietnam
Antarctic
Germany
Fort MacArthur
San Pedro
Orange County
el Toro Marine Air Station
Navy
U.S
Long Beach Free Events Spotlight Circle
A schedule of admission free events in Long Beach area features exhibitions at Long Beach City College and California State College Long Beach, a World Affairs forum at Bixby Park, organ music talk at LBCC, a community talent show at Seaside Boulevard, and a Poly-Ethnic Club meeting at Douglas House Center with multiple dates and venues.
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Long Beach Area
Forum
Long Beach City College Community Services Program
Bixby Park
First Street
Cherry Avenue
Orville R. Foster
Long Beach City College
Harvey Way
Faculty Avenue
Long Beach
Seaside Blvd
Benjamin Levin
Douglas House Center
Lime Ave
Dallas Fulfills Wish Rules Castle in Sky
Nick Dallas, director of aeronautics at Long Beach Airport, speaks softly about his lifelong passion for flight. He describes a devotion to aviation as more than a job, likening it to a dream fulfilled by aviation life at the busy airfield.
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Les Holt
L.B
Europe
Nice
France
Les
Mediterranean
Chicago
Lake Michigan
So. Calif
Dallas
Castle
Sky
Nick Dallas
Long Beach Airport
Long Beach
Pasadena
Glendale
Alhambra
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Frank Braunlich
Rossmoor
Braunlich
Herrington
Malcolm Epley
Idaho
Pic McIvor
Pic
Millie Flanary
Minnie Varcoe
Charles Murphy
Canis Trans’ Club Wheels Law and Order
Jacinto
Charles Schott
California State College
By David Shaw
Santa Rosa
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