Long Beach Park Prizes Probe Over Lottery Claim
Long Beach recreation officials investigate charges that city parks allowed lotteries in plant and flower prizes. A letter to Mayor Wade cited thousands of dollars in plants and orchids bought elsewhere and sold as prizes. Recreation staff note permits cover flower group meetings with door prizes and donations used to cover costs. Jones urged a grand jury inquiry into the matter.
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Long Beach
Edwin We Wade
Joseph If. Jones
Li Beach Nursery
Sid Judes
Longligarh
Covina
Recreation Department
Frank Harneth
Silverado Park
Hougston Park
Harnett
Jones
Navy guard arrested for theft of government property
Albert Calvin Wright, 40, of Compton, a guard at the Torrance annex of the Long Beach Naval Shipyard, was arrested in Los Angeles after officers found a cake of meat and government property including two 50-pound carvona stones in his possession. He faced a charge of theft of government property with a loaded 38 caliber revolver on his seat, no resistance offered, and a possible maximum sentence of 10 years and or $10,000 fine. He is married with five children.
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Albert Calvin Wright
Compton
Torrance
Long Beach Naval Shipyard
PEL
Los Angeles
Torrance Annex
Williams
Simeon
Wright
Naval
Simon
Insaulo
Thew, Hockie
Yide Lighting Contest Deadline Tonight Reopens Late Entries
Entries continue to pour in for the Long Beach Junior Chamber of Commerce Christmas Lighting Contest. The Jaycee office will take calls at HE 7350 until 5 p.m. today to place entrants on the judges list. The entry fee can be mailed later.
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Long Beach
Christmas Cheer Food Becomes Show Admission
Canned goods will be the price of admission for two Christmas Cheer programs next week. A kiddie show to raise funds for the Salvation Army’s Christmas Cheer is planned Monday at 4:30 a.m. at Crestwater, 4275 Atlantic Ave. The Kiwanis Club of Uptown Long Beach sponsors the event. Admission is one or more cans of food. Pleasure Time Roller Rink, 278 Alamitos Ave., also hosts a skate session Tuesday with two cans of food for 6 p.m. and one can of coffee for 8 p.m. Gifts will be distributed to the poor by the Salvation Army.
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Salvation Army
Ater
Atlantic Ave
Kiwanis Club
Long Beach
Pleasure Time
Alamitos Ave
Hnih
Crest Democratic Club elects Brose Leach president
Brose Leach of 8471 E Jani St is re elected president of Crest Democratic Club. Officers include Cliff Bechthald as vice president Mary Nolan recording secretary Borothy Teach corresponding secretary and Dorothy Bevers treasurer. Members amend ship in the California Democratic Council and Ora G Knudson CDC affiliation noted as area director. Ulah passes a resolve for the 18th Congressional district selection.
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Cliff Bechthald
Mary Nolan
Borothy Teach
Cor
Dorothy Bevers
California
Cratic Council
Ora G. Knudson
CDC
State Assembly
Ldate
Ulah
Millikan High Group Adopts Local Family
Millikan High School students spearheaded a mass drive to aid a local family. The group collected tur or tur, clothing, and toys for mother Sandy Norcross and her four children, supporting Christville Avy as the campaign moved forward.
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Millikan High Group
Omera Kappa Chi Sorority
Turor Millikan High School
Taskey
Sandy Norcross
Knox
Christville Avy
Minority voices urge redrawing to aid Los Angeles minorities
Ethnic minority leaders urged California lawmakers to end gerrymandering that they say blocks minority representation. At a two day Assembly committee hearing in Los Angeles, leaders proposed redrawing west central county lines to create two congressional districts with two assembly seats each for a unified minority voice. They cited Los Angeles demographics and noted current representation is stagnant since 1916.
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James Roosevelt
Grodn
Nero
Red Robert
L. A
Angeles
Green
Sentinel
Fake Cop Suspect Nabbed
A 16 year old with a long record of impersonating officers was identified as the gunman who terrorized a young couple in Signal Hill. The youth, booked in Long Beach juvenile quarters for kidnapping and auto theft, had previously posed as a motorcycle officer and San Diego private detective. He admitted kidnapping Thomas Taw and Kay Norris, menacing them with a gun, displaying a badge, and handcuffing them near 23rd Street and Raymond Avenue.
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Sherlock Holmes
Bben
Signal H
Long Beach
Signal Hill
San Diego
Gotins Cord. Co
Thomas Taw
Coldbrook Ave
Kay Norris
Briercrest Ave
Lakewoon
Taw
23Rd Street
Raymout Avenue
Naples canal pageant floats drift through canals at night
Long Beach plans annual pageant with floats and carolers along the canals tonight and Sunday led by Grand Marshal Edwin W. Wade and councilman Lewis D. Reese. Miss Welcome Margo Spicer will attend with Wade and Reese. Float procession starts 6:30 PM, moving from Basin 3 toward Naples Grand Canal and Treasure Island, ending near 7:10 PM at Second Street Bridge. Separately, a wrongful death suit, filed by the parents of James Jr., alleges negligence caused his igation death during a gas line project.
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Niles
Long Beach
Edwin
Accj
Basin J
PUC Denies Extended Boat Service to Islands
The State Public Utilities Commission rejected a petition by Santa Catalina Island Company for extending its Island Boat Service from Alamitos Bay to Newport Beach Wilmington and Long Beach and to coves around Santa Catalina Island and nearby San Clemente Santa Barbara and San Nicolas Islands. The 4-1 vote found adequate current service by other water carriers. Commissioner Petar R. Mitchell dissented, arguing extended service was necessary for public convenience.
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State Public Utilities
Beles
Alamitos Bay
Newport Beach
Wilmington
Long Beach
Santa Catalina Island
San Clemente, Santa Barbara
San Nicolas Islands
Santa Catalina Island Co
Avaton
Catalinet
Petar RE. Mitchell
Crimes Rise 11.8 Percent in Los Angeles County
Sheriff Pitchess reported a countywide crime rise of 11.8 percent for the year ending June 30, with 29,535 major crimes including homicide, rape, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary, grand larceny and auto theft, up from 26,408 the prior year. Robberies showed the greatest increase. Juvenile arrests or investigations totaled 14,279 for the 1959-60 period.
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Los Angeles
Peter J. Pritchiss
Pitchess
Concert and stage schedule for Long Beach arts listings
Today in Long Beach presents a concert Chorale for Christmas at Long Beach City College Auditorium at 8 p.m. On stage Can Can at Magnolia Theatre shown as 30 p.m. Golden Fleecing at Tong Beach Community Pagehouse on 5021 East Anaheim Street. The Cave Dwellers perform at Ornalway Theatre at 8:30 p.m. Annual parade of holiday activities in Naples canals begins at 6:30 p.m.
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Long Beach City College
Magnolia Theatre
Magnolia
Tong Beach Community
Policeman Appeals on Suspension in Long Beach Case
A Long Beach juvenile officer Priday appealed to the City Civil Service Board to set aside a five day suspension ordered by Police Chief William J. Mooney for playing cards at Griffith Co. The appeal noted an alleged bid in a separate matter by Dr Harold B. Warren at 6.7 million and referenced a revived state highway project. The officer Robert J Feiele faced board review after being accused of neglecting habilitation while a Wilmington contractor eyed freeway paving from the Los Angeles River to Torrance.
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Long Beach
Priday
City Civil Service Board
William J. Mooney
Griffith Co
Anaheim St
San Diego
Eat Street
190Th Street
Torrance
Los Anggeles River
Jest
Artosis Street
Wilmington
Mooney Ordered Suspects and Board Elections Report
A fragmented report notes Mooney ordering a surveillance action and lists newly elected and holdover directors including Julius, Feldman, Raffery, Leslie Smith, Dr. Clark, Guy Halfer, Irving Schneider, and Jo Quincy Ave resident Young as juvenile officer since April. The board, with holdovers A. L. Code and Lor, plans a hearing. Dr. Warren mentioned in passing.
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Julius Pension
al ¥. Feldman
Fricle
C.R. Raffery
Leslie Smith
P.m
Thomas J. Clark
Guy Halfer- Friele
Irving Schneider
Jo- Quincy Ave
Rome Young
A. L. Code
Feldmay
En Roberis
George Tull
Dr. Warren
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