Club Fights California Gambling Law Test in Suit
Long Beach social club seeks to block police raids and argues state gambling laws preempt local ordinances. Attorney Barton Marks says cardroom games are games of skill and could affect cities like Gardena licensing. Police counter that the club runs professional gambling with pans and purses, with tables for seven and a house cut.
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Charles Cheatham Ie
California
North Long Beach
Barton Marks
Atlantic Ave
Long Beach
Marks
Carole Lane
Chims
Sute
Cardroom
Tike Gardena
Uhtr
Marks’ Swt
James T. Starr
Prival
California Junior Miss pageant to pick state winner tonight
Thirteen semifinalists compete in Garden Grove for a 1000 scholarship and the California Junior Miss crown. Contestants from Woodland Hills to Huntington Beach vie for the title to represent California at the national pageant in Mobile Alabama.
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Garden Grove
California
Drucilla Hallas
Woodland Halls
Diana Meisinger
Tustin
Patti Niéder
San Diego
Cheryl Davis
Oroville
Marr Magda
la Habra
Stephanie Lee
Anaheim
Kathy Mueller
Redding
Linda Rahlfs
Chota Viste
Linda Christian
Glendale
Ivan Gibbs
Fullerton
Stephanie Zillgitt
San Marino
Kathy Wray
Huntington Beach
Joan Gibbs
Joan
Redondo Beach Councilman Raises Cigarette Price
Redondo Beach councilman J O Solomon raised cigarette price to 35 cents at his drugstore on Friday. He deposited the extra dime in a City of Hope cancer research fund container. Only one of the first 30 customers objected. Solomon also advocated making it illegal for teenagers to smoke inside city limits.
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Redoodo Beach
J. O
Lee) Solomon
Solomon
City of Hope
Redondo Beach
RUMMAGE and Stage Show Schedule in Long Beach
Today in LB features a Junior League rummage sale from 8 am to 10 pm at the Exhibit Hall Municipal Auditorium. Heidi at Long Beach City College at 10 am and 12 pm. Harvey Way near Clark Avenue presents Oh Men Oh Women at 8:20 pm. Lonely Magnolia Perfect Setup at 8:30 pm. Off Broadway 23 Lime Ave presents The Unsinkable Molly Brown at 8:30 pm. Civic Light Opera, Municipal Auditorium.
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Municipal Auditorium
Heidi
Downey Children’s Theater
Long Beach City College
Harvey Way
Clark Avenue
Community Playhouse
Antheim St
Lonely Magnolia
Lime Ave
Molly Brown
Civic Light Opera Association
Municipal Auditoriame
Park Oil Derrick Removed After 14 Months of Drilling
Park officials dismantled an oil drilling derrick after Exploration Co failed to secure production. The removal followed an 11th hour lease dispute and company inactivity since drilling began in November 1982. Herbert Bell assisted city crews in taking down the structure, which had stood for more than a year in the park area.
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Exploration Co
Imains Incertzis
Herbert Gil
Nce
Fate of killer Cotter in jury hands after deliberations
The five man seven woman jury panel weighing whether William Earl Cotter Jr. will die by gas chamber or receive life imprisonment for the October 11 stabbing of Mrs. Elizabeth Buus in her Bellflower home. Cotter admitted the slaying during a robbery attempt but stabbed the woman when no money was found.
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William Earl Cotter Jr
Cotter
Elizabeth Buus
Buus
Oak St
Bellffower
Mr. Buns
Jevet
Red Cross Schedules First Aid Classes at Office
Red Cross advanced first aid course will be held at 390 W Seventh St on Tuesday evenings from 7 30 to 9 05 pm beginning February 18 with instructor Mrs Hager of San Pedro. The 26 hour program aims to prepare volunteers and responders in essential skills.
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Red Cross
Seventh St
San Pedro
Hager
Harbor Board backs California World's Fair endorsement
The Board of Harbor Commissioners unanimously endorsed the California World's Fair in a Friday resolution presented to Nelson McCook Jew fair president. They urged citizens to support the $100 million international exposition at Long Beach opening April 1967, calling it a crossroad of the world and a monument to freedom and achievement.
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Loig Beach
Mani
Fair
Libery
Long Beach Bar Association installs new president
Long Beach Bar Association honored veterans Percy Hight and Fred Knight for long legal careers dating to 1903 and 1901 as Louis Ham was installed as the 11964 president at a Lafayette Hotel ceremony attended by over 400 guests. Superior Court Judge Fred Miller led the proceedings with other officers installed as part of the year's leadership slate.
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Fred Knight
Louis Ham
Man
George Trammell
Lafayete
Superior Court
Fred Miller
Hart
Henry Clock
Thomas Cobber
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Governnors
Edwin
Wilson
Albert C S. Ramsey
Albert White
George
Long Beach
Johnson
Gerald Desmond
Wat
Felt
Fred A. Knight
Lafayette Hotel
Louis Hart
George W. Trammell
Torrance Aide May Resign Over Ouster and Illness
Torrance City Manager Wade Peebles indicated he may resign rather than appeal the council ouster vote amid a controversy over a pending “mystery” tape. Police reported a fatal auto strike near Sampson Avenue and Elmwood Street, with 17-year-old Fred Young named as driver and a 14-year-old boy as the victim.
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Wade Prebies
Peebles
Bhai To Boy
Tobey
Palm
Harbor Hospital
Martin’, Casey
Lee Lane
Sampson’ ‘Avenue
Elmwood
Fred Christopher Young
Woodland
Garden Grove
State Seaman Killed in Crash Near Rolling Hills Estates
Clarets B Talmadge aged 37 of San Petro was a crew member of a State Fish and Game Department vessel. He died Friday when his car struck a tree near Rolling Hills Estates.
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Sick Peebles Seeks Medical Checkup and Clarity
The Peebles city manager, ill and exhausted, pleaded for hospital care and a general medical checkup amid a turmoil over investigations. He plans a final conference with his attorney on Monday to decide his next move, insisting he did not feel wanted where he was. He admitted naming names to investigators from the attorney general’s office, acknowledging his fault.
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Peebles
Attorney Generals Office
Killer Says He Lent Me Money Motive in Torrance Murder
Detective D H Cook of the Torrance police reports Joseph Reed Mason confessed the motive for Christmas Day killing of a Torrance businessman. Mason also admitted setting fire to a muffler and radiator shop owned by Ernest E Jones, a suspect who befriended him last November. Mason was arrested in a skid row area of Los Angeles and will be arraigned Monday for murder and arson in Seath Bay Municipal Court.
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Torrance
Joseph Reed Mason
Ernest E. Jones
WL 6Th St. Polee
Jones
Mason
Finday
Aca
Los Angeles
Cook
Seath Bay Musicisal
New BTD Student Officers Installed Tonight
Newly elected officers of the Business and Technology Division at Long Beach City College will be installed tonight at a 2 banquet in the Petroleum Club. Spring semester ASB president Nick Puckett and Carla Shideler head the event with outgoing president Tee Roberts presiding.
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Long Beach City
Codsge
BTD Associated
Nick Puckett
Hardwick SL
Lakerood
Carla Shideler
Linares St
Associated Women Stednts
Tee Roberts
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