Games People Play In Downtown Long Beach Parks
Senior citizens gather daily for outdoor games in Long Beach parks. Curt Johnson captured white-suited lawn bowlers at Recreation Park, chess at Bixby Park, rogue contest at Bixby Park, and a joyful moment at Lincoln Park showing age as no barrier to fun.
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Long Beach
Independent, Press-Telegram
Curt Johnson
Recreation Park
Shelby Chism
Bixby Park
Willie Stolpe
Ruby Webb
Lincoln Park
Ringo case goes to jury in Long Beach trial
A nine-woman three-man jury will be instructed by the judge and start deliberations Monday in the Ringo case. Prosecutors say the Queen's Pike game is largely a game of chance and illegal under lottery laws, while defense witnesses argue skill governs the ring-toss game. Charles Ray Shira and five others face related charges.
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Long Beach
Ringo
Robert Recknagel
C. Ransom Samuelsen
Gary Carlin
Charles Ray Shira
W. Pike
California Institute of Technology
Park-and-ride expands as RTD folds in theater commuters
RTD approves permanent park-and-ride at Circle Drive-In in Long Beach guiding 50 cars daily to buses to downtown Los Angeles. The service runs weekday mornings and returns in the afternoon with seven morning trips and seven return trips, serving Seal Beach and La Mirada and linking to Long Beach and Santa Ana Freeway routes.
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Pacific Coast Highway
Ximeno Avenue
Southern California Rapid Transit District
RTD
San Pedro Street
Temple Avenue
Los Angeles
Long Beach
Patrick Barry
Long Beach Boulevard
Barry
Jack R. Gilstrap
Los Angeles Business District
la Mirada
Alondra Boulevard
Santa Ana Freeway
Fullerton
Santa Ana
Riverside
Main Street
Electric Avenue
Seal Beach
Long Beach Marina
Belmont Shore
Gilstrap
Board Street
Lakewood Boulevard
San Diego
Westside Redevelopment Aims for 1975 Groundbreaking
Long Beach Economic Development Corp lays out 1975 goals including planning study completion and groundbreaking for the Westside Industrial Redevelopment Project. Two projects, Westside and Airport Business Park, could yield up to 16 000 jobs.
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Don Brackenbury
Westside
Long Beach Economic Development Corp
Long Beach
Eighth Street
Pacific Coast Highway
Airport Business Park
Spring Street
Clark Avenue
John R. Mansell
City Saved Corporation
Economic Development Corp
Long Beach Naval Station
Third hearing on new coastal proposals set
A third public hearing on the South Coast Regional Commission’s revised Powers, Funding and Government Element will be held Monday at the Long Beach Harbor Department Administration Building. Testimony is tentatively from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Executive director Mel Carpenter expects a possibly less heated session.
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South Coast Regional Commission
Long Beach Harbor Department Administration
Harbor Plaza Drive
Mel Carpenter
Grand jury urges halt to nursing home Medi Cal fraud
The county grand jury asked the Board of Supervisors to push for legislation to curb widespread Medi Cal frauds and neglect in nursing homes. It cited cases of unneeded hearing aids and violations of 30 day doctor visits, and proposed shifting fraud investigations to the attorney general’s office along with new dispensing and requirement rules to curb abuse and kickbacks.
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County Grand Jury
Board of Supervisors
State Health Department
Sacramento
Department of Health
Health Department
Attorney General’s Office
Crusade Tops 1.6 Million in Southeast Los Angeles Drive
United Crusade Region III raised 1 648 624 in the latest campaign, a 4 percent gain from last year, with McDonald crediting volunteers amid an economy downturn. Major contributors included HITCO Martin Marietta Aluminum Procter & Gamble Standard Brands Paint. top per capita givers were Tension Envelope Pre-Delivery Service TCI Aluminum Bruce Industries L K Comstock Cotter and Co Santa Fe Springs Paul Munroe Hydraulics. Corporates cited: Douglas Aircraft Ford Petrolane Buffums General Pipe and Supply Long Beach Clearing House Independent Press Telegram.
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United Crusade
Los Angeles County
Richard A. McDonald
McDonald
TCI Aluminum
Bruce Industries
L.K. Comstock
Cotter and Co
City of
Santa Fe Springs
Paul Munroe Hydraulics
Douglas Aircraft
Ford Motor Co., Petrolane, Buffums, General Pipe and Supply
The
Long Beach Clearing House
Independent Press-Telegram
Funeral Services for Mary M. Pearson Held Monday
Funeral services set for Mary M. Pearson 67 longtime Long Beach Public Library employee and author of Recordings in Public Libraries at All Saints Episcopal Church. A founder of the Southern California Music Librarians section she was named City Employee of the Year in 1970.
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Mary M. Pearson
All Saints Episcopal Church
Termino Ave
Pearson
Long Beach
Southern California
Music Librarians Association
The
Mental Health Association
Frances Henselman
Tom Pearson
Mary C. Downing
Brothers Mortuary
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Ralph Hinman JR
Circle Drive-In
Mansell
California
Manpower Advisory Council
Citizens Advisory Transportation Committee
Corporation
Mary Ellis Carton
Permanent Coastal Commission
Dennis A. Antenore
South Coast Commission
Crusade
HITCO
Martin Marietta Aluminum
Procter & Gamble
Standard Brands
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