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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Feb 08, 1969
Page
21
A special Long Beach City Council session Tuesday will hear about the Quinton Report on Long Beach Airport and Mansell's recommendations. Pro and anti expansion groups including the Long Beach Jet Control Association and Wardlow Park Improvement Association seek time to present views.
End of year adjustment lifts Thums Long Beach Co valuations for tidelands work to over 19 million in 1969, with oil wells charged per well at 10 000 valuation and other construction combined under one permit. Island Grissom Island White Island Chaffee Island Freeman Pier 1 site Broadway Mitchell Avenue totals listed.
Pert Jeri Pierce, officially Miss Crime Prevention 1969, promotes a citizen program to assist law enforcement. She highlights pamphlets that explain how residents can curb crime and notes the program begins Sunday with crime prevention data mailed with utility bills.
The Long Beach Community Improvement League plans a second benefit show this year after a poor Sunday turnout for a celebrity showcase at Municipal Auditorium. George Dillard says the one night event with Dinah Shore and O C Smith lost 407, though the group has 34,000 of 43,000 needed to retire its mortgage on headquarters at 555 E Pacific Coast Highway.
Sixty Long Beach high school students from five schools compete in the annual Mathematics Field Day at LBCC Liberal Arts Campus. Dr. Walter Albrecht talks on Infinity. Lakewood is defending champ. Judges include Farrell Franklin Buttery Lenhert. Event is hosted by LBCC Mathematics Engineering Department and AA Engineers chapter.
Susana Flores 72 of 419 S Newhope Santa Ana died at Orange County Medical Center at 1 30 a m Friday from injuries after being struck Jan 14 while crossing Newhope 286 feet north of Camille Way by a northbound car driven by Larry C Gibson 22 of 15884 Saddle Circle Fountain Valley. Gibson not held. The accident occurred at 7 25 p m Thursday.
The body of a man found in Alamitos Bay with a head wound is linked to an abandoned car registered to Robert M. Powell of Bell. Detectives await FBI fingerprint results while tracing Powell’s movements to tie the car to the victim.
Four people died in separate Orange County traffic incidents including a 4 year old Anaheim boy and Austin motorcyclist James Patrick O Shea 38 of Santa Ana. O Shea died after a collision on Orangethorpe Avenue near Rose Avenue with Betty Yberra 17 La Habra and Peter Paul Perez 20 Placentia. O Shea arrived at Santa Ana Community Hospital at 8 30 p m. The other fatality occurred at First Street and Yorba Avenue in Tustin involving Angelo Palomia 51 of Tustin. The La Habra boy died later at Anaheim Memorial Hospital from injuries suffered near Fullerton. A separate Long Beach burglary involved a stolen stereo tape deck and 18 tapes valued at 170 from a car parked at Palo Verde Avenue and Spring Street.
Four year old Albert Williams of Artesia drowns after his tricycle flips into a four foot pool at his uncle’s Ton home in Compton. Relatives say he was playing with cousin Paul and a neighbor girl when the accident happens. Uncle Russell Wooton 53 rescues him but attempts to revive him fail.
Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Jerry Pacht rejected a bid for a preliminary injunction to block Avalon recall elections against councilmen Bill Krug John Walker and Vincente Scaramucci over land acquisition for a Catalina Island airport. The suit was brought by restaurant owner Paul Myers and cited technical flaws in election setup.
A series of weekend activities includes children's film Adventures of a Baby Fox at Los Altos Library at 10 30 a m Public concert by Long Beach Municipal Band at Lincoln Park and Sunday at Bixby Park 1 p m Also Microcosm 69 at Long Beach Museum of Art through Sunday Dialogue on taxes for war purposes by Franklin Zahn at First Church of the Brethren 7 30 Writer's Workshop at Douglass House 1021 Lime Ave and an Adults Dance Club at El Dorado Park Clubhouse 8 p m.
Glenn E. Thomas Co. received a special permit to expand its automobile body shop at 1215 Elm Ave in the A-4 zone. The Planning Commission approved the project noting it would extend the south side of the current shop with a solid wall facing the alley and reduce noise. Opponent Robert Rand, a 32 unit apartment owner at 1101 Elm Ave, warned it could lead to more commercial intrusion into a residential area but may accept the plan if commission conditions are met.
General Hershey told the First Friday Friars club in Anaheim that he has to supply men if the government needs them, while noting he has no opinion on Vietnam. He urged caution in peace talks, promoted a better paid volunteer Army, and warned that compulsion may be needed in emergencies. He said about 52 percent of draftees are rejected, and dismissed antiwar protesters as uninformed kids.
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