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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Feb 08, 1969
Page
22
The state Assembly Rules Committee commended former Long Beach Fire Chief Leonard Foster for 30 years of unstinting service to his community. The resolution noted the department grew from 12 to 22 firefighters under his tenure.
The Nicholas V. Oddo Memorial Fund at Long Beach gave $5,000 to University of California Irvine for medical scholarship aid. The gift, labeled irrevocable by Katherine White Oddo, accompanies six grants totaling $7,700 from groups including Burns Family Foundation and Alpha Lambda Delta Education Foundation.
Esophageal speech lessons for laryngectomees will be held every Tuesday at 7 30 p m in Room 423 Liberal Arts Campus Long Beach City College.
Two new programs aid youth drug abuse in southeast Los Angeles County. Operation Hotline begins March 1 offering 24 hour toll free help with volunteer experts from medicine courts law enforcement psychology sociology and religion. A district wide school clinic in Long Beach Unified will serve suspended students and costs are shared by Signal Hill Long Beach Lakewood and the school district.
A special adults only program on teen drug abuse will be held at 8 p.m. Wednesday at St. Anthony's Boys' High School Cafeteria. Panel leaders include Lt. James Miller and Sgt. Billy Joe Irwin of the Long Beach Police narcotics unit, Dr. George Bryant, and Deputy Probation Officer Porter Millican. Father John Brensingham will moderate. A Q and A session follows.
County supervisors will vote Tuesday on transferring 37 720 for paving along Compton Creek feeding the Los Angeles River in the Dominguez area. Officials say the access road must be longer than planned and funds come from the Bull Creek channel appropriation, costing less than expected.
Private services are noted for Avis Bixby Dudley a member of a renowned California pioneer family She died Tuesday in Puerto Varas Chile while on a cruise with her husband Paul Harwood Dudley The couple lived at 4224 Locust Ave She leaves two sons Paul H of Houston and Stephen B of Pacific Palisades a brother Llewellyn Bixby Jr of Long Beach and four grandchildren A Pomona College graduate she belonged to the Junior League of Long Beach the Little Club and supported Rancho Los Cerritos Adobe Memorials may go to the Long Beach Day Nursery The Amarath’s Long Beach Court will host a public luncheon and card party at Mottell's Garden Room Wednesday noon
An open house and homecoming will be held February 23 at the Opportunities Industrialization Center in Long Beach to celebrate the new building at 1325 Atlantic Ave. Percy Anderson, local OIC board chairman, will be honored. The organization operates in 70 cities and promotes training to place individuals in meaningful work without government funds.
Kruse Construction Company awarded a 1,255,927 contract to build storm drains in the Compton Gardena area. Work to begin within 30 days with sections of Avalon Compton Redondo Beach Alondra Gardena Boulevards Parmelee Rosecrans Avenues Main and Figueroa Streets and Broadway included.
Three Long Beach ambulance providers Bowers Dilday and Mortell seek higher rates from the Bureau of Franchises. A hearing will review Schaefer's Ambulance Service bid to run two units. Proposed changes include raising the answer charge from 25 to 30 dollars and 15 minute wait fees from 3 to 6.25 dollars while other rates stay unchanged.
Richard Haecker president of the Holy Name Society at St. Barnabas parish and father of two Eagle Scouts receives the St. George Award Catholic Church's top honor for adults serving youth and Scouts. The ceremony at St. Vibiana's Cathedral in Los Angeles will be officiated by James Francis Cardinal McIntyre. Haecker’s award was announced by Father Ernest J. Gualderon of St. Anthony's.
Dr Agatha Igo Vickery a prominent Long Beach chiropractor who practiced 45 years died at age 81. She ran offices in Long Beach Los Angeles Palm Springs and Victorville and issued health lectures at clubs. Surviving is her daughter Vernice V Adam. Services Tuesday at 3 pm at Patterson & Snively Mortuary conducted by Dr Ernest Johnson of Wrigley Heights Baptist Church.
About 3500 confiscated weapons ranging from machine guns to knives will be dropped from a sheriff s helicopter into the Pacific Ocean off Palos Verdes Peninsula Monday. The weapons valued at 25000 dollars were confiscated by deputies in 1968 and will be destroyed under a Superior Court order.
Bogema Levi A 485 E Louise St age 47 survived by son James two daughters Norma Lee Garvin Bonnie L Hook parents Ben Wheater two brothers George D Kermit Bogema sister Margaret Vance three grandchildren service 1030 am Monday Hunter Mortuary Chapel Cole Armon 1069 Rhea St age 38 survived by wife Jeani ta sons John David Earl daughter Cornelia parents Stennis Cole of Kalb Mississippi brothers Elmer Roscoe Samp sisters Carline McDonald Willie Johnson Mae Cole service Saturday February 15 at 1 pm with Rev H T Vining officiating at Harris Colonial Chapel interment Paradise Memorial Park Santa Fe Springs Cook Sarah A 3035 8th Ave Los Angeles displayed by Family Funeral Directors 436-9024 Cornwell Maude F Cerritos age 75 passed away February 6 survived by son Russell D two grandchildren two great grand children service today 12 noon at White's Funeral Home Bellflower
Walter Raymond Cotton Sr. age 51 died Friday. Survived by wife Doris A. of Long Beach, sons Walter R. Jr. and Stephen Paul, daughters Kathleen Anne and Elizabeth Ann, mother Josephine, and brother Kenneth. one granddaughter Rosary. Rosary Sunday 7:50 PM at Mottell's Chapel. Requiem Mass Monday 10:00 AM at Our Lady of Refuge Church. Funeral by Mottell's Mortuary.
A collection of death notices and funeral service details for residents and families in Long Beach and nearby communities. Entries include names Avis Bixby Dudley, Jean Deaton, Gracie L Dudley, Dale A Eckoff, Paul Fred Giers, Edna Hughes, Pration Kanlian, Rollo Laird, and Thomas Arnett Garrett with service times, obseque details, and directing funeral homes like Holton Son Mortuary Dilday Family Mortuary Mottell's Mortuary and Peek Family.
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