Beacon Street Becomes Focus of Urban Renewal Effort
Long Beach port area once thrived during World War II with shipyard workers and sailors. After the war the economy faded as ferryboats declined and the Skid Row area suffered. In 1963 leaders sought federal funds, and last week a grant was approved to revive Beacon Street with urban renewal.
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Slim Hartison
Bank Cafe
Sea Breeze
Beacon Streck
Long Beach Ad
San Pedro
Beacon Street
Skid Row
Museum leaders honored by California legislature
Queen Mary Museum of the Sea director Les H. Cohen and associate director Robert J. Reardon receive separate Senate and Assembly resolutions praising their public service in higher education. The accolades cite their roles in establishing the museum aboard the Queen Mary in Long Beach Harbor and note past work with the Museum of Science and Industry in Los Angeles.
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Queen Mary Museum of the Sea
Les H. Cohen
Museum of the Sea
Long Beach Harbor
Robert J. Reardon
State Senate
Assembly
California State Colleges
Sacramento
Museum
Reardon
Cohen
Museum of Science
Los Angeles
Robert Wilcox
California State College Board of Trustees
Khonert Park
Calif
Wilcox
Club States Ski Trip Sponsors Weekend Trip
The Torrance Recreation Department club for high school juniors and seniors will sponsor a weekend ski trip February 24 and 26 to Kratka Ridge in the Angeles National Forest. Activities include skiing, singing, tobogganing, and an evening campfire. The $10 cost covers meals, lodging, bus, movies, insurance, and supervision. Information is available by calling Joslyn Recreation Center in Terrance.
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Torrance
Joslyn Recreation Center
Terrance
Coordinating Council Chief's Installation Set
U S District Judge Manuel Real will install new officers Thursday at a banquet of the San Pedro Coordinating Council. Henry Soto will be installed as president and Barbara Garich will be honored for 25 years of service in youth services and juvenile delinquency prevention. The event at American Legion Hall 631 W Ninth St starts 6:30 p.m. Tickets are 3.3
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U.S
Manuel Real
San Pedro
Dr. Lindegren Named Chief of Staff at Woodruff Gables
Dr. Gunnar Lindegren has been elected chief of staff by the General Medical Staff of Woodruff Gables Hospital. The designation places him at the helm of hospital medical leadership and oversight.
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Gunnar Lindegren
Woodruff Gables Hospital
Lakewood Airman in Vietnam Balances Duty and Study
Airman 1C Paul W. Reid of Lakewood, 21, serves over cargo routes in I Corps while pursuing algebra and calculus via the Armed Forces Institute in Madison. The Mayfair High graduate, who completed a year at Cerritos Junior College, plans a six month extension beyond his September tour. He works 3 to 11 p.m. for nine days straight with three days off, and emphasize timely study to better perform history and political science coursework. Reid notes base accommodations are good and reflects on potential extensions and the country’s needs.
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Paul W. Reid
Mrc
Jack Reid
Bonfair Ave
Reid
Armed Forces Institute
Madison
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Airlift Command
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Los Angeles Fire Captain Remembered in Lakewood Service
Fire captain Clifford Collard Jr. 47 of Long Beach will be honored at a 10 am service at Utter McKinley Mortuary in Lakewood. He died after being trapped in an elevator during a Wednesday night Wilshire Boulevard blaze in Los Angeles. Chaplain Robert Dart and Rev. Clinton Hagenback will officiate as a 200 member fire department honor guard attends. survivors include wife Dorothy and three children Nancy Ling, and Richard.
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Los Angeles
Wilshire Boulevard
Utter McKinley Mortuary
Lakewood
Clifford Collard Jr
Locust Ave
Long Beach
Robert Dart
Clinton Hagenback
Church of the Holy Indocence
Firmen
Collard
Dorothy
Nancy
Lintig
Richard
Freeway Plan Meeting Thursday Discussed Carson Wilmington Route
State Highway officials will meet Thursday to discuss a proposed north south freeway through the Carson Wilmington area from Artesia Boulevard to just north of Terminal Island.
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State Division of Highways
Carson-Wilmington
Artesia Boulevard
Terminal Island
Union Oil Announces $1.7 Million Pollution Controls
Union Oil Co. reports a 1.7 million dollar program to reduce waste discharges into the Port of Los Angeles. President Fred L. Hartley says two installations are under construction including an air flotation system to oxygenate waste water and basins to collect runoff from its 450 acre Wilmington San Pedro refinery. The state has criticized the firm for dead water discharges and the company recently paid a 100 dollar fine for permit violations in the inner harbor.
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Port of
Los Angeles
Fred L. Hartley
Union Oil
Hartley
California Department of Fish and Game
Oil Company
Los Angeles Harbor
Union
Wilmington-San Pedro
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