Long Beach VA chief defends SCI doctors amid reassignment
Long Beach Veterans Hospital chief of staff Dr. Ralph Bodfish says a small group of Spinal Cord Injury doctors labeled incompetent in a Cranston report will transfer to other roles. He argues personnel conflicts influenced the verdict, notes improvements in drug controls, nursing coverage, and ties with UC Irvine.
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Long Beach Veterans Hospital
SCI
U.S. Senate Veterans Affairs Committee
Alan Cranston
D-Calif
Ralph Bodfish
Long Beach Hospital
Bodfish
UC Irvine School of Medicine
Medical
Jesse L. Steinfeld
Juan E. Fonseca
Spinal Cord Injury Service
Market Highlights From Independent Press Telegram
The Independent Press Telegram reports on market activity across pages B-5 to B-7 in section B. Traders monitor indices, corporate earnings, and commodity prices as regional stocks move. Investors weigh upcoming economic data and policy signals influencing short term momentum.
Long Beach Transit liberalizes student bus fares
The Long Beach Public Transportation Co. will remove age limits on its 1.50 school ride cards starting March 1. All college and university students and others under 21 or older may use the 10 ride cards all week for any travel. adults over 21 must show a student body card. Fares on London double decker buses to the Queen Mary drop from 25 to 10 cents one way starting March 1 with departures every 30 minutes from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
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Long Beach
Third Street
Long Beach Boulevard
Lovell touts future space flight benefits for Earth
Former astronaut James A. Lovell Jr addressed Long Beach State University about upcoming space projects offering immediate earth focused gains. He cited agricultural and climatic data from research and noted no manned flights planned after a July rendezvous with Russia until a new launch vehicle is developed.
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James A. Lovell Jr
Long Beach State University
Lovell
U.S
President’s Council On Physical Fitness
Long Beach in 1933 Faces Depression as Roosevelt Nears
The Long Beach Press Telegram recounts late February 1933 marked by hunger and bank turmoil across the nation while locally officials tackle police corruption probes and RFC projects. Amid forecasts of a new era, March brings bank reopenings, jobs ads, and plans for USS Constitution’s arrival as the city braces for Roosevelt’s presidency.
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Long Beach
E. S. Dobbins
Sacramento
James Rolph Jr
Southland
USS Constitution
Ironside
Herbert Hoover
Congress
Washington, D.C
Franklin Roosevelt
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Los Angeles
Ralphs
Walter Case
Arthur Schlesinger Jr
Adolf Hitler
von Hindenberg
Hitler
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Canada
John Maynard Keynes
Wall Street Journal
Weimar Germany
Los Angeles County
Grand Jury
Ocean Boulevard
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Er’s
Hancock Oil Co
H.F. ‘‘Hank” Burmester
PT Financial
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