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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Jan 08, 1958
Page
9
A Long Beach column relays comical incidents from Mrs. Car O Bergh’s dinner mishap with a home made apple pie turned bakery apricot pie, classroom prank gifts with potato peels, Ozzie and Harriet TV plans, a Middel Ford Stage 5 Productions swap, and a sports car racer Chuck Daigh's holiday injuries amid winter exploits.
The City Council voted to add a March 4 special election measure giving Long Beach firms a 1 percent edge in city contract bidding to offset local sales tax. Councilman Charles Dooley proposed the charter amendment while eight other ARC items drew a lukewarm reception.
City Council voted unanimously to appeal a Superior Court decision that would add 180 dollars yearly to the pensions of about 40 retired policemen and Hiremen. Judge George C. Francis ruled that the clothing allowance paid to active firemen and patrolmen counted toward the pension base. The city attorney noted the core question: whether reimbursable expenses form part of salary for pension calculations.
Gayle Ann Burgess, five, of Los Santos Drive, created a paste-up showing her father, Harry M Burgess, at work. The entry was chosen from coast to coast as one of 13 pictorial submissions for Western Electric’s calendar. She attends Minnie Gant School and received an artist’s carrying case as a prize.
Long Beach based Navy seaman Triumph A Thomson of the USS Shelton married Anette Bailey in a Brisbane church after five days leave. He had traveled 1200 miles from Melbourne while awaiting ambassadorial permission. The couple honeymooned on the Gold Coast before Thomson returned to duty aboard the Shelton. The ceremony followed a 30,000 contribution by the county toward a Pacific bridge project.
A U S Department of Labor survey shows Long Beach Los Angeles area office workers averaging 69.16 dollars weekly, the nation’s highest. Chicago 67.61, San Francisco Oakland 87.14, Cleveland 63.85, New York City 64.75. Stenographers average 72 weekly, secretaries 84, leading the country in those categories.
The city and owners reached a $71,000 compromise amid a looming condemnation suit over 12 lots south of Columbia Street between Elm and Atlantic Avenues. Negotiations with appraisers may allow construction of Memorial Hospital to begin, with five minutes required for council approval on a May start. Six remaining lots still stand for acquisition as eminent domain proceedings continue.
Loree Kirkpatrick, 30, of 3920 Wilgon Ave, died after grieving for Susan Kirkpatrick, 10, a cystic fibrosis victim. Nine years earlier she lost son Glenn to the same disease. Autopsy pending as husband Harold contends the cause is heartbreak, not medical. Debra Jean, 8, and Loree Dean, 4, mourn the loss.
Lt John C Bond Jr commander of Mine Division 115 for two and a half years will be relieved at Pacific Fleet Mine Force Headquarters by Lt Raymond B Corob. Bond of 4402 Moonsh Ave has been ordered to the Fleet Training Center San Diego for communications schooling before reporting aboard the Long Beach based heavy cruiser USS Columbus.
Los Anticles Philharmonic under Eduard van Beintum will perform its second season concert at 8:30 pm in the Long Beach Municipal Auditorium Concert Hall. Beethoven Leonore Overture No 2 opens, Mozart Symphony No 4 in E flat, intermission, Beethoven Symphony No 1 in C Major, and Ravel La Valse conclude. Tickets available at Humphreys Music Store.
Harmon J. Ridley of 654 Chestnut Ave. sustained a fractured vertebra when struck in a marked crosswalk by a Seaside Fire Department ambulance at Cedar Ave and ather. The ambulance driver is Robert F. Parkins Jr., 22, of 4111 Charle angant Ave. Police say the unit was not responding to an emergency.
Mike Demuth of the Beat fights was elected president of the Associated Car Clubs of Long Beach and will be installed at a February dinner meeting. New officers include Ronnie Dulin, Rob Muller, Bill Courte, Joel Ellett, Martin, and Roger Beach. A separate theft report notes a secretary found a missing wallet and $25 after an incident at a Lang and Beach location.
City Council called a special meeting for 2 p m Thursday to act on long pending amendments allowing Long Beach Oil Development Co to inject 190 000 barrels of water daily into the city owned tideland field The Subsidence Advisory Committee will be polled on a letter signed by LBOD attorney Jonah Jones to expand the program and place city control The council debated the draft word citys was insisted to show city control and Harbor Department oversight
College schedules pre registration for the spring term in the City College Liberal Arts Division. Tonight and Thursday from 6 20 to 9 p m registration occurs in the Lakewood campus cafeteria at 4501 E Carson St. Open to new and continuing students. classes begin February 3.
Judy Martin, 16, of 1924 Anseline Ave, underwent a July surgery to fuse her right wrist using a transplanted muscle from her left ring finger. The procedure, part of modern rehabilitation, aims to restore grasping ability and daily independence like dropping a milk carton into a trash can.
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