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Newspaper

Independent

Location

Long Beach, California, United States of America

Date

Jan 22, 1975

Page

14

Supt Wright Defends Administration On Department Heads

Long Beach Unified School District Superintendent W Odie Wright told the Board of Education that selecting department heads is an administrative function and teachers should not appoint heads. The board will hold “meet and confer” talks with teachers after a state open meeting rule. Wright opposed a teachers proposal for retroactive ROTC pay and noted the current salary schedule should stand.

Long Beach Unified School District Supt W. Odie Wright Board of Education Wright Jim Moore Teachers Association of Long Beach

Harbor rate hike review could delay dockage increase

Los Angeles Harbor Commissioners will decide whether to postpone a one third increase in wharfage and dockage rates set to take effect January 15. The proposal follows backlash from the Los Angeles Steamship Association which argues operators were not adequately warned.

Jack Baldwin Los Angeles Board of Harbor Commissioners Nance Los Angeles Steamship Association Los Angeles City Council Industry and Transportation Committee The Los An Thorley Southland California Oregon Washington Warren Penland Steamship Association

Orange County Creates Environmental Management Agency

County supervisors formally create a super agency merging several departments to form the Environmental Management Agency EMA They authorize division heads recruitment and set salary ranges below the county administrative office proposal Some assistants must use county pool vehicles but division heads gain 50000 life insurance The first appointee is Richard Munsell as assistant director for planning He will finish the county master land use plan EMA includes administration regulation and development plus Harbors Beaches and Parks real property services air pollution control flood control and environmental health divisions

EMA Richard Munsell Irvine H. George Osorme Munsell Department of Harbors, Beaches and Parks Real Property Services Department Air Pollution Control Osborne County Health Department

City expands park activities at Ernie Pyle School

Beginning Saturday and continuing each week the Bellflower Parks and Recreation Department will sponsor supervised recreational activities from 10 30 a m to 5 p m at Ernie Pyle School 14500 Woodruff Ave The Saturday activities supplement the daily program and run each week.

Bellflower Parks and Recreation Department Ernie Pyle Woodruff Ave

Printer Homer Parsons 79 dies in Laguna Beach

Homer M. Parsons retired printer and freelance writer died Monday at his Laguna Beach home aged 79. A Hillsdale Kansas native, he served as a Navy band officer in World War I and worked for several newspapers before joining the Independent Press Telegram in the early 1940s, retiring in 1962. He contributed to magazines including The Southland. Survived by wife Lilian two children and three grandchildren.

Homer M. Parsons Laguna Beach Hillsdale Kan Independent Press- Telegram The I.pt the Southland Lilian

Bellflower Kiwanis Club Receives 1974 Achievement Award

The Bellflower Kiwanis Club won the 1974 achievement award from District No. 10 of the California Parks and Recreation Society. Richard Dick Holtz served as club president during the year. The award was presented at a recent dinner meeting in Buena Park.

The Bellflower Kiwanis Club California Parks and Recreation Society Richard “Dick’’ Holtz Society Buena Park

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