Shellbacks and a Navy beans cookbook tale
A long column recalls the equator crossing rite of shellbacks aboard ships, including a 1926 incident on the Indianapolis with Captain Charles M. Garrison and Franklin D. Roosevelt as notable signatures on Neptune’s certificates. It notes Garrison’s Navy Cookbook authorship and a Boston baked beans recipe, then shifts to a Lakewood reader report of a tomato plant growing in a ceramic bowl with ivy.
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Charles M. Garrison
Tony Roach
United States
Franklin TD
Roosevelt
Garrison
Indianapolis
Fdr
Capt
Rey
Maine
Vermont
Petrons
Davy Jones
Neptinus Tex
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Grell
Navy
John Paul Jones
Garikon
Boston
Medlhark
Indianapolia
Nime
Neptunas Rex
Tim
A. G. LeBlanc
Lakewood
Fancy Gestures Little Ones Dance in El Dorado Park
Photographs capture Tiny Tots Rhythm class in El Dorado Park as preschool and kindergarten children enact a morning song about birds. Marilyn Van Dycke leads the 11 to 11:45 a.m. Thursday session part of the City Recreation Department summer Payground program, with rhythm classes for older children also listed.
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el Dorado Park
Little Hinds
City Recreation Dept
Marilyn van Dycke
Bok Shum
Way
Woman 50 Takes Pills and Dies at Home
A 50 year old woman, identified as Marjorie Been Campbell of 180 Corona Ave, was found dead in her home early Sunday after apparently taking sleeping pills. Police reported notes suggesting she died by her own action. Body taken to Motrell's and Peek Mortuary after pronouncement at Seaside Hospital about 3 a.m.
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Marjorie Been
Corona Ave
Motteil's
Peek Mortuary
Geveral
Ex-Banker Jailed for Bad Checks in Orange County
Howard M. Mack Jr, 20, a former Long Beach bank teller, was jailed for a year in Orange County Jail after passing 400 in worthless checks to fund a vacation. He told Judge Robert Gardner in Anaheim Superior Court that he intended to cover the first check but forgot it, and the subsequent bad checks were easy to cash.
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Long Beach
Orange County
Santa Ans
Howard M. Mack Jr
Petaluma Sc
Robert Gardner
Ana Superior Court
Palm Springs
Talkative Burglars Rob Service Station
Police reported that two men talked with a service station operator while a third entered the office and stole 840 from the cash register. The suspects drove away in a car after delaying the clerk, who noticed the drawer open and the money missing. Separately Hobart A. Bryan reported a $300 adding machine theft at his market on South 2nd Street while clerks were occupied.
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Charles ©. Corning
Atlantic Ave
Carning
Hobart A.bryan
S. 2Nd St
Vandals Cut Two Trees In Houghton Park
Vandals early Sunday cut down two eight year old trees in Houghton Park at Atlantic and Hard ang streets. A Chinese elm and a eucalyptus were destroyed. Thomas the resident caretaker noted this was the second park vandalism in six months, with a previous incident involving a pine tree.
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Jin Park
Houghton Park
Atlantic Ave
Hardang St
Thomas
Stolen Money Reported On Freighter Ocean Carrier
Donne F Prey 45 of Portland Oregon reported theft aboard the freighter Ocean Carrier tied up at a Mendocino Avenue Water Street yard. He said $290 was taken from three glass jars in his cabin Saturday night.
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Donne F. Prey
Portland
Ore
Mendocino Ave
Water St
Industrialist dies at Vienna Country Club dance
George Garretson Wade, 74, of Iveland Ohio and industrialist, died unexpectedly Saturday night while attending a dance at the Vienna Country Club Osterville Mass. The death ends a long career in manufacturing and local philanthropy with no further details released.
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Osterville
Mass
VPI
George Garretson Wade
Iveland
Ohio
Vienna Country Club
Hutchinson Dies at 62 in Murfreesboro
Knox Hutchinson former assistant US secretary of agriculture from 1949 to 1955 died Sunday at his Murfreesboro home after a cancer battle. He served under the Truman and Eisenhower administrations and was a noted agricultural official.
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Murfreesboro
Tenn
Knox Hutchinson
Secretary of Agriculture
Strathden Quarantined at Port Said Over Influenza Cases
The British passenger liner Strathe den arrived at Port Said and was quarantined outside the port due to influenza among crew. None of the ship's 826 passengers was allowed ashore.
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Port Said
Egypt
L B Has Top Bait Fleet
Long Beach hardware Long Beach Harbor scene describes Pierpoint Landing live bait fleet the largest on the Pacific Coast supplying sport fishing boats. The piece details netting anchovy bait using fathometers lighted skiffs and harbor-wide bait sources with boats venturing up to five miles offshore when needed.
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Lee Craig
Pierpoint Landing
Pacific Coast
California
Long Beach
Los Angeles Harbor
Newport Beach
San Diego
Nott
Long Beach Miss Wins Oceanside Beauty Contest
Mary Ann McHenry age 20 from 4250 Vermont Street won the Miss Southern California title at Oceanside’s annual beach opening and community fair. She topped 43 contestants with Patsy Hobbs and Mary Faye Young among runners up Gardez placed second and third as the fair continues through Saturday.
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Southern California
Mary Ann McHenry
Vermont St
Oceanside
Patsy Hobbs
Carlsbad
Mary Faye Young
Gardez
Fourth of July Police Prepare for Beach Crowds
Police gird for the Fourth of July holiday expect hundreds of thousands to fill the beach areas. Traffic officers will have leaves canceled and will arrest speeders and drunken drivers. Fireworks are restricted with only cap pistols allowed. violators face misdemeanor fines up to 300 dollars.
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Wiliam H. Kummer
Kummer
Marine Stadium
Rainbow Pier
James T. Starr
Starr
Los Angeles
Orange
Long Beach
Long Beach Office Reaches 100000th Old Age Check
Long Beach district of the Bureau of Old Age and Survivors Insurance announced its 100000th claim was processed last week. District manager G. Bretherton noted over 51690 of the 10 million monthly checks go to area residents, with about 37 million of the national total to be spent locally.
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Long Beach
Bureau of Old-Age and Survivors Insurance
G. Bretherton
Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare
Bretherran
84 Year Old Operator Thwarts Gas Station Robbers
Adolph Jeczorek an 84 year old operator frightened off two would be robbers at his gas station on Long Beach Boulevard by claiming police waited in a car in back. The pair demanded cash and safe access, presented a knife and a gun imitation before fleeing. Earlier a liquor店 clerk was forced to surrender $90 in a separate robbery nearby.
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Long Beach Blvd
Jeczorek
Ben Leonard Drolet
Broadway
Long Beach Man Sentenced in Santa Ana Liquor Store Robbery
A Long Beach man was sentenced to prison for the Santa Ana liquor store robbery. A second suspect faces sentencing on July 5 and a third, 18, will undergo psychiatric examination before July 19 sentencing. Judge Robert Gerdener presided in Santa Ana.
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Long Beach
Santa Ana
Robert Gerdener
Charles Arthur Averill
Orange Age
George McGregor Ironsides
Adl
Seaside Bird
Legionnaires urge tribute to heritage on Independence Day
At the state Legion convention in Long Beach veterans urge Americans to revive Fourth of July meaning. Leaders like H C Wolfe and Sammy Hall call for renewed flag displays and community observances to preserve the holiday's independence spirit.
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Bryan Hodgson
Fay
American Legion
Long Beach
H. C
Doc't |Wolfe
San Leandro
Fribute
Wie
Sammy Hall
San Francisco
Cathay Post
Preston J. Moore
Stillwater
Oklo
Legion National
Langlois
Legion
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Neptuno
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Equator
King Neptune
Lcinns
Little
Hutchinson
L.B
Bill Watt
Pierpoint
Pelgas
Long Beach Miss
Independent
Southland’s Nest
Tdigkok
L.B. Oldsters
Adolph Teczore
L.B. Man
Legionnaires
Finley J. MacDonald
Antelope Valley
Worfe
Moore
MacDonald
Dlanglois
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