Mailman Shirley Curtis Faces Daily Strains and Camaraderie
In Long Beach an announcer style profile follows Shirley Curtis a 27 year old female mail carrier delivering to small businesses. The piece describes her workday starting at 6am sorting 1000 to 1500 pieces, camaraderie among carriers, and jokes about her Southern accent and appearance. It notes pay starting at 108 dollars weekly rising with seniority and a 2.50 dollar daily car allowance.
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Shirley Curtis
Anaheim
Shirley
Pony Express
Long Beach
Calhoun
Orange County Fights Plan to Take Canyon Park Land
County supervisors vow to block or realign a state freeway that would cut through 68 acres of newly purchased Santa Ana Canyon park land at Sycamore Flat. They bought 226 acres from Irvine Ranch Co. for 625000, and seek land exchange if needed while park development for picnicking and camping proceeds.
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Orange County
Santa Ana
Canyon
Sycamore Flat
Irvine Ranch Co
Kenneth Sampson
Bryant Rancho
Santa Ana River
On-The-Job Training Deadline Extended
An unusual employment program combining classroom study with on the job work extended its deadline to 4 pm Monday due to the Fourth of July holiday. A La Mirada man, Howard Snyder, 57, died Friday when his car left the road at First Street and Imperial Highway. Vance Simonds of the Jobs Task Force said openings remain in auto repair as students aged 15 to 17 from Long Beach enroll at Poly High School. The program runs 40 days over eight weeks with on the job pay and starts Monday.
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la Mirada
First Street
Imperial Highway
Howard Snyder
el Piro Drive
la Mirada Community Hospital
California Highway Patrol
Vance Simonds
The
Urban Coalition
Long Beach
Poly High School
Simonds
Free Admission Day Highlights In Long Beach
A local events wrap lists free activities in Long Beach with diplomatic corps concerts open ship tours and municipal band performances. The Diplomats Drum and Bugle Corps perform at Bohls Oldsmobile 3555 East South Street at 10 am. The Long Beach Naval Station hosts an open ship tour on Pier 16 featuring the USS Somers until 4 pm. Public concerts follow at Lincoln Park and the Long Beach Municipal Band at 2 pm and 6 pm respectively.
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Diplomats Drum and Bugle Corps
Bohls
Oldsmobile
South St
Long Beach Naval Station
Pier 16
Somers
Innocent Plea in Case of Wrong Man Shooting
Leighton A. Stines pleaded innocent in the May 28 shooting that killed 46 year old Robert Davis at the Plumbers and Steamfitters Union Local No 12 office in Santa Ana. Stines of Garden Grove requested a jury trial and the case was set for Sept. 30 in Santa Ana Superior Court.
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Leighton A. Stines
Torrance
Santa Ana Union Hall
Stines
Merrill St
Garden Grove
Santa Ana Superior Court
Robert Davis
Gulf St
Davis
Union Local No
First St
Santa Ana
Long Beach Bus Tour Promotes International Sea Festival
A fleet of 45 passenger Long Beach Transportation Co buses will depart Pontiac Michigan on Tuesday for a six day westward ride to the International City visiting Illinois Iowa Nebraska Wyoming Utah and Nevada. Banners promote the Queen Mary and Long Beach water sports showcase with driver Jim Orlando leading the convoy.
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Long Beach Transportation Co
General Motors
Pontiac
Mich
International City
Jim Orlando
Illinois
Iowa
Nebraska
Wyoming
Utah
Nevada
Long Beach
Mrs Irene Tucker Ordered to Undergo Psychiatric Examinations
Irene Tucker a 37 year old Costa Mesa wife and murder suspect in the June 28 stabbing of Harriet Westphal 68 was ordered Friday to undergo psychiatric exams by doctors from Norwalk and Costa Mesa The court set reports due by July 22 Police say Westphal in a dying gasp identified the Tucker home as the scene and investigators search for a weapon while kitchen utensils from the Tucker house were sent to the lab.
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Irene Tucker
Norwalk
Costa Mesa
Tucker
George Tucker
Orange County
Harriet Westphal
Minorca Place
Santa Ana
William C. Speirs
Phillip O. Kramer
Metropolitan State Hospital
Sigmund Kosewick
Fairview State Hospital
Hoag Memorial Hospital
Orange County Crime Laboratory
Nuclear Medicine Forum Explains Isotopes Use in Diagnosis
A free community health forum on Nuclear Medicine and How It Helps Three Million People a Year will be held at 7 30 p m Tuesday in Long Beach Memorial Hospital. Dr Earl K Dore and Dr William H Olson will lead the briefing on radioisotopes in diagnostics as part of Memorial Hospital quarterly health services program.
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Long Beach Memorial Hospital
Earl K. Dore
Memorial
William H. Olson
Long Beach Community Hospital
Wiltson
Memorial Hospital
Grass Roots Recall Reagan Drive In Long Beach
Long Beach residents from the Recall Reagan Committee set up petition sites at Lincoln Park and Pine Avenue to collect signatures for Governor Reagan's recall. Local leaders claim steady support and cite 700 000 signatures by July 4 with a 780 000 target ahead of the July 31 deadline.
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Long Beach
Ronald Reagan
Reagan
Lincoln Park
Pine Avenue
California State College At
Linnea Booker
Miss Booker
Junipero Ave
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By David Shaw
Independent Press-Telegram
Mailman
Curt Johnson
Canyon Park
Long Beach Area
Cial
Plumbers
L.B. Group
Walt Murray
Richard G. Connelly
Venetia Drive
Connelly
UCLA
John B. Page
Ladoga Ave
Bill Castley
Malgren Ave
San Pedro
Roger West
Lincoln St
Wilmington
John T. Wilson
Maple St
Winster
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