Arena Parking Hike Suggested to Offset Revenue Drop
City Auditor Murray T. Courson proposed increased rates for the Long Beach Auditorium and arena parking lots to offset revenue declines. He also urged a new fee for the beachside public parking lot east of Linden Avenue as part of the annual budget review.
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Long Beach
Murray T. Courson
Linden Avenue
Auditorium-Arena-Stadium Department
Courson
Auditorium
Auditorium Arena
Auditorium-Arena
Hill rejects freeway plan. Signal Hill balks at north–south route
The Signal Hill City Council voted 4 to 1 against supporting Long Beach proposals for a north south freeway from Ocean Boulevard through Signal Hill. Councilman William Mendenhall led opposition, arguing the freeway would split the city and reduce taxable residential areas. The Long Beach plan aims to connect Ocean Boulevard and Alamitos Avenue to the Artesia Freeway near Cherry Avenue. The council forwarded the proposal to Signal Hill for backing.
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Signal Hill
Long Beach
Ocean Boulevard
California Division of Highways
Alamitos Avenue
Artesia
Cherry Avenue
William Mendenhall
Markets Section Note July 23 1968 Page B I
Markets pages C 6 and C 7 of Independent Tuesday July 23 1968 section B provide stock market quotes bond prices and commodity data for investors. The pages likely include price tables closing values and brief market commentary from the era.
Antelope Refuge Draws Crowds To High Desert Camp
On Hart Mountain near Lakeview Oregon the annual Order of the Antelope convention grew from 30 delegates in 1932 to 512 this year. The gathering promotes wilderness tourism and supports the antelope refuge in Lake County. The awe of vast lonely landscapes contrasts with crowded camp life where logistics challenge local Lakeview civic interests.
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MT. Antelope Refuge
Blue Sky
Reno
the Order of the Antelope
Hart Mountain
S Plain
Lakeview
Lake County
Lakeview fellows feed hundreds on backcountry roads
A Long Beach group brings in food for about 500 people over 75 miles of rough roads. Beef and beans cook in a large pit. on the second night more steaks arrive by radio. Attendance is rising past 440 toward 1000 as organizers study control methods. Jackasses refer to neophytes and locals boast of effort and pride.
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Lakeview
Jess Fahn
L.B
Automated Entree Steak Line at Vernon Slaughterhouses
The Vernon slaughter complex processes over 1,000 cattle daily at Pride Packing Co and its tenant Federal Meat Co, delivering beef for markets across Long Beach. Cattle are herded to the kill floor, shot, hoisted, and dismembered on an assembly-line flow, with byproducts like bloodmeal fertilizer. The article notes Vernon’s 208 residents and $250 million in property amid a regional network of slaughterhouses and suppliers.
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Southland
Norwalk
Santa Ana
Vernon
Los Angeles
Huntington Park
Pride Packing Co
Pride
Federal Meat Co
Long Beach
Federal
Imperial
San Joaquin
Paramount City Manager McKeown resigns to take a vacation
Paramount announces that city manager M D Mac McKeown, earning 30000 a year, will resign effective Aug 15 to take a long vacation. McKeown has served since 1961 after earlier term in Dairy Valley amid clashes with Mayor Lloyd Ikerd and council. Interim manager to be named. Ikerd cites bid to interview candidates.
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Paramount
M.D
Mac) McKeown
Lloyd R. Ikerd
Ikerd
McKeown
Dairy Valley
Lloyd Ikerd
Gladys Iliff
Assembly
Skerd
State Real Estate Commission
Bert Smith
Louis Spane
Moshier
City and State Lose Up to 12 Million Annually from Underpriced Wilmington Tideland Crude
City Manager John Mansell says Long Beach tidelands crude is undervalued, costing the city and state as much as 12 million yearly. Leonard Brock's report shows Wilmington crude priced 28 cents below 30- gravity California crude and 59 cents under national average, with California crude yielding less value per barrel.
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Long Beach
Department of Oil Properties
Mansell
Leonard W. Brock
Oil Properties
California
United States
Wilmington
Independent Oil and Gas Producers of
Tideland
Thums
Brock
Resurrection City seen as better than reports say
Long Beach resident Miss Mosely, after a month in Resurrection City in Washington, D C, told local neighbors that life there offered hot food medical care and real equality. She praised the city’s self government and volunteer patrols while noting poverty exists at home in Long Beach and urging city hall outreach.
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Resurrection City
City Hall
Long Beach
Washington, D.C
Terraziniera Mosely
Olive Ave
Washington
Miss Mosely
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Anne Howe
Ted Moshier
John Mies
Town Hall of California
Thomas Reddin
International Association of Chiefs of Police
L.B. Speaker
John R. Mansell
L.B. Poor
Marcher
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