Recipe contest nears start date for Press Telegram
Four days remain before the 14th annual Codk Book Contest opens. Entries welcome with prizes including an O Keefe Merrit Contempo double oven gas range and a 10 speed Osterizer blender plus 115 cash prizes. Rules appear in Sundays paper. Burglary hits Able Crane Service at Long Beach harbor. tools and equipment valued at 1100 missing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
O’keefe
Merritt
Independent
Press-Telegram
Able
Pier 6
Long Beach Harbor
Herbert R. Murphy
Western Union Dash-Fax Office Closures Planned in Long Beach
Western Union Telegraph Company filed June 31 1968 with the Federal Communications Commission to discontinue its dash fax office at Lafayette Hotel 140 Linden Ave Long Beach California. Substitute service would be telephone through 214 Locust Ave Long Beach or nearest Western Union office. Public protest or support must be in writing to FCC Washington DC by July 1 1968.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Western Union Telegraph Company
Federal Communications Commission
Lafayette Hotel
Linden Ave
Long Beach
California
Locust Ave
Western Union
Washington
D.C
Port Board votes to swap travel and ad agencies
Long Beach Board of Harbor Commissioners votes to hire Pierre Manon Travel Agency to arrange intercontinental and domestic travel for port officials for one year and designates Max W. Becker Advertising Inc. as the new advertising agency starting July 1 1968. The changes follow a two member committee review and aim to replace Curtis & Associates after more than 20 years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Long Beach
William A. Harrington
Llewellyn Bixby, Jr
Curtis & Associates, Inc
Becker Group
Curtis Organization
Curtis
Lakewood City Council Meeting Postponed to June 18
The Lakewood City Council meeting is adjourned to Tuesday June 18 at 8 00 p m due to a lack of a quorum. Mayor Mark Hannaford and Councilman Robert Baker attend the Conference of U S Mayors in Chicago while Councilman George Nye Jr speaks on the Sky Knight helicopter program at the University of Missouri in St Louis
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lakewood
Mark Hannaford
Robert Baker
U.S
Chicago
George Nye Jr
University of Missouri
St. Louis
Advertising contracts and travel commission details
The Becker agency earns 15 percent of contract amounts for preparing placing ads and producing Harbor Department special reports. The Manon Travel Agency receives five percent of the coming year's travel spending by commission members.
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Becker Agency
Var
Ious Harbor Department
Manon Travel Agency
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Independent, Press-Telegram
Dooley
Remington
Dad
Selektronic
Martre
Port Board
Lakewood Council
Dooley’s Hardware Mart
Long Beach Blvd
North
Lakewood Center
Kentucky
Schenly
Schenla
Dewar's
Schenley Distiller CO
Panama
Crocker
East Brocdwey
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