Free Camp for Boys Slated by Long Beach Scouts
About 140 central district youths will join a seven week summer camping program run by Long Beach Boy Scouts with 80 troops backing. Open to 11 to 13 year olds, the plan extends two prior trips to Camp Tahquitz and aims to boost enrollment to ease racial tensions while promoting fitness, character, and citizenship through hiking archery swimming and camping activities.
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Central District
Long Beach
Boy Scouts
John Starrett
Long Beach‘area
Council of
Starrett
Scout Council
Camp
Tahquitz
San Bernardino Mountains
Long Beach Police Honored for Valor at Chamber Breakfast
Long Beach police officers Wayne Clark and James Fontaine received Outstanding Valor and Dedicated Service to the Community plaques after they captured two bank bandits who fled with 9,762 dollars from the Security First National Bank. Clark exchanged shots with the bandits, Fontaine arrested them at gunpoint on a three wheeled motorcycle. The ceremony followed a talk urging political action and business involvement in the 1968 election. Also, burglaries at 3748 Country Club Drive saw a 550 dollar TV set stolen after a sliding door was forced open.
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Free Enterprise
R. Frank Teeker
Chamber of Commerce
Long Beach Chamber of Commerce
Tucker
Long Beach
Wayne Clark
James Fontaine
Marina
Security First National Bank
Naples Plaza
Glark
Fontaine
Staten
Joseph J. Otto
Country Club Drive
Lakewood Awards Two Street Improvement Contracts
Lakewood City Council awarded two contracts totaling 140 329 for street improvements. The William R. Hahn Co. will upgrade lighting and traffic signals at Downey Avenue Candlewood Street and Ashworth Street Bellflower Boulevard, plus add lighted street name signs and extend street lights along Pioneer Bellflower Candlewood and Pioneer boulevards. Silvers and Ruiz Co. receives 34 926 to install about 2.05 miles of sidewalks mainly on Palo Verde Del Amo Woodruff Candlewood Allington 207th Street Studebaker Road and Norwalk Boulevard.
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Lakewood City
William R. Hahn Co
la Habra Heights
Downey Avenue
Candlewood Street
Ashworth Street
Bellflower Boulevard
Pioneer Boulevard
Bellflower
South Street
Candlewood
Hayter Street
Paramount Boulevard
Silvers and Ruiz Co
Fullerton
Palo Verde Avenue
Allington
del Amo
Woodruff Avenue
207Th Street
Studebaker Road
Norwalk Boulevard
Street Lighting Bids Open July 10
Los Cerritos and Sunset Street Lighting District bids totaling an estimated 433000 will be opened by the city on July 16. Council approved plans and advertised for bids for 636 residential street lights with 175 watt lamps and 20 main street lights with 400 watt mercury vapor lamps, with half the cost paid by the city and the remainder assessed on benefiting properties.
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Los Cerritos and
Sunset
Los Angeles River
Steve Dolim Mass Set Saturday for Army Spec 4 Dolim
Requiem Mass will be said at 10 a.m. Saturday in St. Carnelius Church for Army Spec. 4 Steven Dolim Jr, 20, ofward observer for the 1st Air Cavalry Division, killed June 6 in Vietnam during a mortar barrage. He is survived by his parents and three sisters. Lakewood Funeral Directors are in charge of arrangements. A separate item reports a color TV stolen during a burglary on Santa Fe Avenue with $600 cash taken.
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St. Carnelius Church
Army
Steven Dolim Jr
Vietnan
Dolim
1St Air Cavalry Division
Steven Dalim
Carfax Ave
Shelia Gaston
Viola
Valeria Dalim
Disday Family
Lakewood Mortuary
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Bor Shluaaway
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W. Ocean Blvd
Charles de Bretteville
Fonda McCook
Salvation Army
Frederick Gibson
Stall Phate
Kent Henderson
Lakewood
Long Beach Boulevard
San Diego
Union Pacific
Atlantic Avenue
Market Street
Steve Dolim
Santa Fe
Lohg Beach
Ariesa
BeViewer
Cynopod
Worwalk
Paramount
Wetange County
South Bay Area
Comply
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Memorial Park
Western Avenue
San Padbo
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