Marina Plan Approval Boosts Long Beach Waterfront Project
Long Beach officials moved the Alamitos Bay Marina project forward after a unanimous public hearing endorsing a 10 million dollar plan. Park land acquisitions and park improvements also received strong backing as the subcommittee weighs funding and priorities. Assemblyman Klocksiem launches renewed bid to outlaw draw poker in California with coauthors and broad support expected.
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Alamitos Bay Marina
Citizens Committee On Public Improvements
Palm Beach Park
Herbert R. Klocksiem
Long Beach
California
Klocksiem
Sacramento
Luther F Abe Linchaln
Oakland
Klockstein
California Peace Officers' Association
California-Nevada Protestant Churches Association
Lincoln
Platon’s Out Iron Men Back On Grid Iron Rule Change
The Football Rules Committee of the NCAA abolished the three substitution rule and banned the sucker shift. The changes end the two platoon system, restricting player reentry after certain periods. Southern California coaches comment on the new rules.
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National Collegiate Athletic Assn
Southern California
Assembly OKs Release Of Tideland Oil Funds
The State Assembly ratified a voter-adopted amendment to create a citywide public improvement fund by transferring 50 percent of tideland oil accounts. The fund, totaling over 117 million dollars at year end 1952, will finance improvements only with voter approval. First election under the provision set for April 2. The release also reserves unreleased oil revenue from the Richfield contract for tideland projects pending voter approval.
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Tideland
State Assembly
U. Ter
Senate
Willis W. Bradley
Palm Beach Park
Dad Teaches Tots to Cash Bogus Checks
In Omaha, Melvin Eckley 31 confessed he trained his 13-year-old son and eight-year-old daughter to cash forged checks four to five times. He says a TV program inspired it and that he passed 20 or more bad checks himself to pay for food and rent. Detectives note his use of rubber stamps and a typewriter. he has a prior prison record.
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Omaha, Neb
Icp
Melvin Eckley
Eckley
Richard
Omaha
Duke of Edinburgh to be promoted admiral of the fleet
London dispatch reports the Duke of Edinburgh husband of Queen Elizabeth II is slated for promotion to the highest Royal Navy rank, admiral of the fleet, in ceremonies planned in London today.
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London
Duke of Edinburgh
Elizabeth Hii
Royal Navy
Tax Time In A Tax Rich Country
L A C argues that tax time is every day and every second in the year as taxes accumulate on purchases and payroll deductions. The piece notes workers receive statements of taxes withheld and hints at a broader, continuous tax burden beyond a single deadline.
Overturned light plane at Municipal Airport after gust
A Piper Tripacer, owned by the Airovers Club and piloted by J. C. Lavelle of Monterey Park, flipped onto its back at Municipal Airport late Wednesday afternoon as a gust lifted it from the apron. Lavelle crawled clear unhurt. The aircraft sustained propeller, left wing, nose cowl and rudder damage and was towed to the hangar for repair estimates.
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Municipal Airport
J. C. Lavelle
Monterey Park
Airovers Club
Truman on TV and Radio Tonight
President Truman will hold the first news conference of his administration at 7 p.m. Pacific time and deliver a final radio and television report to the nation a few hours later. The half hour report will be broadcast over all radio and television networks at 7 30 p.m. Pacific time, climaxing two weeks of end of administration activity as he leaves office at noon on Tuesday.
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Washington
Wih
Truman
Transport Workers Union
America
TWU
Quill
PTC
New York City
Mercy mauls Maul in courthouse altercation details unclear
A court found on a Wednesday that Lewis G Mercy lived at a certain address and had an altercation with Richard Maul. Mercy removed Maul's glasses before striking him in the nose. Mercy faced a minimum fine for the incident.
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Lincoln
Sep
Lewis’ G. Mercy
Richard Maul
Mercy
Allies Pierce Ack Ack Rip Red Bridges
In Tokyo U N jet bombers and Sabres attacked Sinanju bridges for a seventh day to cut the Communist supply route in Northwest Korea. American fighters shot down at least one MIG 15 and damaged another as Superforts bombed targets near Wonsan. Eighth Army Chief Gen James A Van Fleet praised the 12th ROK Division for its January 12 victory and future potential.
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Tokyo
U.N
Sinanju
Korea
Wonsan
Republic of Korea
Eighth Army
James ‘A. van‘ Fleet
12Th Rok
Peace Vote Sought After Wildcat Philadelphia Strike
Local 234 members walked out after rejecting a three month bargaining package with Philadelphia Transportation Co. The union seeks a secret ballot on whether to continue the strike while TWU President Michael J. Quill denounces the action as illegal and calls for unity to end the walkout.
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Paul ‘W.o’rourke
Philadelphia Transportation Co
Clark
PTC
International Twu
Michael J. Quill
New York
Quill
Philadelphia
Weather Man Predicts 20 mph North Wind
The Weather Bureau forecast a north wind up to 20 miles per hour with scattered craft warnings from Point Conception to Newport Beach until 8 p m. The day would be warmer this afternoon and clear, with visibility enough to see a new fedora sailing over Mt. Saddleback as the forecaster quipped.
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Point Conception
Newport Eheach
Mt. Saddleback
Turbulent suspension and reinstate ment of Police Chief Murphy at Signal Hill
The Signal Hill Civic Improvement Association reports lingering tensions after Mayor Tomlin and two allied councilmen supported Chief Murphy’s suspension. The council’s action followed a smeared letter mailed to the mayor, later admitted as from Kenneth Schrank. Murphy was reinstated, Clarence Heler briefly served, and association members plan to speak at the next council meeting.
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Hill
Signal Hill
Civic Improvement .Assn
Lloyd ¢ Tomlin
Murphy
Police Department
Betty Ketchum
Association
Tomlin
Police
Kenneth Schrank
Schrank
Clarence Heler
Blizzard Grips Central States With Snow and Ice
Storms sweep from Utah to Minnesota with heavy snow and glare ice. Nebraska and Kansas brace for blizzards as highways turn deadly and utilities fail. One fatal crash in Indiana amid fog highlights perils as milder conditions linger elsewhere.
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Chicago
Utah
Minnesota
Kansas
Nebraska
Idaho
McCook and
Kearny
Weather Bureau
Iowa
Wisconsin
Idaho-Utah
Walker Dies After Car Hits Truck Near Green Hills Park
Raymond J. Walker, 44, of 1647 W 266th St, died on arrival at Hillside Emergency Hospital after his car struck a truck on Western Ave opposite Green Hills Memorial Park. A physician suggested a heart seizure may have caused the crash. Walker owned a cafe at 700 Paseo del Mar, San Pedro.
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Raymond J. ‘Walker
266Th St
Hillside Emergency Hospital
Western Ave
Green Hills Meemorial Park
Hospital
Walker
Paseo del Mar
San Pedro
Eisenhower in novelty presidential program draws no surprise
The inaugural booklet features 23 Eisenhower images and a Truman portrait without commentary. It includes Nixon with his children, a grandparenting scene for Eisenhower, and an inset of John Nixon missing Korea duty. Nixon is noted as the second youngest vice president at age 40, after John C Breckinridge in 1856.
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Eisenhower
Truman
Hower
Richard
Lincoln
Hoover
Familus
Nixon
John C. Breckinridge
Buchanan
Breckinridge
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Tidelands
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Larry McDowell
Marina Development Committee
R. G. Knowies
Dick Lownes
Cafornia Shoreline Planning Association
Frances Merchant
Long
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Bigchis
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Arthur Thompson
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