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Newspaper
Independent Long Beach
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1951
Page
17
A baby pageant at the low-Sepulveda playground ISOS features prizes for dimples freckles hair and teeth. Events include a creeper race best decorated bags and a king and queen coronation with awards for deepest dimples longest eyelashes and most identical features.
The St Warks awarded a $1,303,398 contract for Ramona freeway work in Alhambra. Griffith will build three bridges and pave 649 miles of the freeway between Hollman Avenue and 8th Street.
A Long Besch built ship and a Greek freighter collided off the Oregon coast. The Alan Seeger Liberty tanker Quilt and the Audrey confront damage with fouled anchors and port-side injuries. Coast Guard cutters and tugs move through fog. no crew casualties reported. Seeger sailed from Wilmington June 18 with oil products, jettisoned cargo to fight lighter, and heads for the Columbia River while Audrey heads to Coos Bay.
A jury of seven women and five men was chosen in Los Angeles to retry retired sheriff's captain Al Guasti 56 on perjury charges. He allegedly testified he did not write a 1946 letter protesting a police raid on a liquor operation in County territory. The first trial ended without a verdict in Superior Judge Clement D. Nye's court.
Police respond to vandalism at 2871 Baltic Ave where white paint drenched floors of a vacant home and a fence section was chopped. Owner Aproniano E. der reported the incident to authorities.
Cuyahoga Falls reports James Guje given six more months to decide whether to live as a lord or an American. The 465 estate valued at 270,000 pounds requires permanent British residence and a renunciation of U.S. citizenship, per his cousin’s will. He prefers staying in his Cape Cod home with his wife and two children, seeking to void the residency clause while weighing a plan to take Caxton Manor in Cambridge shire and keep family heritage intact. If he declines, brother Kenneth in Detroit would be next, with the estate eventually going to a distant English relative.
Paul De La Croix a 42 year old street corner preacher arrested last Tuesday in a defamatory matter to mention Truman was on a break in the Los Angeles County jail today He began the strike yesterday morning and has had nothing to eat or drink since then.
W F Wilson, 38, of 151 Falsan Sr Los Ane, was shocked on a 25 foot scaffold at 3963 Clark Lakewood by a 4400 volt line when a crane bucket touched Edison Car line. Deputy J I Welever reported coworkers caught him and applied first aid. hospital later said his condition was pond. The bucket was replaced to prevent a repeat incident.
City announces stenographic vacancies for men with pay ranging from 236 to 828 percent per month. Applicants must be 21 to 50, have a high school equivalent, a valid driver's license, 50 wpm typing, and 90 wpm dictation. Filing deadline is July 31. information and forms available in room 332, Municipal Utilities Building.
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