Charter amendments on June ballot eyed by city advisory group
The Redrafters and other city committees pressed for charter changes at the June 4 municipal election. Chair Marvin Tincher plans to present a bulky package of proposed revisions after two years of study, with a brief explanation. The advisory group backed several amendments, including gas department financing to allow up to $5 million in revenue bonds, and harbor lease terms extended up to 20 years, with remaining items awaiting city attorney drafting and a supplemental report for a future election.
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Marvin Tincher
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Harbor Department
Medicine through the ages A San Pedro book on old cures
Dr. Bowyer, head of the U S Public Health Service in Los Angeles, pores over a faded 19th century record book in San Pedro revealing how seamen were treated in 1858 to 1889. The entries show zinc oxide, chloroform, camphor, and a lack of antibiotics or modern diagnostics. The note reflects on the progress since those days and the limited remedies available then.
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Charles Bowyer
Pubic Health Service
Annahett
San Pedro
D. Patrick Aber
Dr. Bowyer
Atheme
Andy Dick
Finlind
Veetor
Andy
Ed Landsdale
L. Ross
Cortese
Bowyer
Hospital payola claim ties to forged signatures in conspiracy case
In a felony conspiracy trial involving four former associates of Lizby Knolls Community Hospital, a doctor testified about a signed authorization used to endorse checks and other documents. The form allegedly bore the doctor’s signature, though he claimed no permission was given for such signing. The case involves Dr Jerome Rehman owner of a closed hospital on Atlantic Avenue and three others charged with conspiring to defraud public health, with the trial opening last September.
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Lizby Knolls Community Hospital
Milon Emlein
Lee
Dixon
Maria
Lee Hed
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Emlein
Jerome Rehman
Pew
Atlantic Ave
Mayor Wade Hosts Vancouver Delegation on Tourism Visit
May 7 coverage notes Long Beach welcomed 22 visitors from British Columbia led by Mayor William Rathie and officials. Gifts included a carved thunderbird and a Kamloops gavel as Wade handed keys to the city, with tours of the shoreline and harbor before departure.
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United States
Guy Hall
British Columbia
Edwin W. Wade
California
Wade
Long Beach
William Rathie
Vancouver
Northwest
Cyril Day
Kamloops
Colombia
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Holty
First offshore platform at Huntington Beach begins work
An oil company launches drilling from an ocean platform 11 miles off Frontington Beach. It starts the first of 20 planned wells targeting Ron Feek destination. The $2.5 million platform has room for 12 additional wells and represents a first of its kind offshore Huntington Beach operation.
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Ounay Sanday
Signal OF & Gas Co
Oceanering
Frontington Beach
Sees
Long Beach State Hosts Cambodian Vocational Program Partners
Clipped from a long report, Long Beach State College hosts a U.S. aid mission program aiding Cambodian teachers and students. Peter Cody, acting deputy for the U.S. aid mission, met with LBSC president Dr. Cal W. McIntosh and industrial arts head C. Thomas Dean as Cambodian instructors pursue courses from drafting to electronics. The project aims at about 1600 students returning home, with tight unit loads and high success expectations.
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Lifeguards Plan Talks With City on Budget Meanwhile
The Long Beach Life Guards Union No. 292 outlines a request to meet with the council committee. Leader Hogan says meetings may occur more than once before the preliminary budget is drafted.
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Long Beach
Bell Gardens Shooting Ends in Chest Wounding
In Orange County Bell Gardens, a man was shot in the chest after a dispute over Cantody, a three year old, at the Kline home. Four men, riding a motorcycle and accompanied by a deer rifle, entered the scene and fired before fleeing out the back as the victim collapsed.
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Orange County
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Kline
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Mom and Daughter to Graduate in June at Two Schools
A San Pedro mother Elizabeth Boren, 45, and her daughter Nancy Ann, 57, learned Friday they will both receive high school diplomas in June. Elizabeth will graduate through the Adult Education School, while Nancy Ann completes studies at St Mary Star of the Sea School. Bra Sorrentino comments on reward: no more homework.
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Elizabeth Borenting
St. San Pedro
Nancy Ann
St Mary, Star of the Sea School
Plang
Nadeation Presenta
Sorrentino
Sailor Held After Hamburg Slaying Inquiry
Long Beach police arrested Marion L Hoffman of the USS Mispillion as he moved into an apartment with his wife and two children. Hoffman waived extradition to Hamburg Arkansas to face investigation into the stabbing death of service station operator Tommy Rogers, 20, whose body was found after a March incident. A red-haired youth was seen near the station. Hoffman denied knowledge of the crime.
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Long Beach
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Long’ Beach
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Santa Fe to close Buena Park station agency
The Santa Fe Railway plans to discontinue its Buena Park agency station after March 18 following a State Public Utilities meeting in Lord Sean. The railroad says the move will save about $8,900 annually, and Fullerton service remains available 24 hours daily via toll-free calls.
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Santa Fé Railway
Buens Park
Seani
Fullerton
PUC
Buena Park
Socks and Shootings Mark City Theft Case
A transient named Brown with a police record was sentenced to six months after shooting and stealing socks valued at a downtown department store. Municipal Judge J Merrill Lilley ordered the punishment, including the six month period, amid the chaotic back office theft and assault incident involving a Moor pistol and a disrupted communications line.
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J. Merrill Lilley Foxéay
Engineers plan Anchorage on Anaheim Bay side of Los Angeles
Public notice from the Army Corps of Engineers in Los Angeles outlines a proposed anchorage area on the east side of Anaheim Bay Harbor. It invites written objections by March 2 to 7351 South Verdugo Street, Los Angeles, detailing the scope and location of the project.
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Los Angeles
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Electric Cart Incident Hits Woman Near City Bus
A one year old transient was arrested January 7 on forgery charges. Marie Habeger reportedly fell when an electric cart struck the side of a city bus, witnesses said. A Long Beach bar was also mentioned in the fragmentary report.
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