Four New L B Antipoverty Pacts Signed
Contracts totaling 730 278 were signed Monday for four antipoverty programs in Long Beach. CEO Carl P Wallace said the funds expand opportunities for the poor to live in decency and dignity. Programs include Community Service Center, Hands-Help, North Long Beach Training, and Youth Development. A fifth contract for Neighborhood Legal Services is yet to be signed.
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Long Beach
Community Service Center
Community Improvement League
Community Welfare Council
Westside
North Long Beach
Carmelitos
Legal Aid Society
Carl P. Wallace
Bids Sought for Artesia-Riverside Freeway Project
Sacramento announces bids for 1.5 miles of Artesia Riverside Freeway from Beach Boulevard Buena Park to near Santa Ana Freeway Fullerton. Bids open May 9 in Los Angeles with 5.4 million dollars available. The project will connect Pacific Coast Freeway Hermosa Beach to Route 60 Riverside, spanning multiple coastal and inland communities.
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Sacramento
State Division of Highways
Artesia-Riverside
Beach Boulevard
Buena Park
Santa Ana
Fullerton
Jnd
Los Angeles
Hermosa Beach
Riverside
Manhattan Beach
Redondo Beach
Lawndale Torrance
Gardena
Compton
Long Beach
Bellflower
Cerritos
Amesia
Los Angeles County
Anaheim
Orange County
Readers react to war letters and campus parking chaos
A college town letter column recalls Frank J. Mansuy Jr. in Vietnam and reader mail praising the war effort, while local parking woes at Long Beach State hinder housing offers for students. Ogden Nash pun referenced as reader clarifies a line about rip-rap and seagulls.
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Vietnam
Frank J. Mansuy Jr
Mansy
Qure
Ogden Nash
Cerritos Channel
Floyd Hollenbeck
Nash
Douglas Reduces Workforce by 700 at 3 Plants
McDonnell Douglas Aircraft Division trims staff from a peak of over 55,000 to 54,300 as January and February layoffs hit Long Beach Torrance and Palmdale plants. About 400 cuts occurred at Long Beach while the firm hired 700 skilled machinists elsewhere. Total layoffs exceed 1,400. Company expects gradual continued decline as DC-9 and DC-10 programs near max. Displaced workers to be reassigned within the company. A $50,000 Labor Department grant funds retraining for 150 Long Beach workers as plastic fabricators.
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McDonnell Douglas Aircraft Division
U.S. Labor Department
McDonnell Douglas
Long Beach
Hospital Computes Long Distance
Memorial Hospital of Long Beach demonstrated a Salt Lake City medical computer in Long Beach. The 8K mile distant system answered pulmonary function, heart action, and arterial pressure questions within seconds during a board briefing and staff demonstration.
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Ben Zinser
Memorial Hospital of
Long Beach
Salt Lake City
Memorial's
Board of Trustees
Latterday Saints Hospital
Memorial
Salt Lake
Control Data Corp
Allen Pryor
Reed Gardner
Homer Warmer
Latter-day Saints Hospital
Stanton City Hall Hears Police Harassment Complaints
Mayor Johnston Craig met with a group of Mexican Americans behind closed doors to hear complaints about police harassment after a resident accused officers of entering her home without a warrant and threatening her son amid tensions following the shooting death of 19 year old Paul Meza Aguilera by a reserve officer named David Naranja.
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Stanton
Johnston Craig
Mary Naranja
Court St
Naranja
Paul Meza Aguilera
David Naranja
Sylvan St
Aguilera
Quality of Water Hearing for Long Beach Area Set
The Los Angeles Regional Water Quality Control Board will hold a hearing on April 10 at 1 pm in the State Building to discuss revising shoreline water quality standards for areas including San Gabriel River Tidal Prism Alamitos Bay Pacific Ocean near the city Los Angeles River Tidal Prism and Long Beach Inner Harbor. Written statements are invited before April 2 and oral testimony will be taken at the hearing.
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Los Angeles
Central Board
Long Beach
Raymond V. Hertel
San Gabriel River
Alamitos Bay
Pacific Ocean
Los Angeles River
Long Beach Inner Harbor
Hertel
District Attorney backs hard crime line for election wins
In Long Beach DA Evelie d Younger urged a tough stance on crime as key to reelection. He praised crime-fighting progress, warned youth crime, and touted new public service roles for young people in law enforcement amid calls for updated investigative methods. He cited high school anti drug talks and Elks support.
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Los Angeles
Evelie d. Younger
Long Beach
Younger
PEI
Ting
William Dale Archerd
Annie
Elks
The
Malcolm Epley
Church Arsonist on Trial in Long Beach Case
Paul Earl DeMik admitted setting fires to three churches in 1964 and a fourth fire was confessed, with Long Beach police Lt. Ray Henry testifying. The unjuryless trial before Judge John Donnellan includes claims the arsonist entered unlocked churches and had been trained in Indiana State Prison. Capt. Stanley DuRec of the Long Beach Fire Department testified all fires appeared deliberately set.
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Paul Earl
DeMik
Long Beach
Ray Henry
DeMix
Jack Kronenberg
Superior Court
John Donnellan
Henry
Indiana
Church of Christ of Latter-day Saints
Elm Ave
North Long Beach Methodist Church
Linden Ave
Grace Methodist Church
E. Third St
Trammell
Stanley DuRec
Fire Prevention Bureau
Long Beach Fire Department
DuRec
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Lakewood
Paramount
San Pedro
Huntington Beach
Lynwood
San Jose
Mothers of Servicemen of
Norwalk
Frank
U.S
Richard C. Steiner
Ross Mason
Stoner
Mason
Mile-a-thon International
Community Hospital
Richard Steiner
James Stainer
Ross Martin
Long Beach State
Jean Manns
Douglas
Torrance
Palmdale
Craig
Sessin
Ruth Griffith
Avalon
Fred Austin
Aero Commuters
Catalina Airlines
Long Beach Municipal
Sih
Phos
Keht Menderson
State Building
First St
John R. Mansell
By Walt Murray
Evelle
Kronenberg
DeMile
Paul Earl, DE Mik
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