Giant Catalina Island blast reshapes cliff into sea bridge
A massive detonation on Catalina Island shattered a rhyolite cliff, sending rock and dust high into the Pacific. About 373 tons of dynamite and ammonium nitrate blasted through 150 feet of galleries, with crews and observers narrowly avoiding injury as a seismic-quiet cloud and a boiling sea followed the shock.
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Catalina Island Rock
Pacific
Long Beach
Pier 1
Long Beach Harbor
Terminal Island
Los Angeles Harbor
California
Jim, Strachan
Califfornia
Corona
Pierre Adidze
Art Phot
Bob
Catalina
Wreckage Found of Plane Carrying 3 to Death
Long Beach area men Jim Lantz 20 L. Dean Book 43 and Albert F. Schlenz 46 died when their light plane vanished last week. Wreckage located in the Palomar Mountains near the San Diego Riverside border after a multi county search. Bodies found beside the plane in a bushy ravine at about 4100 feet. The search involved private pilot Jim Hanson and others with county and sheriff helicopter assist.
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San J Diego
Riverside
Jim Lantz
Gossamer St
L. Dean
Gossamer Ist
Albert F. Schlenz
Pixie St
Lakewood
Lantz
Las Vegas
Jim Hanson
Cedar Ave
Lagtime
Charles Hareson
Long Beach
Civil Air Patrol
CAP Air Search
Gene Williams
Garden Grove
Hanson
Palomar Mountains
The
Independent
Punty
Schlenz
Loeag Beach
Oceanside
Anza
Ring Bet Slaying Charged at Wilming ton Texaco Refinery
Sherman Big Pace 72 of Los Angeles waived extradition after arrest near Gallup NM on suspicion of murder in a slaying at the Wilmington Texaco refinery over a $45 gambling debt. Robert Johnson 24 of Compton died from ballistic wounds after an argument over a boxing match bet. Pace, in custody, declined to comment.
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Wilmington
Texaco
Gallup
Sherman Big Pace
Los Angeles
New Mexico
Harbor Division
Robert Johnson
Alondra Bird
Compton
Johnson
Long Beach Memorial Hospital
Pace
D. Fi Moliica
On Stage Tonight in Long Beach Theaters
Dream of Spring and Irma La Douce headline five plays on stage tonight at Community Playhouse Off-Broadway Theatre and Repertory Theatre, with Taming of the Shrew and HMS Pinafore for children at Long Beach City College.
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Dream of Spring
Community Playhouse
Anaheim St
Irma la Douce
Lime Ave
Ater
Morgan ‘Hall
Locust Ave
Magnolia Theater
Magnolia Ave
Long Beach City College
High Court Orders Pending New Litigation Over Club Remedies
Long Beach's Standard Club faced a string of court orders after the High Court allowed an alternative writ for mandate. Police were restrained from arrests pending hearings, while city officials consider reopening the club at 4365 Atlantic Ave under ongoing litigation about a gambling game, panguingue. A separate stay halted revocation of the club's social club permit, with a hearing set for Wednesday to justify actions.
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George Weeks
Long Beach
Standard Club
State Supreme Court
High Court
Geller
Jetne
Willige A. Mooney
Leonard Putnam
Atlantic Ave
Putnam
Mooney
Burton Marks
Alfred Gitelson
Los
Anigeles
Social
Gitelson
Marks
Bf ‘Rand
Supreme TC
Putnam Andhis
Stu Usder
Beach Vasey
Vice Trial Dismissal Plea Slated
A motion to dismiss bookmaking and living off profits charges against Orange Coast College student Henry Brune Stegmann 26 will be argued in Orange County Superior Court. Stegmann is charged with nine counts of bookmaking and one count of living off profits from prostitution. An alleged accomplice Marine Sgt John L Otter 23 was indicted on the procuring charge and set for arraignment next Thursday before Judge Gardner.
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Orange Coast College
Henry Brune Stegmann
Orange ‘County Superior Court
Apnt
Superior Court
Robert Gardner
Santa Ana
Stegmann
George Chula
Tulip, Lane
Costa Mesa
Victoria St. Costa Rosa
John L. Otter
Gardner
School Needs Report Coming
The Paramount Unified School District will present a needs report to the Board of Education on Wednesday at 7:30 p m. The report, prepared by the Citizens Advisory Committee led by Henry Galindo, summarizes financial conditions and includes 204 recommendations for improvements based on surveys and site visits.
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Paramount Unified School
Board of Education
Poo
Citizens Advisory Committee
Henry Galindo
Galindo
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McCandlish
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Doug Dare
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George Robeson
LWV
League of Women Voters service + committee
Evelyn Davis
Richard Fairchild
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