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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Mar 31, 1958
Page
11
Long Beach Day Nurseries executive Mrs Nell Loder enjoys high spirits as teen-age boys and a busload of high school girls provide humorous observations on life in 1958. The column blends light anecdotes, celebrity name checks, and small town quirks from the era.
The National Guard Bureau leaders, including Maj. Gen. Edgar C. Ericksen and Maj. Gen. W. P. Wilson, inspected training facilities in Long Beach for the 720th Antiaircraft Missile Battalion. In a separate inquiry, Lt. Col. Tulian A. Phillipson. Maj. Gen. Percy Fincher. and others investigated a bomb incident at 275 Granada Ave. No injuries were reported after an explosion shattered a window and scattered tin can fragments suspected to be explosive residue.
A Chamber of Commerce survey shows retail sales up 23.3 percent since 1954 in Long Beach. Preliminary 1957 retail trade total reached 584,010,000, with payroll income at 606,376,000 excluding military pay. Active military payroll 115,760,000. labor force 123,410. unemployed 14,925. Banking deposits reached 387,310,25. Distribution of payroll by sector shows manufacturing 214,731,000 and services 117,299,000 among others.
The Long Beach City College drive greatly exceeded prior totals, raising 2,060 in funding and collecting 28,000 volumes for Books for Asia. Air passenger numbers also jumped, with 136,334 travelers last year and 79,901 the year before. Crowned charity drive king and queen were Dan Swanson and Gayle Roesch at the Lakewood campus dance. Eleven entrants competed. proceeds support the ASB scholarship fund, Red Cross, March of Dimes, City of Hope, and Community Chest. Blood donations reached 189 pints to bolster the campaign.
The 85th Nike missile battalion officers and guards, guests of the Chamber of Commerce, visited Lafayette Hotel after a station inspection of progress in converting from antiaircraft guns to missiles. Fifteen Nike sites in the Long Beach Los Angeles area will open to public inspection Tuesday from 1 to 4 pm for the 7th anniversary of the 47th AAA Brigade reactivation.
One Power Divers Sink diving club plans to salvage a four passenger amphibious plane abandoned after capsizing off Catalina Island. The craft, found in 35 feet of water near Alamitos Bay Long Beach, has two hull breaches and will be salvaged near the original wreck site.
A business meeting of the Mayfair Community Reformed Church Ladies Aid Society will be held at the church at 7330 pm on April 16.
Long Beach State College senior John van Berneveld, among 100 applicants, funds a trip to New York City for Inside Advertising Week by selling rosebushes loaned by his father’s Ontario nursery. The fundraiser, titled Dollars That Grow, offers four rose varieties in exchange for donations, with a report on the conference.
A knife wielding bandit held a 68 year old market owner at bay while his partner rifled the cash register at 30 dollars Sunday night. Paul R. Pierce told officers the two men, both in their 20s, entered his market at 755 Magnolia Ave about 9 p.m. and asked for a bottle of cold beer. When Pierce went to the refrigerator, one of the men drew a knife with a 10 inch blade.
Nathaniel Ray Jr. 18 of 1320 Cruces St Wilmington admitted stealing whisky beer and cigarettes from a liquor store at 1511 E Pacific Coast Hwy Wilmington on January 27. Superior Judge Ralph K Pierson sentenced him to spend weekends in county jail plus other conditions.
Four men refueled a getaway car at Narbonne Ave and 245th St stealing a taxi driver’s billfold with 320 dollars after grabbing a can of gasoline. Eugene Gather of Torrance identified three suspects boarding the cab with a full gasoline can before the group fled. The fourth man waited at Narbonne and Palo Verdes Drive as the others refilled the tank and fled.
A 9 year old boy frightened away a bearded gunman who had robbed Long Beach market owner Byron R. Dunham of 35 dollars at 629 East 35th Street Sunday about 3 pm. The boy yelled Run and the robber fled toward a waiting car, leaving the scene.
Harris Miller and two companions Ron Wilmot and Buddy Talpin, all college students, departed Wilmington Harbor aboard the 32 foot yawl B Be Lou for a 20,000 mile pleasure cruise to Central America and the South Pacific. They plan to visit Easter Island Galapagos Pitcairn Islands and may barter with locals for supplies. The crew stocks about 2500 dollars and outfitted the boat with a 5 hp engine and a 1300 mile radio range. They aim to pass through the Panama Canal into the Caribbean then return via the Pacific with a stop at Waikiki.
A 76 year old man died at Seasure Hospital Sunday morning from injuries after apparently blacking out and falling while at work on March 21. Algernon Beecher of 206B Mira Mar Ave Los Angeles was pronounced dead at 6 15 am. The body was taken to Utter McKinley funeral home in Los Angeles.
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