Wardle Out and the Concours Elegance: bees pigeons and cars
By Harry Fulton. A lively column discusses the California State Beekeepers Association convention in Long Beach, pigeons pests solved by mothballs, and Frank Mason’s view of Concours Elegance car shows. It notes Mason’s MG and his 94,000 mile journey, plus a teaser on a gasoline powered car dash refrigeration unit in Product Engineering magazine.
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FIERE
Purchasing Week Magazine
Rockingham Race Track
Frank Mason
Gardenia Ave
Frank
Tne
Product Engineering Magazine
Traffic Safety Meet for Teeners Stated
Two hundred fifty Los Angeles and Orange County high school students are expected to attend the third annual teenage traffic safety conference Thursday at Municipal Auditorium. Ian Ssonsors of the ented are the Long Beach Safety Council Unified School District and Folica Department. The program starts at 9 a.m. with speeches exhibits and workshops. Delegates will draft a teenagers driving code and discuss student safety councils reducing teenage auto insurance rates and accident prevention. A police radar car will be demonstrated. Chairman Dr W Boring of Long Beach State College N J L McLaughlin. Safety Council chairman Mike DeMuth president of the Associated Car Clubs of Long Beach. and Police Officer Russ Goodwill participate.
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Orange County
Municipal Auditorium
Ian
Ented
Long Beach Safety Council
Unified School District
Folica Department
TRE
Dr. W., Boring
Long Beach State College
N. JL
McLaughlin
Mike DeMuth
Associated Car Clubs of
Long Beach
Russ Goodwill
Long Beach Band Concert and Japanese Festival in City Halls
The Long Beach Municipal Band performs from 2 to 3 30 pm at Concert Hall Municipal Auditorium. A motion picture Arts of Japan and a related art display run at Bret Harte Branch Library 1595 W Willow St starting 7 30 pm.
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Long Beach
Arts of
Japan
Bret Harte
Wibrary
Willow St
One-Man Car Operation Opposed by Long Beach Officers
Long Beach police officers oppose extending one man car operation to night duty. In a letter led by Sgt Donald W. Wienss, president, the Police Officers Association cites safety risks, reduced witness value, and potential injuries as reasons to withhold the plan. City manager Sam Vickers plans a budget time discussion and report.
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Long Beach
Donald W. ‘Wienss
Sam Vickers
Wienss
Ibe
William H. Davey
Gey, The Van Camp Sea Food Co. Moves to Pier A Site
The Van Camp Sea Food Co. plans to relocate most of its $12,500,000 yearly payroll to Long Beach, moving into a new $500,000 building on Pier A late this year. The shift is expected to boost local business, aiding promotion and advertising efforts.
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van Camp Sea Food Co
Long Beach
Pier A
Mixed-up Pooch Surprises Long Beach Readers
Susie the Golden Cocker Spaniel in Long Beach has adopted two stray kittens and lactated after a false pregnancy. Owner Glenn Reeves reports the dog attacked feeding the kittens at first, then hid them in a box. Six kittens were mentioned, with four reportedly smothered by the dog. a veterinarian explains false pregnancy can cause milk production.
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Susie
Reeves
North Long Beach
Council Acts to Bulwark Linkage Administration Protests Delay int Project
City Council delayed action on a long range plan for the Colorado Lagoon area amid protests from two sources. Forty six residents filed a petition objecting to an access road between 4th and Vermont Streets and Ezines and Monrovia Aves. Attorney Harold C. Drerks said property owners along Haines Ave oppose a road behind their homes. Planning Director Wei mar Ruchti argued the road is needed for maintenance trucks to reach lagoon park. Councilman William T. Dares si protested filling a small lagoon branch to remove a water hazard at the 9 hole golf course, noting the Municipal Golf Commission favors a harder course with some challenge.
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Atttorney
Harold C. Drerks
Haines ‘Ave
Weimar Ruchti
Lagoon Park
William T. Daressi
Municipal Golf Commission
Commission
Mock H-Bomb Exercise Rips LB Area Refuge Point
In a Civil Defense run through Operation Alert 1958 a 10 000 kiloton mock bomb dropped east of LAX created havoc along the North Long Beach Artesia corridor and turned cities into evacuee refuges while 500 plants simulated attacks nationwide. Long Beach directed by Lt William S Stovall marshaled agencies as half a million workers activated in a two minute alert with evacuees directed to hospitals parks and Red Cross centers.
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Los Angeles International
North
Long Beach
Artesia
Los Angeles
United States
Norwalk
Metropolitan State
Stovalt
Red ‘Cross
Parking Facilities Demanded by Long Beach Architects
Members of the Architects Association of Long Beach press for stricter auto parking rules at a Chamber of Commerce luncheon at the Lafayette Hotel. Waugh Smith, association president, warns that without ample parking future development will choke the economy. a resolution calls for one off street space per dwelling and at least one per two dwellings in downtown Long Beach.
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Architects Association of
Long Beach
Chamber of Commerce
Lafayette Hotel
Waugh Smith
Association
Smith
City Council Approves Subsidence Control Move
The City Council moved toward stronger subsidence control plans by unanimously asking the Board of Harbor Commissioners to establish a subsidence control division with a qualified administrator and adequate staff. They also urged City Atty Walhred Jacobson to opine on unifying handling of subsidence and oil matters via a semi autonomous commission or city department under the council manager. The chamber backed a coordinator role and an antisubsidence advisory committee to work with the council manager and coordinator.
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Board of Harbor Commissioners
Walhéred Jacobson
Corneil
Wee Eo
Jacobson
Tidel
Chamber At Commerce
Joan E. Riley
Chamber
Five-to-life for Bugs Bunny murder in Riverside
Donald Klaus, 22, was sentenced Tuesday to five to life for the murder of John Henry Sherman near the outskirts of Riverside. The case, dubbed the Bugs Bunny killing, followed a two-week police manhunt ending with Klaus’s capture in Kansas City.
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Chan Donald E. Klaus
Ody Caubteen Anand
Bugs Bunny
S of
Long
Sabe Beach City College
John Henry Sherman
Klaus
DeGolyer & Macy
Naughton
Russell Waite
Sherman
Sam E. Vickers
Riverside
E. Woodward
de Golyer
Mac
Kansas City
Pugs
Walkerton St
Sunny
Arthur Co. Sherman
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Operation Alert
Refuge Point
William S. Stovall
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