Mother's Day Prank and Local Notes in Long Beach
A Long Beach column recalls a Mother's Day gift joke at a North Side restaurant about taking home leftovers for a dog. It notes historic downtown loan fears due to subsidence, now easing with a new loan program and a tongue in cheek statue idea. Also updates on Timber the duck, street vendors, reader quips, and local oddities from RIFTWOOD and readers, including Iris, Myron Murphy, and Ter addr A646.
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Riftwood
Spade Cooley
Tee Dee Dee
Iris
Tris
Long Beach Board weighs budget amid protest over teacher resignation
The Long Beach Board of Education accepted a tentative 1961 62 budget totaling 38 872 234 and heard about 50 mothers protesting a kindergarten teacher Patricia Morling being denied tenure. The board cited legal and moral reasons but would not disclose confidential evaluation details.
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Long Beach
World Trade Week speaker links chefs to Long Beach growth
At Wessels Clubhouse in Los Alamitos, the Independent Press Telegram honored “Chefs of the Week” as part of World Trade Week kickoff. Robert D. Kleist, Pacific Far East Lines VP, urged expansion of world trade to sustain jobs and freedom, opposing protectionist views amid economic recession claims.
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Robert D. Kleist
Mildred K. Flanary
Independent
Press-Telegram
Charles T. Vickers
Long Beach
Iaj
Wessels
Los Alamitos
Independent, Press~Telegram
Kleist
Pacific Far Fast Lines
World Trade Week
Los Angeles
Russia
Bayonet Threats Reported in Trial of Uncouths Members
Victim testifies that two Uncouth motorcycle gang members allegedly threatened to kill or cut her throat during a pair of mass sexual assaults. Defendants include Jerry Burke, Roger Van Hook, James Hewitson, Quannia Baker, and Roger May, with further testimony from Sally Fallin who linked Van Hook to a visit seeking victims. The ongoing Superior Court trial is presided by Judge Fred Miller.
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Roger
Daddy Cool) van Hook
Jerry
Spider) Burke
Daddy Cool
Don Brackman
Leah Bullard
Atty
David Feldman
C of C backs limit on county spending
The chamber backs a bill capping county spending at 2 million without a public vote through contracts or leases with nonprofits. It covers convention halls to opera houses and centers with related facilities. Hearings set in Sacramento May 23. fund appeal planned May 23 for cerebral palsy group. Southeastern Los Angeles County gains $23,500.
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City Couner
Boards of Supervisors
Chamber
Limited Cerebral Palsy Association
Los Angeles County
Witness recounts bayonet threat in Navy court case
A Navy wife from South Carolina testified she was forced into a perverted act by Baker on February 2, holding a bayonet at her throat for about five minutes. The weapon, a British make with a 10 inch blade, was shown in court last week and she later said she saw the bayonet removed from its case and estimated watching it 20 to 30 minutes in total.
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NAVY
Burke
Jess
U.S
U. S
PT Hove Economics
Mildred Kyllanary
Iself
Remic Dan Riees
Jo Ann Cass
Lawrence Welk
South Sun Pranciica
Baker
South Carolina
Plumber Charged With Fraud Theft in Lav Vegas
A 37 year old plumber Marvin Wayne Wand of 131 FE Annheim St was charged with fraud and theft in a complaint issued Monday by the district attorney. Wand was arrested in Las Vegas following alleged misappropriation of funds from a secretary of RL.
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District Attorney's Office
Marvin Wayne Wand
Annheim
Port Board Declines Vet Group Ad Bid At Convention
Harbor commissioners denied aiding the American Legion California Department by buying back-page program space and granting gratuities for the 43rd annual convention at Municipal Auditorium June 29 to July 2. They approved a full-page color ad with Southern California Legion officials, while public relations chief Robert Metzgar noted the shift. Legion leaders had sought $6,000 toward the program. The port proposed paying half of a $12,000 national magazine ad, with the rest covered by the City Council.
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Lou Jobst
The
American Legion
Caliifornia
Legion
Robert Metzgar
Department of California
Municipal Auditorium
Bonzer
C. L. Vickers
Commission
National
Annexation meeting on Long Beach cover for El Dorado area
Fact Meet Slated on Annexing El Dorado. Annexation Committee calls 8 p.m. meeting at Milbourne School to present true facts about annexation to Long Beach. 15,000 residents in unincorporated area including Hawaiian Gardens decide on joining Long Beach. Loren McCannon will attend to answer questions.
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el Dorado Annexation Committee
Milbourne School
214Th Street
Claretta Avenue
Long Beach
Jacob Horn
Arline St
Hawaiian Gardens
del Amo Boulevard
San Gabriel River
Orange County
Wardlow Road
Loren McCannon
Low Beach
Long Beach Event Listings Include Music Recital and Society Bus
In Long Beach, the American Cancer Society information bus will be on Fourth Street and Pine Avenue. A chamber music recital by Musafia and students from Long Beach Slave College will take place in Room 127 of the music building for $30.
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Long Beach
American Cancer Society
Fourth Street
Pine Avenue
Dulien Musafia
Air Force Severs Lease Colse to Municipal Airport
The city will regain most Air Force land at Municipal Airport a year early after the federal government canceled its renewal notice for 68 acres. City Manager Mansell said the lease ending June 30 1962 will be abandoned and most land returned by next month for city development.
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John R. Mansell
Mansell
Corps of Engineers
Air Force
Spring Street
Aeronnautics
Thomas A. Raffery i
Attackers of Woman Sentenced in Riverside Case
A Marine Corps enlisted man was sentenced to prison for driving an auto while his companion raped a 20 year old housewife. Richard Lee Dawson, 18, of Santa Monica, received three years probation on a forcible rape charge. Dennis W. Simmons, 19, of Wharton, Ind., a Marine, was sent to Atascadero State Hospital for 90 days for observation as a sexually mentally abnormal offender after confessing to dragging the victim from a North Tan Beach laundromat and forcing her into a car in April.
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Marine Corps
Ciny
County Ja
Richard Lee Dawson
Sannta Monica
Maurice C. Sparling
Sparling
Dennis W. Simmons
Chesterton
Ind
Atascadero State Hospital
Simmons
North Tan Beach
Reefer Possessor Jailed on Weekends
Gary Kenneth Garlinghouse of 1770 Gavieta Ave was jailed on weekends after a Superior Court judge fined him $200 for narcotics possession and for bookmaking. Charlie Hiram Cole of 1654 Lakme Ave Wilming admitted in court to taking horse race bets by phone from a residence at 955 W. 18th St. Sam Pedro. The three-year probation was part of the sentence.
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Gary Kenneth Garlinghouse
Gavieta Ave
Charlie Hiram Cole
Maurice C. Sparling
Lakme Ave
Wilming
Arlon
Maurice C
Cole
18Th St
Sam Pedro
Garlinghouse Arrested After Marijuana Cigarettes Found
Garlinghouse was arrested on March 24 after police observed him drop six marijuana cigarettes outside his home.
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Garlinghouse
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Easy Ave
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