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Newspaper

Independent

Location

Long Beach, California, United States of America

Date

May 17, 1958

Page

14

Low Bid on Lights for Broadway Street Upgrade

A $25,483 bid by C F Sey mour of Long Beach was the lowest among six bids for modernizing the street lighting from Cedar to Alamitos Avenues. Second lowest was $26,405 by Easter Electric Co for materials and Sehyrr & Finlay for labor. The city estimated $24,600 and planned replacement of old light standards with metal poles and high intensity mercury vapor lamps.

C. FE. Seymour Long Beach Sam EB. Vickers Broadway Cedar Alamitos Aves Easter Electric Co Sehyrr & Finlay Yorba Linda

The Clouds dining and flight deck lounge opens at Long Beach Airport

A new 20 seat restaurant named The Clouds opens on the second floor of the Long Beach Airport Administration Building with three tiers and a 16 by 60 foot semi circular window. Will and Jessie Mac, longtime airport coffee shop operators, will run the facility under city lease. The adjacent Cloud Nine cocktail lounge will house an organ bar later. The Aero Coffee Shop seats about 20 and shares a kitchen with the restaurant and lounge. In good weather, doors from the window provide door flight checks for diners. Each deck seats five to six tables.

Long Beach Will Jessie Mac Aero Coffer Oldoor Flight

Barbs by Hal Cochran on exercise and thinness

The entertainer Hal Cochran quips that exercise proves the path to thinness is near. He adds that some people talk about weight loss more than they act, implying a humorously contradictory mindset.

Hal Cochran

Biddle elected president of Army association

General Anthony J. Drexel Biddle, adjutant general of the Pennsylvania National Guard, was elected president of the Association of the U S Army in a mail ballot, the organization said Friday.

Biddle Washington jGen Anthony J. Drexel The Association of the U.S. Army Pennsylvania National Guard

Sell the surplus through classified ads

Local classifieds invite readers to sell surplus items including land, divestock, and machinery. Advertisers are urged to place ads by dialing HE 2-5959, offering a concise channel to move unused goods.

Ike Appoints John J. Reed as Foreign Service Officer

John J. Reed, a 1953 Wilson High graduate and USC cum laude scholar, is among 25 young men named by President Eisenhower to join the Foreign Service as career officers. Reed belongs to Phi Beta Kappa and Delta Phi Epsilon.

John J. Reed E. and Wilson Eisenhower Foreign Service USC Reed Phi Beta Kappa Delta Phi Epsilon Foreign Servi Fraternity

Hollywood Actor Pryor Recovers From Virus Absence

CBS Playhouse 90 actor Ainslie Pryor is reported recovering from a virus infection that sidelined him from the Thursday night production Nightmare at Ground Zero. Pryor withdrew from rehearsals a week ago and was replaced by Herbert Anderson.

Ifness Hollywoop Ainslie Pryor CBS Pryor Herbert Anderson

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A damaged OCR crossword page fragment lists scattered clues and partial entries across many topics including sports players, artificial language, and geographic hints. It presents incomplete answers like 62 Sedate, 4 Attorney, 1 Artificial language, and 63 Prefix, with mixed punctuation and capitalization.

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