Long Beach Family Service seeks funds to meet rising demand
The Family Service of Long Beach reports 1 163 area families sought help last year and fewer than half received aid. Executive director Hugh McIsaac calls for doubling the $65 000 counseling budget to $130 000 to begin meeting demand, noting United Way constraints and limited referrals. Programs with Jewish Family Service and others discuss a teen program, crisis services, and neighborhood center initiatives to aid poverty areas and teen communication.
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Long Beach
Family Service of
Hugh McIisaac
McIsaac
Family Service
United Way
Fund Limi
Bellflower
McIisaac
Jewish Family Service
Psychiatric Clinic For
North
Catholic Welfare
Richard Langevin
Catholic Welfare Bureau
Watts
Los Angeles
Boy Scouts
YMCA
Boypower 76 L B Scouts Meet in Chicago Plan
Four Long Beach Scout leaders will attend the Boy Scouts of America meeting in Chicago to join the Boypower 76 planning. Delegates Donald C. Wallace Jr William E. Baker Harold W. Arnold and Everett H. Miller Jr will report June 11 to set eight year goals for membership training activities and camping in Long Beach.
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Long Beach
Boy Scouts of America
Chicago
Donald C. Wallace Jr
William E. Baker
Harold W. Arnold
Everett H. Miller Jr
Boypower
Beach Combing and a Move After Ten Years
Malcolm Epley recalls moving from a decade in a fourth floor office to brighter quarters on the second floor. He describes sorting through mementos from travels to Idaho British Columbia overseas Texas and political conventions. He finds a discharged certificate a blue angel honor sheet and odd keepsakes from a life in journalism.
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I, PT
Idaho
British Columbia
Texas
Tossed items haunt a columnist’s housekeeping woes
A writer recalls sorting through years of notes and drafts from Gov George Wallace and earlier tidelands coverage. He reflects on discarded material saved for Beach Combing items, regrets lost usable pieces, and the endless search for needed but vanished files as he moves to a new office.
Model T Hill Climb At Signal Hill Draws Crowd
The 12th annual hill climb of the Long Beach Model T Club drew 10 000 spectators as 71 antique cars ran one tenth of a mile uphill. The fastest time was 9.41 seconds, with Orville Eyiheart’s 1909 model winning the Chamber of Commerce perpetual trophy for best restored oldtimer.
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Signal Hill
Long Beach
Orville Enyeart
Chamber of Commerce Perpetual
Bonnie Parker Colt 38 Displayed at Long Beach Gun Show
The .38 Colt automatic carried by Bonnie Parker will be shown June 12 at the Long Beach Gun Show in Municipal Auditorium. Frank Hamer took the weapon from her body after the 1934 ambush. it now belongs to William Luther of Inglewood, who will display it with Parker Barrow memorabilia and other firearms.
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Bonnie Parker
Louisiana
Clyde Barrow
Long Beach
Municipal Auditorium
Bonnie
Lifeles
Frank Hamer
Texas
Moll and
Barrow
Hamer
William Luther
Inglewood
Luther
Parker-Barrow
City Airport Runway Work Seeks $461 000 Funding
A $461 000 program to resurf ace Long Beach Airport runways will be proposed to the City Council. The plan calls for resurfacing the middle 150 feet of the 10 000 foot diagonal runway and the northerly east west and parts of the southerly east west runway with asphalt concrete up to about 3.5 inches thick, edges thinner, all in a sequence to minimize air traffic disruption. City share is about $239 000 with the federal government covering the rest. Plans were prepared by the city engineer and the director of aeronautics and approved by the FAA.
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Long Beach Airport
Ing
John R. Mansell
Mansell
Nick Dallas
Federal Aviation Administration
Immobile Corvette Ad Triggers Widespread Interest
An independent classified ad offering a Corvette for sale without engine and transmission spurred a flood of inquiries. Daryl Rosta of Lakewood reported two days of phone calls and urged readers to place I P T ads via local numbers in Bellflower Lakewood Garden Grove and other towns.
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Press- Telegram
Daryl Rosta
Hedda St
Lakewood
Bellflower
Garden Grove
City Contracts With Physicians
City Council approved contracts with two local physicians to provide services to the Health Department. H. Leon Jones, M.D., will be paid $10 per hour from Feb 1 to June 30, 1969. J. S. Ray, M.D., will receive $30 per consulting session of about three hours starting April 1 and continuing thereafter.
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Health Department
H. Leon Jones
J. S. Ray
Free Admission Evening Highlights Long Beach Talks
A reminder lists two admission free events in Long Beach. At 7:30 p m Gov Philip Hoff D Vermont speaks on Why We Need Kennedy in Lecture Hall 151 at California State College Long Beach. Also at 7 30 p m Joe Hicks presents Isometric Exercises and Jump Rope at City College Business and Technology Campus gymnasium 1305 E Pacific Coast Highway as part of Physical Fitness for Busy People.
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Long Beach Area
Kennedy
Philip Hoff
Vermont
California State College
Long Beach
Joe Hicks
City College Business and Technology
Pacific Coast Highway
Teen fisherman turns Peace Corps fate on Micronesia trip
Chuck Liddell, 20, son of Sunny Hills High and Oregon State student, recalls casting 50 messages in the Catalina Channel as a teen. Six years later letters from Eniwetok Philippines and Caroline Islands guided a June 15 Peace Corps assignment in the Micronesian Islands. He pursued the goal from high school through college, turning a Avalon harbor cleanup into a calling.
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Chuck Liddell
California State College
Fullerton
Catalina Channel
Micronesian Islands
Eniwetok
Philippines
Caroline Islands
Chuck
Peace Corps
Sunny Hills High School
Oregon State
One-Man Shop or 150 He'll Organize Either
Jack Cox of Teamsters Local 572 converts a sole worker at the American Marine Paint Co in Wilmington into a chartered unit. He built Local 572 into a large, diverse Local with more than 3,000 members across about 150 companies in the Long Beach area.
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Jack Cox
West Boulevard
Wilmington
American Marine Paint Co
Teamsters Union Local 572
Long Beach
Teamster
Cox
Continental Baking Co
Long B
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