Visitation Day and a snake show spark Long Beach classroom
Visitation Day unfolds in a Long Beach kindergarten as moms tour a neat school while youngsters perform a greeting spelled YELLO. The piece also recalls Tex Schuepbuch the famed snake handler and Snakey Joe Houtenbrink, linking a local trial of 1920s notoriety to his reptile acts. Clyde Newton leads the junior church at the Guillem Navy family chapel seeking a volunteer pianist to aid the children’s hymn singing.
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Din Tifa
Anuke
Taleo
Houten Rink
Exalin
Clyde Newton
Ginit
Guillem Navy Amily
Wyam St
Long Beach
Soc
Virginia
Mra
Newton
Cola
Solons to Arrive for Linkage Tour at Los Alamitos
Members of the Ose Armed Services Committee will visit Los Alamitos Naval Air Station at 4 p.m. Thursday for a briefing before an inspection of subsidence at Long Beach Naval Shipyard. Rep. Clyde Doyle notified Mayor Ver million about the trip. exact crew size is undetermined. City officials plan tours Friday and Saturday. visitors return Sunday. The purpose is to gather information on a proposed 4 660 000 appropriation for remedial work at the shipyard.
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Ose Armed Services
Los Alamitos Naval Air Station
Long Beach Naval Shipyard
George M
Clyde Doyle
Los Alamitos
Weil
Wallington
Doyle
Tounge Smith
YMCA
Alty
Leonard M. Friedman
Pleres Worka
William’ Alsup
O'Melveny & Myers
Ray
Hanson
Nimeno Ave
Assemblymantare
Frank G. Bonelli
Seaside Hospital
Gunman Robs Liquor Store Then Service Station
A fast gunman shot a customer at Waugh's Liquor and Deli, 1910 W Willow St, Long Beach, then calmly robbed a neighboring service station. Victim Victor Heston, 28, from Torrance, was taken to Seaside Hospital for a leg wound. The knife-edge sequence unfolded about 10 50 a m as the robber grabbed cash from the liquor store and then fled with small sums from the station and adjacent shops. Police pursuit followed. the suspect is described as a 5 4 inch man, 105 pounds, wearing a dark blue suit and a felt hat.
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Pete Han
Victor Heston
Minter Ave
Torrance
Seaside Hospital
Waugh'a
W. Willowst
Jim Waugh
Waugh
City of
Long Beach
A. Curtis Smith
Lo Angeles
Waugic
Atate
Tidel
Ress
al Miner
Willow St
Testan
Campranilke
Lands Commission, Co
Verne Fuller
Maynard
Duke Rex
Fuller
Mark
Knowland Guest of Open House at Native Sons Event
Joseph R. Knowland, longtime Native Sons leader and Oakland Tribune publisher, will be guest of honor at the annual Native Sons and Daughters garden party and open house on June 2 at La Casa de Rancho to Los Cerritos. Virginia Itt will lead flag raising with Gerald Desmond as emcee. program includes entertainment and refreshments.
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Native Sons and Daughters
Golden West
la Casa de Rancho
Los Crritos
Joseph R. Knowland
Long Beach
Native Sons and
Feteing Knowland
Grant
Native Sons
Oakland
Abug
Virginia
Itt
Boy Scoutn
Knowland
California
Gerald Desmond
City Delays Action Over Water Charge Proposal
City Council delays vote on a proposed 26 percent water rate increase awaiting study by Sam E. Vickers. The plan would add about 70 cents monthly for the typical consumer and takes effect only after council approval. The board of water commissioners approved it and it is tied to the 37th annual California Peace Officers conference budget discussions.
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Mar
Sam E. Vickers
Board of Water Commissioners
Parley Vickers
William II
Pers' Association of California
San Francisco
PUC orders water deal explanation and audit
The State Public Utilities Commission directs Lakewood Water and Power Co to explain the dispute over a proposed rate increase and to open its books for review with Mutual Pipeline and Construction Co. The hearing is set in Lakewood City with Rex Tiardy and Stewart C. Ware presiding.
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Commission
Tursday
Lakewood Water and Pawer Co
Alina
PUC
Blatt
Onder
Io Lee
T. Tiotlopeter
Hore
Rex Tiardy ’I
Stewart C. Ware
Lakeward City
Raunell Chambers
Faculty Ave
Mutual Ipeline and Construction Co
Te Water Company
Mutual Pipeline
Mutual
C. T. Coffey
Water
Tim
Lakeworx
Water and Power
Beckie
Lakewood City
Lakewood
Long Beach
Boxer with Long Court Sentence For Bookmaking Convictions
A convicted bookie Jack Toto Lomento aged 58 of San Pedro received three months in county jail on probation after a Los Angeles court noted his three prior bookmaking convictions. The former professional boxer was among six arrested in a January crackdown by police on bookies. Judge Vasey sentenced him on April 25.
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Jack Toto Lomento
N. Hanford
San Pedro
Beach Vaary
Lamento
Los Angeles
Als
Beacon St
Tewan
Judge
Vasey
Long Beach Safety Council Promotes Traffic Clock to Cut Fatalities
The Long Beach Safety Council urges action to reduce road deaths with a neon clock at Atlantic Ave and Ocean Blvd tracking deathless days and comparing 1956 1957 fatally. Dr Charles W H Fabish education chair notes other safety activities as 5000 vehicles checked at 14th St Pine Ave station and 4400 people tested at mobile station on 11th St Wing Ave.
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Long Beach Safety Council
Atlantic Ave
Ocean Blvd
Long Beach
National Safety Council
Long Urach
14Th St
Pine Ave
Ith St
Wing Ave
N.L. McLaughtin
Long Reach Safety Counseil
Long Reach
Labor Group Seeks City Staff Health and Other Benefits
The Southern California Council of Public Employees AFL CIO asks the city to provide medical and hospital benefits next year and requests fringe benefits for 4500 municipal workers. The proposal includes a 1.14 basis on pay, compensatory time, elimination of long sick leave, a one step premium pay for hazardous work, a $20 monthly late shift differential, and salary step changes with raises effective July 4.
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Southern California Council of Public Employes
American Federation of State
Afl-Cio
Buds
AOL
Rugh McColl
Representastive
State Department of Industrial
Wranks
Farlier
Proposal to Give Mental Exams to Police Dropped
City councilmen dropped a two month old proposal to require psychiatric or psychological examinations for police officer candidates. The Civil Service Board report shows tests remain experimental.
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Civil Service Board
Law Ordered on Front Yard Regulations in city zones
Acting on a Planning Commission recommendation the City Council ordered preparation of a zoning ordinance to set minimum front-yard areas. In R and M-S zones the front yard must be 20 feet or more deep on 100 foot lots with limits on depth and side setbacks. exceptions apply for existing nonconforming structures.
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Planning Commission
Nat Jers
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