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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Nov 05, 1957
Page
8
More than 1,000 European refugees from Communist China await transportation for resettlement in Australia and South America. The United Nations stressed a formal arrangement is in place, with most expected to be moved soon.
Everett Judson Wightman a Long Beach banker and civic leader aged 90 died Monday in Seaside Hospital. He chaired the Bank of America 4th and Pine Branch and aided local charities, building a long career from York County to California. Funeral set for Thursday at First Methodist Church with ministers Myers and Collins officiating. He was born in Alfred New York in 1866 and helped organize Long Beach institutions including the Marine Bank and the Building and Loan Association. He served on the Board of Education and led Goodwill Industries locally. He was active in YMCA work and Fraternal orders and helped establish Palm Springs operations. The obituary notes extensive real estate and financial ventures in his career.
A compact portrait of a Southern gentlewoman seen through the eyes of Black girls who admired her. The piece promises a heart tearing yet insightful view into American life and race relations, crafted by one of those girls for November readers.
Laguna Beach man Everett William Cline of Tl Cajon died Sunday from heart failure while driving in Laguna Beach. He stopped his car and summoned police before dying later at a physician's office. His body was taken to Laguna Beach Funeral Home.
Four unknown thieves pried open a side door at Toywal Park Shop on Rosecrans Avenue and stole a heavy safe valued around $12,000. They used canned goods to prop the safe and loaded it onto a waiting truck before dawn, discovered by the meat market manager at 6:45 a.m. Police traced the entry to the store and noted the safe weighed about 142 tons.
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