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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Nov 08, 1958
Page
5
The Pine Avenue three day Tunfair ends today with hog calling events and a tums contest drawing large crowds. A. Holler for the Hawes leads as notable acts and prizes are awarded noon to 5:20, with hog calling, boaus and belles contests highlighted.
Retired Long Beach detective Fam A Wishon, 68, died Friday after falling from a relative’s roof while helping install rain gutters at 2363 Maine Ave. He slipped from the ladder, struck his head on the sidewalk, and was pronounced dead at Seaside Hospital. Chief William Dovey praised him as a fine officer who fought crooks and tracked Communist agitators on the waterfront. Survived by his wife Gladys and son Maurice, Wishon spent 21 years in the detective bureau before retiring in 1944.
Merwin Katrin, manager, reported malicious mischief at the Dandy Wash on 2380 Santa Fe Ave. Vandals poured tar into driers pulled wiring loose and jammed coin slots, with a report filed Friday.
The Seal Beach Civil Service suspended John Charity Branch E Herrin, temporary maintenance supervisor, for 30 days without pay and reduced his rank from maintenance supervisor to maintenance man with a salary cut from 461 to 382 monthly. The action followed a board finding of gambling at a charity event held at Victor Huge's Restaurant on Sunday from 10 am to 2 pm.
The City of Long Seach declares open competitive examinations for clerk typist positions. Final filing deadline is November 14.
A Santa Fe group led by Ed Spitalnick moved to recall Mayor Moreno after he left for the Inter-American Municipal Conference in Catalina. They served papers at 9 p.m. demanding a seven day response, threatening a special election to oust him if unanswered. The charges accuse Moreno of censure, public ridicule, inaction on petitions, failure to contract for municipal services, extravagance, wasteful spending, and misused funds.
A coroner’s jury found the 46 year old man’s death justifiable in defense of self and family after Jimmin Cook Travers stabbed him in a Palo Verde Avenue home. The 15 year old was dismissed on voluntary manslaughter charges and placed as a court ward to receive help for emotional issues.
Funeral services for Dr. Charles E. Cresmer 47 of 534 E 20th St will be held Monday at 11 am at Display Mortuary. A Long Beach resident since 41 years he died Thursday. Surviving are his wife Virginia son Charles Jr daughter Juliana and mother Mrs Anne Cresmer all of Long Beach.
DAIRY VALLEY Luis Olgin, 58, of Los Angeles, told sheriffs deputies Friday two gunmen robbed him of 206 after driving him from Los Angeles to Artesia Avenue and Store Baker Road on the pretext of selling him an ounce of heroin. Olgin said one suspect was a fellow prisoner while he was at Folsom Penitentiary. The men promised heroin for 280.
Barbara Leslie, 25, wife of Long Beach police officer William D. Leslie, grabbed the keys from a running car to stop James Lewis Moore, 20, of 5625 Dairy Ave, who was booked on burglary investigation after Moore fled an Eastside apartment scene. Moore’s car had been seen near Leapark-Imarit housing three times. he gave conflicting reasons for being there. Police reported the incident occurred as Mrs. Leslie, emptying trash at midnight, followed Moore across an alley and into his car, then turned off the ignition and retrieved the keys, prompting police to arrest him nearby.
Longshoremen and warehouse workers at Catalina Island are locked in a labor dispute over a shift to a roll on roll off freight system. ILWU demands independent carrier arrangements and accuses the Catalina line of a lockout while Catalina Pacific Airlines maintains groceries bound for Avalon are being airlifted. Teamsters drivers honor picket lines amid the dispute, and NLRB investigators review charges of secondary pressure.
A 72 year old Long Beach resident, Ada Sagar, was bilked of 5500 in the largest pigeon drop scam in a decade. Two women, one described as 25 and slight, lured her with a found $16,000 tale and urged withdrawals for supposed gambling winnings. Police report the con included false bosses and a doctor’s appointment ruse, ending when the suspects left with the funds.
Paul Harris, 60, a longtime Long Beach attorney born in London, collapsed and died Friday morning during a hearing before Superior Court Commissioner Harry Hunt. Survived by wife Ann and five brothers, services set for 1pm Monday at Mottell's Pork Mortuary.
A Sunday feature profiles the last of the leather slappers, Jennings, a onetime train robber now living in Tarzana. The piece, titled Still Quick on the Draw, traces his dramatic life and the few gunslingers who survived the Owlhoot era to share their stories.
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