Long Beach Veterans Day Parade Honors War Heroes
Long Beach hosted a massive Veterans Day tribute with an official crowd over 100,900 along the parade route. Maj. Gen. Charles M. Eisenhart led the march as grand marshal with civic leaders present. groundbreaking for a $300,000 Veterans Memorial Clubhouse followed at 111 E Spring St to honor those who died or will die in Vietnam. Other services marked the holiday across the region including Santa Ana Compton and the Los Angeles Memorial.
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America
Long Beach
Southeast Asia
Charles M. Eisenhart
USAF
Strategic Air Command
B6th Air Force
March Afs
Edwin W. Wade
Craig Hosmer
R-Long Beach
Veterans’ Organization
Ule
Veterans Memorial Building
Spring
Owners Pulse Races With His Fast Flying Pigeons
The article profile describes Bill Minges and other California pigeon fanciers at a four day convention in Lafayette. It notes 600 members of the California State Breeding and Racing Pigeon Organization, racing birds over 1000 to 600 miles and selecting mates through careful observation of vigor eye shine and timing.
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Ike Bill Minges
Aristadero
Pipeon
Manges
California
Ricky Placon
Gafayette Intel
Crashed Goodyear Blimp Goes for Repair
The Goodyear blimp Columbia, damaged in a October crash near the San Diego Freeway landing field, was towed to a repair shop. Officials expect flight in about eight weeks. Pilot Tom Riley and technician Charles Ringler leaped to safety as fuel was jettisoned during the incident.
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Goodyear
Goodyear Tire and Rubler Co
Columbia
United States
San Diego
Alameda
Tom Riley
Playa del Amo
Fortance
Riley
Charles Ringler
Gundala
Long Beach Plug on TV Tonight in Full Color
A unique full color film about Long Beach and its surrounding communities screens tonight on Ed Wright's survey show RG KNDC Channel 4. Presented by The Independent Press Telegram and Long Beach Promotion Inc the piece has toured from Los Angeles to New York and Seattle to Atlanta.
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Long Beach
Ed Wright
KNDC
Channel 4
Wes
Independent, Press+Telegram
Search for Life Meaning Seen Main Issue of Time
USC religion professor J. J. Wesley Robb told a diverse audience at California State College Long Beach that the central issue of our time is the search for religious understanding and identity. He spoke at the first annual interreligious institute noting affluence cannot fulfill man’s cosmic need for meaning.
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J. J. Wesley Robb
USC
California State College At
Long Beach
Robb
Long Beach Area
National Conference of Christians and Jews
Trash Topic for Convention Teaches Sanitation
About 120 municipal sanitation officials from five western states attend a three day seminar and trade show by the Governmental Refuse Collection and Disposal Association. The article notes containerization as a fast cheap method, discusses new diesel engines, and showcases decorative trash receptacles.
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Jem Nesbitt
Edgewater Innds
Governmental
Cial
Con
Guillionia Luntern College Unity Assistsin to Speak at Long Beach
JC Faculties and Parleys Cole Blease, a civil liberties advocate, leads a session in Long Beach on Civil Liberties Concerning Higher Education. The meeting will present major resolutions on state college policies and a plan for a junior college division within the Department of Education.
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Cole Blease
American Civil Liberties Union
Guillornia Luntern College
Long Beach
Biena
Concam
Quincy
Department of Education
CICFA
California
Rasshalle's
Alfred Baxter
Sultant
Legislative Committee On Higher Education
Baxter
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L.B
Lone Wench Hews Bureau
John Neagle
Lirr
Stan Gulligan
Napa
Culligan
Lier
Leo Enright
H Phole
Catholic Church of
Wie Boant
The
Herbor Arce
Robb Instituts
GRECA
Los Angeles
Clarance Dunn
Conner
I Harch
Ained
Bean
Tuck Rogers
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