Confusing Rest Room Signs and Unusual News Bits
A letter page-note on door signs at Heidelberg Restaurant causes confusion over German words Herren and Damen. Also reports a topsy turvy Top of The World Softball Championship between Point Barrow Eskimo Village and USS E Dorado with Navy victory. Includes jokes about actors and a cafe observer, plus a Boy Scout Jamboree report and the Nuts reply from the Battle of the Bulge.
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Herren
Damon
Heidelberg
Lakewood Blvd
Carson
Damen
Point Barrow Eskimo Village
Uss E Dorado
Fleet Champs
Navy
Eskimos
John Spence
Continent
England
Jon
Belgis
Subside Crisis in Long Beach Threatens Navy Yard
Long Beach faces a creeping subsidence crisis that has sunk key facilities including the Riviera Hotel, Ford plant, and city hall. Officials warn if unchecked it may close the Navy yard and imperil 6,360 shipyard jobs. experts now seek root causes and a cure, with tomorrow’s installment detailing causes.
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Long Beach
Edison
Terminal Island
Pine Ave
Navy Shipyard
Navy Yard
Riviera
Ford Motor Co
Poly High School
Naples
Times Imagazine
Time
Tite
Stepil
Angoin
Congress
One-Week Lag Seen on Trash Ban Enforcement
City refuse division will take about a week to adjust to the county back yard incinerator ban effective today. Only one of 15 ordered new trash trucks has arrived. others being assembled in Los Angeles and due soon. Seven standby old trucks available. No substantial rise in staff expected. Contract held by Joe Gill Motor Co. Police not assigned to enforcement. County air position control district employs over 190 staff, 40 hired since July.
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Sam E. Vickers
Los Angeles
Joe Gill Motor Co
Long Beach
Vickers
County Air Position Control District
No Program For Students Flu Vaccine Ordered For Staff
Long Beach Unified School District will offer free flu vaccine to 2,700 teachers and 1,500 non teaching staff with vaccines administered by district physicians at centers to be announced. The board did not set a student program but will follow Public Health Department guidance for outbreaks. Estimated cost ranges from 2000 to 3000 dollars.
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Long Beach
Board of Education
Department of Health
Schogls
Douglas A
Newcomb
Walter FR. Hoyd
Department of Public Health
C. GC Campbell Jr
School Health Service
Santa Monica
Los Angeles
Culver City
Montebello
Port Shows Gain in Revenue for August
The Harbor Department reported August revenue from local port operations at 206,691, up 51,645 from the previous year. Net gain for the period was 224,549 with investment income from the harbor reserve fund totaling 118,060 and 127.43 profit from steel piling sales and rental.
Wilmington Subsidence Plan Backed by City Panel
The Wilmington subsidence advisory committee urged immediate action toward unitization and repressuring of the oil field to halt land sinkage. They asked City Manager Sam E. Vickers to seek council authorization for talks with consulting engineers on feasible studies and methods for integrating smaller efforts into a fieldwide depressuring plan.
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Wilmington
Sam E. Vickers
G. E. Woodward
DeGolyer & Mac. Waughton
William L. Hornce
Core Laboratories
Three Charged in Omaha Market Robberies
An armed robbery complaint accuses Ronald Gillette 26 George Bevins 32 and Paul Small 35 of robbing Omaha markets including Safeway 5480 Aulande Ave Sept 4 taking 45000 in cash and traveler’s checks. Gillette and Bevins face two counts while Small faces one. They appeared before Municipal Judge Lyman Sutter and await Oct 7 hearings. Small remains at large.
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Heee
Omaha
Neb
District Attorney's Office
Ronald Gillette
George Bevins
Paul R. Small
Gillette
Small
Aulande Ave
Bevins
Safeway
de Coast Hwy
Corona de
PT Executive to Speak at City College Event
Miles Lines, managing editor of the Independent Press-Telegram, will speak in City College Business and Technology Division’s public relations class series on Thursday evenings in the new Little Theater. He will discuss newspapers’ role in shaping public opinion, followed by a Q and A. The series runs through October. admission is free and the public is invited.
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Warner Anderson
CRS
City College Technical Institute
Miles Lines
Independent, Press-Telegram
City College Business and Technology
The!lass
New Little Theater
Institute
Lines
J Newspapers
Recreation Areas Saic Vanishing at National Congress
Joseph Prembfer of New York City warned 3,000 listeners at the 39th National Recreation Congress in We nicipal Auditorium that recreation lands are vanishing as prosperity grows and demand for leisure increases. Rev Bob Richards spoke on Recreation for a Strong America noting sports participation builds character. Dorothy B Taaffe of San Francisco became president for the first time a woman led the American Recreation Society which has 4000 members as the meeting opened exhibits and workshops.
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America
Tto
Joseph Prembfergast
New York City
Congress
Nationl Recreation Congress
Wenicipal Auditorium
Bob Richards
Church of the Brethren
Raymond C. Kealer
Long Beach
William Frederickson Jr
Los Angeles
California Recreation Society
J. Guzen
The
American Recreation Society
Dorothy B. Taaffe
San Francisco
J. Earl Schtupp
Denver
Lafayette Hotel
SAVES
Dorothy B. Taafte
J. Earl Schlupp
National Recreation Congress
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Harry Fulton
Anderson
Elas
By James Phelan
Stear
Moréell Dry Dock
Mie Alwil
Actvss
le Cout
Harbor Department
Long Beach Naval Shipyard
Naval Installation
L.B
John F. McCarthy
Independent the Southland
Park
Community Chest
Children's Clinic
Jim Jensen
Doris Salisbury
Tommy Ennis
Horner
Woodward
Assembly
Kealer
Core
City Hall
Vera Williams
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