Long Beach approves $3.0 million for Pier J cargo facilities
Long Beach Harbor Commissioners authorize $3.3 million for Pier J container handling facilities funded by $30 million revenue bonds. Project covers operations office, scales, maintenance shop, paving, fencing and signs with completion targeted around April 1972 as part of a $10 million container terminal for a Japanese line. Costs break down into $2,114,000 for buildings, $1.1 million for rock and paving, $32,000 for fencing, $10,000 for signs and $244,000 contingency.
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Long Beach
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Bob Hoffmaster
Man caught in church yard charged as daylight burglar
Donald Lee Sumner twenty one was arrested in a church yard at Willow Street and Woodruff Avenue during a neighborhood search after two neighbors saw a man carrying loot from the Englert residence to a car. He was arraigned in Long Beach Municipal Court on burglary charges with $1500 bail and a preliminary hearing set for Oct 28.
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Donald Lee Sumner
Long Beach Municipal Court
Kenneth W. Sutherland
James F. Englert
Foreman Ave
Willow Street
Woodruff Avenue
Englert
Glyn Payne
Sutherland
Sumner
John C. Spence Jr
Police bike auction set in city warehouse sale
A special police auction will liquidate 205 bicycles at the city warehouse 816 W Fifth St this Saturday. Bicycles and an additional tricycle go “as is” with all sales final, said police property clerk Sgt Edward Christensen.
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Edward C. Christensen
Christensen
Lakewood High DECA club seeks market projects
Lakewood High School business club seeks market research projects with local businesses. Teacher Chuck Schiktmeyer will have students present to local groups. Four members Harvey Harmate Jane Wagner Car ale Pronier Bruce Greenberg attended a DECA conference in San Diego. The Long Beach Barbershop Quartet Singing in America will perform at Lakewood Center Friday night.
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Lakewood High School
Chuck Schiktmeyer
Lakewood High
Carsis
Long Beach
The
Society For the Preservation and Encouragement of Barber Shop Quartet
America
Lakewood Center
Giant LASH vessel makes maiden call at Los Angeles port
The 820-foot LASIS MV Thomas E. Cuffe, a $21.2 million LASH carrier, arrived at the Port of Los Angeles with 46 floating barges for onshore launch. The ship can unload 500 tons per hour versus 400-600 for containers and 16 for conventional ships, reducing dock time to a day. The vessel is part of a planned six-ship fleet to provide weekly service, sailing to Yokohama and other ports.
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Thomas E. Cuffe
Southland
Los Angeles
L. G. Dunn
Southwest Area
Pacific Far East Lines
San Francisco
Yokohama
Kobe
Na- Hay
Shimizu
Pusan
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Keacung
Avondale Shipyards
New Orleans
Caffe
Long Beach YMCA Receives $10000 Gift To Help Red Ink
An anonymous donor provides 10000 to the Long Beach Armed Services YMCA easing a 31011,342.37 deficit as United Way funding is scrutinized. A city grant and upcoming goals for 1972 are planned, with managers seeking a larger annual allocation based on local need and facility reach. Capt Mort Lytle USN retired chairs the committee.
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Long Beach Armed Services Ymca
The
United Way
Mort Lytle
USN
Long Beach
Lytle
Tidelands OU
Queen’s Way
Pico Street
Signal Hill weighing 47 candidates for city manager
Signal Hill City Council may begin the search tonight for a new city manager with 47 applicants. Acting administrator Stephen Wright says the council could meet in executive session to schedule interviews and possibly cut some applicants based on resumes. About 20 applicants are current employees, another 20 are in related municipal roles, and the rest come from military or utilities sectors. An additional note reports a separate burglary at Henry Blo mpfield Jr.'s apartment on Cherry Avenue where antiques, jewelry and a shotgun were stolen.
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Signal Hi City Council
Howald Prince
Lyntwood
Stephen Wright
Wright
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Cil
Navy Day banquet tickets on Queen Mary Oct 27
About 150 tickets remain for Long Beach's Navy Day banquet aboard the Queen Mary on Oct 27. Vice Adm. Eugene P. Wilkin son, a Long Beach native, is the speaker. A burglary report lists stereo gear stolen from Art Prateepvanich on Hil Alamitos Ave. and notes a separate burglary at Bantet chairman Frank Nease's apartment.
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Long Beach
Eugene P. Wilkinson
Art Prateepvanich
Hil Alamitos Ave
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