Long Beach Post Office sorting room reveals country split
City reporters note a two compartment postal box labeled Texas and Foreign in a Long Beach sorting room. Local clubs Kiwanis and Rotary share luncheon speakers as City Hall traffic bottlenecks frustrate Robe rt Dier. Long Beach becomes tropical with bermuda shorts for Air Force reserve officers at the airport. A neighborly dusting prank and wrecked boats featured as local humor and dining ambiance.
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Long Beach
Texas
Air Force
Bermuda
Panama
Tropics
Signal Hill Gambling Petition Sparks Local Debate
Signal Hill activists push a petition drive for a special election on gambling and poker parlors to boost city finances. Opponents led by Ernest Flippen and Mrs Carol Winterburn warn of negative social effects and property-value declines while urging residents to refuse signatures. Proponents must gather about 200 valid signatures within six months to force council action.
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Signal Hill
Carol Winterburn
Winterburn
League
Hunt Nephew Sought as Heir to Aunt's Estate
A man named Clay from Long Beach, married, about 50 to 60 now, born in Belleville, Ills., mother listed as Mrs. Clay Harper, is being sought as principal heir to an aunt's estate in St. Louis hospital. Contact Mrs Edward L. Coolidge at 4321 Saugus Ave Sherman Oaks for details.
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Clay
Long Beach
St. Louis
Belleville
Clay. Harper
Edward L. Coolidge
Saugus Ave
Sherman Oaks
Chemistry blast injures two Jordan High students
A bottle of mixed chemicals exploded in a car outside a home, seriously injuring LeRoy Shemel and causing minor injuries to Craig Mattez. The boys, both students at Jordan High, said they mixed sulfur, potassium and another chemical to see what would happen.
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Velma Schneider
Canada St
Torrance
Jordan High School
LeRoy Shemel
Mathey St
Osteopathic Hospital
Craig Mattez
Pacific Ave
Shemel
Mattoz
LeRoy
Mattez
Lakewood Area Votes L B Annex in 23 Acre South Lakewood
Residents in a 23 acre South Lakewood area voted to annex to Long Head with 64 yes and 54 no. City Clerk Margaret Heartwell noted 182 residents were eligible to vote and 81 electors signed the petition for a special election. Area is bounded Monlaco Rd Woodruff Ave Wardlaw Rd and Lomina Ave extension. Estimated population 395.
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Lakewood
Long Head
Margaret Heartwell
Monlaco Rd
Woodruff Ava
Wardlaw
Lomina Ave
Negro Dock Workers Sue ILW Union
Twenty two workers filed suit in Los Angeles Superior Court accusing the International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union of racial discrimination against Negro longshoremen. They claim representation for 500 others and seek 85000 dollars in damages, alleging five years of fewer job opportunities and unexplained refusals of registration.
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International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union
Los Angeles Superior Court
Richfield Supports Motion In Subside Action
Richfield Oil Corp declared by affidavit Tuesday it agrees with and will not oppose the federal government's motion for a preliminary injunction to halt subsidence in the Wilmington Field. The filing, signed by Richfield Vice President R W Ragland, argues subsidence results from fluid-pressure reduction and can be stopped by field-wide repressuring through saltwater injection, with all Class A defendants participating and rapid action urged. Long Beach Oil Development Co demurred from positions that might jeopardize city or state rights, and will continue cooperation toward unitization and pressuring, while reserving defenses.
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Signal
Good Government
Ernest Flippen
Flippen
Richfield Oil Corp
Long Beach Oil Development Co
Richfield
U. S
Long Beach
Wilmington Field
William P. Gray
U.S
Atty. Gray
LBOD
Lytin_O.Hossam
Long Beach Oil Development
LEOD
Wilmington
R. W. Ragland
Gasoline War Spreads Through Long Beach Area Prices Drop
A slow price war grips Bellflower, Long Beach, and Orange County with regular gas near 21 cents and premium at about 25 cents. Independent stations on Paramount Boulevard and South Street cut to 21 cents, while Bellflower drivers report 20.9 cents for regular and 25.9 for premium. Lakewood station advertises 24.9 cents for premium from Oklahoma-supplied fuel. major brands cling to 29.9 cents, with a few Torrance outlets cutting to 27.9.
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Bellflower
Long Beach
Long Heath
Orange County
Paramount Blvd
South St
Bellflower Blvd
Artesia St
Lakewood
Oklahoma
Wasoline
Harbor
Torramee
Repressuring Plan Could Boost Oil Recovery says Affidavit
An affidavit by Richfield asserts a fieldwide repressuring program would substantially increase oil recovered and reimburse bail costs for Class A defendants. It argues voluntary agreement is unlikely and seeks injunctive relief to compel participation, citing a petition of 64 residents urging improved storm drainage in the Long Beach area.
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Ree
Long Beach
Richfields
California
Mgr. Sar
E. Vickers
49Th St
Biva
47Th St
Pacific Ave
Council Eyes Navy Land Buying Plan
The City Council on Tuesday urged the Navy to reexamine plans to purchase a buffer strip at the southwest edge of Los Alamitos Naval Air Station. Navy officials assured no runway extension toward Long Beach is planned. Proposed requisitions cover 80 acres southwest, 45 acres northeast, and surface easements on 89 acres to the south.
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Navy
Los Alamitos Naval Air Station
Long Beach
Lewis Heese
Orange County
Less Beach
Washington
Washington D.C
Civil Aeronautics Board
Henry Beecken &Associates
Pacific Southwest
Jaiines
Los Angeles International Airport
Mgr
Sam E. Vickers
Pay Raise Petitions Circulate To Equalize Police Fire Pay
The Signal Hill Police and Firemen’s Association begins circulating petitions for a special election on pay raises to place officers on par with peers in similar cities. The group seeks $670 monthly for chiefs, $590 for captains, $544 for sergeants and engineers, and $505 for patrolmen and firefighters, with a target of 300 signatures per outline. If enough names are collected, a November or December vote will be held.
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Kenneth H. Schrank
Signal Hill Bagsters Committee
Signel -Hill’ Police and Firemen's Assn
Mil- Police
Travis
Buck
Qitman
Association
Gaal
Association To
Southwest
Lox
Alamitos
Garden Grove
Weelegain
Oltman
Gignal Hill
Eagles Schedule Public Barbecue at Local Museum Event
A Long Beach schedule lists a public barbecue and dance on Saturday at Eagle Hall, beginning after dinner at 4 p.m. The program on Channel 5 features the Long Beach Museum of Art with exhibits from the Ave. Guggenheim Museum and a talk by museum director Jerome Allan Donson, ending by 1 p.m.
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Long Beach Museum of Art
Eagles
Channel 5
Lorser Feltelson
Eagle Hall
Beverlyton
Ave. Guggenheim Museum
Long Beach
Long Beach Union Backs Propositions S and T
UAW Local 148 executive board endorsed Propositions S and T in the Jobs for Long Beach program. Dale Smith states all Long Beach residents in the union will be urged to vote yes on November 4. Campaign chair Pat Driscoll to mobilize 500 Douglas stewards to present endorsement cards. executive board emphasizes benefits to city and service trades, aiming to boost tourism, conventions, and permanent local employment.
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UAW 148
5 and T
Long Beach
Lonnie Murphy
Allan Haywood
Jim McDonald
Dale Smith
Carl Stone
H. §. Phillips
Roy Meadows
Leo Schiavoni
Dick Bell
Everett A. Curtis
R. W. Hall
UAW
PROPS
Smith
Atlantic City
Henry S. Phillips
Lonnie ZL. Murphy
Bill Stafford
Walter Hugelns
R W. Hall
Louis Blackmon
Jim McDoneld
Icie Brown
Ed Wianectsi
Local 148
S and T
Union
Parking Lot Assailant Put on Probation
Henry E. Ferguson 48 of 3634 Stevely Ave received five years probation for assault in a Studebaker area parking lot incident on May 21. Victim Ralph M. Salisbury 38 of 7227 Basebay St fractured a bone and was hospitalized until August 1. Salisbury seeks $160,000 in a pending Superior Court suit.
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Henry E. Ferguson
Stevely Ave
Ralph K. Pierson
Ralph M. Salisbury
Basebay St
Ferguson
Salisbury
Studebaker Ra
Spring St
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Robert D. Dier
Dier
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Fi Oa Saith
Pecma Atredo-Iale
Hunt Nephew
Lakewood Area
L.B. Annex
Negro Dock Workers
ILW Union
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Independent
the Southland
Council
C L Westhofen
Feld City
Camp O-ongo
A. C. Preston
Water Dept. Revenue
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Jehfer
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