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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Sep 21, 1968
Page
12
Cerritos residents vote on a $5.4 million bond to acquire 100 acres for recreation parks a library and a civic center to help transform the dairy town into a residential and industrial city. The plan requires a two thirds majority and has strong broad support with no known opposition.
The piece explains why geraniums remain popular with International Geranium Society members and new color varieties. It covers pruning of long branches, September as pruning month, and different uses from ground covers to indoor plants. Also notes Dianthus Rose Marie blooms year round and advises on scale insects and scale oil spray timing.
Emily Kuntz longtime North Long Beach resident and church member dies at 100. Services set for Monday at 10 am at North Long Beach Community Presbyterian Church. Survived by three sons, a daughter and a cousin with Patterson & Snively Mortuary handling arrangements.
Thomas Walter Crump distribution manager for Star-Kist Foods died in Houston Texas after a heart attack during a business trip He was 45 Crump joined Star-Kist in 1952 as a frozen food production coordinator and later presided over Star-Kist Caribe Inc in Mayaguez Puerto Rico from 1959 to 1962 Surviving are his wife Patricia Helenson and daughter Barbara Rose of the Los Alamitos home address Funeral services are planned.
Describes patchy dichondra lawn damage from cutworms with leaves missing and remaining stalks, and irregular dead patches in grass from lawn moths. Recommends stomach-type insecticide spray per local nurseryman and following directions. Also suggests pruning short rose growth, removing below union suckers, fertilizing, deep watering, and watering camellias during hot weather.
Garden questions address wistaria transplant timing soil mix and trimming, plus dwarf peach fruiting. Advice covers late December or early January transplantation with two parts organic material to three parts soil, trimming long runners, vitamin B-1 first watering and weekly use, and standard care. Also guides on dwarf peach tree sun needs deep watering, bone meal and manure application in October, soil layering, later feeding, and caution on lemons with center browning from overwatering.
Southern California Dahlia Society meets at 7 30 p m in the Glendale Federal Community Room Los Altos Shopping Center with reports on dahlia shows and a flower arranging demo by Bee Duffey of Cypress Lakewood Gardens Club meets Thursday at 12 30 p m at the American Savings and Loan Association Clark and Del Amo offering a film Nature s Half Acre
Akira Ikeda 60, harbor agent for the Port of Los Angeles in Japan, died Friday after a sudden illness during a visit to Los Angeles for the dedication of the port’s East West container terminal. He fell ill while arranging a return to Japan with a group of harbor officials.
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