Maritime industry split by litigation says former editor
Helen Delich Bentley, former Baltimore Sun maritime editor, warned Pacific Coast Ports group aboard the Queen Mary that the industry is tearing itself apart through court battles. She cited regulators entangled with ship lines, high legal costs, and yearslong pendency of the mini bridge case before the Maritime Commission. The West Coast port authorities conference of 40 associations ends after four days with 28 members represented.
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Hy Jack
Baldwin
Federal Maritime Commission
Long Beach
Helen Delich Bentley
Pacific Coast Assn
Queen Mary
Maritime Commission
Interstate — Commerce Commission
The
Baltimore Sun
Rape trial tells of anesthetics and reactions
In Long Beach, Dr. Robert Kelleher faces rape charges. Medical expert Dr. John Dillon described emergence delirium from anesthesia and its effects on perception. He testified Kelleher used Nembuto and Valium, implying unpredictable impacts on three former patients and a fourth. Trial adjourned to Friday morning.
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Robert Kelleher
Long Beach
John B. Dillon
Ucla Medical Center
Kelicher
Nembuto
Kelleher
$14.4 Million Sewage Plant Contract Awarded in LA
The Los Angeles City Board of Public Works awarded a $14.4 million contract to Meren Construction Engineers for a Terminal Island sewage treatment plant with 40 million gallons per day capacity. The project, located at Terminal Way and F Street, must be finished by December 31, 1975 to comply with a state order for secondary treatment of harbor discharges.
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Terminal Island
Los Angeles
Public Works
Meren Construction
Tno
Terminal Way
F Street
Sol M. Marcus
Marcus
Los Angeles Harbor
Contract awarded for Drake Park phase two work
The Long Beach City Council approved a 203 180 contract for the second phase of Drake Park site development at 951 Maine Ave awarded to Mitchell Construction Co. The upgrade removes some existing improvements and regrades part of the area while adding picnic slabs four patios a picnic shelter reinforced courts fencing paving landscaping sprinkler systems lighting and sewer and storm drainage reconstruction.
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Drake Park
Maine Ave
Long Beach
Mitchell Construction Co
Symposium on Aircraft Opens at Beverly Hilton
American astronauts and aviation leaders attend the 17th annual Society of Experimental Test Pilots symposium and banquet at the Beverly Hilton. Four seminars cover military and civilian projects from new helicopters to supersonic transport. Space programs including Skylab I are discussed. Bob Hope hosts the awards banquet with astro naut guests and a salute. Leroy Prinz will stage the event.
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Free World
Society of Experimental Test Pilots
Beverly Hilton
Bob Hope
Leroy Prinz
Capt
Eddie Rickenbacker
District orders cost estimate to restore 1970 bus service
Bellflower Unified School District trustees have ordered an admin estimate to reinstate bus service to 1970 levels for elementary students living a mile or more, juniors at 1% miles, and high school students at 2 miles. The move follows pleas from Dutch Village, Lakewood Manor and Cerritos parents amid traffic hazards near Mann Wilson Elementary and Roosevelt Junior High. Principal spokesman Robert Gott urged keeping children safe, noting prior cuts due to financial strain and other priorities.
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Bellflower Unified
Board of Education
Robert Gott
Elgers St
Cerritos
Mann-Wilson
Roosevelt
Clark Avenue
Tie
New soft contact lens speeds cataract recovery
The Rotary Club of Long Beach heard Dr. Francis C. Hertzog Jr. discuss the Griffith lens the new FDA licensed soft contact lens for immediate post op wear. He said some patients may wear it full time and that one day cataract surgery could allow patients to go home the same day and possibly return to work next day. Other advances include new sutures enzymes microscopes and lens emulsification techniques. A second talk covered emergency care in a growing field and artificial joints offering new hope for disabled patients. A volleyball clinic for officials is planned October 5-6 at the San Pedro YMCA with Olympic footage and U S Cuba matches shown.
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Rotary Club of
Long Beach
Francis C. Hertzog Jr
Food and Drug Administration
Warner-Lambert “Griffith
Hertzog
Lertzog
Francis A. Hurtubise
American College of Emergency Physicians
Chicago
Hurtubise
Ednas
San Pedro
CIF
Faulkner Named to Poly Area Development Panel
Ernest Paulkner, chair of Long Besch Community Tryprovement Leasie, appointed by the mayor and confirmed by the City Council to the Poly High Neighborhood Development Project Stew Committee. Faulkner will succeed Willie E. Martin, who resigned as the league's PAG representative after a delay over which front to represent.
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Ernest Paulkner
Long Besch
The
PAG
Frony
Martin
Human Relations Commission
Community Improvement League
Human Relaions Commission
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