Long Beach items note hotel, water charts, and fashion event
In Long Beach notes a Virginia Hotel room key reappears in a mailbox, with postmaster McMillin holding it. Frank Higgins analyzes water charts during the presidential debate showing spikes and declines linked to TV viewing. Pan-Hellenic funds six scholarships and sponsors an Elsa Lanchester event on Oct 1 at Millikan High.
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Virginia
Pike
Geo. McMillin
Frank T. Higgins
City Water Dept
Belmont Shore
Man Higgins
Jack
Hat
Higgins
Tie
Long Beach Pan-Hellenic
Pan-Hellenic
Long Beach State
Elsa Lanchester
Millikan High
City Council Urges Fast Action on Long Beach Rail Line
The council by 6-1 calls on the PUC and MTA to prevent the abandonment of the Long Beach to Los Angeles rail line. It asks the PUC to require Pacific Electric to renew its five year lease or run comparable service, and sends a letter to MTA urging a hike appeal. Councilman Andrew Baird dissented, hoping for a modern transit system within five years.
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State Public Utilities Commission
Metropolitan Transit Authority
Long Beach
Los Angeles
PUC
Pacific Electric Railway Co
MTA
Andrew Baird
Kenneth Sutherland
T. J. Robert Co
Navy Landing
Obscenity Discussion Panel Planned in Long Beach
Charles H. Keating Jr chief legal counsel of the National Committee for Decent Literature will discuss the obscenity racket at a 730 pm meeting Thursday at California Heights Methodist Church Long Beach. City Prosecutor James Starr Assemblyman William Grant and Assembly candidate Ora Knudsen join a panel on pornography sponsored by the Long Beach Council of Churches open to the public.
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Charles H. Keating Jr
National Committee For Decent Literature
California Heights Methodist Church
Orange Ave
Cincinnati
Ohio
Lyer
Citizens Committee For Decent Literature
James Starr
William Grant
Assembly
Ora Knudsen
Tthe
Long Beach Council of Churches
City Hall debate over Alamitos Bay barriers ends with lunch plan
City council wrestled with removing fences and walls along Alamitos Bay's edge while weighing safety and access. Councilman Emmett Sullivan urged a direct strike to clear obstructions. Virgil Spongberg urged a report on affected areas. Restaurateur Robert Crow proposed a box lunch and a guided tour after a luncheon discussion, and the motion passed unanimously.
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Emmett Sullivan
Sullivan
Andrew Baird
Virgil H. Spongberg
Robert F. Crow
Crow
Protest Noise to PUC Protest Noise to PUC
City seeks rerouting of intercity buses from downtown Long Beach to Pacific Coast Highway to reduce noise and vibration. PUC staff say new route adds 2.54 miles and about 10 extra miles per schedule, costing Greyhound about 15 640 dollars yearly and Transcontinental 1 192 dollars. Officials compare decibel readings from various buses to show noise impact.
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Ocean Boulevard
Second Street
Pacific Coast Highway
State Public Utilities Commission
Alty
Leslie Still
PUC
W. £. Turpen
Greyhound
First Street
Long Beach Boulevard
Livingston Drive
Long Beach
East First Street
Fred G. Ballenger
Ballenger
Greyhound Bus Co
Transcontinental Bus Co
Ag Sir
Edwin O'Connor
E. Second St
Ravenna
Metropolitan Transit Au Authority
O’connor
Disneyland Returns to Five Day Week Schedule
Disneyland announces a winter schedule with the park open Wednesday through Sunday from 10 am to 6 pm on weekdays and 10 am to 7 pm on weekends. It will be closed Monday and Tuesday.
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Disneyland
How to handle exams and nerves in college tests
A column discusses exam anxiety and practical strategies to improve performance. It offers a step by step plan: enter with a tentative plan, budget time by question, answer clearly, use scratch paper, and skip uncertain questions to return later. The advice emphasizes calm, deliberate action rather than panic.
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Jack
Marines Entertain Young Heart Patients at El Toro Station
Two Anaheim boys, Tommy and Rickie Driver, visited the Santa Ana El Toro Marine air station before heart surgeries at St Marys Hospital Long Beach. MAG-33 volunteers offered blood donations, then invited the family on a station tour. Tommy, 8, needs open heart surgery. Rickie requires a constricted duct operation. both surgeries scheduled this week.
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Ran Kron
FSU Crusader
Yommy
Long Beach St. Mary's Hospital
Anaheim
el Toro Marine Air Station
St. Mary's Hospital
Long Beach
Santa Ana Marine Air Station
Marine Air Group
Tommy
Rickie
Chamber counsel rails against big government
William Barton, general counsel of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States, told the Long Beach Chamber at the Lafayette Hotel that the nation faces danger from groups seeking larger government and from those who unwittingly support it. He criticized organized labor and other pressure groups, praised the founders for limits on central government, and cited a study showing one in five adults receiving federal checks. The remarks tie to Congressional debates on minimum wage, unemployment, aging care, housing, poverty, and public power.
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The
Chamber, of Commerce of the United States
Lafayette Hotel
Long Beach
Barton
Founding Fathers
Col
Two Markets May Merge
Alpha Beta Food Markets plans to merge with American Stores Co., the operator of Acme Markets in seven eastern states and the District of Columbia, pending stockholder approval announced Tuesday.
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Alpha Beta Food Markets
Pennsylvania
N American Stores Co
Acme
District of Columbia
L B Firm Low Bidder on Bridge
The substructure on the 12n million San Pedro Terminal Island Toll Bridge probably will cost 2 576 465. The Public Works Department said seven bids ranged from that low to a high of 3 039 046 submitted Tuesday in Sacramento by the Guy F Atkinson Co of Long Beach. Kids any superstructure work on the bridge will be opened today. Thursday the State Toll Bridge Authority will meet to open bids for 7 million in revenue bonds to partially finance construction.
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San Pedro Terminal Island
Sacramento
Guy F. Atkinson Co
Long Beach
Public Works Department
State Toll Bridge Authority
Cameras Stolen From Tate View Camera Store
Burglars threw a brick through a plate glass window at the Tate View Camera Store at 4426 Antic Ave early Tuesday and stole $306 worth of cameras.
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Tate~ View Camera
Alantic Ave
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