Forest Lawn Glendale Named Major Southern California Travel Spot
Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale California draws 1 500 000 visitors yearly making it one of the region s top tourist sites second only to Hollywood The 300 acre cemetery employs 800 people and features innovations such as Babyland the Garden of Life stained glass and bronze doors It hosts 106 000 interments 16 000 weddings and plans a larger future complex overlooking the San Fernando valley
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Calif
California
America
Hollywood
Forest Lawn Memorial Park
Hubert Eaton
Eaton
Forest Lawn
Golden Gate Bridge
San Fernando Valley
Westminster Abbey of America memorial court honored at Forest Lawn
A memorial court of honor aims to become a national shrine at Forest Lawn. Notables interred include Gutzon Borglum and Carrie Jacobs Bond. The seven level earthquake resistant mausoleum houses massive concrete and marble indexing the film world with stars such as Marie Dressler Flo Ziegfeld John Gilbert Edna May Oliver Lon Chaney and more. Delegates to a state convention in Appleton are named with alternates listed. The Fourth of July Independence celebration will feature a locomotive and box car trip to Independence. Auxiliary picnic is set for July 9 with families asked to bring dishes and supplies and Don Kaye and his orchestra will play for Legion members and guests.
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Eaton
America
Gutzon Borglum
Carrie Jacobs Bond
Forest Lawn
Marie Dressler
Flo Ziegfeld
John Gilbert
Edna May Oliver
Lon Chaney
Russ Columbo
Tom Mix
Wallace Reid
Charles Ray
Ruth Roland
Auxiliary
Carl Betz
Don Kaye
Legion
Wisconsin Fish and Game Hearings Planned for River Boundary Areas
Public meetings will be held this summer in Ellsworth and Prairie du Chien to discuss possible changes in fish and game regulations for the Wisconsin Iowa and Wisconsin Minnesota waters along the St. Croix and Mississippi river boundary counties. Dates are to be announced later and local officers of the Wisconsin conservation congress units will be invited.
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Madison
Wis
St. Croix
Mississippi River
Conservation Department
Ellsworth
Prairie du Chien
Wisconsin-Iowa
Wisconsin-Minnesota
Wisconsin Conservation Congress
Pass Bill To Continue Present Postal Rates
The senate approved unanimously a resolution to keep the three cent first class mail rate and all existing postal rates, sending the measure to the White House. Senator Langer warned a two cent rate would cut $273 million in revenue if approved.
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Washington, D. C
Senate
White House
Langer
R-Nd
Wisconsin May pension benefits average $35.85
Old age assistance payments in Wisconsin averaged $35.85 in May for 47,143 recipients. The figure excludes medical care hospitalization and burial payments not included in direct money benefits.
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Madison
Wis
Isconsin
State Division of Public Assistance
First Presbyterian Church Adopts Summer Schedule
The First Presbyterian church will switch to a summer timetable from next Sunday through July and August with services at 9 30 to 10 30 a m each Sunday to avoid peak heat. The church school is suspended except attendance at worship with nursery and early classes held during the worship. Public invited.
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First Presbyterian Church
1946 US Motor Vehicle Output Surges Past Competition
In 1946 the United States produced 3,089,000 motor vehicles, triple the combined output of all other nations. This marked a dominant postwar industrial surge and reshaped global automotive markets.
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United States
Furniture For Couple Sought By Department
The department of outdoor relief seeks to help a young La Crosse family with two children by supplying basic furniture. Needed are a bed or bed-stead, a table, at least two chairs and a gas or electric cooking plate. mattresses provided with beds. Residents with stored or unused items are urged to call 3093.
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la Crosse
Department of Outdoor Relief
Relief Department
Glasgow Pensioners Receive 8000 Australian Food Packages
Old age pensioners in Glasgow Scotland received eight thousand food parcels from Australia each containing meat cans honey milk jam and table jellies gifts aimed at easing hardship.
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Glasgow
Scotland
Australia
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