Span Bid Set for Downey Santa Ana Freeway Bridge
Downey April 15 A low bid of 477 545 for a Santa Ana Freeway bridge over the San Gabriel River was awarded to United Concrete Pipe Corp of Baldwin Park. The two mile route will link Los Angeles to Santa Ana with a 670 foot reinforced concrete steel structure, two double lane roadways and no pedestrian walk. Completion is expected in about a year with approaches to finish concurrently. The Los Angeles terminus now extends to Eastman Avenue with work from Eastman to Lakewood Boulevard slated to finish January 5, 1954.
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Cessna
Downey Business District
Santa Ana
Los Angeles
Huntington Beach elects Roy Seabridge mayor
Huntington Beach council chose Roy Seabridge to serve as mayor for two years succeeding Vernon Langenbeck. Seabridge, a trucking business operator, begins his second term as a city councilman after an April 3 re election. Herbert A. Wood won a council seat, succeeding Col. Jack Greer who did not run again. Wood resigns as planning commission chair and chamber of commerce director. Harry R. LeBard began another four year council term after April 8 reelection. Seabridge named Langenbeck as County Sanitation District No. 11 representative with LeBard as alternate. He will announce committee appointments next meeting. William Clegg and John Henrikson sworn in as treasurer and city clerk.
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Huntington Beach
Roy Seabridge
Main St
Vernon Langenbeck
Seabridge
Herbert A. Wood
Col
Jack Greer
Wood
City Planning Commission
Chamber of Commerce
Harry R. LeBard
Langenbeck
le! Bard
William Clegg
John Henrickson
Standing Water Cypress Problem
Cypress considers action to remove standing water from heavy March rains. The chamber of commerce will review sanitation options at a Thursday meeting led by President Dale Kroesen. J R Lester Boyle, a Santa Ana engineer, will survey the area and report on sewer costs and best methods.
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Cypress
Chamber of Commerce
Dale Kroesen
Kenesen
Pacific Electric
Kroesen
J. R. Lester Boyle
Santa Ana
Toastmistress Club Meeting Set Tonight
NORWALK April 15 toastmistress club members hear a panel discussion at a dinner meeting at 7 p m today in Car ter Hall with Miss Mary Evans vice president presiding. Theme is Women and Money Mrs Alma Dugan toastmistress Mrs Grace Archer topics mistress panel members Mines Irma Cleavinger Mozelle Flansburg Cleone Greason Venet a Simmons Ilah Spaulding.
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Norwalk
Toastmistress Club
Carter Hall
Mary Evans
Alma Dugan
Grace Archer
Mines
Irma Cleavinger
Mozelle Flansburg
Cleone Greason
Veneta Simmons
Ilah Spaulding
Club Meets Tonight in Norwalk at Mandell Home
Bib and Apron Club members are hosted by Mrs. Ruby Mandell at 14526 Maryton Street, Norwalk, for their regular meeting at 8 p m. The note indicates a social gathering with entertainment planned.
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Norwalk
Ruby Mandell
Maryton St
Vault Hold Scissors Pry Try Fails
Burglars tried to crack a safe at the Medical Building on Clarke Avenue in Bellflower. Forcing entry through a window, they moved the safe to the hallway, knocked off the dial and bent the handle, and bashed the steel front. Surgeon’s scissors were found near the door, but five desks and medical cabinets were ransacked with narcotics stored inside the safe remaining untouched.
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Bellflower
Clarke Ave
Seal Beach Card Party Scheduled for Saturday
The American Legion Auxiliary Unit No. 300 will host its annual benefit card party at 8 p m Saturday in the City Hall auditorium. Proceeds go to child welfare with games including canasta pinocle and five hundred announced Alyce Dowle.
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Bellflower
American Legion Auxiliary Unit No. 300
City Hall
Alyce Dowle
Bellflower Road Job Bids Planned
Bellflower April 15 360000 paving project on Artesia Ave between Downey and Palo Verde Aves to be advertised for bids. Total Artesia Ave improvement budget 1395000 with another 38 miles Downey Ave to Alameda St section budgeted 880000. Bellflower portion spans 2.7 miles toward a future major boulevard with fixed right of way and two three foot traffic lanes.
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Bellflower
Artesia Ave
Downey
Palo Verde
M. E. Cessna
Cessna
Downey Ave
Alameda St
Artesia
Orange County
Bloomfield PTA to Hear Reading Demonstrations
Bloomfield Elementary PTA meeting tonight at 7 30 features reading demonstrations for Kindergarten through eighth grade. Parents learn how to help children read and a parent administered reading skill test is planned. Music by winners of the fifth grade amateur contest.
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Hawaiian Gardens
Bloomfield Elementary
Parent-Teacher Association
Bellflower Girl Hurt in Mishap
Kath leen Alice Nelson ten suffered head injuries when she ran into an auto driven by Gary Ballinger eighteen of 6114 Premier Avenue on Bellflower Boulevard near her home. The incident occurred at 4 35 p m Monday according to sheriff deputies.
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Bellflower
Kathleen Alice Nelson
Bellflower Blvd
Gary Ballinger
Premier Ave
Sheriff's Deputies
Gardena Officials to Take Oath Tonight in City Hall
Gardena city officials begin new terms with an oath of office at an 8 p m special Gardena City Council meeting in the Inglewood Municipal Court. Judge Lester Luce will administer the oath to Mayor Adam Bolton, Councilman James Rush, City Clerk Lucille Randolph, and City Treasurer Frederik van Oppen. The council will canvass last week’s municipal election results, with the first regular meeting set for April 22.
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Gardena
Lester Luce
Inglewood
Luce
Adam Bolton
James L. Rush
Lucille Randolph
Frederik van Oppen
Bellflower Junior Unit Plans Dinner
Members of the Bellflower Woman's Club Junior Department will honor their husbands with a dinner and program at 7 p m Wednesday at the clubhouse. Committee members include Mr and Mrs Forrest Pendergast Mr and Mrs Norman Murray Mr and Mrs Myron Robinson and James Patrick.
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Bellflower
The
Woman's Club
Forrest Pendergast
Norman Murray
Myron Robinson
James Patrick
Artesia Club to Hear Woman Judge
Artesia April 15 Municipal Judge Roberta Butzbach of Los Cerritos Court Bellflower will speak at a Cabrillo Club banquet at Portuguese Hall tonight at 8 30 p m The club is a Portuguese welfare society
Buena Park to Build Schools Expansion Planned
Buena Park district announces a yearlong push to spend 523000 on elementary school expansion. Projects include Lindbergh and Grand Ave additions, a new northwest school, and a 110000 rest room and kindergarten upgrade at Lindbergh. Plans for Grand Ave additions are 240000 and state approval pending. Architect Lyndon drafts a 173000 five classroom and kindergarten plant north of Manchester.
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Buena Park
Carl Gilbert
Lindbergh
Grand Ave
Gilbert
ARR State
State Division of Architecture
Too
Seal Beach Assessor to Visit for Veterans Tax Exemptions
Seal Beach officials announce two to three week visits by Wayne Holt deputy county assessor at city hall to receive veterans claims for county tax exemptions. First visit tomorrow at council chambers 3 30 p m to 5 p m on five days. Assessor C A Miller notes veterans with prior filings may have wives file on their behalf.
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Seal Beach
Wayne Holt
City Hall
Holt
Council
C. A. Miller
Miller
Market Prowler Eats Hamurger and Smokes Behind Market
Huntington Beach police report an intruder entered the Lance Beach Market at the Municipal Trailer Park in the early hours. The burglar fired himself a hamburger, took a pack of cigarettes, and disturbed nothing else according to officers.
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Huntington Beach
Lance
Circle Meeting Slated at Plaza Circle Event
NORWALK April 15 Mrs Ma tie Sowersby will host Plaza Circle First Methodist Church 130 p m at her home 11942 Abington St Meeting in charge by Mrs Edith Cagle circle chairman To Leave for Mexico Bellflower April 15 Mr and Mrs David Needles 5022 Dagwood Ave and Mr and Mrs Harold Brown 6046 Greywood Ave depart by plane to spend a week in Mexico City for a business convention
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Circle
Norwalk
Matie Sowersby
Plaza Circle
First Methodist Church
Abington St
Edith Cagle
Cirele
Bellflower
David Needles
Dagwood Ave
Harold Brown
Greywood Ave
Mexico City
Huntington Navy Cadet Flies Solo
Huntington Beach area cadet Robert S. Eberhart completed the first phase of naval aviation training at Whiting Field Milton Florida with his first solo flight. The son of Mrs Zoe G Eberhart he earned a Navy wings and commission as ensign in the United States Navy. Eberhart flew solo in the SS Texan Trainer and reported for duty February 2 1952 after attending Huntington Beach Union High School and Orange Coast College.
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Huntington Beace
Robert S. Eberhart
Zoe G. Eberhart
California Ave
Whiting Field
Milton
Fla
United States Navy
Eberhart Eberhart
Navy
Eberhart
Huntington Beach Union High School
Orange Coast College
Bellflower Library to Open with Phonograph Records
Bellflower announces a new county library of phonograph records to loan on cards, opening May 1 at the Flower Ave branch and Bixby St location. Mrs Jane Schisler, founder, says a library committee workshop will be held in the evening. Bellflower High School students will label records, and donations of records are welcome.
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Bellflower
Flower Ave
Bixby St
Jane Schisler
Mary O'Neill
Schister
Buena Park Names New Nazarene Minister
Buena Park reports Rev. Ford Ingles of Holtville is the new minister of the Nazarene Church. He received a unanimous call to serve as pastor and will reside with his wife and two daughters in the parsonage at 5821 Stanton Ave after April 21.
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Buena Park
Ford Ingles
Holtville
Nazarene Church
Woman's’ Clurhouse
Ingles
Stanton Ave
Fifth Leg Ignored by Milk Producer
Artesia April 15 Bessie a heavyweight Holstein cow with an extra leg grows from her left shoulder. Owned by Charles Vander Koi of 16404 Studebaker Rd the leg about three feet long and complete with hoof and knee joint. Bessie a normal milk producer attracts fairs. She has nine to ten gallons daily and just delivered her fifth calf. Vander Koi bought her in Minden Nebraska at age two hoping for a carnival oddity. He now values her as a top ranch milk producer and believes a carnival offer may still come.
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Artesia
Bessie
Charles Vander Koi
Studebaker Rd
Vander Kol
Vander Koi
Minden
New
State Highway Work Study Set
Santa Awa April 13 Plans for future highway work in California were discussed today with supervisors by Assembly Speaker Sam L Collins of Fullerton who named an interim committee to study and co ordinate the plans. The legislature appropriated 100 000 for the study. Collins said the committee will meet in San Francisco tomorrow to organize. The committee includes six assemblymen and six state senators. The study was proposed by the League of California Cities and the state Association of County Supervisors of which Gierd Smith of Orange is president.
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Santa Awa
California
Assembly
Sam L. Collins
Fullerton
Collins
San Francisco
League of California Cities
State Association of County Supervisors
Gierd Smith
Orange
Cadets Plan Cypress Drill For Public Schools Week
Cypress April 15 cadet drill announced for Cypress High District students entering as freshmen next fall. Eighth grade instructors meet for dinner at Cypress High School to discuss the forthcoming course of study. Open house at Cypress School slated 7 to 9 p.m. April 29 for Public Schools Week with Elizabeth Dickerson and district staff in attendance.
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Cypress
Anaheim
Elizabeth Dickerson
Thomas Lorenzini
Lethia Mylius
Dickerson
Cypress School
Tars and Oilers Set for Newport-Huntington Swim Meet
Newport Harbor High 3 0 in league hosts Huntington Beach High 3 0 in a top CLF dual meet. The Sun Set League race features the Tars facing the Oilers with past close results and key weight class matchups highlighting a potential title decider for the season.
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Huntington Beach
Tars
Newport Harbor High
Huntington Beach High
Oilers
Oiler
Buena Park Lions Schedule Change Dinner Meeting
Buena Park Lions announce a weekly Wednesday night dinner replacing the Thursday noon luncheon. The first gathering will be at 6 30 p.m. Wednesday at Knott's House, Buena Park.
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Buena Park
Lions Club
Knott
Zone Uniformity Aim of Group
Industrial committee of the Associated Chambers of Commerce of Orange County plans a meeting to discuss greater zoning designation uniformity between the county and its cities. Secretary William Gallienne reported after the directors’ meeting. Howard Irwin chairs the industrial committee. Officials noted that industrial zoning designations do not translate identically across ordinances.
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Huntington Beach
Industrial Committee
Associated Chambers of Commerce
Orange County
Son
William Gallienne
Associated Directors
Howard Irwin
Norwalk Catholic Women to Install Parish Council Members
Norwalk Catholic Women will install the Parish Council of Catholic Women at St. John of God Church on Thursday at 8 p.m. in the hall. Mrs Lillian Dusatke will chair the event, with assistants Lucille Hoffman A Fahey Ida Krugenberg Margaret Krugenberg Jennie DeStefano Trudy Edwards and Charlotte Davidson. Piano solos will be by Harry Steinmetz. New chairmen will be appointed after the installation.
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Worwalk
Catholic Women
St. John of God Church
Lillian Dusatke
Mres
Lucille Hoffman
A. Fahey
Ida Krugenberg
Margaret, Krugenberg
Jennie DeStefano
Trudy Edwards
Charlotte Davidson
Harry Steinmetz
Bullet Fired at Bellflower Home Today
Margaret Mary Berkey 31 of 9108 East 163rd Street is detained on suspicion of assault to commit murder after her husband John F. Berkey was shot at their Bellflower residence around 5 40 a m. He reported returning to find his wife missing then confronted her as she threatened him with a .22 rifle. He wrested the gun, breaking the stock, and was wounded in the left hip. Berkey claims she said it was accidental and blamed a nervous condition. Four live cartridges were found in the living room. He was hospitalized at Rancho Los Amigos.
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Bellflower
Margaret Mary Berkey
163Rd St
Norwalk Sheriff's Station
John F. Berkey
Berkey
Sheriff's Deputies
Los Angeles County General Hospital
Bellflower Store Founder Succumbs
Bellflower store founder Casimir Brenjer 95 died at his Whittier home after 29 years as a Bellflower flower market owner. He started the Bellflower Market in 1923 and lived in Bellflower before moving to Whittier six years ago. Rosary was today at Donald E Lanier Mortuary. Funeral is Wednesday at St Marys Catholic Church. Burial at Calvary Cemetery Los Angeles. Survived by son Louis of Whittier and daughter Mrs Ramona L Steinman of Bellflower.
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Whittier
Casimir
Franch) Brenjer
W. Orange Dr
S. Bellflower Blvd
Bellflower
Donald E. Lanier
N. Greenleaf St
St Mary’s Catholic Church
Calvary Cemetery
Los Angeles
Louis
Ramona L. Steinman
Milk Producers at Bellflower Center
A banquet and meeting outlined the Superior Milk Producers Association activities led by President Henry Van Dam. The group, with monthly output around 3 million quarts, operates from headquarters at 9829 Belmont Ave under manager Matt Oliveira.
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Bellflower
Superior Milk Producers Association
Henry van Dam
Belmont Ave
Matt Oliveira
Midway City Man Hurt in Accident
Clarke W. Johnson a 62 year old of 14131 Jefferson St was injured slightly at 2 p m Monday and taken to Long Beach hospital after his car collided at 17th St and Bolsa Chica Rd with an auto driven by Dorothy Helen Brown 21 of 9302 Bolla Rd She was not hurt Both cars went into a ditch after the impact
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Midway City
Clarke W. Johnson
Jefferson St
Long Beach Hospital
17Th St
Bolsa Chica
Dorothy Helen Brown
Bolla Rd
Looting at Downey Home Recovered Clothing and Pennies
Clothing valued at 344 and a count of pennies totaling 1 were taken from the home of Olive Dorothy Balfour at 8039 E Fourth St Downey. Deputies filed the report with the sheriff’s office detailing the April 15 disappearance.
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Downey
Olive Dorothy Balfour
Fourth St
Sheriff's
Pilot Flees Bomb Blast During Korea Flight
Marine M Sgt Hal Lurie, 31, Santa Ana, flying a Panther jet, failed to drop a 250 pound bomb over a Korea runway. He landed with the live ordnance, it exploded under his left wing, blowing away the canopy and causing him to escape moments before fire. Lurie, with 67 combat missions, returned to his family at 2010 Orange Ave, Santa Ana.
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First Marine Air Wing
Korea
Marine
Hal Lurie
Santa Ana
Lurie
Luke
North Korea
Aileen
Robert
David
Orange Ave
Santa A
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Charles Vander Kai
Vander Kai
P.T
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Lakewood Blvd
Huntington Council
Bellflower Road
Bellflower Girl
Gardena City
Bellflower Junior Unit
Artesia Club
Mexico
Huntington Navy Cadet
Bellflower Loan Service
C. A. Sexton
Robert Beecher
Bernard J. Ellerman
Herbert Holker
J. R. Beaver
Esquire
John Palen
Ray Trautwein
al Gatterdam
Lawrence Sprague
al Doesburg
Monts LaFleche
By George Henderson
Buena Park Lions
Bellflower Store
Bellflower Center
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