Red Cross Juniors Conference to convene in Long Beach
Red Cross Juniors assemble for a conference in Long Beach at California Heights Free Baptist Church on April 24 from 9 30 a m to 3 p m. The event, hosted by the Coordinating Council, invites school pupils and teachers to review this year’s Junior Red Cross program and plan for next year with speakers Betty Grant Paul Seymour and Tom Engels. Betty Muntz serves as conference chairman.
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Red Cross
Betty Grant
Paul Seymour
Tom Engels
Evelyn Burwell
Betty Muntz
Swimmer 15 Dies After Dive Rescue by Boys
Compton report of a 15 year old swimmer Demetrius Kimball who misjudged a 20 foot dive into Compton Creek and struck a sandbar. He was saved by 13 year old Nea Davis and 13 year old Paul Consowski who performed artificial respiration after bringing him to shore. Kimball was hospitalized at Los Angeles General and described as completely paralyzed.
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Alameda St. Bridge
Compton Creek
Pollce
Demetrius Kimball
124Th St
Nea
Davis
Palm Lane
Kimball
Paul Gonsowski
E. Elm St
Los Angeles General Hospital
St Anthony's High School Speech Contest Winners
The second annual speech contests at St Anthony's High School near completion with freshman and sophomore winners named. Freshmen James Gastreich Daniel Butts and Robert Blodgett. sophomores Michael Joyce James Dunn Wayne Ennis. Junior contest follows next week. seniors to follow.
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St. Anthony's High School
James Gastreich
Daniel Butts
Robert Blodgett
Michael Joyce
James Dunn
Wayne, Ennis
Compton
Us R
Las
Bill Cox
Cocoa St
Jean Portner
S. Thorson St
Physicians & Surgeons Hospital
Cox
Los Angeles General Hospital
Portner
Maywood Hospital
Bruce Elton
N. Locust Ave
al Kreipl
Compton Blvd
Locust St
School Glee Clubs Schedule Easter TV Appearances
The CSF chapter sponsors speech contests next month. Girls' Glee Club from Marys and Immaculate Heart high schools in Los Angeles will appear on Easter Sunday television with seminarians and other glee clubs, then perform at Holy Week services at St. Anthony's Church and at the Mount St. Mary's Music Festival on April 23.
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Immaculate Heart High School
Los Angeles
St. Anthony's Church
Mount St. Mary's
State College Announces Sorority Frat Pledges
The Long Beach State College pledges for sororities include Kappa Phi Gamma with Irene Dachler Evelyn Dominguez Marlene Empey Marilyn Furst Alice Heckendorf Helen Hoover Kaye Mitchell Joyce Niederber Jeane Penrod Valerie A White. Fraternity pledges include Sigma Epsi kin Chi Randall Silvernail Ted Mohler Bill Sundell Lawrence Bonnell Dobbs Alfred Egge Ron Sisler Tim Henney Richard Hulse Don McClain Don Moran Ted Baker Sigma Pl George Beteas Ben Ayeh Ralph Salisbury Bill Ver Steer Al Dorbish Don Smyth Ken Wiffler Willie Farms Flo Tian Kacemarek Pete Kramer John Dan Dick Mallander.
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Long Beach State College
Kappa Phi Gamma
Irene Dachler
Evelyn Dominguez
Marlene Empey
Marilyn Furst
Alice Heckendorf
Helen Hoover
Kaye Mitchell
Joyce Niederberper
Jeane Penrod
Valerie A. White
Chi Delta Delta
Sabra Giers
Carol Hulse
Maureen Leach
Joan M. Moriarty
Marianne, Plovers
Judy State
Delta Zeta
Evengel Davis
Donna Edwards
Mary Ann Haney
Dorothy Hutchinson
Valjeanne Worden
Long Beach
Q Sigma Epsikin Chi
Randall Silvernail
Ted Mohler
Bill Sundell
Lawrence Bonnell
Dobbs
Alfred Egge
Ron Sis
Students in Library Club at Seal Beach School
Seventh graders under school librarian Mrs Hirse Smith organize a Library Club. Officers include Dorsey Brady president Steve Chew vice president Ban ale Sharp secretary Gwen Birt treasurer Mary Jo Mckee sergeant at arms. Meetings mix social services library topics and school library work. The club helps mount pictures for the library picture file. Bulletin Board Committee led by Kenneth Cass plans attractive displays. Members enjoy previewing new books before shelving for circulation.
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Hirse Smith
Seal Beach
Dorsey Brady
Steve Chew
Banale Sharp
Gwen Birt
Mary Jo Mckee
Library Club
Kenneth Cass
Nina Stewart obituary in North Long Beach church member dies
Nina T Stewart 74 of 1213 School St died Friday in Lynwood hospital. A Kansas native, she lived in North Long Beach from 1523 to 191. Survived by two sons Robert and Charles and a brother Robert. Funeral by Hunter Mortuary.
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Lynwood
Nina T. Stewart
Lynwood Hospital
Kansas
North Long Beach
Building Permits Tallies and Alterations Confuse Figures
Fragmentary OCR shows building permits tallies with sums 33 960 255 and 10 892 010, plus scattered notes on alterations and years. Many garbled names and phrases obscure precise details including locations and authorities.
Man Freed in False Report Case
A municipal court acquittal vote failed to reach a verdict in the James Joseph Evans false car theft report case. Evans, 54, of 46 Chestnut Ave, claimed two sailors forced him from his car on Feb 18 at Cherry Ave and Ansheim St. The Navy men faced grand theft charges related to the same incident.
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James Joseph Evans
Chestnut Ave
Charles T. Smith
Evans
Cherry Ave
Ansheim St
San Diego
Navy
Denier
Pastor and Wife Gift Trip to Holy Land
Rev. Orval Aver kamp and his wife will depart Monday on a Holy Land trip funded by Trinity Lutheran Church members. The gift totals include $1500 from Sunday school, $1003 from the women’s group, and $6000 from the church council, kept secret. They will fly from Los Angeles to New York then to Rome, visiting Arabian and Jewish areas of the Holy Land and Egypt, returning via Zurich Paris and London.
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Holy Land
Trinity, Lutheran Church
de Rev. Averkemp
New York
Los Angeles
International
Rome
Egypt
Zurich
Paris
London
Gardena Pair Hurt in Fatal Auto Mishap Near Palmdale
Palmdale report says Bane R. Tracy of Fresno died when a car collided with a Southern Pacific freight train at a crossing north of Palmdale. Two Gardena residents Hollis Websting and Ralph Butz were injured, along with Frederick F. Clark of Roanoke Virginia whose aboard status was undetermined.
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Tracy
Fresno
Southern Pacific
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Hollis C
Pam and Jerry North A Dream Pair of Authors
Frances and Dick Lockridge built a literary empire around Mr and Mrs North starting with a New Yorker skit in 1940. The couple transformed ordinary home life into a successful multi medium series, writing daily from 9:30 to 1 and turning stories into plays films and radio. They share a love of cats and cooking, keep three Siamese named Martin Gin and Sherry, and plan more mysteries while maintaining a steady writing pace.
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Tarzan of the
Africa
Frances
Dick Lockridge
Paath
Gentle Bul
Mrs. North
New York Sun
New Yorker
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Lockridges
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NBC
Tarzan
Pam
Jerry North
Westchester
Lockridge
Martin
Gin
Sherry
Lfe
Frances Lockridge
Mrs North
Easter Boosts Retail Trade Amid Industry Shifts
New York reports mixed but buoyant business prospects with Easter shopping lifting retail trade and plans for construction boosting investment. Auto sales surge with GM and Ford leading, small independents rising. manufacturing shows signs of leveling after August decline while steel, petroleum, textiles note overproduction. Industrial output index for March at 12.5 percent of 1879-49 average, signaling possible steadying before growth resumes.
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Federal Reservel Board
Richmond
Boston
Trade Journal
Automotive News
General Motors
Ford
Nash Motors
Federal Reserve Board
Trend of Stock Prices for Past Week Analyzed
Analysis notes little change since a week ago with a shift in market psychology. It cites a possible Dow Jones Industrials reaching 400 by year end if the new attitude persists and earnings ratios rise. Private construction and retail optimism show tentative revival amid modest gains in expenditures.
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Try
Ahan
Chicago Reserve Bank
Market pattern hints at another trading top
Tuesday's Wen Was oso foresees a further rise into early next week followed by a potential 6 to 8 point correction. The note cites a consistent pattern since the start of the year and mentions General Diotora at 69, hoping for five new highs above last year's bull peak of 6024.
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General Diotora
General Motors
L B Women Given Navy Civil Award
Two Long Beach women, Elizabeth Hazard and Ruth Smith, received the Meritorious Civilian Service Award from Captain G. W. Foott at the Long Beach Naval Shipyard. Hazard was honored for taking 30 percent more work in the Technical Division library, improving procedures, and training staff. Smith for efficiently handling additional work in the Technical Division and applying better methods.
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Navy
Long Beach
Elizabeth Hazard
Locust Ave
Ruth-Smith
Seventh St
Lyard
G. W. Foott
GC. Weaver
Hazard
Windshield Pox Spreads From Seattle Across Northwest
Windshield pitting spreads from Seattle area to Victoria BC Olympia Spokane and San Diego with reports of pocked windshields. University of Washington directs a full scale scientific inquiry as experts propose theories from chemical particles to air pollution and mass psychology.
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Pacific Northwest
Los
Victoria
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Canada
Olympia
Eade Mountains
Spokane
Bellingham
Arthur B. Langlie
Washington
University of Washington
San Diego
Former State Worker Dies in California Clinic Partner
Robert Woodley Stellar, MD, 58, partner in Stellar & Schroeder Medical Clinic in Long Beach and Wilmington, died Thursday at home in Rancho Colinas. Native of Cookville, Tennessee, he came to California 53 years ago, lived in Wilmington 27 years, served six years on State Industrial Accident Commission. Surviving: wife Shirley Lou, sons Charles and Derick A. Stellar, parents, brother Arnold T. Stellar, sisters Mary E. Harper Margaret Parlour and Martha J. Merrill. Services Monday noon at Mottell's Mortuary Chapel with Rev. John Rogers Davis officiating. Interment at Adountsia View Cemetery, Altaena.
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Stellar & Schroeder Medical Clinic
Ninth St
Pine Ave
Long Beach
N. Avalon Blvd
Wilmington
Camino Ge Las Colinas
Reriondo Beach
Cookville
Tem
California
State Industrial Accident Commission
Shirley Lou
Charles
Derick A. Stellar
Ernest Stellar
la Canada
Arnold T. Stellar
Mary E. _Harper
Mirs
Margaret Parlour
Martha J. Merrill
Ln Mottell
John Rogers Davis
St Luke's Episcopal Church
Adountsia
View Cemetery
Altaena
Oppenheimer Loyalty Debate Hits Eisenhower Era Policy
A high level official says J Robert Oppenheimer was loyal yet faces a voluminous security file. Discussion centers on whether the government should continue access to atomic secrets amid security risk concerns and possible blackmail. A three man AEC panel reviews the case as of December.
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Eisenhower Army
J. Robert
Oppenheimer
Sopenheimer
Oppen
Governheimer
Asso
Congressional Com
Jaureee
Eisenhower
U.S
AEC
Cape
Navy backs permanent Pico Ave landing site
Rear Adm. George C. Dyer, head of the 11th Naval District, favors retaining the Navy Landing at Pico Avenue. He will recommend the permanent Pico site to Washington while city officials urge a temporary facility at the foot of Magnolia. Some Navy leaders favor Magnolia, but Long Beach Harbor officials and the City Council oppose a June ballot landing project.
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Pico Ave
George C- Dyer
11Th Naval District
Magive
New York
Weather Bureau
Lyman B. Sutter
Sam E. Vickers
The
San Diego
Dyer
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Great Lakes
Warner Central Plains
Eavy
Magnolia
J Pasadena
Toda
Adm
Dyst
Pico
Harbor Department
Magnolia Ave
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