City Hall Needs More Space Shrouded by Funds Gap
Mayor Burton W. Chace told the North Long Beach Co-ordinating Council that Long Beach outgrew its City Hall with about 300 000 residents now versus 75 000 when built. He said recreational and park projects are stalled for lack of funds and that only public bonds could finance needed facilities. Harbor oil wealth cannot be touched due to unsettled tidelands.
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Burton W. Chace
North Long Beach
Rea
Harbor Oil
Tidelande
W. H. Markham
Paul E. Wilkins
Long Beach
Methodist
Joseph M. Kenrick
W. I. Correll
Grant School
Joseph R. Whippo
Mit
Houghton Park
Bazil A. Carleson
Regular meeting of the Bureau of Ships Volunteer Naval Reserve unit
A regular meeting of the Bureau of Ships Volunteer Naval Reserve unit in the Long Beach area will be held tomorrow at 8 p.m. in the Naval Reserve hangar at Reeves Field, Terminal Island, announced today.
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Bureau of Ships Volunteer Naval Reserve Unit
Long Beach Land
Naval Reserve
Reeves Field
Terminal Island
Alcoholic Wards in Hospitals Urged at Western Hospitals Meet
Dr Lawrence Feold of the California Department of Mental Hygiene urged in Los Angeles that municipal hospitals maintain well staffed alcoholic wards. He said admission of intoxicated persons should be as easy as for other patients and staff should show helpful attitudes to alcoholics to prevent progression to chronic alcoholism and crime.
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Los Angeles
Pope Receives Newsmen in Private Audience
Pope Pius XII hosted a 15 minute private audience in the Vatican with 17 American journalists led by Hugh Baillie of United Press and including Kingsbury Smith and Charles Guptill of Associated Press. Myron C. Taylor introduced the group as Truman’s envoy to the Vatican. The Pontiff asked about American and European affairs.
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Vatican City
Pope Pius XII
Hugh Baillie
United Press
Myron C. Taylor
President Truman
Vatican
Bailie
America
Europe
Greenback candidate Bolts GOP to head old time party
Greenback candidate John G. Scott, a 68 year old bee grower and retired college professor, is the party’s presidential nominee after a mail ballot. Scott denounces “money power” and proposes greenback notes backed by government taxing power, to replace bonds and cut debts. Vice presidential nominee Granville B. Leeke.
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Rabyville
N. Y
John G. Scott
United States
Scott
Greenback Party
Seott
Greenback
Willam Jennings Bryan
Granville B. Leeke
South Bend
Ind
Orange Ave Plan Gets First Reading As Through Boulevard
An ordinance amending the city traffic code designates Orange Ave as a through boulevard from Ocean Blvd to the northerly city boundary. The measure, given a first reading, requires final approval and posting of signs at intersecting streets.
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Orange Ave
Ocean Blvd
Cornell
Albatross Captured 1600 Miles Away
A black footed albatross from the Hawaiian chain was captured by a Japanese bonito fisherman 1600 miles west of its home base. Dr. Oliver L. Austin Jr. of the occupation natural resources section said the bird swallowed a sardine baited hook 700 miles north of Marcus Island. The albatross had been banded by the U S Fish and Wildlife Service at Midway on January 12, 1941.
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Tokyo
Oliver L. Austin Jr
Occupation Natural Resources Section
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Obiseo Ave
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Janet
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Last Frontier
Las Vegas
Ramona
ROTEL
Frontier
Greenbacker
Plan
Orange Avenue
Bigelow
Carls
Carl's Furniture
E. Pacific Cokst
ST Hwy
Carl's
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