City Obtains Park Land at Bargain Price
Long Beach acquires 382 acres of proposed park land northeast of San Gabriel River and Spring St for 1.308 million dollars after a condemnation suit against Lakewood Park Corp. The land had been valued at 8.74 million. Lakewood Park Corp also receives 60,500 dollars from Southern California Edison for a transmission line easement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Long Beach
San Gabriel River
Spring St
Lakewood Park Corp
Southern California Edison Co
dJudee John Shea
Santa Ana
Scuffle and Sleepy Pajamas End DA Probe in San Pedro
A San Pedro shooting case is dropped after Carmen Cremona’s pajamas and slippers appear in William Morris’s home. Morris and Cremona recover from injuries while investigators seek a suitable misdemeanor complaint. Cremona reportedly took sleeping pills after the incident and the pajamas are in the evidence locker.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carmen Cremona
Tne
San Pedro
William H. Morris
W. Highth St
Morris
Carmen
John
Cremona
Adrian Thornberry
Mrs. Cremona
Lakewood Sisters Reunite After 46 Years in Wisconsin
A Lakewood woman and her sister met for the first time in nearly half a century. They recalled excursions on a Wisconsin lake, work in Oshkosh, and a one eyed sheriff in Sheboygan, as Mrs. W. P. Evans and Mrs. Frank Zoufal greeted each other in Lakewood City after traveling from Detroit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lakewood
Wisconsin
Oshkas Match Company
Sheboygan
W. P. Evans
Frank Zoufal
Oshkosh
Wis
Frank Zouful
Long Beach Unified School District approves 23 million budget
The Board of Education adopted a 23,272,388 dollar budget for the Long Beach Unified School District, sending it to the county for tax rate setting. Superintendent Douglas A. Newcomb estimates the tax rate will rise from 2.67 to 2.70 per 100 dollars of assessed valuation. The plan, 563,078 over last year, funds salaries of 17,442,000 with 14,904,248 for teachers, plus 2,689,847 for capital outlay and other services. Signal Hill officials sought sidewalks and beautification, noting oil-wealth property. district leaders said Signal Hill taxes were high valued yet enrollment was low.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Board of Education
Laong
Beach Unified
County Superintendent of Education
Board of Supervisor's
Douglas A. Newcomb
Hill
Long Beach
Ane Business
Arthur Knoll
Signal Hill
William Hobba
Signal
Chamber Endorses Band Proposal and Hails Director Rise
The Lakewood Chamber of Commerce adopted a resolution endorsing Long Beach Unified School District band issue for November election. Directors also accepted the resignation of Don Robhien and directed a letter of appreciation be sent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Long Beach Unified
Mondey
Lakewood Chamber of Commerce
Don Robhien
Thet
Youth Band to Fiesta at Santa Barbara Fiesta Parade
Long Beach Youth Band will make its fourth annual appearance in the Santa Barbara Old Spanish Days Fiesta parade on Thursday. Nine majorettes in Spanish costumes will travel with the 45 band members.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Long Beach
Reynolds obituary notices from South Gate area
Obituary notices list Stella Reynolds and Lois Wilson among long-time South Gate residents, with service details at Mottell's Mortuary and various local ministers. Also records infant and adult deaths including Timothy John Beech, Mary Leed, and others, with survivors, birthplaces, and interment plans. The notices mention community figures and local funeral providers, plus a blood donation drive by Long Beach postal employees.
Mrs Rose Ella Harmar dies former Fowler resident
Mrs Rose Ella Harmar of Fowler died at home on Monday. Born in Nawton Kansas she moved here 52 years ago and left nine months ago. She was a member of First Baptist Church Fowler where her son Rev Fre A Hobson is pastor. Survived by sisters Estelle Carter Long Beach Mabel Ewing and brothers Harry Oster Anaheim Robert Oster. Services scheduled 1 pm Thursday at Mottell's Mortuary chapel with Sunnyside interment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arthur
George W. George Downing
McDerald
D.D
Summyside
Dyksera
Timothy John
Morial Park
Ross
Rose Jr
Beech Hospital
Fella
Peter Foss
Iowa
Mary " Wie
Cherry Aye
Mottell’s
Virgil Harper Wisher
Westminster Memorial Park
Glasgow
Scotland
David
Harold
Gfenn
Stewart
Isabelle Franty
Long Beach
Margaret Drourge
Tyle
la Long Beach Hospital
Secord
Mey L. Secord
Ocean Blvd
Boulder
Colo
Fort Collins
PEO
Ebell Club
Creative Wrijting Group
Gerald Secord
Long
Anaheim
Robert W. Oster
Mottell's Mortuary Chapel
Sunnyside
Council OKs Arts Panel
The City Council approved seven Municipal Arts Committee appointments by an 8 to 1 vote. Mayor Vermillion named four new members, with D Pat Ahern the sole dissenter. Holdovers Walter Haverhorst and Athena Hall remain on the panel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Vermillion
D. Pat Ahern
Walter Haverhorst
Teraine Ave
Athena Hall
Park Ave
Res Mhan Ridder
Long Beach Blvd
Ben K. Parks
el Roble Ave
Edward A. Killingsworth
Temple Ave
Edward Frank
Senta “Anal Ave
James Kress
Pine Ave
City Council
Couple Arrested in Abortion Case Northern Bellflower Arrests
Norwalk sheriff deputies arrested Antonia Escobedo and Harvey A. Lockhart Jr on suspicion of performing an abortion on a 14 year old Bellflower girl. Escobedo, 45, had prior abortion death trials in 1948 and 1953 and was acquitted both times.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Norwalk
Sheciiff
Antonia Hscobedo
Los Angeles
Harvey
F A. Lockhart Jr
Bellflower
Escobedo
Orange County Fair Opens for Six Day Run Feature
The 1954 Orange County Fair opens a six day program with a record 5 500 exhibits and an expected 410 000 visitors. Headline attractions include the National Horse Show the largest in California a musical revue and the Festival of Flowers. The junior show runs through Wednesday with open events starting Wednesday night. A 60 member Orange County youth cast performs Bouchard the Pirate nightly for a 3 000 seat amphitheater. A public livestock auction Friday at 6 p m highlights the event. A 50 acre parking lot with free tram service to the gates aids crowd flow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Santa Ana
Orange County
California
Fairgrounds
Newport Beach
Bouchard the Pirate
Art Designs to Be Shown at Wilton Hotel Exhibit
America’s leading commercial artists display 54 award winning designs from the 29th National Competition and Exhibit of Outdoor Advertising Act. Sponsored by the Art Directors Club of Chicago, the Wilton exhibit marks their first Southern California showing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
America
Wlitan
Yven
Chui
Chicago
Califorlor Jnie
Bandits Loot Beach Funds In City Break-In
Two robbers smashed a window at a Long Beach beach station early today. A 23 year old attendant Roger Hummel reported a handgun and a 12 inch wrench used in the break in. The incident followed a Long Beach City Council vote approving a $75 000 appropriation for lifeguard services for the 1954 55 fiscal year amid county beach use plans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Compton
Roger Hummel
Long Beach
Regional politics new demo chairman to attend pow wow
Elizabeth Snyder, new state Democratic chairman, attends a district pow wow at the UAW Hall Long Beach Blvd with leaders from the area. Doris Hughes and Dick Cartwright named cochairs of the 18th District. Dick Nussell helps arrange. speakers include Joseph M. Kennick Ven Fahrney and others. Annette Brewer runs office hours at Rep. Hosmer’s Long Beach office. narcotics shift info noted. West Lakewood Democratic Club meets Be Be Be with speaker Joseph M. Kennrick at 7380 Be Mm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Democratic Party
Elizabeth Snyder
Mys
Doris Hughes
Dick Cartwright
Democratic Central Committee
Dick Nussell
Nussell
Joseph MM. iKennick
Ven Fahrney
Hosmer
Annette Brewer
Craig Hosmer
Long Beach
Brewer
West Lakewood
Fairman St
Joseph M. Kenrick
Frank Brannon
Man Found Insane in Murder Trial
Delphia C. Clark a 49 year old construction worker was found not guilty by reason of insanity after stabbing Edward Gray a 64 year old construction worker in San Pedro July 12. Clark was adjudged insane at the time of the crime and presently insane and committed to Mendocino State Hospital for an indefinite period. He withdrew a previous guilty plea to manslaughter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Delphia C. Clark
Fourth St
Mondey
Clark
Joe Raycraft
San Pedro
Edward Gray
Santa Cruz
Gray
Mercus J. Crahen
Mendocino State Hospital
Marineland Forum to Hear Talk at Wilton Hotel
The Wilton Hotel hosts a Wednesday forum to hear Ray Smith, vice president and general manager of Marineland of the Pacific. He will discuss the planned Palos Verdes Hills oceanarium, a multi million dollar project soon to open to the public. Smith previously worked with the San Francisco World's Fair and the Hollywood Bowl.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chamber of Commerce
Wilton Hotel
Palos Verdes Hills
Ray Smith
Smith
Man seeks 200000 for injuries from fall at Pacific Sport Fishing Building
On Monday the board referred to the laity attorney a damage claim filed by William F. Kaill of Wilmington. Kaill says he was injured June 14 when he fell from the building's second story while it was being moved near Pier A.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harper Commissioners
Laity Attorney's Office
William F. Kaill
Wilmington
Kail
Pacific
Pier A
Burglar Steals Cash Liquor and Gun as Guard Sleeps
Japanese gardener Shigeru Yukimura woke to a theft at his employer H. H. McVicar’s home at 1146 River Lane. About $45 in cash 12 bottles of liquor and an automatic pistol were taken while the McVicars vacationed in Mexico City and Yukimura slept in to “protect” the house.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Santa Ana
Shigeru Yukimura
H. H. McVicar
River Lane
McVicars
Mexico City
Yukimura
Willowbrook Man Killed in Hwy 98 Truck Crash
Willowbrook, five miles south of here on Hwy 98, a 76 year old man Robert Walter Stone of 2249 & 230th St Willowbrook was fatally injured in a care truck collision. John Spangler 71 operated the other vehicle. investigators report he was unhurt and the cause is under inquiry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kingsburg
Calls
Robert
Walter Stone
230Th St
Willowbrook
Here
Highway Patrol
John Spangler
Farapten
Spangler
Uptown Site Plan Talks Split View on Civic Center
City Council’s charter committee will hear Ray Wyllie of the Uptown Civic Center Committee on a proposed Uptown 2 acre site. A Nov 2 ballot measure seeks five million dollars for a block bounded by 32nd and 37th streets Long Beach Boulevard and Arpantle Avenue. Wyllie aims to repurpose the land for a municipal hospital and related buildings. The panel also referred safety lighting, rubbish disposal sites, and a mayoral term change proposal back to committees.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charter Meneimant Committee
Ray Wyllie
Town Civic Center Committee
32Nd St
37Th St
Long Beach Blvd
Arpantle Ave
Wyllie
Public Improvement Fund
Councl
Paul B. Wilcox
Associated Property Owners
Wilcox
Nurse Admits Stealing Drug Supply In Compton Raid
In Compton on Monday night police and sheriff deputies seized thousands of drug capsules at Mrs. Diana Brown's home. The 36 year old nurse at Harbor General Hospital confessed to stealing codine phenobarbital ephedrine and other drugs over months with plans for a rest home. Officers also found bookmaking gear four hypodermic syringe outfits alcohol six aspirin bottles and six women playing cards. The unidentified drugs were sent to the sheriff's lab for analysis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Compton
Diana Brown
Doris
Roy Nelson
H. MM
Zelmet
James Gavin
Firestone Park
Sheriff's Laboratory
Los Angeles
Contract Completion Dates Moved Later in Long Beach
Delbert Chapman, 41, a Lomita longshoreman, received 1 to 15 years for burglary tied to a theft of 10,075 dollars. A new construction date for the Jeean Blvd Bridge was set for Sept 1, and Nov 12 marked the end date for the 1st St Bridge project. Judge Maltby denied probation after Chapman’s July 12 conviction by jury.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bills
Moor
Min
Long Beach
117Th
Wiien
Alamiton Britialt
San
Tacs
Ie Trazh
Kysko Powell Tver Co
Ee Petty Mars
Avon
Aisawaaatee
Guayamias Hex
Pet, Corp
Manzanillo
Oceam Blyé
Wednes Dat Tans Herth
Pam Uf
Ambeliner
America
Fraosgert
San Frat
Argonne Ave
Enguire
Anc Buntos & Linn
Yokohama
Ambulinen
Aumape
A. Cy Hubel
San Diego
Mlan
Onco
Sanstitution State
Hureka Biales Matine Eine
Avi New Newark
Acm
Bada YE
Ocean Blvd
Pencras Gth
Vancouver
Matson Nuv
Ship, Co
Honolutts Down
Gaa Tawalien Bulder
Sac
Seattle
Polary
Niltera Haven Biy
Mall
Ave
Philppina Bauries Sea
Fae
Far East
Awartah
Palmetto State
Panama City States Marine L. Au i Gan Eran Pacitle Niwest Bry
Glasgow Seas
Ota Bsn
San Fran
Grace Line
Western Ocean
Francisca
Audraya
Okohania Burtate
Brooklyn Helgi Peebiniaan
San Francisco Bataan
Beaver Stote
Francisca Curacao Carma
Richmand
San Francisco Edisox Mariner
San Francisco Floria
Braricisco
Harry Luckendl
BoEuenaventura
Loch Gowan
Birtjardanger
Mar
San Francisco
Laura Maersk
Reves Forget
Minnesota
Tsai
Watten
Seattle Nori
Beacon
Il Pener
Manlia Ventura
iNor
San_Francisca Wittem
Luckent
Rotterdam
Fasteep Einer
Lomita Longshoreman
Lumpiuus Eas
Os Tc E
Nstra
Jeean Blvd
Delbert Chapman
Joseph M. Maltby
Chapman
Pellows, & Stewart, Inc
Steuber
South St
Also Mentioned on This Page
Bonds
Farold. W
Watson
Lottlema
Mottell's Mortuary
Grover CG
Bagby
Westminster Mausoleum
Stevenson
Peter W. Steve
Almond Ave
Pripoli
Greece
Logal
Alliancs
Pauline
Jevee
Gus
Tommy
Long’ Beach
John Long Beach Mostal
Bent Boatin Magonis Advick
Long Beach Lodge
Red Cross Blood Bank
Ahs
Nicholas Bitiris
Port Memorial Park
John W. Cady
Benjamin J. Dodge
Cecil J. Fornes
Wilfred
Id. Moore
J. ‘Terry O'Connell
Stephen G. Packard
Edward G. Turley
Dale G Whitt
Freeland
Puente
Blanche E. Freeland
Missouri
Alvin
Dale
Norwalls
Fern Cuf
Faye Rysell
O| Paramount
Hunter Mortuagy
Sunnyside Memorial Park
Nash
Emory
Gale Ave
Corona Hospital
Edna W
Mortell
Mortuary
Council Oks Arts Panel
Gerry Dudley
L. B
Man
Protector
Maentitlan Ants
First Thrift
Nanan
Wilshire
Santa Monica
Miradale
Brealey Inglawood
Markal St
Borilaginn Park
Guefield
Dong Seach Tienes Baling
Opan
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!