City Tries to Assure Pageant Directors of Long Beach
The Towne Club hosts Long Beach Pageant Inc directors who push to continue Miss Universe events with or without Catalina Swimsuit Co. A first offer sought 100000 for Miss Universe and five years of contest rights. a second proposal suggested co sponsorship with Long Beach assuming obligations. Local officials estimate costs beyond revenue, with city backing and municipal facilities, police, and fire services noted.
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Ind
Catalina Swimeuit Cotysell
Long Beach
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Ne Towne Club
Pageant
Catalina Swintsult Co
Aw Suir Company
H. G. Markworth
United Plans 17 Airliners and Aircraft Radar Installations
United Air Lines projects adding seventeen airliners with an expenditure of around twenty one million dollars for airborne radar on a future fleet. The plan includes four engine jets and new weather radar systems aimed to improve storm navigation and reduce turbulence for passengers.
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United Air Line
New Aires
United
Hert
Phone Firm Vet Receives Award for 25 Years of Service
Robert Weeks, a long time wire chief at the Long Beach Exchange, received a gold emblem for 25 years of service. He began as a mail boy and rose through roles to test boardman, supervisor, and wire chief supervisor. He is married to Adalean with son Robert age 20 and daughter Joann age 15, of 6070 Braylon Ave.
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Sevice
Robert Weeks
Long Beach Exchange
Weeks
Ticksman Test
Jstillation
Supervisan
Weeks Peek
Adalean
Robert
Joann
Braylon Ave
City Gas Chief Whiting to Retire After 30 Years
T O Tommy Whiting chief joclitator for the City Gas Department will retire Monday after 30 years and 4 months with the organization He served as chief collector for 20 years and earlier roles included six years as a Teter yeader and four as a collector He began in 1924 when 30 000 meters were present, now about 151 He is 70 years old on Sept 3 and active in the Shriners Long Branch Shrine He has been involved in artillery units and civic events and lives with his wife at 218 Chestnut As
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T. O
Tommy) Whiting
City Gas Department
Whiting
Lo Five
Ty Whiting
WihGerd
Wan
Cama
Tong Beach
Mother Finds Baby Son Dead
Mrs. Maria Lamkin of 323 Atlantic Ave found her three month old son Steven dead in his bassinet at 14, when she went to wake him for a regular feeding. Police said the infant slept face down and may have suffocated. The mother reported seeing no problems the prior evening. The body was taken to Mothell’s Mortuary.
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Maria Lamkin
Atlantic Ave
Steven
Calla
Trainer Plane Plant Operation Goes East
Production of the trainer plane at the North American Aviation plant expands as the company readies increased output for the war program. The trainer plane supports the Navy and broader missile and electronics development effort, with the Olin/Aishon partnership cited in scaled production plans.
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Sigaulvaneest
North Americ Aviation
Heer Ainiefourm
Chlonitiva
Olin, Aishon
Cam
Fiewyls Sail Tocey
Overhaul of Auditorium and Stadium Code Studied
City Council voted unanimously to study the Auditorium and Stadium Ordinance, citing excess discretion for the managing director. The move followed Harley H. Kelly’s dismissal as chief clerk amid a report of financial discrepancies in Auditorium funds. Council members demanded a duties list for all Auditorium employees over the past decade.
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Raymond C. Kealer
Harley H. Kelly
Municipal Auditorium
Kelly
Carriar
Kealer
Open Council
David Olmsted
Parakeet Star as TV Ad Comforts Neighborly Home
Mrs. Caroline Busha and her eight month old parakeet Billy entertain with unexpected ads as TV spots air. Billy mimics announcers, offering odd lines like Deep well water while hopping between lamp and curtain rod. Agencies bid for the bird, though he sometimes garbles lines.
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Billy
Convention-Bound Sigma Pi Delegates Head to National Meet
Representatives of Sigma Pi from Long Beach State College prepare to attend the national convention starting Sunday in French Lick Indiana. The group includes Maurice Galton Hannah Leroy Clyda Herdy and other local members. The local unit plans to petition to be recognized as a chapter at the fraternity's event.
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Long Beach State College
French Lick
Ind
Galton, Maurice
Hannah An Leroy
Clyda Herdy
Toree
Presidio ceremony honors doctor for brave wartime medical aid
Maj Clarence L Anderson, a city physician from Long Beach, received a Distinguished Beavier Cross and a Medal Pendant during a Presidio San Francisco ceremony for saving lives of wounded soldiers in Korea. He treated prisoners of war from 1950 to 1951 and later spoke at a Tang Beard Medical Society meeting after visiting home.
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Svar Carhos
Presidio
San Francisco
Bi Korea
May Aanderson
Oni
Howard Arshall
7Th St
Long Beach
Anderson
Tang Beard Medical Society
Aniflerset
Yelving
1St Cavalry
Jane
Hart County Board to Interview Firms for Landing Project
The Hart County Board of Commissioners will interview firms to prepare a land schedule for Pierpoint Landing. Officials will meet Thursday with architects Kenneth A. WEng, Tough Gibbs and Francis I. Housel. John P. Davis, board president, recommended the Tuesday firm for interviews. An invitation was extended to Pereira Ain Luckmian, James Ry, Friend, and Welton Becket to discuss general qualifications Monday.
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James Ry
Friend
Welton Becket
Neighbors Capture Suspect in Peeping Tom Incident
Uniformed units had searched the area for weeks for the Peeping Tom. Early this morning a man matching Brock’s description peered through a bungalow bedroom window at Vernita Galloupe. Galloupe faced him at the door, the culprit fled in a car, and Brock was captured less than an hour later near Mrs Molfetto’s home.
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Brock
Vernita Galloupe
Miss Galloupe
Iis
Spencer
Long Beach Men Get Jail Terms for Dope Charges
Two Long Beach men were sentenced in Long Beach Superior Court for marijuana possession after a March confrontation with narcotics officers. Fran Rivera, 22, and Jag Found, 21, received county jail terms as police described a violent struggle. Officers Raycraft and Naylor testified about the aftermath, while the defendants claimed the officers were bandits. The case drew attention as municipal arts and civic committee matters were also discussed at city meetings.
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Long Beach
Fran V. Rivera
Caspian Way
Williams St
Zudge Fae Raycraft
Beth
Tudge Raycraft
Tark W. McMahan
James C. Naylor
Weagler
Ang McMahan
Exceptional Children Enrollment Slated at Training Center
Pupils for classes at the Exceptional Children Foundation Training Center at 1005 E Sixth St will enroll Tuesday and on Sept 7. The center serves mentally retarded children not acceptable in public schools. Nursery, intermediate and senior classes will be held this year. parents bringing the children are asked to accompany them.
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Exceptional Children Foundation
Couple's Death Report Awaited by Coroner
The coroner's office said it will issue a report on the August 20 death of William War Howe, 42, and his wife Margarite, 8, at 121 W 71st St. Police found the couple dead after a friend alerted them when no one answered. Bodies were in bed and on the bathroom floor. evidence suggested they had taken sleeping pills. Double funeral services are set for Monday at 4 p.m. in Mortell's chapel with Rev. Wilford Hall officiating. Interment will be at El Riosecrans National Cemetery in San Diego on Tuesday at 1 p.m.
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William War Howe
Marguerte
71St St. Nn
Anout Vo Works
Barker
Palige
Felica
Mortell
Pioneer Spencer clan to hold reunion in Topeka
The 10 children of George Arthur Spencer, pioneer resident of Admire, Kansas, will meet for the first time in over 40 years September 2-3 at Hotel Lafayette in Topeka. Many attendees are married with families, withSpencers and in laws coming from Kansas, Colorado, Idaho, California and elsewhere.
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George Arthur Spencer
Admire
Kan
Hotel Lafayette
Spencer
Lyon County
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Topeka
Stella V. Smith
Ceres
Alit
Robert W. Spencer
Burbank
Fred A. Walfe
Frank Snodgrass
Wichita
Archie G. Spencer
Denver
Colo
Warren Spencer
Harveyville
Kar
Wallace Shultz
Priese River
Idaho
Art Johnson
Sandpoint
Ted Spencer
Yreka
Calif
Recorder Stolen From Auditorium in Pasadena Booth Incident
A squna recorder worth seven cents was stolen Thursday night from the Municipal Auditorium during a firemen convention. Alfred Theunch, a booth exhibitor, said two teenage boys admired the instrument earlier and returned after the show closed to take it.
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Municipal Auditorium
Alfred Theunch
Pasadena
Murder Scene Photos Shown at Leal Trial
Photographs from the Leal murder case presented to the Superior Court jury show Armando Leal at 104 Glendora Ave in bed, blood on his head, and a later brain injury from surgery. The scene includes Mrs Leal with multiple knife like wounds, while neighbors found Armando Leal March 7 and a steel chest wound is noted in the evidence.
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Armando Ayeal
Glendora Ave
Aim &O
Superior Court
Sha
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Driver Wins 7500 Crash Case Award
A Superior Court jury awarded Josef F P Caviezel of 701 Delta Ave a 7500 judgment for neck and back injuries from a rear end collision in October 1952. The accident at 190th St and Normandie Ave involved driver G J Schoettlin and the car owner and distributors named in the suit.
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Cavionel
Delta Ave
Osuit
Caviozel
G. J. Schoettlin
190Th St
Normandie Ave
Gardain
Suilt
Schoett
Dredging Plan Upheld By City Harbor Board
The city attorney advised the Harbor Commissioners on dredging within the tide lands grant at the Los Angeles River mouth. Engineers supported the plan with proposed sand removal and around the bank area, noting temporary conditions and coordination with the Navy and YMCA.
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Board of Harbor Commissioners
Feguitt
Los Angeles
C4s
Ite Harbor
Alege Opialon
Armed Services Ymca
Jefferson County Picnic in Bixby Park Sunday
The annual Jefferson County New picnic will be held in Bixby Park on Sunday starting at noon.
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Jefferson County, New
Bixby Park
OBITUARY NOTICES COMPTON LONG BEACH AND AREA
Obituary notices for Tracy Paul la Lang Geaad, a veteran of World War I, and multiple Long Beach residents including George Willig Webb, Joan Forsberg, Amm E Jefferson, Iva Hunt, and Lillian Cahoon list survivors and service details. Services set at Mottell's Mortuary Chapel, with interments at Angels Abbey, Rose Hills Memorial Park, and Sunnyside Mausoleum.
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Long Beach
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Phiadelphia
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Roy C. Addieman & Sons Mortuary
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Myrtle Fersberg
Tides and Temperatures For Saturday August 28
The forecast lists tide levels and temperatures for Saturday with low tide at 4 03. Forecaster notes credit SNethr 387 p. Min LT. U.S. Coast and Béodete Burney.
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Snethr
U.S. Coast
Béodete Burney
Tony A. Eselin Dies at 65 in Fall Street Home
Tony A. Eselin 65 of Jol 4445 Wy Fall St died Thursday at home. Born in Lithuania he came to the United States as a young man and lived in Boston.
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Tony A. Eselin
Fall St
Lithuania
United States
Boston
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