Angel of the Orient to retire USS Repose hospital ship
The USS Repose, the Navy hospital ship known as the Angel of the Orient, will be mothballed after seven years of Far East service including three Korean War tours. Currently at Outer Harbor, she will go to Long Beach Naval Shipyard for overhaul before retirement. The ship treated over 18,000 UN forces, admitted 2,636 during the last tour, and featured 25 medical officers and a helicopter landing deck added in 1952.
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Don Brackendury
Angel of the Orient
Far East
USS
Repose
Long Breach
Anchorage
Outer Harbor
Long Beach Naval Shipyard
USS Repose
U. S
United Nations
Long Beach
U.N
Sayy
Panama Canal
Orient
The
Korea
John.m. Wyckoff
Naval Hospital
Gerard B. Creagh
Memphis
Tenn
Creagh
Real Dan McGrew in Long Beach Hospital Claim
Williar McGrew, 69, of Long Beach, claims he wrote the poem Dangerous Dan McGrew and was involved in a Yukon battle that inspired it. He recalls meeting Mamie Rae, a 1910 White Horse veteran, and disputes: there is no original Dan McGrew. Fellow Klondike veteran T. W. Buchholz disputes the claim.
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Dan McGrew
Eugenia Johnson
Long Beach
William
Dan
Stalf Proto
Yukon
Williar
Wilam N. McGrew
I. 17Th St
St. Mary’s Hospital
McGrew
Miseas
Jimmy O'Neal
Lou
Marnie Rae
White Horse
Mamie
Eney
Long Beach Klondike
T. W. Buchholz
Oregon Ave
Buchholz
International Sourdoughs Reunion, Inc
California
Buchhoz
McGraw
Service
Pacific Fleet Training Cruise Sets Two Week Exercise
More than 40 Navy vessels with 13 000 sailors depart Long Beach and San Diego for a two week Pacific Fleet Training Exercise. Task Force 12 leads air sea warfare drills under Rear Admiral Maurice E Curtis with Vice Admiral William K Phillips directing from USS Bremer ton and later USS Manchester. Land based aircraft join from naval air stations with a San Francisco visit February 20 for three days.
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Long Beach
San Diego
Pacific
Task Force 12
Maurice E. Curtis
Cruiser Destroyer Force
Pacific Fleet
William K Phillips
First Fleet
Bremerton
Manchester
Naval Air Stations
San Francisco
Press Club Ball Crowns Miss Press Club of Long Beach
The Greater Long Beach Press Club hosts its first annual Valentine Ball at Wilton tonight at 8:30. Marlene Becker, 21, of 1040 E Ocean Blvd, is named Miss Press Club of Long Beach after a Monday beauty contest at Wilton's Cellar Club. Della Simpson, 22, of 2239 E Fourth St, crowns her as new Miss Press Club, with runners up Mary Ellen Parziale and Mike Headle among attendees.
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Greater Long Beach
Miss Press Club of
Long Beach
Marlene Becker
Ocean Blvd
Mary Ellen Parziale
Fanwood
Mike Headle
Spring St
Roads Association Re-elects Olmsted for 13th year
David Olmsted, director of the Long Beach Convention Bureau, was re elected secretary treasurer of the Roads to Romance Association at its annual Riverside Mission Inn meeting. John Anson Ford, Los Angeles County supervisor chair, was chosen president to succeed Walter Knott. Howard Irwin of Fullerton and four others were elected to vice president posts.
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David Olmsted
Long Beach
56 L.A. Area Men Will Enter Army
A group of 20 Long Beach men and 36 from the surrounding area will depart from the Pacific Electric Station Monday morning for Army service. It marks the 46th induction call for the area since 1948. After induction in Los Angeles, they will travel by bus to Fort Ord for processing.
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Long Beach
iPacific
Army Servces
Los Angeles
Fort Ord
Patricia Fish
Harbor Area Selective Service
Yeggs Borrow Torch to Burn Open Safe
Disjointed report describes a safe burglary attempt with acetylene gear used by criminals. It recounts a station fire at Hub City Service Station, theft of about $150, and subsequent police notes while detailing unrelated military transport arrivals from Korea and processing plans at Camp Stoneman.
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Yeggs
Che
San Francisco
Army
Korea
John Pope
Camp Stoneman
Calera
Ne Si
Compton
Geentrere
Stoneman
Bloodmobile to Visit Lakewood Shipyard
A six person unit from the Normal Engine with 140 pint capacity will tour Lakewood and the Shipyard Friday night from 9 30 p m to 3 p m. Two burglars looted piggy banks containing about 650 dollars in silver and 90 dollars in pennies. Police report also mention a separate break in at 200 E Olive Ave where Earlia Peters’s home was entered.
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Norwalk
E. Olive Ave
Earlia
Lawrence Peters
N. Steele
Dumont
Long Beach Naval
Neal Andrews
Terminal Island
Don French
Stirling G. Pillsbury
Long Ben
Waylo
Steele
The
Red Cross
Missing Long Beach Girl Sought in Windsor Hills
Juvenile officers joined the search for 17 year old Carol Jane Klenke also known as Christy Evans who has been missing from her Windsor Hills home since January 31. She has been seen in Long Beach and Lennox sheriff's deputies urge contact if located.
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Carol Jane Klenke
Windsor Mills
Inglewood
Long Beach
Lennox
Christy Evans
R. H. Harrison
Miss Kienke
Onakroll
Windsor Hills
Ione Kienke
Four Attend Safety Meet At Washington Conference
Four Long Beach men and one from Orange will join California's delegation at a three day White House highway safety conference in Washington next week. Governor Goodwin Knight will lead the delegation with Mayor Lyman B. Sutter Clarence Hunt John A. Lacy George B. Taubman and Justus F. Craemer among attendees. The aim is to reduce highway accidents by about 40 percent in the next year through coordinated efforts of agriculture business labor public information media civic groups and officials. The meetings run Wednesday to Friday.
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Long Beach
Orange
Washington
Agriculture
Sea Hunt for Yacht Resumed in Pacific
A sea search resumed today for the 60 foot racing schooner Dirigo I, 1800 miles south of Long Beach, after reports of tow were proved erroneous. San Francisco and Panama based aircraft joined the effort. A 170 foot Navy convoy escorted through the Gulf of Tehuantepec as Coast Guard coordination continued from Long Beach and other stations. The yacht, owned and piloted by James W. Crawford Jr., was en route from Acapulco to Florida when hurricane winds damaged it and a distress signal was sent. The Coast Guard called off the search after a mistaken report claimed the Imperial Edmonton towed Dirigo I to Acapulco.
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Long Beach
San Francisco
Panama
Gulf of Tehuantepec
Long Beach Coast Guard
Coast Guard
James W. Crawford Jr
Bradenton
Sarasota
Fla
Acapulco
Mex
Florida
San Diego
New TB Facility Opens at Long Beach General Hospital
A new 32 bed tuberculosis unit for children up to six years old will open Monday at Long Beach General Hospital at Willow Street and Redondo Avenue. Director Harry duChene says the facility will shorten distance patients travel for family visits. The unit was authorized by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors. First patients move Monday and capacity will be reached with additional transfers within the week.
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Long Beach General Hospital
Willow St
Redondo Ave
Harry duChene
Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors
PWs Visit Then One Re-enlists in Army
Former Army Sgt Robert D Collett a 25 year old prisoner of war for three years visited a Pw Tibor Rubin at 4466 Cerritos Dr. Collett who served seven and a half years with the Army reenlisted after talking with ex servicemen. He saw service in Korea and Japan and was captured north of Poyang on Nov 1950 released Aug 7 1953. He recently became a citizen and attends Long Beach City College.
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Army
Robert D. Collett
Tibor Rubin
Cerritos Dr
Land
Collette
Sham
Korea
Japan
Poyang
J Army
Inow
Long Beach City College
Fleet
Barnard W. Payne
Collett
Long Beach
Cesritos
Tamale Looters Backed by Three Jailed in Anaheim
Anaheim police held Richard Lopez 20 of N Valencia Street after trapping him during a tamale factory burglary. Robers Carrillo 24 of Cruego Street and John Verdin 21 of Huntington Beach were later arrested at Carrillo’s home. All three admitted the break in and tamales were found stacked outside after force entry through a skylight.
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Anaheim
Carl Miller
Richard Lopez
Valencia St
Miller S
Robert Carrillo
I Cruego St
John Verdi
Barking Dogs Scare Would-Be Thief Away
Two dogs frightened a burglar who tried to hook a purse through an open Caspian Avenue window Friday night. The thief fled as Mrs. Becker and her dogs drew police attention. a long pole lay nearby against the house.
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Caspian Ave
California Optometric Association convenes in San Francisco
A San Francisco convention in February 2022 draws delegates of the Optometric Sessions of California. Dr D Leroy Leatart and Dr Sutter E Kunkel of Long Beach are listed among attendees.
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California
San Francisco
D. Leroy. Leatart
Sutter E. Kunkel
Long Beach
North Long Beach civic center on June ballot plan
Initiative backers seek to place a North Long Beach civic center on the June municipal ballot. Led by Uptown Atlantic Association and several Long Beach groups, they propose a 72 acre site bounded by 32nd Street and the freeway, Atlantic Avenue, Long Beach Boulevard and 37th Street. About 12 560 signatures are needed, with a goal of 15 000 in two months.
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Long Beach
North Long Beach
Uptown Atlantic Association
Lakewood Chamber of Commerce
Long Beach Commercial Club
North Atlantic Business Men's Association
Long Beach Blvd. Association
32Nd St
37Th St
Long Beach Blvd
Atlantic Ave
Civic Center
Paul EF. Wilks
Uptown Civic Center Committee
North
Brutal purse snatcher drags victim by car in South Gate
A 68-year-old South Gate woman was dragged 90 feet by an assailant using a car after two youths asked directions at Liberty and Commercial. She survived the drive but lies in serious condition at General Hospital in Los Angeles after emergency treatment at Tweedy Industrial Hospital.
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South Gate
General Hospital
Los Angeles
Della Taylor
Evergreen St
Liberty
Commercial Sts
Tweedy Industrial Hospital
Paramount Terror Tank Crushes Cars in Pasadena Delivery
The 28 ton Walker Bulldog M d1 tank nicknamed Paramount Terror caused damage Feb. 1 in Pasadena during delivery to the 111th Armored Cavalry. It crushed five parked cars, snapped a power pole and two steel signs, and smashed a mailbox. A fire started by rags left near an engine was extinguished with no injuries or lasting damage.
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Paramount
National Guard
Pasadena
111Th Armored Cavalry
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Conquista St
Earl W. Smith
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F. Ocean Blvd
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Raymond W. Gresham
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Ervin A. Roenfeldt
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Robert W. Service
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North L. B. Civic Center
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Craig Hosmer
8Th District
Dick Hackendahl
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First Cavalry Division
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