Navy Dependents to Travel on Special Train to California
A special train carrying 400 dependents will arrive at Long Beach and San Diego on January 17. The 11th Naval District reports the party includes crew members from 16 destroyers 15 amphibious ships and two cruisers aiding families. Temporary housing and film projections will be provided while families seek rentals or purchases.
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Paves
Chileren
Meniong Beach
Tate Beach
San Beach
San Diego
Diego
11Th Naval District
Bers
Phibious
Long Beach
Navy
Hill Jet Disaster Tops 1954 Local News
The Air Force Sabre jet crash in Signal Mill on the afternoon of day 12 in 1954 dominates local coverage. Nine dead reported as investigations by Air Force, Civil Aeronautics Authority, and citizen groups unfold amid conflicting views. Other items include a Tide Water tank explosion, a $4 million store planned in Los Altos, a Long Beach police critique, a Grange County liquor case, and notable obituaries and public notices.
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Signal Hill
Raymond Ave
Long Beach
Air Force
Signal Mill
Areca
Civil Aeronautics Authority
Lakewood
Miriam Stevenson
South Carolina
Miss United
Irving M. Smith
Titleland Oil
James Hilton
Tide Water
Associated Oil Ca
San Pedro
Walker's
Los Altos
Supreme Court
Edna James
Lakeword
Los Angeles
Kathleen Hindman Smith
Broadway ¢S‘crew Company
Peggy Marshall
Tucson
Animator Talks for Art Forum at Long Beach City College
Dean Spille, a film animator with Storyboard Inc, discusses What Makes It Move at the Long Beach City College Art Forum on Tuesday at 7:30 PM in Room 502 Lakewood campus art building. The free event features animated cartoons and film strips.
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Willj
Dean Spille
Cartooni
Long Beach City College Art Forum
Lakewond
Spile
Storyboard, Inc
Long Beach
City College
State College
UCLA
Spille
California Water Color Society
Los Angeles
Sharp Stepup in Observer Corps Looms
The Continental Air Defense Command announced expansion of the Ground Observer Corps to all 48 states by 1985. It will require over a million civilian volunteers to man posts and filter centers, building on current 380,000 volunteers at 13,000 observer posts and 43 filter centers. The plan includes Texas Tower radar installations from Newfoundland to Norfolk, contracts set, Navy converting Liberty ships for radar craft, and ongoing Nike missile site build ups.
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Colorado Springs
Cola
Continental Air Defense Command
Ground Observer Corps
Texas Tower
Newfoundland
Norfolk
Atlantic
Navy
Sunday features and columns in the Independent Press Telegram
Pictorial Roses Parade coverage appears with how to shed weight tips in a self improvement marathon starting Sunday. Women's section features include Why Grow Old interviews with Margaret Amy Qhn-Bwint and Elaine Risinger, Betty Wentworth recalls top social events, Jola Masterson predicts 1955, Mary Lou Zehms previews spring fashions, and Palomar Sky Atlas lead article in Southland Magazine.
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Josephine Lowman
Margaret Amy Qhn-Bwint
Burma
Elaine Risinger
Betty Wentworth
Jola Masterson
Mary Lou Zehms
Presse Telegram
Runday
Southland Magazine
Palomar
Southland
Press-Telegram
Jack Palance
Parade Magazine
New Sermon Series at Wrigley Heights
The Rev. Ernest R. Johnsart at Heights Baptist Church 3180 Magnolia Ave will start a sermon series from the Gospel of Luke titled Christ, the Heart of Christianity, beginning Sunday morning with Christ, in the New Year. The series runs through Lent with Holy Communion for the congregation and a class of new members to join. The closing message, The Man Who Looked Ahead, continues the three month Old Testament Characters series.
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Ernest R. Johnsart
K) Heights Baptist
Chur
Magnolia Ave
Christ
Congressi
Johnson
Odd Year for Court Reveals Eccentric 1954 Cases
The 1954 Long Beach court docket included a shoplifter who paused before exiting to admire a mirror, a defendant claiming false teeth hurt him and delaying jail, an 84-year-old witness accused of winking at the DA, jurors dismissed for watching crime scenes or insulting officers, and a Navy chief granted a divorce after admitting his wife complained he lost his figure.
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Long Beach
Banco
Navy
Minor Fires Cause Damage at Two Homes
Police report two separate fires late Friday causing minor damage. One attic blaze at Robert Bower 3300 Vermont St started by an overheated ventilating fan. the second fire in a garage apartment at 21242 Redondo Ave sparked by a lit cigarette. Firemen were directed to extinguish both blazes.
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Robert Bower
Vermont St
David Shipman
Redondo Ave
B. C. Carroll
Mrs Irene L Fusch Featured Soloist on TV Talent Hour
Mrs Irene L Fusch of Norwalk California will appear as a soloist on the Church Talent Hour TV program. She sings with the Southern California Oratoric Society and is known for church club and hospital entertainments. Wife of Mervin Fusch mother of four, her sisters also sing.
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Wats
Drane Ao
Wuyen
E. Rosecrans Blyvd
Norwalk
Badflower Community Presbyterian Church
Churen
Fusch
Southern California Oratoric Society
Mervin Fusch
State College and Hospital Building Set
The State Department of Public Works announced a 1955 construction program costing nearly $9,000,000 for Metropolitan State Hospital in Norwalk and $1,152,000 for Long Beach State College. The Norwalk ward and administration buildings will lead the seven state projects, with an overall 67 million dollar slate.
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State Department of Pubic Works
Metropolitan State Hospital
Norwalk
Long 'S Beach State College
Division of Architecture
California Pely
San Luis Jobispo
Agriculture
Kellogg
San Diego State
Los Angeles State
Hangovers Safely Hung Up 746 Hangovers Safely Hung Up
Los Angeles County police detained hundreds as New Year’s Eve patrols kept alcohol in check. From 12:01 a.m. Friday to dawn today, 704 drunks and 42 drunk drivers were arrested. Thirty-nine rookie officers were assigned New Year’s Eve duty, and 349 traffic accidents caused five deaths and 153 injuries.
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Los Angeles
Los Angeles County
Police Academy
L E Cole Retires From Pacific Electric Railway
Leonae E Cole Sr of 417 Wythe Street retires Friday as a locomotive engineer for Pacific Electric Railway. He served on the PE Southern district lines since 1919 and and has lived in Long Beach for 25 years. He is an elder in the First Christian Church.
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Leonaé E. Cole
Wyth St
Pacific Electric Railway
P. E
Navy man beaten by three men at municipal auditorium
Ralph Glasgow Jr. about 25, of the USS Bremerton, was attacked and beaten by three men on the west side of Municipal Auditorium late Friday. He suffered fractures to the right cheekbone and facial contusions and abrasions and was sent to Corona Naval Hospital.
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Ralph Glasgow Jr
Bremerton
Municipal Auditorium
Glasgow
Corona Naval Hospital
Bellflower commercial block sales near Bellflower Blvd
Bellflower records indicate the sale of two commercial blocks along Bellflower Blvd for over 3660,000 and ongoing talks for selling a newly completed Grant Store building. The 100-foot one story structure at Bellflower Blvd and Artesia St plus an adjoining lot sold for 160,000, while the J C Penney Co building of the same block brought about 500,000. Charles Webber and F H Mullin bought the unimproved lot and the one story building respectively, with negotiations continuing for the Grant Store building sale. The Hollingsworth firm has largely disposed of its Bellflower commercial interests. Earlier in the year the Thrifty Drug Co. building sold for about 175,000 to Lucius Phelps.
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Bellflower
Bellflower Blvd
Artesia St
J. C. Penney Co
W. T Hollingsworth
Hollingsworth Real Estate
Charles Webber
F. H. Mullin
Hollingsworth
Casualty Co
Grant
Bellfower
Thrifty Drug Co
Ramona Gt
Lucius Phelps
Market Workers in Los Angeles Get Wage Increase
About 14,000 market and retail food clerks in the Los Angeles area and Pomona will receive weekly wage boosts ranging from 80 cents to 120 dollars under a new contract effective today. The agreement, between the Food Employers Council and the Retail Clerks Union Locals 770 and 1428, includes an automatic annual increase on January 1 each year through January 1, 1956.
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Los Angeles
Buena Park Girl Among First 1955 County Traffic Fatalities
Lorna Rewd en, four, of Buena Park died at County General Hospital five hours after injuries from a collision at an Fresno intersection. The crash occurred at 11 30 Friday night involving vehicles driven by her father Ray Rowden and Dale Trimble of Fresno. Rowden and his wife Frankie suffered severe injuries.
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Fresno
Lorna Rewden
Buena Park
Fresno County
Highway Patrol
Ray Rowden
Dale A. Trimble
Rowden
Frankie
Long Beach Scouts report 1954 growth in units and scouts
The Long Beach Area Council of the Boy Scouts of America reports 1954 gains of 48 units and 1,644 boys, ending with 261 units and 9,016 youths organized in 113 packs 119 troops and 38 explorer units. Headquarters at 401 Earth St opened as a donated $50,000 building in February.
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Long Beach Area
Boy Scouts of America
C.L. Appling
Appling
Council
Earth St
Long Beach
Sea Explorer
J. €. Groenewegen
Lone Beach Area Council
Cubs
Scotts
Explorers
Telephone sales surge in Long Beach area after war
General Telephone Co. manager C. W. Duncan reports a shift from orders to a come and get it basis with fewer than 40 unfilled requests. More than 140,000 telephones serve Long Beach and nearby communities, and door to door canvassing aims to boost sales in unsaturated areas while many residents still fear long waits.
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C. W. Duncan
Long Beach
General Telephone Co
Torey
Saigamen
Atea
Los Alamitos
Seal Beach
Signal! TH
Sunset Beach
Lakeswood
Duncan
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Gene Nee
Angelo M. Jacoboni
George Nye Jr
Wiliam Burns
Robert Aker
Signal Hil
Willace
The
Pyrees-Telegram
Independent
Press ‘Telegram
Wrigley Heights
Irene L. Fusch
Los Coyotes
Tulane Ave
Ralph E. Wilson
5Th St
Wilson
BEA
Linda Lee
Seaside Hospital
Gilbert L. Hudson
57Th St
Mildred Stucke
State College and Hospital
L. E. Cole
Mrs
Gilbert Hudson
Bellflower Buildings Sale Based
L. B. Scouts
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