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Newspaper
Long Beach Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Jan 29, 1955
Page
8
A dense OCR of a 1940s broadcast grid lists stations KXXT KITV KEOP KNAT KCOP KTLA KRCA and others with a long sequence of shows across hours from 4:00 PM to midnight. Programs include film features, cartoons, sports, public service, variety acts, and theatrical films featuring Jack Webb, Elvis-like stars, and local hosts. The listing notes multiple channels and time slots with many titles and performers.
A dense radio program listing details day and night broadcasts across stations like KMPC KFSD KPOX and KABC with various host names songs and shows. It notes music talk and comedy segments along with later sports and weather updates and theater features.
The Starr King Church, organized May 24 1953, in Long Beach California, plans a groundbreaking for its first unit a chapel fellowship hall seating 225. Ground lies on Coolidge and Artesia Streets east of Long Beach. construction led by Glen Gerken with leaders including Dr Harold S Wilson Dr Johnston Calhoun and Dr Robert C Walker attending. The church forms from a growing congregation forming in former unchurched area with 210 members and a 1.4 acre parcel.
On January 30 the 29th anniversary of the Trinity and Central Methods merger is observed along with the third anniversary of the new Atlantic Avenue Church sanctuary. Rev. Dr. Frederick B. Trotter, Pasadena district superintendent and former pastor here, will preach. He follows Rev. Dan Ford, first pastor of the merged church. A fellowship hour and a shower of paper money will follow.
Wrigley Heights Baptists inaugurate a series of family film nights at 3180 Magnolia Ave every other Friday through fall. The first program features a showing of Part 4 of the American Bible Society film Our Bible How It Came to Us along with a This Is the Life segment on TV.
The Aquarian Fellowship will ordain elders at a Sunday service at 1629 Pine Ave at 8 p.m. The Rev. L. Elvira Rider will officiate, assisted by Marjory B. Dumas Erma Presley and Nettie Long. Ordinands include Vernon Johnson LaVerne Johnson Leylah Archer May Jay Mildred Roberts Clara Kohls and Edna Tessier.
A string of death notices from Long Beach and nearby areas covers Cyr Kollias Weimer Penney Ross Kurtz Crox Noyes Belanger Brandt Boyers and others. Veterans, church and fraternal ties noted. services: Rosaries Masses and interments set at local mortuaries and cemeteries with survivors listed.
Bixby Knolls Christian Church at 1240 E Carson St observes Youth Day during the 10 43 a m worship. Three youths will speak on sermon topics including One Fellowship in Christ Mildred Morgan Christian Youth United James Fowler and Youth in the Life of the Church Virginia Pope. Rev George Otis Marsh preaches at 9 15 am communion and Creative Living. At 5 pm vesper Rev River Hawkins guest speaker and executive secretary of the Department of Christian Education of the Southern State Convention of Christian Churches.
Long Beach area churchgoers plan to attend a week long campaign by Merv Rosell at the Church of the Open Door in Los Angeles starting Sunday morning and ending February 6. Rosell and his Miracle of God team aim to win the unchurched and the city for Christ with delegations from South Island churches.
Evangelism Director to Speak at Sunday service with Rev Dr Royal J Dye of Hollywood as guest speaker. The event kicks off Youth Week and features a School of World Friends home missions program at 7 30 pm. The Congo missionary will discuss the Spirit of Missions and the fight against religious group infiltration.
TV listings note two debuts featuring Rian Valente and Nina Goldblatt. Valente interprets Spanish dances on Fan dango at 6 p.m. with Elvira Corona. Nina Goldblatt, 11, debuts on the Donald O Connor Show at 8:30 p.m. with Timmy Rooney also appearing. The block includes George Gobel and other variety segments, plus a Hollywood fight card and radio notes.
Youth Sunday at First Congregational Church features morning services with Rev Emer son O Hangen assisting at 9 30 and 11 00. High school seniors Marion Duncan Marjeia Swope Ruth McHenry and Joan Roberts join Pilgrim Fellowship. 7 30 pm sees The Boy With a Cart play by Christopher Fry presented by Bishop's Company of the Methodist Church under church youth auspices.
The Rev. F. Lewis Ingle of Lakewood Nazarene Church has accepted a call to pastor the Nazarene Church in Marshall Texas beginning April 1. He succeeds Rev. Peter Jurich, founder-pastor of the congregation.
New officers were installed Friday night at the Spire Club meeting of St. Luke's Episcopal parish. The club, composed of young married couples, elected Mr. and Mrs. Zenas Andrews as co chairmen, Mr. and Mrs. William Kummer as program chairmen, Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Harpe as membership chairmen, and Mr. and Mrs. Gene Chandler as co treasurers. The Spire Club meets monthly on the fourth Friday.
The North Long Beach Community Presbyterian Church will observe Westminster Fellowship Day with young people leading services and serving as greeters and ushers. The pastor Rev Richard Gordon Irving says the theme is Christian Faith Work and Fellowship. At 7:30 the second class on church membership will discuss The Christian Church.
A television station drive for Pennies for Polio ran three weeks and collected 104706 coins. Monroe bankers reported no pennies left and turned over a certified check for $1047.06 Friday.
A 15 person archaeology crew from the University of California at Los Angeles uncovered arrow points beads crockery and grinding stones at an ancient Palomar Mountain village. Prof C W Meighan led digs into charcoal and debris suggesting the site dates back about 2000 years and was in use until around 1800.
Burnett Wolfson, a Los Angeles attorney since 1923, named to the Superior Court bench by Gov Knight. He succeeds the late Judge William R. McKay. Wolfson earned his law degree at the University of Minnesota.
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