Buffums opens Santa Ana store with grand two level design
Buffums announced the Santa Ana store will open Thursday at noon. The 83 000 square foot, two level branch on Main Street between Ninth and 20th features contemporary architecture, extensive landscaping, a Yorba Room restaurant, air conditioning, a public address system, and dedicated departments for men women and children plus a beauty shop, housewares, linens and drapery, and toys. A 135 car terrace provides customer parking with landscaped surroundings. Opening hours begin with a 9 30 a m start on Friday and Saturday and special Thursday evening hours until 9 30 p m.
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Buffums
Harry Buffum
Pioneer
Long Beach
Main St
Ninth and
20Th Sts
Santa Angatore
Butquma
Butfums
Yorba
Jose Aritonio Yorba
Orenge
County
Joseph Donat
Orange County
Fra Serra
Buffums opens Santa Ana store marking firm expansion
Buffums launches its Santa Ana outlet under Richard D Buffum as manager, a move described by John Carr as a major milestone for the Long Beach firm in its 46 year rise. The $1,000,000 store, built over two years, will share merchandising and buying with Long Beach, with Stanley Compton as assistant manager.
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Buffums
Santa Ana
Long Beach
Richard D. Buffum
Staurant
Richard D. ‘Bulffum
John Carr
C. A. Buffum
E. E. Buttfum
Lafayette
Ind
Schilling Brothers
California
Carr
Richard D. l Buff
Stanley Compton
Compton
L B Booster Drive Kickoff Dinner Sets Local Campaign
A kickoff dinner for a campaign to promote Long Beach tourism and conventions is slated for 6 p.m. Monday July 40 at the Wilton Hotel Empire Room. The event, hosted by the Long Beach Convention and Visitors Bureau, marks the start of Operation Prosperity. Ten teams of five will sell bureau memberships to local businessmen and urge residents to recruit friends and relatives elsewhere to learn about Long Beach facilities for travel and conventions.
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Long Beach
Will Bey
Wilton Hotel Empire
Long ‘Beach
Convention, and Visitors Bureau
Penessmen
Olmsted
Policeman's Baby Son Shoots Himself in Miami
A month old child, Patrick White, used dresser drawers to climb to his father Patrolman Lafayette E. White’s pistol and shot himself in the head. He lies in critical condition at Jackson Memorial Hospital in Florida.
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Fla
Wmonthold
Miami
Patrick White
Jackson Memorial Hospital
Lafayette E. ‘White
Building Permits at Seal Beach Top $28,336 June Total
Seal Beach city building inspector Thomas R. Jones reports June permits totaled 28 336 bringing year to date to 325 025 a 40 000 decline from 1949 six month total. New social hall for J Doliey Masonic Lodge 212 Main St includes kitchen and concrete foundations behind the lodge. Other June issuances include James V Americh restaurant addition 1400 Pacific Coast Hwy 五000 garage apartment at 118 First St Mrs L L DeLorig Pasadena garage and apartment at 148 13th St and F W Hesse 222 17th St apartment over garage. London House of Commons clocks count 172 opening Oct 26 to replace WWI bomb damaged quarters.
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Seal Beach
J . Doliey Masonic Lodge
Thomas R. Jones
Jones
Masonic Lodge
Main St
L L. DeLorig
Pasadena
13Th St
F. W. Hesse
17Th St
U S Dollars Seek New Africa Wealth
U S dollars flood into Africa as private investments and Marshall Plan grants flow into mining, agriculture, and cement. The Paris Marshall Plan office led by Barry Bingham reports almost 112 million allocated to North Africa this year for machinery and geologists. Efforts include Sahara mineral surveys, iron ore and phosphates search, and a major Oran cement plant modernization. Rice production on the Niger River also receives significant funding to raise output from 22 tons to 140000 tons annually in seven years.
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West
Marshall Plan
Paris
Louisville
Barry Bingham
Bingham
Sahara Desert
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Algeria
Atlas
Sahara
France
North Africa
Niger River
Niger
Seven Children Join L. B. Couple in 65th Anniversary
Mr and Mrs Henry J Lake celebrated their 65th wedding anniversary with seven children present. Born in Oswego in 1885 they lived in Syracuse before retiring in 1923. The couple later resided in Pasadena Long Beach and now live with daughter Mabel Quinn. they have 16 grandchildren and 115 great grandchildren.
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Jenry J. Lake
Prass-Telegram
L. B
Henry J. Lake
Oswego
Mabel Quinn
E. Third St
Lakes
Syracuse
Lake
Syracuse Herald
Henry
Ment
California
Pasadena
Long Beach
W. C. Quinn
Ruth Swift
L.T. Lake
Hollywood
E. Hinman
Marlon Harrington
Frank P. Lake
van Nuys
Neal H. Lake
Los Angeles
US Soldiers Aid Iran Build Modern Gendarmerie
TEHRAN July 1 A small group of American soldiers assists Iran in forming a modern national police force the U S military mission to the Iranian gendarmerie states the goal is to provide advisory help in radio, vehicle maintenance and training Col James R Pierce heads the mission and oversees training at Tehran s gendarmerie school The effort follows decades of reorganization dating to Brig Gen Norman Schwarzkept and Ahmad Qavam era when gendarmerie numbers grew to about 22 000 in 1946
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Tehran
Iran
Persia
Tron
Italy
Col
James R. Pierce
Pierce
U. S
Marvin E. Stroud
John G. Erickson
Tran
Reza Shah
Norman Schwarzkept
Ahmad Qavam
Transport Chief Kenneth Vore to Speak at Chamber Breakfast
Kenneth L. Vore director of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce transportation division will discuss Transportation Regulation Its Effect On Your Business at the Tong Beach Chamber of Commerce Breakfast Forum. Vore, a 1938 USC graduate, has held key roles in aviation, maritime, rail, highway and metropolitan traffic matters.
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Kenneth L. Vore
Theos Angeles Chamber of Commerce
Tong Beach
Woman Survives Landmark Kidney Transplant in Chicago
CHICAGO July 1 4 Mrs Howard Tucker 49 received a dead woman's kidney on June 17 in a pioneering operation, the first of its kind in medical history. The failed organ was replaced as doctors report she remains in fine condition. One month more will be needed to assess kidney function.
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Chicago
Howard Tucker
Mra.Tucker
Little Company of Mary Hospital
Nebraska Scouts Outslick City Dudes At National Jamboree
Four Nebraska boys Keith Bergman Rodney Carlson George Edgar and Billy Ehnett traveled to Valley Forge Pennsylvania for the National Boy Scout Jamboree. They traded corn husker sand burrs for city goods and found urban peers curious about the pricky plant. One city youth wanted to try one burr first but was refused to avoid potential damage to the burrs.
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Valley Forge
Nebraska
Keith Bergman
Rodney Carolson
George Edgar
Corrad
Ned
Billy Ehnett
Fairbury
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