Two-day Celebration Begun in Southern California
The region marks Independence Day with picnics parades and fireworks. Long Beach Huntington Beach and nearby communities host events inclining to crowds of 100000, with beach patrols, fireworks on the Pike and a Coliseum display in Los Angeles.
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Coliseum
Los Angeles
Huntington Beach
California
Skyport
Beach
Oceanside
del Mar
San Diego
Cambria
250 Homes in New Tract East of City
J A Marevich and Associates started a $2,250,000 residential development east of the city from Lakewood Boulevard to Clark Avenue north of Willow Street. Ground broken for three model homes designed by Hugh Gibbs. The plan calls for 188 single family homes and 17 multiple dwellings totaling 250 units, all veterans housing. The builder recently completed Baldwin Village in Baldwin Park. A tract of 23 lots nearby was purchased from Bixby Land Company.
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Lakewood Blvd
Clark Ave
Willow St
J. A. Marovich
Baldwin Village
Baldwin Park
Gne
Bixby Land
School-attending youths may get draft deferment
Long Beach high school pupils and City College students may receive draft deferments for at least a year under the Selective Service Act of 1948. The act allows deferment until graduation or until specified age or academic status, with broader presidential power to extend deferments.
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Long Beach
City College
United States Office of Education
George Dotson
U. S. Department of Education
Congress
Two Carriers to Hold Open House
Navy personnel will host open house for the U S S Badoeng Strait CVE116 and the U S S Bairoke CVE this week from 9 am to 4 pm visitors may inspect the ships. The Badoeng Strait will be at Pier 32 Long Beach and the Bairoke at Pier 57 San Pedro both ships arrived from San Diego for the holidays.
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Navy
U.S.S. Badoeng Strait
U.S. S
Council Sworn In Tuesday Seaton to Join City Council
The re elected City Council and councilman elect James R. Seaton will be sworn in by City Clerk Clyde G. Roseberry Tuesday at 8 30 a m. The first regular session follows with Mayor Burton W. Chace expected to be confirmed for a three year term. An open house in the Mayor s office at City Hall will follow noon adjournment with refreshments from councilmen s wives.
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James R. Seaton
Clyde G. Roseberry
Burton W. Chace
City Courts Revenue Stands at Record High in 1947 48
Long Beach Municipal Courts report total receipts of 411073.26 from fines fees and forfeitures with city share 377928.86 and county 30726.90. Filings rose 10 to 11 percent led by misdemeanor 7493 and traffic 66587. Civil and small claims grew. 1947 filings total 80429 with 1947 poor man’s court cases up 14 percent. Revenue outlook tighter under Municipal Court Act revision.
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Long Beach
Ruth M. Bauchet
Charles L. Woodruff
Bering
Boat Yards Men to Meet on Wage Increase Offer
About 600 members of the A F of S are to gather at Shipwrights Hall Wilmington at 7 30 p m Thursday to vote on a proposed 410 cent wage rise. The six small yards on Terminal Island and in Wilmington include United Concrete and Pipe Fellows and Stewart Al Lars ons Wilmington Boat Works Harbor Boat and San Petro Boat Works.
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Shipwright’s
Broad Ave
Wilmington
Terminal Island
I. D. Skinner
Shipwright Union
United Concrete and Pipe
Fellows and Stewart
al Larson's
Wilmington Boat Works
Harbor Boat
San Petro Boat Works
Delegates to Tell of Red Cross Developments
Reports from the national American Red Cross convention in San Francisco June 21 24 will be shared at an 8 o clock breakfast hosted by Mrs R L Taylor at 208 West Sixth Street Long Head chapter officers and board members have been invited Delegates include Roland Bach Joseph E Blackburn Stowe Carney and others with college and junior Red Cross reps listed as attendees
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American Red Cross
San Francisco
R. L. Taylor
W. Sixth St
Long Head
Roland Bach
Joseph E. Blackburn
Stowe Carney
Cloyce H. Bogle
R. L
Retired Justice Desmond To Be Honored At Long Beach Dinner
Retired Justice Walter Desmond of the Appellate Court will be feted by the Long Beach Bar Association at a Virginia Country Club dinner Friday night. Desmond served as presiding judge of the Los Angeles County Superior Courts and later seats on the Appellate Court. Principal speaker will be Justice Thomas P. White.
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Walter Desmond
Long Beach Bar Association
Virginia Country Club
Desmond
Pacific Ave
Long Beach
Los Angeles County
Bar Association
Play Supervisors to Have Day Off
All school playgrounds will be unstaffed tomorrow as a holiday per Oak Smith assistant Supervisor of physical education. Municipal park and beach areas and housing project grounds will be staffed as usual under H. K. Jones Recreation Commission supervisor. Traveling instructor groups cancel and activities revert to free play and spontaneous pastimes.
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Oak Smith
H. K. Jones
Recreation Commission
Reserve crews on warships praised after two-week cruise
About 1200 officers and enlisted reservists sailed from Long Beach and San Diego aboard destroyers Twining Wedderburn Uhlmann and Weeden for peacetime training. Capt. John R. Sanford praised the crews for learning more on the cruise than in months of classroom instruction.
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San Diego
Erservists
Long Beach
Twining
Wedderburn
U.S. S. Uhlmann
U.S. S. Weeden
11Th Naval District
Sanford
Pioneering 89 year old doctor recalls Pasteur era trials
Dr. R. L. Dorsey of Hollywood, age 89, testified as an expert in a recission case in Long Beach. She outlined early medical feats including supporting Pasteur in rabies work, first Los Angeles County physician license in 1886, and pioneering appendix surgeries. She described long service to the Bixby family and as first woman endocrinologist, with 14000 births attended.
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Ore
California
Joe Meister
Meister
Louis Pasteur
Pasteur
Fred Miller
Long Beach
Miller
R. L. Dorsey
Hollywood
Virginia T. Smith
Josiah M. Carr
W. Ocean Blvd
Theodore G. Lee
Robert Buck Jr
Smith
Dorsey
Sey
Los Angeles County
Bixby
New York
Los Angeles
Ward Johnson
Carr
Iller
Superior Court
Press-Telegram
Navy trainees sail into Long Beach for liberty
A total of 2506 enlisted midshipmen and 192 officers from five U S Navy craft are due to arrive in Long Beach Harbor next Saturday for weekend liberty. They come from 41 ROTC units and travel aboard the Iowa Springfield Astoria Duluth and Pasadena. The group will depart July 22 for Pearl Harbor after maneuvers off Honolulu this month. The ships have already visited San Francisco and Seattle where dinners dances and tours honored the personnel. A saldahinnien dance was held in each city.
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U. S. Navy
Long Beach Harbor
Naval R. O. T. C
J Colleges
U. S
Iowa
Springfield
Astoria
Duluth
Pasadena
Honolulu
Harboor
Pearl Harbor
Navy to Fire Heavy Guns Offshore This Week
The Coast Guard says the Navy will fire heavy guns offshore from Tuesday to Friday in the San Clemente area with rockets and calibers. Shore warning systems will alert mariners via amplifiers and Coast Guard vessels and aircraft will patrol the danger area around Camp Pendleton and offshore zones.
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Coast Guard
Navy
San Clemente
Camp Pendleton
City May Bay 62 Acres of Bay Tidelands
City officials press to acquire 52 acres of Alamitos Bay tidelands for a small boat anchorage with a lease until titles are settled by court ruling or Congress. Purchase offers began at 400000, later reduced. 215000 is current price. Funds from 1945 bridge bonds may finance future Alamitos Bay development and a Marine Stadium bridge.
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Eat Naplea Land Co
Alamitos Bay
San Gabriel
Compu
Marine Stadium
E. Second St
Pacific Coast Hwy
Long Beach Blvd
Stadium Bridge
Sotf
Wilson pupil chosen to attend CYA meeting
Jim Andrews of Woodrow Wilson High School son of Mr and Mrs C S Andrews has been selected as one of ten California students to attend a California Youth Authority conference in Claremont July 6 to 10 representing the Junior Red Cross. The conference follows Gov Warren's youth welfare conference and will include 90 delegates from California.
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Jim Andrews
Woodrow WA
Son High School
C. S. Andrews
California
California Youth Authority
Claremont
Andrews
Junior Red Cross
Earl Warren
S. Louis
Garbage Collection Restores Schedule After Holiday
Sanitary division trucks will resume usual trash and yard waste pickups tomorrow. The Public Service department says crews will collect bags rubbish and tree trimming as normal despite the holiday.
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Sanitary Division
Public Service Partment
Poppy Game Winners to Be Named After Judging
Judges have been selected and will meet early this week to review seven weeks of entries. Typewritten copies with numbers will conceal contestant identities while original submissions are kept for comparison to determine winners. Identity of judges will be announced after work concludes.
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By Lilian Haislip
Ohn Adams
Uncle Sam
Continental Congress
Yn Long Head
Follee Department
North Long Beach Commercial Club
Houghton Park
North Long Beach Lions Club
Exchange
Lions Club
Wealsworth Puppeteers
Red Cross
Burbank
Sunset Beach Strand
Leo Sorenson
Ronald Reagan
Joyce Sorenson
Margaret Rockwood
Alice Lesetse
Charles Ally
Joseph M. Maltby
Malthy
Michael Bitterman
Homer Howard
John Conrow
Mary McQueen
Bitterman
Taddy Bobba
John R. Sanford
By Jack Emmit
City
May Bay
Bay
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