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Newspaper
Long Beach Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Jul 11, 1951
Page
6
SAN DIEGO July 11 UP Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corp says the U S Air Force ordered more modification and overhaul work on its B 36 bombers. The work will exhaust through 1952.
Fisher's owner Pete Fisher announces a second Fisher's store named Fisher's Atlantic Store on Atlantic Avenue to serve the growing North Long Beach area. The opening is set for Thursday with china glass gift ware and housewares, mirroring the downtown inventory. Fisher has run East Broadway shop since 1945 and been active in Long Beach merchandising since 1929.
SOUTH PARIS Me July 11 A soldier Ole T Oleson 21 Bethel Me was shot to death by deputy sheriff Charles H Hammond as he fled Oxford County jail after a brief confinement. County Attorney Shelton Noyes said Oleson ran from a rear door toward an open field and was shot in the right chest. He had been serving five days for driving without a license. The Army would have released him in about three hours.
A split in Los Angeles County Democratic ranks widens as the County Central Committee votes 57 to 20 to remove Charles Deck as finance committee chairman for introducing a resolution calling for resignations of state chair Glenn Anderson and county chair Richard Richards. The move follows earlier criticisms of Anderson and Richards by middle of the road groups over unity and Korea policy.
The council outlined a $306000 storm drainage program including a permanent pump station at 14th Street to discharge runoff, with $158081 balance in the bond fund. An estimated $106000 for the Long Beach Freeway to Anaheim Street bridge project will be shared by the harbor department at 40 percent. The plan covers draining the historic Frog Point area between Atlantic and Elm Aves Columbia and 27th Streets in the Signal Hill district, with a 200000 project to lay a drain from West American Ave and 28th St to tap the 90 inch line at Columbia and Atlantic.
83,980 people attended 78 conventions in Long Beach during 1950 51, spending 8 298 000 dollars. Secretary David Olmsted announced that most of this was new money earned elsewhere. The 78 conventions set a yearly record, surpassing 1949 50 totals of 68 conventions with 90,770 attendees. Frank C. Finch was named convention bureau manager effective Aug 1. Plans for an Albacore Derby were approved, to be sponsored by Mason E. Kight. John W. Hancock presided as bureau president.
Jury selection began in Superior Court for the trial of Dr Arthur E Pike 70 charged with seven counts of performing illegal operations Dep Dist Atty Richard Tobey and defense counsel Bernard Brennan said selection would finish late this afternoon Tobey planned to call a 17 year old San Pedro schoolgirl who testified at the preliminary hearing that she had surgical treatment at her own request
Dr. P. Victor Peterson president of Long Beach City College was named to the Planning Commission but ruled ineligible due to holding a state paid position. City Manager Samuel E. Vickers withdrew Peterson’s name after Assistant City Attorney Joseph B. Lamb cited charter Section 51 prohibiting salaried officials from holding city office.
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