Local chatter on whistles and town quirks in Belmont
Neighborly anecdotes from a friendly town recount festive visits at 1837 Olive Ave and the Belmont area. The piece notes odd whistle sounds likely from Standard Oil compressors near Pacific Coast Hwy and a toy train at Atherton Nimeno, plus a mysterious padlock on a front door. It also mentions a Forest City wooden nickel centennial gimmick and TV color dialogue from local residents including the Billingers and Miss Marlowe on Ed Sullivan.
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Don E. Vorhies
Belmont Shore
Standard Oil
Pacific Coast Hwy
Toledo
Simmon
Vvorkies
Atherton
Nimeno
Belmont
Forest City
Iowa
Dan D. Brown
Foros City
Airport bond vote and restudy of city projects
Old City Council today voted to call a special election for a bond issue and postponed date for Nov 1. The Advisory Improvement Committee will review 11 approved projects from 1953 and 1954 for financing from Public Improvement funds, including airport improvements, parks, library branches, and public safety buildings. The panel will report as expeditiously as feasible while a relocation plan for Lakewood Blvd and underpasses at Lakewood and Spring St is preliminarily approved. City Manager to seek state and federal aid. election hoped for this year, preferably November.
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John F. Baker
Toby Wick
M. i Council
Wick
State Supreme Court
Mallon
Lakewood
Spring St
Jess D. Gilkerson
Sam H. Vickers
Counci
Avalon Air Transport under fire over airport issues
Long Beach council heard complaints about Avalon Air Transport from a city resident arguing for greater police presence and better start procedures at the airport. Officials discussed runways, protection, and requested a full report on safety measures while noting bids for a larger hangar were accepted without public notice. A second suspect in a brutal June 3 assault in Long Beach was arrested, with the victim remaining hospitalized after being stabbed multiple times.
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Lorg
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Long Beaels
Catalina Island
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Wilton R. Proncet
Crittca
Onc
Worren
NWAYS
Avalon Air
Probert
Warner
Linden
Ave
Atlantic Ave
9Th St
Police Department
Raymond SG
Raymond C
Keaise
Furl
Avaflor Air Transport
Probert Sail Avalon Air
Ex-Felon Confesses 11 L. B. Burglaries
A 30 year old ex convict admitted burglary of 11 Long Beach stores mostly dry cleaners and groceries and four cars since arriving from San Francisco three weeks ago. Donald Clement Taylor was booked for burglary and grand theft and may face 20 more burglaries. Police say he drove in a suspicious manner and left a cash register drawer and clothing in his car. The burglaries netted about 4200. Taylor on parole after a prior San Quentin sentence.
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Long Beach
San Francisco
Donald Clement Taylor
Del
Maurice 2
Wishon
Taylor
Long Beach Blvd
Top Hat Cleaners
Maine
San Quentin
Depreciation schedule adopted by harbor board
Norwalk officials report the Harbor Commissioners adopted a new depreciation schedule for harbor installations and equipment on Chief Engineer Shoemaker recommendations. Changes affect life spans, with 50 percent unchanged 16 percent raised and 40 percent lowered due to tech advances. subsidence treated separately. A separate incident involved a car crash at Clarkdale and Cheshire Streets injuring Mattie Snyder.
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Board of Harbor Commissioners
Rt. R. Shoemaker
Shoemaker
Norwalk
Clarkdale Ave
Mattie Snyder
Nava
Burned boat search after Laguna Beach crash
Mail worker Jarmies E Morton of Hawthorne was treated for back and knee abrasions after a collision at 6th Street and San Francisco Avenue. A burning vessel was sighted by residents prompting a Coast Guard search that continued all night as a Newport Beach patrol boat scoured the area.
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Jarmies E. Morton
Hawthorne
Wvas
Seaside Hospital
Billi 'J. Allen
Gaylord Ave
Hodnes
Daisy Ave
Newport Beach
Wife sues U.S. over husband TB exposure case
A San Diego mother and her three daughters sue the federal government for 650000 alleging Navy doctors failed to warn her husband John Allan Adams of the seriousness of his tuberculosis before his discharge. Adams, a former Navy radioman, has been at Long Beach VA hospital since April 12. The suit, filed in U S District Court, lists the three daughters and alleges they contracted tuberculosis from him. No trial date set.
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Navy
San Diego
John Allan Adams
Long Beach Veterans Administration Hospital
U. S. District Court
San Dito
Barbara Jeanne
Mary Jeanne
Theresa
Adams
Kenny Bakers Mother Dies Here in Long Beach
Private service for Mrs Doris Alane Baker who died Saturday at 2149 Piney Ave was held Monday at Motte ll's & Peek Chapel. She was the mother of singer Kenny Baker, born in Beatrice Nebraska and moved to Long Beach 40 years ago. She was a member of the First Church of Christ Scientist and a Christian Science practitioner. Survived by her husband Gordon C and three grandchildren.
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Dorothy Alane Baker
Piney Ave
Mottell's & Peek Chapel
Kenny Baker
Baker
Bea- City
Neb
Long Beach
First Church of Christ, Scientist
Harbor Commission Approves Berth 10 Track Project
Harbor Commissioners authorize construction of four railroad and crane tracks along Berths 10 and RM Pier D at a cost of 79000. The charter rents surplus cranes from the Navy under a two year lease to loan scrap iron, with cranes to be leased to operators.
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Board of Harber Commissioners
Navy
Arsle
Compton Man Held for Shooting of Wife
Harold Weaver 26 of S19 W Cherry St was booked on suspicion of murder after police said he fired five shots at his wife Rose 23 at their home. She was not hit. Officers disarmed Weaver and said the quarrel began at a dance Monday night in Los Angeles.
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WW. G. Billinger
West Third St
Billinger
Marion Marlowe
Ed Sullivan
Simpton
Harold Weaver
S19
Rose
Three speakers at LB city budget hearing on $22 393 058 plan
Only three people appeared at Monday night’s City Council hearing on a $22,393,058 budget lasting 40 minutes. Mrs Irene Traffert attacked the American Heritage Discussion Groups as liberal propaganda while city employee groups sought raises and holiday pay. Councilmen considered one-range pay increases for city staff and reviewed salaries for department heads, with a decision postponed to Wednesday.
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Irene Traffert
Dst
America
Traffert City
Sam E. Vickers
Tollie Rizzo
The
Long Beach
Assn
Sun Rays Start Fire at Jefferson Junior High School
Fire department inspectors studied a Monday blaze in the Jefferson Junior High Library at Tih Sf and Euclid Ave to see if sunlit glass caused the $12,000 damage. Fire Chief Sandeman said the fire likely started by sun rays through a window or by juveniles, with evidence limited due to no forced entry. The library and adjacent room were damaged. flames were noticed at 2:43 p.m and controlled in 15 minutes.
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Jefferson Junior High School
Tih Sf
Euclid Ave
Frank
Sandeman
Juvenntes
William M. McCree
Glee Club
Color TV flames as power lines shorted in West Long Beach
A faulty short from a broken power pole at Hill Street area caused two high voltage lines to touch and flash color TV sets in a two block neighborhood. Fire crews logged multiple calls of TVs aflame while a water geyser from a fire plug near 20th Street and Freeman Avenue spouted 100 feet until valve shutdown stopped it. Authorities said no further damage occurred.
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Hill and
San Francisco
J. Kitsara
Southern California Edison Co
Hill St
W. R. Mendenhall
20Th St
Freeman Ave
Idiso Company
Harbor board approves Windham Ave repair to four lanes
Harbor Commissioners on Monday authorized Windham Ave from Harbor Scenic Dr to Panorama Dr to be rebuilt as a four lane paved street. The project includes a bypass from Pico Ave. Estimated cost is $130,000, with materials already contracted and in force.
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Windham Ave
Pier A
I Harbor Scenic Dr
Panorama Dr
Pico Ave
Harbor Engineers
Forse
Crash Traps Long Beach Woman In Signal Hill
A Long Beach woman, Mrs Ima Venable, 45, was trapped for about 20 minutes after a collision at 21st Street and Cherry Avenue in Signal Hill Monday night. Firemen pried open her door to free her from a sports car, taken to Community Hospital with facial lacerations and possible head injuries. The other driver was Alyn J Miller, 22, of 27 Royceoil Avenue.
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Long Beach
Signal Hill
Ima Venable
BE. Ocean Blvd
Community Hospital
21St St
Cherry Ave
Venable
Signal, Hill
Prain
Alyn J. Miller
Royceoil Ave
Card Losses Blamed for Crime Spree
SAN PEDRO A 25 year old father of four in Gardena debt confessed to a three month crime spree holding up four liquor stores. Charles V. Peterson 35 of 924 Belson St Carson told officers house payments were behind and he was desperate for money. Detectives said Peterson admitted helping liquors stores in Wilmington Carson and one near Gardena netting 250. He was arrested after a robbery victim in Los Angeles noted his car license. Peterson denied using a gun and said he threatened victims with a simulated weapon. He served six years in the Marine Corps and had no prior trouble with the law. his eldest child is 12.
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San Pedro
Gardena
Charles V. Peterson
Belson St
Carson
Peterson
Tia
Wilmington
Los Angeles
Marine Corps
Drilling Bid To Lease Harbor Land For Oil Near Wilmington
Los Angeles firm Ageo Corp offered to lease about an acre of harbor land in Wilmington for oil production. The Board of Harbor Commissions sent the bid to Eid F. Amar for study. The site includes the longshoremen's hiring hall. The proposal offered a 605 percent royalty and a single planned private-well site. Amar estimated the lease might yield about $450 monthly to the city.
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Ageo Corp
Los Angeles
Wilmington
Board of Harbor Commissions
Eid F. Amar
Amar
City Council Backs Lewd Photo Ban Measure
Long Beach City Council, in a first reading, moved to bar possession of lewd or obscene material within city limits. The ordinance, urged by City Prosecutor Kenneth Sutherland, aims to aid prosecutions of those circulating such material, though he noted not all items are sold locally.
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Long Beach
Jkenneth &. Sutherland
Sutherland
Woman and five children hurt when auto hits truck
A woman and her five children were injured Monday when a car driven by Charles Fulkerson, 39, of 41213 Parkmead Ave, struck the rear of a trailer truck on Lakewood Boulevard south of Center Street. Fulkerson is hospitalized with fractured ribs and injuries. the children Grace, Mike, Kathleen, Karen, and Charles suffered minor injuries.
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Charles Fulkerson
Parkmead Ave
Ana
Lakewood Blvd
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