Long Beach Oil Co Ordered to Return City Reimbursements
The Harbor Commission urged the Long Beach Oil Development Co to reimburse the city $87,242.19 received since 1938. City Attorney Irving Smith ruled the reimbursements illegal, noting $61,290.10 covered insurance for fire and boiler works and public facilities, with $25,952.09 for state motor vehicle taxes on city-owned but LBOD-registered vehicles. the registration was also illegal.
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Long Beach Oil Development Co
Harbor Commission
Irving
LBOD
Smith
City Manager to Have New Oil Bureau
Long Beach will create an oil department under the city manager with possible harbor department inclusion. Nine councilmen, meeting as the oil committee, approved forming the department to fix defects in the Long Beach Oil Development Co. contract and its operations. They anticipate not repeating these issues when the offshore field east of Pine Ave. is developed. A later charter expansion to include the harbor department was reserved. City Atty. Smith to rule on using Richfield lease income for core drilling and seismic work without a public vote. City Auditor Mansell urged uniform accounting to scrap “objectionable methods” and noted $27,000,000 in LEOD equipment lacks disposal records.
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Long Beach
Oil Committee
Long Beach Oil Development Co
Pine Ave
Irving M. Smith
John R. Mansell
Harbor Commission
Mansell
Lifeguards Save Cruiser From Rocks at Alamitos Bay
Two unidentified occupants of a 24 foot cabin cruiser jumped into the water Monday and with Lifeguard Billy Mc Main steered the stalled craft away from rocks in the Alamitos Bay entrance channel. The three held the drifting cruiser until the harbor master boat arrived and it was towed to safe anchorage inside the bay.
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Billy McMain
Alamitos Bay Entrance
Barbara Bennett Held on Drunk Charge in L A
Barbara Bennett, 45, former actress and sister of Joan and Constance Bennett, was granted until August 3 to plead to a drunk driving charge in Los Angeles. Her husband Bob Randall, 48, an actor, was arrested with her after police found them drinking vodka in a parked car and later pleaded guilty, receiving a $50 fine. The couple, who wed July 14 in Las Vegas, reportedly did not speak to each other in court.
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Los Angeles
Barbara Bennett
Bob Randall
Las Vegas
Nev
Miss Bennett
Joan
Constance Bennett
Rifle Bullet Strikes Girl Playing Checkers
A 13 year old girl, Elve Abelson of San Francisco, was in General Hospital after a .22 rifle discharged while she played checkers at the home of Mr and Mrs Louis Farber in Los Angeles. Police say Deram Sanders planned to show the rifle and left it loaded on a bed. the bullet struck her chest cavity.
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Los Angeles
General Hospital
Elve Abelson
Arthur Abelson
San Francisco
Louis Farber
Deram Sanders
Sanders
Portland Educator Named Child Welfare Co-ordinator
Dr. Daniel Woodrow Langston of Portland, Oregon, was named coordinator of child welfare for the Long Beach Unified School District by Board of Education president Dr. Walter Boyd. Langston, 40, succeeds Dr. Stanley Ostrom and previously served in Portland schools. He is married with three children and studied at San Diego State College USC and Stanford. The district reports 90 percent of 435 new teachers signed and expected enrollment over 60,000. The board approved landscaping and sprinkler contracts for Hamilton and Marshall Junior High Schools and invited bids for a new Stanford Junior High in Lakewood, while plans to close 53rd Street near Addams Elementary were dropped.
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Daniel Woodrow Langston
Portland
Ore
Long Beach Unified
Walter Boyd
Board of Education
Stanley Ostrom
Langston
Portland, Ore
San Diego State College
University of Southern California
Stanford University
D and M Sprinkler Co
Hamilton Junior High School
North Long Beach
Long Beach Sprinkler System Co
C. D. Sharpe
Marshall Junior High School
Lakewood
Stanford
Albury Ave
Vernon St
53Rd St
Addams Elementary
Talk Slated on Boroughs Form of Government
The Lakewood Taxpayers Association will host Wendell Macecoby at 8 p.m. in St. Cornelius Parish Hall Flagstone St and Bellflower Blvd to discuss possibilities of the borough form of government. Also on the agenda is the election of a new president to replace Ed Walker who resigned over annexation voting stance. Stanley Burrows and Mrs. Margaret Hulibom are nominated for the post.
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Lakewood Taxpayers’Association
Wendell Macecoby
St. Cornelius Parish Hall
Flagstone, St. and
Bellflower Blvd
Ed Walker
Stanley Burrows
Margaret Hulibom
Rubber Plant Bill Passage Reached
Washington Senate moves to speed approval of a measure allowing the sale to private industry of 29 synthetic rubber plants built at a cost over 500000. The bill extends the sale deadline to January 1 1955 and guarantees a congressional vote on sale terms if requested by any member.
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Washington
Senate
Senate Banking Committee
Congress
Eisenhower
Guerrillas Report Slay Russians in Island Raid
The China News reports two Russians killed in last week’s Nationalist guerrilla raid on Tungshan Island off the China coast. The defense ministry says no Russians appear in their dispatches while officials note the Russians were said to be radar station technicians. The raid also captured 890 prisoners, the largest since 1949.
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Wanvea
China News
Tungshan
China
Defense Ministry
Formosa
Health discovery claims migraine arthritis asthma relief
Long Beach chiropractor Ion Goldstein Jr offers a new method claiming to treat migraine headaches arthritis and asthma by detecting nerve pressure with a precise stereoscopic X ray and removing the cause with a gentle adjustment. Offices at 614 E San Antonio Dr call Long Beach 48717 for appointments.
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Ion Goldstein, Jr
Eldstein
5.C. D.C
Long Beach
Gett
Goldstein
D.C
San Antonio Drive
Atlantic Ave
Canada Truck Strike Violence Breaks Out
In Windsor Ontario a heavy transport truck from Leamington to Detroit carrying lettuce had its side window shattered by a rock as strikers chased the vehicle through downtown Windsor toward the Ambassador Bridge. The truck, pursued by several cars, failed to stop at a road block set up on the city’s eastern outskirts.
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Windsor
Ont
Leamington
Detroit
Ambassador Bridge
Signal Hill Rejects Motorcycles for Speed Trap Plan
Signal Hill city council rejected a plan to buy motorcycles for police speed enforcement. Instead, the council, following Police Chief Ted Murphy, will advertise for automobiles to replace aging department vehicles. Spectators' calls for motorcycle officers as a revenue source were ignored. Councilman Emil Hantley cited safety concerns, saying motorcycles as revenue measures risk officers' lives.
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Signal Hill City
Ted Murphy
Emil Hantley
Court Seeks Halt to Long Beach Annexation Election
A writ filed in Los Angeles Superior Court on Monday seeks to stop Long Beach from holding the August 14 annexation vote in the Carson Gardens area. Judge Frank Swain orders council to halt the election or show cause at 9:30 a.m. July 29. The petition argues the council’s rejection of protests by Lakewood landowners over 53.87 percent was illegal.
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Long Beach
Carson Gardens
Los Angeles
Reception aboard Canadian Ship Sioux in Long Beach
Invitations have been sent to 160 Long Beach city officials and press to attend a reception aboard Her Majesty's Canadian Ship Sioux at Nez Pier, Long Beach Naval Base. Commodore P. E. Haddon and officers host, with Canadian Vice Consul W. K. Ward among guests. Ship arrives at 10 a.m. and sails Sunday.
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Long Beach City
Nez Pier
Long Beach Naval Base
Comdr
P. E. Haddon
W. K. Ward
Toper
Nicanpaiey
Sunay
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