Bids to Open Shortly on Site for $625,000 Post Office
COMPTON July 22 A $625,000 federal post office site and building for Compton has been designated though not officially authorized. Congressman Clyde Doyle said the department will advertise within 30 days and that procedural steps remain. Postmaster Clark Wallace cautioned site acquisition does not guarantee rapid construction amid the Korean War. Plans also call for a 4000 square foot annex to ease main office overcrowding, with bids opening in Los Angeles Monday and the annex aiming for a Christmas occupancy.
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Compton
Clyde Doyle
Clark Wallace
Doyle
Public Buildings Agency
Washington
Wallace
Post Office Department
Bellflower
Los Angeles
Post Office
Wilmington Ave
Compton Blvd
Lawndale Teacher Elected to Excelsior Post
J. Frank Tiner, former Leuzinger High School teacher in Lawndale, has been elected senior problems teacher at Excelsior High School. Superintendent Ralph F. Burnight announced the appointment. Tiner is a brother of Dr. Hugh Titer, president of George Pepperdine College in Los Angeles.
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Bellfloweh
Swy
J. Frank Tiner
Leuzinger High School
Lawndale
Excelsior High School
Ralph F. Burnight
Timer
Hugh Titer
George Pepperdine College
Los Angeles
Spiritual Meet Nears End at 7 Mesa Today
Final day of the annual spiritual convention at Southern California Bible College in Costa Mesa is expected to draw 1500 to 2000 attendees on the campus. More than 10,000 have attended sessions to date, with 230 Assembly of God Churches in the region taking part.
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Costa
Mesa
Assembly of God Churches
Southern California
Southern California Bible College
Irvin Harrison
Assembly of God
Southland
Wesley Steelberg
J. R. Ten
Hermon Beach
Harry Leacock
Covina
Young
Warren
Moving of Downey Chamber Delayed
Downey July 22. Due to delays in moving the Chamber of Commerce building to 8130 E. Second St., the regular board meeting will be held at the old location at 7:30 p.m. Monday, A. L. Stannard, president, announced.
Newport Has New OilTest Near Newport Beach
Newport Beach announces a new exploratory oil whipstock well on the north side of Pacific Coast Highway between West Balboa Boulevard and the Santa Ana River. Operated by Jergins Oil Co of Long Beach, the project is on land owned by Baning Co and Pacific Electric Railway, with potential community leases if productive at about 4000 feet. EB Eyes of 1124 E Ocean Front Balboa, says this is not a tideland operation.
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Newport Beach
Newport and
Seashore
Jergins Oil Aeany
Long Beach
Loen
Pacific Coast Hwy
W. Balboa Blvd
Santa Ana River
EB. E. Yes
Ocean Front
Balboa
Jergins Oil Company
Jergins
Walter Elliott Company
Pyles
Baning Company
Prerty
Pacific Coast ‘Hwy
Pacifico Electric Railway Company
Balboa Blvd
West Newport
Oil Wells Tap Slick Oil Field West of Town
Geologists report a tarlike oil deposit tapped by wells in the early 1920s west of the low gravity area. The prospect draws interest from local operators and historians tracking development history in the region.
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Les
Dairymen urged to seek deferments to save workers from draft
James R. Carnes announces dairy industry top defense classification and warns dairy owners must act quickly to obtain employee deferments. Marguerite Okerstrom notes filing before classification. 10 day appeal window after draft. Boards No. 115 to cover Whittier Norwalk Bellflower Santa Fe Springs. others at Downey Lynwood Long Beach area.
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James R. Carnes
National Defense
Defense Command
Aala
Man Aggeu
Marguerite Okerstrom
Downey
Carnes
Dolan St
Artesia Hog Farm Hearing Set for Aug 3
Public hearing by the Regional Planning Commission will consider suspending operating licenses of two hog ranches in Artesia in an M-1 urgency zone. The sites include 10739 E 166th St and 10645 E 166th St near the San Gabriel River, with the hearing at 11:90 a.m. in the county engineering building Los Angeles.
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Artesia
Regional Planning Commission
Bellflower
San Gabriel River
166Th St
E. 166Th
Downey Baptists to Launch Building Fund Drive Dinner
Downey First Baptist Church will start a 60000 dollar building fund campaign with a complimentary turkey dinner at Rio Hondo Country Club Tuesday. The plan includes a two story educational wing to match the sanctuary at Third and Dolan Streets and use of the Chamber of Commerce property for a parking lot until future wings and a new sanctuary are built. Dr Gordon C Brownville of the Southern California Baptist Convention will be principal speaker at the kickoff. Building steering committee members include Stamps Colby Wright Plummer Wylie Williamson Sundman Copass Tanksley Newberry Corbin Rogers. Architect Duke Butler and consultant Jane Everette Rawlings prepared the plans.
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Downey
First Baptist Church
Rio Hondo Country Club
Tom James L. Stamps
Third
Dolan Sts
Chamber of Commerce
Second St
Gordon C. Brownville
Southern California Baptist ‘Convention
Stamps
George E. S. Colby
Wright
Paul Plummer
Emory Wylie
Edward Williamson
HL. Sundman
Jack Copass
Ian Tanksley Sr
E. C. Newberry
iBen Corbin
Elton Rogers
Duke Butler
Jane Everette Rawlings
Indian Dance Takes Prize at Dominguez Fiesta Parade
The fifth annual Dominguez Fiesta parade crowned the Chesk-Cha-Wah Tribe for the grand prize after a four day celebration. More than 3,000 spectators watched about 100 entries along Alameda Avenue and Carson Street toward Santa Fe Avenue. Highlights included Wilmington Drum and Bugle Corps and several best-of honors across majorette, floats, and mounted divisions.
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Trires
Billis Jean Jackson
Cantor
Glenn
Ryan
Shirley Thompson
Irma Thompson
Carolyn Jones
Dominguez
Wilmington Drum and Bugle Corps
Charles del Curto
Chamber of Commerce
Prass-Telegram
Glenn Ryan
Grand Marshall
Alameda Ave
Ijis
Tyler St
Carson St
Fiesta Grounds
Santa Fe Ave
American Legion
V. F. W. ‘Sunshine Girls
Dominguez Bluebirds
Dominguez Rotaryanns
Model Cleaners of
Long Beach
Long Beach Mounted Guard
Don Fernando Ramerez
Duchess Damrose
Ray Waters
Patty Lynch
Roger Reimer
Eleanor Truitt
Fhe
Nel DeWar
Dominguez Roetory Club
WHY WORRY Supervisors Ask Estimate for Open East West Road
ANTA ANA July 22 The board of supervisors asked Highway Commissioner Harold Sprenger to estimate the cost of opening 20th Street from Newport Boulevard to Harbor Boulevard as a new east west roadway serving the Orange County Fair grounds the First College and the former preflight center. Sprenger balked at a study and said to notify him of financing sources noting there is no money. The supervisors said they want the report by next Tuesday and will decide financing if the project is to be done.
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20Th St
Newport Blvd
Harbor Blvd
Orange County
1St College
Sprenger
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