1,960 Doff Their Caps and Dance All Night
A Long Beach graduation night celebrates 1,960 public high school seniors from Polytechnic Jordan Wilson and other schools. Diplomas are awarded by M. A. Duncan with remarks on public education. Music from Dorsey Brothers and Wilton Hotel party cap the event as grads dance into dawn.
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Mary Dave Nixon
Larry EN Concert
Jimmy Dorsey
Fleming
Wilson High
Municipal Auditorium
Dorsey Brothers
Gordon Polk
Lynn Roberts
Bill Raymond
Modernaires
Keith Williams
Helen O'Conne
Braman
Wilton Hotel
Youth For Christ
Bob Shepard
Stan
Point of Order
Frebers
George Lee
Bob Bradford
Long Beach Unified School
Polytechnic
Jordan
Wilson
Deway Continuation
Igen
Schyfilx
Jack A. Fosse
Elm Ave
William
Long Beach Sanitarium
H. Galbraith
Minment
Sunnyside
Ceme
Lorin B. Daniels
Latter- Day Saints Church
Elizabeth Hudson
Board of Education
Eaton O. Bernis
Lon Stephens
Wilson Band
Felice Frank
Harry J. Moore
Jon Dyer
Odessa Russell
Betty Dale
Miss Frank
John W. Wilson
Walter H. Boyd
Richard G. Irving
Community Presbyterian Church
Jordan Band
Avalon
Catalina Island
George Vermillion
William Blair
John Fiacentini
George R. McKelvie
Parlane Reid
Olivette Goe
St Janat Paterson
Obituary notices from Long Beach area leaders and residents
Surviving are wives, children and siblings for numerous Long Beach area residents. Obituaries detail deaths at local hospitals, service times, and interment plans, naming multiple families including Fosse, Watt, Kuhn, Seal, Kingwood, Robinson, Wilbur, Becker, Dale, Zengler, and others with birthplaces such as Scotland and Minnesota, and noting church and lodge affiliations.
Air Depot Wing Reservists Train For Annual Duty Tour
Reservists of the T7ith Air depot Wing at Long Beach Air Force Base will undertake a two weeks active duty training tour at Norton Air Force Base San Bernardino in August. The unit drills the first weekend each month locally and receives four days pay for two days training along with clothing allowances benefits and technical training. The recruiting office is the Air Police Office at the base open Tuesdays 7 to 9 pm.
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T7ith Airdepot
Long Beach Air Force Base
Norton Air Force Base
San Bernardino
Asir Police Office
Emperor Visits Port Area and Local Industry Tour
The Emperor and party toured the Long Beach harbor area visiting a Richfield Oil refinery in Watson. David E. Day hosted. Sinclair oil pending Ethopian talks. Hosts presented color slide gift with a stereoscope. Evening events included a water taxi ride home and a dawn departure for Arrowhead Springs. The Emperor has visited the U.S. since May 25 as a government guest.
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Long Beach
United States
Emperor
Richfield Oil Corp
Watson
David E. Day
Sinclair of Co
Richfield
Day
Arrowhead Springs
Avalon Rotary Club
Alr
Olda J
County Board approves residential-agricultural to commercial zone change
The County Board of Supervisors approved a zone change for a rectangular parcel southwest of the Spring St and Palo Verde Ave intersection from residential-agricultural to commercial. The Thursday vote formalized the re zoning amid development plans.
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Spring St
Palo Verde Ave
County Board of Supervisors
Pennsylvania State Society Meets for Tuesday Potluck
The Pennsylvania State Society will meet Tuesday at 6 30 a m in Colonial Hall 951 Locust Ave for a potluck dinner A business meeting and cards will follow the dinner Sunrise note mentions local gathering and social activity with scheduling details.
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Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania State Society
Colonial Hall
Locust Ave
Progress in Safety Campaign Disclosed in Long Beach
Approximately $4,000 of $30,000 needed to finance a year around accident prevention program has been raised. Phil Hattery announced at a membership kickoff lunch at the Wilton Hotel. Joseph N. Kaplan of the Los Angeles Safety Council spoke, praising the Long Beach chapter and noting costs lower than NSC estimates. Attendees included Mayor Lyman B. Sutter and several city officials. Three committees will solicit subscriptions at $1 for individuals and 25 for firms, with goal to be reached in about 10 days.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Phil Hattery
Jcon
Long Beach Safety Council
Wilton Hotel
Joseph N. Kaplan
Thhe
Los Angeles Safety Council
Long Beach
Kaplan
National Safety Council
Lyman B. Sutter
Chamber of Commerce
Oliver Speran
Willam
Dovey
Wiliam Head
Harold Levy
Robert McNulty
Local Safety Council
Charles Fabish
Junior Chamber of Commerce
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Jan Viljoen
Heverly Byrne
Jordan High
Jimmy
Tommy Dorsey
Avalot. . Poly
Gladys L
IM. A. Duncan
Board of Educa‘lion
America
Long Beach Unified School District
Myrna A. Kelley
Gerald A. Hight
Robert G. Wells
Miss Morrison
W. Odie Wright
Poly
Douglas A. Newcomb
Mengane
Sonows
Genera Lco T Wison
Susanne Soltysik
Willis ‘T. Lymen Jr
Wiliam Marmion
Shirley Crawford
Ron Watkins
Jordan High School
Poly High
Jerry Mount
Lou Ann Barnett
Lynn Boyington
Bob Larson
Stephen Field
Wilson High School
Bob Wilson
Gary Bailey
Barbara Murray
Mora
Leonard
Hawthorne
Powers
Ketheryn S
Richard Fosse
Gledys Ave
Margine Glover
Edwardied
Puckett
Pearl Flanders
Hospital
Cincinnati
Nina Murillo
Ohio
Compton
Lila Clevelazo
St. Hand
John Fosse
Matthew's
Ters
Margaret Carr
Tina Dahl
Hunter Leo J
Tracy
Mortuary Chapel
Helen Wieding
Roy Carl Mason
Sunnyside Meemorial Park
Watt
A. Watt
Mountain View St
North Long Beach
Aber|hdeen
Scotland
Virginia City
Elizabeth Pj Deughters
Mary W. Parks
Ethel G. Watt
Hunter Mortuary Chapel
Kingsley Swett
Sunnyside Memorial Park
Kuhn
William Emmanuel
Virginia Ct
Torrance
Pueblo
Colo
Lutheran Church
Era
Roxie Swan
Fred
Charles
Robert Kuhns
Nettie Miller
Katie Harvey
Fort Morgan
Patterson & Snively Mortuary
King Wood—Wilburn
Tingwood
Eucalyptus Ave
iLong Beach ‘Hospital
Arkansas
Allie Sibley
Nell Jackson
Josephine Broomley
Grace Searles
J. E. Reed
Mottell's Mortuary Chapel
Omaha
Neb
Holy Sepulchre Cemetery
Robinson
William Earl Robinson
Quincy Ave
Fong
Naval Reserve
William D. Robinson
Los Angeles
Christenser- Pine Mortuary Chapel
Wilford R. Hall
USN
Wilbur
Lakewood City
Marvel Margaret Wilbur
Hazelbrook Ave
Long Beath
Rippey
Iowa
Mayfair
Roy Wilbur
George N. Rittgers
Roswell
N. M
Roy Gaillord
Ival Porter
Glenn
Homer
Floyd Rittgers
Tuestan
Galelougher & DeYoung Bellflower
Servier
Mottell’s Mortuary Chapel
Westminster Memorial Park
Becker
Ethel Louise Becker
Lemon Ave
Huntsville
Ontario
Los Angeles County
Council
Pocahontas
Santa Francisco
Mattawa Council
D. P
Bertram Beckes
Edith Christensen
Emma Harrison
Etta Laughlin
Dale
Harry Dale
Eith St
Attica
Ind
Denver
George W. Dale
Mortell's Mortuary Chapel
George W. McDonald
Zengler
Henry Lewis Zengler
Lomina Ave
Evansville
Oakland
LeRoy Y. Zengler
Mortell
Mortuery
Robert Derr Mcintyre
Mountain View Cemetery
Vann Bishop
El'Monte
Elijah Vann Bishop
N. Peck Road
Smithbury
Oklahoma City
Okla
Cali Martenson
Carri¢fornia
Martenson
Blencoe
Minna V
Ned
Hertha
Bishop
Washington
D. C
Eleanor Hand
John W. Blencoe
Collingwood
N. J
Benje
Robert
W. Brown
Edmund
Bros ‘Beach
Charles C
Brown
Columbia
Tenn
Myrtle Brown
Tell's Mortuary
Agnes I. Anderson
Jona
Rangements
Frank Bettger
Dale Carnegie
Long Beach Municipal Auditorium
Coll
Carol Cox
Gale Ave
Don Spring
McCrery's
Pine Ave
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