Polytechnic High to Build Library Classrooms Awarded
Contracts totaling 293051 for a library classroom building at Polytechnic High School were awarded to T Norcross 234970 Hickman Brothers 29092 and Hoffman Jacobs 28989. Projects include moving remodeling two bungalow classrooms at Jordan High School for family life instruction and a chain link fence contract with Alcorn Fence Co for Jordan.
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Polytechnic High School
Ask Theater
Hickman Brothers, Inc
Hoffman and Jacobs
Board of Education
Jordan High School
G. T. Gayton & Sons
Alcorn Fence Co
Jordan
Native Motifs Highlight Harbor Cities Show of 1000 Dogs
The 16th annual Harbor Cities Kennel Club All Breed Dog Show spans Saturday and Sunday at Municipal Auditorium and grounds. About 1000 dogs are to be judged Saturday with 2012 total entries across 80 breeds, plus over 100 obedience dogs each day.
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Harbor Cities Kennel Club
Municipal Auditorium
Asoka
India
Tibet
Long Beach Strike Vote Endorsed by Local 9571
Long Beach Local 9571 of Communications Workers of America voted 16 to 1 to strike against Associated Telephone Company. Negotiations began May 1 and broke off June 4, with the union accusing no general wage increases since 1947 and noting top hourly workers received no raise. The average male weekly wage is $40 and starting wage is $1 per hour for all male workers.
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Long Beach
Communications Workers of America, Cio
Associated Telephone Company
Lidy
William E. Boutillier
Boutillier
Comany
National Labor Relations Board
Orthopedic School Remodels East Wing at Lee Elementary
The Board of Education approved remodeling the east wing of Lee Elementary at 16th St and Temple Ave to become the district orthopedic school. The clinic at Community Hospital will remain available to students and the renovation aims to lower costs while preserving regular schooling. redistricting of Lee Elementary boundaries will follow, with the wing ready for the 1952-53 school year.
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Lee Elementary
16Th St
Temple Ave
Board of Education
Tichenor Clinic
Community Hospital
Lee
War Play of Tots Ends in Bloodshed
Fred Marshall a three year old of 4719 Marshall Ave was involved in a toy war clash with a four year old playmate yesterday. Fred sustained a forehead cut treated at Bishop's Clinic. The incident ended with no decorations or further injuries reported.
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Fred. Marshall
Marshall Ave
Fred
Bishop’s Clinic
Plan Autopsy in Cuba Deaths
In Havana Cuban authorities ordered an autopsy after the U S Marine sergeant and a Cuban night watchman were found dead in the embassy visa section. Sgt Robert J Sheldon 22 of Parishville NY an embassy guard and Augusto Fernandez 67 were each shot in the head. Police lab chief said evidence suggests the Marine shot the watchman then killed himself but motives remain unknown. The U S embassy report offered no details on method or motive and found no robbery indication.
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Havana
U. S
Robert J. Sheldon
Parishville
N. Y
Augustin Fernandez
Jose Diaz Padron
Police Crime Laboratory
Medal of Honor for Human Shield
Posthumous Medal of Honor awarded to Set. George D. Libby an Army combat engineer from Casco Maine for using his body to shield comrades while evacuating wounded through a Communist cordon near Taejon Korea last July 20 He stood between the driver and enemy absorbing bullets and died saving the tractor carrying wounded His sister Mrs Gladys Hillerta of Linden Nod to receive the medal from Gen Omar Bradley at the Pentagon Thursday.
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Washington
George D. Libby
Libby
Casco
Maine
Taejon
Korea
Sgt
Omar Bradley
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Pentagon
Gladys Hillerta
Linden
Bombers Fly 10000th Korea sortie in Fifth Air Force record
Tokyo June 19 Maj Gen Frank F Everest Fifth Air Force commander today awarded a scroll of honor to the Third Bomb Wing for flying its 10000th sortie in Korea. The 10,000th sortie was flown by a B-26 piloted by Capt Thomas G Crenshaw. Crew included Maj Edward S Ashley co pilot 2nd Lt Stephen A Byrne navigator and Lt James E Dunn radar observer. The group has flown over 7000 night sorties and destroyed or damaged thousands of Communist supply vehicles barges locomotives railroad cars.
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Tokyo
Frank F. Everest
Fifth Air Force
Korea
Virgil L. Zoller
Har Iingen
Texas
Thomas G. Crenshaw
Gardena
Calif
Edward S. Ashley
Dallas
Stephen A. Byrne
Richmond Hill
James E. Dunn
Denver
Student Will Talk at C of C Forum in Long Beach
Wally Frost, president of the Associated Student Body at Long Beach City College, will speak at the Long Beach Chamber of Commerce Wednesday Breakfast Forum on Organized Crime. Frost recently toured transcontinentally with the Flying Wheels Basketball Team of paraplegics. He is a WWII neuropsychiatric technician now wheelchair bound after polio. He lives at 5202 Peabody. The meeting will also elect a second vice chairman with candidates Art Powell and H M White.
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Wally Frost
Long Beach City College
Long Beach Chamber of Commerce
Walter Wehner
Frost
Flying Wheels
S . Frost
Peabody
Art Powell
H. M. White
Special Cachet for L B Air Mail Birthday Celebrate Eight Years
Long Beach sponsors plan a July 3 special cachet to mark eight years of mail service through the airport. Over 1000 letters have arrived for forwarding. residents may send self addressed stamped air mail envelopes to the Chamber of Commerce by July 1 for the commemorative mail.
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L. B. Air Mail
Long Beach
Chamber l of Commerce
East Ocean Blvd
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Keystone
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DODGE
Chrysler & Olds
BUICK
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Olympic
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Alexander Shultz Furniture Co
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