Girls to Vie in Birdie Tourney at Paramount High
Paramou nt hosts a south area badminton tournament for 20 to 30 Club trophies with entrants from Helflower Paramount Compton Willowbrook Lynwood Downey and North Long Beach. Finals May 14 with trophies presented. Pasadena play-offs June 6-7 for Southern California championship. Entries due April 20.
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Paramount
Helflower
Compton
Willowbrook
Lynwood
Downey
North Long Beach
Ches Isaacs
Cormpton Union
Pasadena
Paul Meyers
Paramount Club
Isaacs
Laguna Plans City Clean Up Ahead of Spring
Laguna Beach residents may place all their junk and trash on the curb for free disposal by city crews the week of April 14 to 25. Harlan Confer, head of trash collection, says the effort aims to clean up Laguna Beach for spring and summer visitors. The program follows Lun Week, and organizers expect much trash to be hauled away.
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Laguna Beach
Harlan Confer
Laguna
Bowers Museum to Honor Author Cleland with April Reception
Santa Ana reports Huntington Library scholar Dr. Robert Glass Cleland will be honored at a Bowers Museum reception on April 20. The Irvine Ranch history author will be guest of honor as figures he wrote about gather to celebrate The Irvine Ranch of Orange County. Cleland’s work traces Spanish grants, rancho development, and early California life from 1810 to 1950.
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Santa Ana
Robert Glass Cleland
Huntington Library
San Marino
Irvine Ranch
Orange County
Charles W. Bowers
Cleland
California
Irvine Rancho
Clesland
Myford Irvine
Rancho
Brat Hellis
Orangethorpe Youth Center Under Way in Fullerton
Ground-breaking for a rustic style Orangethorpe Youth Center began with Superintendent James H. Graves chairing the Building Committee. The project on 10112 East Orangethorpe Ave includes a 24x524 foot all purpose room with fireplace, kitchen, and two restrooms. Estimated cost is 5000 with 3000 pledged by residents and firms. the rest to be raised by PTA, Scouts, Brownies, and Cub Scouts over three fund-raisers. Completion is set for late May.
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Orangethorpe
E. Orangethorpe Ave
Anaheim
Lucy Crawford
Girl Scout
H. C. Ellis
James H. Graver
Myrtis Kilpatrick
PTA
Jack Lindsey
Fullerton
Lois Madley
Brownie
Lindemuth
James H. Graves
Orangethrope Ave
Parent-Teacher Association
Past Presidents
Boy Scouts
Girl Scouts
Brownies
Cub Scouts
Supt. Graves
Brownie Scout
Myrtle Kilpatrick
Orangethorpe School
Girl Scout Leachers
Jaycees Plan Scout Benefit in Downey
Downey March 35 a quota of 1000 dollars for a Soy Scout camp fund has been set by the Junior Chamber of Commerce for their annual community breakfast to be served April 26, Andy Cardona president announced. The event, which in former years has attracted as many as 4000 residents, will be served on the grounds of the drivedn mar han Third St and Paramount vd. Top flight entertainment will be provided during the serving from early to mid morning, Cardona said. Paul Lauzler, Bob Whiter and Cardona are in charge of advanced ticket sales.
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Downey
Junior Chamber of Commerce
Andy Cardona
Santa Ana Elks to Install April 1
SANTA ANA March 25 New officers of the Santa Ana Elks Lodge will be installed April 1 at 8 p m at a ceremony at temple. D Merle Boyle will become exalted ruler succeeding Ray Marsile. Others to be seated include Albert Macres esteemed leading knight Dark Proctor esteemed royal knight and Al Hall esteemed lecturing knight and other officers to be appointed.
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Santa Ana
Warning Issued For Illegal Passing On Coast Highway
Seaside police report a crackdown on motorists using the sloped shoulder to pass. Police Chief Lee Howard said 14 tickets were issued in a few hours. He noted shoulders are for traffic flow not passing and cited several accidents from such violations.
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Seal Beach
Coast Hwy
Lee Howard
Howard
Murder Trial Starts in Santa Ana Court
The murder trial of Troy R. Proctor in Santa Ana began with a jury of eight women and four men. Proctor, 43, Newport Beach carpenter, is charged with beating his common law wife Dorothy Schindler to death in August. Defense lawyers seek to show factors other than beating caused the death.
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Santa Ana
Troy R. Proctor
Dorothy Schindler
Robert Gardner
Newport Beach
James P. Devine
Schindler
Attys
Otto A. Jacobs
Robert Jacobs
Chace Anson
Jay M. Johnson
Eva Jackson
Nora LaLonde
Guy 5. Irwin
Harry Ebeling
Elizabeth Lanier
Lloyd A. Johnston
Elsa_L. Edwards
Margaret Lamb
Loretta
W. Irvine
Lucille «Leigh
Lena M. Inkster
Alter
Nate
Easter egg hunt set in Artesia Park highlights area events
Artesia notes report Easter egg hunt in Artesia Park April 10 with cees for all, Lucy de Bomar, director, announces. Junior Woman's Club funds Easter program. Bolsa PTA plans March 28 meeting with Elizabeth Miller discussing The Child and His School. first graders perform. Westminster Lions Club charter dinner planned April 21 at Midway City Women’s Clubhouse with 300 attendees. Bellflower High School open house May 1 showcases student creativity. Gardeners to meet Camellia talk by W. W. Turpin at Woman’s Clubhouse April 2. dessert luncheon precedes. Norwalk Chuck Wagon Fete set April 19 in Women’s Clubhouse. Santa Ana H Clubs plan April 5 bazaar downtown. Whittier lecture April details on marriage by Dr. Seymour Leshin at Nelles School auditorium.
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Artesia
Artesia Park
Cees
Lucy de Bomar
PTA
BOLSA
Bolsa Pta
Elizabeth Miller
Orange County Schools
Camille Nichols
Westminster
Westminster-Midway City Lions Club
Stanton |Eb
Midway City Women's Clubhouse
Balsa Ave
Charles R. Brothers
C. Fred Schroeder
Midway City Community Church Women’s Group
W. Turpin
Woman's Clubhouse
Garden Department
Woman's Club
Whittier
Seymour Leshin
Montebello
Fred'b. Nelles School For
Whittier Saetete Mental Hygiene Astociaon
Friday Club Plans Spring Style Show
COSTA prnSA March 25. A spring fashion show will be held at 8 p.m. Wednesday under sponsorship of the junior matron service of the Friday Afternoon Club. The show will be at the club house. Bridge will be played following the show. General chairman of the affair is Bonnie Grow.
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Costa Prnsa
Bonnie Grow
Lapidary Society Meets in Costa Mesa
Members of the Orange Coast Mineral and Lapidary Society gathered at the Women's Clubhouse in Costa Mesa. They viewed slides from field trips featuring gem finds and locations.
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Costa Mesa
Orange Coast Mineral and Lapidary Society
Churches Join for Holy Week
Bellflower plans Union Holy Week Services April 7 8 and 10 at Bethel Reformed Church with Rev Dale Huffman leading as president of the Bellflower Ministerial Association. Local churches will join choirs for sacred music and four night services begin at 7 30 p m preceded by a prayer meeting led by Rev Huffman. Lawrence Huggett directs singing and Dr Westlake T Purkiser leads devotions. Rev Robert A Burns chairs the event.
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Bellflower
Bethel Reformed
Clark and Artesia Aves
Dale Huffman
Bellflower Ministerial Association
Att Pusparauwa
Ave Ee Eee
Huffman
Lawrence Huggett
Community Presbyterian Church
Westlake T. Purkiser
Nazarene
Pasadena College
Devotonals
Robert A. Burns
Garden Grove Garden Grove
Garden Grove
PTA Mathersingers
Alamitos Friends
Rebekahs Plan Benefit Dance for Fire Department
Express reports the Rebekahs will stage a benefit dance in April with proceeds to fund a rescue wagon for the fire department. Publicity chair Dorothy Benson announced the plan, while Thelma Essex set no date yet. The group also voted to contribute toward a wheelchair for a needy person and buy two pup tents for the local Boy Scout troop. Delegates to the Odd Fellows Jan a Rebekah Assembly in Long Beach are Evaline Junker and Ethel Cleveland.
Santa Anaan in Assembly Race
Santa Ana March 25 Charles Hindley, who has sought public office before including Santa Ana police chief, became a Republican candidate for Assembly T4th District opposing Assemblyman Earl W. Stanley of Newport Beach. Hindley resigned from the State Contractors' License Bureau to run and will file only on the Republican ticket, while Stanley filed for both parties.
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Santa Ana
Charles Hindley
Assembly
Earl W. Stanley
Newport Beach
State
Hindley
Stanley
Bellflower Parent Banquet Welcomes New Child Care Supervisor
Bellflower March 25 Mrs Marcia Smith new supervisor of Bellflower Child Care Center will be welcomed at a Child Care Parents Association banquet April 2 at 7 p m in Roosevelt School cafeteria. Speaker is Dr Elizabeth Woods former Los Angeles city school system supervisor of counseling and guidance Reservations via Miss Mary Smith at Bellflower school district headquarters.
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Bellflower
Marcia Smith
Child Care Parents Association
Maay
Roosevelt
Elizabeth Woods
Los Angeles City
Mary Smith
Nixon to Visit Whittier for Homecoming Dinner
California Senator Richard M. Nixon will return to his boyhood East Whittier to speak at a Homecoming Dinner April 17 at East Whittier Friends Church. He will also serve as master of ceremonies at a $100 plate Republican dinner in Los Angeles the prior night.
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East Whittier
California
Richard M. Nixon
Downey Hitchhiker Robbed by Three Men
Downey March 25 A hitchhiker was robbed of 4 by three men on East Firestone Boulevard. Victim Erwin Fitzgerald 38 of 19810 South Downey Avenue told Norwalk deputies he was picked up in South Gate by three men in a car, taken to a lonely field, robbed at knife point, and dumped.
Norwalk Church Dedication Set
Norwalk, March 25 dedication services for the 70,000 structure planned by the First Presbyterian Church of Norwalk will be held April 6 at 3 p.m. at the new site on Rosecrans Ave. between Studebaker and Pioneer. Motion pictures will be made for the children. Rev. George W. Halsey says completion is expected this summer and total cost will reach about 200,000. The group now meets in the Masonic Lodge Clarkdale and Front Streets with services at 11 a.m. and 7 p.m.
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Norwalk
First Presbyterian Church of
Rosecrans l Ave
Studebaker Rd
Pioneer Blvd
George W. Halsey
Masonic Lodge
Clarkdale
Front Sts
Summer Play Plan Reached in Whittier District
WHITTIER March 25 Whit tier's Elementary School District plans to run this summer's playground recreation program. Superintendent Fred Bewley announced a presentation to the school board for approval. The district would oversee recreation and arts programs in most schools within and outside the city, with a small tax rate increase. Most playgrounds would join next summer's program except Longfellow and Jackson, where construction is planned.
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Whittier
Fred Bewley
Bewley
Longfellow and
Jackson
Downey Play in Rehearsal for Mr Berry’s Etchings
Downey March 25 Truman Arnold will present Downey Theatre Workshop’s production Mr Barry’s Etchings at the high school auditorium April 18 and 19. Cast includes Charles Carter Elva Hornung Derelys Stares Corrin Skilling Glenna Thomas Tom Shahan Dr James Merryman Harry Cooke Eileen Sweet Jerry Ringerman Paul Edwards Ruth Stull. Mr Barry furthers forgery after becoming interested in a perfect $50 bill to aid reform.
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Downey
Truman Arnold
Downey Theatrr Workshop
Mr. Barry
High School
Charles Carter
Elva Hornung
Derelys Stares
Corrin Skilling
Glenna Thomas
Tom Shahan
James Merryman
Harry Cooke
Eileen Sweet
Jerry Ringerman
Paul Edwards
Ruth Stull
Barry
Mesa Mothers Meet in Home
COSTA MESA March 25 The Dutt Haven home of Mrs C E White 23451 Kings Rd hosted the Mothers Club of Jobs Daughters Bethel 157 Mrs P V Peters on shared hostess duties Mrs M Tucker president named Mrs Carl Thomas and Mrs Dean Smith as committee heads for the May installation luncheon The next meeting is April 2 at 730 pm with Mrs Olive Sleeper 1704 Pacific Dr Corona Del Mar Cohostess will be Mrs William Schmidt
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Costa Mesa
Dutt Haven
C. E. White
Kings Rd
Mothers’ Club
Job's Daughters
Bethel
P. V. Petersson
M. Tucker
Carl Thomas
Birs
Dean Smith
Olive Sleeper
Pacific
Corona del Mar
William Schmidt
Tri City Wranglers Host Fifth Annual Horse Show
Westminster notes May 17 and 18 dates for the Tri City Wranglers Riding Club fifth annual horse show. Loyd Linton is slated as the show chairman and serves as ree junior past president.
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Westminster
Tri-City
Beautified Beach Master Plan Hearing Set
Huntington Beach plans a master beach beautification for a three mile stretch from Coast Highway to the water line. A public hearing before the planning commission is scheduled for April 15 to discuss parking, promenades, terraces, and shoreline preservation before submission to the city council.
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Huntington Beach
Three Mile Beach
Planning Commission
Herbert A. Wood
Atecanta
Gescnder LG Baelespice
Coast Hwy
Woods
Holington Beach
Red Cross Benefit Show Set April 8
Bellflower reports a benefit show by the Community Players on April 8 at John Simms Park auditorium to aid the Red Cross drive. The program features the drama group presenting the play Over 21, announced by drive chairman John Stokes.
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Bellflower
Red Cross
John Simms
John Stokes
Downey and Paramount Bands to Join Maytime Band Review
Downey High School Band and Vi-kettes along with Paramount Junior High Band and Dag twirlers were invited to the Fifth Annual Maytime Band Review in National City on May 3. Band director Caesar Mattie announced the invitation sent by vice mayor Albert E. Clarke. More than 80 bands expected to participate.
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Downey
Downey High School
Paramount Junior High
National City
Caesar i Mattie
Albert E. Clarke
Mattie
Hospital Charity Ball Set April 18
NEWPORT BEACH March a The first annual Hospital Charity Ball to raise funds for Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian will be held April 18 at the Bal boa Bay Club. The ball will be semiformal. Plans are being made by the Harbor Hospital Association, a group of Newport leaders interested in raising funds for equipment and furnishing the hospital now nearing completion here. The ball is the first of a series to be held each year. Members of a committee planning the event include Tom Norton, chairman, John T. Boyd Jr. secretary, Larry Brown, Donald Harwood, Judge Robert Gardner, Supervisor Heinz Kaiser, K. T. Kendall, Walter Mellett, Rick Richard, Wesley D. Smith, Farvey Somers, J. Leslie Steffanson, J.T. Van Dyke, Rev. Paul Wheeler and K. E. Whitenetk.
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Newport Beach
Hoag Memorial Hospital
Presbyterian
Balboa Bay Club
Harbor Hospital Association
Newport
Tom Norton
John T. Boyd Jr
Larry Brown
Donald Harwood
Robert Gardner
Heinz Kaiser
K. T. Kendall
Walter Mellett
Rick Richard
Wesley D. Smith
Farvey Somers
J. Leslie Steffanson
J.T. van Dyke
Paul Wheeler
K. E. Whitenetk
Paramount Homes Looted by Yeggs
Outboard motors were stolen from two residences Saturday night. Reported to sheriff by William Crissmen and Earl Sherman, the motors valued at a total of $250.
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Paramount
Yeggs
William Crissmen
San Luis St
Earl Sherman
E. Compton Blvd
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