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Newspaper
Long Beach Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
May 08, 1956
Page
18
The report lists 184 349 voters registered for the June 5 primary in the 18th Congressional District covering Long Beach Signal Hill and Lakewood. Assembly District totals are 71 517 for the 44th and 112 832 for the 70th, with Democrats holding a steady edge.
Life Scout Terry Barkley of Troop 160 will receive his award at the Cerritos District Court of Honor held Thursday night at Hughes Junior High. John Rogers Jeffrey Sadler and David Wilkins from Troop 60 receive N Star Sout honors. Several other club and association gatherings are noted, including a machinists hall dance, a USS Hornet Club reunion in New York, and convocation awards at USC.
Winners of a citywide high school essay contest were presented with 525 dollars in cash awards Monday night during the Long Beach Sales Executives Club annual Educational Awards at the Lafayette Hotel.
Obituaries list residents from Long Beach to Bellflower with family survivors and funeral details. Separate notes report Los Angeles County voter registration totals and party margins, plus a school contest winner list naming students and prizes across Wilson, St. Anthony’s, and Poly High.
A U S Treasury investigator testified he provided sheriff officers with leads that led to the Oct 6 arrest of Leola May Ramsey and her daughter Marguerite Reeves in Torrance. The pair face trial for two alleged illegal abortions performed at Reeves home on Sept 10.
A defense witness testified he saw Mrs Sylvia Taylor being assaulted and robbed outside the Lakewood Center meat market on December 12. Arthur Bernbough of Artesia told a Superior Court jury he observed Mrs Taylor struggle with a man as another approached. The couple faces grand theft and insurance fraud counts, with the prosecution alleging the robbery was staged.
A Syrian visitor urged the United Nations to dissolve Israel by U N action saying the creation and existence of the state harms Arabs. Nihad El Kassem and two Egyptians toured under a State Department program and spoke of unity for Arabs and extermination of Israel as a state. The luncheon with Mayor Vermillion and Harbor Board President Davis preceded by comments on unity and Arab solidarity.
Victor Verdugo, 24, of San Pedro, jailed on suspicion of robbery after victims tied up by three intruders on April 24 identified him as resembling one assailant. The home on West 237th Street was ransacked, $300 in silver and $160 in cash stolen during a two hour captivity of Carl Leslie Smith, 51, Clifford Smith, 46, and Helen Smith, 46.
Surviving family includes brother Thomas J and sister Cynthia J with grandparents Mr and Mrs James Liniken and Mr and Mrs Guy L Weeker. Graveside service Wednesday at 11 a m All Souls Cemetery conducted by Mottell s and Peek Mortuary.
Tennessee senator Kefauver, rival of Adlai Stevenson for California Democratic prefference, arrives in Southern California and plans a Wednesday harbor area visit. Stevenson deplanes in Los Angeles and heads to Long Beach Lakewood for events, with Kis enactments at Hacienda Hotel and Torrance Civic Auditorium, then outdoor rally in Lakewood Center with Long Beach stops.
Harbor Commissioners urge the County Flood Control District to grant a 15 month extension for removing the Broadway Bridge. The plan ties to an immediate start on raising widening and straightening the Santa Cruz Bridge to handle two way traffic. The flood district ordered Broadway removal by Sept 1 1957 and Santa Cruz by Dec 1 1957.
Uway Lynn of 47 Lime Avenue was injured Monday when the car she rode in veered off Slauson Avenue near Miramonte Street in Los Angeles and struck a Santa Fe Railroad switch. She was taken to Tweedy Industrial Hospital with severe back injuries. the car was driven by Orvil Burke, 25, also of 47 Lime Avenue, who said another auto crowded the street.
Norma J. Yates of S12 Orange Ave was ordered held for Superior Court on May 21 for a perjury charge after a preliminary hearing showed she signed a false statement to obtain county assistance. She was released without bail by Municipal Judge Martin De Vries. investigators testified she was overpaid $338 in the year ending last September.
William Lex Smith, 61, a retired Navy lieutenant commander, died Monday at his home in Pensacola after residing there 25 years. Native of North Dakota, he belonged to Escambia Lodge 15 F&AM and the Retired Navy Officers Assn. Surviving: wife Elsie P., son Lt Hollie Smith, stepmother, brothers Lester Edward Verd Cecil, sister Winifred. Service by Mr. and Mrs. Norman MacBeth Thursday noon at Mottell's & Peek Chapel.
Medical officers say quarantine aboard the USS Toledo will persist at least until Wednesday to curb a throat infection outbreak affecting 110 of the cruiser’s 1000 crew. Capt. T A Torgerson notes epidemologists continue investigations into the weekend outbreak after the ship’s return from an off coast cruise.
Walter B. Merrill of Lakewood City suffered scalp and leg injuries Monday after being struck while crossing Anaheim Street at Elm Avenue. The driver Herbert H. Davis, a Navy man, was cited for failure to yield to a pedestrian.
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