TV Announcer to Emcee Legion American Day Event
Stan Chambers will MC the I Am an American Day program at Municipal Auditorium on May 15. Joseph Kendrick, head of Long Beach juvenile department, and Stanley Dunmire will speak. George Air Force band, El Toro Marine Corps band, and a Marine recruiting color detail will perform. About 75 new citizens are guests. admission is free.
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Stan Chambers
Arthur L. Peterson
American Legion
Municipal Auditorium
Fred Nessler
Joseph M. Kendrick
Long Beach
Department
Legion
Stanley Dunmire
Nessler
George Air Force Band
Victorville
el Toro Marine Corps
Long Beach Marine Corps Recruiting Office
H. L. Burton
Peterson Post
Chambers
Falsifier Sentenced to San Quentin Prison
Norris M. Mamper, 31, was sentenced yesterday in Los Angeles to San Quentin Prison for a term of one to fourteen years. The case details show a falsifier found guilty of fraudulent activity leading to the sentence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Los Angeles
Norris M. Mamper
San Quentin
County employee convicted of forging payroll warrants
Mumper, a tabulating machine operator in the county auditor's office, was convicted of seven counts of forging county payroll warrants, falsifying accounts and misappropriating county funds while making out about $13,000 in county checks to himself.
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Mumper
Scores of L B Radio Hams Links in Short wave Nets
Long Beach amateur radio operators exceed 75 participants handling overseas traffic via nightly nets. The American Legion net links wives and servicemen with messages transmitted across Japan and Camp Pendleton, free of charge. Hams coordinate with civil defense and maintain emergency nets. Notable members include Ted Waterman and Forrest L Phippeny.
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L. B
Long Beach
American Legion Net
Ted Waterman
Ninth St
Forrest L Phippeny
Green- Brier Rd
Lakewood
Roy Ford
Graywood Ave
USMC
Japan
Camp Pendleton
American Legion
Waterman
Pitzer Named Dean of UC Chemistry College
Kenneth Pitzer, director of research for the Atomic Energy Commission, is appointed Dean of the University of California College of Chemistry effective July 1. He succeeds Jock Hildebrand who has led the college since July 1949.
Flower Awards Slated Tomorrow at Violet Show
J J Littlefield, garden lecturer, will present awards at the African Violet Show in Pan American Park Auditorium Lakewood. Tomorrow at p.m. The sweepstakes winner gets an engraved gold cup, with wick fed planter, figurines, and a children’s division prize. Display includes single and double blossoms, variegated violets, fringets, and hanging basket types. Public admission free.
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J. J. Littlefield
Pan American Park
Charlemagne Ave
Centralia St. Lakewood
Los Angeles Attorney Reappointed to Three-Year Term
Ralph Dennis Sweeney, a Los Angeles attorney, has been reappointed in Sacramento to a new three year term. The action extends his service in a state legal or advisory capacity announced May 10.
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Sacramento
Ralph Dennis Sweeney
Los Angeles
California Maritime Academy Board Member Sweeney Since 1942
The board of governors of the state nautical school in Vallejo continues to be led by Sweeney who has served since 1942, guiding the California Maritime Academy and its governance.
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State Nautical School
Ward
California Maritime Academy At
Vallejo
Sweeney
Snce 1942
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Libby
Ehamydor Spudebcker Deel
Jamestown
Lowance
Legion ‘American Day
Phippeny
Coast Guard
Times Ridg
Downstown
AEC
Mesh
Florsheim
Coconut Tropicals
Arthur Murray
East Fifth St
Walt Wing
Wilshire
Florsheim Shoe Shore
Pine Avenue
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