President Hoover and Hard Times in a Long Beach Garden
A Long Beach reader recalls a flower bed across E. Third St displaying labels reading The President Hoover and Better Times. The piece references local papers Rough Rider and Beach Combing, editor Grant Hiraoka, and opinions on city cleanliness and neighborliness, including letters from Mrs. Rath Howe about moving and adjusting in a new east side home.
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Sacramento
E. Third St
President Hoover
Ivan Isaacs
Herbert Hoover
Rath Howe
Dawson Ave
West Side
Howes
East Side
Jeanette Fl
Oth
Mrs. Howe
Jay
Court Rule Fails to Free Pair in Narcotics Convictions
Long Beach court upholds narcotics convictions of Peter Bass and Maxwell Smith after judge Malty rules police acted reasonably in arrest and search. Defendants claimed illegal search citing the Cahan ruling, but no blanket exclusionary rule was found. Trial date for Lewis Ave case set for June 2.
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Long Beach
Supreme Court
Alever
Peter Bass
Maxwell Smith
J. C
Naylor
Jack McMahan
W. Maltby
William Lawson
Counstt
Maithy
Cahan
Ilegal Search
Andy
Sass
Lewis
City Plans Widening Bellflower Blvd Involving Council Bid Request
City Manager Sam E. Vickers presented plans to widen Bellflower Blvd from Pacific Coast Hwy to Atherton St with bids sought immediately. Estimated cost east of the improvement is 158,550 funded by Coast Hwy 7th St and city gas tax share. The project calls for a six lane roadway to Atherton St with four lanes presently. A 300 foot pavement near Byron Creek is omitted. A joint county flood control double-box culvert will be funded partly by county flood bond funds under an agreement with the Flood Control District.
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Bellflower Blvd
Pacific Coast Hwy
Atherton St
Sam E. Vickers
Huie Coast Hwy
7Th St
Tth St
Judge Schedules Week Long Divorce Marathon in Long Beach
Long Beach Superior Judge George Francis plans a week long divorce marathon to clear a backlog of default cases. He expects to process about 120 divorces by Friday, averaging 18 minutes per case, with no other court matters heard this week.
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Long Beach
George Francis
Francis
Los Angeles
Fred Miler
Miler
Donna Gardner
E. 7Th
Dee del Jones
L B Greeter Judging to Open Tonight
Judging slots open this evening for the Long Beach welcome contest. The first 28 contestants will parade before judges at the Do It At Home Show in Municipal Auditorium at 7 p.m. Eighty six girls compete for the honor. five finalists will be named tonight and five more on Wednesday. five on Thursday. Winners receive a trophy and four runners up gifts.
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Riftwood
Kathy Hinds
Iroquois Ave
A. Speaker
Downey
L.B
Long Beach
Sacramento
Tidelands
iMiss
Municipal Auditorium
Audio Visual Education Group Elects Gorow President
Dr Frank F Gorow coordinator of audio visual services at Long Beach State College has been elected president of the southern section of the California Audio Visual Education Association.
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Frank F. Gorow
Fullerton
Long Beach State College
California, iAudio-Visual Education Assn
NO HIDEOUT Big Truck Stolen From L B Firm Recovered
A 20 ton truck owned by Chesley Transportation Inc. was reported stolen Monday from a Torrance area parking spot. Deputies traced the vehicle to Norwalk Biv Road and Telegraph Road, and it was recovered three hours later abandoned at 18ard Street and Norwalk Biva in Artesia, about five miles away.
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South Wehititer
Sheriff's
William T. Larned
Torrance
Norwalk Biv
Telegraph Rd
Chesley Transportation Inc
Cherry Ave
Lakewood Eyes Detachment of Shoestring Area
Lakewood considers detaching a strip along the San Gabriel River between Candlewood Street and Del Amo Boulevard to annex it to Lakewood. The area was recently deeded to Lakewood by Lakewood Estates Housing Co. City officials asked to study the proposal.
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Long Beach
Lakewood
Robert T. Andersen
San Gabriel River
Candlewood St
del Amo Blvd
Lakewood Estates Housing Co
Lemuel E. Vickers
Job data to pupils prompts career talk at C of C
George Fr. Carpenter, 62, of 2340 Artesia Street in Long Beach, suffered first and second degree burns when emulsion spilled on his clothing and a cigarette touched it. He was burned on his chest, stomach, upper legs and hands while wiring at Mastic Tile Corp. and was taken to St. Mary’s Hospital.
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Piograth
George FR. Carpenter
The
Mastic Tile Corp
Artesia St
Gas Pilots Draw Lots for Transcontinental Race
A long list of pilots from multiple cities drew start positions for the 2800 mile Transcontinental air race from Long Beach Municipal Airport to Springfield Massachusetts. Notable names include Mrs Dottie Sanders Los Angeles Mrs Shirley Froyd Inglewood 1952 winner Mrs Frances Bera Los Angeles and Mrs Alice Roberts Phoenix Arizona. An accident near Sunland injured a cyclist and several drivers faced felony drunk driving investigations.
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Dottie Sanders
Dottie Davis
la Mesa
Inglewood
Frances Bera
Los Angeles
Alice Roberts
Phoenix
Ariz
Tris Critchel
Redonda Beach
Margaret Callaway
Carswell Air Force Base
Ruby Potter
Claire Hale
San Diego
Gini Richardson
Yaskima
Wash
Pauline Glassan
Corpus Christi
Texas
Sylvia Rota
Chicago
Gladys Muter
Is Langher
Nina Price
Itasca
Irene Levetton
Betty McNeil
Maxine
Long Beach
Paul Smith
Mic
Shelton
Locust Ave
Jew Clark
Florissant
Randa Sutherland
Jocile Eddleman
Cecil Keill
Albuquerque
N. M
Ner
Wilming- Genevieve Brown
Inton Receiving Hospital
Reland
Patricia Arnold
Teased
Hartford
Conn
Jeff
Iris Critchell
Claire Haile
Arizona
Betty Giltes
Edna Bower
Chamber approves plan to expand student counseling program
The Chamber board on Monday approved a plan to work with the Board of Education to develop a Hilot program for a senior class in one high school. A business leader will address a general assembly and lead group discussions as part of extending the current student counseling initiative in the Long Reach school system. The Education Committee drafted the outline after months of study.
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Long Reath
Policeman Presented to Private in Watch Transfer
Lt Jim Black received a brown leather briefcase after being moved from the afternoon watch last week to the first watch midnight shift. Black had served on the graveyard shift for four years.
Deer crashes into sheriff car at county jail locker
A 200 pound deer ran into Officer Jack Lentz’s car near Irvine Lake on his day off. The buck died instantly from a broken neck after the collision. The animal was relocated to the county jail meat locker for processing.
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Santa Ana
Dee
Orange County
Jack Lentz
Irvine Lake
Lentz
Youth Council Formed for L B A in Long Beach
A Long Beach Youth Co-ordinating Council of junior and senior high students organized Monday night at the YMCA. Twenty five students formed a constitution and elected officers including John Vaiis president and Aletha Huston as adviser. The council aims to unite youth and adults and improve the community with its May 23 meeting scheduled.
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Long Beach
YMCA
John Vaiis
Poly-publicity
Technic High School
Maxine DuBay
Ross Frank
Jordan
Presi
Aletha Huston
Wilson
Stephaniel
Iberger
St. Anthony's
Roslyn Renner
Marshall
Janet
Trinkle
Hamilton Junior High
Move to Ban Lite-O-Line Balked Again
City councilmen today again delayed, for one week, their bid to outlaw Lite-O-Line and similar payoffs. With five present, final reading of an ordinance establishing a two city board to regulate such games was postponed on motion by Councilman Pat Ahern.
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Pat. Ahern
Toby Wiel
George M. Vermillion
Segal Desmond
Raymond C. Kealer
Lewis B. Reese
Ahern
Full Time Study of Subsidence Proposed by Harbor Engineer
Chief Harbor Engineer Shoemaker urged the Board of Harbor Commissioners to assign five engineers to a full time subsidence survey. He called data re-evaluation the most urgent problem and estimated annual costs at 50 000 to 60 000 dollars. The Marber Commission did not act on the proposal.
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H. ‘Shoemaker
Board of Harbor Commissioners
Marber Commission
Long Beach Phones To Get New Dial Tone May 18
Long Beach telephone users will receive a lower pitch dial tone starting May 18 across the city. C W Duncan of Central Telephone says the change standardizes signals within the company area and about 15 000 phones are affected. Customers will be notified by May 16 via bill inserts.
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Long Beach
C. W. Duncan
Central Telephone Company
Duncar
Duncan
Speedboat Victim Still Not Located
Pasadena officers search for the body of a police diver swept from a speedboat near Ma ne Stadium. Officer Werry Richardson, 25, is presumed dead after the craft overturned at about 50 miles per hour. Lifeguards noted an uneven rocky bottom complicating the rescue. Two others were rescued during the incident.
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Pasadena
Mane Stadium
Tar Viction
Werry Richardson
Bette
Richardson
Garage and Furniture Destroyed by Blaze at Loma Vista
A fire destroyed a frame garage used to store furniture at 1147 Loma Vista Dr on Monday night. The cause is undetermined, no damage estimate was provided, and five fire units extinguished the blaze.
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Loma Vista Dr
Port Board Denies Budget Copy Request
Paul B. Wilcox of Associated Property Owners asked the Harbor Department for a proposed budget copy. The Board of Harbor Commissioners ruled he must study the document in the city clerk’s office or buy a copy. City clerk supplied limited copies to council members as commissioners debated financing future requests.
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Paul B. Wilcox
Associated Property Owners
Harbor Department
Board of Harbor Commissioners
Wilcox
City Atty
Clifford E. Hayes
Schools to Close for Memorial Day
Public schools will be closed Monday May 40 for Memorial Day as ordered by the Board of Education under state law designating the holiday.
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Board of Education
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Martha Holmes
Snarges
Lanson
Imade
M.C. Pilcher
Cerritos Ave
California Bank
Wilmington
Pilcher
Kansas
L.B. Greeter
Audio-Visual
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L.B. Firm
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Ban Lite
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Otto Faulkner
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