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Newspaper
Long Beach Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
May 13, 1953
Page
4
Nearly 140 petitions calling for annexation of two Lakewood areas to Long Beach circulated door to door. Lakewood Village bounded by Carson Street Del Amo Boulevard Bellflower Boulevard and Lakewood Boulevard. Heart wet Wardlow Pro Annexation Committee aims to cover the district by weekend. Sentiment favorable with over 50 percent signup hoped. residents may call George Seybolt at 55553 for information.
James Lucente of 171 Truman Boyd Manor was named today as the anonymous hero who pulled 2-year-old Keith A. Campbell from three feet of water in a catch basin near his home. Lucente arrived about ten minutes after the fall, administered artificial respiration, and the baby was reported in satisfactory condition at Seaside Hospital with his mother Kathryn Camp at his side.
A promotion advertises scientifically examining eyes and supplying continuous vision blended glasses that provide far, arms length, and near focus in one lens. It notes small monthly payments and new attractive plastic frames that are good looking and comfortable.
The President, the Secretary of Defense, and the Attorney General will be informed of the move to annex the Douglas Aircraft property into the city of Long Beach.
Douglas officials urge prompt annexation notices to all property owners. 50 50 assessed value split between Douglas and the U S government requires federal notification. The council adopted a month old resolution granting Mrs Perle Mesta a visa to visit Moscow amid plans to begin annexation proceedings. A hearing is set for 11 a m June 16 with possible August consolidation if no complications arise.
Baltimore attorneys indicate they will appeal all cases in which skating star Sonie Honie was cleared of blame for a grandstand collapse injuring 230 to 300 people. A jury found the amusement firm erecting the stands at fault. In Honolulu, Cpl Clifford Smith, liberated prisoner from Lake Charles Louisiana, left for home after medical treatment in Tokyo. He was flown from Tokyo aboard a Military Air Transport Service plane due at Travis Air Force Base near San Francisco. Planning commission upholds denial of permit for operation of an existing apartment hotel in the Ocean Boulevard area after a two hour public hearing. The owners Harold C Freeman and Dorothy W Kimball contended many motels already operate in the district zoned R-4, while others protested potential property value harm and development impact.
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