Harbor Day Truck And Rail Car Exhibition In Long Beach
Harbor Day features a truck driving exhibition by Navajo Freight Lines at 1 p.m. behind Berth 9 Pier A with a 55-foot van a 35-foot reefer trailer a flat rack and a yard goat. Santa Fe Union Pacific and Pacific Electric display rail equipment. buses run Harbor Day service. free boat trips offered 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
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Pier A
Long Beach
Navajo Freight Lines, Inc
Continental
Carl Bailey
Catalina Island
KBIG
Santa Fe
Union Pacific
Southern Pacific
Pacific Electric
Pacific Motor Trucking
San Francisco
Phoenix
Caboose
Hal. DeLacy
Ed Stubbsn
N. L. Smith
Southern Pacific-Pacific Electric
City Lines
Flist St
Pine Ave
Navy Landings
Pierpoint Landing
Chamber of Commeres
Navy
Three Hurt in Motor Crashes Around Newport Beach and El Toro
An elderly Long Beach woman and two Marines were seriously injured in two Orange County crashes late Friday. Iva Armstrong, 61, suffered back injuries in a collision at Highway 101 and Marines Avenue near Newport Beach and was taken to Seaside Hospital. Adolph Carlson, 31, and Alice Sigmons, 43, were in the other vehicle. both drivers escaped injury. At 8:10 p.m. two El Toro Marines riding a motorcycle collided with a parked car on Trabuco Road near Central Avenue. rider Lyle Wallace, 19, and passenger W. Duke were hospitalized at the El Toro Marine Dispensary.
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Long Beach
Orange County
Iva Armstrong
Magnolia Ave
Hwy. 101
Marines Ave
Newport Beach
Seaside Hospital
Ayrs
Armstrong
Adolph Carlson
Alice Sigmons
Pearl St
Balboa Island
el Toro
Trabuco Rad
Central Ave
Lyle, Wallace
W. &. Duke
el Toro Marine
Life Awards Granted by Humane Society to Two Helpers
The Long Beach Humane Society awarded life memberships to Mrs. Pearl H. Welch of the Recreation Department and to a 15 year old Polytechnic High School boy who rescued a horse. Mrs. Wallace C. Askew accepted the honors on behalf of the society.
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Long Beach Humane Society
Pearl H. Welch
Recreation Department
Polytechnic High School
Wallace C. Askew
Society
Postal Clerks Back Withrow Bill Aide From Charity
The Postal Clerks Union backs HR 2644 to grant across the board pay boosts for postal workers. Byron Carroll of 2709 Fashion Ave rescued a horse from freezing water during a heavy rainstorm on March 20 and delivered it to a shelter for warmth and food. Mrs Welch received a 25 year service award for cooperation with the Recreation Department, while opposition to the Humane Society in pet shows was voiced as the Rees Bills funding faces scrutiny.
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Byron Carroll
Fashion Ave
AFL Post Office
Young Carroll
Welch
Humane Society
Rees
Sher
Post Office
Intelligence tests called poor indicator at banquet
Dr Nancy Bayley said infant tests cannot accurately indicate future intelligence. Speaking at the Western Psychological Association banquet in the Wilton Hotel she noted that after five or six years children can be categorized as normal defective or bright and discussed test history and reliability.
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Nancy Bayley
Western Psychological Association
Bayley
University of California
Wilton
Association
DFC Awarded Posthumously to Marine Maj Betzer’s Daughter
Five year old Lorlayn Betzer received the Distinguished Flying Cross as proceeds from her father Marine Maj Grover R Betzer who died in a Korea near miss. Brig Gen Hart presented the medal to Lorlayn at 610 Jonquil Rd after a citation detailing his brave rescue of a downed aviator amid heavy enemy fire.
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Lorlayn Better
John N. Hart
Lorlayn
Korea
Jack Perry
Santa Ana
Lorlayn Betzer
Grover R. Betzer
Thogir
Jonquil Rd
Fleet Marine Force
Pacific
Better
Getzer
Missing Westminster Girl Sought by Long Beach Residents
An appeal seeks help locating 15 year old Carol L from Westminster who left Huntington Beach High School Monday with a note to dental work in Long Beach. Described as blond and 5 feet 7 inches tall, weighing 130 pounds, relatives urge anyone with information to call uncle Carter Boyman in Westminster.
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Long Beach
Westminster
Carol L
Fort Californiaster
Huntington Beach High Schools
Wilmington
Carter Boyman
West 4Minster
Suits Seek Damages in Jet Crash at Signal Hill
Federal court in Los Angeles heard Associated Women Students suits totaling 342475 for deaths and injuries from an Air Force jet crash into Signal Hill residences. Plaintiffs include Winfield Jr. for his wife and son, Shoops for their son, and multiple Long Beach State students and campus officials. Separate fraud cases allege staged accidents to collect insurance. defendants include Mark Price and others from Lakewood Pacoima West Los Angeles Bell and Culver City. Class officers and campus representatives are listed among elected student leaders from Long Beach State.
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Los Angeles
Air Force
Signal Hill
Winfield Robert, Jr
Shirley
Douglas
Morris Shoop
Stephen Louis
Resmen Ave
Sabre
Mark Price
Hall of Justice
Frice
Leonard Mardy
Henrilee St
Lakewood
Jay Rich
Betty
Pacoima
Hyman Kean
West Los Angeles
John H. Ford
Josephine
Bell
Bill Goldstein
Culver City
Marilyn
Furst
Long Beach
Jeane Penrol
Montebello
Phyllis Wheeler
Long
Beach
Conney Garr
Garden Grove
Associated Men
Jack Hammond
Harbor City
Safety Key pamphlets distributed by groups
Police, service clubs and schools began distributing 50,000 "Keys to Safety" pamphlets on Friday. Published by the Long Beach Insurance Association, they are provided free and outline the "scramble" system for street crossing and condense state and city traffic vehicle codes.
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MON Sven Police
Long Beach Insurance Association
Six Local Folk Book Passage Aboard Lurline
Six Long Beach residents plan to sail on the luxury liner Lurline Monday for Hawaii. Howard Conrad of Walkers Department Store Dan Dunlap of Dunlap & Graham Oil and their wives and sons are aboard. Ralph Chandler of Matson Navigation also will travel. The Lurline returns Sunday with 700 voyagers from Hawaii.
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Long Beach
Hawaii
Howard Conrad
Walker's Department Store
Conrad
Dan Dunlap
Dunlap & Graham Oil Development Co
Dunlap
UCLA Psychologist Tests Rats In Brain Learning Study
Dr. Joseph A. Gengerelli of UCLA presented at the Western Psychological Association report detailing an experiment with four groups of white rats. He wired the animals with brain receivers and varied stimulation rates to study learning versus forgetting in maze tasks and noted the unexpected performance of normal rats.
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Ben Zinser
Joseph A. Gengerelli
UCLA
Western Psychological Association
Gengerelli
Anj
Wilton Hotel
Gengerelti
Gingerelli
Woman Hurt in Los Angeles Freeway Accident
Margaret Hansen, 40, of 130 Sith Street, was injured when her car struck a utility pole at the Seventh Street ramp on the Santa Ana Freeway in Los Angeles Friday. She was taken to General Hospital Los Angeles for treatment. Her companions, Marines Robert Madrid, 23, and Ruben J. Virgil, 25, from Camp Pendleton, were treated at the scene.
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Margaret Hansen
Sith St
Santa Ana Freeway
Los Angeles
General Hospital
Robert Madrid
Ruben J. Virgil
Camp Pendleton
Ship Worker Cut by Iron Loading Hook in Long Beach
Don M. Draskovich a 24 year old San Pedro resident suffered a two inch forehead gash when an iron loading hook struck him aboard a ship in Long Beach Harbor. He received treatment at Seaside Hospital after the injury today.
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Don M. Draskovich
Long Beach Harbor
la Alarmeda Ave
San Pedro
Geiger Counters Drive Desert Prospecting Boom
Gordon of 1850 Pacific Coast Highway trades in Geiger counters from Gems and Mineral Supplies as uranium prospecting heats up. Buyers hunt ore with $10,000 government bonuses, but success hinges on local radioactivity counts and luck in the desert.
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Lowell R
Gordon
Gems and Mineral Supplies
Pacific Coast Hwy
Atomic Energy Commission
Sam
Pacific
St. Clair
Lowell R. Gordon
Outboard Boat Races Across Channel From Long Beach To Avalon
The second annual Long Beach Outboard Boating Club race send 190 racing motorboats through the channel from Long Beach to Avalon. Flyingfish detoured, awards await top two in each of 14 classes as Avalon hosts a fish fry and a Flying Fish parade. Laura Knuthe, Miss Outboard Boating 1954, attends with trophies. Ralph R. Smith chairs the race committee.
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Laura Knittle
Avalyn
Ralph R. Smith
Long Beach
Catalina Island
Outboard Boating Club
Avalon
Golden Ave
San Pedro
Laura Knuthe
Operators Get Fines for Gambling Raid in Bellflower
Eleven defendants arrested in a raid at the Bellflower Kiwanis Girl Scouts hall pleaded guilty to gambling. They were fined 25 dollars or five days in jail with one week to pay the fine. Judge Roberta Butzach ordered them not to engage in such activity again.
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Bellflower
Heart Funder Kiwanis Girl Scouts Hall
George B. Kern
L. Z. Buchanan
James J. Bell
Lorn E. Chapin
Donald V. Dennis
Norriman D. Hornback
James A
Vasner Morton
Bryant C. Tipps
Wilber
Tolen
George R. Chapin
Jessie C. Weir
Signatures Sufficient for Ballot Initiative in Uptown
City Clerk Margaret Heartwell reported 13 661 valid signatures for an uptown civic center initiative. The measure seeks a city hall and safety building on 32nd Street area with 5 million to buy land, competing with Proposition B for a downtown safety building.
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Margaret Heartwell
Uptown
Public Safety
32Nd St
Sepulveda Freeway
Long Beach Blvd
27Th St
Atlane de Ave
Heartwell
Los Angeles
County Registrar of Voters
Benn
Hite
Group Lands L. B. Facilities for Southland Youth
Recreation officials from three Southland cities praised Lone Beach facilities as superb during a visit Friday. Ralph Wilson of Huntington Park, Ray Hayworth and Ed Bignell of Pasadena, George Hjelte Martin Triet and Dr. John Merkeley of Los Angeles accompanied the group.
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Lone Beach
Southland
Ralph Wilson
Huntington Park
Ray Hayworth
Ed Bignell
Pasadena
George Hjelte
Martin Triet
John Merkeley
Los Angeles
Worker Sustains Broken Bone and Cuts at Long Beach Harbor
Maurice Dragovich, 40, of 835 22nd St San Pedro, suffered a broken right cheekbone and facial lacerations when a heavy timber struck him while unloading steel pipe at Berth 54 Long Beach Harbor. He was treated by a private physician.
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Maurice Dragovich
22Nd St. San Pedro
Long Beach Harbor
Dragovich
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Joseph Sousa
California
St. Mary's College Alumni Association
Mission Club
Life
Humane Uni
Postal Clerks' Union
State College
Long Beach State College
Willie Suzuki
Gardena
Associated
Anne Stoniger
Judy Sugita
Anitar Steade
Bill Tikunoff
Rivera
Gretchen Anderson
South Gate
Kay Durham
Carol Hulse
Jerry Clinkscales
Mary Ann Haney
Barbara Harris
L.A. Court
Uptown Civic Center
L.A
Celegram AY
Anchor
Roberta Butz Hach
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