Utah Steel Firm Cuts Prices to Eastern Parity
J H Davis told Long Beach Chamber of Commerce that Geneva Utah based Columbia Steel Co will cut prices to match United States Steel subsidiaries. Plate and structural steel down 4 a ton. wire products nails and others down 2 to 5 a ton. Parity brings western savings, aiding construction and industry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Long Beach Chamber of Commerce
J. H. Davis
Industrial Development Committee
Columbia Steel Co
Geneva
Utah
United States Steel
Pittsburgh
Chicago
Gary
Birmingham
Hollywood Bedroom Sets and Mattresses Bargain Sale
In a catalog style listing various Murphy sleep equipment and surplus materials offer inner springs, box springs, frames, and complete bed sets at low prices. Includes Hollywood bed frames, twin and full sizes, padded headboards, studio couches, youth beds, bunk beds, and wall bed options with low delivery and assorted mattress thicknesses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hollywood
Hollywood Ben
Best Buy
Hollywood L'Gfellow
Scouts Earn Grand Seals on First Chilao Camp Trip
Four patrols from Big Scout Troop No. 23 achieved 100 percent for grand seals of achievement during their inaugural weekend at Chilao in Long Beach Council district. The Lakewood troop, formed in April with six members, now lists 22. Scoutmaster Bob Treaherne and assistant Stan Sexton led the group. Troop No. 33 meets Thursdays at 7:30 p.m. at Lakewood Village Church and seeks members.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Long Beach
Chilao
Big Scout Troop No
Lakewood
Bob Treaherne
Stan Sexton
Lakewood Village
Ambulance and Fire Calls Across City
Multiple emergency incidents reported including car and garage fires, ambulance responses, and property damage. Locations cited include 58 A, 1032 Chanda Ct, 440 E Third St, 3611 Linen Ave, and 1149 E First St with departments dispatched and responses recorded. Names and exact times are inconsistent due to OCR noise.
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Magnesia Avi
Goa
Daisy
Seventh St
Comital Demate
Bae Lind
Ghive
House
Atabu
M. Sueni Annes
Daugherty Feld
Third St
Sieht
Dérngy Aoi Poin
Linen Ave
Hee Eing Tiepera
Ocean Blve
Monte Tress
Essignt
Vespa
First St
Building Permits For Coastal Town From Local Contractors
Building permits issued cover residences and additions on Syrapusr Street Ver non Street and other routes. Names include Russell E Milter Summers contractor Ford Motor On Dooley Wholesale Hardware and Lone Beach Investment Corp for 16 unit apartments. projects list garages, playrooms, bulkheads, and warehouses with costs ranging from thousands to nearly 15000 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Coastlnaker
Dwellng
Kareeers
Syrapusr
Ruseell E. Milter
Vernon St
Basta
Rarace
Wise St
Kenneth &. Summers
Ford Motor
Henry Ford
Miner
Daggett St
POWER
Sumit
Sixth St
I. Man
Cath G. Johnson
Mf. D
Charles ‘Thomas
Iaindalion
Fourth St
Fonte & Mardis
Dooley
Whalesale Hardware Co
Cherry Ave
Francis H. Gertry
Havel
Marques
Cheatnut Ve
Jimmie Quick Neon Co
Can Star
Senate approves school lunch fund expansion gains
The Senate approved a federal school lunch program appropriation of 75,100,000, transferring 10,006,000 from import duties to fund the increase while maintaining total bill levels. Earlier, the Senate also boosted soil conservation spending to 300,000,000, against a House 225,000,000, bringing total Agriculture Department funding to about 655,200,000 for the fiscal year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate
House
Tom Stewart
Social meetings of local auxiliary and club groups
The Women's Auxiliary of Long Beach Post 13 Amvets will host a social meeting tomorrow at 8 p.m. at the Tru man Boyd Manor Center with bridge, auction, pinochle and 500. The Reserve Auxiliary meets Thursday at noon at 51 Orlena Ave to sew layettes for the Naval Family Chapel Shelf. The Parva Stella Club of Searchlight Chapter C E S will meet Thursday at noon at 2918 Chestnut Ave for a covered dish luncheon. all members invited.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Women's Auxiliary
Long Beach
Post 13
Amvets
Truman Boyd Manor Center
Ruth Long
Orlena Ave
Naval Family Chapel
Stella Club
Parva Stella Club of Searchlight
Sonia Tarzian
Chestnut Ave
Young People’s Society of
Redondo Avenue
Church of God
W. Broadway
The
Three Links Sewing Circle
del Mar Rebekah Lodge
Machinists Hall
St. Lucy's Church
23Rd St
Santa Fe Ave
C Brown
American Association of Oilwell
Tulsa
California
Lakewood Country Club
Memorial Day Services and Local Notices Mix
Memorial Day observances planned by the Golden State Auxiliary 279 VFW and related events loom in the schedule including a memorial service Thursday evening at Vet Memorial with Clytie Bur in charge and a social hour to follow. Montanans Society to host a covered dish supper at 6 40 p.m. Thursday with a program, and other community notices include rummage sales, luncheons, card parties and OES visiting dignitaries at Long Beach and Signal Hill locations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
de Seg
Golden State Auxiliary
The
Montana Society
Six Wells Announced in Wilmington Oil Field Drives
Six new wells were announced for the Wilmington field by operators Richfield Long Beach Oil Development Continental Shell and others. Richfield located A-5 AM and A-95 on city harbor land, Long Beach Oil located No 74 on X tracts, Continental plans two more wells slant drilled from flood control banks, and Shell began Toward wells in Athens field.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilmington
Richfield
City Harbor
Long Beach Oil Development Co
T Sontinental Corp
Young Man Hurt on Motorcycle in Compton Crash
Jimmie J. Smith aged 21 of 345 Houghtonark Village sustained critical injuries in a collision at Alameda Avenue and Olive Street in Compton. Driver Luther Rogers aged 17 of Los Angeles, uninjured, was cited and ordered to appear in Compton City Court May 26 at 10 p.m. The crash damaged a market wall and occurred as Rogers’s car struck Smith’s motorcycle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jimmie J. Smith
Houghtonark Village
Alameda Ave
Olive St
Compton
Luther Rogers
Los Angeles
Smith
Rogers
Olive
City Attorney Ends Washington Visit On Quit Claim Bid
Irving M. Smith, city attorney, flies to Washington to confer with supporters of the quit-claim bill before Congress. The measure would grant tidelands title to the respective states as posed by the pending legislation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Irving M. Smith
Washington, D. C
Congress
Tidelands
New Commander Calls on Mayor at City Hall Visit
Rear Adm. Laurance DuBose, newly assigned commander of battleships and cruisers in the Pacific Fleet, paid an official call on Mayor Burton W. Chace at City Hall today. City Council members also met the admiral.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Laurance DuBose
U. S. Navy
Burton W. Chace
Nabisco 100% Bran touted as gentle relief aid
An advertisement promotes Nabisco 100% Bran as a high fiber product to ease constipation. It claims the bran is finer milled for gentler action and invites readers to try it tomorrow with a doctor noted for persistent constipation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nabisco
Nebisco
Garage Fire Damages Home After 3611 Linden Ave Blaze
One man, Richard H. Wann aged 55, was injured when a three car garage behind a residence at 3611 Linden Ave burned. Flames destroyed a car and personal effects. Wann awoke to fire, sustained cuts from breaking a window while rescuing curtains. Property owned by Mrs. Lyons of Los Angeles and occupied by the Lewis and Braaten families. Police and fire units called at 10:45 p.m.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Linden Ave
Richard H. Wann
Ulu Lyons
Los Angeles
Eugene Lewis
Mel Braaten
William L. Marshall
Joseph C. Ruchaber
Youth Group Meets at Wilton Hotel For Welfare Conference
The Governor's Youth Committee sub committee on community organization workshops and research will meet tomorrow at Wilton Hotel as part of the California Conference of Social Welfare. Members include Middough executive directors from All Nations Foundation and Jewish Community Center plus Dr. Elmont and others from San Francisco and Santa Barbara. The 25-year-old committee, created in 1941, helped shape social worker licensing standards in 1945.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lorne D. Middough
Long Beach
Governor's Youth Committee
Wilton Hotel
California Conference of Social Welfare
Middaugh
Robert A. McKibben
All Nations Foundation
Los Angeles
Charlotte Elmont
Child Guidance
Santa Barbara
Ray Sorenson
San Francisco
Louis Blumenthal
James Stratten
Booker T. Washington Community Center
William Golden
Contraasta County
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Long Beach Board of Realtors
Bond Harpole
Los Angeles County
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PINE
Alexander Hamilton
Pacific Coast Hwy
Alamitos Ave
Hugh R. Davies
Board of Education
Arthur Anell
Palos Verdes
Thelma Bailey
Grrand
George Harlan
Eastern Star
Signal Hill
Masonic Temple
Tistics
Californie
Culver
Ladies of the
Bismarca
Abraham Lincoln
Boston
Charleston
jCheyenne
Jeg Maines
Marine Car League
Tral
Corps League
Galveston
Helene
Nual
de Las Veegas el Tittle Rock
Medford
George Wallace White
Emahis
Miami
Minneas
V. F. W. Hall
Monite Kew
Orleans
Louise Ave
New
Oklahoma City
Pendieti
Adelph
Bocstelia
St Sacrament
San Antonio
Salt Lake City
Wilmington Area
Emmett, Riordan
Shell Oil
Athens
Union Poindexter
Lomita
Sunset Beach
Marine Exploration Co
State No. 2
Seal Beach
Amerada Petroleum Corp
Farnsworth
West Newport
Tole
Amerade
Lam 68
L. A. River
East
Young Man Hurton
Pacific
National Capital
Ae Rere
McIwerny
Kress
Poehuck & O Sears, Roe
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West
Pump Island
Federal Air Wing
Heth Mssolated Weatens
Tide Water Associated
Ol2 Company
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