Sacramento Scenes and Street Life Reflected in City Tour
The piece describes Sacramento rituals and sights including chaplain Rev William Post son greeting Assembly sessions, a postal card incident, and a Long Beach band leader visiting. It notes Capitol grounds trees, public protests over tree removal, St Thomas Catholic Church, and city scramble signal pilots. It also highlights downtown traffic, one way streets, and Sacramento’s prosperity with issues of vagrancy and rough transients.
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Distier
Capitol
St. Thomas Finas Catholic Church
Sean
Amar
Lone Beach
Policemen to Request Pay Hikes in Long Beach
Long Beach Police Officers Association plans to ask the City Council on Tuesday for salaries increases to match Los Angeles levels. They seek higher maximums for detective, inspector, lieutenant, and captain, starting pay for patrolmen, and coverage for disability insurance under the new state retirement plan. Donald E. Phelps leads the association, citing starting pay of 343 monthly plus 15 for hing allowance versus LA’s 375. They also request funding for false arrest coverage and 1955 56 fiscal year budget impacts.
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Long Beach
Los Angeles
Students Call Second LBSC Runoff Vote at State College
Long Breach State College students called a second runoff for student body treasurer after no candidate won a majority in the first vote held May 10 and 20. Each treasurer candidate previously received 224 votes. Bernard Brown 1966 Hellman St and Keith Staford 414, Bradfield Compton. The runoff date is set for next Thursday with election rules unclear and by-laws lacking guidance.
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Long Breach State College
Saunell
Bernard Brown
Hellman
Vids Berm
Woman and two children go missing on trip
A Cheyenne family scare spreads as a woman, her 15 year old son, Billy, and 5 year old daughter Judie, left Cheyenne May 21 in an English sports car. Police say they were accompanied by her brother Brunner, 22, and are now missing in route to Wyn Lane Reach. Local officers are conducting searches and investigating the vehicle’s movements.
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Suser Gopogry
Revolce
Cheyenne
Wyn
Polies
Brunner
Parakeet Escapes Washer Mayhem at Home
Mrs. Tacob Kramer of 1723 Carfax Ave reported a parakeet named Protty got caught in a front‑loading washer during a clothes rinse. The bird was pinned by centrifugal force for several minutes before rescue, leaving it soaked and briefly dizzy but alive and recovering.
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Praig
Tacob Kramer
Carfax Ave
Protty
Mrs. Kramer
Busy Thieves Loot 24 Cars In Long Beach Apartments
Thieves looted 24 cars parked in basements of two Long Beach apartments on Thursday night. Fourteen cars at Beach Chiff Apartments 1166 E Ocean Bird. ten at Ambassador Apartments 85 Alhon Pl. Total loss 3387 dollars. Burglars used unlocked garages and forced entry via garage window.
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Long Beach
Ocean Bird
Ambassador Apartments
Ai Honi
Holiday travel safety rules issued for Memorial Day weekend
Traffic authorities issue warnings for the Memorial Day period in the Los Angeles area. Emphasized are staying in lane, avoiding speeding, yielding to right of way, and not drinking and driving. Police will patrol major arteries heavily after 36 lives were lost in California during the holiday weekend last year.
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Sturs
California
Court Denounces Track Gambling In Gardena Sentences Lakewood Man
Superior Judge Joseph M Maltby denounced horse racing and poker as vicious as he sentenced a Lakewood man for stealing 35 000 to bet on races. He received six months and ten years probation for grand theft related crimes tied to drive-in restaurants and a Safin card from his employer.
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Joseph M. Maltby
Gardena
Lakewood
Paul
Billamunis
Quile Grisingee
Thomas
Carfax Ave
Big Top Rises At Long Beach Harbor Amid Truck Strike
A huge tent 35 feet high is being set near Berth 7 at Pier A to store 2700 tons of cargo from the freighter Steel Admiral as a trucking strike slows unloading. The plan, approved by the Harbor Department, follows a rush to avert idle ships while negotiations between trucking groups and the Teamsters continue.
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Fant
Pier A
Long Beach
Carl H Gross
Superin’ Lendens
Isthmian Steamship Cr
Reverel Earge
Steel Admiral
Ehied
Far East
Gross
New York
Oniiad
Grass
Los Angeles
Alent
Harbnr
Anles
Shannon Stone
Choss
Jos Angeles
Fu PL
Hadley
Hadley Auto _ Transport of
Ford
S Teamsters Union
Eladiox
Nhot
Snime
House Roof Aflame as Tenant Moves In
Dorothy Lacy was moving into a rented house on Cedar Ave Thursday afternoon when the roof caught fire. A tenant burning wrapping paper in the fireplace sent up sparks that ignited the roof. Damage was confined to the roof and ceiling.
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Dorothy Lacy
Vas
Cedar Ave
View
Iremen
City mulls Olympic tryouts and youth programs
Recreation Commission referred to the city manager a plan to host Olympic style tryouts for yachting and rowing at Marine Stadium and to sponsor events if costs are underwritten. The panel also approved skin diving at public pools, junior baseball under supervision, and teen recreation surveys guiding future programs.
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Marine Stadium
Recreation Commission
Board of Education
Polytechnic High School
Walter L. Sent
Seati
Boy Confesses to Fires in City Neighborhood
A year-old boy reportedly directed firemen to a trash fire behind T240 K Street and at a second blaze on Thursday night. He admitted setting several small fires and triggering alarms, with police noting similar incidents on the east side in recent days. A detective and a fire chief’s badge were among suspects mentioned by authorities.
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Bixby Park
Prescot
Lert
Offaers
Omalicius Saischief
Aindge
Hadgr
Rabies Warning Praise Tails Long Beach Press Effort
Dr. P R Auriemma credited Long Beach Telegram and Independent for awakening the Compton community to rabies danger after a dog shot March 19 tested rabid. He cited newspaper campaigns prompting exams and Pasteur inoculations for children near the incident, with ongoing drive against stray dogs and bites.
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Compton
P. R. Auriemma
Compton Health Center
Long Beach
Enterprise District
Auriemma
Dar
Pasteur
Hnnever
Rudolph Salas
Tuna Tariff Protest Filed by New York Customs Court
The Southern California based tuna group filed a protest with the Collector for the Port of New York claiming foreign canned tuna faces a tariff far below the legal duty. The protest argues the Trade Agreement Act and Icelandic Treaty are unconstitutional delegations of power and seeks an early Customs Court hearing.
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Calle
Nvaia
Rnday
New York
Donald P. Loker
California Fish Canners Assn
United States
Eerinn
Japan
Lake
Uatio
John J. Lerch
Customs Court
Bandits Attack Wilmington Man in Broad Ave Cafe Robbery
James M. Fisher, 48, of 306 Ximeno Ave, says ten men attacked him near a Wilmington cafe, one armed with a pistol, as he left the Wilm ington check cashing service. They fled when patrons rushed to aid. Police sources describe the incident as a strongarm robbery in the Broad Ave area near the ILWU Wiring Hall.
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Mno
Long Beach
Rome
James. M. Fisher
Ximeno Ave
Wilmington
ILWU
D St
Broad Ave
Honor Students Visit AF Base for Air Youth Day
Seventy five Southern California high school students toured Long Beach Air Force Base as part of Air Youth Day. They received orientation in a 129 trainer, viewed aircraft, and learned about aerospace careers. Gov Goodwin Knight proclaimed the event statewide. Frederick Bongard led the local organizing team for the California Aviation Education Association.
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Southern California
Long Beach Air Force Base
Ani Malion
Goodwin J. Knight
California Aviation Education Assn
CREA
Long Beach
Southland
Frederick Bongard
Air Force Recruiting Service
Los Angeles
Heare Bardiers
Taro Revarly
Ai Force
Mayfair Park Pool Opens Saturday Free Swim Event
Mayfair Park on Clark Ave and South St opens its swimming pool at 4 30 a m on Saturday with civic officials and Lakewood Fair queen candidates among participants. Swimming will be free until 1 p m.
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Mayfair Park
Clark Ave
South St
Lakewood Fair
AF Men Fix Toys for Needy
Four thousand dollars worth of new toys damaged in shipping are being repaired by volunteer Air Force men in Long Beach for distribution to needy children. The project, sponsored by the Lakewood Jewish Men's Club, is coordinated by Air Force chaplain Desort C. Partin. A benefiting firm donated the toys under condition of anonymity. The club seeks additional damaged toy donations and will arrange pickups. Repaired toys will be distributed year round to hospitals and handicapped or needy children.
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Air Force
Long Beach
Lakawrod
Chih
Desoort C. Partin
Lakewood Jewish Mess
Herman Saido
Air Ine
Lakewood Club
Saido
Cnilaven
Fire damages chair in Marian Oppegaard apartment
A fire at Marian Oppegaard’s apartment at 321 W 3rd St damaged an overstuffed chair late Thursday. Firefighters reported lighted cigarette as probable cause.
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Marian Oppegaard
Woman Suffers Hip Fracture in Seaside Accident
A woman sustained a fractured hip after a fall at Roosevelt Road and Atlantic Avenue. She was treated at Seaside Hospital where doctors listed the injury as a fractured hip. Police reports record the incident on May 1.
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Seaside Hospital
Tina Taint
Roosevelt Rd
Atlantic Ave
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Sacramento
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Tvenae
Les Clay
Pool
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Malcolm Epley
Terri Peart
Lees Ave
East Longe Beach
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Wilton
Bobby Miller
Rita Ramirez
Santa Monica
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Rita
John Neagle
N.Y
Long Beach Press
Celearam Famay
Mayfair
Delbert C. Partin
Herman Saldo
Independent, Press-Telegram
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