Beach Combing and Local Tales Mix in Day’s Odd Pages
A jumble of short items from Beach Combing to Lakewood notes recounts mislaid copy causing brief treks of a column, a lucky pig tale from the Bennington, letters from Mrs. Hazel Yates railing against street rubbish, and light local humor about an Irishman named Riley and a Kelley mystery. The items reflect small-town chatter with personal anecdotes and grievances.
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Lakewood
Hazel Yates
Paramount Blvd
Riley
Schine
Kelley
Drifting from one crash to another on Wilmington routes
Mrs. Dorothy Correll drive from a truck collision on Alameda Boulevard and Willow Street then tangled with a locomotive at Henry Ford Boulevard and Alameda Street. Her two daughters, Sandra and Sharon, were uninjured, and no citations were issued. The car was later towed. she continued toward the harbor to meet her husband, a merchant seaman.
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Dorothy Correll
Wilmington
Correll
Gale Ave
Sandra
Sharon
Alameda, Blvd
Willow St
Seaman
San Pedro
Roger Young
M.D. Fickel
Henry Ford Blvd
Alameda St
Long Beach Area Highway Projects Advance Amid Burglaries Case
A Lakewood man received one year in county jail and seven years probation after pleading to burglaries tied to his wife’s sentence. Key freeway contracts near Long Beach and East Los Angeles progress, with several bridges and underpasses about to be finished or bid. Public works focus includes underpasses under the Pacific Electric and Union Pacific railroads and a river bridge by South Gate.
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Lakewood
Miles of
Long Beach
John R. Formby
Compton
Raycraft
Okrapina
Santa Fe
Ukropine, Polich and Kral
District 7
Los Angeles
Sheila
Barotia’ Sts
Los Angeles River
Rio Hondo
South Gate
Youngsters suffer mishaps fill Long Beach street reports
A string of injuries in Long Beach includes 18 month old Gary Masteller finger injury at a washing machine leading to a bone specialist referral, eight year old Patricia Thompson hit by a loose block, fourteen year old Walter McDaniels bruised toe, seventy one year old Jill Herron breaking an arm, thirteen year old Stanley Goodwin knee lacerations, and Donald Kendall wrist fracture while skating.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Long Beach
Kore
Gary Lynn Masteller
Gundry Ave
Community Hospital
Patricia G. Thompson
California Ave
Patricia
Bixby Knolls Hospital
Walter McDaniels
N. Deisy Ave
Waller
Seaside Hospital
Jill Herron
Lorella Hinkle
Joe Risinger
City Installs Billing Device in Gas Dept
The Municipal Gas Department announces new automatic billing equipment to replace postcard bills for 93,000 gas customers and 60,000 water consumers. Beginning July 1, gas and water bills will be printed on one strip with pre-addressed envelopes, using IBM equipment at $1938 per month, saving $25,000 the first year and enabling future expansion.
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Municipal Gas Department
del EF. Bendinger
Pas Department
International Business Machines Corp
Bendinger
USS Nevada Shipmates Plan Reunion in The Reach
Former USS Nevada crew members plan a reunion in The Reach to reconnect after years apart. The event aims to honor the ship’s legacy and share memories of its wartime service. Participants hope to gather former sailors and their families for talks and reflections.
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USS Nevada
Nevada
Ace
L B Girl Gains Trip to Europe
Nancy Stice, daughter of Mrs. Gertrude W. Stice of 248 Santa Ann Ave, will join a group of college students on a botany field course in Nevada and then Europe this summer. Jack Haley chairs the publicity committee at the Seal Beach Post Office and urges those interested to contact him. Wayne Carter, police officer, notes the need to verify reunion details and times.
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Nancy Stice
Gertrude W. Stice
Santa
Ann Ave
Jack Haley
Seal Beach
Wayne Carter
Mana College
Nevada
Europe
Depth of Pearl Harbor ship, Monterey Oil Co report
Monterey Oil Co. reports the sunken ship at Pearl Harbor was beached and later used at Seal Beach for an oil well. The target vessel in the first A-bomb test is noted as having reached a depth of 2265 feet in the Pacific.
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Pearl Harbor
Monterey Oil Co
Seal Beach Island
Pacific
Thas
Ex Con Receives Five Years to Life for Gas Station Robbery
A Denver ex convict named Cole was sentenced Thursday to a five year to life term for first degree robbery after police tied dusty footprints to a car found at 3722 Lime Ave. Thomas E Potter pleaded guilty April 23 to robbing a gas station at Spring St and Bellflower Blvd. Judge Joe Raycraft imposed the sentence.
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Denver
Cole
Thomas E. Potter
Limes Ave
Potter
Ito
Spring St
Bellflower Blvd
Joe Raycraft
Seven Long Beach Residents Plan South American Flight Tour
Seven locals, including R W Kittinger a record manufacturer and Dr Mary Truitt, prepare to leave Long Beach in two small planes for a three month 20 000 mile trip to Sao Paulo Brazil. They will fly via Trinidad Haiti Puerto Rico Cuba Chicago and Denver returning home. The Kittingers will be joined by their children while the Truitts plan to visit South America for the second time.
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Long Beach
R. W. Kittinger
Seabright Ave
Mary Truitt
Redondo Ave
Sao Paulo
United States
Kittingers
Alaska
Canada
Mexico
Kittinger
Genevieve
Sandra
Russell
Trinidad
Haiti
Puerto Rico
Cuba
Chicago
Denver
Donald Truitt
Mary
South America
Truitts
Donald
Jn 13
Guatemala
Formby pleads for wife as ice cream parlor bandit tale unfolds
Superior Judge May 1 hears the case of L. Lille for a string of ice cream parlor robberies and burglaries in South Gate. Formby, in court for his wife's trial, pleads to reclaim his wife to provide a home, claiming he confessed to 38 burglaries to show he could reform, noting typical takings rarely exceeded 35 dollars and his largest score was 700 dollars shared with an accomplice, expressing a wish to live a long, clean life.
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Mey
L. Lille
South Gate Ame
Formby
Key
Three Hundred Chiropodists Meet in California Assembly
Three hundred chiropodists gather for the Western Chiropody Assembly of the California Association of Chiropodists at Wilton Hotel. The all day session will end with officer elections and next year’s site selection. Main speaker Dr Ralph Dye of Sandy Lake Pa will discuss Modern Flexible Casting and Strapping Techniques.
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California Association of Chiropodists
Wilton Hotel
Ralph Dye
Sandy Lake
Charles Ormand
Oakland
Felton Gamble
Temple University
National Association of Chiropodisis
Russell Bliss
Los Angeles
California Association
Absentee Ballot Record Noted For City Election
City Clerk Margaret Heartwell announced absentee ballot details for the upcoming city final. A total of 313 applications set a record for jetty elections, with requests filed by 5 p.m. Thursday. Marked ballots must be returned by election day. Registration books show 155,430 voters eligible, with 290 polling places.
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Jetty
Margeret Heartwell
Workman Injured on Job at Harbor
Henry Gaschler age 30 of 1514 W L7th St was struck in the head by a pulley while unloading pipe on Pier E outer harbor Thursday. He suffered scalp lacerations and was treated at Seaside Hospital.
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Henry Gaschler
L7th
Outer Harbor
Gaschler
Seaside
Rainbow Drive Reopens After Storm Repair
Rainbow Flor traffic resumes as Rainbow Drive is opened again after about six weeks of repair works. Broken piling was replaced under a $5500 emergency contract with Elon Corp. City Engineer Jess D. Gukerson’s office reported Thursday.
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Elon Corp
Jess D. Gukerson
Judge Wallace Ends Long Court Career in Long Beach
Judge Charles D. Wallace retired from the Long Beach Municipal Court after 28 years of service. He wore a bright red tie and said he had “enough court” as civic leaders praised his faithful tenure.
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Charles D. Wallace
Long Beach
Charles T. Smith
Wallace
Friend W. Richardson
California
University of Southern California
Jbecause
Evans Jr. to graduate from Naval Academy on June 4
Ernest E. Evans Jr. of Roswell is set to graduate from the U S Naval Academy at Annapolis on June 4. His father, Cmdr. Ernest E. Evans Sr., received the Medal of Honor posthumously in World War II.
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Ernest E. Evans Jr
Roswell Aye
Cmdr
Ernest E. Evans Sr
Will
U.S. Naval Academy At
Annapolis
Mary Sullivan Services Service for Mrs Sullivan in Long Beach
Mary Sullivan of 145 Tivoli Drive a longtime Long Beach resident and mother of Emmet Sullivan of the Harbor Commission will have a service at 11 a.m. Saturday in Mottell's Chapel. She was native of Dundas Minnesota and came to Long Beach 42 years ago. She leaves another son Early Y of Long Beach a sister Martha Becklund two brothers Charles and Will Voss and three grandchildren. Rev Willard A Schurr and Rev Dr Ralph W Lee will officiate with interment at Sunnyside Cemetery.
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Mary Sullivan
Emmetthe Sullivan
Harbor Commission
Mottell’s Chapel
Willard A. Schurr
Ralph W. Lee
Sunnyside Cemetery
Dog That Bit Boy Sought After Garfield School Attack
A dog bit 10 year old Richard Paparella on the Garfield Elementary School playground. The dark brown medium size dog with short hair, pointed ears, and a red leather collar fled. the boy faces Pasteur shots as search continues, according to his mother Mrs Louis Paparella.
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Richard Paparella
Willard St
Pasteur
Louis Paperella
Garfield
Carrier Returns to San Diego After Hydrogen Tests
Escort carrier Bairoko entered San Diego Bay today following participation in hydrogen fuel tests in the Pacific. The vessel’s return marks completion of a testing phase and allows maintenance and resupply in a major harbor.
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San Diego
San Diego Bay
Pacific
Editorial discusses City Council contests and Ballot recs
The page notes views on the City Election and Press Telegram recommendations for City Council races. Lillian Faulkner of 2913 Feirman Ave was named Miss Lakewood after competing with four others for the Lakewood title, earning a spot to represent the city in California eliminations for the Miss Universe contest.
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Press-Telegram
Lillian Faulkner
Feirman Ave
Lakewood
California
Ship Christening Delayed by Struggle at Wilmington Yard
The 171 foot minesweeper USS Prime slid down the ways at the Wilmington plant amid repeated champagne attempts by sponsor Mrs Louis Eta-Hokin before a smaller boat finally broke the champagne. The ship, equipped to combat magnetic and influence mines, is the seventh of eight of its type launched at the yard. The ceremony included remarks by Mrs Eta-Hokin's husband and an invocation by Rabbi Dru Le Elliot Grafman of Temple Israel, Long Beach.
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Wilmington Bost’ Works
Louis Eta-Hokin
Shee
Ets-Hokin
Dru’ le Elliot Grafman
Rabbi
Ob ‘Temple Israel
Long Bea
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Ahad
Bennington
Walter Ross
Florida
John Ward
Ward
Malcolm Epley
Poppy
Karen Kilstrom
Freeman Ave
American Legion
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Liess-Celestam AY
L. B
Lee Raynor Formby
Second St
Broadway
Bonita Ave
Stanley Kyles Goodwin
Baton Circle
Tonald Kendall
E. Aresia St
Magnolia 4 Hospital
Gas Dept
L.b.girl
Brazil
Spier's Open
Ser
Carrier
Akewood Victor
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