Fullerton Driver 78 Dies After Collision on Placentia Yorba Rd
George Everett Menelaus, 78, of West Los Angeles, died after a crash on Placentia Yorba Rd in the Atwood district around 4:50 PM Sunday. The CHP said Menelaus swung out to pass a car, colliding with William Bryant, 28, of Yorba Linda. His wife, 59, and son, 32, were hospitalized with major injuries. Bryant was treated for injuries. A separate incident saw Conrad Schroeder, 6, hospitalized with major injuries after a vehicle backed from a driveway struck him. Two youths suffered major injuries and two more minor in another Saturday night crash on Hwy. 101 between Anaheim and Santa Ana.
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Fullerton
George Everett Menelaus
Los Angeles
California Highway Patrol
Menelaus
Placentia-Yorba
Atwood
William R. Bryant
Park
Yorba Linda
Sir Alena Anaheim
Ronald D. Wylie
Walnut St
Orange
Hurts
Linden Hushman
Ronald Dean Slate
Taft Ave
Garden Grove
Ohio Top Court Judge Killed in Window Fall
Judge Edward S. Matthias aged 80 and a 39 year Ohio Supreme Court veteran died after falling from a third story window at his Columbus home. He reportedly fainted while showing a pest exterminator to his daughter, who said his heart condition was not serious.
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Ohio
Columbus
Edward S. Matthias
Ohio Supreme Court
Matthias
Baby Dies in Convulsions After Doe Approaches Home
A 14 month old Ricky Barnett died of convulsions on his back porch Sunday after a stray doe approached. Coroner A P Armstrong found convulsions induced by fright as the only discernible cause, with no dog threat observed by a grandfather.
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Ricky Pate ‘Barnett
A. P. Armstrong
L A Philharmonic Opens L A Season to Cheers
Alfred Wallenstein led the Los Angeles Philharmonic in the 1953 54 season opener at Long Beach Concert Hall. Leonard Pennario soloed in Chopin’s first piano concerto, with Barling’s Corsair Overture and Beethoven Fifth completing the program. The audience cheered an encore, the Blue Danube.
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Alfred Wallenstein
Los Angeles Philharmonic
Long Beach
Hector Barling
Wallenstein
Mlenor
Chopin
Leonard Pennario
Fennaria
Pennario
Beethoven
Olive McDuffee
Hoagy's Son and Friends Back Safely
Randy Carmichael Hoagy’s son and two mid‑year old friends return to Chadwick School after a police search for a disappearance that began during a football game. They said they went horse back riding and to the movies and had $24 among them before going to the Ahr boy’s home when money ran out.
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Rolling Hills
Randy Carmichael
Hoagy
Chadwick School
Randy
Robert Ahr
Los Angeles
Stanley Hoadley
Atascadero
Ahr
Mason Fete for L. B. Man Mason Fete for L. B. Man
Clark H. Shaw of 3719 Lewis Ave will be honored by state Masonic leaders at 7 30 p m Thursday at 234 Pine Ave Shaw has served 42 years as senior inspector of Masonic lodges in the United States He retired in 1951 as a Long Beach city petroleum engineer Frank Harwell Jr of Los Angeles grand master of Masons in California will head the delegation.
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Clark H. Shaw
Lewis Ave
Pine Ave
Shaw
U. S
Long Beach
Frank Harwell Jr
Los Angeles
California
Joint Rites Tuesday for Traffic Victims Bowen Brothers
Funeral services will be held Tuesday at 2 p.m. for Joseph W. Bowen 70 and James Bowen 66 of 13921 Bush St Barber City who died in a traffic crash at Seal Beach Thursday. Interment at Westminster Memorial Park follows at Long Beach chapel service notes brothers natives of Illinois came to Long Beach in 1947 moved to Barber City in 1952 surviving sister Mrs Grate Tigard McCook Nebraska and cousin Mrs Mary McFadden Westminster.
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Joseph W. Bowen
James, Bowen
Bush St
Barber City
Seal Beach
Pine Mortary Chapel
Long* Beach
Westminster Memorial Park
Llinois
Long Beach
Grate Tigard
Mc' Cook, Neb
Mary McFadden
Westminster
L B Catholic Nurses to Attend Annual Mass in Long Beach
The Long Beach unit of the Archdiocesan Council of Catholic Nurses will hold its annual Mass and receive communion on November 8 at 8 a.m. at St Bartholomew's Church. Rev Fr Thorp will officiate. A breakfast at Hoefly's will follow with Rev Fr William J. Barry speaking.
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Long Beach
Archdiocesan Council of Catholic Nurses
St. Bartholomew's Church
Thorpas F. Kennedy
Hoefly
Two Douglas Plants Ballot Against Strike
Douglas Aircraft workers at El Segundo and Santa Monica plants voted down a move to authorize a strike. El Segundo accepted management’s offer while Santa Monica rejected it by 67 percent. The vote required 75 percent to authorize a strike.
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Douglas Aircraft
el Segundo
Santa Monica
Reez eTree
Eer
International Association of Machinists
Wonion
Douglas Long Beach
Uaw-Cio
North American Aviation
Los Angeles
Downey
Torrance
Fresno
Columbus
Ohio
North America
North American
Lecture Series Set by Religious Research Foundation
The Religious Research Foundation Inc of Los Angeles announces a lecture series and an experimental study of prayer led by director Dr Franklin Loehr in Long Beach at 3130 5 Second St beginning Tuesday at 7 30 p.m.
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The
Religious Research Foundation, Inc
Los Angeles
Franklin Loehr
Long Beach
Second St
Movietown to Drop Invites and Gifts Over Southland
About 150000 invitations and 1000 gift certificates will be scattered from a plane by four Hollywood ambassadors to celebrate Hollywood's 50th anniversary. The flight will land at Municipal Airport at 3 10 p m and deliver gifts to Mayor Lyman B Sutter. Winners receive wardrobes, an expense-free weekend in Hollywood, dinner and show tickets, plus a day of sightseeing. The plane will stop at Santa Monica Burbank Pomona Riverside San Diego and Los Angeles International Airport en route.
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Hollywood
Southland
Municipal
Lyman B. Sutter
Hollywood Chamber of Commerce
Mary Ann Edwards
Shirley Barton
Jim Bishop
Larry Pringle
E. M. Stuart
Hollywod Chamber
Santa Monica
Burbank
Pomon
Riverside
San Diego
Los Angeles
Two Naval Officers Retire After 30 Years Service
Two officers at a naval shipyard retire after 30 years in duty. Lt Cmdr Carl H Wehr USN enlisted April 1923 in St Louis and served aboard the Nevada and destroyers plus Omaha. Lt James J McMenirmen USN enlisted June 1923 in New York City and served on West Virginia and cruisers Pittsburgh Philadelphia Boise and several destroyers.
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Naval Shipyard
Cmdr
Carl H. Wehr
USN
Ordnance
St. Louis
Nevada
Humphreys
Noah Barker
Drayton
Omaha
Rosemary
Carl
Timothy
Herbert Michael
Santa Ana Ave
James J. McMenirmen
New York City
West Virginia
Pittsburgh
Philadelphia
Boise
Fox
Bainbridge
Childs
Ellis
Philip
Roxie Myrdith
Helen
Franci
Four Dogs Win Awards At Glendale Kennel Club Show
Four dogs from the Tong Beach area earned awards at the Glendale Kennel Club all breed show. Best of breed were Bel bay Chevaliere the basset hound of Cordelia Skapinsky Harbor City Thenderin Merry Maker the Irish setter of Mr and Mrs William Nan Nery Torrance Viking Chalet the black cocker spaniel of William Cleaty Lomita Dr and Mrs Henry Erdahl Thelma Turner Huntington Beach Prince Hubbas a Japanese spaniel owned by Thelma A ileum Refinery officials report Lomita man William Cleaty will chair the boilermaker committee for the combined contribution plan at the refinery drive event.
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Tong Beach
Glendale Kennel Club
Belbay
Lomita
Henry Erdahl
Garden Grove
Prince Huba
Bo-Mee
Thelma Aileum
Turner
Huntington Beach
Six Injured in Four Port Area Accidents
Six persons were hospitalized for injuries from four traffic mishaps in the harbor area over the weekend. Names include Helen Rosales 27 and Glover 36, with others from Huntington Park and Harbor City. One driver, Paul Gardinias 32, was jailed on a drunken driving charge but not held.
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Wilmington
Harbor
Helen Rosales
Airman dies saving child at railroad crossing
In East Chicago Indiana a 23 year old airman Joseph Nunez on furlough and driving a taxi lost his life trying to save a 3 year old boy, Frederick Wilkinson, who wandered onto a freight track. Nunez was struck while tossing the child to safety. the boy died hours later at St Catherine's Hospital.
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Chicago
Joseph Nunez
Ind
Frederick Wilkinson
Obituary notices list several Long Beach deaths and survivors
Earl Staton 46 of Tulsa former Long Beach resident died Saturday at home. Al an Kohler 65 of 1720 Grand Ave former Long Beach resident died Sunday in Riverside. George Henry Eme 66 of 334 E 45th St died Sunday in Long Beach. Carrie Louise Walden Matthews 86 of 2921 Mariquita St died Sunday in Long Beach. C P McKee ? Whittier longtime Long Beach resident died Sunday. Lt. George J Heissner 61 USN retired of 485 Magnolia Ave died Saturday. Paul H Penz 58 of 52914 E Titth St died Friday. Catherine E Thomas 33 of 5641 Locust Ave died Sunday. Service arrangements vary with each obituary. Surviving relatives listed include spouses children siblings and grandchildren where noted. Services set at Mortuary chapels and various locations in Long Beach, Whittier, and Tempe or Los Angeles areas.
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Staton
Earl Staton
Tulsa
Okla
Long Beach
Oklahoma
Fourth St
Temple’Ave
Esther Weinheimer
Edith Garner
Lyle Garner
Russell Garner
Harold Kenoyer
Los Angeles
Kohler
Elsinore
Allan E. Kohler
Grand Ave
Riverside Hospital
Zanesville
Ohio
Wichita
Kan
Tempe
Ariz. Christensen-Pine Mortuary
Heissner
George J, Heissner
USN
Magnolia Ave
New York City
Long Beach Lodge
BPOE
Fleet Reserve Assn
Rainbow Division
Navy
Marjorie L
Roy EB
Elizabeth Benecke
Carl
William
Mottell’s Chapel
Ellis Lodge
Veterans Administration Cemetery
West Los Angeles
Appeal for Winter Clothing in Long Beach
Brig Ransond D. Gifford of the Salvation Army Social Service Center founded an appeal for heavy clothing to aid Long Beach’s less fortunate. He urged residents to donate used furniture, bedding, dishes, toys, stoves, radios, appliances, bric-a-brac, bicycles and rugs. Last year castoff items funded meals lodgings and therapy for needy and handicapped persons. A cab to the center will summon a Red Shield truck for pickups.
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Long Beach
Brig. Ransond D. Gifford
Salvation Army Social Serv
Alamitos Ave
Red Shield
Animal Shelter Story to Be Printed in Magazine
City will publish an article about the $123,000 animal shelter. City Manager Samuel E. Vickers announced the piece was written by James Bibb, director of animal regulation, at the magazine editor’s request.
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Samuel E. Vickers
Vickers
James Bibb
Parish All Saints Ham Dinner Set For Tuesday
The annual All Saints parish ham dinner will be held Tuesday from 5 30 to 7 30 pm in the parish hall at Termino Ave and Colorado St. Reservations can be made at the church office.
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All Saints Parish
Termino Ave
Colorado St
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Edward J. Bragg
Symphony
Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra
Long Beach Municipal Auditorium
L.A. Philharmonic
L.A
First Presbyterian Church
Clara Seilar
India
A. A. Pieters
Grace Rawley
Chris
Florence Pike
China
L. B. Catholic
Douglas
Movietown
James J. McMenimen
Refinery
Son Ave
Harbor - General Hospital
Glover
Huntington
Pacific Coast
Hwy
Neptune Ave
Gaffey St
Benito Rosales
First St
George Guterriez
Lauro Lorenzana
E. Mauretania St
Elizardo Flores
Belleporte Ave
Harbor City
Pauline Glover
Ana
S. Green St
Huntingtonheim St
Besch
Paul Gardinias
John L. Rogers
St. Catherine's Hospital
Eme
George Henry Eme
E. 45Th St
Fort Wayne
Sigin
Marie A
Kenneth Eme
Tigin
Joseph
Robert
William Eme
Adele McCune
Elgin
Mottell
Thomas
Catherine E. Thomas
Locust Ave
Kansas
Shafter
Calif
Chandler E
Emanuel Newman
John Fox
Monte Vista
Order of Eastern Star
Royal Neighbors
Dilday
Animal Shelter
Selma Franks
SaAee
Je Y
Lastic
King's
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