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Newspaper
Long Beach Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Nov 06, 1949
Page
6
The Malayan Kennel Association in Singapore protests fake pedigrees and will not register Australian bred dogs without an export pedigree from the Royal Agricultural Society Kennel Club of New South Wales.
Optims District 14 proclaims Optimist Week led by Raleigh P Nall. Long Beach Optimist Club sells a special Press Telegram edition Thursday noon to 1 30 pm and hosts a 7 pm Knott s Berry Farm dinner. Proceeds aid the Optimist boys fund with about 100 club members selling papers led by Joseph E Blackburn Clarence E Wagner Samuel E Vickers and Alvin F Slaight. The drive highlights Optimist works to guide today s boys into tomorrow s leaders amid juvenile delinquency concerns.
Pacific Coast passenger agent Jim Sands will speak at the Junior Chamber of Commerce membership dinner Thursday at 7 pm in the Wilton Hotel. His topic Railroads Contribution to Western Civilization will be used as a humorous opening. Jess Grundy will discuss the Los Angeles Stock Exchange on its 25th anniversary. reservations are through the Junior Chamber office.
The city librarian Mrs Theodori ML Brewitt announces in the annual state library report that 46 354 people viewed 415 film showings in nine months, with the collection increasing from one to 31 films. The year 1948 49 saw 1 400 878 books borrowed, a 3 percent rise, with 78 787 registered borrowers and 232 951 reference questions answered.
Norman Jacoby, editor of the anti Communist weekly Alert and a Conference of Civic Organizations leader, will address the Y's Men's Club dinner on Communism in California. He calls for cooperation among existing groups and a shift from general titles to specific actions. The talk is set for tomorrow at 7 p.m. in the YMCA dining room.
Positions in Japan Open for Qualified Long Beach Folk seek recreation directors librarians and manual arts instructors for Army service clubs. Women 24 to 30 for recreation roles and 25 to 40 for librarians and manual arts directors. pay ranges 2724 to 3727 dollars yearly with 10 percent overseas allowance.
Anker L. Kelgard leads 30 workers in the Recreation Department to maintain and upgrade park and playground facilities. Since Feb 1 he became supervisor of construction and maintenance, with 23 years as an inspector in the municipal building department. Crews repaintStearns Street playground, update clubhouses at Recreation Silverado and Houghton Parks, and install new fixtures lighting flooring and a darkroom. They also renovated the Belmont Recreation Center and modernized the Recreation Park grandstand and Hi-Teen anteen area.
Dr. E Granville Longley and Dr. James H Davis head to Atlantic City to receive certified fellowships at the International College of Surgeons. Longley, a Town College of Medicine graduate, served at Mayo Clinic and led St Marys Hospital, while Davis, Brown and Yale trained, completed surgery at Henry Ford and practiced four years in Long Beach. They return November 15 with Mrs Longley. Also: Detroit judge orders 30 days jail for Syvan Knipple afterclaiming alimony avoidance due to robberies.
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