Pensioner Seeks Share of Recluse’s Estate in Santa Ana
A Minnesota widow, estranged wife of John, filed a claim for a widow’s share of Edward J. Johnson’s $150,000 estate in Santa Ana. Johnson, a 75 year old recluse, died November 16 leaving a handwritten will to sister Mrs. A D L1 Wyman and her son Justin. Public Administrator Earl Abbey said the estate totals about $150,000 in stocks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Santa Ana
A. Litchfield
Minn
Edward J. Johnson
Johnson
Butte
Mont
Duluth
Wyman
North Hollywood
Justin Wyman
Harbor Board Advances bids for water tank and tower removal
The Harbor Board authorized bid advertising for the purchase and removal of a 100,000 gallon water tank and tower near Water Street and Pico Avenue. The water supply will not be needed for new transit sheds on Piers 1 and 2 in the Inner Harbor.
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Board of Harbor
Water St
Pico Ave
Inner Harbor
Navy Marine
Jordan High School
Catalina Steamship Co
Avaton
E. J. Amur
Fires and Ambulance Calls Reported Across Long Beach
A string of emergency dispatches lists fires and ambulance responses in Long Beach areas including Truman Boyd Manor Magnolia Avenue 288 and 2818 Greenbrier Road. incidents involve mattress fires furnace fires and building fires with minor to moderate damage and multiple ambulance trips.
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Long Beach
Haltto
Jow Rd
Long Beach Blvd
60Th St
Orange Ayn
Ligapo
Truman Boyd Manor
Magnolia Ave
Amsaemy
16Th St
Trumah Boyd Manor
Greenbrier
Atialetic
Thesla
M MH
Platt St
Arteala St
Stanton Pi
Wardlaw Rd
California Ave
Death of Santa Ana mother of twins prompts tests
Los Angeles County authorities order chemical and microscopic tests to determine cause of death of Mrs. Lucile Sears 38 of Santa Ana who died Thanksgiving Day after blood transfusions during Caesarean birth of twins. Autopsy does not reveal a clear cause. Dr Eastman suspects a transfusion reaction from Type AB blood. Further results expected in 10 to 14 days.
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Los Angeles
Santa, Ana
Lucile Sears
4Th St. Santa Ana
Temple Hospital
sitate Uy @ SPU
Santa Ana
Henry V. Eastman
Sears
Eastman
Sherbourne Krieger
Bids Sought for Grounds at Long Beach State College
The Division of Architecture in Sacramento will advertise bids this week for grounds improvements at Long Beach State College. About $160,009 is available to develop roughly 22 acres with planting and irrigation serving the fine arts group library and classrooms area, near the physical education building and along the main campus roads.
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Division of Architecture
Sacramento
Long Beach State College
Rampus
Rheem Names Chief for Downey Plant
John F. Laggitt, manager of Rheem Manufacturing Co's Washington office, named general manager of the Downey plant replacing L. H. Cooper who resigns to take a management post elsewhere. He will also oversee military production at Rheem's South Gate plant.
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John F.laggitt
Rheem Manufacturing Co
Washington
Downey
L. H. Cooper
Duti Downey
Taggart
Rheem
South Gate
Tire Blows Auto Upsets Woman Hurt
Sally I Runz, 21, of 1274 Appleton St. received a minor cut when a car driven by Poil Up, 23, overturned on Silverado Dr west of Santa Fe Ave. Runz was treated at Seaside Hospital. A 4 year old boy, Donald Eugene Funst, 730-A Chestnut Ave, was injured after being struck by a car while in the street and held for observation at Seaside Hospital. Dr. Faii T Southgate, 57, of 656 Havana Ave, drove the other car. Ruth Brown and Allenne Jackson, both injured when a three wheeled electric car they rode in overturned on Long Beach Blvd south of 32nd St 36th, treated at Magnolia Hospital.
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Sally I. Runz
Appleton St
Poil- Up
Silverado Dr
Santa Fe Ave
Runz
Donald Eugene Funst
Chestnut Ave
Seaside Hospital
Faii T. Southgate
Aptometrist
Havana Ave
Dorothy Woyce Kenworthy
Donald
Ruth Brown
W.ra0th St
Allenne Jackson
E. Broadway
Long Beach Blvd
32Nd St
Magnolia Hospital
Arraign Two in Kidnaping and Rape Case
Two harbor area young men were arraigned Monday in South Bay Municipal Court on charges of kidnaping and rape. Jack H. Neatherly, 21, of Torrance, and Ernest Dendoy, 23, Harbor City, freed on $2,000 bail each. Dendoy is USC football star and brother of Aramis Dendoy. Preliminary hearing set for Friday.
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Palos Verdes Estates
Harbor Area
South Bay
Jack H. Neatherly
Torrance
Korea
Ernest Dendoy
251St
Harbor City
Dandoy
Husband and Wife Named to State Bar Panels
The State Bar of California lists a Long Beach husband and wife on its 1955 committees. Deputy District Attorney Thomas W. Cochran is reappointed for two years to the committee on criminal law and procedure. His wife Elizabeth Cochran, an attorney, is named for two years on the committee on adoptions. Another Long Beach attorney, Clarence Hunt, is appointed to a three year term on the same panel.
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State Bar of California
Long Beach
Thomas W. Cochran
Atty
Elizabeth Cochran
Clarence
Hunt
Carrier Boy Loses Glasses in Game
A carrier boy during a Saturday football game near 2550 Chestnut Ave set down his prescription glasses by a tree and they were stolen. He urgently needs them, as they are unusable to others.
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Wavia Perimeter
Chestnut Ave
Obituary notices for Sawtelle residents and others
Obituaries report Elmer Sawtelle 66 of 13202 Golden West Ave died in an Orange hospital. Surviving wife Izetta M. five sons and two daughters, plus siblings and 14 grandchildren. Services Wednesday in Garden Grove with Westminster Memorial Park interment. Other notices name Lionel J. Larkey merchant seaman, Charles P. Boyer honored by Penn Mutual, and multiple local death entries with service details.
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Sawtelle
Westminster
Elmer Sawtelle
Golden West Ave
Orange
Erie
Izetta M
Ervin Sawtelle
Union
Neb
Rudyard
Cedar Biff
Julius
Long Beach
Dale
Fremont
Clare Sawtelle
Monterey Park
Lela Davidson
Philadelphia
Boyer
Malcom Adam
James W. Lantz Jr
Security Bldg
Larkey
Lionel James Larkey
Locust Ave
Hancock Oil Co
Kingfisher
Oklo
California
Compton
Westminster Community Presbyterian Church
Mildred F
Dolores Belle Kelley
Lakewood City
James Larkey
Basil Larkey
Lomita
Violet McKey
Community Presbyterian Church
Wendell W. Greenlee
Minneapolis
Minn
Robert of Zetterstrom
Inga Long Beach
Earl
USN
Harold
Zetterstrom
USCG
Charles Patrick Roan
Marie Doll
William Meyers
Torrance
Celia Meyers
Elizamative
Morney
Beth Hoffman
Louise New- Grantsburg
Wis
Herlpurn
Edith Haring
Mottell
Mortuary
Huth Sim
George Wons
Long Bear
Oa McDonald
Martin
Sunnyside Memo
Honald Cellerstrom
Sinne-Peape
Sunnyside
Grantsburg
Mortell
Pall
Driver Faces Charges of Hit and Run
Cleo Bogin, 28, of 116 Truman Boyd Manor, charged with felony hit and run after police say he left the scene of a crash at Carson Street and Palo Verde Avenue in heavy fog. Mr and Mrs Louis Furst, injured, told officers Bogin exited his car then drove away.
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Cleo Bogin
Truman Boyd Manor
Hunt
Carson St
Palo Verde Ave
Louis Furst
Ostrom Ave
Mystery Car Found Submerged at Marine Stadium
Police sift clues from a 1949 Chevrolet found almost submerged at Marine Stadium. No plates. ignition on. car likely stolen or involved in a recent crash. Investigators traced ownership by motor number and checked possible links to San Gabriel Mission receipts and a return address from a church group.
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Marine Stadium
Franklin
Estes
San Gabriel Mission
San Gabriel
Song of the Immaculate Heart of Mary
Old Mission
Calif
Po- Wee
Beaten Girl's Dad on Trial
In Los Angeles on Monday Joe Cruz Vera 43 laborer of Norwalk faced trial on charges of assaulting and molesting his 9 year old stepdaughter Celia. The girl’s mother Trinda 28 was sentenced to 6 to 64 years last September for brutal abuse of the child. Vera testified against his wife and prosecutors alleged multiple assaults. He is held in county jail on 10000 dollar bail.
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Los Angeles
Joe Cruz Vera
Tina St
Norwalk
Trindad
Celia
Vera
Carlos Teran
Ther
Civil Defense Film Night At Lakewood Armory
A Lakewood civil defense meeting will screen the film You Can Beat the A Bomb at 7 30 p m today at Redondo avenue Lakewood Beach wardens and volunteers from Virgil Robinson 33 and Marilyn Hitchcock 27 of 25516 Doble Avenue will attend after an alleged assault on an escort.
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Marilyn Hitchcock
Wood Area Civil Defense
Doble Ave
Harborrof
Virgil Robinson
Redondo
Lakewood Beach
Arbor
Pico Traffic Changes
Traffic changes on Pico Ave in the harbor district will create three northbound lanes from Water St to Long Beach Freeway, with two southbound lanes. Cone markers will guide drivers between 4 p.m. and 5:30 p.m. The plan aims to ease rush hour jams and keep lanes in place except during peak northbound periods.
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Pico Ave
Harbor District
Water St
Long Beech
Sth St
Robert D. ‘Dier
Four Injured in Wilmington Two Car Crash
Four persons sustained injuries described as minor in a two car collision at Gulf Ave and Sandison St in Wilmington on Monday. Drivers Betty Gold aged 19 of 24819 Avalon Blyd and Robert Wagner 20 of 1222 Bayview Ave were hurt along with passengers Michael Burgess 5 of 235 W 234th St and Lancii Grouch 26 of 416 McDonald Ave.
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Wilmington
Gulf Ave
Sandison St
Betty Gold
Avalon Blyd
Robert Wagner
Bayview Aveé
Michael Burgess
Man Guilty of False Ads for School
Ea P Weisner, operator of Lie Electro Assembly Training Center at 1209 Pine Ave, was found guilty in Municipal Court of distributing a misleading brochure claiming students would get well paying jobs after 20 three hour lessons. Sentencing set for Friday. Bertha Hoelzle’s similar charge was dismissed.
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Ea P. Weisner
Weisner
Lie Electro- Assembly
Pine Ave
Dana R. Williams
Lp. m
Arthur Guy Jy
Bertha M. Hoelzle
Ralph Cary Retires After 42 Years with Postal Service
Ralph B. Cary, longtime United States Railway Postal Service employee, retires after 42 years of service. A retirement party honoring Cary was held at his son Charles E. Cary’s home at 2685 Oregon Ave., following his 33 years of residence in Long Beach.
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Ralph B. Cary
Pasadena Ave
United States Railway Postal Service
Long Beach
Cary
Charles E. Cary
Oregon Ave
Rainbow Pier dredging bid tops rivals at $984 404.70
Pacific Dredging Co. of Paramount submitted the low bid of 984 404.70 for shoreline work to prepare the Rainbow Pier site for the Municipal Auditorium Exhibit Hall. Other bids were 1 214 329.70 from Freaks Dredging Co. and 1 067 745.52 from San Francisco Bridge Co. The Sty's estimate was about 1 036 368, with completion in 200 working days and financing from annex funds and subsidence allocations.
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Rainbow Pier
Municipal Auditorium
Samuel E. Vickers Moriday
The
Pacific Dredging Co
Paramount
Freaks Dredging Co
Long Beach
San Francisco Bridge Co
Sty
Seaside Blvd
Pine and
Linden Aves
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Band
Arthur
Minnesota
Earl Abbey
Orange County
MES. A
North American Aviation, Inc
John D. Whiteside
Harbor Board
E. 17Th St
Central Branch Boys Club
Clyde Doyle
International Good Sports Club
Rose al. Wear
E. Artesia St
Long Beach Chamber of Commerce
University of California
College of Engineering
Berkeley
Long Beach City College
Ella Mangan
All States Society
William Mangan
Bel- Eucalyptus Ave
Mont Recreation Center
Michigan State College
East Athletic Club
Lansing
Mich
Pacific Coast
Jown
Bixby Park
Lakewood B'nai B'rith Lodge
Lakewood
Ross N. Berkes
School of International Relations
University of Southern California
Phi Beta Kappa
Recreation Park
Albert
Tex) Schueptach
Eastside
Dewey High School
Thomas Jay Puckett
Los Alamitos
United Church Brotherhood
YWCA
Moore Memorial Methodist Church
Wrangler Dim" Vorhees
Hut Smith
Santa Claus
Willam
Rucker
Lime Ave
Uavearee
LBSC
Aramis. Dandoy
Hubby
Carrier Boy
C. P. Boyer
Morial Park
Holton & Son-Mortuary
Sidney W
Harry
Robert Lawson
Dispay Mortuary
Willard A. Schurr
Bettina
Memorial Park
Chavez
Leonida Chavez
Rayman St
Mexico
Holy Innocents Catholic Parish
Aniceta Chavez
Jesus
Alvino Garcia
Antonio
Francesca Garcia
Margerita Chavez
Sheelar-McFadyen
Holy Innocents Church
All Souls Cemetery
Galifornia
Bogin
Furst
Pico
Ralph Cary
Postal Service
Audiorium
Pine
Sinden Aves
University
Harbor
Vickers
Bristol
Pine Avenue
Dohrmann
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