Truman Looks To Mend California Democratic Rift In San Francisco
President Truman travels to San Francisco for Japanese treaty ceremonies and a Democratic luncheon seen as a bid to ease factional rifts. Left wing led by James Roosevelt and conservative figures like Ed Pauley and George Luckey are mentioned amid talk of a Knowland race and GOP candidacy dynamics.
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Truman
California
San Francisco
James Roosevelt
Ed Pauley
George Luckey
Women Operate Counsel Service In Long Beach
Two Long Beach social workers Miss Mary M. O'Neill and Miss Dorothy Laidlaw plan to open a private counseling office in the Professional building to serve individuals groups and nearby towns. They will offer marital guidance child behavioral help elder care planning and social work services for communities lacking focal agencies while also consulting with organizations and businesses on civic welfare programs. Both hold master of social work degrees from the University of Michigan and USC respectively.
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Long Beach
Mary M. O'Neill
Dorothy Laidlaw
Bce
Miss O'Neill
University of Michigan
Country Doctors Assured Hoosiers In Indiana
Indiana doctors migrate to rural towns under a scholarship program run by the ISMA. Fred W. Dierdorf Jr., MD, of Terre Haute, after completing medical school and internship at Seaside Hospital, opens practice in Pike County, fulfilling a five year service obligation to a needy Indiana community.
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Indiana
Pike County
Fred W. Dierdorf Jr
Terre Haute
Ind
University of Indiana Medical School
Seaside
Medical Association
Injury suit scheduled in Los Angeles court
An $80,000 personal injury suit by George H. Fulton and June Klatt against the City of Compton and two utilities will be tried in Superior Court, Los Angeles, after a venue change from Compton. The car collision with a pole on Rosecrans Ave near Long Beach Blvd last Sept. 4 prompted the action asserting negligence in keeping a pole 15 feet onto the street.
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George H. Fulton
Fulton
Rosecrans Ave
Long Beach Blvd
Compton
Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Co
Southern California Edison Co
Rosescrans Ave
Evangelist Rosell Opens 8 Day Revival in Rochester
Dr E Mervin Rosell the Rochester evangelist launches an eight day revival at Municipal Auditorium sponsored by over two churches under the Long Beach Evangelistic Association. A 200 voice choir and Seattle soloist Hilding Halverson lead a week of 3 pm and 7 30 pm services with nightly meetings through next Sunday.
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wWilliem Betts
Merv Rosell Evangelistic Services
Ere Ruby Jordan
Margie Cook
Doris Henthorn
Sue Ireland
Jeanna Whitlock
Sol Laver
E. Mervin
Mery Resell
Rochester
Minn
Municipal Auditorium
Long Beach Evangelistic Association
Kerr Williams
Crusade Association
Carson St
Cherry Ave
Rosell
Long Beach
William Said
Hilding Halverson
Seattle
Karl Steele
Howard Skinner
Red Cross plasma drive to aid Defense Department plan
Long Beach Red Cross will join a nationwide plasma drive requested by the Defense Department to replenish plasma and blood for wounded in Korea. Bruce Mason reports the drive begins September 10 with a target of nearly three million pints of blood and over a million plasma units.
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Long Beach Red Cross
Department of ‘Defense
Korea
Bruce Mason
Long Beach
Defense
Mason
Defense Department
Red Cross
Department of Defense
Gus Lucking
Roland R. Bach
American National Red Cross
Instructor Joins Military School From Child Welfare Center
Mrs. Ethel R. Bevan resigned as instructor at the Parents Educational Center of the Dr. Margaret Clark Child Welfare Foundation to join the staff of Southern California Military Academy. A former public school teacher, she had led nutrition and growth guidance at the center at 921 Pacific Ave, serving more than 21,000 children and parents. The center, opened in May, closed effective yesterday.
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Ethel R. Bevan
Parents Educational Center
Margaret Clark
New Long Beach school aids mentally retarded youth
The first Long Beach school for mentally retarded children opens Sept. 10 at Sviots Hall 1003 E Sixth St. It is sponsored by the Long Beach chapter of the Exceptional Children's Foundation of Los Angeles with Sciots Lodge 43 donating use of the hall. Classes include preschool school-age and 17 to 20 year olds. Until self supporting, the parent foundation will assist by paying teachers and volunteers. Registrations began in Sviots Hall with 30 registered first day. Clifford Lange is president. Mrs Von Fahrney organizer and vice president. Iris Trafton secretary. Newell C Crowley treasurer.
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Long Beach
Sciots Hall
Sixth St
Lbcecf
Ven Fabrney
Scfots Lodge
Ed Wade
Mobil
William Hobba
H. W. Funke
Verne Talbott
Toparchs
Court Prowell
Toparch
Press-Telegram
Sviots
Exceptional Children’s Foundation of
Los Angeles
Sciots Lodge 43
Parent Fondation
Volun
Selots Hall
Clifford Lange
Selots Service
ECF
von Fahrney
Iris Trafton
Newell C. Crowley
Long Beach Visiting Nurse Service roots traced to 1818 center
The Women’s City Club launched a 1818 social welfare project now part of Long Beach Visiting Nurse Service. Drs. Hardy and Margaret Clark donated services in the center until their deaths, with their efforts continued by the Dr. Margaret Clark Child Welfare Foundation and the Dr. Margaret Clark Sunshine Circle.
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The
Woman’s City Club
Social Welfare League
Visiting Nurse Service of
Long Beach
Hardy Clark
Margaret Clark
Travelers Picnic Slated Next Sunday
Members and friends of Long Beach Council 635 United Commercial Travelers will gather for the 30th annual picnic at Silverado Park List Street and Santa Fe Avenue next Sunday. Picnic hours run from 10:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. A 7 a.m. breakfast for council men precedes games and contests with free coffee and soft drinks. Howard King chairs the picnic committee.
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Friends of
Long Beach
Los Angeles County Considers First Water Conservation Zone
Engineer H E Hedger reports to the Board of Supervisors on forming Los Angeles County s first water conservation zone to fund through a special tax. The plan targets the Central Coastal Basin below Whittier Narrows, aiming to replenish underground supplies by pumping Colorado River water into subterranean reservoirs. Supervisor Herbert C Legg warns the dry water supply is critical for county residents.
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H. E. Hedger
Board of Supervisors
Los Angeles County
Herbert C. Legg
Townsendites Schedule Weekly Club Meetings
Townsend organization officials announced weekly meetings for several clubs. Club 7 gathers at Townsend Hall at 7 30 p m Tuesday, Club 12 hosts a 1 p m card party Tuesday, Club 0 meets at 5963 Olive Ave at 7 20 p m. The Bellflower club convenes at 9452 Trower St Bellflower at 7 30 p m. On Wednesday district clubs convene at Townsend Hall 12 30 p m Chi 12 at 7 30 p m. Thursday features a 1 p m card party, Friday has Club 2 at 7 30 p m and Club 4 at noon in Bixby Park, with district clubs meeting again at Townsend Hall 7 30 p m Saturday.
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Townsend
Club 7
Townsend Hall
Fifth St
Club 12
Club 0
Olive Ave
Bellflower Club
Trower Sit
Bellflower
Bixby Park
Painter's Wallboard Idea Wins $50 at VA Hospital
Conway Patterson a painter foreman at Long Beach Veterans Administration Hospital won $50 and an Incentives Award certificate for a wall repair method that saves about $700 yearly. His plaster and paint fix uses metal lath and a bed spring to cover holes, while the hospital notes 34 work simplification reports this quarter.
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Conway
Paterson
Center
Veterans Administration Hospital
E. V. Edwards
Johnny Driggs
Patterson
Painter
Conway .Patterson
Long Beath Veterans Administration Hospital
Tolay
Edwards
Nine Die in India Fight Near Gingee
Calcutta dispatches report nine people were killed and 25 wounded in a clash between villagers and customs officers near Gingee, about 100 miles south of Madras. The officers were pursuing smuggled goods.
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Calcutta
India
Gingee
Madras
Dispatches
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