New Boat Ride To Work In Pacific Coast Spring
A whimsical city note describes John Kreger using a 14 foot outboard boat to reach his Wilmington office from Naples, with Lt. Gordon Peay as a passenger. He found the trip rough but quicker than shore traffic, while Mrs. Krieger preferred using the family car. The column also notes festival prize Rosemary Hudson’s trip to Mexico City, a planned May 17 wedding, and a bridal menu mix up at Torrance City Hall. It ends with a joke about a Swedish toilet paper souvenir from a Swedish liner and a travel writer’s lilac misadventure at Acton.
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Long Beach
John Kreger
Wilmington
Naples
Marina
Gordon Peay
Peay
Yorktown
Rosemary
Mexico City
Western ‘Airlines
Western
Does Stockwile
St. Patrick’s Day
Doug Stockdale
Rosemary Hudson
State College
Harriman-Jones Clib
Teen Science Forum Ponders Outer Space In Long Beach
Four hundred Long Beach teens at Join Marshall Junior High for the first Youth Science Forum heard Dr. Hibbs discuss space exploration. Questions from Wilson, Millikan, and Jordan students covered light speed, ion-hive motors, plasma jets, and magnetic fields as they praised Hibbs’s engaging style and the potential for a civilian space agency.
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Bob Beckman
Long Beach
Join Marshall Junior High School
Perry Dasper
Wilson High School
Hibbs
Walter Rose
Jordan High School
Texas
Drowning Boy Saved by Mother in Bathtub Ordeal
A 23 month old boy, Richard Moohring, was found underwater in a bathtub by his mother Mrs. Charles M. Moohring in a Wake County incident Monday evening. She immediately performed artificial respiration as cousin Ada Hackett called for an air ambulance. The boy began breathing again just before the ambulance arrived.
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Charles M. Moohring
Burnett St
Richard
Ada Hackett
Navy to cut ships. Long Beach vessels listed
The Navy announced 31 new or converted ships will join the fleet this year starting July 1, reducing total to 884 vessels. Long Beach ships affected include the carrier Philippine Sea deactivated in July 1958, Princeton in March 1959, Columbus in February 1959, Worcester in September 1958, Roanoke in July 1958, and destroyer escorts Hanna and Goss in July 1958.
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Long Beach
Philippine Sea
Princeton
Columbus
Worcester
Roanoke
Hanna
Goss
City Keeps Expenses Payout Plan
City Council voted 8-0 to continue requiring council approval of expenses by city employees in the absence of D. Pat Ahern who left the meeting briefly for a baseball game. Eight days earlier he stormed out of an ordinance committee over his request for a report on expense vouchers and later received the manager’s report.
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D. Pat Ahern
Ahern
Sam E. Vickers
Aircraft Unions to Hold Mass Meet on Strikes
The International Association of Machinists announced a mass meeting of aircraft workers in Hollywood Bowl on April 27 to back potential walkouts at Southern California plants. The United Auto Workers were to join. IAM and UAW leaders Walter Reuther and Al Hayes expected to speak.
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International Association of Machinists
Hollywood Bowl
California
TAM
Los Angeles
United Auto Workers
UAW
IAM
Walter Reuther
al Hayes
Unit to Fly Clothing to Morocco by Navy Squadron
Long Beach Camp Fire Girls have collected 19 boxes of clothing to deliver to needy children of Morocco this month. Los Alamitos Naval Air Station Squadron VR 773 will present the items when it flies to Port Lyautey on April 27 for a five week annual training duty. The trip involves seven squadron members in three planes and is part of the Weekend Warriors outreach, aiding in Meet the People. Cmdr Nicholas Dallas, head of the City Health Department administration, leads the VR 773 crew, with members from across Southern California.
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Long Beach Camp
Morocco
Los Alamitos Naval Air Station
Naval Reserve Air Transport
VR 773
Port Lyautey
Canon
Ares
RSD
Europe
Middle East
Cmdr
Nicholas Dallas
City Health Department Division of Administration
California
Convict 20 Confesses to 1955 Burgess Killing
Folsom Prison inmate Robert Willems, now serving a life term for a 1956 motel slaying, admitted involvement in Ralph Burgess murder at McKinney's Furniture Co. in 1955. He provided details, claimed to be tired of prison, and later denied being the trigger man amid identifications and witness accounts. The case could yield another life term.
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Don Maddock
Folsom
Lyn W. Compton
Robert Willems
Harter City
Matt Manestar
Ralph Burgess
McKinney's Furniture Co
Pacific Coast
Compton
Williams
Det
Insp
Harry Finch
Willams
Burgess
Heinze
Noe
Wiliams
Burmester Honored by Supervisors at Retirement
Henry Hank Burmester former editor of the Long Beach Press Telegram was honored by county supervisors upon his retirement after 54 years in journalism. Chairman Burton W. Chace presented an illuminated scroll praising his colorful career and noting the resolution was introduced by the late Supervisor Herbert C. Legg.
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Los Angeles
CNS
Henry
Hank) Burmester
Long Beach Press-Telegram
Burton W. Chace
Burmester
Navy to mothball ships cut in 1959 budget reshapes fleet
Washington reports say sailors slated for reassignment and those completing enlistments will be discharged. The 1959 Navy budget plans 30,000 sailors, down 15,000 from this year, with 48 ships to be deactivated including four aircraft carriers and 11 submarines. Five ships are Norfolk based and others on Atlantic and Pacific coasts and Pearl Harbor. Leroy Wilson to be mothballed in December 1958, used by Long Beach reservists. Long Beach Shipyard president predicts minimal impact, citing new missile and atomic Navy jobs. Current shipyard payroll about 20 million yearly with 6,400 employees.
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Washington
Norfolk
Atlantlic
Pacific
Pearl Harbor
Leroy Wilson
San Diego
Long Beach
Long Beach Naval Shipyard
Donald G. Sutherland
Assim
Sutherland
City Cites No Hiring as Budget Tuning Edges Near
The city reports that not filling numerous authorized positions is easing budget pressures. A revised general fund shortfall estimate for the new fiscal year begins July 1 shows an extra $1.389 million needed, down from $1.544 million in December. Carryover now expected at $750,000, up from $430,000. last year’s carryover was $210,000. Finance Director Sarmiel J. Roberts notes substantial savings from not filling vacancies, with 2,350 employees currently on payroll, 93 below 2,443 authorized. Harbor, Water, Recreation, Library and Band staffing are funded from other funds. Department head requests exceed the budget. review by City Manager Sam Vickers’ team not yet finished.
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Finance Department
Sarmiel_ J. Roberts
Sre
Roberts
Sam ©. Vickers
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