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Newspaper
Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Apr 18, 1958
Page
10
Long Beach Naval Shipyard completes two day lift of two smaller cranes using a giant ex German crane YD-1 171. The 274 foot, 210 and 750 ton units were moved onto Drydock 1 tracks as part of the subsidence remedial program.
Multiple obituaries list Ida Sawtelle Ruth Rocheleau Arthur Fountaine Beth Fountaine Wright infant daughter of Edward Wright Earl H Briggs Hen J Wilson Mary Louella Akalski Ethel Gook Arthur Cook and others. Each entry notes age addresses survivors and funeral arrangements at local churches and mortuaries with Rosary and Requiem times.
Carl M. Yost 42, first Southern Californian in years to become president of the California State Employees Assn, will be honored at a Sunday reception 2 to 5 p.m. at the Lafayette Hotel. Yost heads tech services at the Long Beach branch and has long served in the 65,000-member organization. He previously worked in Ontario and East Los Angeles employment offices before moving to Lakewood. Attending will include Senators Richard Richards and John A. Murry, Assemblymen William S. Grant and Herbert Klockstein, and Mason Kight representing the governor.
Deputies uncovered a narcotics cache hidden at a Bell Gardens cemetery after a bizarre arrest in Lakewood. The seizure followed an investigation into illegal drug activity tied to the site and involved sheriff's deputies responding to the Lakewood incident.
Delegates at the California Conference of the Augustana Lutheran Church on Thursday urged churches to emphasize fellowship over fund raising and proposed direct donations for support. They also discussed a possible merger with the United Lutheran Church, not expected to finalize before the early 1960s, as the 68th annual conference progressed. Separately, four men were booked after a Del Amo Boulevard crash where narcotics officers found evidence of drug influence. Kenneth Daniels drove the vehicle that collided with Kathyrita Wright, with others named Diggs Murphree Joseph Abernathy and Welcome Willie Raines.
Robert Bearson, May Co. general manager, elected chairman of Lakewood District Boy Scouts succeeding L W Chaffee. Bearson, active on the Long Beach Area Scout Council executive board, previously chaired the Thunderbird District of the LA Area Council. The new district chairman lives at 5247 Greenmeadow Rd with wife Marilyn and infant son, Lee.
Dr. Lester Lynn Blount a 48 year old Lakewood physician was arraigned in municipal court after a March 21 arrest on narcotics prescription falsification charges. He remains free on 2500 bail as nine witnesses pharmacists and patients testified. The case moves to Superior Court for April 30.
The city plans eight shuttleboard courts and four horseshoe courts at Houghton Park—bidding by Harrison Bros. Gardena at 8580. Sully Miller Contracting Co. Long Beach bid 13455, Agricultural Machinery Co. Los Angeles bid 3880.42 for supplying a power driven brush chopper for park use.
A wastebasket under the sink burst into flames on April 11 50 Nep tune Ph. Firemen arrived and extinguished the blaze but the apartment inhabited by Carol A Mason sustained damage.
Paul McCool, 3904 Moline Ave, first Southern California enlisted reservist to retire from the Marines Air Reserve, veteran of three services, filed retirement papers at Los Alamitos Naval Air Station. He served since Navy enlistment in 19, later joining Marines then Army, taught as an aircraft maintenance instructor in Marine aviation.
Reported at a Long Beach meeting, state highway officials described a federal highway bill allocating large funds for right of way and construction. The plan includes Sand and San Diego freeways, with about a 10 percent of the state's 338 million dollar highway budget added for next year, and notes on financing parts of the project.
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