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Newspaper
Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Apr 21, 1959
Page
7
An article outlines strides in cancer care including higher survival rates from early detection, improved surgery and radiation, and emerging therapies. It notes a shift from a 1 in 4 to 1 in 3 survival, highlights radiologic advances like linear accelerators, isotopes, and new drugs, and emphasizes ongoing research into immunity heredity environment and drugs guiding the fight against cancer.
Death notices and obituaries appear amid a long list including LAMPKIN Nora of 1762 Rose Ave died Sunday with daughters Opal Yeager Patricia Warner and Ruth Phillips and sons I Pagal Lampkin Ernest Harlen McCoskey. service at Sandsprings OK and Mottell's & Peek Mortuary. Also HALLADAY Evelyn Louise 47 of 236 Atlantic Ave died Saturday with service at 2 pm at B W Coon Funeral Home. Plans for the California Heart Assn annual meeting in Wil ton Hotel May 22-24 announced with speakers and attendees including Dr Francis Chamberlain and Dr Ogdensby Paul. Twenty-four Long Beach high school students win state scholarships for tuition and fees up to 3600. Other obits include SMITH George E 77 and HARRIS William 69 with services noted.
John W. Makemeson, 43, of 1663 E 65th St, driving north on Atlantic Ave, bent to listen to a heater rattle and struck a dead end, jumped the curb, damaged a city sign, hit 1541 Harding St house owned by Charles R. Gibbons, and tree. He was treated at Seaside Hospital with 20 stitches in his forehead.
Huntington Beach reports Jeffrey Gregory, 18, son of a Long Beach financier, paid a $500 fine for a marijuana offense and faced a possible court ruling on weapon possession at arrest in Seal Beach. Judge Celia Young Baker dismissed a felony narcotics count, while Gregory pled guilty to a misdemeanor for being present at a marijuana party at a 17 year old's home and paid another $500 fine.
Douglas Sarvis of Hamilton Junior High School received an honorable mention at the Southern California Science Fair for his tornadoes exhibit. The event took place at Exposition Park Armory in Los Angeles.
California Toll Bridge Authority will convene at 10 am Thursday in Sacramento to discuss financing for a proposed 1814 million dollar San Pedro Terminal Island Bridge. One proposal asks Long Beach to contribute 14 million toward the cost, a plan city officials oppose.
Two Navy sailors were injured when their car struck a light pole near Stn St and American Ave early today. Driver John R. Cogovan, 22, of the USS Black, suffered facial lacerations and a fractured nose and was treated at Seaside Hospital before a city jail booking for investigation of drunk driving. Passenger Porter R. Meisland, 19, also of the USS Black, had minor cuts and was treated at Seaside.
A 74 year old man was hit by a car at Raymond Ave and Pacific Coast Hwy Monday night. He suffered two hip injuries and was treated at Community Hospital, then released. Driver James Clark Earle, 43, of 1066 Dawson Ave, was not cited.
St Anthony High School drama club will present The Sleeping Beauty of Loveland a modern take on the fairy tale Friday at 7 45 pm in the Catholic Center Minor damage was caused Monday to a tool shed at 1830 Anghelm St rear by unknown youths police report the blaze is under investigation
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