Timberlane Lodge notes and a prison play at Terminal Island
A writer recalls Timberlane Lodge events and recounts a visit to Federal Prison on Terminal Island with Wilson High Eve ning School classmates. In the prison, women inmates produced and performed George Washington Slept Here, guiding guests through the grounds and sharing anecdotes about the rehabilitation program and a missing white coat incident.
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Timberlane Lodge
Wilson High
Federal Prison
Terminal Island
Marian Malone
George Washington
Vickers Seeks Harbor Board Oversight of Subsidence Program
Vickers proposes a new subsidence control division under the Harbor Board to supervise land oil funds and administer the program. He urges state alignment, unitization of existing oil contracts, and immediate action to enable AB-5 compliant operations, with the board holding authority over oil activities in the harbor district.
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Far J
Bor
Harbor Com
Missioners Wee
Office of
Advickers
Sami E.s
Thelyanés Commission
Approv
Vickers
Tideland
di Lerl
S. M
Roberts
Councilisidence
Board of Harbor
Waitina
Nen
Gram Vickers
Harbor Board
Kennan
$25 Million in Year's School Expenses Seen Top Bargain
Long Beach Unified School District faces a budget focus as enrollment climbs to 73,079, with per pupil costs ranging from 504.58 to 420.97 in senior and college levels. Open houses mark Public Schools Week while June 5 sets pre registration for kindergartners.
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Long Beach Unified
City College
Loni
Beach
Prandaar
Dollay Public
Paraplegic Clerk Turns to Flying High
The article profiles Rev. Russ Hertford, a 33 year old evangelist and outpatient at the Long Beach VA Hospital, who has flown with a hand operated control system in a 1955 Tri-Pacer. Despite a broken leg and quadriplegia in the past, he pilots with a friend as passenger, using a modified aircraft at Municipal Airport under the care of Baker Aircraft Co. staff.
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Russ Hertford
Beach Veterans Administration Hospital
Hertford
Charch
the Nazarene
Municipal
Mercury
Heriford
Baker ‘Aircraft Co
Herb Shannon
Long Beach Court Building Bid Award Made
The Bethlehem Pacific Coast Steel Corp was the low bidder for the structural steel for the county's new Long Beach courthouse. A month long hearing on Gabrielson fee suit against the City of Long Beach for fees in litigation was noted. Judge A Curtis Smith noted plans for the building and potential 5 percent fee if California receives $200 million. Bids for construction were to be called mid June.
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Bethlehem Pacific Coast Steel Corp
Long Beach
Ocean'Bivd
Chest
Theodore
Nut
Magnolia Aves
Gabrielson
City of
Acates
He Tower
John Lambie
Sepee
Superior Cour
A. Curtis Smith
Reiby
Francis Heusel
Kenneth
CalifWinifornia
Baby in Tub Found Unconscious and Dying
Fifteen month old Ernest HR Moore Jr died after losing consciousness in a bathtub at his home on 2022 Williams Street. Police say the mother Mary had been bathing the child and left him unattended for a few minutes. An ambulance attended, but he was pronounced dead at Seaside Hospital. The body is at Mottell's & Beck Mortuary awaiting coroner's examination.
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Ernest HR. Moore Jr
W.williams St
Mary
Seaside Hospital
Mottell’s & Beck
Youth Held Second Time for Murder
Robert Williams, 20, arraigned for murder for the second time in two years. He is serving a re term in Folsom Prison for killing a Harbor City motel operator. The case concerns the fatal shooting of furniture salesman Ralph Burgess, 64, at McKinney's Furniture Co. Williams was questioned by deputy district attorneys and Long Beach homicide officers. Deputy District Attorney Lynn Compton filed a murder complaint after interviews with Williams and Inspector Harry Finch.
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Robert ‘Williams
Charles J Smith
Williams
Folsom
Willlias
Long Beach
Ralph Burgess
Toll in Traffic Deaths Reaches Ten in 1958
Long Beach reported its traffic death toll for 1958 rising to ten after Grace Margaret Wells of Los Angeles died in South Gate Hospital from injuries from a two car crash at Burnett Street and Elm Avenue. Her father Charles Wells 73 lost control of his car and struck a house. his wife Ida Wells 62 suffered a head injury. Two pedestrians also sustained serious injuries in separate incidents.
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Long Beach
South Gate
Burnett St
Elm Ave
Grace Margaret Wells
Los Angeles
Charles Edwin ‘Wells
Ida May Wells
Seaside Memorial Hospital
South Gate Institution
Walker's Fashions at Cooking School Session Highlights
The Independent Press Telegram hosts its fourth annual cooking school at Municipal Auditorium with Walker's Fashions presenting a fashion show and Beatrice Berman and Lyn Franke directing home economists. Free to the public, the event runs Wednesday 7:30 pm with further evening sessions and a Friday finale featuring grand prizes from Philco and other sponsors.
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Walker's
Independent, Press-Telegram
vMeatuoe
USA
Beatrice Berman
Stir¢Lyn Franke
National Livestock and? Meat Board
Broadway Department Store
Philco Starilite Aledse
Philco
Philco-Bendix
4Th St
Garden Square
Garden Grove
General Electric
J. C- Penney
Award to L. B. Firm for Post Office Work
In Washington Senator Knowland announced an architectural contract award to Adams Morgan Latham Kripp and Wright of Long Beach for U S post offices in Long Beach and San Pedro. Long Beach plan includes fluorescent lighting painting and repairs while San Pedro covers third floor alterations exterior cleaning painting waterproofing fluorescent lighting and repairs.
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Adams, Morgan, Latham, Kripp and Wright
Long Beach
U. S. Post
San Fedro
William F. Knowland
Washington
San Pedro
Barracks 154 Holds Meeting Tonight
Barracks 154 veterans of World War I will hold its regular meeting at 8:30 p.m. today in Veterans Memorial Building at Broadway and Cedar Ave.
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Veterans Memorial
Broadway
Cedar Ave
San Pedro Bridge Hearing Set April 30
Gov Knight announced at a San Pedro bridge site tour that the California Toll Bridge Authority will consider a 25 million dollar toll bridge plan on April 30. The project would link Harbor Freeway with Long Beach and Terminal Island Freeways and be paid by revenue bonds and later become free. Knight praised civic leaders and noted a 1904 to 1910 San Pedro residence, being honored at a Hacienda Hotel reception.
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Terminal Island
San Pedro
California Tall Bridge Authority
Knight
Boschke Slough
Todd Shipyard
Civic Teaders
Harbor Area
Long Beach
Harbor
Long Beach-Harbor
Hacienda Hotel
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