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Newspaper
Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1972
Page
6
State Division of Highways announced resurfacing of the Pacific Coast Highway segment between Traffic Circle and Vermical Island Freeway this year. Bids for the five mile Long Beach project will be opened Sept. 7 in Los Angeles with $318,000 available for the job.
Police and fire units respond to a busy 24 hour period with box and apartment fires gas and electrical incidents, car and truck fires, grass and trash fires, rescues, and investigations across Anaheim Pine Ave Cedar Ave Granada Ave and various streets including Long Beach Arte 5 18 and Sixth Street. Multiple times include 9 12 a m 1 19 a m 11 58 a m and 3 18 pm amid a flurry of alarms and responses.
Mrs. D. Pearsall 66 longtime Long Beach community volunteer died Saturday. She led the Long Beach Panhellenic Association and the Long Beach Alumni Association of Nesta Gamma and was active with United Way and as a precinct elections inspector. Survived by husband Richard and two daughters Nancy McCoy and Leslie Winn. Contributions urged to Heart Research Laboratory Fund at Long Beach Community Hospital. Also, Barbara Carey, 44, treated after a crash on Anaheim Street near Pine Avenue. Suspect theft of stereo gear valued at $30 from Harriet Lin’s home on Sherman Place. Police report.
Lt. William A. Baker of Palos Verdes led an armed jewelry store hostage standoff in Marina del Rey in September 1971. He spoke by phone to the gunmen and walked unarmed into the store to secure eight hostages’ release. Two sheriff’s deputies aided in rescuing a woman and three children from a burning Palmdale house. Other honorees included a building services employee and a public safety team, with a special Fire Department award for the San Fernando earthquake rescue effort involving over four dozen patients.
An advertisement pushes a weight loss pill promising safe, rapid fat reduction without dieting or exercise. It claims thousands of users across one country over 34 years, lists prices and a money back guarantee, and notes a ceremonial board presentation at 9 40 am Thursday in the Hall of Administration.
Members of the Pearl Harbor Survivors Association Chapter One will attend a family picnic at Gull Park near the Long Beach Navy Base. The event runs from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Chapter members enter through Gate 1. The group welcomes military personnel on duty within three miles of Oahu on December 7, 1941.
A long running psoriasis case improves after two weeks on Oxipor VHC with reduced redness and scaliness. The ad claims the treatment removes scales crusts and red patches faster than a competing product, noting relief can appear within days and encouraging regular use to prevent relapse.
A three day ultrasound in diagnosis training session will start Friday at St Marys Hospital. Attendees are restricted to physicians and technologists with guest faculty from San Diego Naval Hospital the University of Oklahoma and University of Colorado.
Long Beach Assembly members present a formal resolution of commendation to James A. Hayes retiring after six years of service. Hayes, a candidate to replace retiring Los Angeles County Supervisor Burton Chace, is praised for his analytical mind and leadership in environmental and family law. An office theft at Lakewood High School involved a $250 typewriter. The resolution notes civic and educational groups have lauded Hayes as leading legislator in environmental law and best all-around assemblyman in recent years.
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