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Newspaper
Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1961
Page
7
The Long Beach Chamber of Commerce announced that CC Civil defense will be added to the discussion topics for the 1962 Congress for Community Progress.
A Long Beach discussion on household finances features varied views from Albert Onstot and others. The second annual Long Beach congress convenes January 25 at the Elks Club 4101 Willow St to discuss welfare urban development and economic growth with about 60 local organizations invited to participate.
Multiple death notices including TRAUGER LeRay W 80 with survivors Greta John Peter C and others. service details at First Christian Reformed Church Bellflower Rose Garden Mortuary. JONES Nora Elizabeth 87 of Fountain St dies. survivors include Mildred Devine Irma Phillips Dixon C Monrat D and more. services at B. W. Coon Funeral Home. ALLEN Laurence Odell 64. DUBIN Frederick D.. service details for various Hindu and Christian rites. VAN DOREN Clara M 65. HENRIKSEN Julia C 87. service at Forest Lawn Church of Our Fathers Cypress. WAHLOF Annetta 45 died. survivors listed. Forest Lawn Memorial Park and mortuary directors noted.
Leora Hannon, 18, of 8040 Cedar Ave, received the James E. Son Perpetual Trophy at the annual awards dinner of Son's Long Beach Junior Concert Band for outstanding service loyalty and musicianship. She also was named most popular girl band member alongside Jim Lawson, 17, at 3289 Chestnut Ave as the most popular boy.
Three youths escaped serious harm when their car left the southbound Long Beach Freeway near Pacific Coast Highway. Eugene Donald Francisco, 20, a Navy sailor stationed in San Diego, was taken to the USS Haven for observation. Arnold A Johnson, 17, and Lintell W Johnson, 18, both of 417 F 18th St Gardena, were treated at Memorial Hospital and released after being thrown from the car as it overturned on the soft shoulder.
Postal chief John Ostler warned that international mail must be returned for lacking postage. In Long Beach about 100 letters daily face return, with Canada Mexico following U.S. rates while other nations vary. Post Office offers foreign postage information.
Rear Adm. George J. McMillin USN retired and former Long Beach postmaster was named chairman of the 1962 Heart Fund campaign. Dr. Eugene Temkin announced the appointment as the Heart Association urged citizen support for year round cardiovascular efforts and research.
A sailor aboard the submarine USS Char was airlifted by helicopter to Balboa Hospital for an emergency appendectomy. Janos Kiskawy was reported in satisfactory condition by the Long Beach Coast Guard. The Char was 200 miles west of San Diego when the incident occurred.
Rev Arthur Atkins of 6439 Long Beach Blvd owns a 107 year old diary from 1819 and a 142 year old newspaper. They belonged to his stepmothers grandfather Joseph F Nash of Garrettsville Ohio who died in 1888. The diary notes prices and taxes in mid 1800s while the Bugle of Salem Ohio in 1019 shows progress on Negro education and civil rights with Jefferson and Patrick Henry quotes and socialism notes. A back page item records Caroline Swett found guilty of trespass after assault on a grog shop. fine plus costs around 50 dollars.
New York special report describes a science breakthrough named Bio-Dyne that shrinks hemorrhoids without surgery and halts itching and pain within minutes. The substance, tested by doctors and claimed to heal various hemorrhoid cases long standing, is not found in ointments or suppositories and is linked to Preparation H products for symptom relief.
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