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Newspaper
Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1966
Page
12
The Long Beach Board of Education formally approved Monday the California Certificated Personnel Survey as required by the State Senate Fact Finding Committee on Education.
Long Beach Unified School District staff begin filling questionnaires to assess teacher service, qualifications, assignments, class size, and curriculum. Sen Richard A Dalvis chairs the committee seeking objective data to inform proposed legislation and support research efforts. Spurgeon resigns from Irvine Co responsibilities to focus on family business and Scout leadership duties.
Lowell Anderson of Cerritos College has been elected chairman of the California Junior College Association's Liaison Committee on Business Administration. The panel coordinates business curriculum planning among state junior colleges and universities. Anderson, a Long Beach resident, joined Cerritos in 19BL after working at the California State Department of Education and San Diego City College.
Gov. Edmund G. Brown commuted the death sentence of Ernest Leroy Jacobson, 36, convicted of bludgeoning his nine year old daughter in 1904. Brown cited affection for the child and lack of motive, ordering life imprisonment with no parole, while appealing to clemency for another death row inmate.
In Compton and nearby areas voters weigh annexation to Lynwood and Paramount school districts affecting 3,000 plus students. The ballot questions arise amid racial balance concerns and de facto segregation fears. A separate report notes a body found in the Los Angeles River as a canoe accident victim.
Superior Court Judge Roger Alton Pfaff, age 59, long time presiding judge of Los Angeles domestic relations, will be assigned to Long Beach in 1967. Judge Pfaff, praised as a national expert in divorce law, will join the newly created County Commission on Youth, with Chace and other state figures to appoint members and address juvenile issues.
Four new upstanding buildings form a life size Christmas village on Main Street at Electric Avenue in Seal Beach. Local businessmen and volunteers, led by Vernon Leckman and helpers Kay Carroll Graes Carnot and Harald Chestnut, started planning in June to boost Christmas spirit. The village opens 6:30 pm Thursday with McGaugh Elementary School choirs and bands, nightly events continue through Christmas Eve, featuring lighting of the Christines ten and elf visits.
The Hawaiian Gardens Community Center building on Bloomfield Elementary surplus grounds at Norwalk Boulevard and 235th Street is near completion. At about 6,000 square feet, it will cost roughly 20,000 dollars with much of the labor volunteered. The center will host the Hawaiian Gardens Teen Post, the ABC Bulfield School District Dental Health Clinic, and public health space, with dedication recommended for February 18 and occupancy expected before January 1 for public meetings and events.
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