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Newspaper
Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1967
Page
23
The columnist recalls a mild Christmas Day in Southern California with light crowds in Lincoln Park, shelved gift lists, and a yearly family ritual of misplacing present notes. Dr DeMott Sedgwick sends a sap-filled pine centerpiece while a Yule log fails to burn steady in tropical heat.
Volunteers loaded two planes with food, clothing, and supplies at Long Beach Airport for snowbound Indians in northeastern Arizona. The drive collected over 3 tons from Long Beach residents, organized by Russ O Quinn. O Quinn plans continued air drops using donated burlap and paper sacks and seeks flour, baking soda, lard, milk, blankets, and clothing.
Downey CFS officer Patrick Arbenz leads a Vietnam goodwill effort near Pleiku supplying soap garments books paper and pencils to villagers. His wife Carole coordinates donations from Downey and Goodwill Industries backs the drive with pickup and volunteer help.
Deputies on a tip, relayed by radio, arrested Lomita man John Sylvester Bennett at his home after a passerby reported a man throwing a wooden crate through windows at two Gardena stores and a stove shop. A car matching the description was found. $1000 in cash was recovered. Bennett booked on burglary charges.
Jews in Long Beach and worldwide begin the eight day Feast of Lights observance marked by nightly menorah candle lighting. Hanukkah recalls Judas Maccabee’s 165 BC victory, temple rededication, and religious freedom. Gifts to children are traditional. the candles symbolize the oil that burned eight days and Judaism’s spiritual enlightenment.
Two masked men confronted Herman Ducolo in Long Beach on Christmas night at 9 50 pm as he stood outside his Daisy Avenue home. They demanded his money, took ten dollars, then offered him five dollars in change. Ducolo, a file setter, handed over his ten but kept one dollar, and the robbers fled in a late model station wagon.
Long Beach Public Transportation Co. acquires Terminal Island Transit Co. in a $125,000 deal led by William F. Farell. Merger aims to merge routes from San Pedro to Long Beach with transfer privileges across cities starting Jan. 1. Drake family remains involved as consultants.
A year-old Long Beach secretary was attacked early Monday by an intruder who woke her at about 4 am while her children slept nearby. The assailant threatened violence with a sharp object, took $50 from a bedroom hiding place, and reportedly expressed a regrettable wish for someone to cause her fatal harm.
Two Zionist groups staged Christmas Day protests outside the Moscova Circus at the Anaheim Convention Center during its December 1967 run. About 100 picketers from the Los Angeles Zionist Revisionists and the Religious Zionists carried signs urging Russia to release Jewish people and denouncing Soviet anti Semitism while defending arms shipments to Arab nations. Dr Irving Moscowitz said the protest aimed at Russia’s treatment of Jews and at cultural exchanges portraying Russians as free.
In Lynwood, Fireman Charles Prince and Fireman Dan Smith arrived at a rescue before 8 a.m. to assist Mrs. Théodore McKinney in labor. With no time to reach St Francis Hospital, they aided by the father and delivered a son en route. All three were reported in good condition upon arrival at the hospital, where they later died.
Dorothy Repplis speaks for the poor revealing harsh realities of poverty in Long Beach. The widow, on welfare with two children, voices a determined dignity and insistence on recognition while serving on the Economic Opportunities Commission board. Her reflections trace unemployment, illness, and the need for opportunity beyond welfare.
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