Lincoln memory inspires young reader and local streets idea
A seventh year old Beae Beach student recounts visiting the Lincoln Memorial in Washington and sitting on Lincoln’s lap. She says the memorial’s equal rights messages define what Lincoln means to her. A reader proposes renaming De Forest Ave to honor Governor Frank Merriam and a city fashion show draws broad local support for a Red Cross benefit.
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Orriel ) Smith
Frank
de, High
Abrasham
Lincoln
Washington D.C
Lincoln Memorial
Dorothy Simonich
Frank Merriam
Long Beach
Simonich
Merriam
DeForest Ave
City
de Forest
Ffervescent Vite Roy Admans
Mgr
Long ‘Beach
Red Cross
Mu Nicipal Auditorium
Romans
Tong Beach
Douglas rovers faster plane loading with roller conveyor system
At Douglas Aircraft Long Beach a 153 foot C133A cargo plane mockup loaded 68 000 pounds of mixed cargo in 45 minutes using a deck roller conveyor and nets. The test shows rapid logistics for Military Air Transport Service and potential time savings for future air cargo missions.
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Douglas Cargo
Record Co
Douglas, Aircraft& Co
Long Beach
Earl Griswold
Douglas Aircraft Company
Smatching
Douglas
Military
Family grows overnight as Long Beach woman reunites with father
After 22 years apart, L. B. resident Mrs. Oteria Duplesse, 30, and her father Ernest Etienne, 69, of Vicksburg Miss, began reconnecting on Monday. He has met her four children and there are five grandchildren in San Diego with another long missing daughter. They plan a weekend trip to San Diego to meet more relatives as the family reunion unfolds.
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NAVY
Ernest Ettienne
Vicksburg
Miss
Oteria Duplesse
Webster Ave
Long Beach
Ernest Etienne
New Orleans
Estienne
Mississippi
Missiles Base Open to Public Saturday
Public viewing of the Tae 47a Antiaircraft Artillery Brigade's guided missile site near the Municipal Airport is set for Saturday from 9 am to noon. Exhibits include missiles and equipment, with the Nike in the Defense of America film shown every 30 minutes. Captain George Lockwood commands the battery.
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Tae 47A
Fim! Nike
Defense of America
Cant
George Lockwood
Clark SM
Hearings Begin on Power Rate Bid and Sports Arena
Los Angeles officials postponed a decision on Exposition Park arena bids to February 19 to study bids $2 million over the architect’s estimate. The state Public Utilities Commission scheduled hearings on Southern California Edison’s plan to raise rates by about 13.5 million dollars yearly. Edison serves about 1.4 million customers across 10 counties. officials warned the project may be financially unfeasible if costs remain excessive.
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Los Angeles
Exposition Park
Warren M. Dorn
State Public Utilities Commission
Southern California Edison Co
Ray E. Utereinjee
Manley W. Edwards
Commission
South Spring St
Utereiner
Edison
California
Suspect Admits Stabbing Guilty in Superior Court
Williams of 604 E 4th St pleaded guilty Monday to assault with a deadly weapon. He faces sentence March 1 after admitting to stabbing Margaret Moore of 61743 E 4th St in an incident on January 1. Preliminary testing was done January 24 at Seaside Hospital where the victim was a patient.
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Willams
Spring
4Th St
Superior
Marge
Margaret Moore
Seaside Hospital
William P. Graef Dies at 79 in Long Beach Civic Leader
William P. Graef longtime Long Beach civic worker died at 79 after years of ill health. He helped found the Adelaide Tichenor Clinic for crippled children and directed many community drives. Survived by wife Glad Tyson two daughters and four grandchildren. Funeral set for Thursday at Mattell's and Peek Chapel.
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William Percy
Bill) Graef
Long Beach
Los Angeles
Graef
JBOD
Jonah Jones
Adelaide Tichenor Clinic
Benjamin F. Tucker
Rotary
Ohio
Long Beach Rotary Club
Army and Navy Ymca
Community Welfare Assn
Public Schools Week
Long Beach Red Cross
Vee
Baltimore
California
Alhambra
Park Ave
Glad Tyson
William P. Grace Jr
Evelyn Folley
Anaheim
Gertrude Krider
Baltimara
Mattell's
Peek Chapel
Million Dollar Damage Suit Heads to Jury
Testimony concluded the million-dollar damage suit in Superior Judge Fred Miller's courtroom on Monday, with the case now bound for the jury.
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Fred Miller
Tidelands Hearing to Resume In Injunction Fight
Superior Judge A Curtis Smith recessed the tidelands case after conflicting views in a suit by Felix Mallon and Alma Swart. Arguments resume Wednesday on whether to bar city spending of tidelands oil revenues on anything but harbor development. Plaintiffs seek damages totaling 1,136,620 from Edgene Earl Robinson, Larnch Transportation Co. and other defendants after a July 20 1955 truck collision on Alameda Street near 223rd Street injured Compton officers and two women.
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Long Beach
Tidelands
A. Curtis Smith
Felix Mallon
Alma Swart
Theodore Gabrielson
Repres
Swart
Charles
Stratton
Mallon
Compton
Fasching in Munich Promises Four Month Carnival Chaos
Mary Neiswender reports from Munich on Fasching the Bavarian carnival begun on Shrove Tuesday and running about four months. The piece describes wild parties scanty dress and jokes about husbands wives and belongings being challenged as revelers dance costumes and pranks fill streets and hotels during the festival.
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Munich
Germany
Wiese
Karneel
Carnevale
Italy
Switzerland
Demurrer in Mallon case cites tidelands revenues ruling
State Supreme Court held tidelands off revenues belong to the state and Long Beach may use funds only for harbor development. A related suit seeks about 120 million from a tidelands reserve fund. Attorneys clash over attorney fees while judges schedule further argument.
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Mallon
State Supreme Court
Long Beach
Jury Dismissed In Gillilan Perjury Trial
Retired Navy Rear Adm. Charles H. Gillilan of Long Beach New York was charged with two counts of perjury. A federal Brooklyn jury dismissed the case after failing to reach a verdict and the judge kept Gillilan on bail and under continued scrutiny until March 4 when officials will decide on a possible retrial.
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Vom
Long Beach
New York
Charles’ H. Gillian
Roswell
Ave
Brooklyn
Navy
Clarence G.galston
Gillilan
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