Hobbyists Sail at Machado Lake Slough With Model Power Boats
Hobby clubs gather at Machado Lake near Wilmington to race tiny radio controlled boats while traditional sailboats drift by. Commodore Al Wood defends the sport as a good clean hobby as power boats buzz and the lake’s muddy waters mingle with flamingos and tulips along the grassy shore.
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Dick Emery
Machado Lake
Drift
Machado
Modeleers
Pirates
Southern California Model Power Boat Association
al Wood
Los Angeles
Scmpba
Bluebird
Slough
Who Are More Independent Men or Women in Sixth Street Poll
A reader survey on Sixth Street and Pine Avenue asks who is more independent. Responses vary by gender with both women and men offering opinions for and against independence.
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Sixth Street
Pine Avenue
Fx-L.B. Unionist Dies at 80
Georges Hammond a longtime unionist from Long Beach died in Redwood City at age 80. A resident since 1923, he worked as a labor-relations assistant at an Atomic Energy Plant in Richland, Washington, and served 40 years as a labor representative. He led Long Beach Building and Construction Trades Council as secretary from 1942 to 1951 before briefly returning from retirement students.
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Georges RD. Hammond
Long Deach
Redwood Caly
Hammond
Linis
Atomic Energy Plant
Richmold
Wash
Carpenters
Long Beach
Uegit
Long Beach Building and Construction
School Land Sold Near Bancroft Junior High
Long Beach Board of Education declared seven acres of surplus school property adjacent to Bancroft Junior High on Centrial Street to attorney Alvin F. Howard of Los Angeles who submitted a high bid of 244,385 dollars.
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Long Beach
Dawes Service Set Wednesday for Walter B Dawes
Funeral service for retired Long Beach contractor and interior decorator Walter B Dawes 02 will be held at 11 am Wednesday at Ditday Family Funeral Directors. Dawes died Sunday, formerly of M45 E Highth St, came to Long Beach in 1901 from Indiana, and retired 20 years ago. Surviving: his wife Mabel A daughter Ruth Hastings and son Robert, a Hollywood booking agent and former musician with the Dorsey Brothers and Benny Goodman orchestras.
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Long Beach
Walter B. Dawes
Dawes
M45
Highth St
Indiana
Robert
Hollywood
Dorseys Brothers
Benny Goodo Nan
Mabel A
Ruth Hastings
All Issues Endorsed By Long Beach Unified School District
The Long Beach Unified School District endorsed all propositions on the ballot in the February 27 city special election. The district announced support for the measures in a formal statement, urging residents to vote yes on each proposition.
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Long Beach
Demand to Remove Street Dividers Sparks Election Pressure
Campbell threatened to rally support to remove traffic dividers on Demand Street. Officials said decisions will rely on traffic engineering and public interest. Campbell admitted pressuring city officials and questioned if he would resort to blackmail to influence policy.
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Cambell
Mansell
Campbell
Baird Calls Vote Delay Amid Council Clash Over Election
City Councilmember Andrew Baird faced censure after disrupting council proceedings to urge scrapping the February 27 municipal ballot. He advocated delaying the election until the State Legislature convenes to consider changes affecting Long Beach oil revenues. Colleagues argued his remarks were ignorant and sought to resume routine council business.
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Baird
Eiliven
Specilia
Ea Aetor
Petore & Crowny
Chamber of Commerce
Long Beach
Robert F. Crow
Ich
Raymond
C. Kesler
Hle
Adeland
Supreme Court
Sports Club Board to Meet This Weekend
The state executive body of Indoor Sports Club Inc for physically disabled members will convene here on Saturday and Sunday. Club activities include monthly parties yearl ils outings gardening and handicraft classes.
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Indoor Sports Club, Inc
Boy Taken From Kin by Law OK
A 10 year old Long Beach boy was reported in good condition at Los Angeles County General Hospital after court ordered removal. Perry Carnell was admitted with serious ear infections following a Juvenile Court ruling by Judge Eugene Breitenbach. The case involved parents who belong to a church that opposes medical treatment, and his sister Penny 14 had previously died from a kidney infection.
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Long Beach
Los Angeles County General Hospital
Perry Carnell
Eugene Breiten‘hach
Long, Beach
Penny
Ratps
Cornwell
Church of
Catalina Captain Levay Mussetter Last Rite Friday
Funeral service for Levay Mussetter 74 retired senior captain of the Catalinas Island Steamship Line will be held Friday at 2 p.m. at Halverson Leavell Mortuary San Pedres. Mussetter of 1418 Dodson Ave San Pedro native of Long Beach lived in the area his whole life. He joined the Survivors a Native Catalina Steamship Line later known as the Catalina Island Sightseeing Line in 1912 and was brother Ray and sisters Mrs Charles Sightseeing Line officers in the family.
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Levay Mussetter
Catalins Island Steamship Line
Halverson- Leavell Mortuary
San Pedres
Mussetter
Dodson Ave
San Pedro
Long Beach
Blake
Catalina Steamship Line
Vernona
Ray
Catalina Island
Charles
Menges
Kincher
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