Radar unit recalls daring Long Beach holdup tale
A Long Beach radar unit's action in stopping a market holdup is recounted with Officer Sternberg’s confrontation and Officer Goforth firing, followed by civilian cautions about a suspected grafting preacher and a string of local anecdotes from a drugstore photo booth mishap to an aspiring heir announcement and a wary home scene with a cat and parakeet.
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Malcolm
Pley
Long Beach
E. Anahaim St
Donald A. Sternberg
Paul Goforth
Sternberg
Harry James
Charles LeMaire
Jack” Smith
Sammy Davis Jr
Clements
West Willow St
Katie
Long Beach Civic Event Sets Hospital Fund Dinner
Major Long Beach civic group advances hospital improvement program through United Hospital Fund. The Achievement Dinner will gather leaders to report on progress, solicit remaining commitments, and push the 4 million in in-plant campaigns to complete Long Beach’s landmark civic effort.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Long Beach
United Hospital Fund
Ste Tees
Locke
Locke Ee
J. Donald
Hamman
UHE
Clare D
Visio
Tvormen
Lafayette
Ex Miss Norway sues for divorce in Long Beach
Beauty queen and ex Miss Norway files for divorce from Clyde A. Young in Los Angeles Superior Court amid claims of cruelty. The couple, once in the Miss Universe orbit, traveled on a troubled around the world filming trip and later separated after returning to Long Beach.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mona Stornes Young
Norway
Clyde A
Sandy) Young
Long Beach
Youngs
PRY
Los Angeles
Mare Ave
Hellflower
William C. Ward
Young
Congress
U.S
Clyde A. Young
Rival School Teenagers Fete Brawl Injures Two
A Millikan High School Key Club meeting ended in a fight with Poly High students, sending two teenagers to Seaside Hospital for cuts. Victims are Mike Finney and Kenneth Clausen. the incident followed a chase by two Poly youths near Millikan’s sponsor John Glover’s residence. Police investigation continues. Meanwhile Orient Line officials were guests at a Long Beach luncheon as plans for a new Pacific passenger service proceed, with ships and scheduling announced.
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Millian
Poly High
Seaside Hospital
Mike Finney
Blackthorne Ave
Kenneth Clausen
Kallin Ave
Key Club
Millikan
John Glover
Weston Pl
Poly
T Orient and Pacific Line
Pacific
Long Beach Harbor
Orient Line
Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Co
City budget may end school camp program in Long Beach
Douglas A. Newcomb told the Board of Education the city may withdraw funding for the sixth grade school camp program, risking closures this summer absent council approval in the coming fiscal year. Last year the city paid 131,815 with the district at 78,949 this year.
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Supr
Douglas A. Newcomb
Board of Educathon
Newcomb
Ceremony Marks Shift of Command aboard USS Atme
Lt Cmdr Jerry K Pounders relieved Lt Cmdr Herbert A May as Commander Mine Division 73 in a ceremony aboard the minesweeper Atme at Long Beach Naval Shipyard. Pounders previously served at Naval and Marine Training Center Fort Worth. May will report for staff duty at Commander Service Force Pacific Fleet Pearl Harbor.
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Jerry K. Pounders
Herbert A. May
Mine Division 73
Atme
Long Beach Naval Shipyard
Cmdr
Pounders
U.S. Naval and Marine Training Center
Fort Worth
Tex
May Sill
Commander Service Force
Pacific Fleet
Pearl Harbor
Six State Senators Inspect Long Beach Subsidence Area
Six state senators from the Committee on Natural Resources toured Long Beach subsidence districts including the shipyard and Belmont Shore areas. They meet Mayor Kealer and city officials as they prepare to consider remedial action in a special legislative session next month. Senators Johnson Byrne Brown Teale Miller Desmond visited the harbor district and expressed awareness of the problem.
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Committee On Natural Resources
Long Beach
Harold Johnson
Roseville
Raymond C. Kealer
Long Beach Naval Shipyard
Harbor Area District
Belmont Shore- Alamitos Bay
Sen. Johnson
Senate
Paul L. Byrne
Chico
Charles Brown
Shahone
Stephen P. Teale
West Paint
George Miller
Richmond
Farl D. Desmond
Sacramento
Overdue yacht Intrepid sighted midway to Hawaii by liners
Air search began from Honolulu for the 39 foot sailing ketch Intrepid overdue since Jan 12 with six or seven weeks of supplies. Cecil Crane, his wife Ethel, owner Aven Fifer, and their son Elmer are named in connection with the vessel and its voyage from Long Beach.
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Honolulu
Long Beach
Hawaii
Cecil Crane
15Th St
Ethel
Aven Fifer
City Yacht Anchorage
San Francisco
Matsonia
Coast Guard
Pontchartrain
Anchorage
Elmer
South Gate
Fifer
Long Beach City College
Apartment Group OKs Vote Issue in Long Beach
Directors of the Long Beach Apartment House Assn representing over 700 owners endorse a charter amendment on the March 4 special election ballot. If adopted, it would enable unitization deals to repressurize the Wilmington oil field to curb subsidence, per association president Forrest Wilson. The measure aims to halt land loss and seek state legislative approval in 1938.
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Long Beach
Wilmington
Forrest
Wilson
Association
Wilsor
Business leaders urged to guide space age era in speech
Philip M. Talbott of Washington urged businessmen to take leadership in the space age and accept new responsibilities. He called for immediate income tax cuts, arguing lower taxes would boost jobs and Treasury revenue, and predicted an economic upturn by mid June at a Long Beach Chamber of Commerce clinic. An inquest into the death of Felice Baker, an 18 year old bride killed near Bellflower, was slated for next month. driver James Brown faced no action until the inquest.
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U. S. Chamber of Commerce
Philip M. Talbott
Washington, D. C
National Chamber
Long Beach Chamber of Commerce
Wilton Hotel
Felice Baker
Bellflower
California Highway Patrol
District Attorney's Office
James Brown
Coldbrook Ave
Lakewood
Talbott
U. S. Treasury
Heart Monday drive raises funds for Long Beach Heart Assn
About $10,000 collected by volunteers from an eight house-to-house canvass in Long Beach and turned in to the Long Beach Heart Assn by 11 am. Another $10,000 expected this afternoon. Mrs. Robert M. Devitt, Heart Monday chairman, said the drive should surpass last year if canvassed residents return contributions in the not-at-home envelopes.
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Long Beach Heart Assn
Pacific Ave
Heart
Robert M. Devitt
Heart Monday
Thief Loots Home Worth 81500 In Cash Jewelry
Grace F. Johnson reported a burglary at her residence on Lemon Avenue stealing 81500 in cash and checks plus 1433 dollars in jewelry and clothes. The thief took wedding and engagement rings as part of the loss.
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Grace F. Johnson
Lemon Ave
Four Sailors Return After Pacific Nuclear Protest
Four men returning to San Pedro Harbor from a protest voyage against South Pacific nuclear tests planned for spring and summer. They sailed the 30-foot ketch Golden Rule to near the fallout area to disrupt the tests, risking their lives if necessary. Fellow crew were William Huntington, George Willoughby, Albert S. Bigelow, and Cole Blackwood.
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Seomen
Herej
South Pacific
San Pedro
Sary
William ‘S
Eniwetok
Huntington
St James
Marshall Islands
M.Y
George Willoughby
Albert S. Bigelow
Cas
Blackwood ‘Terrace
N.J
Cole
Conn
David Gale
Fallsington
Padyacht
Bigelow
Buntington
United States
Seaside Hospital proposed to aid chronic patients in county
County supervisor Burston W. Chace proposed purchasing Seaside Memorial Hospital in Long Beach to care for chronic and long term indigents. The plan, supported by a motion to authorize appraisal and explore arrangements with Seaside Hospital, aims to help free beds at General and Harbor General Hospitals for acutely ill patients while funding from the sale would help construct a new 400 bed Memorial Hospital near 27th Street and Atlantic Avenue.
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Chace
County Buy
Seaside Hospital
Seaside Memorial Hospital
Long Beach
Memorial Hospital
Burston W. Chace
County Board of Supervisors
Herbert C. Legg
William A. Bart
Charities
Harbor General
Barr
Tals
Board of Trustees
27Th St
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Rarotonga
Cook Islands
New Line
Malcolm Mil-lar
P and
Keith L Geddes
3. D. Bates
Australia
G E. Lifford
Oronsay
Himalaya
Orcades
Oriove
Marina
Captains’ Inn
William A. Harrington
Harbor Board
Funeh-Edge and Co., Inc
Cunard Steamship Co
L. B
Avalon
Signal Hill
William M
Bill) Cook
Old Ranch Rd
Arcadia
Cook
Bank of Long Beach
Security First National Bank
Graham Brothers Inc
Monterey Park
Dorothy
West Covina
Lena Cook
Justin B. Cook
Charles T. Smith
Glasser & Miller Mortuary
Heart Fund
Oks
Gelegram
Busin Snessmen C39
Space Sge
Ecoitor Authority
Washington
Til
Storm
Department of Charities
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