Building boom boosts Long Beach construction to $50 million
In the first half of 1967 Long Beach issued 2,076 permits worth 11,661,609 with total valuations rising to 50,329,694. Industrial plants led gains at 3,204,090, offices 6,350,559, and stores 2,755,700, while residential activity slipped overall. Major projects included Belmont Plaza Beach Center, Fidelity Federal Savings & Loan, Bank of California, and S and S Construction’s Bixby Hill homes.
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Long Beach
Bocming
Department of Building and Safety
Industral
Belmont Plaza Beach Center
Fidelity Federal Savings & Loan Association
S01
E. Ocean Blvd
Bank of California
Ocean Boulevard
Magnolia Avenue
S & S Construction Co
Bixby Hill
Anaheim UHF Station Approved For Channel 56
The FCC grants Anaheim a UHF television channel 56 to serve Orange County with no start date set. Ownership decisions await formal applications from up to six groups, with Davis Broadcasting of Santa Ana and Morrio Publishing Co. named as initial interested parties.
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Anaheim
Federal Communications Commission
Enterprise
Orange County
FCC
Davis Broadcasting Co
Santa Ana
Kwi1z
Morrio Publishing Co
It's a Glorious 4th for USS Long Beach
A historical report notes USS Long Beach served on station through holidays and aided pilots and crews across the 7th Fleet area. It directed fighters against enemy aircraft over the Gulf, helped process about 100000 flights, and conducted a memorial near Ironbottom Sound. A separate line records a theft of a transmission from a car on Loma Avenue near Anaheim Street.
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7Th Fleet
Long Beach
Navy
North Vietnam
Tonkin Gulf
Gulf
Paul Brown
14Th St
Loma Avenue
Anaheim Street
Cmdr William Nicol Navy Veteran Dies at 72
Cmdr William G Nicol USN retired died Monday at age 72 in Long Beach area. He served 42 years on active duty including World War I and major invasions, later in Norfolk and at Cheatham Annex. Survived by wife Arline, son Cmdr Robert G Nicol, daughter Jean Nibecker, seven grandchildren. Services Thursday 3 p.m. at Patterson Snively Mortuary with Angels Abbey Mausoleum interment. Military honors by Naval Station detachments.
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William G. Nicol
USN
Nicol
Blackthorne Ave
Arline
Long Head
Arizona
Long Beach
San Pedro
West Virginia
Naval
Long Beach Naval Shipyard
Naval Base
Cheatham Annex
Naval Supply Center
Norfolk
Robert G. Nicol
San Francisco Bay Naval Shipyard
Jean Nibecker
Highland
Patterson & Snively Mortuary
Angels Abbey Mausoleum
Compton
Naval Station
Fourth of July memories from wartime to safer days
A Long Beach crowd recalls the Fourth of July in the 1920s and wartime, with Lt. Cmdr. Francis Elliott recounting a WWII submarine service from Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay. He describes being torpedoed, a year and a half in a prisoner camp, and a Chinese woman hiding a prisoner for almost a year until V‑J Day. He notes the paradox of safer fireworks yet tougher travel on roads today.
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Cmdr
Francis Elliott
Chicago
Long Beach
Lungano
Elliott
Navy
Pearl Harbor
Tokyo Bay
Youths to Bicycle Length of the State
Four boys set out from the Oregon border for a two week bicycle journey to the Mexican line. Larry Fox Steve Tincher Marc Grossman and Ken Marr are aged 16 and 15 respectively. They will call home daily, camp in state and other parks, and spend up to five dollars per day each. They ride from Crescent City to Long Beach on July 18 and reach San Diego on July 19.
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Marc Grossman
Larry Fox
Kenneth Marr
Steve Tischer
Oregon
Raymond Fox
Rendia St
Steve ‘Tincher
Marvin Tincher
Olda
Mel Grossman
Mardina Way
la Habra
Ken Marr
la Nabra
Larry
Cresent City
Long Beach
San Diego
Plan Aggressive Tactics Against War Protests
Long Beach Peace Vigil members quit passive demonstrations at Fourth Street and Pine Avenue. They will halt vigils, shift to house to house canvassing to gain support to end the Vietnam War. The group, sponsored by Long Beach Citizens for Peace, will form a speakers bureau, hold discussions on American foreign policy, and distribute antiwar leaflets.
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Long Beach
Fourth Street
Pine Avenue
Citizens For Peace
S. Anaheim St
Mary Purdy Rites Set on Thursday
Mary Purdy 78 longtime Long Beach resident and Delta Delta sorority leader died Saturday. Services set Thursday at 10:30 am at First Methodist Church. Survived by daughter Marianne OConnor, sisters Katherine Adams Grace Lantz Ruth Edwards Annie Lou Mizener Eva Arouelles, four grandchildren. Interment Veterans Administration Cemetery Los Angeles. Patterson Snively Mortuary in charge.
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First Methodist Church
Mary Hamilton Purdy
Purdy
Texas
University of Oklahoma
Long Beach
Delta Delta Sorority
Hirs. Purdy
Ebell Club
Group F
Texas Club
Marianne O’connor
Mmes
Nell Davis
Katherine Adams
Grace Lantz
Ruth Edwards
Annie Lou Mizener
Eva Arouelles
Patterson & Snively Mortuary
Veterans Administration Cemetery
Los Angeles
Mrs Gartner Services Set Wednesday
Catholic services are planned for Mrs Rose Matilda Gartner a former national president of the Ladies Auxiliary Fleet Reserve Association. She died Friday at 78, survived by husband Joseph son Albert Uhde Grace Edgar six grandchildren and five great grandchildren. Rosary Tuesday 7 30 p.m. Requiem Mass Wednesday 8 a.m. at St Athanasius Church.
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Rose Matilda Gartner
Ladies Auxiliary
Fleet Reserve Association
Gartner
Orange Ave
Jersey City
Fleet Reserve Auxiliary i
Joseph
Albert Uhde
San Diego
Grace Edgar
Long Beach
Rosary
St Athanasius Church
Modell
Mertuary
California U S Open Eyes 38 Young Japan Students
California faces a potential plan collapse to host 38 visiting Japanese students in Long Beach homes for two days and a night due to a shortage of willing volunteers. Norma Gibbs of the CSLB Foreign Student Office warns the arrangement may end without more friendly locals. The stay would cap a four week visit, easing homesickness as the youths sing Nippon songs and recall home while awaiting further US experiences.
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Long Beach
Norma Gibbs
Cslb Foreign Student Office
Lordplimist
Nippon
Long Beach Schools Open Summer Sessions Across District
Long Beach Unified starts summer sessions Wednesday with programs from electronics to dramatics at 11 schools. More than 12,060 students expected. elementary enrollment about 3,300 complete, with signups ongoing in junior and senior high schools. Classes run 1 to 2 hours slots. driver education offered mid session for rising 10th graders to avoid after school requirements.
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Long Beach Unified School
Vernon Hinze
Powder Puff Derby Set to Shine In Atlantic City
Mothers in miniskirts and teenagers in shorts arrive in Atlantic City for the Powder Puff Derby a transcontinental race for women pilots. Ninety-Nines sponsor the event with 76 planes entering including 12 from foreign countries. The race starts Saturday in Atlantic City and ends 2493 miles later in Torrance with nine checkpoints.
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Atlantic City
Torrance
Amelia Earhart
Barbara Willis
Santa Monica
Pat Knoop
Dayton
Ohio
Anderson elected Seal Beach mayor by council vote
Stanley Anderson, former vice mayor, was elevated to mayor by the Seal Beach City Council in a unanimous vote. The 60 year old realtor and restaurateur succeeds Lloyd Gummere, with Leslie Dreis named mayor pro tempore. Anderson previously served as mayor from 1964 to 1965 and joined the council in 1962 after planning commission service.
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Stanley Anderson
Seal Beach
Restaurateur
Lloyd Gummere
Les
Lie Dreis
Anderson
Gummere
Recipe Contest Entry Form From Independent Press Telegram
A historical call for recipe submissions from the Independent Press Telegram of Long Beach California. Applicants must mail one recipe with full ingredients in column form, serving size, classification, name and contact details, and a disclaimer that entries become property of the paper. Judging by a panel of 36 women’s clubs representatives.
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Hare
USA
Cook Bok
Independent Press
Telegram
Antar
Sudges
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Manila
Subic Bay
Philippines
Okinawa
Hong Kong
Sydney
Australia
U.S
Savo Island
Ironbottom Sound
William Nicol
Wyoming
Sicily
Salerno
Normandy
Fey
Mary Purdy
Belrigade
Cemster- Craword
Norwalk
Paramount
Soit Bay Area
California
Japan
America
L. B
Rt Allery
Ayrus
Ernest Selection
Oriel
Ie Rene
O'Keefe & Merritt’ Sas
Niagara
Pyne
Klac — Dark
Klac King
Klac — Spivak
Klac Ramsburg
Klac — Lohman
Klac Barkley
Klac — Henry
KLAC
Niagara OF
Long Beach Blvd
Geneva
Mortuary
Beach Blvd
Westminster
Jefferson
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