Proposed Lakewood schools would be all-white critics say
Lakewood officials and council members discuss forming a Lakewood Unified School District to bound the city within a single district. Critics warn a boundary district would create de facto segregation and harm racial balance in Long Beach Paramount ABC and Bellflower districts. County officials note strict state criteria for new districts and the proposal’s slim chances.
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Lakewood
Eptermumus
Long Beach
ABC
Bellflower
Paramount
G.C. “Dee” DeBaun
Wales
Shore area restaurant OK’d amid price leverage talk
Planning officials discussed setting high price points for Ocean Boulevard to leverage development blocks northward. Grindle urged a formal price schedule before negotiations, as commissioners weighed long-range planning amid resignations and a looming City Manager report due Monday.
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Grindie
Ocean Boulevard
Broadway
Third Street
Robert Patersoster
Home Savings and Loan
Long Beach
Ocean
Great Lakes Properties Inc
Torrance
Grindle
Paternoster
John Dever
Planning Commission
Blumberg
Fanning
Evelyn Wood speed reading course touted in Long Beach
The Evelyn Wood Reading Dynamics Institute markets a $395 course claiming readers can boost speed tenfold to 2500 words per minute. Local ads run nightly at Edgewater Hyatt House in Long Beach with a stated claim of rapid improvement after a single lesson, while experts dispute the feasibility.
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Evelyn Wood
Reading Dynamics Institute
Edgewater Hiyatt House Hole
Pacific Coast Highway
Lowg Beach
Simeon
George D. Spade
Simon
Spade
Frank L. Christ
Long Beach State University
Christ
LBSU
California
Dynamics
Long Beach promotion board seeks marketing manager
The Long Beach Promotion and Service Corp seven member board continues its hunt for a marketing manager after failing to reach terms with a leading candidate who was not local. The board will keep the private recruiter’s search going while Nilday remains president.
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Long Beach Promotion and Service Corp
Dilday
Nilday
Weekford Morgan
Ruth Todd
Gardens defend amusement law in continuance for arcade permit dispute
Hawaiian Gardens has won a continuance to the trial of operating movie arcades without a business license. Judge J Kimball Walker set August 31 for the continuance in Las Cerritos Court. Deputy District Attorney Don Wagner sought more time for City Attorney Graham Ritchie to defend the ordinance requiring a permit for coin operated amusement devices.
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Hawaiian Gardens
J. Kimball Walker
Las Cerriltos Court
Don Wagner
Graham Ritchie
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Bob Aruiz
Roger Coar
Cait
Erk
Panel Oks
Shore
Lowell Williams
L.B. Promotion Bureau
Jack Dilday
Phillip Fife
Dent, Respectively
Dilday, Morgan and Todd
Convention and News Bureau
Queen Mary Touss Inc
New Tidelands Agency
Queen Mary
Convention Center
Vite
Ehrys Newport
Ntor Weiser
Lewis Provhniak
1St Street
Press
Hotpoint
Timf
SAT, & Sun
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