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Newspaper
Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1972
Page
7
Gene Myers leads 14 Paramount High School students on a six day backpacking trip in Ute Sierra Nevada using a Sierra classroom approach. The group will swap Paramount Boulevard for the John Muir trail to scout 35 trained boys for a 4 mile back parking trip in July.
Faculty advocates for Long Beach City College push for a separate board in the upcoming election. Dr. Richard Fairchild from the Faculty Separation Committee urges the Board of Education to join a pro argument, while the League of Women Voters plans an opposing line. Voters in Long Beach Lakewood Signal Hill and Avalon face a choice on semiautonomous status and board structure under the unified district. Board President Elizabeth Wallace says trustees are weighing major political and philosophical issues before deciding.
The First National YMCA Surfing-Institute announced a two day workshop on Friday and Saturday July 7 and 8 at Orange Coast YMCA in Newport Beach. Richard Collato says the program targets YMCA staff and volunteers across the national system and will cover coordinating local surfing programs with training in board building, repairs, and practical training. The $25 fee includes a manual national certificate promotional material course outline a tour of a surfboard factory a movie a YMCA surfing tee shirt and embroidered emblem and lodging details.
Funeral services for Margaret Siegfried 62 former bookkeeper in the Independent Press Telegram circulation department will be held with a rosary tonight and a Requiem Mass Wednesday at St Barnabas Church She is survived by husband John R and five children Judith Ann Ver man Claudine M Folk er Jacquelyn G Spizirl Candice E Siegfried plus five grandchildren Funeral arrangements are with Sheelar-Stricklin Moruary and contributions are suggested to the Heart Fund.
Sandra L Mathis senior journalism major at Long Beach State University has been named the first recipient of the 200 Robert Steffes Photojournalism Scholarship. Mathis will also serve as editor in chief of The Forty Niner summer editions based on her photo portfolio and strong grades, campus officials said. Professor Emeritus Sleffes of journalism at LBSU is noted in relation to the scholarship.
City Manager John Mansell will open bids at 2 p.m. Thursday for liquid hydrocarbons from Parcel A of the Long Beach tide and oil field. About 20,000 gallons monthly valued at 1700 dollars, plus 50,000 gallons already produced, could be offered. The six month contract runs July 1 to December 31 and includes liquids recovered since March 18.
Police report four separate traffic collisions in Long Beach injuring five? four people. John Paul McMonegal 23 treated at St Marys after a motorcycle hit a car driven by Charlie Edward Trammell Yorba Linda on Locust Avenue near Ath Street at 9 50 a m. Glenn Evermont Miller 36 of Ocean Avenue treated at Community Hospital after bicycle collision with a car driven by William Anderson Rodrigues 21 on the Marina Central Drive bridge east of Marina Drive at 2 pm. Leroy Newsom 31 of Home Street treated at Memorial Hospital after bicycle crash with a car driven by Irene Edstrom Foltz 40 on Long Beach Boulevard near 51st Street at 2 15 pm. Katherine A Vannan 1 of Carson Street Apartment B treated at Memorial Hospital after being struck by a car driven by Walter Gale Brandt 48 at Champion Avenue Westminster while crossing Carson Avenue at Atlantic Avenue at 7 pm.
A 24 hour police and fire log for Long Beach reports multiple incidents including injuries from traffic accidents on Avenue south of 16th and Long Beach Boulevard near 21st, apartment and building fires on Artesia and Carson streets, a grass fire on BSL Street, gasoline spill at Wardley Road and Lime Avenue, and a trash fire near Anaheim Avenue. Other events include a resuscitation attempt on Linden Street, a structure fire on 4512 Linda Ave, and a 12:02 am car fire at Willow Seat and Bellflower Boulevard.
Camp Pendleton Marine Base advances as a finalist in the Defense Natural Resources Conservation Award program, the only West Coast entry and top Marine base. A selection committee toured Pendleton and other sites across the country and will announce the winner later this month in Washington. The Naval Ammunition Depot at McAlester also appears as Navy representation.
Larry Ray Wyers, 20, Manday pleaded innocent at his arraignment in Long Beach Superior Court to a charge of assaulting a police officer during a May 11 anti war demonstration aboard the Queen Mary. Judge John A. Arguelles set a jury trial for Aug. 4. A burglary at California Maternity Fashions on 221 Los Cerritos Mall yielded $433 in cash.
Robert Oatey aged 26 has been appointed executive director of the North Community YMCA in Long Beach. A Van Nuys High School and George Williams College graduate, he has directed programs at the Wilmington Carson Doming Bluer YMCA and most recently served three years as senior program director at Van Nuys. The North Community unit covers North Long Beach Bixby Knolls Cerritos and Carmelitos as part of the YMCA of Greater Long Beach.
Classified ads in the Independent Press-Velegram brought Coletta Lindell of Bellflower to hire a couple to manage an apartment building. Within one day she had both a manager and an assistant, showing how classified ads can quickly supply help. Call HE 2-5959 for a helping hand.
Long Beach State University chemistry graduate Joh Likos of 1532 Piorida Ave Long Beach received a $700 summer research fellowship in biochemistry. The grant funded by the California Foundation for Biochemical Research supports a project on enzyme activation.
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