Food-Toting Train Feeds 4100 at Long Beach Hospital
James Devine, chief cook at Long Beach Veterans Hospital, oversees 212 staff in delivering about 4100 meals daily. Meals are prepared in oversized, steam-heated kitchen rooms and distributed via steam cart trains pulled by electric tractors to wards and the cafeteria.
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Long Beach Coox
James Devine
Long Beach Veterans Hospital
Ada E. McGinley
Devine
Veterans Hospital
Kitchencian
Edison Meters Counted in Long Beach District
Edison Co. operates 160 600 meters in the Long Beach district covering 10 Southern and Central California counties. The utility, one of the nation’s top employers, employs about 650 in the local division and 700 in nearby Orange County. Total Los Angeles County payroll reaches 5 500 with an annual company payroll of 51 389 100 and gross revenue of 218 813 500 in 1957. Taxes amount to 150 000 daily. Electric service dates to 1896 with Ivy Tutt’s Pine Ave plant. Expansion is planned as kilowatt hours rise four to five percent annually since WWII. Harold Quinton calls Edison a growth company in a still new area.
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George Eres
Southern
California Edison Co
California
Long Beach
United States
Edison
Orange County
Los Angeles County
Ivy Tutt
Pine Ave
Harold Quinton
Santa Susana
Atomic Energy Commission
Atomics International
North American Aviation, Inc
Quinton
Eisen
Edison Electric Institute
National Trade Association of the Electrical Industry
Buffums’ Department Store
Pacific Mutual Life Insurance Co
California Bank
Los Angeles
Kaiser Steel
Southern California
Pacific Coast Electrical Assn
Signal Hill
Lakewood
Is.a. L. Code
Community Rehabilitation Industries
Rotary
Death notices and Edison expansion report segment
The paper lists multiple obituaries with names ages and service details, including Craft John Oliver 62 Cherry Ave, Mabel Clare Menzell 81 and George De Witt Sheets 56, with services at Mottell's Peek Chapel and similar. It also covers Edison Electric Institute leadership and capacity expansion in Southern California with Quinton and Eisen, noting plant investments, new generating units near Huntington Beach Oxnard High Sierra, and atomic power research at Santa Susana with Atomic Energy Commission partnership. It names executives, managers, and local civic roles in Long Beach and area.
Saucers Rally Tuesday Promises UFO Contacts At Harmony Grove
Long Beach residents will hear professor John McCamp of Great Western University speak at Linden Hall on Tuesday at 7 45 p m The three day flying saucer rally is sponsored by the Long Beach Cosmic Research Society and will feature claimed saucer contacts by appointment and appearances by saucer authors and contacted occupants from outer space.
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Long Beach
Harmony Grove
John McCamp
Escondido
Coy
Robert W. Anderson
Great Western University
Sanjritas Ave
Francisca
Linden Hall
McCoy
Craft
California
Outer Space
Honor Graduate Aldrien Graduates Magna Cum Laude
Charles S. Aldrien of Long Beach graduates magna cum laude from the University of Texas College of Engineering in Austin Texas.
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Charles S. Aldrien
Long Beach
University of Texas College Off ‘Engineering
Austin, Tex
Helpful Stranger Grabs Stranded Driver's Wallet
Police reported Gene Bobby Ward, 30, said a stranger offered to help push his car for two dollars. Ward pulled out his billfold to check cash, then watched it vanish around a corner with the helper. Ward, living at 149032 Cherry Ave, said the car wouldn’t start and he couldn’t get it going.
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Gene Bobby Ward
Cherry Ave
Sine
Stranger
Ward
Pelite
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Geneva
S. R
Pacific Light & Power
Seely
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Independent Press-Telegram
John Oliver
Laura
Mae Dennis
Aim
Mattell's & Peek Chapel
Menzell
Mabel Clare
E. 4Th St
Emil
Emily
Frances A. Boyd
Eva Cook
Mottell's & Peek
George de Witt
Royar Ave
Marys
Kenneth
Richard
Robert
Tschinhel
John
Fashion Ave
Edward
Ru‘dolph
Anna Jones
Elsie Franks
Joseph
Sohpie Schmidt
Mottell's & Peek Cucpel
Solorzano
Raymond Solorzano
E. 15Th St
Brother Samuel
Mottell's & Peek Chapel
Cross
Emma Matilda
E. Tih St
Apt. A
William Quilter
Fay Edward Doolittte
Mattells & Peek Mortuary
Huntington Beach
Oxnard
High Sierra
Navy
Port Toration
Ashtabula Maddox
Moore
Samuel N
Bryce Canyon
Allen
Columbus Pier
Bled
BAZ
Plefigster
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Preston -Bibys
Prickett
Nsy
Heaville
Rufael County Harbor
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Ernest G
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Thetis Bay
NS Porce
Thomas
Herbert
Gallant
Wilke
Greer County
Wilkinac
Walker
James Emory
Sulde
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Buckley
Dennis J
EPA
Roycroft Ave
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Fler
Dale
Helena ‘Buoys
Ney Conquest Glymer
George Hinnseier
Everace
ETA IL Ceta
Ellen
Titusive
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Taveside Service
Imalielt
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Melrose Abbey
James “Buoys
Arvia
Memorial Park
TATA
Eparathen
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America
Federal Savings and Lecn Iosurence Corporation
Sayers
Advantagas
Lo America
America’s Largest Savings and Loan Association
Lakewood Center
Compton
M. Long Beach Blvd
Jblk. S
Sears Newmark
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Pasadena
Hollywood
Arcadia
Glendale
Burbank
Studio City
Encino
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Highland Park
Anaheim
Buena Park
Garden Grove
Santa Anas
Federal Savings and Loan
Aswance Corp
Federal Home Loan Bank System
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