Fresno to Riv erside reminiscence echoes late train tale
Fresno dateline recounts San Joaquin Daylight running late due to an engineer sneeze and dentures flying from a cab window while passengers at Redding described the scene. The piece recalls a similar human interest yarn from a quarter century ago and notes an odd inaccuracy about the route through Redding.
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Omer Ae
Malcolm Epley Heap
State News
Fresno
San Joaquin
Redding
Riverside
Pacific
Iain
Fresno Story
Navy Exercise Showcases Forrestal With NATO Forces
Naples Italy U S 6th Fleet led by V Adm Charles R Brown tests NATO defense in southern Europe through exercise Green Eye aboard the USS Forrestal the largest warship in the world. Forces from five nations participate with aircraft from Italy the UK France and Turkey among others and observers from more than ten nations. Continued on page B-2.
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Mary Nelswendar
Independent, Press” Telegram
Eucape
TS. 6Th Fleet
Mentertuied
Mark Necswender
Naples
Italy
U. S. 6Th Fleet
USS Forrestal
Charles R
Cat) Brown
6Th Fleet
NATO
Europe
Allied Tactical Air Force
Vicenza
Sergio Lalatte
Lend Force
Allied Forces
Canberra
Valent
Royal Air Force
Bomber Command
Malte
Allied Forces Mediterranean
Malta
Six Story Harbor Dept Headquarters OK'd by Board
The Board of Harbor Commissioners approved schematic plans and actions for a six story Harbor Department Administration building on Fire ASE section. The $2.4 million project will take about 18 months with a unanimous vote.
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Harbor Commissioners
Harbor Department Administration
Pier A
Harbor Dept
Board of Harbor Commissioners
Harbor Department
Commis
Sioner H
Bud
Reunion Set for Ex Crew of Arizona
The first annual reunion of former officers and enlisted men of the battleship USS Alamo will be held at 7 pm Saturday in the Jack Kennedy Center at the Oval Base. Gov. Ernest W. McFarland of Arizona will speak at the dinner dance, with civic and Navy dignitaries in attendance. Over 300 former crew members, including arrivals from Alaska, are expected, along with widows and relatives of men who died at Pearl Harbor. Registration opens at 3 pm Saturday. arrangements led by Joe Keehan and listed assistants.
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Alamo
Jack Kennedy Center
Oval
Ernest W. McFarland
Arizona
Navy
Alaska
Pearl Harbor
Ae Ea
U. S. Navy
Genevieve B. Kirkpattiers
Thomas L. Kirkpatrick
Joe Keehan
W. S. Larsen
Ivan Ballantine
George Bartok
Dutch cotton expert urges cover for Port Cotton at Long Beach
Wouter Kalkman of Rotterdam advising the Harbor Commission to protect exported cotton. He toured Long Beach harbor facilities and noted cotton left on piers without transit sheds, saying properly covered cotton arrives in the Netherlands in better condition.
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Board of Harbor Commissioners
Wouter Kalkman
Rotterdam
Kalkman
Long Beach
Netherlands
Urge action to gain access to Terminal Island and parking
Independent Business Men's Assn leaders urged permanent access to Terminal Island and more parking at Long Beach Naval Shipyard at a Pierpoint Restaurant dinner. President B P O'Hare warned that if Helm Bridge closed for ship passage, 10000 to 12000 people could be stranded on Terminal Island. Rear Adm McKinney highlighted the city’s stake in naming the first nuclear powered cruiser USS Long Beach and planning for its 1960 commissioning.
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Independent
Business Men's Assn
Terminal Island
Long Beach ‘Naval Shipyard
B. P. O'Hare
John R. McKinney
USN
Rot
Washington Naval
Naval Shipyard Employes Assn
Long Beach
Mosses
Kalkman Visits U S With Insights On Cotton Trade
Kalkman, vice consul for Nicaragua in Rotterdam, travels to the United States about every three years. His firm handles grading and weighing cotton, with much of Tony Beach for Bollard’s shipments ending as textile goods for South Africa. Indonesia once dominated Dutch mill product markets, but postwar independence shifted that dynamic.
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Kaleman
Nicaragua
Rotterdam
United States
Tony Beach
South Africa
Indonesia
Kalkman Vis
Albert Jansen
Schroll St
Lakewood
Scrap metal theft hits Contractors' Equipment Co location
Two tons of scrap metal and two power saws were reported stolen from Contractors' Equipment Co. at 2020 W. Pacific Coast Hwy on Thursday. The material’s total value is listed as 15600 dollars.
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Contractors’ Equipment Co
Pacific Coast Hwy
Long Beach Hosts Road Group Parley on Freeway Plans
Long Beach officials hosted a road group meeting with civic and government leaders from Orange and Los Angeles Counties to discuss accelerating construction on the San Diego Freeway, widening Garden Grove Boulevard to Knott Avenue, and extending Katella and Westminster Avenues into Long Beach. Irwin, transportation manager for the Long Beach Chamber, led arrangements for the meeting.
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Long Beach
Chamber of iCommerce
Oday
al Luucheon
Orange
Los Angeles
San Diego
Garden Grove
Knott Ave
Katella
Westminster
Glenn
Irwin
Long, Beach
Four Shipyards Share Pacts for $130000
Four local private shipyards will share more than $190,000 in Navy ship repair contracts announced today by the Navy district industrial manager. Bethlehem Pacific Coast Steel Terminal Island will receive $881,960 for drydocking the general stores issue ships USS Javery Island and USS Belle Isle. Long Beach Marine Repair Co. gets $32,280 for drydocking self-propelled fleet barges and hull work on several vessels. Porster Shipbuilding Co. at Terminal Island will receive several small drydocking and hull repair sums for various craft.
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Iwi
Navy
Lith Naval District Industrial Manager
Bethlehem Pacific Coast Steel
Terminal Island
Javery Island
Belle Isle
Pumpina
Sailor Fined for Drunk Driving After Bicycle Crash
Navy seaman Louis H. Shultz, 22, was fined $50 by Municipal Judge Kenneth E. Sutherland for simple intoxication after officers reported seeing filters fall from his bicycle and crash into a tree. About $735 in filters were stolen Thursday from a parked auto at the storage yard of Cancel Co. on Cedar Avenue and Ocean.
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Navy
Louis H. Shultz
Kenneth E. Sutherland
Shultz
3. A
Wardlow
Cedar Ave
Ocean
Dinner Bids Sent for Hospital Drive
The four million dollar drive for Long Beach hospital facilities was outlined at a dinner scheduled for Tuesday at the Grind Ballroom, Lafayette Hotel. Citizens and campaign leaders, aiming to fund equipment for expanded hospital services, emphasized the bond-backed facilities and growing demand from a rising population.
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Major Gifts Division
Ridtogs
Long Beach
Lax
Location of Hospital in Long Beach Proposed as Largest Bond Project
The City Planning Commission proposed Memorial Hospital of Long Beach as the largest project in a 29,219,000 municipal bond program. The plan moves the main building to Atlantic Avenue southward, with Patterson Street as the main access. A future nurses school would occupy the northwest corner of Atlantic Avenue and 27th Street, and the layout will be reviewed by city officials and planning authorities.
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Memorial
Hospital of Long Beach
City Planning Commission
Atlantic Avi
Comdeessyon
Patterson St
Ffuture Nurses School
Atlantic Ave
27Th St
Sams
E. Vickers
Ipials
Case
Pita
Long Beach
Wilson High Pool To Close Saturday For Repairs
Wilson High School swimming pool will close this Saturday for emergency repairs. The pool will reopen Monday, returning to its depreciated plant investment basis. A public utilities hearing set for March 20 in Los Angeles considers a 5.1 percent rate hike for Southern California Gas Co. and features Long Beach engineer Henry Jordan presenting.
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State Public Utilities Commission
Los Angeles
Southern California Gas Co
Lyn Fox
Wilson High School
Walter L. Scott
Citylpany
Woman and relative held in beating case
Prosecutor James starts action in Spain to charge Mildred Curry and her relative George Kacha with beating her daughter Estélle Curry and son Coleman Curry. Estélle, 7, bore bruises while Coleman, 8, said he had been punished in the past. Juvenile authorities filed petitions for the two children to remain in Juvenile Hall pending court hearings. Mrs Curry admitted forcing Estélle to kneel on a hot furnace grate and striking her with a toy handle, while Kacha admitted helping hold the child during the beating. The children's father J. C. Curry, 29, is in the Navy Recruiting Service in Chicago.
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James
Spain
Warratts
Mars
Mildred Curry
St. Ih
Jand
George ‘Kaeha
Knolt Ave
Beene Paris
Coleman Curry
Ivah Eaton
The
Juvenile Bureau
Haeha
Lakewood Area Seeks Annexation Despite Earlier Rejection
Sponsors of annexation in an all acre South Lakewood area filed a new petition Thursday with City Clerk Margaret Heartwell. Preliminary counts show 837 signatures, surpassing the 25 percent minimum to trigger a vote. The petition will be checked next week against voter records and presented to the Council March 12.
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Lakewood
Long Beach
Margaret Heartwell
Bend
Hite
Meartwell
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