Five month rescue course ends for seven Long Beach firemen
Seven Long Beach firemen among 24 graduates completing a five month paramedic rescue training program. The ceremony at Harbor General Hospital marks the end of intensive medical training shared with St. Mary's Memorial Community and Pacific hospitals. Paramedics will staff two rescue units already operating since November 15, 1972 and respond citywide. Citizens call 446 B2EL to summon medics.
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Emergency call log from Long Beach police and fire over 24 hours
The Long Beach police and fire departments responded to a 24 hour period of calls including vehicle fires on Garrison Street and the San Gabriel River Freeway, multiple first aid incidents at Obispo Ave and Necce St, Ocean Blvd, and 6th Street, trash and apartment fires on Hellman and Indiana Ave, standbys for resuscitations, and several traffic accidents at Palo Verde and Parkcrest as well as Downey, with later alarms at Pier F Berth 207 and electric and box alarms along multiple avenues.
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Downey Avenue
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Anaheim Street
Redonda Ave
Magnolia Avenue
Third Street
57Th St
Nieto Avenue
Calrado Street
Bay Shore Avenue
Second Street
Cerritos Ave
USS Ramsey ends Viet deployment on 235 sailors
The Long Beach missile destroyer escort USS Ramsey wrapped a six and one half month deployment off Vietnam with 235 crewmen aboard. One patrol period lasted 33 consecutive days before ships return to Pier 16 for 40 days. Ramsey aided a downed airman and visited Sasebo Hong Kong and Olongapo City during the voyage. Cmdr William W Sullivan, previously USS Long Beach XO, was selected for promotion to captain.
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Mae Mathers Receives Recreation Award Recognition
Mae Mathers district supervisor of the Long Beach Recreation Department was named recipient of the Helen J. Houtius Award for outstanding contributions to recreation. The honor was presented in San Francisco by Chi Kappa Rho during the California and Pacific Southwest Recreation and Park Conference. Mathers, a conference delegate, has 40 years with Long Beach and was the first woman district supervisor. She has won multiple municipal and school recreation honors including Long Beach City Employee of the Year in WRK.
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Two Vehicle Crashes Injure Two in Long Beach
Police report two traffic accidents Friday in Long Beach injuring two people. Theresa Centolella, 24, from Knoxville Avenue, treated at Los Altos Hospital after her car collided with Nancy McDonough, 40, of Ladoga Avenue on Palo Verde Avenue near Parkcrest Street at 5 23 pm. John Sharrok, 21, of South Street in Lakewood, treated at Doctors Hospital after his motorcycle collided with Judith Bytcher, 46, of Faust Avenue in Lakewood at South Street and Downey Avenue at 5 40 pm.
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Grace Ashley rites Tuesday at Mottell's Chapel
Grace May Ashley, a Long Beach restaurateur who ran Ash ley's Mexican cuisine on Fourth Street, died Friday aged about 50. A native of Oklahoma she came to Long Beach 50 years ago. She is survived by two sons Damion and Warwood, brothers George One Lee J B Woodwrow Kerbo, sisters Tha Tee Zola Oliver and Chassis Beardon Mila Smitty, five grandchildren and one great grandchild. Memorial Hospital cancer fund is requested for contributions.
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Imogene Coca Recovers From Eye Injury and Ankle Break
New York reports Imogene Coca shows a white patch over her right eye yet spirits stay high after a January auto accident that initially threatened her sight. She recalls doctors assembling to operate, and notes her cheekbone was displaced. She hopes to return to work soon and enjoys strong reviews for Ton from Your Show of Shows. Her husband King Donovan describes the incident. Coca plans a Dallas visit for her red Persian cat and remains anxious about window washers.
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