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Newspaper
Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Mar 16, 1957
Page
2
At Jordan campus the annual Justice for Men Week reverses roles for five days with girls serving boys. Planned by Girls' Leagues, events include a special assembly a pie sale and a backwards dance climaxing Friday with girls escorting boys. Daisy Mae and Abner are named king and queen.
Millikan hosts its first annual Scholarship Awards Banquet to honor Sealbearers and install the California Scholarship Federation chapter. Senior Steve Patton presides. others include Anita Truitt as VP and Ruth AnnMary Jones as recording secretary. Guest speaker is Harry Moore.
Saint Anthony's High School held its second annual All-Star basketball game after intramural season. TVSt defeated the All-Stars 36 to 33 in a tight contest, with TVs favored at halftime. The intramural league will now shift to track team organization.
Ed W Rickett 85 a musician and composer who wrote scores for Broadway productions died in Madison Wisconsin after a brief illness. He was known for his work on several stage scores and contributions to theater music during his career.
A reader asks how to react when a steady boyfriend bores her by bragging about other girls on dates. Two methods are offered: ignore and change the subject to show such talk won’t distract her, or respond with playful, controlled sarcasm to reveal the dullness of his chatter while remaining cool.
Poly’s bi annual water ballet presents over three nights Thursday Friday and Saturday at 830 PM in the Poly Natatorium. Girls’ advanced swimming class perform with boys’ diving and swimming exhibitions. Queen candidates include Tinall a Heller Judy Filner Jeanine Eagman Rozetta Gorsuch and Diane Delesur. Tickets 75 cents on campus or at the door.
Joann Rabin won the presidency at Wilson replacing Bugn J Dayton after fall. Sheila Frice became Vice President with Pat Stanford as Secretary and Sally Slardcastle handling finances. The vote, backed by recent legislative approval, was conducted through Wilson facilities. Prexy Joven is a government class member.
Five social clubs at Wie Jordan campus donated funds to buy a portable remote control TV for Mr. Toaquin Miller, a faculty member hospitalized after a fall from the bleachers last month. Sororities and fraternities involved aim to ease his hospital stay as he recovers and hopes to return to Jordan soon.
Wilson GAA will assemble with Southern California girls at Paramount on Wednesday for basketball and tennis doubles. Three teams selected, two tennis doubles, depart by bus at 1 p.m. Miss Thomas sponsors the trip and Paramount plans an original theme with introductions, reception, and entertainment.
Members of Jordan's Future Teachers of America club hosted a party for TTA members. Imm Wilson, Poly and Millikan attended. President Max Prosise planned the event. Activities included a panel on cemetery school visits and a speech on the value of college prep in high school by Jordan activity director Joseph Sentorno.
Poly's Girls' League hosts an annual Backwards Dance in the Boys' Gym from 9 p m to midnight with Half Notes providing music. Debonaires entertain during intermission. decorations feature Footsteps of Spring with birds and bees amid gay flowers and dark green leaves. Girls arrange transportation and a postdance snack, plus backward fruit or candy cor sages for the boys. Proceeds benefit the Girls' League Scholarship as part of Porter Day activities on campus.
Four Wilson students Rennek Snebly Martin Wade win eligibility for Bank of America sash prizes from 100 to 1000. Others Seeley Benacore Hopkins Tebbetts Rosengreen Crane receive achievement certificates. Ada Crane may earn Bullock scholarship up to 1000. Local scholarships include Sons of Italy 200 and Sears Roebuck 200.
The Cosmopolitan Club sponsored an assembly introducing Poly and Jordan foreign exchange students. Ann Parmenter led the event with a committee guiding visitors through wood and metal shops and the government class. Speakers included Vice Principal Catlin and exchange students Andy Bergin Ruth Calten Jaime Bine Gertrude Estenheimer Dave Pitt Teresa Sanchez Frank Papone.
The Long Beach District Senior High School Solo and Ensemble Festival will be held at Millikan High School on March 25. Solo and small ensembles will perform selections for ratings and critiques by an impartial judge, with Wilson, Jordan, Itoly and Millikan represented.
A patrol of the Royal Scots Fusiliers beat back a Communist guerrilla ambush Friday in Malaya. One rebel was killed and another wounded. Six members of the Scottish party were wounded.
Vice President Nixon arrived in Rome and spent 10 minutes greeting crowds of about 1,000 spectators outside the Grand Hotel. Italian Prime Minister Segni welcomed Nixon at Ciampino Airport, and Nixon praised Italy as a key ally while noting strong bilateral ties. He and Mrs. Nixon planned private audiences with Pope Pius XII and dinners at Villa Madama and Villa Taverna.
Preparations for Britain’s hydrogen weapon tests at Christmas Island near completion as Air Vice Marshal Wilfred E Oulton is set to arrive Sunday. A spokesman said Guiton plans to depart Tuesday for the test site.
California facing a new debate over capital punishment after Burl Ives Abbott, a 28 year old Berkeley death row inmate, was executed with cyanide pellets in San Quentin. State leaders questioned determent value of executions while Abbott’s case revived calls for halting the death penalty. The incident coincided with heavy snow and cold across the Midwest and Northeast.
A Cook County grand jury returns murder and conspiracy charges against 13 white youths in the hammer slaying of Alvin Palmer, 17, on a South Side street corner. Witnesses testified about the fatal beating as Palmer waited for a bus. Police seized Joseph Schwartz, 17, after he allegedly joined in the attack. State's Attorney says death penalty will be sought for those jailed for murder.
Los Angeles district report states Janet Gilman died after a shotgun attack by her husband Donald Gilman El Monte glassblower. The shooting occurred June 28 1936 when she rejected reconciliation after 12 years of marriage. They left two sons Lee and Dale.
In a remarkable turn, Missouri Governor Blair commuted Herman Rex McCullough’s sentences after plea by the courts and officials. McCullough, linked to a 1934 jail escape and multiple charges, faced life in prison for assault on a sheriff. The case drew attention as a former inmate with a long history seeks freedom aided by a parole board recommendation.
BERKELEY Calif more than 200 educators applied for the post of president of the University of California after Dr Robert Gordon Sproul plans retirement in July 1958 Edwin W Pauley chairman of the regents selection committee said the field was narrowed to fewer than 30 promising prospects and that it would take at least four months to interview them and analyze their records
Robert Briscoe, Lord Mayor of Dublin, met Cardinal Spellman in New York and presented him Irish rosary beads. The exchange included a joke about leaving the beads behind for Sabbath observance as Briscoe walked to the Cardinal’s residence with two accompanying New York policemen.
In Kansas City a wedding of Don Scanket and Judy Kraft was reported after Judy contracted mumps from the groom. The physician confirmed the illness on Friday, following prior reports that Judy was expecting to catch them.
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