Paramount survey to define lots in northern city neighborhood
The city council unanimously approved a six month survey of the area bounded by Century Boulevard Downey Avenue Rosecrans Avenue and Anderson Street to clear clouded titles and aid rehabilitation. Ward warned of potential disputes over lot lines while HUD purchased homes and seven vacant parcels for resale to neighbors. A separate expansion of the maintenance yard and plans for a neighborhood mini pool were also approved.
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Paramount
Richard DeBie
Century Boulevard
Downey Avenue
Rosecrans Avenue
Anderson Street
Pandora's Box
W. William Ward
Ward
Degpateh
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
HUD
A.J. Padleford
Huntington Beach's Lost Pava-Jon Ballroom Fade and Memory
Higgins recalls Huntington Beach landmarks the Pava-Jon Ballroom and the old plunge near the pier. Built 1938 39 with WPA funds to rival Newport Beach and Catalina venues it failed, drawing crowds only to 1600. WWII usage and postwar Western acts followed until dismantling. Higgins records a tape history for the city library.
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Higgins
WPA
Work Progress Administration
Newport Beach
Rendezvous
Catalina
Enouat
Huntington Beach
Airport noise suit opens in Orange County
The first civil action seeking damages from aircraft overflights at Orange County Airport began in Santa Ana Superior Court. Builder Harry Rinker claims $301,000 in damages for noise affecting his three acre Costa Mesa estate overlooking Upper Newport Bay. The bus trip to the site joined jurors as the case opened. other suits seek multimillion dollar class actions.
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Orange County
Santa Ana
Harry Rinker
Costa Mesa
Rinker
Newport Bay
Tral
Widow of Medick Dies After Illness
Gail Medick, widow of former Independent Press Telegram sports writer Chuck Medick, died Thursday at Harbor General Hospital after a lengthy illness. There will be no funeral services for Mrs. Medick, who survived her late husband who died last New Year’s Eve.
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Gail Medick
Independent, Press‘Telegram
Chuck Medick
Harbor General Hospital
Medick
Private inquiry finds no substance in Long Beach school abuses
A six month probe by Hollywood private investigator Eve Rett Brown into Long Beach Unified School District charges of using district employees for private home projects and other alleged favors found no substantive wrongdoing. Deputy Superintendent Francis Laufenberg said findings will be reviewed by a special committee. Brown was paid up to 3000 dollars and declined to comment.
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Long Beach
Hollywood
Independent Press-Telegram
Francis Laufenberg
Vernon A. Hinze
Everett W. Brown
Laufenberg
Brown
Hinze
Sai
Harry Gornish
Gornish
Journeymen’s Building Trades Association
Oebots
Peronnel Commission
Santa Ana touts crime drop and COP program progress
Santa Ana boasted of leading the nation last year in crime reduction by 18.03 percent and unveiled a large billboard thanking residents and businesses for cooperation. Police Chief Raymond C. Davis and Vice Mayor Vernon Evans witnessed the event as COP supporters highlighted the wave enforcement plan and voter-approved taxes funding 82 additional officers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Santa Ana
Foster & Kleiser
Los Angeles
Raymond C. Davis
Vernon Evans
Citizens’ Crime Prevention Commission
Police Department
Ruth Mullens Named to State Child Health Board
Ruth Mullens, Huntington Beach registered nurse, was appointed Thursday to the state Child Health Board by Assembly Speaker Leon McCarty. She serves as program director of the Pediatric Nursing Practitioner Program and an assistant professor at Long Beach State University.
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Ruth Mullens
Child Health Board
Sacramento
Huntington Beach
State
Assembly
Leon McCarty
Ms. Mullens
Long Beach State Unversity
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Paramount Survey
Dorothy Korber
History of
Huntington Beach Plunge
Fifth Street
DON & Tom’s
ZENIT
CTC
LaLa Ay
Zenith
Farnham
Dunsford
Gervine
Ian Ny
Lakewood
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