City Awards Airport Restaurant Contract and Council Actions
City Council awarded a $53,000 contract to W. R. Rasch for an airport restaurant and lounge. Officials halted a Marina pennant design for a city flag first, then a yacht basin pennant, while approving steps to form special assessment districts for sidewalks and curbs to protect Starr King School and Jordan High students. Work continues on Colorado Lagoon plans. an ordinance requiring private school bus inspections and driver certification was passed. A Douglas Aircraft tax refund denial of $76,628 was upheld. the firm claimed taxes were charged on U.S. government property.
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See
Marina
Long Beach
Starr King School
Jordan High
Los Angeles River
Los Angeles
Douglas Aircraft Co.s
Lnhe U. S
Pay Help for Haven Men Due
Navy adjusts rules for 35 enlisted aboard hospital ship Haven at Long Beach Naval Station. Ship shifted from commissioned status to in service in reserve to augment inadequate shore medical facilities. Sea pay and ration allowances previously denied to Haven crew members now addressed by new regulation changes.
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Navy
Haven
Long Beach Naval Station
Goodwill to Trade In Plan Involves Navy Departments
Navy departments including the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery and the Bureau of Naval Personnel must act on a trade in plan. Commanders invite customers to exchange old items for new, with a shore mess for Haven to be established under medical oversight.
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Navy
Bureau of Medicine and Sur
Bureau of Naval
Bureau of
Robert Ss. Clark
Long Beach
Howard Judkins
Revel Seaton
Repirtad
Lecture and Films on Mideast Set by Legion Post
The Legion Post schedules a lecture and film program about the Middle East, featuring moving pictures showing Egypt Israel and other regions. The event aims to highlight Goodwill Industries contributions and the travel experiences of the speaker through the Jordan area with noted accessibility for handicapped attendees.
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Mideast
Legion Post
Elr
Dwight G. Bennett
South Lakewood
Middle East
Accomby Wardlow
Woodruff
Moving Pictures
Moleco
Jordan
Lomina Ave
Egypt
Israel
Long Beach Woman Reappointed to County Music Commission
Mrs. Howard W. Coy of 36 Virgil Walk was reappointed to a three year term on the Los Angeles County Music Commission. The announcement came from Supervisor and Goodwill plans were outlined to prepare a fundraising dinner and display antiques from the Goodwill museum as part of community support and worker training amid donations slump.
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Howard W. Coy
Virgil Walk
Long Beach
Civic
Los Angeles County Music Commission
Nndant OT
Bob
Adams
Tefiay
Gion Nimrod
Bennett
R Bennew Clue
Coy
Goodwil
Ber i
Industries Saga Alles
Thejas
Goodwill
Goodwill Museum
Mew
Council Gets Ducats to Gridiron Banquet
Vice Mayor Virgil Spangberg and local business figures accepted free tickets for the citys annual roast and gridiron banquet. Jaycee members and Chamber of Commerce organize the April event in Wilton Town Hotel Pageant Room with a skit by city leaders. Invitations for $20 plates were sent to councilmen and other invited guests.
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Virgil Spangberg
Jaycee
Chamber of Commerce
Wilton
Obituary notices list multiple local deaths and services
A fractured obituary fragment lists Connie Lee Wimberley and Albion Otis Woods among the dead, with brief burial details at Mottell and Peek Mortuaries, plus several other individuals—Charles Willee Thornton, Harold Ralph Reichard, Ollie C. Motteller, John Louis Botkin, Jack Williams Enyart, and Maud Strude Strude—all with service times, locations, and surviving relatives.
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Wimberley
Connie Lee
Princeton
Sit
Mottell's & Peek Mortuary
Jesse L. Wimberly
Jocally
Woods
Albion Otis
Ave
George
Joe Sit
Sophie
Vestri
Iva Lawrence
Ivy Lawn Cemetery
Daisy Selleck
Ventura
Mottell’s & Peek
Hattie Doris
Mabel
Chambers Brothers
Oliver
Ralph
Roy
Sylvester
Thornton
Charles Willee
Sunham
Ist St
Byside Memorial Park Chapel
Hunter
Reichard
Harold Ralph
Evans
Cedar Ave
Los Angeles
Mottell’s & Day
Peek Mortuary
Rose Garden
Motteller
Ollie C
Rivo Alto Canal
Botkin
John Louis
Orcutt Ave
Ters
Martha Cheadle
Pegey Cremer
Theo
Mary McLenendore
Hagen
Rosary
Gertrude
Mottell’'s &Paramount
Requiem Peck
Horton
Kaw
Car Victims' Rites to Be on Thursday
LYNNWOOD Funeral services for the Rev. Lawrence A. Whitcomb 60 and his wife Eleanor 54 will be at 10 am Thursday at the Nazarene church here. They were killed Monday crossing Highway 101 in South Laguna to photograph beach scenes. Whitcomb was Nazarene pastor here eight years previously serving Downey Compton and will soon take a pastorate in El Cajon. Eleanor was president of the Southern California Nazarene Missionary Society. Interment follows at Sunny Side Cemetery Long Beach. Minter Funeral Home South Laguna directing.
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Compton
el Cajon
San Diego
Benefit Dance for Norse Hall Dinner Set
A benefit dance and dinner event hosted by the Sons of Norway Club at the Norwegian Hall. The Dinner for Norse will start at 5 30 p m on April 19 at the Sons of Norway Hall to benefit the United Hospital Fund with Palo Verde Ward members and friends invited.
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Banesie Dante
United Hospital Fund
Sote Club
Alapskaus
Mounted Police
Sons of Norway Hall
Palo’ Verde
ow'Rd
Long Beach Students Honored by Freedoms Foundation
Long Beach Unified School District and Millikan High School students received Freedoms Foundation awards. Walt Parker, 19, of 53317 Calderwood St., earned a $100 check and bronze medal for his Millikan newspaper editorial in Corydon. George Washington Medal was accepted for a pamphlet on milestones in history used in local classes.
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A. Millikan
Long Beach Unified
The
Freedoms Foundation of
Vallewr Faroe
Wey Akee Walt Parker
Calderwood St
Millikan
Corydon
George ‘Washington
Br. Theron Freese
Kenneth Wells
the Freedoms
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Ij. R. McHenry
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Gene Kirkpattick
L.B
Clara Johnson
Jessie Smith
Wational Distillers Prod
New York
Gail Gilbert
el Roble St
Long Beach State College
Ernst. Forster
Detmold-Lippe
Germany
Forster
Lederhosen
Ric
United Nations
L.B. Schools
Geneva
Copemhasei
Rome
Heathry
Mall Coupoa
SAS
Sesrte
California
Yeaa Allie
Scandinavian Airlines System, Inc
Wilshire Boulevard
Beverly Hills
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