Bridge bloopers and hospital wings in Long Beach view
A Montreal Weekend Magazine piece mocks Long Beach bridges such as Marine Stadium Davies, Pontoon Harbor, and Commodore Heim with few approaches and subsidence troubles. The writer notes Garden Grove Highway’s past two lane design and praising Long Beach’s new Convalescent Wing at Community Hospital with bright rooms and resortlike facilities. If staffed by pretty nurses, the hospital becomes oddly appealing to stay long-term.
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Montreal Star and Herald
Quebec
Marine Stadium
Davies
Commodore Heim
Heim
Dept
Bac
San Gabriel Channel
Garden Grove Highway
East Seventh St
Long Beach
Tve
Long Beach Community Hospital
Chemical Lab Blast Injures Student at Long Beach Symposium
A laboratory blast injures a Long Beach State student during a symposium at the Lafay ette Hotel where doctors convene to discuss newborn problems, cancer, heart disease, and related medical topics. Groundbreaking for Memorial Hospital of Long Beach also occurs as physicians gather.
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Long Beach|r
Lafaayette Hotel
New Memorial Hospital of
Long Beach
Council Won’t Ask U Ss to Delay Linkage Suit
City officials decided not to request a delay in the federal lawsuit against Wilmington field oil producers. Justice and Navy Department information will be kept updated as unitization talks press ahead to curb subsidence, while delaying the suit was proposed but rejected.
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U. Ss
Frr
Wilningaton
Justice Department
Navy Department
Roberts
Eee Roberts
Qounoml
Rae
Rede
Wilmington
Naval Shipyard
Year Long Cruise Plans for Science Treasure Quest
A four month coastal voyage with seven adventurers sails the 61 foot Alden ketch Chiriqui from Alamitos Bay. The trip retraces Darwin and Beagle voyage, collecting fish specimens for the University of California Los Angeles and the Scripps Institution of Oceanography while testing new medical sails. The treasure hunt and research aim to culminate in a dramatic Pacific voyage as part of a plan by organisms to explore science and adventure.
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South Seas
Pacific Film and Location Co
Iutinerary
Charles Mounting
I Darwin
Alt Seven
University of California
Los Angeles
Scripps Institute of Oceanography
Medical
Alamitos Bay
Long Beach Board Defers Action On Three Dismissed Teachers
The Long Beach Board of Education heard teacher Lucille Couvillon and two colleagues appeal their dismissals, calling the action unjust and arbitrary. The district cited state law and county counsel in resisting public-rationale hearings, while defending its duty to hire the best teachers. The board took no action to overturn the dismissals.
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Jordan High
Lucille Colvillon Ured
Board of Education
Raymond de Groat
Maureen L. Cameron
Long Beach Federation of Teachers
Lecharged de Groat
de Groat
Dwight C. Sigworth
Sigworth
Signal Hill Defers Pay Hike Debate to June
Signal Hill City Council postponed a planned public hearing on police and fire salary hikes until June when revenue figures will be ready. About 28 officers and 30 to 35 residents backing the raise attended, seeking roughly $16,000 yearly for 33 personnel to align pay with eight area cities.
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Signal Hill
Buck Oltman
The
Police and Fire Assn
Chamber to Stage 1 Day Member Drive
Two hundred Long Beach Chamber of Commerce members meet at the Lafayette Hotel Supper Room at 7 30 a m Thursday for the kickoff breakfast of a one day membership drive
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Chamber of Commerce
L. H. Brewer
Fred.$. Dean
Jess Grundy
St. A. Reid
Call
Chamber
Wife's Trial in Jailbreak Plot Begins
A trial before Judge Karl Lynn Davis opens for Mrs Mary Ann Bevins 22 and charged with conspiring to aid a jail escape from Orange County Jail. The Chamber of Commerce campaign, led by Larry Collins, seeks 400 new members to fund activities.
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Chamber of Commerce
Orange County
Mary Ann Bevins
Seaside Blvd
Long Beach
George Thomas Bevins
Santa Ana Superior
Karl Lynn Davis
Port to Ask for Bids on Earth Fill at Pier A Shed
The Warbom Department will seek bids for an estimated two million dollar contract to jack up the transit shed at Pier A Berths 1 and 2 by 20 feet, deposit earth fill, and reconstruct its wharf. The 18 month project covers a 430000 ton hill north to Seaside Blvd and Pico Ave, replacing the timber wharf with concrete, and rebuilding the shed plus utilities and railroad tracks.
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Warbor Department
Seaside Blvd
Pico Ave
Area Annexation Move Starts for Lakewood to Long Beach
City Council began process to annex 2 23 acres in Lakewood area to Long Beach. City attorney asked to draft resolution of intention for four special elections. Proposed boundary lies along Monlaca Rad Woodruff Ave Wardlow Rd and Lomina Ave extension. Estimated population 299.
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Lakewood
Long Beach
Monlaca Rad
Woodruff Ave
Wardlow
Lomina Ave
Three Test Pilots Named for First DC8 Flight
Three veteran Douglas test pilots were selected for the first DC8 flight with Kliner at the helm. AWG Heimerdinger will pilot the test jet, joined by M. Magruder and Paul H. Patten as crew. The trio, with extensive flight test experience, prepared for the May 25 Edwards AFB testing sequence.
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Edwards Air Force Base
AWG
Heimerdinger
William ‘M. Magruder
Paul H. Patten
Douglas
Santa Monica
Magruder
Air Force
Wright Patterson Air Force Base
Los Angelea
Paris
Swedish Beauty Swedens Birgitta Gardman to Miss Universe
Birgitta Gardman a 19 year old blond with blue green eyes will represent Sweden in the seventh Miss Universe Beauty Pageant beginning July 17. Gardman stands 5 feet 8 inches and weighs 125 pounds with measurements 36 23 36. Sweden has won high honors in three of the six Miss Universe Pageants.
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Birgitta Gardman
Sweden
Pay policy change eyed by California post office clerks
Union delegates at the California Federation of Post Office Clerks convention May 29 to June 1 will consider backing two San Francisco post office clerks fired for displaying wage protest placards on their own time. Conrad Eustace, president, and Thomas Monroe, secretary treasurer of Local 1236, were dismissed for demonstrating for higher pay. The Long Beach Breeze notes support for the pair as part of a broader push against rival groups perceived as lacking action beyond socializing and seeking favorable legislation.
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California Federation of Post Office Clerks
Afl-Cio
San Francisco
Conrad Eustace
Thomas Monroe
United Postal Workers Local 1236
Long Beach Breeze
Lana
Mrs Griffith Dies Long Beach Resident 84
Marie Griffith 84 of 2341 Spaulding St. a Long Beach native since 1919 and former Denmark native died while visiting a daughter in Henderson Nevada. Survived by daughters Mrs. Margaret Jensen and Mrs. Charles Lane, five grandchildren and seven great grandchildren. Funeral Wednesday at 10 a.m. in B. W. Coon Funeral Home.
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Marie Griffith
Spaulding St
Long Beach
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