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Newspaper
Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1977
Page
23
A reader laments low pay for skilled trades while contrasting $12 hourly rates with doctors and lawyers. Other letters discuss a difficult mother in law and a shameless suitor seeking a rich wife. Abby weighs in on respect for tradespeople, family duty, and finding suitable matches.
The National Council of Jewish Women Long Beach Branch hosts a spring festival and auction Sunday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Jewish Community Center patio, 2601 Grand Ave. Pat Harmatz leads. Pre sale tickets cost 2 for adults and 1 for children under 12. at the door 2.50 and 1.50. The highlight is a 1977 Datsun B210 sedan from Coast Datsun awarded to a winner.
In a sticky bridge game the declarer misplayed a hand after a poor trump split. The correct plan required saving the diamond king for an entry to draw West’s last trump, then finessing and ruffing in dummy to secure ten tricks. The lesson: count trumps before taking the first trick.
Mrs. Vernon D. Anderson of Long Beach will preside over the state convention of the National TTT Society in the Holiday Inn San Jose today and Saturday. Delegates from 12 state chapters attend with Long Beach units represented by Mies Jim Cutter C Thomas Dean H L Frankenburger Elna Huffman Jewel Hulshizer Robert Keifer Ralph Lines Robert MacPhee Jr Hattie Manning Hugh Milloy Harley Tarrant and William Welch plus Pam Lines and Mary Beth Lines. The society's philanthropy provides tree camping experiences for underprivileged girls.
Club 74 White Shrine of Jerusalem hosts a breakfast from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. at 2700 Magnolia Ave with tickets at the door priced $1.75. The Ladies Auxiliary of the George Wallace White Veterans of Foreign Wars Post serves a ham and egg breakfast from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at YEW Hall 32 E Louise St with tickets $1.50 at the door. Proceeds benefit the veterans relief fund.
More than 400 attendees at the Greater Long Beach Girl Scout Council recognition dinner at Long Beach Airport honored 31 graduating Girl Scouts and 90 adult members. Highlights included Thanks badges for Mildred Frerks Steven Dodge Patricia Corrales Diaz and Margaret Vandecar with certificates and plaques for other volunteers and awardees from Norwalk Los Alamitos Cerritos Fullerton La Mirada and nearby communities.
Area shelters launch a May Crusade for Mothers campaign seeking money, household items, and volunteers to support their programs. The effort, sponsored by local women's shelters, urges community members to donate and assist in shelter operations.
Mr and Mrs Gary Lee Stark opt for a Los Angeles home after their Las Vegas Chapel of the Bells wedding. The couple, joined by the McDaniels of Long Beach and the Starks of San Francisco, discuss wedding details and local shelter resources for women in crisis.
Rose Yeates, longtime aid to the mentally handicapped advocate, heads to Washington as observer at the White House Conference on the Handicapped. From Long Beach Citizens Advisory Commission on the Handicapped she will join about 1,600 attendees at the Sheraton Park Hotel. She is secretary of the Long Beach Commission and chairs housing and sits on health and social services committees. Previously she led the REAL education foundation which operated a school for neurologically handicapped children.
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