City Employee of Year Willard Wells Honored in Long Beach
Willard Wells, a senior petroleum engineering assistant in the Department of Oil Properties, was named Long Beach City Employee of the Year for 1972. He received a plaque and gifts from the Long Beach City Employees Association and a serving tray from the Long Beach District Board of Realtors, with 25 years of service noted. Wells helped lay out well courses for about 1,000 wells, computed oil economics, and prepared bid data for Parcel A lease rebid in March. The selection followed a breakfast meeting of the Long Beach Board of Stealtoxs and a reception for council candidates attended by Jeff Pierce.
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Willard Wells
Department of Oil Properties
Long Beach City
Wells
Long Beach
Stealtoxs
Twins' mother pleads innocent to desertion charges
Terri Lynne Smith, 29, pleaded innocent to child desertion and endangering health of children at arraignment in Long Beach Municipal Court. A preliminary hearing was set for June 12 by Judge Charles I. Smith. The five year old twins Bryan Keith and Tammy Lynn Woodruff were missing for two months after being found March 21 wandering in an alley on Atlantic Avenue. Smith, free on $2,000 bond, waived preliminary hearings after her attorney requested the June 12 date. She was arrested at 6901 Long Beach Blvd. by policewoman Dorothy Pierce.
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Terri Lynne Smith
Long Beach
Charles I Smith
Bryan Keith
Tammy Lynn Woodruff
Atlantic Avenue
William Dunn
Kenneth &. Sutherland
Stowaway recalls Queen Mary bid for Southampton escape
Oliver Ry Vanderholt, once a 18 year old stowaway aboard the Queen Mary in 1938, recounts slipping aboard without passport or ticket and remaining undetected until he turned himself in. Now a Libya based oil company supervisor, he visited Long Beach with family and spotted the ship again, noting times have changed.
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Oliver Ry Vanderholt
Vanderholtf
Susie Bunch
Long Beach
Susie
New York City
Queen
Southhampton
England
Cunard Line
New York
Vanderhoff
Libya
North Africa
Vanderhulf
Three injured in Long Beach two-accident spree
Police reported three people injured in two Long Beach crashes on a Wednesday. Thomas A. Junking, 25, of 763 Locust Ave, was treated at St Marys Hospital after a collision involving a motorcycle at Broadway and Pine Avenue. Ybarra, 23, of Carson, was booked for felony driving. Peggy Howell, 40, and Julia Anderson, 45, were treated at Pacific Hospital after a collision on Earl Avenue and 2nd Street involving Deborah Mosshug, 24, and Deborah Holland, 18.
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Long Beach
Thomas A. Junking
Locust Ave
St. Mary’s Hospital
Robert &. Yburra
Julian. Anderson
Cedar Ave
Pacific Hospital
Deborah K. Mosshug
Deborah L. Holland
Watt Ave
Earl Avenue
2Rd Street
What’s The Siren Emergency Dispatch Summary
A garbled list shows emergency calls answered by Long Beach Police and fire departments on a Wednesday. Entries reference crashes, fires, traffic incidents, washes, and a gunfire report with multiple street locations including Artesia, Broadway, Fine Avenue, Myrtle, Nipomo, Warren, Paso Verde, and Lime Avenue.
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Long Beach
Perionential
Artesia i
Atlantic Avenue
Broadway
Fine Avenue
Fourth Street
Pam
Myrtle Ave
Carmel
Nipomo Ave
Peri
St. Vin
Harbor Patrol Urges Strict Action on Pedestrian Deaths
LAPD Captain Hubert Burns urged judges prosecutors and Harbor Division officers to form a task force to curb pedestrian fatalities in the harbor area. He said 11 of 19 traffic deaths this year were pedestrians and urged enforcement against violations by pedestrians. The panel discussed but made no promises, and a projection warned two more lives could be lost by year end absent action.
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Hubert DB. Burns
Thalor
Harbor Division
Los Angeles
Harbor
Burns
Eins
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Michael J. Yelovich
Cour
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Trafic Referve
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Animal Farm
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Nelson
Beaver Hill String Band
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All Mapa
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Jethro” Burns
Mike Curt Tillis
Roy Clark
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Tom Hall
Rod Culpepper
The
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Leightons
Country
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Minnie Pearl “Hondee
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Ken “Festus” Curtis
Tlyren Floren
Doug Kershay
Earl Scrugg
Malgarty Robbins. Jr
Linda Ronstadt
James Darren
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