Rail Switch Cut Causes Derailment Injuring Trainman
Reports say a lock on a switch was sawed through leading to a derailment that injured the head brakeman Francis M. Jerred and halted a diesel freight near Candlewood and La Puente. Investigators note tampering before the wreck as three ambulances and fire units responded to the scene.
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Linion Pacific
South Sts
Sixmman Cevice
Francis M. Jerred
FBI
Blackwell
la Puente
Candlewood
Land
Poe
Fire Department
Walter A. Fehlhofer
Rose St
Wallace
Hawkins
Richfield Ave
Long Beach
Herman
Jensen
Whittier
Dep
Rites Planned for F. E. Wheeler Wednesday
F E Wheeler 58 of 12018 Lane Norwalk died Sunday of a heart attack. A private ambulance company employee since 1946 he was a former Norwalk Fire Department captain and has two sons a daughter a widow Allene two brothers Commodore N and Perry M and two sisters Isabel Patterson and Myrtle Molyneaux survive with one grandson. Interment will be at Memory Gardens Cemetery in Brea. Funeral services are set for 10 a.m. Wednesday at the Chapel of Memories.
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Lane Eng
Priv-E- Wheeler
Linate Ambulance Company
Dale St. Norwalk
Tery
Brea
Wheeler
Norwalk
Texas
Allene
Frank
Robert
Betsy
Commodore N
Perry MM
Isabel Patterson
Myrtle Molyneaux
Long Beach Library Faces Space Shortage And Bond Plan
Long Beach's main library falls short of ALA space standards for a growing population. Proposals to voters on June 7 seek a 125000 square foot central library with a 4300000 bond, or the Wise Building option offering about 126000 square feet.
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ALA
Long Beach
U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare
American Library Assn
U. S
Toledo
San Diego
Wise
Broadway
Pine Age
Mrs. Miller Funeral Set in Westminster Memorial Park
Funeral service for Mrs. Nola Marie Miller 36 of 6936 Los Santos Drive will be held at 4 pm Wednesday at Westminster Memorial Park Chapel. She died Sunday. Survived by husband Lee Eugene daughters Dorcas Ann and Susan Joyce Miller son Lee Eugene parents Mr. and Mrs. Guy L. Smith sister Mrs. Joyce Brow brothers Guy Robert and Richard I. Smith Mottell's & Peek Mortuary is in charge of arrangements.
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Nola Marie Miller
Los Santos
Los Angeles County
Long Beach
Westminster Memorial Park
Susan Joyce Millers
Lee Eugene
Guy L. Smith
Joyce Brow
Guy
Robert
Richard i Smith
Mottell's & Peek Mortuary
Death notices for Barker Compton Cooper McLaughlin and others
Obituaries list Robert L Barker 69 Irena step-daughter and Bessie Ward as survivors with services at Disday Mortuary and Sheelar-McFadyen inWhittier Wilbert L Compton 46 WWII veteran survivors William Jacqueline Miriam Esther service Thu 10:30 Siewert Barber Mortuary Winthier Ted Cooper Winifred and family with services at Christensen Pine Mortuary Selma Judith Peterson and family with service Wed Martell's and Peek McLaughlin Thomas Edward 39 wife Dorothy daughters Diane Sherleen parents Joseph and Marie McLaughlin Halleck Floyd Johnson 73 Locust Ave funeral director for 40 years service for Elsie C 74 Loma Ave Arthur Kenneth Loretta Catherine Core Soden service today Mottell's and Peek Annie A Buycher 85 851 Orange Ave burglarizes Sundown bar 6446 Paramount owner Thomas H Burglar stole $544 in currency cigarettes services Wed 10:30 Hunt Mortuary.
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McLaughlin
Seal Beach
Thomas Edward
Ocean Ave
Dorothy
Diane
Sherleen
Joseph McLaughlin
St. Anne’s Catholic Church
Mottell's
Peek Mortuary
Elsie L
Loma Ave
Arthur
Kenneth
Loretta Brown
Kathryne Smith
Cora Cook
Core Soden
Mottell’s
Annie A
Orange Ave
Hediey
Angus
Ters
Stella Pettenger
Paramount
May Nielson
Blyd
Libby Campbell
Hunt Liquor
Thomas H
Burke
Relatives Say Recluse Was Slain in North Dakota Shack
Two Long Beach women, relatives of 84 year old Darwin Whitmore Keyes, learned he was beaten to death in his back shack near Lisbon. Jerry Nyback, 25, hospital superintendent, admits striking him with a wrecking bar over suspected altered checks. Keyes held about 500000 in assets but lived in poverty. Miss Nela Keyes and her mother, Florence Keyes, had last seen him in 1941 and came to Long Beach in 1921.
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Long Beach
Yorth Dakota
Yionday
Nela M. Keyes
Ghia St
Llorence St. Keyes
Darwin Whitmore Keyes
Jerry T. Nyback
Lisbon
N.d.)memorial Hospital
Nyback
N.D
Ralph Hansen
Keyes
Navy opens 100 pay billets for Naval Reservists
Eleventh Naval District in San Diego says 100 pay billets for enlisted Reservists will be opened for 30 to 60 days to assist in former training and administrative work. Cmdr A A Mazur of the Naval Reserve Training Center in Los Alamitos notes no rating restrictions and urges immediate applications with a June 10 deadline.
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Naval District
San Diego
Cmdr
A. A. Mazur
Naval Reserve Training Center
Orangewood Ave
Los Alamitos
Reserve Training Center
New Plan Reduces Deans Roles at LBSC to Five Divisions
A new LBSC policy reorganizes academic structure by shifting duties to the new dean and five divisions. It eliminates several former divisions including industrial arts natural science language arts and social sciences and groups functions under engineering education arts and sciences applied arts and sciences and business.
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Engineering
Arts
Applied Arts
Business
Industrial Arts
Natural Science
Death Toll Sags Yet Widespread LA County Mishaps
Memorial Day weekend brought nearly 450 injuries from over 500 accidents in Los Angeles County. Police cited 3,500 moving-vehicle violations and almost 150 drink-driving offenses. Despite overcast skies, beaches drew about 400,000 bathers with few rescues reported. Names of deceased include Mar L B Holiday and Delores Sheffey among others from Los Angeles and Ft Meade.
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Los Angeles County
California Highway Patrol
Santa Barbara
San Bernardino
Sun Jay
Defense pact to Autonetics plant in Downey
The Los Angeles U.S. Ordnance District awarded six defense work contracts Monday including Downey's North American Autonetics Division plant. Downey received 57,991 dollars for research and development of a digital computer as part of district total 2.5 million dollars in contracts.
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North American Autonetics Division
Downey
Los Angeles
Jobless Father of 5 Hangs Self in Garage
An out of work Lakewood salesman, 36, father of five, was found hanging in the garage at 5:45 am by his wife Nancy Jane Davis. His wife said he had been under strain since losing work in March and that their fifth child, a girl, was born two weeks ago. The couple’s other children range from one to five years old. The body was taken to the White Mortuary.
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Althoug
Vickars
Ambu|stance
Long Beach
Los Angeles
Vickers
Lakewood
Dihart Thimae
Auc Wully Ui Nuve Letinas Davis
Nancy Jane
Hayler Ave
Long Beach Police Adopt Summer Uniforms by Shift
Long Beach police assign day-shift officers to summer uniforms starting Wednesday with light blue short sleeves. Night duties switch only when weather permits. The order revises a prior June 1 start for all officers to wear summer uniforms.
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Long Beach
William Mooney
Banning High School Elects New Student Body Leader
Ken Amnann to serve as president of the Banning High School student body next year, succeeding Dwayne Scheer. Jim Arens elected vice president. Coralie King, Rachel Enriquez, Delrey Gallovas serve as commissioners with duties in records, finance, art, athletics, health, publicity, traffic and safety, intramural, and student service.
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Wilmington
Ken Amnann
Banning
Suc
Dwayne Scheer
Jim Arens
Coralie King
Rachel Enriquez
Delrey Gallovas
Charles Jackson
Judy Hamilton
Barbara Andrich
Jim McLaren
Dian Sarkiss
Nancy Torres
jStudent Service
Nobelist to visit Aeronutronic Plant at Newport Beach
Nobel prize winner Dr. Peter J. W. Debye, a renowned chemical physicist, will visit the Aeronutronic Division of Ford Motor Co in Newport Beach today Wednesday and Thursday. He has been retained by Ford as a consultant.
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Peter J. W. Debye
Ford Motor Co
Newport Beach
Dr. Debye
Ford
Palsy Fund Campaign Ends. Donors Urged to Mail Gifts
The United Cerebral Palsy Association asks residents in the harbor area to mail contributions as the door to door drive begins May 10 and enters its final days. Contributions may be sent to Palsy Los Angeles 51 California.
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United ‘Cerebral Palsy Assn
Harbor Area
Los Angeles
Calif
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