Concert Session Captured Live Without Microphones
A Long Beach event recorded at Les Sound Barcus shop on Second Street captured a unique concert session. Musicians, all seasoned professionals, gathered to perform and lay down tapes without external mikes. The audience interacted as the ensemble delivered high quality, intimate music in an unusual setting.
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Mark Cluster
Ax Orchestra
Long Beach
Les Sound
Barcus
Second St
Jhid
Rudy Schmidt dies at 69 and recording breakthrough reported
Rudy Schmidt 69 of 4259 Per Ver.de Ave died today after a heart attack while working as an engraver for the Independent Press. The article also describes Barcus and violinist John O Benny's new microphone-free recording system using transducers, aimed at capturing only music, with wind instruments to follow. Survivors include his wife. union and funeral details follow.
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Barcus
John O 'Benny
Rudy Schimiul
Pee Verde
Dee Jae
Independent Press
aNoan
St. Bute
Anmelte
America
CWA
Four Men Torture Sailor With Razors and Can Opener
An 18 year old sailor stationed at Port Hueneme was attacked by four men who dragged him from his uncle’s home on Obispo Avenue in Paramount. They used a beer can opener and razor blades to inflict many wounds on his legs arms and torso during a hour long assault. He was treated at St Helen’s Hospital in Bellflower and at the Navy hospital ship Haven.
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Paramount
Sheriff's Deputies
St. Helen's Hospital
Bellflower
Navy
Haven
John Francis Dunne
Port Hueneme
Fred Waldron
Obispo Ave
Mediator to Seek New Phone Parleys in 24 Day Strike
A federal mediator plans to request further talks Tuesday with General Telephone Co management and the union as the 24 day old strike continues. No date for resuming negotiations was set, and officials said efforts are under way to schedule separate sessions with both sides.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
General Telephone Co
Death Notices scattered names and services in local paper
A list of death notices for several individuals including Mrs Marga Williams and Mrs Elith Ferrie. Services are scheduled Tuesday or Wednesday at various mortuaries with surviving relatives named such as Griffith daughter Margaret Leopeker and Andrew H son. Multiple addresses and funeral directors noted.
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Ferrie
Elith N
Marker Ave
iAndrew H
Mona Decker
Dilday Schaible
Ida
Family Funeral Directors
Pacific Ave
Patterson & Snively Mortuary
Residents complain about loud TV ads and unclear volume
George Knight, Dennis Harvey, and Cam Dunham voice frustration with television commercials. They say volume fluctuation requires manual readjustment when programs resume and that ads are overly loud or poorly written. The speakers cite studio or network control and want clearer, tighter messages.
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Dennis Harvey
California Ave
Knifepoint Robbery Arrest Of Sailor Near Naval Base
Signal Hill police report a knifepoint robbery telling of an 18 year old sailor stationed at Terminal Island Navy base. The suspect, identified as Marian Mick, was arrested minutes after the incident near Dawson Avenue and Pacific Coast Highway.
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Signal Hill
Marian
Mick
Terminal Island
Howard
Navy Base
W. Heatherlin
Dawson
Pacific Cost
Iayes
Dawson Avenue
Janet
Musicians and instruments spotlight at Long Beach event
A report notes musicians including Berry first violin Fred Valdez piano and Marshall Sasson second violin among others. The piece mentions a recording Opus 1 on tape priced at 1S15 and a visit invitation to Sgt Arthur G Le ttion home amid police reports of a knife threat during a separate robbery case.
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Arthur G. le Ltion
Ipiane
Sailor
Heaberlin
Berry
Fred Valdez
Marshall Sasson
Louis Kierman
Kurt Reher
al Viola
de Bundack
Long Beach State
Cali
Fornia State Colleges
Experiment in Learning Top LBSC Freshmen Segregated for Study
Long Beach State College inaugurates an honors program by grouping 70 freshmen into a dedicated study track. The cohort, chosen from 360 applicants, covers demanding courses and ties heavy library work to a broad aim: to create the Whole man. Critics call it intense and anxious but praise the in-depth exploration.
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Long Beach State College
Massey
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Rudy Schmidt
P-T
Berry, Marcus and
Dick Smith
Akae
Boudreaux
Charles
Paul
Ximenp Avenue
Ruth
Laurie Pluck
Apnes| Smith
Nellie Beaud- Teaux
Nellie Barbier
Moffell's Mortuary
Yace
Stephen A
Seaborn St
Lakewood
Henshaw
Dorothy
Jean
Craig
Walnut Ave
Allan
Helen Nemethy
Walter
G. A
Lakewood Sons
Lucile Lind
Bank
B.w.coon
Funeral Honey
Hemlock
Senate
Fifth Street
Pine Avenue
George Knight
W. Orangewood
Anaheim
Laudelina Yanez
Wilmington
Cam Dunham
Stanbridge Ave
Bill Dow
Andaman Lane
Huntington Beach
Cherris Murray
Seal Way
Seal Beach
Beauty
Nicholas P. Hardeman
LBSC
Robert Wilcox Segretign
Eric Massey
Sue Gillespie
Downey
Nicole
Pearson
Bill Murphy
Ot Downey
Murphy
Miss Gillespie
Misa Gillespie
Dooley
General
Radiotelevision
General Electric
Picture Tube
Dooley’s Hardware Mart
SUE Aears To
Memarit Record
Christensen-Pino Mortuary
Atlantic Ave
Atlanti Long Beach
Beank
Gendale Federal
Los Altos
Clandiote Savings
Een Senate
Farnings
Tineo
Hillion Financial
Forest Lawn
Mpsortal
Lincoln Avenue
Cypress
California
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