Weather forecasting quirks and community notices in Long Beach
A nostalgic column notes a surprise rain shower that challenged weather forecasts and reflects on the charm of uncertainty. It then highlights local charity Candle Project at Wobbleville Nursery accepting old candles for two large “friendship” candles to aid two preschoolers, publishing donor rosters. Also a bell request from Window Rock Mission via Wrigley Hts. Baptists arrives, donated via a shin’s belt. Finally readers submit traffic questions about elderly drivers, crosswalks, and streetlights, with no answers provided.
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Weather Bureau
Mother Nature
Wobbleville
Obispo Ave
Long Beach
Nobleville
Ira Casteel
Lakewood
Biv
Wrigley Hts
Baptist Church
Window Rock
Ari
Casteel
San
Broadway
American Ave
Ocean Blya
City Advances Rabies Protection Ordinance
Long Beach plans dog vaccination to curb rabies after unanimous vote by the ordinance committee. Health officials and civic leaders supported inoculation as vital, with an effective date discussed for 1958 and exemptions for ill or elderly dogs. Doctor Litwack noted rabies is fatal if untreated.
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George Weers
Long Beach
City Est
Harald Lingle
Los Angeles County
Logan
Los Angeles
Litwack
Dre. Litwack
Pt.a
Pasteurs
Wagner
Kiwanis Service to U S Youth Extolled at District Conclave
Kiwanis leaders lauded youth service at the 37th annual California Nevada Hawaii Kiwanis district convention in Hermosa Beach. District Governor Logan R. Cotton outlined aid to hundreds of youths with glasses and crutches, vocational guidance, and Go-to-Church and community campaigns. More than 3,500 Kiwanians are expected at the four day event with a variety show tonight. officers to be elected Wednesday.
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Kiwanis
U.S
Logan R. Cotton
Hermasala Beach
California
yada-Hawaii
International
Cotton
Community Chest
Chamber of Commerce
California-Nevada-Hawaii
Hermosa Kiwanis Club
Cotten
Redondo Beach
Della
Garland Johnson
Lafayette Hotel
Albert G. Davis
Municipal Auditorium
E. Peterson
Chicago
Fred S
Kisty) Kistemann
Oakland
Long Beach
California-Nevada- Hawaii
Kiwanis International
Pedestrian and pedestrian deaths in local crashes
A Friday morning crash on Magnolia Avenue near Cowles Street left a pedestrian dead after a vehicle struck a plate glass window. Driver Audrey Hager McBee 50 of Truman Boyd Manor jailed for drunken driving. Estimated damage 1200. Earlier, two separate weekend crashes killed Barbara Ann Gilbert 18 of Los Angeles and John Joseph Flannerly Sr 65 of Long Beach after vehicles collided on Broadway. Celeste Joan Stewart 28 of 154 Croft Avenue and Henri Clark 28 of North Hollywood were injured. Hess 38 and wife Clarine Hess also injured in a separate incident on Main Avenue.
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Bulomodne Kreakedown
Magnolia Ave
Cowles St
Spaside Hospital
Audrey Hager McBee
Truman Boyd Manor
H. Simmons
Long Beach
Bares
Acci- Compton
Dent
John Joseph Flannerly Sr
Olive Ave
Barbara Ann Gilbert
Los Angeles
Flannerly
Broadway
Cerritos Ave
James A
Compton
Gilbert Clark
North Hollywood
Celeste
California Highway Patrol
Joan Stewart
Roy
Croft Ave
Main Ave
Carson St
Henri
Calvin Benton
Hess
E. Doubie St
Torrance
Clarine
Rescue at Sea by LST Crews Saves 42 on Tanker Mishap
Skipper recounts dramatic flare lit rescue off Pacific reef last Tuesday near Honolulu. LST crews boarded a damaged tanker the Migsian San Miguel after it ran aground, taking 22 men first, then aiding others amid dark seas and rough surf. Some crew remained at Midway as salvage efforts continued while the tanker buckled under the reef.
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Pacific Reef
Honolulu
Countryman
San Miguel
MATS
Midway
Severs Jothers
Sone
LST
Themen
Lensman Haveman Brings European Taste To Long Beach Show
Victor Haveman a 64 year old Russian born photographer designer and artist based at 5360 E First St declares his work holds artistic value and appeals to Europeans or other refined tastes He will stage a fifty piece one man show at Long Beach State College Art Department for one month beginning Tuesday Haveman favors unposed portraits capturing reality over flattering posed images and emphasizes talking with subjects to reveal vitality He specializes in children photography and has run a Long Beach studio since 1941 He believes photography is a medium with limitations yet rich possibilities and rejects traditional approaches.
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Victor Havemah
Ione Fierce
Long Beach College
Ben Zinser
Long
Haveman
Witla
E. 1St St
Europe
Children’s Bureau
Long Beach
Speeds Changed on PCH Los Angeles Area
State Department of Public Works announced new speed limits for a five mile stretch of Pacific Coast Highway from Temple Ave to Leeds Ave in Los Angeles. Long Beach and Los Angeles approved the changes after a traffic study found the 25 and 55 mph limits unsuitable. Signs will be posted within about a week.
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State Department of Public Works
Temple Ave
Leeds Ave
Los Angeles
Long Beach
Santa Fe Ave
Jordan Ave
Judson Ave
Los Angeles City Limits
McCoy Sai
Police Detail Guards Unloading of Seiier
Tension rose in a price dispute as the purse seiner Dorothy R unloads the season’s first catch at Star Kist on Terminal Island. Los Angeles police, about two dozen in yellow raincoats, monitor a drizzly wharf while a San Pedro crowd is kept back. The Fishermen’s Co operative offers 55 for sardines and 42.50 for mackerel, while ILWU Local 33 seeks at least 88 for security fees. Alfred Calise and John Rich stand with the Terminal Island picket line as talks continue.
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Dorothy R
Star Kist
Terminal Island
San Pedro
Karl Lee
Lee
Vin
Fishermen's Co-Operative Assn
Mack Fishermen’s Local 33
International
Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union
Alfred Calise
AFI Union
John Iich
Fishermen’s Local 33
Alfredo Calise
Jeff
Afl-Cio Seine and Line Fishermen's Union
John Marinkovich
ILWU
Fish Harbor
Calise
Staif
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Th Malcolm Epley
T. D. Litwack
George Logan
Community Welfare Council
Clarence E. Wagner
Board of Health
iCar
Perry K. Countryman
E. 3Rd St
Roscoe Slade
Damon St
Reclaimer
Safeguard
Lipan
Mara Reef
U. S. Navy
L. B
Lensman
The
Erea
I'm
Hemrock
Southland
Psychiatric Clinic For
Signal Hill
Dominguez
Ruth Curie
Harold Stone
Joseph Carpentieri
Seiier
Los Angeles Poice Dept
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