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Newspaper
Seal Beach Post And Wave
Location
Seal Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Jan 13, 1955
Page
2
A new collection schedule took effect Monday January 10 with citywide garbage pickups on Mondays and Fridays. Refuse routes run Tuesday north of Electric Avenue. Wednesday south of Electric Avenue and west of Main Street. Thursday south of Electric Avenue and east of Main Street. All papers cans bottles glass and waste join Fridays pickup. ashes are collected on Fridays.
John Nescher and city engineer John Toups led a survey of Main Street merchants in the 100 and 200 blocks. Ninety percent favored angle parking while all supported paving Main Street. Toups outlined three options including no paving, paving with city funds, or parallel parking funded by gas tax revenues.
Jack Krebs son of Mr and Mrs Otto Krebs of 217 11th Street has been in a hospital in Korea for about two months. He is under doctor's care for yellow jaundice but able to be up and around. His wife Judel recently moved to Garden Grove from her parents home at 341 13th Street.
Ross Mobil Service Station at 1780 Pacific Coast Highway was robbed Wednesday evening about 8 30 by a man who forced the 18 year old attendant Pat Sullivan to the cash register. He fled with $44. Police have not captured the thief.
The Veterans Administration explains that the presidential proclamation ending eligibility on January 31, 1955, ends new Korean GI Bill training. Veterans entering after that date lose entitlement. those before gain only up to January 31. Entitlement multiplies service time up to that date, with conditions including 90 days active duty and discharge non dishonorable. Training must end eight years after the initial eligibility period.
The 15th Rifle Company USMCR based at Seal Beach Ammunition and Net Depot will showcase infantry weapons in the Lakewood March of Dimes parade on Saturday January 15. Parade queen Margaret Whiting contributed the first dime to the Marine Reserve placard and helped push the event in Orange County. The parade, organized by Lakewood groups and televised on KTTV Channel 11, features many stars including Marilyn Maxwell and Gale Storm.
Former Seal Beach resident Herman Drent traveled to the Netherlands by Pan American Airlines to reunite with brothers and sister after 42 years. He visited his oldest daughter in Denver on the return and noted an eight hour Canada snowstorm delay. Drent previously served ten years as Seal Beach Township constable.
Mrs. Dorothy Leake announces the Mothers March on Polio set for January 31 from 7 to 9 PM. Volunteers may call Mrs. Leake at 90 8035 or Mrs. DeSadeleer at 8 5233 to help with collections. The yearly event invites participation by lighting porch lights for the March of Dimes.
Hubert O Grissom of San Francisco was knocked unconscious and robbed at 2 15 a m Tuesday while at the New Yorker Cafe in Long Beach with two sailors and a girl. In Seal Beach at Seventh Street and Bolsa Avenue a sailor struck him then stole his money and papers.
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