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I V. .1 II IH'1 m-v ww I I I III I -i -a. -a "'I -r -Vu 0- Jum--y From-AlanticAvetp-San-Gabriel-River- STATE TO OPEN i 1 I 7 H. A i WORK i V' The figures are River, closed by City Engineer, The contract is the last I. By GEORGE WEEKS More thin $12A 'MnstrucfiSOforir on the Sin Diego Free way.

in Beech, if. well advancedLand the state will open bids May 24 on an additional contact estimated at $14 million. Freeway to California Avenue. Frederickson ft Wat- has completed 46 per cent of contract for itruc- Boulevard and Chirk that the $6,020,000 new.Long 1 Jea'D'Gilkerfohln a monthly report on capital improvement This months bid open-; Ing will cover construction across the east section of Long Beach from 'At-antic Avenue to the San "to1 be1 awarded fortfie San' Diego Freeway within the city lunits. LARGEST of the proj-.

ects currently under way provides for the segment from k- the Longf Beach son fcaand Adams' A ISHuT Construction Co. have the ,17,340,424 about' 10 'per cent com: pleted. Scheduled completion. date is Oct. 15, ,1963.

Guy F. Atkinson Co. tures at Cherry Avenue -pleted. and Studebaker Road. Es- timated cpst is $34409, and completion is.

set for March 21, 1963. A $1,299,330 cpntract forwUlcpr. Street relocation "between Lakewood. ,1. Beach Arena is 78 per cent completed.

The contractor. Gust K. Newberg Construction has prpmised that major sections of the building will be ready for. use in early July. --THE BALANCE of the work is due to be Chished by Jaoj10, 1963.

Steve Rsdos and Inc, are the contractors. Gilkerson also, reported j- Sunny and slightly wanner today. High about 70. Complete on Page A-2. 'Southland's OWN SUNDAY: Newspaper Phone HE 5-1 161 -CUtiified No.

HE 2-5959 PRICE 20 CENTS LONG BEAChnT'CAUFORNIA, SUNDAY, MAY 13,1962 VOL 10 NO. 38 FORCES RUSH TO ASIA -y if ii ui mv VlFRF rmoy, doughboy, ddh In other words Kilroy claim Kilroy first material-and his followers wereized out of a rusty Spam nutty. -t an long before the war But before Kilroy is drummed out of the serv: la with a last thumb-nose salute to his colonel. Dr, Ward is probably in for an argument from a few million retired GIs. They ended and indeed, bsgre anyone thought it would ever end.

WAS KILROY? Our research and Dr. Ward is welcome to it WASHINGTON (UPI-President Kennedy Saturday ordered land, sea and air preparations for. possible U.S. military intervention in the area of Laos. A 7th Flat task force already was on.

the move. Decisions were taken at two White. House strategy sessions to throw more American fnilitary power into the western Pacific' area to be ready for any eventuality if the Laotian situation continues to deteriorate derway. Officials aid that orders went out Saturday for' other elements of the flat to move to the area. Alerts were also given to airborne units on Okinawa and In the continental United States.

1 Aboard the 7th, Fleet task force were 1,000 combat-ready Marines, it wys said. Standard procedure of the 7th Fleet is -to keep a fully-armed, battalion of approximately 2,000 Marina afloat In toe Pacific 162 PAGES IT China is only 30 mites from srrTh 7to-Fleet combat-ready Marines, left Subic Bay in the Philippines Friday for the Gulf of Siam. These waters are within easy striking dis-' tana of -the landlocked kingdom where Communist-led forca scored heavy gains this'-wlek in the country north. These military as. Kennedy with his advisers at the ONE SESSION shows the ever-present, a ever-lost elf was an Air'.

Force spirit, an infantry genius, a shipyard tor, a steeplejack and maybe'a hobo. He turned up once as a precocious Long Beach infant And he may have led the Roman legions into Gaul or the Greeks into Troy. Authority for the "uiji-versaLKilrpy is Websters. Third New International. Dictionary.

Its definition follows: KILROY (after Kilroy mjrthical soldier of War II, whose name was inscribed In unlikely places all over toe world ky American soldiers): an inveterate traveler (like the reamers Kilroy and Ulys-sesr-Peter yiereck); espj a transient soldier (of all the Kilroys of history who have passed through here it was Napoleon who bat summed up toe strategic importance of Malta J. P. ODonnelL) Some dare to claim Kii-roy was a civilian. In a 1947 contest on his origin, sponsored by American Transit tjie prizewinning letter was authored byjJRUnes J. Kilroy of Halifax, who wrote: On Dec.

5, 1941, I started to work for Beth- developments were disclosed held two urgent meetings top military and diplomatic White House. lasted an hour and 40 minutes and -broke up shortly, after, noon. Another session was Jield in 'the. afternoon, and iO lasted about an hour before Kennedy flew to a politial rally in Officials said a decision was made to place American military power in position '(Continued Page' A-6, Col 1) OFFICIALS WOULD not rule intervention in Laos itself if the situation continues, to fall apart. But they indicated a more likely move would be to throw a protective fora into neighboring Thailand.

The first military step was taken Friday when the 7th Fleet task force got un- 300,000 Cheer i Him on Streets of Milwaukee MILWAUKEE UP! Presi dent Kennedy, speaking in the state which, gave him his real start toward the White House, aid Saturday night that many tasks still are un-doneHUjd we cannot permit this country to standstill" The President spoke at a big Democratic politkal rally at in the metropolis of the state which marked up a victory for him in the I960 primary, Kennedy went on from there to the '-presidential nomination and the White House. 'Arid be talked in terms reminiscent of his campaign after receiving a welcome, by a roaring throng of people packed along a nine-mile motorcade route from the airport into the heart of- Milwaukee. POLICE estimated the turnout at 300,000 for a city of almost one millioiu Getting the country moving was a major theme of the campaign in i960, and-Ken- nedy reverted to idea Saturday night. He said he reads in the papers that some people thipk the President is all rightbut "they dont know. about Ms program.

That, he said, has been aid of through the years. i HE TICKED off his items a bill to retrain chronically unemployed, a program to "rgive jobs to young people, medial are for the aged tacked' KTSoclaT Security, a program of higher eduatton, construction of college dortni-tories, assistance fo farmers. These7TCennedy aid, ire things a "country must do, things that manyother countries did years ago, yet areregarded witli concern here because they i LoTroopsTU.S. Aides Flee feeds Thailand By STERLING BEMIS Kilroy, the phantom of World War II, has been psychoanalyzed a paper couch and may be haded for a Discharge Without Honor as a Sec- tion VIII case, (S i YHI covers anyone dumb enough to get out of uniform before his hitch is After prolonged re-' search. Dr.

Clyde of toe University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine-Juts claiming Kilroy wasnt vented until the middle of 1945. The; Philadelphia; psychiatrist ays the': khaki leprechaun was a product demobilization and contends the phrase KILROY WAS HERE was used at Kearns Field, Salt Lake City. The Kearns Air Force Post Review, published it on June 26, 1945. LIKE ANY GOOD psychiatrist, Dr, Ward has an intriate explanation for everything. He concludes that soldiers wrote the ubiquitous phrase to quell anxiety about reentering the perilous civilian world.

To the psychiatrist, Kilroy suggests revolt agkinst tyrants (kill the king), soothing the serviceman with memories of past tri-. umphs. ulacs, tears FQR A QUEEN SPOKANE, Wuh. -The Queen of toe Lilac Festival may weep as she is surrounded tor flowered splendor this week. She's allergic to jilacs.

As Queen Louise Henry 18, began the week of fes-' tival 'activitia here Saturday she admitted her eyes fill with tare and her turns red when shes nar flowers especially lilacs. IHoi? to Roill0 NEW YORK Wi Secretary of the Treasury Douglas Dil-ltoi left by plane Saturday en route to Rome to attend the monetary 'conferena of the American Bankers Association. iimu I (Continued Page A-7, Col. 3) Kills 15; 6 Survive GW A Canadian charter carrying Danish government workers and nurses, crashed while making a land-tng approach in Greenland Saturday-The Danish Ministry of Greenland said 15 of the 21. persons aboard were killed Three of the survivors were theCanadian rifled as Vincent KieRidi-' and JVoolridge xnitLBen Nielsen, a native of Denmark.

The other survivors and the dead were identified as Danes. -The plane, a Catalina amphibious, craft owned by the Canadian Eastern Commer dal Airways, had been char-toed by the Danish Civil Greenland Air Service for 220-mile flight from Sonder StromfjonL to Godthsab. in western Greenland. Godthsab ls Greenlands administrative capital, 1 Uslltyfim. sion and the Defense Depart' mentjaid toe.

Pacific. explo sion was fired at shout 1 pjn. EDT. No time was given for the Nevada' test. Most of the Pacific test ex-pfotf of the same general size, al-thwghonewasdescribed is larger.

IN ADDmON, toe Pacific series has included a test of a Polaris missile fired from submarine while submerged, and one low-yield underwater explosion detonated Friday. No clues were given as to the nature of that underwater blast, but it could have been a nuclear missile which the Navy claims can seek out and kill an enemy submarine with in' an eight-mile range. the captqred royal government stronghold Muong Sing. Thailand reacted with alarm to" the approach of pro-Communist forca to its r. Interior Minister Gen.

Papas Charuiatien -warned that toe Communists are at.eur door we will ufight to our last -breath against the Commu-nist danger we will 1 fight on every inch of land." Nevada A-Devices Fired I WASHINGTON CPV The United States conducted two more nuclear tests Saturday an air drop qear Christmas Island in the Pacific and an underground test in Nevada. It was the second day in a the royal capital of Luang Prabang. Luang Prabang it- self was threatened. -American military sourc es said Maj. Gen.

Bounleut Sanichan and 2,000 royal troops crossed the Mekong River into Thailand and were disarmed and interned jn a 300-yard-long pasture on the Thai side of the Interned, with them was Brig. Gen. La Pathama-vong, commander of. the fallen Nam Tha garrison. The' situation in South-ust Asia was so serious that, Laotian strongman Phoumi Nosavan flew to Bangkok for conferences Four persons floated helplessly in the water two mites off Huntington Bach Saturday after their boat sank.

They were finally rescued by tugboat crewmen. -The Coagt Guard aid toe 22-foot -oabin'crulser -owned by'vance Miller, 43, of AlhSmbra, swamped, in choppy "water and to the bottom. Small craft warn-, ings had been posted all day, the Coast Guard said. Milter and his three passen gers were picked up by a tug "This," the chief executive agqaidirTllie-iMim between -those who -feel -we- should stand still and those who feel We-shouldmoveahead." He said progress has been much remains to be done, and (Continued Page A-3, Col 3) row that two blasts had been set off -in the, current series its. Two shots were fired Friday, both In the Pacific.

Saturdays explosions were of lntermedlateyield meaning a blast having toe equiv-alot of from 20,000 to one million tons of -conventional explosive force. An underground test of intermediate yield at toe Nevada proving ground. 'This wvsJhe 32nd of the underground series. The Pacific" test was the 10th of toe aria which began there on. April 25.

Most of them, like Saturdays, have been atmospheric tests. A joint announcement by the Atomic Energy Commis- VIENTIANE, Laos (UPI)- The commander-ln-chief of the Royal Laotian Army fled to Thailand Saturday-with 2,000 troops and seven U.S.' military advisers as proCommunist rebels completed. the conquest of northwestern Laos. The government proclaimed a state of emergency throughout the country. The village of Houei Sal last royal stronghold In the northwest, fell to the on-jushing jebels without a struggle, giving the neutralist; rebels and the proCommunist Pathet Lao eon, trol of all of Laos north of WOOD8URY.JLj.MV-A dense fog descended over the southern wcriprLof.the.New Jersey" Turnpike setting the stage for a chain of accidents described as one of the worst, pileups in' the highways 10-yar history.

1 State polia aid between 50 end 75 automobiles, bus, a horse, van- and several trucks were involved in a mass pileup in both the north and southbound lanes. At. least 36 persons were injured, nine seriously enough to be detained in hospitals." Womens iowned by the Wilshire Oil Co, sndTra ni ed to the Liberian tanker Tasman Sea anchored off Huntington The other passengers were identified as Rod Mass, 28, of Lousi Arthur of' Altadena; and Dan Quinad, 35, of Arcadia. None was. hospitalized, too -Coast Guard 'aid.

A -Coast-. Guard cutter put the four men' ashore at Newport Beach. A WOMAN HARASSED BY TIME Grand Prize Poem IT'S VACATION TIME Travel Tips Today in Special Section The vanguard of 135 million Americans expected toVtake vacations this year has storied to roll. Resort spots of the West are beginning to fill World travelers are storting their cruises or board-'' ing the big But this isonly the beginning. Res-, ervations are deluging steamship, air- line, bus and railroad-, ticket agencies for the big push which wUl start with -the dosing of schools.

More than two' million vacationists will go abroad, others will turn to the wide open spacesor themetropolitan areas jof the United iStotes, Canada and Mex- ico. Where are YOU going on-YOUR vacation? The Presjs-Telegrams Travel and VacatioiL. Omde puHlfshed today in a. separate tabloid sec-' tioiH-offers scores of tip on where Jo go, how to get Jhere, and what to see and do after; you arrive for aTfun-filled trip. to it now 7.

And always the captive snarling rage- At brevity of center stage. By SHERM WILLIAMS Betty Henderson, a legal secretary rqrped those words but of. her typewriter, tofcn jerked'the paper out of the machine, 1 It was almost 10 pjn.Time was a problem. There was a deadUne to be met ahd friend that she would write something' that could entered in the 23rd Annual- Poetfy Convnitjonu)( the' California Federation of Chaparfal Pats in Long Bach. Whatshe.wrotworLlhe.swwitakesprizeJSurday.

in the convention and broke precedena for the Chaparral Poets. Her Circus," glittered with technical broke precedena ft Circus," glittered 7 MOTHERS DAY takes the spotlight today. So be aura and read Staff Writer Mary Ellis sparkling piece oq working moms on- Page W4 Regular P-T features follow; Amusements MUste and Beach Combing. Radio-TV -paim- Resl-Estite nnoge-r. rSch00, a Ship Arrivals.

Sports -Cl-6 Star B-10 Classified Doth Notlca. C-9 Editorials y.i I TV 1-16 RIH For two years, Mrs. Henderson toyed with the word and theme of her poem. Wife of a Sacramento State 'College professor end. once secretary for former Goy Goodwin J.

Knight, Mrs. Henderson works, in' a state office. What thought she gave her poem hid to be in her1: mug time. she delayed writing her poem. -77 was the final hours of toe final night that the finally put it on paper, Accidentally, she told tha tory 1 'But friend pushed her to; enter the Chaparral contest.

First Mrs. Henderson had to join the society. That ehy, did had worktO doatifihL .1. 7-V Financial I excellence-not unusual for the Chaparral Poets--but was almost beatnik in ltd i (T That is unusual for the staid Chaparrals largest i i -i I -r- i 1 a 1 I- (Continued Page Ar3, Col i) A 4 I A V1 1 -n i it T-i' 1-. 7 1 ViJ --Ir V.

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