The U.S. Census puts the population of Orange County at 216,224.   Seal Beach is 3,553. Long Beach is 244,072, and the population of the unincorporated Los Alamitos area is _________.

25 FEB 1950 - Long Beach Chamber of Commerce take steps to pay $1,000,000 to buy a site for a new state college.  The ownership of the property is divided among the Fred H. Bixby Co (282 acres), local builder and developer Lloyd S. Whaley (31 acres) and a Bixby Family Trust (probably Susanna Bixby Bryant's land, 15 acres).

Fred Bixby owned the biggest piece of property. He did not want to sell his ranch land. "He didn;t want to sell it all." But he was not in good health. According to Fred Dean, "The upper campus was Fred's. The veteran's Hospital was Fred's. Bellflower Bloulevard was Fred's. We just talked to him like brothers. We didn't try to high pressure him. You couldn't high pressure Fred. We said we should have this for Long Beach. That was one of the last things he did before he died was to sell us that."
Lloyd Whaley sold us his land. He got that from Mrs. Bryant.. Mrs. Bryant's ranch.

Fred Dean - CSULB oral history

Ross Cortese, a developer of homes in the Downey, and later the Lakewood, Anaheim and Los Alamitos areas, forms the Rossmoor Corporation.
   According to Cortese's bio, his parents were so poor he had to leave school when he was in the seventh grade. He helped support his parents by selling produce from a truck for several years, and only after World War II did he start the path to success.

19 JUN 1951 - LB Press Telegram -- Fred Bixby, owner of the Bixby Ranch -- which owns the southern half of future Rossmoor -- gives a grant of $250,000 to UC Davis to help farming students.

Los Alamitos race track opens.

19 JAN 1952 — Press Telegram, Los Alamitos hit by crest; 2 more dead; evacuees returning as waters recede in Artesia area.  (Section A, Page 1, Column 3)

1952 - citing Dec. 18, 1960 - LA Times oc8 -- A legal gambling house probably could still be operating in Seal Beach today if the poker operators of the early 1950s had not been so greedy and domineering.

Seal Beach gambling suffered a knockout punch at the ballot box eight years ago, but the city has taken a big assist from neighboring Long Beach to bring reasonable assurance the gaming tables are gone for good.

24 AUG 1952 — Press Telegram — Son razing rancho mansion of late Suzanna Bixby Bryant in Santa Ana Canyon  Section A, Page 5, Column 1.

Suzanna Bixby Bryant was the sister of Fred H. Bixby, owner ofd the Bixby Ranch Company. Together they inherited that portion of Rancho Los Alamitos roughly south of Stearns and north of PCH in Long Beach, and south of Orangewood and north of Garden Grove Blvd in Orange County. Suzanna exchanged much of her Alamitos land for Fred's share of land out in east Orange County (near present Esperanza High School), but she did keep that land which became University Park (just west of Long Beach State), and the land which she later sold for for the Naval Air Station Los Alamitos, as well as the section of land west of Los Alamitos Blvd. which was sold after her death and became the first piece of the puzzle that would become Rossmoor.

Laurel Elementary School District changes its name to Los Alamitos Elementary School District. 

Ross Cortese plans to build 800 homes at " Lakewood Rancho Estates," the half mile square tract bounded by Spring and Wardlow, Studebaker and El Dorado Park.   Midway through design, he junks his original designs and chooses to use Cliff May designed “California Ranch” homes.

Cliff May was a world-renowned designer and considered the father of the ranch home -- the most common housing style built in the 1950s through 1970s. His slab floors, and floor-to ceiling rear doors and windows and pre-fabrication techniques revolutionized the housing construction industry, and Cortese hitched his wagon to May and his partner Chris Choate with the Lakewood Rancho projects and then later the Anaheim Fremantle homes, where they first used many features later used in the Rossmoor homes.

The Hellman property of Bullet Hill (also called Marina Hill, or more commonly  just “The Hill”) is annexed by  Seal Beach

1956

The U.S. Navy Weapons Station's 1,000-foot wharf opens, allowing first dockside missile loading inside Anaheim Bay

April 5, 1956 - Under the headline, “3,000 Homes May Start in Los Alamitos in July,” the Enterprise reports that Los Alamitos Chamber of Commerce officials were informed that several hundred acres of the Irvine property , located just west of Los Alamitos Blvd. and south of Katella, has several well-known subdividers bargaining for the land.  [The Irvine Company was part of an entity which purchased the land from the estate of Susana Bixby Bryant in 1947.]
     The Enterprise was told by one local tract builder that he expected to go into escrow within a few days , and if this happened he would build 3,000 homes, with a 30-acre shopping center. It would take three years. He has built several other subdivisions in Long Beach and  Anaheim.

24 MAY 1956  (Enterprise) —  The headline reads “Tract Land Sale largest ever recorded in County.”

The sale of a total of 756 acres of subdivision land south of Katella and west of Los Alamitos Blvd. was named by Orange County officials as the largest ever recorded in Orange County.
     Sold by the Irvine Company, Mr. and Mrs. W.B. Hellis and W.S. Tuback (which purchased the land from the Susana Bixby Bryant Estate in 1947), the buyers reportedly included California Gov. Goodwin Knight, Alfred Gitelson, Morris Kawin, and Edward Rothschild, who are listed as the Lakewood Rancho Land Company.
     Developer of the subdivision is Ross Cortese, who built the Lakewood Rancho Estates and the Frematic Homes in Anaheim.
     A total of 2,398 homes is scheduled for the area, with three elementary schools proposed [this was apparently before a separate land deal was aranged with the Bixby Ranch Company for the southern half of the tract.) as well as two big shopping centers. One is to be 14 acres at Katella and Los Alamitos Blvd, and the other 17 acres further south on the boulevard.
     Typical lots in the subdivision show 7,210 square feet on 70 by 102 foot lots. School sites shown are 10, 9.1, and 9.8 acres.
     The tract is tentatively named “Rossmor” (sic) and is scheduled to come before the planning commission June 6.  Time tables call for the major share of the development within two years.

Approval was granted at the June 7 meeting, and the June 21 Enterprise announced “Los Alamitos subdivision to start within three weeks, Sundivider says.”
   After approval was given by the Orange County Planning Commission for the largest subdivision ever recorded in Orange County, the builder announced he hoped to start work within three weeks.
   Ross W. Cortese, who applied for the $80,000,000 project said it should have an eventual population of around 10,000 people, two shopping centers, four school sites, and two church sites.
   Appearing to protest the development were Frank Shurlock, Long Beach assistant planner and Robert Dyer, Long Beach planning engineer. They asked the reservation of a right of way through the southern part of the subdivision to allow the extension of Atherton Street to link with Lampson Avenue in Garden Grove.
   Shurlock said traffic studies show a great need  for the extension of Atherton across the San Gabriel River. It now stops at the river and is a major road.
   The Orange County Road Department explained  the matter had been studied. Cost of erecting a bridge over the river would have to be borne by Orange County if Atherton were carried through to Lampson.
   It was contended by the road department that the extension of Garden Grove Blvd., Westminster Avenue and Katella over into Los Angeles County, as major roads, would take care of the trafic problem.
   Cortese said the name of the new tract would be “Rossmoor” and will cover 667 acres. Prices of the houses will be between $17,000 and $20,000.

On July 19 the Enterprise noted that “Model Houses started on Subdivision.”
   Construction has begun on the model homes for the “Rossmore” subdivision in Los Alamitos. Sales of homes is expected to begin within a few weeks.
   The models are located on Los Alamitos Blvd., just north of the Watte Ranch. “ (which was adjacent to the current Parasol/Mel's restaurant).

   The new homes will be marketed for “urban workers who want a suburban dwelling,” i.e., the professionals at McDonnell Aircraft and the new Long Beach State University.  Lots are slightly larger (min. 7,200 square feet as opposed to the standard 5,500 square foot lot) and the streets are generally ten feet wider than in most other communities.  The tract would eventually include 3,400 home, making it still the largest single subdivision ever built in Orange County.
   The homes will be priced between $17,000 and $20,000.

The June 6, 1957 edition of The Enterprise reported that Rossmoor's first residents — Mr. and Mrs. Sam J. Musser — "recently" moved into a home on 3182 Kempton Drive.
    The Mussers, a retired sales manager for the Armour Meat Packing Company, had relocated from St. Joseph, Missouri.
    That same issue reported a federal grant of $52,000 to the Los Alamitos Elementary School District.  Superintendent Jack L. Weaver reported that currently 620 children attend school in the district — but they had no room for over 300 of them, forcing double sessions.  (This over-enrolment was due mainly to the increase of children of federal employees and military at the NAS.  But with the opening of Rossmoor, the district enrollment was expected to swell to between 4,000 and 5,000 students.

11 JULY 1957 -  Enterprise, p.1 - Los Alamitos is third in county in building activity.
     SANTA ANA—Los Alamitos was ranked third for the first six months of 1957 for subdivision development, according to figures compiled by the Orange County Recorder.
     Los Alamitos had 181,320 acres developed into 710 lots.
     Anaheim was first with 245,215 acres and 932 lots and Buena Park in second with 836 lots covering 277,206 acres.

AUG 8 1957 - The Enterprise reports "Controversy Flares over Road Extension to LB." The controversy was over which Long Beach road should be connected with which main west Orange County thoroughfare to link Long Beach with the growing recreation destinations of Disneyland the Los Alamitos Race Track.
The matter was first proposed by the Los Al Chamber of Commerce which enlisted the support of other western OC cities and Disneyland to form the Katella Road Commission with the goal of linking Katella Ave with Willow Street in Long Beach. Disneyland obviously wanted to make it easier to bring more visitors to its new park (located at Katella and Harbor in Anaheim), and Ross Cortese, the developer of Rossmoor, backed this extension.
Opposing it was developer Lloyd Whaley, the builder of the huge Los Altos subdivision in easter Long Beach, who wanted Atherton extended to connect with Bostonian in Rossmoor. This would drive more traffic to his new Los Altos shopping Center.
When Katella proponents pointed out that an Atherton extension would force a northern turn to take traffic to Katella anyway, and might conflict with future expansion of the Los Al air base, Whaley said he understood the base would close in the was going to close soon anyway.

Ross Cortese stops his attempt to annex the Rossmoor tract to the Long Beach school district.

OCT 24 1957 - Enterprise, p.1: "Papers Filled to seek cityhood for Rossmoor." — First step in seeking the conversion of the Rossmoor subdivision as a city was taken last week when a petition was filed with the county.
Bill Cheney, member of the sales division for the subdivision who lives at 3152 Oak Knoll Road in the tract, delivered the petition. There were 24 signatures on it.

Boundaries of the proposed city are roughly Los Alamitos Blvd. on the east, Garden Grove Blvd. on the south, Coyote Creek on the west and Katella on the north.

If the move is successful it will create the 22nd city in Orange County.

The entire area encompasses approximately 1,000 acres and is owned principally by the builders of Rossmoor. It is most unoccupied at the present time.

Signers of the petition were Cheney,
Kathryn Murray, 3161 St. Albans Dr.;
M.L. Howard, 3151 Bostonian Dr.;
Audrey A. Hough, 12041 Old Mill Rd.;
Bonnie R. Spencer, 3132 St. Albans Dr.;
Mrs. Robert J. Leebrick, 12021 Old Mill Rd.;
Edward A. Mills, Jr., 3211 Kempton Dr.;
Mrs. E.W. Fullaway, 12021 Chaucer Rd.;
Frank Flosck, 3112 Bostonian Dr.;
Belva F. Vukovich, 3181 Bradbury Rd;
Howard F. Kimball, 3351 Oak Knoll Dr.;
Mrs. Dean L. Nicodemus, 3242 Bradbury Rd;
C.W. Krauss, 3115 Bostonia Dr;
Mrs. Geraldine McKay, 2161 Bostonian Dr.;
Donald J. Haugen, 3121 St. Albans Dr.;
Robert Joseph Mayer, , 3181 Oak Knoll Dr.;
Lorraine Hickman, 3111 Bostonian Dr.;
Betty Patterson, 3171 Bostonian Dr.;
Wendell Fisher, 12031 Wallingsford Rd;
Jean Holm, 3155 Bostonian Dr.;
Lorraine Roseman, 3201 Bradbury Rd.;
Peter J. Meckler, 3212 Bradbury Rd.;
Mrs. Charles Holland, 3222 Bradbury Rd.;
Donna Salem, 3241 Bradbury Rd.:
Kathleen Pearson, 3221 Bradbury Rd.

A sidebar article about the possible incorporation by Enterprise publisher Dale Kroesen noted:

The callers... want to know just what advantages they would gain by incorporating by themselves, and how much their taxes would go up.
This writer has been active in four incorporations and two attempts within the past four years.

From our experience with these, resulting from many meetings, concerning the studies of what conditions must exist for healthy incorporation taxwise, the Rossmoor attempt seems to be premature.

Kroesen, an entertaining and quite knowledgeable local gadfly, later pointed out that at the time of the filing Rossmoor only had 13 registered voters, and that it would probably have to levy the maximum tax rate of one dollar per hundred assessed valuation bcause there is no other appreciable source of income available to the city.

27 OCT 1957 — Rossmoor Homewoeners Assn. formed at Sunday night meeting at Congregational Church. Ross Dorsett is appointed temporary chairman. Appointed as temporary executive board of the association are: Luther Robinson, Willis Clark, John Both, Mrs. Tom Tripp, David Battin, Robert Fullaway, B.W. Gilfillian, Ellis Warmpler, Dr. Goodwin-Malmouth, Lawrence Michealsen, and Eli Buchovich.

A resolution presented by OC Supervisor Willis Clark requesting any move towards incorporation be placed in abeyance for a year until 1) more residents/voters move into the area and 2) a thorough studfy of the issue could be raised was passed with only 12 dissenting votes.
William Cheney, who sponsored the original motion said he and Ross Cortese had discussed "dropping the whole thing," if enough of the residents indicated they did not want to incorporate. He added the only reason they wanted to incorporate in the first place was because they thought it would help their sales.

14 NOV 1957—Enterprise lists tax rate breakdown for Los Alamitos and Rossmoor

17 NOV 1957—Press Telegram:  Rossmoor group again seeks L.B. annexation. (Section:  A, Page : 7; Column 1)

21 NOV 1957—Enterprise: 6-3 vote Stops Sewer Bond For Rossmoor. Giving an indication of future cantankerous , the nine registered voters in the Rossmoor tract voted against funding a new pumping station, saying present sewage was adequet and they should not be required to pay for future develoipment in their tract.

FHA denies loans on 600 Rossmoor homes. Saying that home in the soutyernmost portion of the planned tract woul be directly in the flight path, they refused to loan money, saying it was too dangerously close to loan money for the houses.
Cortese had originally planned 4,000 homes, but said he would now construct about 3,400. About 900 are now under construction nd about 500 have already been sold.

NOV 28 1957 - California state legislators begin an inquiry into the role of Gov. Goodwin Knight (one of the investors in the Rossmoor company) in the granting of a extremely generous water deal to Ross Cortese for the construction of Rossmoor.

NEW HOPE THAT LONG BEACH WILL APPROVE KATELLA-WILLOW LINK-UP
Long Beach officials indicated they would endorse a plan by Orange County officials that Katella Avenue should be connected with Willow Street as one of the first projects in the inter-county highway improvement program, followed by Westminster, Cerritos St., and then other highways.
The merchants and devloper of the Los Altos Shopping Center wanted Atherton St. extended into Rossmoor "for business purposes" and then to ultimately connect with Lampson, but those merchants have "changed their tune," according to Supervisor William J. Phillips.

P.8 - RACE TRACK OPENS WITH 22-DAY MEET— The Los Alamitos Race Track began its fall 22-day slate of races. KTLA will televise live four big Saturday races, with track announcer Bobby Doyle calling the actioon, and color being provided by Stan Chambers and Johnny Beekman.

The Rossmoor-Los Alamitos Little League is formed by Rossmoor parents.  They play their games on land donated by Ross Cortese, at the corner of Montecito  and Bradbury (where the current Rossmoor Townhomes are).  
    The league plays its first games on 24 MAY 1958 and among the VIPs in attendance on opening day are former major leaguer (St. Louis browns) and Hollywood Stars player Chuck Stevens, as well as KFOX DJ Gary Fuller.  Father Dominic Daley performed the invocation.
     League President Lee Milligan read a letter of congratulations from U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower.
     The winning pitcher of that very first game was Rossmoor's Andy Messersmith ( who would go on to pitch for the Dodgers and be instrumental in bringing free agency to professional baseball) who struck out 14 batters en route to a 2-0 win. Losing pitcher Gary DeAnna had 10 strikeouts.

     The team sponsors for that first season include:
Ross Cortese -- Knights
Bill Cheney/Walker & Lee Realtors -- Tigers
Mark Davis/Glenn E. Thomas Dodge -- Dodgers
Dick Fulford/Los Alamitos Business Association -- Squires
Los Alamitos Country Club -- Yankees
Nick Katsaris/Sam's Sea Food - Shrimps
J.B. Cox & Company - Stars
Mark Bragen/Wonderbowl -- Cubs

     Cortese, of course,  does not overlook the opportunity to market the Little League (and its family atmosphere) in his weekly ads and articles in the LA Times.

15 JANUARY 1959 - Enterprise, p.5 Last Christmas at Watte Ranch.
It was a gala Christmas at the Watte Ranch.
Fifty two of the clan gathered at the Oscar Watte's to celebrate the last Christmas at "the home place."
The Wattes who have lived there for thirty five married years, will have to leave their home for the proposed development of the Rossmoor shopping center.
The Watte Ranch is located at the south end of Los Alamitos Blvd. and Bixby Avenue. Oscar has been farming this land for fifty one years. Anna and her family moved onto part of the ranch in 1911. The home they live in now was built by Oscar thirty three years ago.

22 JANUARY 1959 — Enterprise, p.3, ROSSMOOR HOME WILL BE PRIZE FOR LUCKY LADY — (This reads like a press release) Plans for a $20,000 to be awarded as a grand prize on the Queen for a Day television show, were announced by Ross W. Cortese, devloper of the new 1200 acxre community near Long Beach.
The ranch-style home will be won by a "queen" who selects from 40 keys the one which fits the front door of the home. If the contestant is unlucky, the key will be discarded and the contest will be continued until the lucky key is selected.
Winner of the contest, which starts Jan. 26, will receive the deed to her new home on the program and the following day she'll be driven to the new subdivision to inspect her home and the community.
The prise home, the New Englander , provides three bedrooms and features a spacious living room and with a wood-buring fireplace and dining room. It's all-electric kitchen with built-in Frigidaire range, oven and garbage disposal unit and coppertone hood over the island-type cooking center.
Rossmoor which currently has 1,300 families as residents is planned as a 4,000 home community.

p.7 — TWO QUESTIONS TO BE TAKEN BACK TO CLUBS ON INCOROPORATION

25 JUN 1959 - Enterprise, p.1 — Current [Los Al] incorporation fails, after it was found that the names on the petition were insufficient after it was learned that one large landowner who had signed for several hundred acres was not yet on the county tax rolls, having only recently purchased the land. Los Al cityhood proponents, anticipating such a failure, were there and asked the Board of Supervisors to reconsider the petition with a refiling of new boundaries. After deeming the boundaries "sufficiently changed," petitioners got the approval to seek new signatures. This effectively blocked other communties from trying to annex any of the land within the proposed boundaries.
Los Al Chamber President Bill Brown, the leader of the incorporation movement, noted that Rossmoor was deliberately out, except for the proposed new Rossmoor Shopping Center, because in a recent survey, a majority of people had indicated they were not in favor of the incorporation and it had been difficult to get signatures there.
Local backers explained that the rush to tie up the area as soon as possible is because of the threat from Westminster and Garden Grove.
Westminster has indicated they might annex the Air Statin and the two proposed shopping centers [Von's at Los Al & Fahrquhar, and the Rossmoor Center.].
If they were successful, Los Alamitos would be left as an island on the edge of the county, with no future of cityhood — the only alternative being to annex to Westminster.

Subdivider attempting to block competing Commercial Center plan
Admiral John McKinney, a represntative of Ross Cortese, has appeared locally many times to organize opposition to Harry Rinker's $16 million dollar shopping venture [the current Von's center.]. A week later the Los Alamitos Business Association voted in favor of rezoning to accomodate the developer's plans.

16 JULY 1959 — (Enterprise, p.1) Homeowners Assn nixes new Incorporation lines.

Rossmoor Homeownerrs Association members voted 34-2 Monday night to "block every portion of Rossmoor land possible which is included in the proposed Los Alamitos incorporation."
General feeling of those present seemed to be that when the proponents of the Los Alamitos incoporation recently included the upper quarter of the Rossmoor tract and the proposed shopping center in Rossmoor, it wasn't fair to the Rossmoor residents. It left all the rest of the Rossmoor homes in unincorporated territory, with no alternative but to stay that way or annex with Los Alamitos. President Malcolm Lucas started a discussion which indicated that if the areas in question were left out of the proposed Los Al incorporation, Rossmoor might still be able to incorporate as a city.
However, they also indicated that without the area between Orangewood and Katella and the shopping center, they would not be able to have a city.
Enterprise publisher Dale Kroesen explained that the strip along Los Al Blvd. to Garden Grove was purposely included to cut Rossmoor off from the possibility that Westminster or Garden Grove coming in and annexing the Rossmoor Shopping Center land.
Kroesen said the financial success of the new Los Alamitos city did not depend on the Rossmoor Center, although it would be a plumb for them, as it would be for any city.
Most discussion centered around contacting subdivider Ross Cortese, and working with him to get the land in question cut out of the boundaries at the boundary hearing which will come up after the petitions are approved.

Summer 1959 - Jack Haley wins first US Open Surf Championship

Jack - nicknamed "The Raven" for the shock of black hair crowning his tall, slim frame helped pioneer the "golden age" of surfing before becoming one of Seal Beach's top civic leaders and businessmen. He was 24 years old when he took top honors in the first surfing championship, at the U.S. Open of Surfing in Huntington Beach. The year was 1959 and Jack was credited with giving the seaside community its nickname: Surf City. In 1960 Jack began his career as a Seal Beach lifeguard. He spearheaded the drive to build a new lifeguard headquarters at the entrance to the Seal Beach Pier. He next opened one of the area's first surf shops, Jack Haley's Surfboards, in 1961. And in 1965 he opened Captain Jack's restaurant, which has become a Sunset Beach institution. Last year he was inducted into the Surfing Hall of Fame and Walk of Fame both in Huntington Beach. He was also recently inducted into the Seal Beach Surfing Hall of Fame. He is one of Seal Beach's most famous residents due to his caring heart, surfing talents, and being a successful entrepreneur. Haley preferred surfing on the long-boards crafted in the 60's as opposed to the fashionable shorter boards. This was the style that worked best for him. "Haley could almost always be found wearing a loud Hawaiian shirt - untucked - with shorts and flip flops. He boasted a voracious appetite for life and a genuine concern for people", said son Tim Haley. Jack recently passed away at age 65 due to cancer. Haley's ashes will be sprinkled into the ocean off Maui and Cabo San Lucas, where he owned homes nearby. "His ashes will be poured into the sea, so he will continue surfing," said Tim Haley. "It was like he had saltwater running through his veins instead of blood. The sea was his life," as stated by his wife Jeanette. Born Nov 25, 1934 in Long Beach, passed away Mar 25, 2000 in Seal Beach.

30 JULY 1959 — (Enterprise, p.1) Residents fume at "Outsiders" For attempt to Re-locate Air Base. Local Los Al residents get upset at a committee of Westminster and Garden Grove landowners and developers, who start campaign to "relocate the Los Al Naval Air Station. The committe includes only one "local," Westminster dairyman Ale Tuinhout, but a number of union leaders representing building trades. Tuinhout sold land to a developer and both indicated they feel the base should be moved, which would allow for more residential development, mainly allowing schools to be constructed in the area. Schools are currently prohibited for being to close to the flight path.
Mrs. A.J. Labourdette, who has lived in Los Alamitos for 35 years, pointed out that most of the rentals in Los Alamitos are occupid by naval personnel and many families have owned homes here for eight or nine years. In civic activities, naval personnel have leaned over backwards to cooperate with the townspeople. Mrs, Labourdette is the secretary of the Chamber of Commerce.

A feisty, standing-room-only crowd at Rossmoor School... discuss Los Alamitos planned incorporation efforts.
Bill Brown from Chamber speaks...
Some residents cry for boycott -- "if a merchant says he's a member of the Los Al chamber, don't do business with him."
   The crowd suffered "evident embarrassment and indignation" when one Rossmoor resident said he rarely went through Los Alamitos, always approaching from the south, but when he recently entered from the north, the town looked like a Santanna (Santa Ana wind) had hit it; and that the buildings were in need of paint." 
Resident Arthur Miller then spoke, criticizing the conduct of some of the people.  They had asked Mr. Brown here as a guest to answer questions and we have been insulting and rude."  he felt their conduct was deplorable.

His "request for an apology was greeted with a long ovation."
 

1 OCT 1959 - LA Times, pD1 - The end comes for Seal Beach gambling club

The Sheet Metal Monte Carlo, otherwise known as the Airport Club, is dead.

OCT 15, 1959 (Enterprise) — RHA "doubles" efforts to get Rossmoor excluded from proposed city of Los Alamitos.  
Developer Ross Cortese is reportedly backing the movement.
    Barbara Miller, a petition circulator says she has been encountering reluctance from homeowners because of the phrase "the fiscal and economic problems of Rossmoor residents are not in line with those of Los Alamitos."  A motion to strike the phrase from future petitions did not carry. 

    Drawing animated discussion was a resident's report that not only had he suffered a broken water pipe under his house, but nine of his nearby neighbors had as well.  The RHA planned to look into the thoroughness of FHA inspections during the construction process and into the builder's obligations as well. 

Rossmoor.................... $8.07
Los Alamitos................  8.75
Cypress (city)...............  8.80
Cypress (county)........... 8.04
Dairyland (La Palma)..... 8.79

county portion of that tax........3.04

Dec 3, 1959 - LA Times, pD1 -- END TO SEAL BEACH EROSION SIGHTED: 750-Ft. Groin Is Seen as Answer to City's Drawn-out Battle With Sea

They've put the "beach" back in "Seal Beach" and it looks like the strand is going to stay.