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Newspaper
Independent Long Beach
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1951
Page
2
A high school graduation night is to feature an all night dance with top muse and entertainment. The event is student organized and funded, praised as wholesome though some critique exists. The Independent is noted as having helped write the original cost to make such parties possible.
In Bernardino the jury panel for Rose Marie Birdsall, charged with murder, was exhausted. Judge Archie Mitchell ordered 20 more jurors for tomorrow as 80 prospects were exhausted. Persistent courtroom clashes over terms and witness references marked the day. seating was unlikely before next week.
Coast Guard fireboats extinguished a flash fire in the Dutch freighter Schiedyko as it departed Los Angeles harbor. The blaze in the number two hold caused about $200 in damage. The ship, carrying lumber rubber and wheat, continued toward Antwerp Belgium.
City leaders tasted water from the new million dollar treatment facility at Spring St and Newport Ave praising its odorless colorless taste. Officials described the process from intake to activated charcoal filtration and sand beds, noting blending with Metropolitan Water District supply for delivery.
The water department reports halving the seagull issue at the new water treatment plant. Wires along the basins and chains between baffles deter gulls, preventing landings as superintendent Frank T. Higgins explains that birds glide in too late to balance on the wires.
A psychiatrist testified at Bierce’s trial that the 46 year old man was sane when he strangled and mutilated his wife Florence on January 2 in a long revel room. Dr Dwankowski described the crime as sadistic and argued it does not prove insanity.
A city water plant plans to remove two tons of sludge in a single day. Two wells supply 15 parts of eotor, while yesterday’s city samples show zero color. The million dollar plant, funded entirely from water department earnings, is manned by one operator per shift. Frank E. Wall, president of the Water Commission, and Commissioner George Brell hosted visiting officials. Plant superintendent Frank T. Wiggins led the inspection tour.
Gen Douglas MacArthur refused to discuss baseball on a Texas trip, stating he is not talking baseball today as press reports link him to replacing A B Chandler as baseball commissioner.
The Long Beach water department reports the six point four million dollar master expansion plan is over 60 percent complete and targeted for completion before July next year. Frank E. Wall, water commission president, cited a 10 to 1 bond approval in 194R and 19 major projects. The plan adds 45 million gallons daily from four feeders of the Metropolitan Water District and increases storage by 60 million gallons from new J Will Johnson Reservoir on Dominguez Vi and a 20 million gallon addition to Alamitos Reservoir near the Traffic Circle. Two gravity-fed storage tanks provide elevation for a citywide low pressure system, with completion contingent on material availability and a population served rising to 500,000.
Denver June 13 0 OPS Director Michael Di Salle disclosed that price controls on wearing apparel will be issued in days. The regulation sets a three month base period tied to pre Korea levels with manufacturers choosing the three months. Increases in material costs since Korea war began will be considered. New York garment industry sources predict a 6 to 8 percent price rise next fall despite the order due to spring materials costs.
The government ordered price ceilings on five more canned vegetables effective Thursday. New potatoes and rhubarb, broccoli and Brussels sprouts, and fresh field peas from various regions face maximum increases or cost-based adjustments. Potatoes may rise up to 75 percent. other vegetables up to 26 percent. The OPS cited 1950 season prices as far below current levels.
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