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Newspaper
Independent Long Beach
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1951
Page
4
A big night for Hib school graduates with an all night entertainment planned by students. Officials note minimal traffic incidents and call the event wholesome. TUNE INDEPENDENT supported funding to cover the original cost, enabling the party.
In San Bernardino on June 1, the jury pool for Rose Marie Birdsall murder case was exhausted after a day of contentious questioning. Judge Archie Mitchell ordered 30 more jurors tomorrow while both sides held about 30 peremptory challenges. trial expected to pause for calendar matters and resume next week.
Fire crews doused a flash fire in the number two hold of the Dutch freighter Schiedyl as it prepared to sail from Los Angeles harbor. The blaze caused only about 200 dollars in damage to a cargo of lumber rubber and wheat bound for Antwerp Belgium.
City leaders tested water from the new Spring Street plant and praised its odorless clear taste. They described the facility as capable of treating 29 million gallons daily, with steps including basin exposure, chemical sterilization, sediment removal, activated charcoal filtration, and six sand filters.
Water department officials report hundreds of seagulls no longer trouble the new water treatment plant after wires along the walls and between baffies were installed. Superintendent Frank T Higgins says gulls cannot glide in or balance on the wires, preventing landings.
Norwalk State Hospital psychiatrist Dr. Carl Dwankowski testified at Edward 3B Bierce's trial that the 46 year old salesman was sane when he strangled and mutilated his wife Florence in a Long Beach hotel. He said the crime was sadistic but not proof of insanity. The defense raised a mother fixation theory, while the prosecution argued Bierce was sane at the time.
The plant will remove two tons of sludge from the city water system. Two wells feed the plant with water showing 75 color units, while yesterday's city samples registered a color rating of zero. The $1 million facility, run by the water department, can be operated by one man per shift. Frank E. Wall, president of the Water Commission, and Commissioner George Ezell hosted visiting city officials. Frank T. Higgins, plant superintendent, is in charge of inspections.
Gen. Douglas MacArthur was questioned by a Texas senator about reports he might be hired as baseball commissioner. He smiled and answered firmly that he was not talking baseball today and would not discuss the matter.
The Long Beach water department aims to finish its 6.4 million master expansion plan by mid-1952, after a 1948 bond approval 10-1. The project adds 45 million gallons daily via three feeder lines and 60 million more storage from two new reservoirs, with completion contingent on material availability.
Price controls on wearing apparel will be imposed within days, OPS Director Michael Di Salle disclosed. The regulation sets a base period of any three months pre Korea, with manufacturers selecting three months, and may rollback or brake prices. Materials cost increases since the war could be considered, with NYC sources predicting up to eight percent rise next fall.
The OPS announces new price ceilings for five vegetables including canned new potatoes and rhubarb nationwide, with broccoli and Brussels sprouts on the West Coast and fresh field peas in the South. Canners may raise prices to reflect actual cost increases, up to 75 percent for potatoes and 20 percent for other vegetables, due to 1930 season prices being far below current levels.
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