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Newspaper
Independent Long Beach
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1951
Page
2
It would be hard to throw in rock without hitting a Republican hoping to run for Congress next year. Six or eight want the group to pick the candidate, two or three will run regardless. A split vote could elect a Democrat in the primaries if he ran on both tickets with some Republican support. The party should concentrate on one candidate to avoid a messy primary.
City Manager Sam Vickers announced Neal F Harrington will lead the proposed central services department set to start July 1. Harrington will supervise the city garage caretakers elevator operators custodians and related operations with a $625 monthly salary. He has served as personnel director for three years and previously led the structural division in public service.
The City Council authorized establishment of a municipal arts department within city government. City Atty. Irving M. Smith will draft an amendment to the safety ordinance. new positions include an art director with a 480 to 593 salary, secretary, laborer, caretaker and gardener. manager Sam E. Vickers noted not all posts are expected to be filled simultaneously.
Inflation spreads to the juke box industry with higher costs for new models and a ten cent tariff on tunes in Los Angeles San Diego and Fresno. The National Association of Music Box Operators says the rest of the nation will follow within days.
President Truman signed a peacetime Universal Military Training draft bill lowering induction age to 18 with a two year service period. The law tightens deferments for 19 to 25 year olds and extends the draft to 24 months for reservists and National Guardsmen while World War II veterans retain the right to discharge after 17 months.
Washington report outlines changes in the draft law including 18-year-old registration unchanged, 19-year-old classification under old law, induction at 18.1 percent with boards exhausting men 30 through 25, top age over 25, and deferred men not released until age 38. Provisions address 24 months active duty, 4- or 5-year reserve terms, and removal of wife dependency as deferment. Mental standards lowered to about 150,000 affected. Universal Military Training remains only a principle with further legislation needed.
Richfield Oil Corp gains release of 485060 in tideland oil funds impounded by the city. The council authorized freeing the money tied to a February 1848 agreement with Harbor Commission and Richfield officials. Also approved bids for a 1867 foot fence at the City Consolidated Yard and flood channel and set a 100 foot no swimming rule near Magnolia Pier.
In Los Angeles on June 19, promoter and lecturer Fr. Robert Noble aged 53 was freed of grand theft charges filed by a 74 year old woman. Police reported insufficient evidence to prove Noble stole sheets pillow slips books and $62 from her home last Friday night. Noble denied the accusation calling it ridiculous.
The destroyer Frank E. Evans sustained minor damage after a 90 minute naval duel with communist shore batteries off Wonsan on Korea's east coast. No casualties were reported. the ship's home port is San Diego, California.
In Los Angeles in June 1900 Dr. Roger Nevelle of the Scripps Institution described the Earth as a growing body, expanding about two inches annually. He told the Pacific division of the AAAS that heat from the molten core drives a uplift through the mantle and that water streams from the mantle to enlarge the oceans.
Associated Property Owners urged the City Council to develop a long range capital improvement program for Long Beach. Paul B. Wilcox, executive director, said tides and oil revenues could raise needs, and the study should be budgeted. He urged placing planning in the City Planning Office and funding the study as a safeguard against pressure groups.
Milton Arthur, president of the Recreation Commission, said proposals for meeting future park and recreational needs will be submitted to the City Council within several weeks. He spoke at Poly High during the annual pre-summer recreation institute, explaining the plans reflect joint thinking of the Planning, Park and Recreation Commissions as professional staff prepare for the 1952 summer playground program opening Monday.
Charles Hughes urged the City Council to send a representative to the Goodwill Conference of Mayors in Japan later this year. The event, sponsored by Tokyo city and county, aims to route European tourist trade to Japan and position Long Head as a stepping stone to the Orient, benefiting the city.
Fire swept through a Salt Lake City beach resort early today causing about 160000 dollars in damage. Two bathhouses a laundry boiler room and a hothouse at Saltair were destroyed with no injuries reported.
All United Air Lines flights from Long Beach were canceled as about 900 pilots and co pilots walked out nationwide. In Los Angeles related disruptions affected about 140 pilots with pickets at International Airport. Washington ordered a return to work but it was not obeyed. The dispute centers on pay and a shift to mileage based flying and could cut pilots’ monthly flight hours while risking job losses.
In San Bernardino on June 19 a five pound granite rock and other items such as a broken vodka bottle and battered flashlight were shown as evidence in the murder trial of Rose Marie Birdsall. She admits killing Warren L. Eddenfield but says it was in self defense after his advances. Authorities say she struck him with the rock after using the lights and bottle to render him unconscious.
A female motorist sustained minor injuries to her right leg when another car rammed hers at Locust Ave and 20th St. Russell Ted Thorpe, 16, of Adriatic Ave, was cited for failing to observe a stop sign while northbound on Locust. Mrs Marjorie Movement Wang, 34, of Pine Ave, received hospital treatment at St Mary’s for injuries claimed to have been caused by the force of the collision.
A weather tide bulletin lists low tides at 1.9 feet 6 01 am and 2.1 feet 4 04 am and high tides at 3.8 feet 4 38 am and 6.9 feet 10 21 pm. Tomorrow shows low tides around 17 feet 6 42 am and 2.2 feet 4 58 am with high tides near 12.21 pm and 6 8 feet Wet pm.
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