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Newspaper
Independent Long Beach
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1951
Page
2
Tomorrow night this session of the State Legislature will conclude. It is doubtful if the anti poker bill will pass. The cards were stacked against it all along. Our Assemblymen Grant and Klocksicin have done their share to push it over. We are lucky to have men of their kind at Sacramento.
SACRAMENTO June 21 The Legislature moved to continue support for child care centers with two identical bills approved by both houses. The Senate passed the Assembly bill 29 3 and the Assembly followed 73 0, but amendments kept final action pending. The measures total 5 156 856 dollars to pay next year’s care costs for about 12 000 children.
In Miami Beach hearings, Mrs. Orceta Carroll claimed her former husband financed a pro gambler friendly paper. She named editorials inviting Frank Costello, described Accardo as Circle club operator, and said funds supported her two children. She implicated Tony Accardo and others in the era’s racketeering.
The Mohican haircut craze reaches Los Angeles with barbers requiring parental consent notes before cutting. A mother complains her 12-year-old son Leon looked like he had been shaved, while barber Ben Segal cites nerve concerns for mothers.
Mrs. Ethel G. Sullivan testified before the Senate Crime Investigating Committee that she used her sheriff husband’s campaign funds without his knowledge to send substantial sums to relatives. The gifts sparked a federal income tax inquiry into Sheriff “Smilin Jimmy” Sullivan, who resigned after being subpoenaed and refused to testify to avoid self incrimination.
At Seaside Hospital a busy day saw three toddlers and two infants rush in after swallowing substances. Kim Patton, Serge Jeffers, and Jerry Duplass e ingested aspirin. John McClintock and another child swallowed rat poison. Robert Obson drank bleached liquid from a refrigerator bottle. Medical teams treated each case and reported relief for the children.
A group of meat dealers led by Head Butcher Elmer Langen staged a demonstration in the Senate cafeteria to critique Michael V. DiSalle's beef price order. Langen sliced 406 pounds of top quality beef to show alleged flaws, claiming the OPS plan would cut profits and deny consumers desired cuts while regional butchers preserve their methods.
Low tides today around minus 1.4 feet at 6 37 am and 2.3 feet at 0 0 am. High tides near 4 feet at 1s. Tomorrow highs near aa feet at 12 04 am and 42 feet at 2 19 pm, with lows at 7 28 am and 4 feet at 7 18 pm.
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