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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Mar 27, 1957
Page
13
A 1905 chatter covers speed enforcement ideas, from rope traps to electrified roadways, plus modern dog lore and hospital tech ambitions. Kellogg of Garden Grove touts a speed governor and luminous road ring with a central electric cable, while readers discuss safety patents, police drag lines, and trials with a futuristic TV-like medical paging gadget and radiant flooring concepts.
City council accelerates Memorial Hospital of Long Beach project by approving a new 400 bed site north west of the initial plan. The move shifts the main building to higher ground near Columbia Street and Long Beach Boulevard, with cost savings on foundations and more parking. Agreement reached to purchase about four more acres for the site and parking facilities at 217000 dollars.
The State Department of Public Works awarded three contracts totaling 700,000 for construction of a men s gym and four swimming pools at Long Beach State College. The largest bid was 483,139 for general work to Tom Norcross of Long Beach. Other contracts were 157,900 for mechanical work to Kenneth Fraser Co. of Pasadena and 59,100 for electrical work to George E. Miller of Long Beach.
A small Papperino motor bicycle, the sole transport of a polio victim, was stolen around midnight Saturday at Ord Street and Muagnolla Avenue. The pearl gray light machine resembles a girl’s bicycle with a small engine, No. 627. Owner Don Lee Sith, 12, of 920 Linden Avenue, reports the theft as friends watch for the machine, which has left the immobilized boy nearly stranded.
Newsweek profile highlights Lakewood and the San Fernando Valley as an instructive national example of postwar suburban growth. It notes reliance on Los Angeles County services, average income around 5500, 35 age, 20 000 families, and widespread car dependence driving rapid expansion and rising homeownership trends.
The New Hampshire Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that teachers and all other public employees do not have a right to strike. The decision emphasizes that the sovereignty of the state should not be hampered.
More than seven thousand hotel and restaurant workers will receive a higher hourly wage beginning April 1 under a contract between local Bartenders and Culinary Workers unions and the Long Beach and Orange County Hotel and Restaurant Association. The cost‑of‑living adjustment, set in the five year pact, was to be renegotiated in January 1938.
Filing for the May 14 municipal primary reached sixteen candidates as two incumbents added declarations. Latest arrivals include Councilman A. F. Baker of the Third District and Councilman Virgil H. Spongberg of the Sixth. Former Councilman Bazil A. Carleton says he will not run.
The State Public Utilities Commission ordered Lakewood Water and Power Co to open Mutual Pipeline and Construction Co books and records. The action relates to a proposed 25 percent rate increase that would raise the typical home bill from about 3 to 3.75 dollars monthly. The commission warned it may dismiss the application if access is not granted by April 15 and noted potential conflicts of interest between the firms based on shared work and ownership links.
Delegation from the Chamber of Commerce Streets and Highways Committee travels to Sacramento to push for San Diego Freeway construction. Members include Bud Ridings and David Larson. they meet with State Highway officials and Assemblyman Grant to urge fuller disclosure of records and alignment determinations. They seek inclusion of Terminal Island Freeway and construction of the San Gabriel Freeway within state plans.
A 40 member Long Beach Chamber of Commerce delegation toured subsidence zones by chartered bus, led by Rear Adm. Richard James at Naval Shipyard. He warned of sinking ground threatening the 1000-foot No. 1 Drydock and a wall height redesign. Areas near Ocean Boulevard and Shoreline Park show significant drop, with Ocean Bird threatened by rising tides without anti subsidence work. Officials plan to seek antidipence measures and present findings to the California Legislature in Sacramento.
The Chamber of Commerce urged the City Council to create a special administrative agency under the city manager to handle subsidence. Photos at the shipyard showed severe cracking, high tides flooding dock areas, and a crane stressed by underwater forces. The group backed a live- man board to oversee foundations, with current $7 million in federal and state work and possible $11 million more for piers 2 and 3.
Only three protests against ion city weed-cleaning charges were filed at the annual hearing before the City Council. Protests totaled $161 and were dismissed. Last year the city cleaned 2,300 privately owned lots and levied about $15,000 in assessments.
Municipal Court prelim for Veatho Spratt 15 of Alas histos Ave arraigned yesterday before Judge Kenneth E. Sutherland. Spratt is accused of fatally knifing 37 year old Anton Kelvin Brooks of Myrtle Ave during a Sunday cafe argument yesterday.
Lawrence Leonard McCarty, 34, of 53 Surfliners, was sentenced by Superior Judge Beach in Valley Tuesday to 5 to 14 years in prison on a forgery charge. His wife Edna Melvina McCarty, 26, received three years probation. McCarty pleaded guilty, admitted four prior felonies, and authorities said he wrote $200 in worthless checks and forced his wife to cash them after knocking out her teeth when she objected.
John M. Saffran, 11, of S718 Pearce Ave Lakeswood, returned from a desert trip near Needles with a 10 inch stick of dynamite. He took it to school on Monday prompting sheriff deputies to confiscate the explosive.
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