Court Rules City Cannot Use Cash Outside Harbor
The California Supreme Court ruled against Long Beach in the Mallon case, ordering about 53.1 billion in oil and gas revenues paid to the state and nullifying a $75 million uplands improvement program. The decision, issued 4-3 in Los Angeles and San Francisco, established that future tidelands oil and dry gas revenues largely belong to the state. it nullified the harbor funds used for municipal projects and questioned legality of past transfers.
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State Supreme Court
Long Beach
Mallon
Tidelands
Los Angeles
San Francisco
Harbor
Supreme Court
Roger J. Traynor
Phil S. Gibson
Douglas L. Edmonds
Jesse W. Carter
Homer R. Spence
B. Rey Schauer
John W.shenk
Revere
Felix Mallon
General City Fund
Court Blocks 43 Million in Public Works Projects
State Supreme Court ruling in the Mallon case blocks eleven public works projects totaling about 43.1 million dollars funded from the Public Improvement Fund. Ten were approved at an April 5, 1953 election, including hospitals, DeForest expansion, park land action, airport and park improvements, storm drains, and municipal facilities. A June 1, 1954 authorization covers a public safety building. Unaffected are 10 million dollar Alamites Bay Marina and other tideland funded projects.
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Mallon
Public Improvement Fund
Tideland
Amiamites Bay
Municipal Auditorium
Armed Servicers Ymca
Magnolia Ave
Navy Landing
Tidelands
Tideland Oil Fund
Russian diplomat found dead in Vienna hotel room
Police reported a 43 year old Soviet diplomat Boris Grankow hanged himself in the Kaiserhof Hotel in Vienna after orders to return to Moscow. A second Russian, Muschik, also connected to Maracaibo missions, disappeared after the discovery. Both men checked in March 30 in the Soviet sector of the hotel, en route from Venezuela to Moscow on one way trips.
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Boris Grankow
Maracaibo
Venezuela
Muschik
Kaiserhof
Vienna
Los Angeles Municipal Election Today
Los Angeles voters head to the polls to choose seven city council members four board of education members and decide on a sewer bond issue of 860 million and a school bond package of 133 million as well as a proposed city charter amendment to raise salaries for municipal elective officers.
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Los Angeles
Board of Education
Where to Find It
A brief listing of section pages across the newspaper detailing where to locate features such as beach combing Bridge classifieds comics crossword editorial financial obituaries radio and TV shipping sports theaters tides temperatures Wilson women and your world in the indicated pages.
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Wilson
Snowbound Wyoming motorists face record blizzard
A fierce two day snowstorm hammered northern Wyoming and southern Montana stranding hundreds of motorists and causing at least two deaths. Red Cross aided with food and clothing as crews fought 12 to 16 foot drifts. In Sheridan 89 inches lay on the ground as roads opened slowly.
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Cheyenne
Wyo
Wyoming
Montana
Douglas
Red Cross
Sheridan
Ban on Poker Parlors Endorsed by Knight
Sacramento dispatch reports Gov. Goodwin J Knight endorsing a bill to outlaw commercial draw poker. The Assembly Judiciary Committee approved the measure 10 to 2 after a heated hearing. Knight praised the bill as a statewide necessity and warned of underworld ties and gangland risk if enacted.
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Sacramento
Goodwin J. Knight
Knight
Gardena
California
Assembly Judiciary Committee
Senate
Asth
Jess Unruh
D.los' Ie
Angeles
Jay
100 mph chase ends in arrest on Santa Ana Freeway
James Monroe Sewell of Norwalk sped 13 miles in eight minutes reaching 190 mph before police halted him with a roadblock on the Santa Ana Freeway. Deputies seized the car and booked Sewell on suspicion of attempting to avoid arrest. he was later released on $52 bail. He claimed he told his wife he would be home by 2 am.
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Los Angeles
Santa’ Ana
James Monroe Sewell
Spry St. Norwalk
Pioneer Blvd
Sewell
Servell
Fourth St
Blvd
Tearful Scene Ends Career of Statesman
London reports that Sir Winston Churchill officially resigned as Prime Minister, tears in his eyes as he presented the resignation to Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace. Anthony Eden expected to be his successor. Eden to receive seals of office after palace audience. Churchill canceled a Commons appearance and held a private farewell with ministers before retiring to back bench status. A general election is anticipated next month.
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London
Winston Churchill
Great Britain
Anthony Eden
Churchill
Queen Elizabeth II
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Downing St
Long Beach
Downng St
Buckingham Palace
Treasury
Eden
J‘young
House of Commons
Britain
Forreal Sitmmons
Fiery Churchill Quotes Stirred World in Dark Hour
A London article catalogs Churchill’s wartime orations from May 1940 to Oct 1940, highlighting Blood and Sweat and Never Surrender as rallying phrases. It notes his call to wage war by sea land and air and to endure Dunkirk, with praise for airmen and Britain’s resolve.
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Gestapo
France
RAF
Britain
Major Gulf of California quake rattles region
A strong earthquake near the tip of Lower California sparked readings nationwide. Caltech scientists logged a 7 or higher tremor, with Dr. Charles Richter suggesting a location near La Paz while noting epicenters could vary. No immediate damage reported.
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San Diego
Lower California
United States
California Institute of Technology
Pasadena
Charles Richter
Caltech
Gulf of California
Richter
la Paz
Penensula
Here
Gulf
Dulles Says China War Up to Reds
Secretary of State Dulles warned that war in the Formosa area would be caused by Chinese Communist provocation and initiative. He urged allied unity in a broader Far East security framework and outlined limits on talks with Russia and Japan, noting purges in Red China expose Communist weakness.
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Dulles
Formosa
United States
China
West Germany
Russia
Yalta
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Mamoru Shigemitsu
Red China
Basie
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