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Newspaper
Long Beach Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Apr 23, 1951
Page
17
NY trial details reveal a 16 week Berling case with 3 percent court time and 10 a m to 4 p m sessions. Jurors received a modest 5 3 per day, while the reporter notes the judge was solicitous and the schedule allowed a humane finish.
Sprinkles dampened Long Beach streets this morning while the U S Weather Bureau projected more light rain through tomorrow with mostly cloudy skies and cooler temperatures. Beaches drew thousands of bathers despite a small surf and two men were rescued from the 18 foot sailboat Geonna near the Los Angeles breakwater lighthouse station. The rescue squad, led by Boatswain's Mate H Heikkila, recovered and righted the vessel and towed it ashore. Temperatures ranged from 49 to 72 degrees.
Public Administrator Ben H. Brown schedules an all day removal sale at 239 53 Los Angeles St. offering about 350000 worth of household goods automobiles tools sporting goods and jewels from nearly 100 estates. Ten televisions a 500 deep freeze and a 1946 sedan are listed to start at 9 30 a m.
Civil defense headquarters will shift from City Hall to 53rd E. Second St on May 1, per Police Sgt. William J. Meoney assistant director of the Long Beach Civil Defense and Disaster Relief Council. Police Officer Leonard Kearney will join as chief block warden and train wardens, with sergeant and lieutenant appointments effective May 1.
Sertoma International elected five regional lieutenant governors at a Santa Barbara meeting. Harry B. Keeling of Los Angeles was named regional governor for California and Arizona. Mrs. Robert J. Richards of San Fernando was named president of the cooperative women’s auxiliary.
Police say a Seal Beach crash yesterday afternoon left Louis Donato 62 and Mrs Mary Donato 52 with cuts and bruises. They were treated at Community Hospital and released. The Donatos from Gardena rode in a car driven by Albert Donato 28, colliding with a vehicle driven by Thomas Marcy 45 of North Hollywood.
Long Beach men among 30 Southern Californians on two Korean war casualty lists released in Washington by the Defense Department. One Bureauman was lost in action aboard a Navy patrol bomber. another, Marine Sgt. George H. Butler, was wounded by shrapnel and later earned the Navy Cross. Burt, a radio radar expert, left for Korea last June after serving in World War II. Butler has previously been wounded in Korea and is back with the Seventh Marine Division near Parallel 33.
George Hugh Stewart 36, a San Diego plant worker, was arrested by Norwalk sheriff deputies at a Long Beach bus depot on a charge of beating his divorced wife Oda Lee Stewart 22 of 066 Via Carmelitos. She said he demanded more child support, knocked her down and kicked her after a visit for the children. She was hospitalized with possible skull fracture and severe facial bruises, later moved to Los Angeles General for observation and X rays.
Four Hawaiian youths Nickolas Sceres 19 Paul Akin 19 Walter Keno ka 21 and Stephen Ebinger 47 were arraigned today before a U S commissioner in Los Angeles on federal stowing away charges linked to the Inner Lurline. They were found after the ship had left Honolulu.
Mayor Burton W. Chace has been appointed a member of a committee of the American Municipal Association to develop citizen interest and participation in local government.
Montebello resident William H. Sharp, 66, reported by Merife’s Deputies to have owned a horse that bolted during the Pan American Festival parade in Lakewood. The animal crashed into a Downey driver’s auto, knocked down William Smith, damaged a car, and left Sharp with shock and a fractured left wrist after attempting to guide the horse into a trailer.
The Long Beach City Manager's office compares building permit fees with other cities. It recommends a roughly 50 percent increase to raise about $100,000 to help meet a $246,297 budget, of which $136,000 comes from fees. Edward M. O'Connor, superintendent of building and safety, notes the department would become self supporting with the fee hike.
Public Schools Week begins with mothers dressing their children for school and parents invited to observe arithmetic spelling and reading activities. Evening programs run at eight North Long Beach schools at Jane Addams School auditorium and a separate open house at City College Business and Technology Institute showcasing labs shops and classrooms. Tomorrow evening 33 elementary schools host open house with an expected attendance of about 30 000 people.
Three Santa Monica residents Jack W Gruver Reed F Blair and Joseph W Trevorrow were booked on robbery charges after a high speed chase through Long Beach. Gruver driver struggled during arrest and faced reckless driving as property found in the car tied to the robbery. Officers Carter and Rogers pursued after a signal violation near Facing Coast Highway and American Vie. stopped at Santa Fe Ave and Pacific Coast Highway following a 100 mph pursuit.
A sport fishing boat Nancy K. reported overdue was found adrift between Long Beach and Catalina Island. Coast Guard plane located it and cutter Morris towed it to San Pedro. Aboard were Noel Cartwright owner and six others including a 14 year old boy from Hawthorne-Lawndale area.
Howard Nixon of 380 Orlean Ave is appointed inspector for Los Angeles County Air Pollution Control District covering Long Beach area. He succeeds Ivan Deckert on the special chemical and refinery team. Nixon, longtime resident since 1933, is an Oregon State University engineering graduate and formerly operated the Olive View Sanitarium project in the San Fernando Valley. A local office is at the City Chemical Laboratory.
Long Beach World War II veterans with National Service Life Insurance policies will soon receive dividend checks for 1948 to 1951. The Veterans Administration said checks are being prepared in Washington, with total payments around 685 million dollars. Local officials cannot estimate local eligible recipients due to missing records.
Neil Henderson, 19, of 42830 Thorson Street in Compton, suffered a possible neck vertebra fracture after hitting the lagoon bottom while diving in Colorado Lagoon yesterday afternoon. He was taken to Community Hospital.
Donna Herndon, 3, of 4997 Atlantic Ave was treated at Seaside Hospital yesterday afternoon for a laceration over the right eye after being struck with a shovel while playing with other children.
Harold Fulton driving to St Vincent's Hospital Los Angeles with his wife Virginia 21 is delayed by a premature birth. He stops at Helen Hetherington's home on Paramount Blvd to summon Deputy J G Watson. The deputy helps deliver the baby then the trio continues to Pico Emergency Hospital.
Long Beach officers and sheriff's deputies held two men on investigation of illegal narcotics possession after arrests at 22 St Joseph Ave. Sam K. Cuthamp, 24, a stockkeeper, and Glenn E. Merhab, 25, salesmen, both of St Joseph address, were booked. A woman, Merle Reid, 23, of 1207 Atlantic Ave, also booked on the same charge, released later on $1000 bail by Judge Maltby awaiting 9:30 a m Thursday.
A large C4 freighter on the intercoastal run arrives under a new name. The American-Hawaiian Line's SS Californian, formerly Mt Greylock, is one of five of her type, the largest freighters in the world, recently purchased from the government after charter service. Other vessels include Texan, Hawaiian, American and Nevadan.
Port Manager BE J. Amar returns from a two week stay in Washington observing progress on tidelands legislation. Harbor Commissioners Emmet Sullivan and John P. Davis are set to return tomorrow, Amar announced.
The Police Department tests a white alert each Friday to check local civil defense communications. Yellow alerts signal imminent air raids and red alerts trigger siren activation. Mooney notes white alerts are tests and yellow or red mean a real threat. siren testing will be announced soon.
Carl R. Gray Jr administrator of the Veterans Administration and Adm Joel T Boone chief medical director will visit the VA Hospital here Wednesday morning Dr BE V Edwards director announced today The VA executives are in the Southland touring installations under their jurisdiction at the VA Center Sawtelli Hoth will be making their first visit to the Long Beach hospital since it was taken over from the Navy last June
Eight Long Beach servicemen from the U S First Cavalry Division in Korea received the Combat Infantryman Badge. Recipients include Curtis A. Clemmer and Donald Mitchel of the Fifth Cavalry, William McClellan and Michio Takade of the Seventh Cavalry, Joseph T. Jenkins and Jacob P. Romuly of the same regiment, John D. Driesbach and Tony Frantela Jr. of the Eighth Cavalry.
Bran nan S. Thomas Water Department manager seeks detailed California Water Plan studies on diverting Sacramento River surplus water to Southern California. State Engineer A D Edmonston says the first phase is done and transfer is possible. Plan envisions aqueducts and pumping stations from central California through desert routes to the Southland.
Air Force Pfc Henry H Drayton, 19, was playing on the beach at the foot of Gnolia Ave when his jaw locked open. He received treatment at the Naval Dispensary via Island, yesterday afternoon.
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