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Newspaper
Long Beach Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1951
Page
15
A local serviceman's wife told her husband after a recent election that she voted against those with incumbent after their names. She argued against electing people to run public business who fail in their own affairs, noting the word indigent means destitute, not incumbent.
Several thousand fans left frustrated by a haywire public address system at the Memorial Coliseum during a Ram Redskins game. The jumbled broadcast spoiled halftime entertainment and Benny’s jokes, dampening the crowd’s mood as they paid for a smooth experience.
A 26 year old housewife, Mrs Sapoling Stummer of 9 West 47th Street, was shot yesterday while moving an unloaded rifle to a higher shelf to keep it away from her two children. The .22 caliber bullet struck her chest on the right side. she underwent an operation last night. Landlady Carie Arezzo woke to screams and found Stummer writhing on the bedroom floor and alerted police.
Maj Kenneth B Pickle USMC today assumed duties as commanding officer of the Marine Barracks at Long Beach Naval Base on Terminal Island relieving Capt P J Miller USMC who was acting as commanding officer. He is a Wilmington native and UC Berkeley graduate who served at Camp Pendleton and saw wartime duty at Tinian and Peleliu. He will live with his wife Joyce and daughters Kathleen Patricia and Sandra Lee at 6729 Pepperwald Ave.
A nursery office at 2830 Woodruff Ave Lakewood was burglarized with $62 in coin and currency stolen. Desk drawers were ransacked and a sharp instrument pried the hasp and padlock from the small frame building per deputies reporting yesterday by owner Lawrence Nix.
The B2foot cabin cruiser Alder, owned by R. E. Womack and based in Norwalk, jammed into high gear and rode surf to jagged rocks half a mile off Point Fermin, San Pedro. Crew of four, including Tommy Chewning and two women, were uninjured. Coast Guard and Fish and Game units failed to pull the vessel until tugs hauled it off at high tide.
Loyd George Hennegen, 27, of Long Beach, confessed firebug who allegedly started 120 fires from Long Beach to the foothills. He waived a preliminary hearing in Downey and will stand trial in Superior Court on September 4. He has a 16 year probation and faces five felony counts of malicious burning with 1 to 10 year penalties each.
In Santa Ana Henry Ford McCracken's murder retrial paused for a weekend recess as only one of the original jurors remains, with a new panel of 25 summoned to report next Monday. Judge Robert Gardier oversees the case involving 10 year old Patricia Hull's death in Buena Park last May. Defense used many preemptory challenges but sought to speed juror questioning, amid claims of denial of food raised by the defense and an investigation ordered by the court.
Three destroyers were recommissioned this afternoon at Long Beach as steam surged in boilers and guns were readied. The USS Pritchard USS Cushing and USS Owen were transferred from the Pacific Reserve Fleet Long Beach Group to active fleet command under James G. Thorburn Jr Charles C Hartigan Jr and Oscar F. Dreyer. The event adds to the growing force of destroyers reactivated since the program began. Comdr Kenneth E Shook delivered the commissioning address and outlined a new destroyer division 282.
A yacht with a diver aboard headed from San Diego toward Geronimo Island to aid the San Diego tug Laguna entangled by an eight inch hawser in her propeller while attempting towlines on two disabled albacore boats.
Approval granted for the L. S. Whaley Co subdivision of a 7 acre tract west of Palo Verde Ave and south of Stearns St into 332 lots. Commission requires either a service road or an extra 10 feet of roadway adjacent to Palo Verde Ave near Lots 164 and 363.
Memo to hunters and fishermen notes grunion swim shoreward at 10 15 tonight with gate authority. Runs are scheduled for 11 Saturday night and 11 45 Sunday night lasting one hour each. The small fish may be caught by hand only and are said to make good eating.
Marine Engineers Beneficial Association pickets in a boat anchored by the Isthmian Line freighter Steel Traveler in the outer harbor today preventing cargo handling. The floating line, set this forenoon, signals a strike over a new contract while prior MEBA actions and boycotts affected other ships near San Francisco. Superior Court dissolved a temporary restraining order allowing renewed picketing.
Mrs. Catherine Ann Mc Keown 39 of 322 E 67th Way faces arraignment in Downey Justice Court on embezzlement and grand theft charges tied to a Community Laundry at Bellflower. Deputies probe possible involvement in a July 28 fire at 9816 Oak St. audit shows shortages totaling over 3,500 since 1950.
Police report shows vandals forced a door at Garfield Baptist Church on Caspian Avenue and ransacked the premises. Six choir robes were ripped apart and papers strewn in the office.
Police on routine patrol found the Biltm Upholstery Shop at 218 E Fifth St with transoms and rear door open. A window sign read Gone Fishing for 10 Days. Relatives said the owner left yesterday in a hurry to fish.
A Southern California flyer in the fifth annual Powder Puff Derby made a forced landing near Crane Missouri after losing oil in a two place Cessna. Mrs Wanda Gabriel of San Diego and Miss Fern Stiefler of Long Beach were aboard. Several fliers encountered a wind and rain storm delaying takeoffs. First to reach Detroit was Mrs Arlene Davis of Cleveland in the Dream Ship. More fliers were expected in Detroit. the race winner carries 850 dollars.
Winfield Scott, a Poly High student and son of Scott Aero Service owner Randall Scott, received his pilot license aged 17 after 16 years of flying lessons begun at age one. CAA examiner Lloyd R. Burkhard signed off, with John Winder observing, as Randall Scott’s mother celebrated by taking a ride herself.
Local sports item reports wrestler Pat McGill, injured during a wrestling hour at the Municipal Auditorium, was treated at Seaside Hospital where X rays showed no fracture. He was dismissed with follow up care to his physician. Also noted are a fish sale fine, a garage blaze, and a mildewing report on a homing pigeon.
A U S Weather Bureau predicts ideal weekend conditions in Long Beach with mostly sunny skies and near normal highs in the low to mid 80s. Some morning fog is possible but not disruptive. Elsewhere in the Southland higher temperatures are expected in coastal valleys interior and mountains. Last night Long Beach hit 85 with 64 today and tides peaked at seven feet yesterday evening. The Armed Services YMCA basement on Pico Avenue and Ocean Boulevard flooded for the second night with little other damage reported.
Jacob T. Trefez, 72, of 821 Olive Ave, heated a can of paint on a gas stove. The paint ignited and burned his left hand, arm, and abdomen as he tried to move the burning can outside. Mrs. Trefex helped extinguish the blaze and police said he was treated at Seaside Hospital for first and second degree burns.
Eight year old David L. Edmondson of 3307 San Francisco Avenue sustained a broken left arm and bruises when struck by a truck on Magnolia Avenue south of Wardlow Road yesterday afternoon. He was treated at Seaside Hospital. Driver James R. Maddelein, 20, of 2368 Eucalyptus Avenue, and witnesses said the child ran from behind a parked car into the street.
Frank B. Simmons an 88 year old Navy careerist killed in an automobile crash in Honolulu T H. His wife Pegory is reported critically injured and children Linda 12 Kay Ann 6 and Bruce 2 were hurt though not in serious condition. Simmons was attached to an air sea rescue squadron and had served 19 years in the Navy. He moved to Long Beach after graduating from North High School in Des Moines Iowa where he starred in football and basketball.
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