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Newspaper
Long Beach Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Aug 28, 1947
Page
20
New Jersey report from Rutgers University details a new brick process using fly ash from smokestacks and slag from coal furnaces. Dr John H Koenig notes the brick is cheaper and stronger than clay bricks and highlights the economic edge of local raw materials.
Federal agents trapped a moonshine operation in an unusual chase. After tagging the primary operator to a tree, the man escaped when the tree was cut down and an axe appeared. He was recaptured soon after, with another liquor cache uncovered.
Scientists study abrupt sardine disappearance from Pacific fishing grounds. Researchers at Stanford and the U S Fish and Wildlife Service search for spawning conditions to explain reduced catches, amid impact on California fisheries and industry.
In St Joseph on August 28 a health board announcement denied any steak inspectors. The board said two women had visited eating houses claiming to be steak inspectors for the health board and had ordered expensive meals to test if the steaks were up to standard. Proprietors reported the inspectors’ reports were unflattering in some cases.
Tokyo reports that since surrender, the Japanese marine office says 544 ships totaling about 270000 tons have been refloated and 29 vessels of around 40000 tons have been scrapped in the two years following surrender.
Hamburg report states German Count Bassewitz-Behr, once in charge of police forces in Hamburg and surrounding areas, was declared innocent by a military court of war crimes involving slave laborers political prisoners and prisoners of war.
The All States Society led by W. L. Goodwin announces a public picnic this Sunday at Bixby Park. Attendees should bring a luncheon dish and table service for a noon meal. The program features music from the Municipal Band, pledges, invocations, a California related address, poetry, accordion numbers, and youth dance entertainment.
Denver reports no swimming allowed in the 13.7 mile Adams water tunnel linking Grand Lake and Estes Park as part of the Colorado Big Thompson project. Two New Yorkers sought to paddle through but Federal Reclamation Bureau denied the request. Engineers note only about two feet of air space remains above the tunnel surface.
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