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Newspaper
Long Beach Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Feb 07, 1949
Page
2
An Associated Press survey shows the nation's state government costs rising by more than two and a quarter billion dollars as 44 states report higher budgets for 1949. Major drivers include education costs, hospital and welfare programs, and general service price increases. Education fuels increases in over half the states, with many citing higher teacher salaries and expanded state funds.
Fourteen states report higher operating budgets driven by wage, supply, equipment, and building costs. Mental hospitals and welfare bodies drive the largest increases in some, with six citing pensions and social benefits. Highways and veterans aid also factor as $1 billion budgets loom in New York, Pennsylvania, Illinois, and California. Nevada spends least at seven million, yet faces twenty four million in anticipated funds. State-by-state comparisons are hampered by differing accounting methods and earmarked funds.
BRN reports the Russians rebuild two giant air raid shelters near Berlin once a Nazi plant. Shelters patterned after Hitler’s last bunker at Führer headquarters, with 370 rooms for Soviet staff. Report notes 800 German workers, reactivated 18 months ago, and a drunken brawl involving soldiers.
A Sunday automobile train collision near Tulsa Oklahoma killed six people instantly and an infant died later from injuries. Three other survivors remain in critical condition. Victims include Wanda Litteral and her infant son Jimmie Eugene Litteral with other Litteral family members Died include Claudia Sue Aery and Helen Litteral among others. Police report skull injuries for several children and adults, with uncertain survival prospects.
The American Warehousemen's Association opened a four day convention with about 700 delegates seeking more business. They consider a heavy publicity program to persuade firms it is cheaper to use public warehouses than to build private storage facilities. The Refrigerated Warehouses wing objects to the term cold storage as a misnomer.
The Constitution giant Navy transport completed its inaugural transcontinental round trip from Washington to Moffett Field at near nine hours eastward and 18 hours eight minutes return due to headwinds. It carried 81 passengers and 15 crew on the westbound, the largest crew and passenger count for the crossing. Comdr William Collins piloted, with Lt Comdr Donald Chay, George Burnett, and George Webster as co pilots. The craft encountered a rain storm near Bakersfield but climbed to 21,000 feet to ride it out.
In Oakland a 22-year-old ex paratrooper Robert L. Miles leaped from a private plane at 4500 feet over the city for fun and to film a friend. Authorities could not find a law banning the stunt and released him after CAA officials said there are no regulations governing parachute jumps.
Washington hearings begin this week on the Marshall Plan for 15 months of aid totaling about 528 million dollars. Paul Hoffman and later Secretary Acheson will testify as Congress weighs continuing the European recovery program and potential Israel inclusion.
In Oklahoma CityPete Stamatis a 48 year old restaurateur born in Tripolis Greece seeks U S citizenship for the second time. He recounts his journey from Greece to Detroit Saginaw and Oklahoma City with multiple citizenships and a planned second honeymoon with his wife Janice Foto. He hopes to appear before Federal Judge Edger S. Vaught for the citizenship exam and to keep his adopted homeland.
In St Patrick's Cathedral Cardinal Spellman denounced communism as a world threat and urged Americans to unite in prayer and protest. He cited Cardinal Mindszenty's trial as humanity's crucifixion and warned against complacency before Communist conquest. The sermon was delivered amid protests against Mindszenty's Hungary trial.
UFA war crimes tribunal rejects motion to dismiss the case against Adm. Soemu Toyoda who led Japan's navy in major battles. In a separate proceeding, former Lt. Gen. Hiroshi Tamura, 57, faced denial of responsibility for mistreatment of Allied prisoners as he headed POW management and information bureaus.
An Indian woman died when a food package dropped from an airlift plane struck her in the doorway of her hogan. Supt. James M. Stewart on the Navajo reservation said the accident occurred during relief deliveries to snowbound Indians near Window Rock Arizona. Stewart, directing relief from Tuba City, reported the incident and halted a locomotive near a damaged track.
Three teenagers, Robert Cochran 16 Edward Myer 13 and Cordan Myer 17, spotted a broken rail at Hydetown near Titusville Pennsylvania. They telephoned Oil City dispatch and signaled a Buffalo Oil City freight with red handkerchiefs preventing a wreck as Engineer Ira Kibbe approached at about 30 mph.
In Cleveland on February 7, cafe owner Sam Sciano shot and killed a second would‑be robber during an attempted holdup at his cafe. The incident followed a December 1945 killing at the same location when Sciano shot dead an armed intruder.
In Umatilla Oregon on February 7 a fire station and all equipment including a new truck were destroyed by a blaze sparked by an oil stove explosion. Fire Chief Gene Hiatt said volunteers could not reach the new truck, delivered the week before Christmas, as flames spread through the engine room. Officials estimated losses at 15000 dollars.
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