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Newspaper
Long Beach Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Jan 12, 1954
Page
15
A restless note from a veteran newspaperman reflects vanity about rain influence, recounts a soggy vigil downtown in open shoes, and credits local prayers for rain. Also recalls a lampooned charity plea heard near a liquor store and a Long Beach sister sending a Christmas parcel to England showing postal quirks.
Piumanitarians urge blood donations for Jeanette Long 18 a Wilson High graduate critically ill after 40 transfusions. Donations at Red Cross Blood Bank 519 W Broadway count as two tickets to Barber Shop quartet show at Municipal Auditorium Saturday night with one pint donated netting two tickets. Donors urged to go to the blood bank early evening for the last chance to qualify.
The Long Beach Chamber of Commerce proposes Marine Stadium as the site for the U S rowing trials for Melbourne 1956. Officials from the U S rowing committee consider all locations while the chamber plans extensive stadium renovations and area beautification.
Capt Willis W Bradley of Long Beach is named by Gov Knight to the State Fair and Exposition Board for a four year term effective April 10. He will resign as 70th District Assemblyman and not seek re election. Bradley is a Naval Academy graduate and Medal of Honor recipient who previously served as congressman.
Richard Graves, a former executive secretary of the League of California Cities, resigns after 21 years to run as a Democratic candidate for governor. He criticizes Governor Knight, pledges reform, and supports smog control, industrial growth, jobs, and education. Endorsement expected at Fresno conclave Feb 6-7. Graves previously supported Warren and held state civil service and reconstruction roles.
City Manager Samuel E Vick ers authorized to call for bids to build a reinforced concrete Clark Avenue bridge over Los Cerritos drainage channel just south of Spring Street. The 64 foot roadway with sidewalks on both sides carries an estimated cost of 54761 with 70 percent county and 30 percent city funding. A resolution to secure 42000 from the county board of supervisors was adopted. The county budget reportedly includes sufficient funds.
A bait and tackle shop at 101 N Pica Ave reported knives and cash missing in two thefts. Owner Charles G Richard of 2315 Adriatic Ave told police. Fishing lines were also taken. Dorothy M Binder of 279 Bennett Ave reported a purse taken from a dining room table after a thief followed her home from the store.
An 18 year old boy found with 6% pounds of marijuana was referred to the California Youth Authority by Superior Judge Joe Rays craft. Benjamin A. Weidenbener Jr of Los Angeles was convicted by a Superior Court jury on charges of illegal possession of narcotics. He was arrested in Long Beach on September 12 as he crossed First St. and American Ave. Police said he carried a sack of marijuana. The youth denied knowing about the dope and claimed narcotics officers beat him to obtain his confession. Det. Insp. Fred Good denied force was used. He testified the sack contained enough marijuana to make at least 3000 cigarettes with a retail value of 1500 dollars.
Oscar B. McGinness of 5223 Hersholt Avenue aboard the USNS Gen. H. J. Goffey, due to dock in Seattle Wednesday with 1 1576 military personnel from the Far East.
The Los Angeles area Chamber of Commerce voted unanimously Monday against Prop 2 and Prop B at the 1954 municipal election. All other measures passed. Prop 2, nicknamed the plank check, would alter policy requiring voter approval for sprinkler and fire alarm funds. Prop B sought $1,600,000 for bathhouses on tidelands and beaches, while new traffic signals at St. and Pacific were installed but opposed as vague.
A Douglas plant guard testified that Dr Bruce A Maskwing tried to distribute pamphlets attacking an alleged abortion victim. The guard said the doctor and a woman admitted they had no permits to circulate and used a false name. The handbill accused unions of funding abortions and named workers and locations. The defendants Walling Hewitt and others face charges of conspiracy to commit abortion and abortion itself.
City Council opened negotiations to acquire private unimproved land at the east end of Bluff Park on E Ocean Blvd to create a park. The action followed a denial of a restaurant permit and was urged by the Park Commission and Long Beach Beautiful group as a civic jewel.
The Southwest Fellowship of Community Churches will hold its annual meeting at Lakewood Village Community Church on Thursday. Delegates are expected from Southern California and Arizona with events starting at 9 30 a.m. Elsie M Farris will speak at 10 7 after lunch Horace Cushing will preside at a business session. Chaplain Wilford R Hall will give the address of welcome.
The city filed suit in Long Beach Superior Court on Monday to condemn 32 parcels along Pico Avenue between Third and Ninth Streets for freeway expansion and an approach to the Ninth Street Bridge. The action targets property including the Southern Pacific Canning Co and part of the SP Railroad freight depot for harbor area development. Deputy City Attorney Clemens C. Turner notes the land will extend the Long Beach Freeways farther south and serve the Ninth Street Bridge approach.
Southern California attorneys at the Wilton Hotel discussed the Marine Corps arrest of George Shibley of Long Beach. They urged four curtailments of military court power over civilians and planned a national protest against what they call an invasion of civil rights by the military.
City council rejected a request from the Cultural Arts Center Association led by Mrs. Dean E. Godwin for funding from the special projects fund to draw master plans and begin constructing a cultural arts center on East Ocean Blvd opposite Bixby Park citing lack of funds. The site is a city owned area on the north side of Ocean Blvd between 16th Place and 16th Place set aside for the center.
Two Lakewood taxicab firms, Lakewood Cab Co and Viking Cab Co, were authorized by the city Council to continue operating in newly annexed Long Beach areas. The council asked the city attorney to draft an amendment for limited permits allowing pickups in the areas they serve, but not elsewhere in Long Beach.
The Lakewood Area Board of Education approved a proposal for a new junior high north of Del Amo Street and west of Lakewood Boulevard, and authorized manager Arthur Knoll to negotiate for 15 acres. The move followed cost concerns and without current funds for construction, while noting existing elementary enrollment and a 1800-student capacity goal.
The Navy announced that all regular officers must wear swords, catching uniform shops off guard. Irving Klapper of Samuel R. Kramer Naval Uniform Store said swords haven’t been stocked for 12 years but can be obtained quickly. Marines adopted the policy Sept 15 last year and price is about $85.
David G. Butchart, 20, Lochinvar, emerged Monday after eluding police two days. Officials planned more questioning to decide if a kidnapping charge will be filed against him regarding Joann Bodorff, 16, from her home Saturday. He claimed the plans were for marriage after an attempted elopement.
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