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Newspaper
Long Beach Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Jul 04, 1948
Page
11
Dr. I D Litwack reports six months of births outnumbering deaths three to one. Total births 3771 and deaths 1181 this period, versus 4237 births and 1106 deaths in 1947. Measles and chickenpox rise from 1947. week totals 66 and seven respectively, year to date 2548 measles and 919 chickenpox. Mumps reach 653 cases year to date, up from 419 last year.
In Szczecin July 3 reports that Polish seafaring men note amber on the western Pomeranian coast. Plastic artists decide to establish Poland’s first factory for amber articles.
Photographs of all Long Beach police chiefs will be enshrined in the squad room with a wall display and special screen. The project honors chiefs from 1908 to 1945, including Tom W. Williams C. W. Moyer C. C. Cole James Butterfield Ralph Newell J. B. Yancy McClelland W. C. Wright Walter Lentz Alvin Slaight and others who led the department since its organization.
A saucy memo outlines how 12 states bar marrying a mother-in-law and many ban kinship unions. It notes Supreme Court rulings on recognizing out-of-state divorces, lists common grounds for divorce, residence requirements, and the broad variance in marriage laws across states with examples from Kentucky, Arizona, West Virginia and others.
T D Woodruff of Long Beach elected vice president of the California Physical Therapists Association at the San Jose convention. He will report on proceedings to the Long Beach Chapter Tuesday at 7 p.m. in Colonial Hall. Attendees include Ethel Lilles Jones and Wilbur Absyp, with Neil Sellers elected state president.
Two Long Beach men, Ingal W. Egge of 1147 Bel 4th Street and Joseph W. Froath of 53 Prospect Ave, join the Los Angeles alumni committee at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy for fundraising support of the college's 125th anniversary fund.
A Tell Harmal dig near Baghdad yields two clay tablets of an early royal code in Akkadian about 200 years before Hammurabi. The inscriptions cover subjects of laws and governance, predating Hammurabi’s law code by roughly two centuries.
Arthur J. Wil county superintendent of charities will address the Long Beach Chamber of Commerce members at the Wilton Hotel on Wednesday morning. The talk will cover taxes and county government costs, with Wil’s long service since 1932 in public health and welfare associations noted.
The G A R Lons and Daughters of Union Veterans and the S U V Auxiliary join in celebrating Dept. Coudy Charles L Chapell’s 101st birthday with a July picnic in Bixby Park. A basket dinner will be served at noon and veterans groups are invited to attend.
Col. Rosengren, former Eisenhower staff member now living in Altadena after wartime service and four-power noted roles in postwar occupation, will address the Rotary Club at noon on Wednesday. He is famed for wartime duties and later recognition as an outstanding American.
Dr. Erwin L. Shaver, head of the International Council of Religious Education's weekday program, predicts that 90 percent or more of public school religious instruction will resume next fall with changes to comply with the Supreme Court ruling. Classes will move from public school buildings to churches, homes, libraries, or other venues, and school leaders must not oversee or promote the programs or mark religious grades.
MEMPHIS Tennessee July 3. 75 year old farmer Joe Baikin starts with a dollar sowing more dollars for worthy projects. He funds a bookmobile in Fort Smith Arkansas and contributes two dollars a month to Gold Star Fathers. He aims for a ten thousand dollar monthly fund for children of veterans killed in service and supports a hospital project in West Memphis Arkansas. He also backs Farmers Union publicity and an interdenominational church mission. A single dollar can do a lot, he says, if it attracts others.
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