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Newspaper
Long Beach Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Jul 23, 1953
Page
33
A California crosswalk policy note contrasts pedestrian duties with a story about Lt Joseph Orleck whose Navy legacy comforts his mother through letters from abroad. The piece also recalls a birth notice error, a local Soap Box Derby prep at Arroyo Seco, and a plea for better city transit cooperation as residents seek faster buses to Union Station.
The Long Beach area can view a Sunday moon eclipse with the event beginning at 3:32 a.m. as the moon enters Earth’s shadow and the total eclipse ending at 5:21 a.m. Observor C. H. Cleminshaw of Griffith Observatory explains the reddish tint seen during the eclipse.
Checking of petitions circulated in Seal Beach to seek the recall of the council is complete and results will be reported at a special council meeting tonight.
Spokesman for Douglas Aircraft Co warned that the future of the aircraft craft industry in Los Angeles County may hinge on the county tax assessor's decision in a 135 million dollar assessment fight. Sixty plane builders await the Board of Supervisors ruling on whether materials used in plane parts are taxable.
State Chamber of Commerce lists top highway projects for California toward freeway completion in Los Angeles County and Orange County. It highlights widening State Route 179 and Long Beach area plans including Sepulveda Freeway, Long Beach Freeway extension, Carson Street widening, Garden Grove Boulevard upgrades, and Brea Canyon Road resurfacing.
Attorneys for Central Basin Municipal Water District seek to intervene in Long Beach Lakewood Carson Gardens annexation case to obtain an early state Supreme Court ruling. Four Carson Gardens property owners obtained a writ ordering the city to cancel the August 14 election or show cause why it should proceed. The Kal Basin district may join only to press for an expedited decision on the matter and the November Metropolitan Water District annexation vote depends on Lakewood votes or court action.
Judge Eugene Fay of Los Angeles will headline a Long Beach Auxiliary fund dinner at 7 p m Wednesday at Virginia Country Club. The event launches a series to raise money for a social worker to handle Adoption Service cases in Long Beach and features an educational program on adoption practices. Hollywood celebrities are expected to attend plus Dan Gann of the Adoption Service will speak.
Jurors began deliberations on heroin charges against singer Anita O Day after 11 days of testimony in Long Beach Superior Court. Prosecutors urged guilt while defending the framing claim as a narcotics violator warning and noting the arrest at the Samoa Cafe on March 14 after officers observed a packet of heroin in a restroom ledge.
Three month old Duff Lynn Reiber died late Wednesday night in Long Beach. Norwalk sheriff's deputies say she was strangled by blankets and found by her mother Betty Jo, 24, in a double bed. The infant died at Long Beach Community Hospital after being rushed by the fire department.
Surprised in the act of eating a surreptitious snack, a burglar claimed to be a friend of Bert Williams’s family at 3 am. He fled as Williams called his mother. Cash was missing, and Mrs. Gladys Young denied knowing the guest. Bert Williams, 1221 Market St., reported the incident.
Five Long Beach unions signed agreements with the State Department of Employment to speed job seeking and unemployment compensation payments. The Long Beach office led by George Toll adopts the new procedure, eliminating duplicate checks at state and union offices. Unions include Culinary Workers, Teamsters, Laborers, Retail Clerks, and Bartenders, with members still required to meet able to work and availability to work provisions.
Lakewood streets north of Carson Street are slated for a 108000 dollar parkway upgrade with landscaping tree planting and sprinkler systems. Ed Walker district supervisor said bids will be requested next month with completion expected by next March for 14 miles of parkways including Woodruff Avenue Bellflower Boulevard Lakewood Boulevard Downey Avenue Paramount Boulevard South Street Candlewood Street Del Amo Boulevard and Wardlaw Road. A single contract will cover the entire project and most areas adjacent to occupied homes will be improved.
Police search Long Beach for Buena Park gas station attendant Spires who allegedly fled with 344 dollars while manager was away. He reportedly hired a cab to Long Beach, was seen in a clean white uniform, and officers report dropping him at Fourth Street and Fine Avenue. Victim Roy Moore of Downey says Spires left in charge for about three hours.
Leonard Cross of Bellflower Post 225 was elected commander of the 19th district of the American Legion for 1953 54 at a meeting Wednesday night at the Maywood American Legion clubhouse. He will succeed Devore Walden of Samuel Thomas Post 326 Long Beach at installation ceremonies Sept 9 in the Bellflower Legion Clubhouse. Other officers elected are Ed Hissey of Wilmington Post 287 first vice commander Don Whitmer of Lomita Post 645 second vice commander Mabel Nessler of Long Beach Women’s Post 378 third vice commander John Dunn of South Bay Post 184 Redondo Beach member of the county council executive committee Walden county council vice commander
Dr. Paul Revesz of Bellflower, 55, faced three counts of forging narcotics prescriptions. His trial, postponed today to August 125 due to a crowded municipal court calendar, followed an arrest on July 16. He pleaded not guilty at arraignment.
Irland Engleman 5437 Kildee St. is named president of the Lakewood Taxpayers Association after a Wednesday night meeting at St. Cornelius Parish Hall attended by 42 people. He succeeds Ed Walker who resigned amid support for annexation to Long Beach. Engleman also leads University District Taxpayers Association backing annexation in a southern Lakewood area. The assembly approved amendments allowing residents from annexing or incorporated areas to join.
Bridge experts from 11 western states Honolua and Alaska will play three days of duplicate hands at the Wilton Hotel Long Beach. More than 600 players are expected as the sixth annual Long Beach Duplicate Bridge effort hosts grand slam events with match point finals.
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