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Newspaper
Long Beach Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Mar 02, 1953
Page
13
In Long Beach the 11th anniversary of the 1942 air raid prompts renewed reader recollections. Reports of enemy planes faded to mystery as editors and locals weighed sighting claims, civilian defense theories, and skepticism. Readers note election figures and a GOP county tally reflecting wartime sentiment.
The city built segment of Long Beach Freeway from Anaheim Street to Pacific Coast Highway is expected to open to traffic around May 1. A revised cloverleaf interchange design near the bridge has been completed. Guy F. Atkinson Co. built the bridge and holds the contract for approaches, with traffic surveys delaying final plans. The stretch between Anaheim Street and Pacific Coast Highway North is in use, while the roadway to Ard Street remains under city supervision.
Rt Rev. Msgr. Bernard J. Dolan pastor at St Anthony's parish was beaten and kidnapped Sunday night in an attempted robbery. He is in serious but improving condition at St. Mary's Hospital after being thrown from a car near his Olive Avenue residence. The assailants stole his keys and fled, part of a wave of religious site attacks in Long Beach including safecracking at North Long Beach Methodist Church and a failed safe opening at Pour Square Church.
City officials led by City Manager Samuel B. Vickers announce a search for potential oil wells to supplement supplies. Home consumer needs will take precedence over the Harbor Department and Long Beach Oil Development Co injections planned for April. Repressurization could lift output to 10,000,000 cubic feet daily, with total harbor and Adelang wells at about 41,110,000 cubic feet per day.
Elizabeth McLean of Lakewood, 39, pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter in the death of her friend Bernadine Hoepfl, 44, after a quarrel on December 9. She was sentenced to state prison, denied probation, and cited incomplete information given to the probation department.
Nine candidates compete for three seats as filing closes at 5 p.m. Wednesday in Los Angeles. entrants include Gladys Comstock Smith and Kenneth Ingram, with others such as Bill Barbee and Joseph Bjorndal active contenders. Incumbents Elizabeth Hudson and George Vermillion seek reelection while Charles T. Smith withdraws after appointment as municipal judge. The top three vote-getters win on April 3.
An electric wrench valued at 145 dollars was stolen from a tubing seating rack at a service station located at 1948 S. Pacific Coast Highway. The report, filed Sunday by David P. Caudill of 3152 Daisy Ave, cites the incident.
The State Public Utilities Commission scheduled June 10 for Southern California Edison Co. rate hike of 16 million dollars. Chief Engineer Henry R. Jordan said the bureau will consider removing consolidated readings of meters used for municipal power, likely raising the city power bill. The city will oppose private consumer increases depending on forthcoming evidence.
Police report damage at a school under construction located at 106 E 70th Street with numerous windows broken and plumbing tools valued at 200 dollars stolen last weekend.
Preliminary report shows four people died in Southland traffic accidents during the weekend. A new annexation group in Lakewood forms Carson Gardens Taxpayers Association led by Richard Poole to study the proposed Long Beach annexation bounded by Carson St Bellflower Blvd Centrala St and Palo Verde Ave. An annexation petition request will be reviewed by the City Council Tuesday with 31 residents signing. An advisory committee named Poole Davidson Brooks and Stindt will gather pros and cons and distribute findings to area voters. Poole invites local residents to join by contacting him.
Bettine Orth French, 4, mother of veteran Long Beach newspaperman Ned French, died Sunday night in a local sanatorium. Born in Detroit she moved to Oregon in 1911 and to Hollywood in 1925 with her husband Dr E H French who died in 1949. She later came to Long Beach to reside with her son. Funeral planned in Cincinnati with Matcell's Mortuary handling local arrangements.
More than 3000 women began house to house solicitation for Red Cross with a 268 380 goal, exceeding the Long Beach quota of 265 380. Downtown firms opened a 10 am to noon drive as volunteers collected from businesses and will return next Monday to gather employee contributions. The canvass covers Long Beach and Lakewood homes under coordinated leadership.
Mrs Fraterl J Heusel will oversee a 1953 drive to raise funds and blood for gamma globulin production. Lemuel Ledder, chair, notes a 10 percent higher quota for downtown firms to support the Red Cross effort aimed at collecting 2,000,000 extra pints of blood and raising 7,000,000 dollars to process it. The first luncheon was held Friday at the Long Beach Chapter house 819 West Broadway.
Two Douglas Soaring Club members at the Long Beach Douglas Aircraft plant won trophies at the seventh annual Pacific Coast Midwinter Soaring Championships in Terrey Pines. Ralph Kester won first in bomb-drop, John Lowiek and passenger Herbert Mortz took third in the two place distance, while W S Ivans of the San Diego Glider Club dominated with wins in distance duration altitude and acrobatics.
Lakewood Center post office opens with ceremony on front steps of the new structure. The 6000 square foot building, largest in Long Beach Postal District, will serve northern and western Lakewood with four clerks and 17 carriers. Open house plans include demonstrations of new handling methods and a card sent to President Eisenhower.
The Navy transport General A. E. Anderson, bringing 19,000 Korean war veterans, was slated to dock today at Fort Mason in San Francisco.
Two piggy bank burglaries were reported Sunday night elsewhere in the city. Jack Gaines said a thief entered his home on Oregon Avenue between 7 and 8:30 p.m. and took a pig bank with about 150 to 200 dollars, a wrist watch and a wallet were left untouched. Bill Williams reported another break in on Sonoma Avenue around 10 p.m. and a piggy bank containing 20 to 29 dollars was stolen.
Four killed in Southland crashes as rain slick streets snarled weekend traffic. In Long Beach ten were hurt in a two car crash on Pacific Coast Highway while a Long Beach woman died under her car after a pole was knocked by high winds. Two San Diego men died in separate crashes on Pacific Coast Highway near Dana Point. Police said Creed Trotter, 30, of Wilmington faces possible manslaughter charges.
Traffic statistics show no billed cases and injuries from injury accidents. The record notes total fatalities for 1953 as 13 and total injuries in 1953 as 215. For the current date, fatalities are listed as 199 and injuries as 19, with injury accidents at 1952 recorded as 99.
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