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Newspaper
Long Beach Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
May 25, 1953
Page
8
Alice Marian Giters, 32, reported her ex husband Harry L. Jones, 38, attempted to force entry to her Long Beach home and fired a shot from an alleyway striking an eave but missing her head. Neighbors heard the shot and police found a bullet hole in the eave.
Southern Pacific crews cleared the main line 15 miles west of the Arizona border after a derailed freight train blocked 25 cars. A broken journal caused the derailment delaying three westbound passenger trains from Chicago and Kansas City. service resumed late Sunday night.
SACRAMENTO GP Atty General Edmund G Brown ruled that horse meat cannot be sold in public markets with other meat products unless canned as pet food The opinion, issued at the request of Dr Wilton L Halverson director of the State Department of Public Health, aims to protect the public from fraud and disease from uninspected horse meat.
Industrial wastes discharged into the Los Angeles River have been cut down tremendously. The State and Regional Water Pollution Control Boards report that almost 4,000,000 gallons of oil field waste waters daily have been removed from the river. Wastes from nine stockyards and meatpacking plants, four railroad yards and four aircraft plants have been diverted into community sewers. Communities Seal Beach Bakersfield Crestline El Cajon and San Diego have provided new or enlarged sewage treatment facilities since 1949.
Ernest L. Hamilton, 28, a San Pedro father of two, died attempting to swim fully clothed across Bixby Slough in Wilmington on a dare. His friend Billy Foster, 21, swam partway and turned back. Hamilton disappeared in the quagmire as firemen recovered his body. Police note the slough has claimed many lives and local plans include draining and recreating the area.
Named editor Charles Barnett of 6178 Myrtle Ave has been appointed feature editor of the University of Southern California student publications the Daily Trojan and the Wampus, effective next fall.
Mr and Mrs Ernest Murray of Norwalk were ordered to stand trial in San Diego federal court on Aug 4 on charges they smuggled parrots and related birds from Mexico. Six other San Diego area defendants face the same charges. all are free on bond. Indictments by a Los Angeles grand jury. San Diego customs official Rae Vader notes parrot smuggling rising, parrot fever linked to human deaths. U S Public Health Service bans imports.
Lillian Graf, 30, of Mayfair, seriously injured in a two car crash at Candlewood Ave and Lakewood Blvd. She was treated at Bellflower Medical Center. The other driver was Ruth Shermann, 20, of Mayfair. Jay N. Stausser, 17, of Compton, also injured in a separate crash at Firestone and Lakewood Blvds. Robert C. Ham, 26, of Arlington, seriously hurt. taken to Los Angeles County General Hospital after a collision between his car and an express truck driven by Olen Hayes, 21, of Temple City.
Nine youths and five girls were jailed after a raid on a wild party in Hickory North Carolina near Santa Monica. The event involved stolen golf clubs valued at 119 dollars and a car from an Air Base. Lt. Victor Bassie of March Field announced arrests and charged the minors with intoxication following the raid in a hotel garage.
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