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Newspaper
Long Beach Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Oct 02, 1951
Page
13
A Long Beach school report ends with a fifth grader Garey Ivey’s essay about summer fishing. The write up includes local humor and an anecdote of a golf course mischief involving wives and snipe hunting.
Douglas Air craft strike drags on as 2100 workers at Todd Bethlehem yards return to work. CIO UAW and Welders Union engage Washington conciliation panel. no concrete proposals. Pacific Maritime Association headlined by tentative wage deals and ongoing San Francisco talks.
Long Beach launched its 546 822 Community Chest fund campaign with a 1200 person lunch at Municipal Auditorium. Holly wood stars Bob Hope and Jerry Colonna urged support while William T. J. Harris reported 102 034 in advanced gifts. 4500 volunteers will canvass as local service clubs back 19 Red Feather agencies.
Long Beach Harbor Manager E J Amar told harbor commissioners that no seaward extension of harbor facilities is planned at present. He cited Supreme Court rulings on tidelands and said development would be landward of the defined line, with Army Engineers withholding permits until title disputes are resolved. Amar dismissed talk of an 85 million dollar expansion and said long term plans depend on general business conditions.
City Manager Samuel E. Vickers urged using net parking meter revenues to acquire off street parking. He disapproved converting the City Hall north lot to public use for a trial balloon. He urged condemnation if privately run lots should be sold for other uses. Traffic signals on Pine Ave will be improved to better synchronize flows, though perfect progression may be limited by block length.
Steel shortages delay two $1,000,000 harbor projects and many city jobs. Guy F. Atkinson says Union Steel cannot get plates from Kaiser, so the harbor department will seek alternatives. The Bethlehem transit shed at Pier 2 was extended to Nov 1, and copper and steel are now regulated under National Production Authority rules, slowing municipal work and delaying several drives on the Long Beach Freeway and other sites.
Vladimir Nicolsky 55 of 4200 Walnut Ave died last Wednesday. A U S Coast Guard veteran of 21 years who retired in 1945, he requested burial at sea. Eight miles offshore the Ponchartrain crew received his ashes as Rev Hiram Crosby led service aboard the cutter. Nicolsky fled Bolshevik Russia 28 years ago and later worked as translator aboard an American icebreaker later turned over to Russia.
A hungry Long Beach youth confessed a burglary and forgery after walking into Adams County Idaho Sheriff’s Office. Walter Irvin Cresey, 22, is to be returned from Council to face forgery charges for stealing 24 payroll checks and a check protector from Long Beach Sandblasting Co. on Sept 26, with about $600 in forged checks. He said he rode a cab to Las Vegas after leaving Long Beach.
Comdr. D. L. Mehlhop, executive officer aboard the hospital ship Haven, recalls blood and oxygen needs in Korea while visiting Long Beach with his wife Evelyn and their four daughters Beth Sarah Patricia and Geraldine. He notes the vital roles of blood banks and oxygen aboard ship in saving lives.
Ex convict John Craig Wagner, a 1947 burglary convict from Long Beach, was arrested after detectives tied his fingerprints found in a ransacked residence to the case. The crime scene was Sistelle Cannon’s home, where a burglar entered via an unlatched window screen.
Henry F. Miler, held to answer on felony hit and run charges from San Pedro Municipal Court last July, pleaded guilty to misdemeanor hit and run in Municipal Court. Miller applied for aviation and Judge Joseph M. Maltby set October 29 for hearing and sentence.
Four people were injured in three traffic accidents yesterday afternoon. David M. Milington, 17, of 5018 Gardenia Ave, treated at Seaside Hospital for a broken left arm and abrasions after a collision while crossing an alley north of 14th St with driver John Barnett, 29, of 1921 Orange Ave, not held responsible. Lizzie W. McClemore, 28, of 1428 Cowles St, and Vera L. Jones, 29, of 1242 W. 16th St, suffered possible skull fractures and other injuries in a car-track crash at Cowles St and Orange Ave. both taken to Seaside Hospital. Truck driver William D. Stottstind, 28, of 4316 Elm Ave, uninjured. A second collision at Spring St and Lakewood Blvd left Mrs. Nora Warner, 63, of 2912 Ostron St, Lakewood, with broken ribs and possible back injuries. she and Selden D. Warner, 27, of the same Lakewood address, were taken to Community Hospital. James E. Hatheway, 17, of 6102 Wardlow Rd, had a separate incident in the other car. no injuries to either driver.
A major blaze at the Long Beach Buick Co left eight late model cars destroyed and total losses estimated up to 100000. Two workers were overcome by smoke and one employee suffered serious injuries from a gasoline tank blast. Fred McClean described the tank explosion that sparked the fire.
The U S Weather Bureau forecasts partly cloudy skies tonight and tomorrow morning over Long Beach, turning mostly sunny by tomorrow afternoon and little temperature change. Light variable winds tonight and tomorrow morning shift to 15 to 20 mph, with gusts to 25, while mountains and interior see 30 to 45 mph. Yesterday’s temperature ranged from 59 to 87 degrees.
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