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Newspaper
Long Beach Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Oct 11, 1954
Page
15
Magazine style sketches recount McKay the Oregon governor and cabinet hopeful with blunt talk and a steady wife, a veteran journalist aide, local mischiefs like a sign reading Open yet locked doors, a rent-boosting landlord, a job hunter using classifieds, and a polo vaulter ambassador. The piece blends personal glimpses with satirical anecdotes from Washington and Salem life.
Stores banks and most business places will run on normal Tuesday while state county and city offices close observe Columbus Day Schools will be in session and public libraries open Normal mail deliveries and trash collection continue Federal offices stay in operation About 20 city officials led by councilmen and harbor commissioners will sail to Catalina San Clemente aboard the Islander guests of Fisherman’s Wharf Inc owners of Pierpoint Landing They will return in late afternoon Numerous other city employees will contest a 8 pm golf tournament at Meadowlark Country Club Don Gil of the finance department chairs arrangements
Three Catholic Sisters from St Marys Hospital were honored in solemn high mass ceremonies for 25 years of vowed service. Sister Alfonse oversees surgical nursing, Sister Palladius runs the laboratory, and Sister Donatus supervises Surgery. All are natives of Ireland and members of the Sisters at Charity of the Incarnate Word.
At Huntington Beach Speedway a jalopy race wall gate crash injured six people including driver Jack Brake with neck injuries, Vernon Barber with a cut hand, Jack Tipps with a broken leg, Bill Hitchcock head oils, Garland Johnson possible skull fracture, and Gus Hammontree a broken leg. About 1,500 spectators were present when Brake’s car locked wheels on the fifth or sixth lap of the 30 lap event, sending it into heavy timber near the repair pits. the race was halted.
An archer at a Carson Street range accidentally struck Arnold Gilbert, 30, of Los Angeles in the eye with an arrow during a misfired shot. He was treated at Community Hospital and later transferred to Santa Monica Hospital where doctors feared possible eye damage. Gilbert works as a stress engineer for the Douglas Aircraft plant in Santa Monica.
Secretary of the Interior Douglas McKay will address civic officials and oil industry leaders during Oil Progress Week in the Wilton Hotel Pageant Room at 7 p.m. The event, sponsored by the Chamber of Commerce and its oil committee led by Pat Elliott, aims to promote Long Beach as the oil capital of the west. McKay leaves Tuesday for Salt Lake City after the speech. Ward Johnson will introduce him.
City Health Department announced a diphtheria and tetanus immunization campaign for all public schools starting October 21. The voluntary program has been completed in local parochial schools. Parents will be notified of schedules and immunizations will take about 40 to 12 weeks to finish.
Long Beach Superior Court heard the dispute among the Andrews sisters over estate assets from their late parents Peter and Olle. Patty, Maxi, and LaVerne Andrews remain divided after a split in January with an estate valued around 150000 including a Brentwood home. Patty did not appear. continuance granted to November 8 with warning from Judge Vasey to reconcile. Patty’s attorney said she was singing in Reno.
Residents of Long Beach Seal Beach and Surfside watched the first in a series of six foot plus high tides. A 6.3 foot tide at 1 53 p m showed no damage due to lack of ground swells while stronger tides were forecast: 6.6 feet Tuesday 8 26 a m 6.8 feet Wednesday 8 03 a m 6.7 feet Thursday 9 43 a m and 6.4 feet Friday. City officials monitored the beach front east of oner where waves had previously swept sand and damaged apartments. Long Beach harbor officials were on alert though tides caused only difficulties. In Surfside residents reported the tide was high but not rough with some damage noted.
San Pedro hosts the Fishermen’s Fiesta with an estimated crowd of 100,000 viewing a 59-boat parade in a Circus Time theme. Cardinal McIntyre presided over the Blessing of the Fleet. Vice President Nixon spoke. Western Explorer won sweepstakes for boat decoration and top honors for boats under feet.
Donald Gene Bain, 24, of Los Angeles, who admitted escaping Metropolitan State Hospital in Norwalk last May, was captured in Long Beach late Sunday night after driving through a red light. Bain told officers he broke out by a second floor bathroom window, climbed a sealed fence, and hitchhiked to Las Vegas and Utah.
City Health Department last week reported communicable diseases with mumps as the head disease. Dr. I. D. Litwack announced three new polio cases, measles, tuberculosis, gonorrhea, scarlet fever, whooping cough, amebic dysentery, salmonella, and encephalitis infectious also appearing in the tally.
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