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Newspaper
Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Apr 08, 1958
Page
9
A satire urges embracing chaos to file income taxes, advising postponing tasks until the last moment, delaying sleep, and roping in family mischief. It mocks organized filing and suggests provoking fights, misplacing records, and delaying the post office run to heighten suspense and entertainment.
Medical researchers describe a marrow reinjection technique to extend X ray therapy for cancer patients. The patient’s own bone marrow is frozen and reinjected after X ray dosing, restoring blood counts and allowing further treatment. In early cases at the Veterans Administration Hospital, one patient received two reinjections with favorable results.
Author William Saroyan, a 25-year veteran of the Signal Corps, departs on the SS President Wilson for a three month voyage to write a new book titled Fifty Fifty in a disciplined pace. He envisions 52 chapters, seven parts per week, aiming for a 50th birthday completion.
A Monday Board of Education report by Paul Borgfeld and Anton Thompson estimates a 1.2 million increase in next year’s salaries for Long Beach teachers and staff. Higher costs stem from new hires automatic raises substitute teachers and other factors. The average teacher salary is 5983 per year with most in mid to upper ranges and a few at the top end.
A new course in infant care begins Wednesday in City Health Department classrooms at 2655 Pine Ave. Sponsored by the American Red Cross the class teaches feeding dressing and basic newborn care. Noted as six free sessions held for two hours from 9 30 am on Wednesdays and Fridays over three weeks.
LOS ANGELES CNS The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors adjourned for lack of a quorum in a Tuesday session believed the first time in the county's 108 year history. Only Supervisors Hahn and Dorn were present amid talk of delaying until 2 pm as John Anson Ford arrived from Mexico. The fifth seat has been vacant since Herbert C. Legg’s death on March 2, with calls for Governor Knight to appoint a successor before the June election.
City Councilmen today again discussed a per barrel tax on oil produced in Long Beach. Councilman Charles M. Garrison asked City Manager Sam E. Vickers to estimate annual production and the rate needed to fund extra rubbish collection costs, proposing the oil levy instead of a proposed monthly household charge.
The helicopter aircraft carrier USS Thetis Bay and the fleet oiler USS Chemung are scheduled to arrive at Long Beach Wednesday after Western Pacific duty. The Thetis Bay should dock at Municipal Pier E around 9 am, while the Chemung is due at Pier 3, Long Beach Naval Shipyard, about 1 30 pm.
Fifty Los Angeles County cities vote in municipal elections today, with five local areas balloting as incorporated communities for the first time.
In Los Angeles County and Orange County, 26,919 voters names two City Council members as residents of Bells Flower Downey Dairy Valley Norwalk and Paramount join first municipal elections. Gardena Signal Hill Seal Beach Santa Fe Springs and Lakewood see contests including write-in campaigns and debates over gambling. A Torrance man convicted of burglary faces 5 years to life plus additional terms.
In the Long Beach area holding elections today are Avalon Hawthorne Hermosa Beach Lynwood Manhattan Beach Palos Verdes Estates Rolling Hills Estates and Torrance.
John Lemke Van Haren, 38, of 46 Mermaid PL, was found guilty by Superior Judge Ralph K. Pierson of assault with intent to do great bodily injury for breaking his 6-year-old stepson's arm. He testified the incident might have been an accident and faces sentencing in May.
City officials and spokesmen for Seaside and Community hospitals reached agreement on all terms of leases for municipally financed hospitals. Council approved modifications to the leases, with unanimous support, to be submitted for formal action. A compromise limits local residency requirements for board members and expands city council oversight over hospital administration and transfers of funds between hospital and capital improvement accounts.
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