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Newspaper
Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1958
Page
11
A Long Beach column recounts a club cash transfer gone humorous with a bank official aboard, a cashier’s comic misadventure at a Dodgers game, and a harbor skyline critique of the Reef restaurant. The piece ends with a mother warning about a caller targeting girls pictured in the papers and posing as a modeling agency.
Coast Guard Sikorsky HO4S3 helicopters based at Point Vicente patrol 1200 square miles daily from Palos Verdes to Avalon. They conduct medical evacuations, vessel towings, and rescues including a Catalina Island heart attack airlift. Crews, led by Lt Harold B. McDuffee, operate 24 hours on two search missions with plans to keep the unit past Sept. 15.
Navy reserve James L. Johnson, 23, was sentenced by a general court martial in Long Beach to six years at hard labor, with dismissal from the Navy and loss of pay. He crippled the USS St. Clair County by dumping tools into a reduction gear and cutting engine oil lines causing $3,100 damage before a sea posting to the western Pacific. His wife Patricia testified she was ill before the scheduled January sailing and urged him not to depart.
Despite a 12 percent rise in Long Beach taxable property assessments only three owners have protested to the City Council acting as Board of Equalization. Hearings are set for Thursday with a mid Friday board meeting possible as more protests may be filed before Friday morning.
Edison Co denies any plan to construct a multi million dollar office building in Long Beach. County supervisors debate a sweeping overhaul plan from a nine member committee while an executive of the Southern California Service Station Assn cites violations by auto repair garages operating outside buildings. Independent Garage Owners Assn of California questions enforcement of the building code, and local officials call for garage owners to comply with outdoor repair bans.
Francis G. Rachim, 39, of 4305 Spaulding Ave, suffered a cut to the arm when struck by a Long Beach Street Department truck while standing beside his car on Pacific Coast Hwy between Pine and Locust Aves. He was taken to Seaside Hospital for stitches. The driver, Milton L. Taylor, 29, of 1802 Yolk Ave, remained at the scene.
Barbara L. Cove a 24 month old daughter of Mrs Ruth J Cole of 2327 Seabright Ave was treated at St Marys Hospital after swallowing an unknown quantity of insecticide at home Monday afternoon police report says.
The City Council voted 6 to 1 to reject an ordinance committee suggestion to allow more auto repairs in service-station buildings without fire-resistant construction. Over 100 petitioners and supporters urged the change, but the council overrode the petitions and upheld the rejection.
Long Beach residents Walter Ray Bienday and Thelney Clarence S. Hunt won 21 000 and 17 500 respectively after a February 16 collision with a car on Pacific Coast Highway. Attorneys James Carl Engle and John V. Hugh Lee Malouf represented the defendants. the accident occurred as a Honda motorcycle hit a Fayies’ car entering the highway.
In the Long Beach Los Angeles metropolitan area July employment rose by 4 900 to a total of 2 480 800 as student entry kept unemployment near June levels with about 176 500 job seekers. Manufacturing added jobs for a second month, led by electrical machinery, fabricated metals and food processing while construction reached its highest level since October.
The City Council endorsed in principle a cooperative water flooding agreement with Tar and Ranger Zones producers near Long Beach Naval Shipyard to arrest subsidence. Harbor Board also approved Richfield Qi Corp flood injection of 25,000 barrels daily into Fault Block 6, instru...
The Long Beach NCR office topped the June sales quota by 640.2 percent, earning honors from Dayton headquarters. Branch manager G. E. Carson and two other national sales leaders were feted at a July banquet in Dayton. The Long Beach unit has reached its yearly quota, Carson said.
Elroy Ernest Pena, 37, was sentenced to life in prison for the May 18 killings of his estranged wife Joan Pena, 36, and roommate George Teeter, 24, at a W. Anus heim Sr. bar. Superior Judge Beach Vasey ordered concurrent terms after rejecting defense requests for new trial or reduced charges.
City Engineer Jess D Gu ckerson certified two improvement contracts totaling 29975 dollars. Standard Truck & Parking Service completed topsoil delivery and spreading east of the Municipal Airport near Spring Street for Skylinks Golf Course at 18090.90 dollars from the special projects fund. Hoffman & Son finished a floodlighting system at Silverado Park ball diamond for 11889 dollars from bend money.
Verne L Hughes was awarded a Bank of Amerita Giannini Foundation scholarship for three summer sessions of advanced study at the Pacific Coast School of Banking, University of Washington. A 13 year veteran with the statewide bank, he served as assistant vice president and teller at the Vernon day branch before becoming assistant manager.
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