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1 1 INDEPENDENT (AM) PRESS. TELEGRAM (PM) Long Beach, April 4, Waste plan rejected by Carson By BOB ANDREW Staff Writer A solid waste management plan for Los Angeles County was rejected Monday by the Carson City Council because. the draft suggested the re-opening of a 180-acre dumpsite near the San Diego and Harbor freeways. The draft plan noted that Carson had officially adopted a policy that no new landfill dumps be allowed in the city and that no closed dumps be reactivated. At first Councilman Gilbert D.

Smith favored endorsement of the plan so long as the point was made that no dump could be activated without prior approval by the city council. Mayor John Marbut, however, insisted that he would never vote for approval of any plan that even contemplated renewed dumpsite activity within the city. Marbut read sections of the report which indicated the county wanted to reopen 154 acres of the old La Questa Lado Landfill, a 40-foot-high mound of dirtcovered rubbish on the south side of the San Diego Freeway between Main Street and Avalon Boulevard within the city's redevelopment district. The proposal called for mounding of the area even higher by the deposit of up to 5 million tons of rubbish in the center of the site. Once the site was again' completed, Marbut read, it would be turned over to the city for either golf course or regional park.

"That's all we need is another smelly old dump and nobody will live around here," declared Councilman Sak Yamamoto. Yamamoto asked City Attorney Glenn Watson if it would be possible for other governmental agencies to reopen the dump despite city opposition. "Not now," Watson replied, adding that the state legislature could adopt some new law giving the county that power "so long as we are a general law Under questioning, Watson explained that if Carson became a charter city its police powers would then derive directly from the state constitution rather than the legislature and would. have equal force with state laws in areas dealing with local concerns. Yamamoto commented that he would rather become a charter city than see any dumps reopened.

CHERIE (JOANNE ARLEDGE) SLAPS BO (TIM TONDREAULT) FOR LaBELLES Virgil (Norman Church) looks on in Actors Theater Bus Stop production -Staff Photo by TOM SHAW Play proceeds to help blind widow Proceeds from Saturday night's performance of "Bus Stop" by the Long Beach Actors Theater will be donated to a fund to aid Marsha LaBelle, injured last month in a hit-and-run accident which killed her husband, Raymond. The play will be presented at 8:30 p.m. each Thursday, Friday and Saturday in April in Wightman Theater at the Recreation Department headquarters, 155 Queens Way Landing on the west beach. A special performance for senior citizens will be given this Sunday at 2 p.m. Advance reservations may be made by telephoning the Recreation Department, or tickets may be obtained from the door at all performances for a $1 donation, according to Rick Doyle, supervisor of performing arts 90 Surgeon to aid of stowaway By BEN ZINSER came to the attention of Dr.

Ger- A second operation next Medical-Science Editor ald Blatt, a hand surgeon. month will be correct a marked Eliezar Alvarez-Valencia, 21, Alvarez was to go into the web of scar on the left thumb. It of Buena- Colombia, felt operating room today at Memori- will restore motion, the doctor he had suffered enough. al Hospital Medical Center of said. His hands, burned by kero- Long Beach where Dr.

Blatt. a sene 14 years ago, continued to hand surgeon, was to perform the Nicholas Allis of the federal plague him with pain. first of two operations in efforts to public defender's office said that A laborer, he felt pain every rehabilitate Alvarez's hands. Alvarez originally wanted to time he handled a shovel. The The first operation calls for plead not guilty to being a stowshovel handle would press against removal of the little finger of the away.

However, a guilty plea was his misshapen little finger on his right hand. eventually entered and sentencing right hand. Blatt says the little finger is is scheduled for April 22. A few weeks ago he and five SO deformed that it is flexed other Colombians stowed away on against the palm. Allis called the contribution of the Norwegian freighter Faus- Blatt a surprise," but He said the finger did not kanger, loaded with coffee and is small and is would not comment further on the bound for Southern California.

grow properly, too case. too abnormal to reconstruct. All were caught before the Some of the skin from the The FBI originally took Alvoyage was completed. little will be used finger to correct varez into custody, and for a time But Alvarez, who is awaiting a scar deformity on the right Alvarez was held in the Long sentencing on a stowaway charge, wrist. Beach jail.

POLICE BEAT Jewelry stolen Jewelry valued at $4,300 was taken from a Lakewood home, sheriff's deputies said Monday. Irene Schaffer, of 12524 E. 215th told deputies the burglars removed a screen on a sliding glass door and then forced the door to enter her home. Tools stolen valued at $325 were taken from an open storage yard at the United Ready Mix 11725 Artesia Artesia, Lakewood deputies said Monday. Firms vandalized Vandals caused $600 damage to windows at two Cerritos business firms, Lakewood deputies said Monday.

Investigators said the vandals used pellet guns to break windows at the Town and Country Travel Agency, 13438 Artesia and at the Pioneer Chicken restaurant, 13430- Artesia Blvd. Safe cracked Burglars who pried open an office safe at the Bethlehem Steel Corp. shipyard on Terminal Island stole $400 cash, police said Monday. Edwin Grinsell, a yard clerk, told officers he found no indication of forced entry to the office. Security guards from the USS Michigan, which is docked near the office building, told police they saw no suspicious activity.

$350 stolen Elinor V. Stellato told Long Beach Police Monday that a man who was lurking in a parking lot at 4436 Atlantic Ave. at 2:15 p.m. took $350 from her purse at gunpoint. Tools stolen Tools valued at $250 were taken from the home of Rene Testi, 2900 San Francisco by burglars who forced open a garage door to enter, Long Beach police said Monday.

TV, clock taken Gail Hanny, of 1420 Ramillo told Long Beach police that burglars who forced the front door of her home Monday took a television set and clock valued at $300, Longtime librarian, 85, dies Funeral services for Gladys E. Warren, retired teacher and librarian, will be held Thursday at 1 p.m. at Patterson Snively Mortuary. Miss. Warren died Sunday at the age of 85.

She came to Long Beach from Grand Rapids, in 1917. She was a graduate of Michigan. State Teachers Col. lege, a library school in Cleveland, Ohio, and re- Head of gas department will retire The biggest accomplishment of the Long Beach Gas Department under General Manager Edward C. Wright was development of a cathodic protection system, which saves taxpayers several million dollars a year.

Wright, 63, will retire July 1 after 35 years with the city, and said Monday that before the cathodic protection was installed, corrosion caused leaks of as much as 8 per cent of the total gas being delivered. "The loss is now virtually zero," he said. Wright said the State Department of Transportation's safety laws now require things such as cathodie protection which the Long Beach department instituted several years ago. The department's smogless, natural-gas vehicles are another development Wright takes pride in. There now are 70 vehicles in the smog-free fleet.

Wright has worked for the Long Beach Gas Department since 1941, when he was hired as a draftsman. He was promoted to office engineer and gas engineer in 1942, serving as a division head until April 1, 1972, when he was named assistant general manager. He held that position only three months before being promoted to general for the Recreation Department. Doyle said the eight cast members of "Bus Stop" decided to contribute all donations from this Saturday's performance to the fund established by Union Federal Savings and Loan Association for Mrs. LaBelle.

The LaBelles, both 25 years old and both blind since birth, were struck by an automobile March 14 as they walked across the San Antonio Drive, accompanied by their seeing -eye dog. "Bus Stop," written by William Inge and directed locally by. Douglas Ball, is a story of eight persons temporarily stranded by a snow storm in a diner in a small Kansas town. The Actors Theater is sponsored by the Recreation Department. Inventor seeks solar energy crowave dishes, and apply it to water heating.

His basic device involves a stationary 2-inch by pipe into which rays from a 40-inch-wide parabolic collector are concentrated. do The collector is tilted to be perpendicular to the sun, and gets a 10-to-1 intensification" of the sun's rays. A small motor at the base of the device turns the reflector like a clock around the pipe, so the reflector is always aimed at both the sun and the pipe. know you can get 180 degrees," Hottenroth says of the unit's capabilities. Still, there are problems to be worked out.

Trying to make the device with inexpensive materials has produced pump problems: The water gets so hot the plastic in the pumps deforms. "It's pretty good as a prototype, but I'd say it's a good couple of months before we get one I'd be willing to sell to anybody," Hottentroth says. Hottenroth's experience should make him a good prognosticator of products' marketability. A veteran of engineering since he went to work in the engineering department of General Electric in 1929, the Bronx native claims credit for about 40 patents. They range from astronomic time switches for street lights to a 14-ounce batterypowered, forced-air backpacker's EDWARD WRIGHT manager to succeed L.L.

Bendinger, who retired. A native of Colorado, Wright attended the University of Wyoming in Laramie. In the 1930s, he was a store manager for Penney's and Safeway, and then went to work for the U.S. Forest Service in Colorado, surveying and designing trails, bridges and roads. Before coming to Long Beach and joining the Gas Department, he worked for the U.S.' Department of Commerce, surveying and mapping irrigation and drainage projects in southwest Colorado.

Wright and his wife, Mary, live at 1408 E. 56th St. (Continued from Page B-1) stove. He also has been a vice president of the Hupp Corp. (famous for the Hupmobile) and devised a covering for the screw panels on Lockheed L1011 airplanes.

"I've been in sales and I've been in management, but I like to do development work," Hottenroth says. "I like to develop. This is my hobby. When he and Marks develop a parabolic water heater they're willing to sell. Hottenroth knows there will likely be stiff competition.

are about 340 small businesses working in the solar energy field." he says. "Ten years ago there weren't 10. That may be exaggerating, but there weren't many." 1898 LAND DEAL INCOMPLETE: SHE GETS FATHER'S $100 BACK From Our State Bureau SACRAMENTO Evarista McCormick Conner of Garden Grove, whose father paid the state $100 for 80 acres of land in County 78 years ago but never completed the purchase, Monday received her father's $100 back. Citizen concerns topic of meeting ly approved Plunkett's proposal at its March 9 meeting. Acting City Administrator Howard Chambers worked out the details for the forums with Plunkett.

According to Mayor Jo Bennitt, there will be no agenda and no formal structure has been devised. A city council meeting answer serious questions devoted entirely to citizen at subsequent meetings, concerns -Lakewood he said. Councilman Donald Plunkett's hope to forge a less The council unanimous- mysterious and more accessible municipal government-will be held for the first time tonight. Plunkett has said he envisions a totally unstructured gathering of citizens on a monthly basis. The city council would hear their remarks and could summon staff members or documents to 68 What's the siren? The following emergencies were answered by the Long Beach Police and Fire Departments in the 24 hours ending at 8 a.m.

today: MONDAY 8:20 a.m., first aid, 714 Pacific 8:49, first aid, 3500 Elm 9:25, first aid, 535 first aid, Ackerfield 25 E. Ellis 11:10, 10:29 first aid, 7114 Pacific 12:12 p.m., apartment fire, 1740 Ximeno Ave; 1:08, apartment fire, 1068 Elm 1:49, first aid, 229 Maine 1:50, first 'aid, Ocean Boulevard and Magnolia Avenue; 2:09, car fire, 1134 Chestnut 2:20, car fire, Margo Avenue and Seventh Street; 3:26, first aid, 4630 E. Pacific Coast Highway; 4:18, first aid, Easy Avenue and 11th Street; 4:47, first, aid, Artesia Street and Walnut Avenue: 5:26, car fire, 145 E. Roosevelt Road; 5:45, first aid, Victoria Street and Long Beach 5:51, first aid, 1715 E. Seventh 7:04, house fire, 4310 Rosada 7:23, building fire, 966 Via Carmelitos; 7:27, first aid, 915 E.

Ocean 7:38, first aid, 6500 Bay Shore Walk; 8:14, first aid, 424 W. Anaheim 9:36, trash fire, Artesia Street and Orange Avenue; 10:39. first aid, 200 Ocean 10:41 first aid, Willow Street and Atlantic Avenue; 11:39, first aid, 1919 E. 14th St. TODAY 12:10 a.m., car fire, Coronado Aveue and Seventh Street; 12:40, apartment fire, 1867 Atlantic 2:08, first aid, 22 Nieto 2:30, first aid, 432 Rose 3:31, first aid, 265 Euclid 5:52, first aid, Anaheim Street and Chestnut Avenue: 6:17, first aid, 141 W.

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Bellflower, Nor walk. Paramount 866-1721 South Bay Area Comuton: Lynwood 835-7204 Orange County. A Pr 2-2102 "This has to rank as one of the most unusual of the more than 12 million payments made over my signature each year," said State Controller Ken Cory, who is chairman of the State Lands Commission which authorized the refund. Mrs. Conner was 5 years old on June 3, 1898, when her father, James McCormick, paid $1.25 an acre for the 80 acres.

But the federal government, which had granted the land to the state as school property, insisted that the mineral deposits at the site be identified before the sale could be n- pleted. McCormick never had the minerals catalogued, so the sale was never consummated. But he never applied for a refund, either. Mrs. Conner discovered the sale document in 1973, and two years later started proceedings leading to the refund.

The property, now owned by the federal government, is located between the communities of Jamestown and Melones. Cory estimated it would have a value of $250 to $300 an acre if it were on the open market. He quoted Mrs. Conner as saying "I think I'll have it framed" after receiving the $100 state warrant. st in LONG BEACH SAVINGS ARE NOW FEDERALLY INSURED UP TO $40,000.

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Fridays and A 437-1211 FREE PARKING At Our Rear Entrance FREE PARKING 135 E. OCEAN AVE. LONG 1725 XIMENO AVE. BEACH BRANCH ceived her master's degree from USC in 1930. She taught at the old Carroll Park Elementary School (now known as Luther Burbank) and opened the Jefferson Junior High School Library in 1922.

In 1946 she became librarian at Washington Junior High. She retired in 1952. ins in Michigan and Missouri. I.