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Volume 13 Issue 115
Santa Monica Daily Press
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THE READY TO LAUGH? ISSUE
Homeless labor, pedestrian bans 100 years ago BY DAVID MARK SIMPSON Daily Press Staff Writer
BAY CITY ARCHIVES How do you end homelessness in Santa Monica? Lock them all up and “add them to the rock-pile squad.” That was the plan put forth by the chief
of police 100 years ago this month, according to Los Angeles Times archives. Chief Randall used the acronym “I.W.W.” — short for “I Won’t Workers” — to describe vagrants and he “issued orders to his men to arrest all dissolute loungers,” the Times reported.
Previously, the policy had been to give suspended sentences to the unruly homeless and ask them to leave town. Randall wasn’t having it. He promised that all “undesirables” would “be taken up on sight” and given “stiff jail sentences,” or forced into hard labor.
“It is also believed to be legal to employ such men on the street work in Santa Monica,” the report said. “There is a lot of repairing to be done on the road between here and Topango.” SEE 100 YEARS PAGE 10
7.5 quake on California fault could be disastrous THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
It’s an assessment that Greene took to heart. When the Toronto Blue Jays drafted him in the seventh round of the 2013 MLB Draft, he was 165 pounds. He’s added 20 pounds to his 6-foot-3 frame and it has real-
LA HABRA, Calif. Experts say a bigger earthquake along the lesser-known fault that gave Southern California a moderate shake could do more damage to the region than the longdreaded “Big One” from the more famous San Andreas Fault. The Puente Hills thrust fault, which brought Friday night’s magnitude-5.1 quake centered in La Habra and well over 100 aftershocks by Sunday, stretches from northern Orange County under downtown Los Angeles into Hollywood — a heavily populated swath of the Los Angeles area. A magnitude-7.5 earthquake along that fault could prove more catastrophic than one along the San Andreas, which runs along the outskirts of metropolitan Southern California, seismologists said. The U.S. Geological Survey estimates that such a quake along the Puente Hills fault could kill 3,000 to 18,000 people and cause up to $250 billion in damage. In contrast, a larger magnitude 8 quake along the San Andreas would cause an estimated 1,800 deaths. In 1987, the fault caused the Whittier Narrows earthquake. Still considered moderate at magnitude 5.9, that quake killed eight people and did more than $350 million in damage.
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ROLLING ALONG
Paul Alvarez Jr. editor@smdp.com
People wave to the historic Shotgun House as it makes its way down Main Street on Saturday morning.
Samohi’s Conner Greene is destined for stardom BY TONY CAPOBIANCO Special to the Daily Press
Even though spring training has ended for big leaguers, it’s about to start for Santa Monica High School’s latest pro pitcher, Conner Greene.
Greene finished his senior year for the Samohi Vikings with a 1.63 ERA and 76 strikeouts. Scouts liked his fastball, which at the time clocked as high as 90 mph. They also say that Greene needs to both physically develop and improve on his splitter and breaking ball.
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