June 3, 1958

By Keith Thursby

Times staff writer

As voters decide the fate of a baseball stadium for the Dodgers in Chavez Ravine, here’s a sampling of stories in The Times:

• Walter O’Malley appeared on
  television to make a final push to support the stadium contract.
  Channel 13 aired a two-hour program that, according to a story in The
  Times, split time between supporters and opponents of Prop. B. That
  sounds downright fair after the five-hour program on Channel 11
  boosting the stadium deal.

• The City Council had another
  explosive meeting over the stadium issue. Here’s a paragraph from the
  story, which did not carry a byline: "Blood pressures began to hit the
  ceiling as a majority faction in the council, which favors the Dodger
  contract to build a new stadium in Chavez Ravine, balked an opposition
  minority move to launch another propaganda barrage against the Dodgers
  by simply forcing an adjournment of the council." That’s propaganda?
  What about five hours on local television? 

• Weird timing for this story
  in sports. Al Wolf reported that home runs are down in the National
  League so far in the 1958 season, so fears that the Coliseum’s short
  left field would give right-handed hitters an unfair advantage seem
  unfounded. 

keith.thursby@latimes.com