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YvTVr rTTYT A Ni riw mwiwy wr -Wf1 WafrVV aiANGJpG. TIMES er L'fu: the Past i to the diary begun in 1854, Nash sold butter at 16 cents a pound a far cry from to day's television allusions to that 70-cent spread." By GEORGE ROBESON 1 Rev. Arthur Atkins of 6439 long Bench Blvd. has a 107-year-old diary whose entries show some things change radically with tlfM farmland a mounted 63.88. T- i iVr-u- i The things that havent changed much are in.

the gftimwna of the Anti-Slavery Bugle of Salem, Ohi on July 21, 1819. a IN A front-page story on the education of Negroes. Caroline Swett, has been on trial at Portland for an assault on Mr. Cole's grog shop doing considerable damage be use it was a tippling-place for her husband, has been convicted of trespass and sentenced to pay a fine of 610 and court costs amount ing to a little over 650." .1 V. NEVER LOOKED BETTER Paul Schinnerer of 735 28th St poses proudly beside his 1930 16-cylinder Cadillac at Sunday' meeting of the Cadillac and I Salle Club of Southern California at Rancho Los Cerritos, The big limousine was completely rebuilt by, Schinnerer.

after he found it wrecked in the desert after an accident in which its driver was killed. The rebuilding took Schinnerer 10 years. (Staff Photo) And he has a 142-year old, newspaper that shows aomA--things never change at all. The diary and newspaper belonged to his stepmothers grandfather, Joseph F. Nash, who 'lived in Garrettsville, Ohio, until his death in 1889.

The things thatchange: Id July of; 1857, according Jkv 6 'A REV, ARTHUR ATKINS ViTi- the Bugle claims the move- ment was gaining impetus" that year. And we hope," the story said, the day is not distant when the colored people will enjoy and appreciate all their rights." Besides stories quoting Thomas Jefferson and Pat rick Henry on civil rights issues, the newspaper print ed an article explaining the political and economic pria- ciples of socialism. AND ON that day 141 years before the abortive Paris summit meeting be tween former President Eisenhower and Khrushchev, reports from New York and Boston said 50 U.S. delegates were being sent to a Paris Peace Con grass. A small story on a back page tells of a conflict that will never end: Two Elders i Honored at The United Presbyterian (Churchmen of Southern California najned two of their members as Outstanding Churchmen of the Year during their' weekend meeting at the Miinicipal 'Auditorium.

The awards were given to Omer H. Brodie of San Bernardino an engineer; and Donald R. LaMotte of Alta-Idena, manager of the Sears, Roebuck Co. store inPasa-Idena. Man laymen and pastors from 254 congregations attended the seventh lannual 'tneeting, the highest attemlance'TiKfoe organiza-jtkms history.

BRODIE HAS been aru elder in the church since 1947 I He is an assistant engineer for the San Bernardino Floo Control District LaMotte, was ordained to the ruling eldership in 1937, and has. managed the Pasa dena store since 1951. once before, in 1958, (wore, two men. named for Churchman of the Year honor Nrnmally the men select one man. FAIR AND WARMER ggaffian.i Today in LECTURES -1.

Anti Communism Series: Paul and Marion Miller, ex-agents to FBI, Detect' Ing Communist Propaganda, 7:30 Long1 Beach City. College Au-' ditorium; Rep, John Rousselot, R-San Gabri; el, nom, Long Beach; State College theater. FILM India, Land of the Spectacular, "narrated by Russ Potter, 87 Wilson. High School auditorium. a CLINIC Screening, tests for diabetes, free, to Long Beach residents'' 40 and 9 to 11 ajm, City Health partment, 2655 Pin' Ave.

VARIETY Community program sponsored by RecreatUm Department: Irenes Stage Door Studio dancers; community. singing, old time dancing; 750 pjx. Exhibit Hall, Municipal Au-. ditorium son A- Clear Sides Due Firemen Win Chase; Catch Fire Firemen frofo Engine Company 2 had a unique expert ence Sunday, They had to chase a fire before they couk extinguish it. The five firemen, under command of Capt.

Kenneth Hliot, received, an alarm an automobile fire at Thin Street and Redondo Avenue. When they arrived all they saw was a thinning cloud smoke, 'He went thataway," said a service station attendant THE FIREMEN, siren screaming and bell Hanging, drove down the smoky trai pursuit At 2842 E. Sixth St they spotted the smoking automobile and rapidly extinguished the fire in the wiring of the engine: Police said the vehicle was driven by Jade Villa; 35 who told them he had driven to his own home to put out the fire himself with a garden hose. Ville was pursued also by truck driver Dave Ivie, of 43 Obispo who frantically tried to warn Ville his car was on fire, THE FIRE was first reported at a service station where Ville had tried to put it OUt With an wflngulaW When the fire persisted, he elected to use. his own hose.

Police officers Robert Pipes1 and Gary Cooper said Ville apparently was too cited to use the available water hoses, at the service station. No citations were' Issued and the only damage was to tfte'car, Piper said. Paving Approved Improvement of SaintaFe ties aO Avenue from Dominguez Van Buren Street has been approved by. County Supervisors. The board, approved a 62,500 allocation to resurface part of the street and extend the peyement to meet curb and gutter.

Thieves Take RarejCoihsr collection of coins was reported stolen Sunday by Aubrus J. Beil of 2222 Ore-gon rV Bell said face value of the stolen items would exceed 6500 with a market value of more than 614)00. Sunny, well-scrubbed skies were expected for the Long Beach area today after the heaviest of this seasons sporadic minstorms dampened the weekend. Slightly wanner weather warmer V- NASH bought 160 acres of land for 6172.80 Just 614)8 per acre. He had his horse shod for 25 cents, and bought 35 pounds of sugar for 64.19, paying for it in shillings.

Nash thought taxes were a trifle steep. His total taxes for the year 1856 road tax, chattel tax and property' taxes for 30 acres of good 4 -'V. -i' 2 tod to Thought have not yet contributed. These people, if they gave proportion to the. support provided by.

the men of the armed services (the 'Coast Guard, fay the way, made 100 per cent of goal) could put the Lois Beach Community ChesTover the top for 1961. vdne problem, of course, is that many of these people Stbeen contactSDe rh it much to ask j101 ddui Sttctwia. tor erase one's obligation to tlon schemes but some nave hajppened funny things nnth Malcolm Epletj 53. "-i The Harbor Area Welfare. Planning Council will A Planning Profile wu forecast with todays high predicted for 68.

Total rainfall for Friday through Sunday wax 14)8 inches, as recorded at The Independent, Frea-Teiegram building at 604 Pine Ave. The weekend precipitation was the heaviest for any storm of this season Total seasonal rainfall for the Los Angeles area is now 3.42 inches, compared to a normal reading of i.82. Rainfall sea-sms run from June to June. Many residents of foe. fire-razed Bel-Air and'Brfotwood districts began Sunday clearing thehomei.

of the mud end siltthat poured fromthe burned-off hill during the Dozens of Los Angeles ares streets were dosed as work-men cleared away muck wafoed down from -the hill areas' Sailor Airlifted for Ojwration A sailor. aboard foe submarine USB Char1, was airlifted by helieppter to Balboa Hospital Sunday to an appendix: eparetioirfoe Long Beach office of the UJS. Coast Guard reported. Janos Kiskawy was report; ed hCsatisfactory condition, the Coast Guard said. The Char was 90 mifys west of Diegcf when' Kjskawy was' i Harbor Area? -at its quarterly meeting at noon WedniidaR at, the San Pedro YWCA.

The discussion is ityex amine the change whichfoive eg place In socio-economic "COR TWO years running, this writer has the pleasure of heading up the gbvwnment and education of-the Long Beach Community Chest, Iuse the wordpleasure with sincerity. It has been gratifying. to recmve the fine group' leaders I have asked to work, and to note the fceperous re- spouse of such groups as employes, cify employes, the flees, public and private edu- wtoth.Mrrtc.. Tcontriboilon members of otto.gmups,'I; Soil Men. See Peril in Roads By WILLIAM JONES A blanket of asphalt and concrete threatens the nation.

Ribbons of highways and oundations of housing developments are robbing the state and foe nation of precious topsoil to cropland." It is the No. 1 problem that conservationists face several delegates to the recent convention of foe Cell-fomia Association- of Soli Conservation Districts said in an interview with The Independent. FRED HERBERT, a sistant state conservationist, disclosed the results of; an unpublished survey i oh show: California cropland within the next 15 years i wilLin-crease only by 5 per cent by making use of forest and tenge-grazing Within that sam6 period, the populatkm of California will WrE. Sitverwood, Redlands rancher, adds: Future cropland: will not yield a murii as todays because farmers are being mdvedy urbanization off good bottomlandand onto THE4t78TrFECT: Higher rices for foods which are nuisported into metropolitan mas from faima gradually eing forced Hurther-end further fromuibah centers. Thq eventual effect-Lack of food when the curvet of crbfdaiid and population cross on the statisticalchartr Expats convention agreed that technology may well change the final picture, nit; waned that studies.of foe immediate 'future show no major technical strides Hn iood production." By technological, advance, tbey ref erred to kuch future prospects food from foe ea ami; Increased productivity on.land thraui better care of soil end scientific in and earth.

URBANEEATION," sald, is nbt just happening in the large enters of Mjniktionjsuch as Sah Francisco aid; LosV Angeles. In California, it is happaqiqg-in 201000' places.1',' It is like shammer hitting a pane of Farm lands arer being Mlverwood sajd: An Ordinary highway not a super freeway today takes away 60 acres, of land per mile.1 The "answer, both agreed, rests not wltlr federal regulation -but primarily with public and co-' operation to make full use of every inch of ground.1" heritage of jSilverwood conduded, ia for our children and'our chQdreni Children.1 thebarboF Two men and two women floated 45 minutes off Newjiort Beach Sunday their26-toot pleasure tort tgpMfar ffM with wattr mi auk. Dr. Kenneth Reevo chairman, Prlna'prispedcerewbe DT. Genevieve Carter, date1 executive direetbrethe Velfare Planning Lloyd Street assistant In addifom to the problem ci juveniles; the aged and per smu in their prbdudfve thec6undl members wfoxiis cuss social standards' in Accident Three youths escaped serious injury early.

Sunday when theiieutomdbile went out of controTbiMhe Long Beach ridalb. Freeway and ilbtlgee ware thrown out as it tUnedsed over end. PolSA saidonlyEugme Donald Francisco, 20i a sailor stationed at Sah Diego, was hospitalized. He was held for observation aboard the USS Arnold 17, and 14ndHl-W-JohnM)nl8rboth of 417 E-. 189th Sti, Gardena; were treated at Memorial HMpital anid released.

Police said foie youths were huriedfrtxnitheaufomobile cm the soft turf altmgsitfo the southbound lane of the fie-way near Pacific Coast Higb- OilLcadeirDies SANFRANCISCOIP) Emerson M. Butterwbrth, 67, retired vice president of California Texas Oil died Sunday at his home here. harbor area projected over the V-. The' Coast' GuanTsaid foe Ifour Wefo rescued.by a passing boat and transf erred to a Icuttaf.r.r;. Cental Mour physician treated the four in Newport (Harbof and said all were In good physical Three of foe survivors were identified.

as of Huntington Perk end Mr. and Mrsi Ronald Van Heusden of Pasadena. The fourth' person was not identified Flaaten, owner of foe 26-foot Jack, said: We started taking water, rapidly ami within fiva utea." MuscleCUus ChineseReds Pni From TOKYO MP)i RadPd- Want to say something spe-dal about thewpportgvmi tbeuChest by the men end women of the Navy and the Coast iGuard. This has been mAhing riiort of tremendous. An exampleis at hand.1 have just receivr'thanews serve, the purpose? fthat the officers and maroT.

The Chest goal caq still be the -USS Banner -have con-maule if you havent given tiibtited 61178 to this yearis 1 yet yhim help make it Chest 'That is more than How about double the Banners contribu- tionlastytar, and it amounts mRIFTWCXJD Y.o tomcrfri)BIn'85 Sters at the Edgewater ROrtslike this have been school in Los Altos think Vrtrng hi from the they deserye smne credit for Ships afloat- Some of the the copious rains that have bigger-ships like the Okla-' visited us. They did an Indian homl City have' given mat than-Aeme business district sections of Long contributions frmnnen who are in and out of Loog Beach. If lair to rain dance at the school and the skies started leaking the nex( day. The Nashville Tennessean, an 'outstanding newspaper, carried a story recertify about Lrag Beachs his community, and to its worthy youth, health and welfare enterprises? y.i-; ping Imported Sundsyfltoa China's leaders have received friendly response from So viet Premier Khrushchev to. greetings Chajrman Mao Tze- -tungsent him on the 44fo anniversary of the.

Bolshevik revolution Noy. 7.. The broadcast said Khrusb' chey praised work of the Peiping hierarchy ini building ChlM into a socialist (Con munisQ nation and called. So' viet-CUneso friendship breakd)In 1 ask peolda who live here the junior collegeeduatiion ix-year around and beneQt di gram, with heavy display and Department wants ypu to get rectfy from the serv; pictures. It was written, by put there and exercise.

Take financed by.Cmnmumty George Barker, and ex-L P-Tv off your girdles. Regain your Chest agencies if th should lyouth andall that. not 9 jff welL you suppose the fellows who Anybody with enough ener an) installing huge pipeline try- it can-meetwifo nlHE CHEST st ill is short a E. beyond instructors at 4:30 pm. its goal, It will.

take ahother It up foe 51.006,000 needed. propored for the same area? era thousands of local I iupppsa -tha twi local 1 aupppsa-uu Offered Men at Bellflower ball and weight lifting. The isa will meet wary at FRED W. HERBERT, (left) assistant, state (Sonservationist, discusses topsoil jpiieiM'wifo Redlands rarufoeiC at foe Lafayette HoteL le among them many Ithe seine s' Shower facilities will be Iprovided. 3.

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