Chula Vista Star-News from Chula Vista, California • Page 25

Irons Acclaim Mali's 90, 1 NATIONAL CITY, CHULA VISTA. IMPERIAL BEACH LEE CniLSON'S War Heroine IV' 1 1 at, AT WhoSavedGI' 7 SfFIVE National City "made" the big, thick Los Times this week. In two issues, yet. Ed Ainsworth, longtimer on the Times staff, does a daily column called "On The Move." He writes about Southern California communities, their people, politics, problems, progress and all the rest. Tuesday he devoted the column to National City, The following day he wrote about the San Diego unified port district issue that will face voters in the election Tuesday.

3 t- 1 Hunter Bears Up as Bear Bears Down-He Bags Rug Two shots from a Luger .44 caliber magnum pistol this week not only saved the life of a Chula Vistan but got him a bear skin rug in the bargain. Bruce Moffitt, 22, a senior at the University of New Mexico, shot the eight-foot black bear when he was only six feet away. Moffitt is the son of Dr. and Mrs. L.

W. Moffitt, of 20 Pepper Tree Rd. The student was deer hunting in rugged territory about 80 miles north of Albuquerque, N. when the incident occurred. In a phone call to his mother, Moffitt said he heard something rustle behind him and turned to "almost look the bear in the eye." The youth, an expert pistol shot, fired twice, killing the animal with the second shot.

A local authority said the .44 magnum is a powerful weapon, "but it's nothing to go after a bear with." Moffitt, who stands 6 feet 5 inches tall and weighs 220, said his toughest time was hauling the 200-pound bear to transportation. He didn't want to damage the hide. The bear was taken to a taxidermist to have its six-inch-thick pelt made into a rug. Ainsworth visited our office last week and we talked about some of the things he would write about And we talked a little bit about him, He'll soon begin his 40th year with the Times and has held down nearly, every job on the huge staff. He was state editor for several years, then Southland editor, and has been i 1 lUli tf on most of the Times desks arid beats in the Big City to the North.

ML He wrote the biography of a famous American Leo Carillo, the screen star and member of one of California's first families. But Carillo never saw the finished product. He died less than a month before the book was published. "ANGEL OF BATAAN" NANCY NORTON RESTS IN VALLEY VIEW SANITARIUM She refuses to recall war years and her fantastic work. SEE Business and Industrial You Can Dig up Hard-to-Find Items With a Want Ad.

property in Star-News Classified for finest locations. when she was 12. She had married young and with her husband John had raised three children on a prairie ranch. After his death, she had set out for Washington state legend" of the "Angel of Ba- taan" spread. Mrs.

Norton soon was awarded the Medal of Freedom, one of our government's highest awards given a civilian. "She didn't work for the medal for herself," Wilcox Cheers Others By JANE LEHR The humble little "Angel of Bataan," who undoubtedly saved the lives of scores of GI's in Japanese prisoner of war camps ii World War II, take no credit for her fantastic work. She refuses even to tell her own story. Nancy Belle Norton, now 90 and a resident of Valley View Sanitarium, National will tell only of her life before the war and sketches of it afterwards. So humble is she that she shies from a camera.

She wants no acclaim. Yet, as she prepares to ride in a wheel chair to the patio, she fondly picks up a greeting card with a miniature white Bible attached. Under the man's signature are the words: Cabanatuan, Bilibid and Lipa. MRS. NORTON explains they were prison camps in the Philippines.

She doesn't know the man who sent the card. She can't recall ever meeting him. But she says, "Yes, I recall the camps." There, however, she stops talking. "I don't want to remember those days the awful suffering, the sadness," she said softly. Bilibid was a hospital, and of hospitals Mrs.

Norton says, "I don't like them. I like sick? ness and sorrowing. I like happiness and helping 1 And help people she has done all her life all over the world. DUBBED the "Angel of Bataan," Mrs. Norton only laughs at the title.

"It's just a fantastic name the fellows from Bataan dreamed up after the war back in the States," she said. "There's nothing to it. I wasn't that." However, the stack of. cards and letters, as well as. 'the number of names in the little address book at the head of her bed, tell another story.

"A most remarkable little woman-simply amazing" is the description given Mrs. Norton by Perry O. Wilcox, San Diego, former Army colonel and chaplain who was imprisoned in Manila during the war. ALTHOUGH Wilcox didn't meet Mrs. Norton until after the war, he had long heard of "Mother" Norton and for months had received her gifts for prisoners.

"We were in constant need of medicine and fqod most. Ainsworth is coming out with his second book later this month. It's his story of the desert, where he and his wife have spent much of their time in recent years. We told him we'd be looking forward to seeing it so he's promised us a publisher's copy. with her daughter Mamie to pursue a college "said, "but the men she saved Age hadn slowed Mother worked for her.

Don't Put Off Replacing Lost Teeth 'A Illf I is I A "She turned up everywhere," he said, recalling meeting her at a convention in Atlantic City of the American Defenders of Bataan and Corrigador. "It's amazing how, she got around. She was wherever the ex-prisoners were." Too humble to talk about her own achievements, the mentally; alert little 'woman Now back to the things he said about National City. He calls it an "ambitious city" and says National City can breathe a sigh of relief now that Tijuana bound traffic roars down Montgomery Freeway and not down the main drag like it did a few yearsrago biefore the freeway was completed. Ainsworth remembers earlier trips down this way and the impatient crowds rushing from San Diego i and points north to Tijuana.

"Now that Montgomery Freeway has diverted them," he writes, "National City has a chance to stop and consider its future plans without being in danger of being bowled over by a thundering motor car." Norton. Although in her 40s, she would work a year to send her daughter to college, then the daughter would work the next year to finance her mother's education. -Together, they were de-! termined to a and to travel. THUS, SOON after World War Mother Norton, then beyond 45 years of age, began a career in the islands which was to last until World War. II thd American, schools there.

Mrs. Norton herself was-interned in a camp by the end of the war, and it was todav has not marked the end of her work. She continues daily to give of herselfto bring cheer to others this time her fellow residents of Valley View. Missing teeth should be replaced, to maintain health and The loss of a tooth or a few teeth often results in a condition which is unsightly and inefficient. For proper functioning and maximum comfort, a full set or partial denture is very desirable.

1 Replacement of missing teeth will help preserve the mouth tissue contour so that dentures will have a firmer base on which to rest. Well balanced chewing is as essential as well-balanced diet. Vandals Smash Car Wind ows He tells how National City and Chula Vista, "as well as other communities on the perimeter of the Big City, are caught up in the vortex of San Diego's metropolitan expansion." He came down to look over National City and Chula Vista, he writes, of the great plans which are in the air there. These include a vote on election day Nov. 6 on an immense unified port district." Ainsworth went into detail of the unified port program in another column yesterday.

DR. L. S. WHETSTONE Dentist Both windows on the. left there Wilcox first saw her as he sought other members of his own family Who had been imprisoned, Her work far from over, Mrs.

Norton returned to the' States in 1945 aboard a troop ship. "Many of our boys were lost. Their families didn't know what had happened to them. Someone had to go see them," she explained. SO, HER WIDE travels in the States began, and the side of his car were smashed this week by vandals, Edward T.

Riccitelli, of 553 Laguna Chula Vista, told police. Riccitelli said, the vehicle has been similarly damaged several times in the past but he had not reported it. DENTAL PLATES A great many times a dental patient knows what he wants when having his dentures made. I do my utmost to set and arrange teeth in dental plates to suit the patient. If you have a former photograph of yourself, it will be a great help in arranging the teeth as they were before the extractions were done.

Ainsworth says it's necessary to mention National City and Chula Vista in the same breath because politically as well as economically they have been brought into closer kinship by the realignment of Congressional district lines. He tells a little about the campaigning for Congress in the new 37th district and lists the outcome "as far as I've been able to determine as a toss-iip." GET THIS FREE important, fresh fruit," Wilcox explained. "Once we needed a microscope. As for clothing, well, all our sick prisoners were stripped of their clothing when they came through the prison gate." To the rescue came such persons as Mrs. Norton, who for 23 years before the war had been teaching in American schools in the Philip-, pines.

HIRING a "calcsi," or Oriental two wheeled, pony-drawn carriage, she went regularly to the camp where Wilcox and hundreds of oth "Interests vary in the three communities that are tovered by The Star-News publications," Ainsworth I writes. "Chula Vista, despite its many subdivisions and its Rohr still retains some of its old-time agri-; cultural atmosphere celery and tomatoes. National City is becoming more industrialized with giant strides taken in recent years on its tidelands. Imperial Beach, as the name implies, has its own special sphere, too," he IMMEDIATE ATTENTION TO PLATE REPAIRS Do you dread the needle? If so, go to sleep and have your teeth removed the easy way. Take Sodium Pentathol you will never regret it.

I will make all necessary arrangements for you. Come in. Let's have a friendly chat about your dental problem and what should be done. er Americn soldiers were And Ainsworth had some nice things to say about National City's new administration. He writes, "National City, despite the current Cuban issue, is very international-minded because of the enthusiasm of its young mayor, Dick Gautereaux, for better relations with other countries, particularly Mexico." held by the Japanese.

"She had a way with the Japanese," Wilcox said. "She'd get to the gate, and they wouldn't let her in, but she'd insist. She'd ask for the doctor in command and insist some more until STATE DENTAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAM Those who receive financial assistance from the State of California, now can have dental plates mae and paid for by the state. Your dentures cost you nothing. I will be glad to send in your application for new dentures if you need them.

Call at my office and I will explain the plan in detail. she was allowed to leave the food, clothing and medicine Th official Chargers football in miniaturt. 10 Sunlisf bottle caps. FOR YOUR (IDS! PLUS OTHER FREE CHARGERS SOUVENIRS! Just save the buttle cups from Sanlclst Oraifee Juice Drink. Get details from vour Golden Arrow Milkman, or Store Attendant.

she'd brought. "She did that not only for our camp, but for several Ainsworth recounts some of the activities during National City's Diamond Jubilee. He writes, "During National City's 75th anniversary celebration residents visited back and forth with, Tecate, Ba ja California, which was observing its 100th anniversary. And there has been talk of making the two communities 'sister others. It was astonishing how far she carried her work and how little trouble she seemingly had getting through," he said, NATURAL VITAMIN SUNKIST ORANGE JUICE DRINK.

My practice is limited to extracting teeth and plate work. Both partial and full dentures. Credit Can Be Arranged Ground Floor Location No Appointment Necessary Free Parking HE RECALLED the time OT. 75 pairs of pajamas were left at the gate. "Many of the prisoners didn't have a stitch Ainsworth's column yesterday featured the unified port, how it will affect the communities fronting on San Diego Bay, and some sidelights on Chula Vista.

LOAVES of clothing," he said. As 29 49' 44 .6 .2 chaplain in charge of wet fare. Wilcox's job was to dis L. So Br; A f8' VALUE FROZEN BREAD GOLD MEDAL COTTAGE CHEESE GOLD MEDAL PINTS tribute the pajamas, but only to those in more desperate 'nerd. How Mrs.

Norton acquired Vl GAL. Office Hours: Week Days 9 to 12 and I to 5. Saturday 9 to 10 a.m. by appointment only. the articles she brought, Wil MORE SIGNS OF THE TIMES The theatre right across from our office is playing the controversial film "Loljta." And it points out on its marque that the movie is for adults only.

But this is the way it reads. Across the top this line appears: ADULT EN-TirnTATNMFNT. Then, right below it the title of the cox doesn't know, except, "it was by constant work that Phone HA-0-6030 Chula Vista 232 Third Ave. i she hud them donated or financed," ho said, Cimslant and hard -wort Hie tit lo woman knew well Trices effective Thursday through Sunduy GOLDEN ARROW DAIRY DRIVE-IN 3460 Highland Ave. Broadway at St.

film: LOLJTAr Then Ihey list the second feature, TWO I for her family she had traveled in a covered wagon WEEKS IN ANOTHER TOWN. And ucnoatn an oi this, in smaller letters, thoy say: KIDDIE MATINEE EVERY SATURDAY MORN. to homestead in Kansas.