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EDITORIALS section contains latest local news, world sports, a thrilling serial and news of general Interest. WANT ADS Classified Advertising of The Bakersfleld Cnlifornian close promptly at 10:30 o'clock every morning. Phone 31. CITY SECTION BAKERSFIELD, CALIFORNIA, SATURDAY. FEBRUARY 1, 1941 PAGES 9 TO 16 CINDERELLA ACTRESS Bakersfield Miss Jumps Into Films A film contract signed this week with Columbia Studios gives Patti McCarty, native of Bakersfielrt, her chance for film stardom.

She'll make her camera debut in "Under Age." She is an ex-secretary. Petite, Brown-Haired Miss Gets Chance at Stardom After Discovery at Party cameras and sound-track microphones took the vu place of a clicking typewriter and a dictagraph microphone today for beautiful Patti McCarty, native of who is called the "Cinderella secretary" at Columbia CITY, STATE BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT CONTINUES MILLION-DOLLAR WILD FLOWER SEASON PREDICTED FOR KERN Ram Threats Peril County Snow Sports Studios in Hollywood where she is embarked on a screen career. Nineteen year old Patti jumped into overnight prominence when a producer discovered the Bakersfleld miss at a Hollywood party. Thus, after months of hobnobbing with the film city's celebrities through her job as secretary to Dorothy Lnmour and trending the lot of Paramount studios ns just, another working girl, Patti finds herself today skyrocketed to a chance nt stardom in her role In "Under Age," featuring Nan Gray and Alan Baxter. Petite (5 feet, 9 Inches, 110 pounds), brown-haired and brown- I eyed.

Patti owes her introduction to Hollywood to a visit to a night club where she met Dorothy Lamour anil accepted the sarong girl's offer of a Job as secretary. A She became not only a secretary but also a companion to the star. Patti was born in Bakersfield moved to Healdsburg in the Mother Lode country and later was gradu nted from Covlna High School. She attended Los Angeles City College but had to drop her studies and fine a job. Her first job collapsed after a month when her employer went bankrupt.

Then came her introduc tlon to Miss Lamour. Patti lives with her mother, likes to read and listen to the radio and go places with Glenn Ford, rising young actor. If ever her name goes into top billing, there will be no secretary for her, Patti says. "I couldn't stand having- one around the house," the Cinderella- secretary declared. $2000 Claim DRAFTEES See Inroads Into Higher Numbers in Kern EAVY Inroads into the ranks of draft registrants with order numbers high in the hundreds wlU be necessary for the selective service call February 17, draft boards Indicated today as they reported a high percentage of rejections on physical examinations.

Draft board 141 had 11 out of 16 men rejected In a recent physical examination in preparation for the February 17 to March 14 draft call. Approximately 60 per cent of men examined to date in draft area 141 have passed the physical examinations. Kern county's draft quota for I the next call Is 323, with each board furnishing the following number of men: No. 137, 86; No. 138, 42; No.

139, 57; No. 140, 67; No. 141, 71. In addition, board 141 must send two replacements. I HOTEL EL TEJON for Tour DANCING PLEASURE Frilay ul Satwfay Eveifaw FEBRUARY 7th-8th TO 1:00 A.

M. to the Ballroom MALCOLM BEELBY and ROYAL HAWAIIAN ORCHESTRA Cover Charge $1.10 Dinner 11.25 Cocktails 26o Up City Will Seek License Due for RG. E. TVTEGOTIATIONS will be opened between the city of Bakersfield and the Pacific Gas and Electric Company in an attempt to persuade the company to pay $3000 which the city claims in due for business licenses, City Manager Fred Nigh bert said today. The question of whether the company la required to pay business license has been in controversy tor the past five years.

Thomas J. Strnuh of San Francisco, general attorney for the P. G. and has informed the city the company is not required to pay p. business license under terms of section 14, article XIII of the state constitution.

City officials, however, have Interpreted the same section as requiring payment. City Tax Collector Walter W. Smith said the company for 30 business quarters, dating from April 1. 1935, had not paid the $75 fee required of business firms averaging £50,000 or more in monthly receipts. A 35 (Continued on Page Twelve) County Will Pay City's Bill Soon Payment of $2159.97 to the city of Bakersfield for the county's use of city sewage lines since March 15, 1939, appeared possible today as City Manager Fred Nighbert announced that Chairman Charles W.

Wimmer of the Board of Supervisors yesterday afternoon signed an official claim presented by the city for sewage services rendered. The claim probably will be allowed one week from Monday, Mr. Nighbert said, explaining that claims must-be filed prior to Thursday of each week to receive the board's attention the following Monday. It Is a foregone conclusion that the county will pay the bill which was declared a legal debt by County Counsel Oran Palmer yesterday and aleo on October 28, 1940, Mr. Nighbert said.

County officials told him the city's long-standing claim for the sewage service was "lost In the files," so the city manager yesterday made out a new laim which Chairman Wimmer approved. 1 ABEL SETS SKI CONTESTS FOR PRIZES PREDICTION of rains Sunday placed a damper on hopes of Kern ski enthusiasts today as It appeared the deep snows on Kern's east and west mountains may go for naught. The United States weather bureau forecast was for probable rain Sunday with mild temperatures. Mount Abel skiers were promised a chance to test their Christies under competition tomorrow as two Informal slalom races were scheduled, one novices and one for experts. Prizes will be given for winners In the races, set for 1 p.

m. Thirty inches of snow on the north slope of Mount Abel is reported, and chains will be required for all cars going beyond the gate at Camp Condor, Supervisor A. W. Noon warned. Ski snow on Kern's eastern moun tains was reported good despite the lack of new fall.

Greenhorn has 2L inches, Greenhorn Summit 18, Sugar Loaf 60, Tobias Peak 84 and Bui Run 60. Chains will be necessary for cars going up Greenhorn. Skiers at Mount Abel soon will have a portable ski lift ordered by the park department by authority of the Board of Supervisors. Park Superintendent P. J.

Branson said the lift was scheduled to arrive today but had been delayed. Work will begin in a few days on a large ski lift at Shirley Meadows Superintendent Branson said, al though it probably will not be com pleted in time for this season. The new lift will be more powerful than one already installed by the fores service. Yosemite's snow report was: Patches on valley floor; Camp Curry, dog team, skating, sleighing, tobogganing part time this week end; 56 degrees to 38; Badger Pass, 64; Chinquapin, 26; roads open but icy, chains advised. Advance showers sprinkled the San Francisco bay area today in the week's first rainfall and the weather bureau reported a second storm Is following in from the ocean.

It was reported that rain-loosened soil had been blamed for a 400-foot slide that -blocked traffic temporarily on the Redwood Highway in Humboldt county. The slide was expected to be cleared by tonight or tomorrow. Bakersfield temperatures continued chilly today as fog and clouds blanketed the city, holding air school cadets training at Kern County Air port on the ground and forcing United Airlines passenger planes to skip scheduled stops here. Temperature at 11 a. m.

today was 52 degrees, rising from an early morning minimum of 45.6 degrees. Today's 3 p. m. temperature was 55 degrees. Yesterday's low was 43 degrees and the top temperature was 57.8 degrees.

Other California cities reported yes' terday: Fresno high 52, low 43, trace of precipitation; Los Angeles high 69, low 49; San Francisco high 55, low 48. SeeksJPost Ron Maple Tells Plans for Council Campaign THREE MEN SEEK 3RD WARD VOTE ARRY C. CLEMENTS, Manuel J. Carnakis and Ron Maple today squared off for a battle of the ballots for the post of councilman representing the third ward. With the announcement of Mr.

Maple's candidacy, observers predicted that the three third ward men will each seek appointment by the city council to represent the ward until a winning candidate is elected on March 18 or April 6. Each third ward representative has presented petitions seeking his appointment or filing nominating papers listing him as a candidate at the March ward election. Gala Military Dinner, Ball Slated Tonight at El Tejon ANTICIPATED as the most brilliant affair of the week end and the first function to usher in the gala military parties which are sure to result from encampment of officers and cadets in this vicinity, a reception will be held at 7 o'clock, dinner at 7:30 and a ballf at 9, at Hotel El Tejon In the Span- tin ballroom tonight. A. C.

Armbruster, manager of Hotel El Tejon, chairman of the committee In charge, assisted by Miss Florence tlcKlnley, Miss Yern Gibson, Miss Dina Francesconl, Miss Hoberta Sweet, Miss Jane Duncan, Helen Brlce and many others. Among the special guests, he and cadets, will be a number of local officials and their and including Messrs, and Charles Wimmer, George H. Ralph Lavin, A. W. Noon, Wilbur Wyatt, Emory Gay Hoffman, Vernon Johnson, Cecil Meadows, Phil Ohanneson, Major and Mrs.

McGregor, Captain UuBose, Captain Brown, Florence Me- Kinley, Thomas W. McManuH, Walter Kane, Harold Bowhay and others. Entertainment will be provided by Johnnie McEuen's Stage Door Studio featuring Barbara Wallace and Edna Cooter, and there will be vocal by Marie Brigga, accompanied by Mrs, during the dinner. Ober, Supervisor A. W.

Noon will be the toast master and music for dancing will be provided by BUI orchestra. mm RECEIPTS, RETAIL SELLING INDICATE Ron Maple PLEDGING himself to work ward faster development of public traffic facilities and a "more equitable adjustment of city building restrictions," Ron Maple, 325 Seventeenth street, today asked support of electors in the third'ward, follow ing his filing of nominating petitions in the city clerk's office. The proprietor of a sign business Mr. Maple is a well-known "local resi dent, having lived in Bakersfield 10 years, half of which time he resided in the third ward. In addition to being in business for himself, he is a member of the Sign Painters Union, Local No.

825. "Most of the new building has gone outside the city during the last few years and I believe that restrictions inside the corporate limits of Bakersfield were loosened somewhat, the average man would build inside Bakersfield," Mr. Maple said. "If elected, I will endeavor to give the third ward real representation by dealing with the ward's particular problems such as the Twenty-fourth street 'dog which has hampered smooth traffic flow for some time," Mr. Maple asserted.

"The city council has considered the street for years but has taken no action to straighten the road." Mr. Maple Js a member of the Bakersfield Exchange Club and of the Order of Druids. He is married and is a taxpayer on his own home. With Us Today The following people are visitors today in Bakersfield: THIRTEEN MEMBERS OF IT. C.

L. A. ICE HOCKEY TEAM. Here to meet local team tonight. Hotel El Tejon.

BLAIRE AUSTIN, Ogden, Utah. With Merrion and Wllkins Sheep Company. Business. Motel Inn. MR.

AND MRS. RUSSELL CURDELL, Los Angeles. Touring. Hotel Padre. L.

H. RAINS, Kansas City, Mo. Business. Tegeler hotel. MISS LAURA VEST, Olympia.

Wash. Business. Southern hotel. MR. AND MRS.

R. TYSSON, Bell- fast, Maine. Traveling. California Motor hotel. LIEUTENANTS C.

L. LYLES and T. N. NATCHER, Moffett Field. Business.

Hotel El Tejon. H. W. KRING and HENRY MASCHAL, San Francisco. Business, Hotel Padre.

G. P. STONE, Portland, Ore. Business. Travelers Cottages.

MR. AND MRS. J. RAY, Oakland. Business.

Tegeler hotel. MR. AND MRS. K. HICKS, Berkeley.

Touring. Southern hotel MR. AND MRS. PORTER J. PRESTON, Denver, Colo.

Traveling. Motel Inn. MR. AND MRS. GEORGE HOBBS, Templeton, Calif.

Business. Travelers Cottages. Kern Farm Loans Total $214,272.50 Federal land bank and land bank commissioner loans amounting to 1214,272.50 were made to farmers In tern county during 1940 by the Kern National Farm Loan Assocla- ion, L. W. Pruitt, secretary-treasurer, reported to the persons attend- ng the annual meeting of the association yesterday in the county ag- Icultural building.

H. H. Fowler and R. David were re-elected to 3-year as dlrec- of the association. Thoy will serve with D.

H. Jinnett, Walter Brlte and R. H. Hlett, whose terms carry over. M.

A. Lindsay, leading speaker for he occasion, gave a short talk on armer co-operatives. Max B. Jaml- on, director of the farm credit administration of Berkeley, spoke on he activities of the farm credit board. TEADILY improving business conditions in Bakersfield and throughout the state were reflected today in postal receipts, retail sales and other indications of expanding pay 'rolls nnd expenditures.

Hakersfleld postal receipts Increased 19 per cent in January over the same month rear ago, Postmaster Jerry P. Shields reported. Receipts collected in January totaled $33,167.13, a gain of $5254 over the total of $27,913.13 a year ago. Bank debits in Bakernfield for January were $21,559,483, a substantial increase over the $19,292,706 reported for January, 1940. Bank clearings declined from $8,812.612 to $7,511,882 for the same months.

Retail sales by 40 independent stores in Bakersfield during December amounted to $640,972, an increase of 41 per cent over November, although it represented a decline of 7 per cent from the previous December. A 3 per cent gain was recorded for the year 1940 over 1939. Automobile sales in Kern county during December totaled 484, a 20 per cent gain over the 404 sold the year before. Total for the year as a whole was 5280, a gain of 28 per cent over the previous year's total of 4131. Pay Rolls, Jobs Increase Throughout the state, employment and pay rolls reached all time highs during December, with a per cent increase in number of employes and a 7 per cent gain in weekly pay rolls, the department of Indus trial relations reported.

Shipbuilding plants hired 25 per cent more workers during December than in November and increased pay rolls by 58 per cent. Structural metal work plants increased employment by 20 per cent and pay rolls by 36 per cent. The aircraft industry reported a gain of 11.3 per cent in wage earn ers and 4.7 per cent In pay rolls between November and December. Slaughtering and meat packing plants also reported employment increases. Moore Trial Interest in Bookie Case Will Shift to L.

A. 'T'HE center of interest In the Bak- bookie probe will shift to Los Angeles temporarily on Monday when Harry E. Moore, alleged local bookmaking czar, goes on trial on a charge of contempt of court for asserted violation of a restraining order against bookmaking. The trial is scheduled to begin at 10 a. m.

Monday before Superior Judge Emmett Wilson in Los Angeles. Moore is one of the defendants in the far-reaching case of the state of California against Moses L. Annenberg and others by which restraining orders against bookmaking were issued. County Clerk K. J.

Veon has been subpoenaed to appear in court with exhibits used in the recent grand jury investigation to substantiate the state's contention that Moore lias engaged in bookmaking In violation of the restraining order. Other witnesses will include Police Inspectors Robert C. Knight, Don Galbraith and Fred Neergaard and Patrolmen Vernon F. Furry and Ellis Gray. Moore was arrested here by Police Inspectors Jim Brady and George Martin on an order issued by Judge Wilson.

WHERE LUPINE GROW High hopes are held for a brilliant display of wild flowers in Kern this spring. Photo above shows one of last year's best beds of lupine, on road to Woody and Granite Station, with Carol Chernis, left, and -layne Lingwood gazing from the knee-high expanse of lupine to field of golden poppy across the canyon. Good rains this winter should guarantee successful wild flower season provided frosts and severe windstorms are not present and plenty of sunshine comes. Fay Helm, Bakersfield Film Actress, to Wed Attorney upon to act many character roles for leading motion picture producers of Hollywood, Miss Fay Helm, daughter of Mrs. Leslie G.

Helm, 2200 A street, will play the stellar role in a one-act drama February 15 when she comes the bride of Attorney Jack Field Day Plans to Be Made by Group Plans for the Kern County Fish incl Game Association's annual field day and barbecue, to be held April 27, will be made at a regular monthly meeting of members next Thursday night. Secretary John E. Loustalot announced today. Members will also discuss launching of the association's membership drive on March 1. The session will be held In the Coca-Cola plant.

The field day and barbecue celebration is held each year on the last Sunday prior to opening of trout season May 1. Bob Gunning Is president and will direct committees arranging the annual sporting event. Knose, Radonovich Volunteer for Army Two more West Side youths have volunteered for a year's service In the army. They are Edward Lawrence Knose of 801 Fresno street, Marlcopa, and George King Radonovich of 605 street, Tuft. Year of Guardsmen to Be Mobilized February 3 ONDAY morning, February 3, will mark the start of a year of army life for nearly 200 Bakersfield National Guardsmen, when they are mobilized In camp at the Kern County Fairgrounds for their year of training in the United States Army.

The guardsmen will remain at the fairgrounds until February 14, when they will leave for Fort Lewis, Wash. Members of the One Hundred Forty-fourth Field Artillery regiment, the Bakersfield troops are members of the first battalion, commanded by Major Paul B. Malone, Jr. Headquarters of the regiment is at Santa Barbara, where Colonel Ralph W. Coane is in command, Order Issued Orders setting mobilization date for the Ono Hundred Forty-fourth were issued January 16 from the war department.

The order will call 18,250 national guardsmen from nine states and the District of Columbia to service Monday. Bakersfield's guard members will be under military discipline at the fairgrounds until they leave for Fort Lewis, where they will be stationed during their training period. Readiness of facilities for housing and training the troops was revealed by Major Malone the day the orders were issued, when he said that a guard officer returning from Sacramento had reported Fort Lewis camp facilities completed and ready for occupancy. Hardy of Los Angeles. The "audience" will consist of three per sons, Mr.

anil Mrs. Olen Lane of Glendale and the bride's mother, and the "stage'' will be a La Jolla parsonage or chapel. Mr. Hardy practices in Los Angeles and is mentioned prominently for a municipal judgeship. The couple will live at 6923 Pasco del Serro, Los Angeles, and the wedding will not interrupt the bride's work which at present is in the picture "Miss Wheelright Discovers America." Active in Bakersfield and University of Oregon dramatics.

Miss Helm rose steadily to professional status. Her first venture was with a stock company, and later she was cast in a small role in "Tovarich" and other Broadway legitimate hits. Miss Helm was formerly married to Norman Main, assistant district attorney of Kern county. She has been seen in dozens of Paramount. Warner Brothers, Columbia, RKO Radio and other pictures, the most well known of which include "Abe Lincoln in Illinois," "Parole Fixer," based on J.

Edgar Hoover's "Persons in the insane role in Warner Brothers "A Child Is "Voice of the City," "Peck's Bad Boy With the Circus," "Our Leading Citizen," "I Am the Law" and "Blondie Brings Up Baby." STUDENTS PLAN DANCE East Bakersfield High School students will stage an after-t he-pa me tonight following the Blade- Lancaster basketball contests in the East High gymnasium. Paul Henry will serve as chairman of the arrangements committee. Seek WPA Chiefs Word on Project OUNTY officials today awaited the arrival here of E. W. CunimiiiKs, area WPA director, for further word on progress of the Kern canyon road project, on which the SRA yesterday the "go ahead" signal.

Ralph J. Wakefield, state SRA chief, wired that the SKA was ready to co-operate in the project after he hud been informed in a telegram from The Culifornian that the state highway commission mid the WI'A were prepared to proceed with the work. West Side Dimes Dance Is Set Tonight to Help Drive HILE more money continued to pour into the coffers of the March of Dimes fund, West Side residents prepared to attend a mammoth benefit dance to aid the paralysis war in the Elks hall at Taft tonight. The Taft dimes dance will climax an Intensive West Side By BEN COOK EBRUARY month of the wild make or break Kern county's blanket of thousands of acres of brilliantly-colored blossoms that makes the county a mecca for nature-lovers each year from March through May. Such wn.s the opinion of Lewis A.

Burtc-li, Kern county ag- i rienltural commissioner, as he said today that, the beneficial rains showered so far this season on the their benefit is not wrecked by unseasonal frosts or repetition of prolonged, drying assure a bumper Kern wild flower crop for 1941. Favorable weather conditions should bring a flower display this year that would rival that of when more than 350,000 persons from all over the world thronged the county to see the display of that of it was estimated that more than $1,000,000 In new money was brought into the county during the month of April alone by- tourists who came to see the profusion of believe. Mojave Hopeful Mojave wild flower experts report beneficial rainfall which they feel will bring a bountiful supply of desert flowers this spring. First flowers already have appeared on the floor of the valley. The first poppies of the season were discovered by Mrs.

A. F. Neumar- ket and her 3-year-old son, Arthur, January 6 in the Rockpile district. In the Richgrove district near Delano poppies, lupine, baby blue eyes and fiddleneck already have been found. As all indications pointed to of Kern's brightest displays of wild flower color this spring, plans were broached for selection of a Wild Flower Kern would travel up and down the state to advertise the wonders of the wild flowers.

Many Fields Bloom Boasting more varieties of blossoms than grow in any similar area in the world, Kern county can send its flower-gazing tourists to Edison district for the widely known poppy beds, to Wheeler Ridge or Comanche Point for lupine, to Walker's Basin for a veritable lake of baby blue eyes, or to the hills about Inyokern for a brilliant display of desert Marl' posa tulips. Hardly a spot in the county is begrudged the pleasure of its own, private wild flower display. So briUiantly and profusely do Kern's flowers blossom that news' papers the state over feature the masses of color during the blooming season each year. Valued at "tens of thousands ot dollars" annually for the income they bring to the county as tourists travel to blooming Kern spots for a look; the flowers, the flower beds jealously guarded by the county, which passed an ordinance ing picking of the flowers. Prohibit Picking The ordinance.

No. 250, specifies that it is unlawful to mutilate, destroy or remove any of the following plants: Desert holly, all varieties or species of cacti, snow plant, yucca (Spanish bayonet), Joshua tree, tiger lily, Kern county cypress, purpus larkspur, mountain dogwood, adobe lily, bitter root, all varieties of Marl- posa lily, clarkia, red bud (Judas tree) and Fremontia (slippery elm, wild quince or leatherwood). It prohibits also the "wanton destruction" of wild flowers or use of the flowers for decoration of automobiles except with explicit permission of the county agriculture department. Exceptions are granted for those having permits from the agriculture department to remove any of the protected plants from public land or for those having the owner's permission to remove or pick (Continued on Page Twelvt) inder the leadership of Mrs. Kuth- ryn Williams.

Adding $106.55 to the Kern county 'nnd and like amount to the im- ionul foundation for the fight against infantile paralysis, Post- naster Jerry Shields announced today that the Kern County Postmas- Association had collected a total of $213.10. Herb Pritschke of Shatter director of the postmasters' campaign. Meanwhile, the county-wide total for the March of Dimes soared to 91408.47 In Its climb toward the 97500 quota w)t by Dr. Joe Smith, rt chairman. That amount did not include the postmasters' gift.

Additions to the list of donations announced by Doctor Smith vere: community. Bakersfield High School student body. Avenue School. H. Clare, H.

I. Tupman, W. H. Tupman, Soroptimist Club and Mrs. C.

Fred Baker. Penn School, additional. in by Mrs. in by Miss Ferry. School, additional.

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