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3-034S ALL OTHER CALLS-VErmont 9-2471 PART 9 LOCAL CLASSIFIED THE VOL LXXXIV THURSDAY MORNING, MAY 6, 1965 Times Mirror Square, los Angeles. Calif. 90053 MAdlson 5-2343 Brown Calls Caus Pro eway Petitions Mountain Sent to State; Foes Rally Park Parley Talks Slated on' Putting Facility Within LA. City Gov. Brown i will meet Opposition Mounts to S.M.

Plan with city and county officials at' ,11) a.m.5 today vin an attempt to- define -the state's role in developing a "BY BAY RIPTON I-Tinwi StaH Writtr SANTA MONICA City park in the mountains within Los- Angeles city jirhits. officials Wednesday sent to i Mayor Samuel W. Yorty, Sacramento petitions signed 1 Supervisors' Chairman Burton W. Chace and Supervisor by more than 10,000 per-1 sons supporting the" pro-1 Ernest JS. Debs will lead the Southland delegation- to the posed multi-million dollar Santa Monica Causeway." sacramento Representatives from the i I v-.

A-, fx b' 7 I I -m ir- But opposition was mount West Side will include Coun cilman i KarL Rundbergl ing to the causeway concept 1 i and AssemhlyrAan Robert S. Stevens (R Santa Monica, Malibu). the project amidst a flurry of legal rpr The Friends of the Santa Monica li ri a i n' State City Manager Perry "Scott Park, a civic group, has been 'f i said the petitions were beirig sent to Assemblyman Robert campaigning to locate the S. Stevens (R-Santa Monica) park on a site bounded by Sunset and Stat Spn Thnmai M. Topanga Canyon, Mulhol- Rees (D-Los Angeles) "co-; mnd and San Die- go author of the causeway en-J abling bill, AB 2050 and to Two Other The State Department of Parks and1 Re creation, 3 COURTAPPEARANCESidneyAMcMurdo, right, leaves court with his attor- neyJarries Schwartz, following continuance of McMurdo's preliminary hearing -oircharges of boobytropping a cigarette lighter which injured a Mar Vista boy.

has recommended lima pnats two other sites in the mountains including pne near Ma libu Canyon1; sad another Court Delays near point Mu'gu in Ventura Assemblyman Joseph'M. Kennick (D-Long Beach), chairman of the Assembly Public Utilities and Corpora- tions Committee. On Offshore Route committee" will hold a hearing on the Stev-; ens -Rees bill Wednesday, May 12. The legislation would-esta- Wish the joint powers agreement between the cities of Santa Monica and Los An- geles and Los Angeles Coun-' County. CAUSEWAY SUPPORTSanta JAonlCa City Manager Perry Scott, left, flips through bound volume of more tharTl 0000 signatures urging state passage of the proposed S.M.

causeway enabling act. The volume will go to Sacramento. Tlms photo The department claims both are more desirable be City Takes Swat at Fly-by-Night Salesmen Beverly Hills Starts Crackdown onh. Fake Close-Outs, Inferior Merchandise Hearing in cause. they are less costly.

Assemblyman Stevens i Plan i for Oil BoWUs Fund Disputed said a recent tentative proposal by the state to buy 2,000 acres in the area would get Maiming Case MAR VISTA The preli "There's some question as careful scrutiny but aocepta tion of the economic and so bility would depend heavily WEST.LOS ANGELES A dispute may develop over a recommendation that $1.6 million in oil tonus fuiids he minary hearing lor a on the overall park size after BEVERLY 4 HILLS A crackdown on "fly-by-night" retail operations" was under way here this week as two year-old man charged with cial fabric of the communi IThe city clerk would be re additional contiguous acquisitions by. thejrity and coun- boobytrapping a cigarette us.editCLmaka.; teachejilfiete lighter that -maimed a-year- quired give af least "a 10- -r--' "the finest in world," old bov was continued Wed "Two thousand acres is in- day notice of intention to sus i ty Councilman Thomas to whether all of the money should be spent only in the district's of Oouncilmen Karl Rundberg, John-S. Gibson and L. E. Timberlake," Shepard said, "or whether the money should be put into the budget of the Recreation and Parks Department for general purposes" Shepard said the decision tricts in the city." 1 -The City Recreation and Parks Commission proposed that the $1,650,650 received irom.Socony-Mobil.

Oil. Co. for oil and gas drilling rights be used for beach-front capital improvements. The commission approved a tentative list of projects which were sent to the City Council's Recreation and Parks Committee, which Shepard heads. i ty for development of a 7 to -8-mile; offshore freeway across Santa Moni-'" ca Bay.

The causeway would carry the proposed Pacific Coast Freeway from Santa Monica. Pier to TopSnga Canyon via-an offshore route. It would spare Santa-; Monica front -and beach land from absorption as freeway right of way. But causeway opposition Please Turn to Pg. 9, Col.

1 nesday until Tuesday, Mlyjadequate, Stevend "but of course this is tenta Shepard warned Wednesday. Shepard, who represents the 'San1 Fernando Valley. proposed ordinances were given their first reading by the City Council. The hew legislation, recommended by the city's Business Regulation Committee, would tighten muni aai in est jjos Aiigeies municipal Court. The suspect, Sidney A tive and I am waiting to see what the total picture will pend or revoke a license in.

order to give the; merchant involved an opportunity to prove why his license should not be revoked. The merchant would be entitled to ap saia he might take issue be. McMurdo, 12631 Washington Place, is accused of rigging a "Ten thousand (acres) with spending all of the Ve'n-ice tidelands oil bonus "in just three" of 15 council (dis cipal control over close-out Please Turn to Pg. 9, Col. 6 Please Turn to Pg.

9, Col. 5 peal to the City Council. I Would Need Permits lighter that exploded and blew three fingers from the right hand of Robert Cope, 12500 Washington Place, two and; transient merchant sales. It grew out of widespread fear that out-of-town busi weeks ago. McMurdo is free Merchants would require permits in addition to their regular business licenses in order to conduct a close-out The same law would on $10,000 bail nessmen were cashing in on Suit Filed Beverly Hills' reputation as Meanwhile, the y's a high-quality, retail center authorize representatives of SPEAKS THEIR LANGUAGE U.S.

Orator Stars in East mother, Mrs. Jean Mane the city clerk's office and by staging fake close-out and other discount sales of Cope, has sued McMurdo for $500,000, plus medicai ex the Police Department to examine. stock and records. merchandise in tem on the ground; that Under the other pending he rigged the porary Local Firms OK The pending legislation VThe suit, filed Tuesdayby law, any business, man. that would have' been in city for less than 90 days- at the attorney Leo Shapiro in San ta, Monica) Superior 'Court, would practically prohibit such except -when they time' of declaring a sale vfrould be considered a "tran seeks compensatory damages" and are conducted by Well established Beverly Hills rrierch sient merchant" and would be subjected to the stringent in punitive damages.

The ants, on I the grounds that suit also names John requirements for special per such retail practices by outsi mits and police supervision, ders are detrimental to pub Although the city attorney lic Does. The youngster, has been released from the hospital but doctors still, haven't determined how pieces of steel has approved both pending ordinances 1 "as to form," One pending ordinance would establish a procedure for revocation or suspension of a "merchant's business license i by; the-city -clerk there is some doubt here that the courts would uphold embedded in his eyes will af speaking high school and. gradually, worked k. her way up to the' na-' tional contest at Kuala Lumpur, the capital. When she won the local contest she had been studying the lan- guage for only a year and her national victory got publicity throughout Southeast Asia.

Speaking with traces of a British accent she picked up in Malaysia, Miss Guss explained, "Malay is an easy language, and I had both an immediate need to learn it and the opportunity. "In most parts of the world Americans are Turn to 9, Col. BY MAL TERENCE Timn Stiff Writtr BRENTWOOD The King of Malaysia and his wife, listened' solemnly Bar- -hara Guss, a young American girl lectured on "Tanggong-jawab sa-orarig wanita terha- dap negara-nya," with the sharp evocative gestures that characterize the Malay When the girl, a 24-, year)ld Peace Corps volunteer from Brent-. wood was done, the queen presented her an; ornate trophy for; ning a competition with -women throughout Ma-laysia in Malay elocu-tion. Her competitors had been Chinese and dian residents, of.

the country who had been speaking Malay as a se- cond tongue from birth. Out of the Peace Corps and home from a four-month odessey of Africa and Asia, Miss Guss is vacationing at her parents', home, 630 -N. Saltair Ave. She admits that' she would not have done so in -the contest if, she had had to compete against men but "Asian women are far less ag- e's I and. there were fewer competitors a'sbmewhat lower-.

standard." She first won in a lo-. cal contest in Ipoh where she was a math teacher. in an English-n them because they: would fect his eyesight. Police said they found "explosives and other physical not apply equally, to all and upon his determination that therefore -might violate the a business. practice migm Constituti6n.

contribute to "the deteriora evidence" at McMurdo's home; when they went there to question.him. ir I l1 1 4' i I 1 I 7 li it i 4 I 1 If 1 4 1 if'5 i "if 5 i It. I I' wi 'it i't 17 i I. 1 i if McMurdo reportedly had NEWS IN BRIEF had disagreements other members of the company. Boat Ramp Plan Snagged 4 4 MARINA DEL REY County officials may seek special state legislation in or der to build a trailer boat launching ramp here.

Arthur Will Marina director, said a new state law might be needed to permit construction of the proposed YOUTH AWAITS COMMITMENT ''3 SANTA MONICA Gary. 22-year-old son of composer Jerry Livingston, was in County Jail Wednesday awaiting commitment to the Atascadero State Hospital for the Criminally Insane. Santa Monica-Superior Judge' Mervyn Aggeler this week found the youth guilty of shooting and wounding his parents last February, then found him not guilty by reason of insanity. 7 RULING DUE ON REINSTATEMENT CULVER CITY The City Civil Service Commission is expected to rule tonight on whether to reinstate former police Lt. Luther Ward, fired for allegedly writing a letter critical of Chief Eugene L.

Mueller. Ward admitted complicity at a recent public hearing. POST OFFICE TO GET CITATION CULVER CITY Postmaster Byron Alexander will receive Presidential citation Friday afternoon on behalf of the local department for "contributions to increase economy, productivity and efficiency." 3RD STREET CLOSED FOR MALL WORK SANTA MONICA -The 1300 block of 3rd Street will be closed permanently to traffic starting today to allow construction of the Santa Monica pedestrian Mali, Th 1400 block already has been closed, $400,000 facility for owners of small boats. Plans for the ramp hit a V. legal snag April 13 when County Counsel Harold Kennedy questioned the legality 'I of spending tax funds to subsidize a launching facility in a self-supporting revenue 1' 4.

rtciAL KtWAKU Atrer winni ng regional oratorical contest in competi-Chinese women. Miss Guss accepts award tion with native Malaysian end SPECIAL DELIVERY Barbara Guss of Brentwood faces a battery of microphones, os she delivers her winning speech in Malay. bond act project. The County Small Craft Harbors Advisory Commission wants the Board of Supervisors to seek a grant from the StaU Wildlife Conservation Board to finance lha ramp. from the Raja Perempuan of Perak, the wife of the' sultan of rhot state,.