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PART 3 LOCAL NEWS EDITORIALS OPINIONS VOL LXXI Timet Cfcmified Adverting Number. MAdison 9-4411 SATURDAY MORNING, AUGUST 16, 1958 Timet Office: 202 West Fint Street, lot Angelei 53. Calif. MAdiwn 54343 1 Wr -war City Charter Pay Proposal Placed on November Ballot 4 -v 7' UCReaenfs Oppose Tax Proposition 1 Warn Passage Would Impair State Finances 1 Council Votes for Submission Without Debate Three proposed City The University of Cali Charter on of which would give police 1 fornia Board of Regents yesterday expressed strong opposition to Proposition 17 at a monthly meeting held ir it men and firemen an 11 pay boost at an annual cost of 55,400,000, were placed at UCLA. r.

on the Nov. 4 ballot by the By unanimous- action, the City Council yesterday, Z. regents appealed to "all citi NT If zens of the State to give their most careful consideration to the impact of this proposition on the future progress and welfare of the peo I The Council acted without debate in ordering the measures presented to the voters although an extensive rcom-mittee hearing was hdld previously. New Pay Base Rate The Fire and Police Protective League recommended that the Charter be revised to provide a new base rate of pay and means of ple of California, including its young people seeking higher education." SIGN OF FAME Displaying star for Hollywood's three-mile Walk of Fame are. from left.

Actress Dorothy Malone, Preston Foster, Harry Sugarman of improvement Builder C. E. Toberman. The measure, which will Timet phot appear on the November bal lot, proposes to cut the sales tax by 1 cent and increase annually adjusting pay rates for firemen and policemen. Witnesses Tell Strange First Star Set LAST VENTURA FREEWAY JOB I 7 i A 7 I Future salary increases or income taxes in -the upper brackets to as much as 46.

decreases would be deter Lending Agency Tactics CONTRACT LET Hollywood in mined by a salary survey in private industry. The City Council and the Mayor Warning Given The regents' statement cautioned that passage of the 'We Carry Our Own Contracts' Just Figure of Speech by Some Firms, Inquiry Told Walk of Fame would have no power to vote on changes but would be required to provide funds in the budget for the in initiative would "very seriously impair the financial condition of the State of Cal BY ART RYON Hollywood placed its first creases. WINS CASE Charles' Coburn, 80-year-old actor, savors his cigar as he leaves court offer winning star in its proposed $1,000, Carry Our Own Contracts" apparently is just Another Change: Another change ifornia and its ability to meet the essential requirements of a growing State, including 000 terrazzo Walk of -Fame a traffic damage suit with five soft-spoken words. a flimsy figure of advertising speech, members of an Assembly interim committee were obviousjy learning was recommended Dy tna Timet phote All City Employees Associa yesterday. SAYS ONLY FIVE WORDS tion to provide that salary As envisoned now, 4 the charcoal and coral walkway, set with large metal stars in The committee, 'conclud ordinances could be ap the acute needs of higher education." UC President Clark Kerr announced the regents' action on the proposition after the board meeting.

'The job of filling in the final link of, the Ventura Freeway 3.9 miles through Tarzana has been awarded to Oberg Construction Corp. and Oberg Bros. Construction Co. of Northridge on a low bid of $5,226,495.40, the Di-vision of Highways announced yesterday. The final section of the freeway will be from .3 miles a of Encino Ave.

to Kelvin Ave. Work on, the concrete, eight-lane- freeway and eight bridges, as well as pedestrian undercrpss-ings, will probably be- gin. within 30 days, it was stated. The job is scheduled; to. require yearly, a year.

ing a two-day hearing here jnto the strange practices of proved, in the City Council by a majority vote of eight members instead of the" two-thirds, or 10 votes, now required. honor of filmdom's great, will extend more than three miles along Hollywood Blvd. Coburn Granted $56 in Taxi Crash Suit Bom finance companies, heard a parade of witnesses who recited complaints He also announced appointment of Dr. Roger and Vine St. -x The third, change, deals in the long-range gainsi practices Dy some Revelle, director of tse university's Scripps Institution up the cab.model and opened lending agencies.

project to restore glamour to the movie city gathered of Oceanography, as the di with correcting an unfunded liability estimated at about $260,000,000 in the police his mouth. Most of them, in addition -to reciting other abuses, said they were surprised td yesterday morning at Holly rector of the new Institute Of Technology and Engineering at the La Jolla campus. -don't prompt. the witnesses; Mr. Coburn," said Charles Coburn, that wily barrister of many a motion picture scene, won a courtroom case here yesterday by speaking only two brief sentences "I'm sorry, sir," and fire pension plan.

This change was recommended wood Blvd. and Highland Ave. to! mark completion of liter buying furniture tit ap the by a Citizens Advisory Committee appointed by Maor tpe hrst section of the plan The site was the north "I'm sir, said. Co- pliances or auto repairs and signing contracts to make installment payments, that Additional Responsibility The new post will be in addition to his current respon ruuisuii. west comer on the property burn.

and once occupied by the famed sibility. Regents established Sisters Meet "Spoke them' smartly Weaver said he had just showed Coburn to the car Hollywood Hotel, social cen the contracts had been sold to finance companies. 1 Unruh Quips the technology and engineer enough to get, a judgment of Bobby Breeri ter of early Hollywood life. ing unit last month to pro and saw the whole thing. Driver Absent Six Stars Drawn $56.87.

against the Yellow Cab Co. Small Claims Court. vide graduate instruction and research in the sciences After 48 Years they carry "heir own contracts right The terrazzo walk was put "That's exactly the way it and matnematics at La Jolla. down the street to the near in by workmen on Holly was." he testified. Raf er Johnson, UCLA stu est finance company," As- Sisters who had not seen dent body president and one "Mr.

Coburn," said the judge, "do you wish to prove Sued by Wife Bobby Breen, 31, one-time radio singing juvenile, was sued for separate maintenance in Superior Court yes The 80-year-old actor had been brought to court by the cab company, whioh claimed that his Cadillac did $54.03 worth of damage to one of each other fdr 48 years were wood Blvd. in front of the towering -new First Federal Savings Building and stars with the names of six Hol of the world a ranking athletes, addressed the regents, these gentlemen wrong; trying hard to catch up' on gemblyman Jesse M. Unruh of Los Angeles, committee chairman, cracked during the hearing. A a result, nf surh testi sir!" exclaimed Co- TESTIFIES Mrs. J.

J. DiLuccia tells finance hears ing of sale. Timet phot "We were led td, believe almost five decades of news lywood personalities, drawn telling of his recent -tour of Russia with a group of burn. its cabs outside the Mocam- in Los Angeles yesterday. by lot, were set in place.

bo the night of Oct. 11, 1957. American athletes." The sisters, Mrs. Morris Actor Preston Foster, aid William Sandel, represent-! ing the cab company, said! that unfortunately the driv Coburn filed a counter terday by Mrs. Jocelyn Breen, 28, former New York model.

He said. athletics can Taylor of 4324 Lockwood that the store was carrying ed by- Actress Dorothy Ma- claim for damages to his break down (many barriers the contract," Mrs. DiLuccia limousine, and actor and Cor Ave. and Mrs. Dora Jaco- wich of Hull, werel The complaint charged th between nations.

The Ameri er was not present, although he offered a written state lone, was tnere to attend the imbedding of his own star, first drawn in the lottery. poration came to grips be singer with cruelty and re said. "But we learned it had been sold to a finance com separated in 1910, when Mrs, mony, committee members suggested more than once that proposed legislation tightening regulations on jending institutions require merchants and service shops to, notify customers that their installment contracts yrill be carried by finance ment taken from him. can reception by the Russians left nothing to be de fore Municipal Judge 0. Benton Wor ley.

Taylor left Hull to come to utners taking part in the 'I can just do so much for pany. And when we tried to quested that bank accounts totaling $21,000 be placed under receivership to assure sired, he added, and Lenin the United btates to be ceremony included Harry vou. said ine juage. -mere Stadium was one of the fin Chauffeur Testifies pay off the account 90 days later the finance company in- are limitations." bugarman, president of the Hollywood Improvement As reasonable support for her Coburn witnesses were At their reunion when an est for competition. Johnson broke his own decathlon Judgment Announced American Airlines plane his chauffeur, Jesse Lucai sisted that we pay the full two-year interest.

They did, and a son, Hunter, 3. Mrs. Breen said that her sociation, guiding force behind the improvement proj companies, Typical example of -how "There isn't anything else landed at International Air and the Mocambo doorman, record during a U.S.-Russian track meet there. that is, until we talked to husband expects to leave I can do without the driver," Ernest Weaver. this contract selling ensnares The regents accepted said Sandel.

Lucas explained that Co- Mrl-Kaiser (Arthur E. Kaiser, staff consultant to the Monday for an extensive theatrical tour out of the a buyer was recited by Mrs DiLuccia of Inglewood ect; Hi. loDerman, who is redeveloping the Hollywood Hotel site; Postmaster Otto K. Olesen, chairman of the Judgment for Mr. Coburn.

burn's car was parked at the port, Mrs. Jacowich introduced two new generations of the family her daughter, Mrs. Ann and her granddaughter, Gillian, 12, of Hull to Mrs. Taylor. 664,913 in gifts and pledges to be spent for projects not financed by the State Leg Whereupon Coburn curb in front of the night committee) and, after he talked to them, they reduced the interest to $35.66." fetched his half-gone cigar club and the actor had just project's lighting program: State and has threatened to depart without providing support for her -and the.

child. got in it. islature. The gifts included Kaiser then informed the from a friend who had been holding it for him, gingerly In the general reunion It was raining. Some Actor Marvin Miller, representing TV, and Councilman Earle D.

Baker of the Holly committee that, even at the The complaint, filed by wrapped in Coburn's blue glow, the only family mem She testified that when she and her husband bought some furniture, they paid lit-j le attention to the carrying charges on two-year contract because they were assured by the sales clerk that the Interest would be greatly reduced if they made a quick pay-off, which they planned reduced pay-off amount, the 107 for research, $147,406 for instruction, $12,386 for student welfare, $31,237 for felt beret. wood uisinct. ber to feel uneasy yesterdray was Taylor. It was raining body whistled and this car," he went on, picking up a yellow miniature model to represent the cab, "hit the DiLuccias had paid 56 in Atty. Thomas F.

said that the couple married in New York City Nov. 9, He put the cigar in his terest for 90 days on a $361 mouth, the beret on his head buckets. For years, Mr. Tay contract. Singer Ella 1952, and separated yester lor had been writing Mrs.

miscellaneous and special purposes, $21,976 for campus improvement and $7801 for libraries and collections. brakes and skidded into Mr. Coburn's car." and popped his monocle into his eye and walked out smil Mrs. Jean Land of Los An- Jacowich that it never rained day. Mrs.

Breen is the former Jocelyn Lesh. Los Angeles in summer. to do. Coburn stepped in, picked Please Turn to Pg. 5, Col.

8in ing. Fitzgerald to I Star at Bowl Hollywood Bowl's sixth Pops concert of the 1958 sea son will star Ella Fitzgerald, song stylist, who will offer vocal numbers from a reper tJ' fx toire or bu cole and Irving Berlin hit tunes at ir' 8:30 p.m. today. -''If, i 1 7 Paul IVeston, well known as conductor and arranger, will conduct the. Hollywood Bowl Pops Orchestra in Por Mr-- i i ter and Berlin numbers he has arranged for orchestra.

He also has included on the program his own composition, excerpts from "The Crescent City'! suite. if' 1 If Neilan Resting After Operation Marshall (Mickey) Neilan, 67-year-old veteran of the silent screen era, was reported resting comfortably following extensive surgery 1 I- 1 I I yesterday at the Motion Pic ture Country Hospital in Woodland Hills. Dr. Frances Brown performed the operation and said Neilan was progressing satisfactorily. The former director, actor and producer RAFER WITH REGENTS Dr.

Clark Kerr, president of UC, left, with UCLA student body president and world-renowned othlete, Rafer Johnson, who on-dressed Board of Regents on his recent trip to th i REUNION Mrs. Morris Taylor, on the right, welcomes her Mrs. of Hull, after a 48-year Others ar Mrs. Jacowich's daughter, Mrs. Ann Greenstone, at, left, and granddaughter, Gillian, 12, in rear.

U.S.S.R. Donald M. McLaughlin, chairman of th board, and Chancellor R. B. Allen joined in con-; gratulations after young athlete's speech as th Regents held meeting at the Westwood campus? Timtl Mwlt i has been ailing' unce last.