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LOCAL NEWS EDITORIALS OPINIONS PART 3 VOUIXXV Timet' Classified Advertising Number, MAdison 9-4411 THURSDAY MORKlING, NOVEMBER 29, 1956 CC Timet Office: 202 West First Street, Lot Angelet 53, Calif. MAdison 5-2345 Bill to Curb New 67,000,000 Park BY THE WAY with BILL HENRY Use of Sleep for City Unfolded i 1 vu V- wmmmmmv it: -w hi iiypuimm if I -Si I illfiT-f---iT'-fflrwr hub j.j...jlL.. ADOPTION. GRANTED Actress Jane Russell and her husband, Robert S. (Bob) Woterfield, pose with little Robert John, 8 months, as they wait for the decree of adoption that was granted yesterday.

The boy is their third adopted child. Time phot Marriages Face Delay in Quickie Divorce Gases No Nuptial Licenses to Be Allowed Until Final Decree Is Issued in State Courts Pills Planned 'Alertness' Drugs Would Also Be Put in Marijuana Class Sleeping tablets and capsules will be placed in the same narcotics class as heroin and marijuana by legislation which will be introduced in the January session of the Legislature. Assemblyman Rex M. Cun ningham of Ventura yester day said that as a result of testimony given here before his Assembly subcommittee on dangerous drugs Tuesday he will introduce such a bill. His said, would make illegal possession, a 1 or handling of the pills and cap sules a felony," Teen-age.

Use Cited He said the bill would be aimed at the widespread use, as testified by a dozen law officers Tuesday, of the drugs by teen-agers and what he described as the immature type of young adults. Cunningham said also that Assemblyman Pat D. 'McGee of Van Nuys intends to in troduce a i 1 1 pronibiting druggists from delivering to minors any such drugs without the written consent of their parents, even on pre scription. McGee was a member of the subcommittee that heard the law officers testify about the rapidly increasing num ber of pill parties by young people in this area. Meeting Planned Cunningham said he, Mc Gee and Assemblyman Byron Rumford of Berkeley, third member of the subcom mittee, will ieet Sacra Turn to Page 13, Column 1 TAX FORMS TO BE MAILED ON SCHEDULE Robert A.

Riddell, District Director of Internal Revenue for Southern California, yesterday announced that copies of Federal income tax forms for .1956 will be mailed this year on schedule. Riddell said the forms and accompanying in- structioh booklets are to be in the mails after the Christmas rush, reaching taxpayers late in December or early January. The forms are similar to last year's, he stated. A material change in the simplified Form 1040-A allows the taxpayer who elects to use that form to determine his own tax and make payment at the time of filing the return rather than wait until the Director- of Internal Revenue computes it and submits a bill for it. on it recently to marry Buddy Moss, former nightclub owner, in Panama.

Carrick insisted that under his in WAITING FOR CALL-r-Anna Maria Albergherti waits by phone at her home, a little angry, but hoping Italian count will call back. She slammed down phona when fiance called from Rome at 2 a.m. yesterday. if) photo Anna Maria Alberghetti in Quarrel With Count Cuts Off Transatlantic Call After Fiance Aski Singing Star to Give Up Her Career Program Citizens Group Told of Need; Plan Studied Twenty-seven members of a citizens committee, composed of community leaders from all parts of the city, listened intently in Mayor Poulson's office in City Hall yesterday as they were told of the critical need existing for major expansion of the city's park program. The committee members were addressed by members and top employees of the city's Recreation and Park Commission, who unfolded a proposed maximum 000 program for park expan sion that the committee will examine before recommend ing a bond issue to the voters at the -spring municipal elec tion.

Stephen Gavin, 'vice-chairman of the committee presided at vesterdav's meeting. George Hjelte, general manager of the Recreation and Park Department, and Mrs. Harold Morton, presi dent: of the Recreation and Park Commission, were among those who. talked to committee members. Remarks Illustrated Hjelte, illustrating his re marks with charts and other data compiled by his staff, said in part: "If Los Angeles is to con tinue to be one of the most progressed cities in the na tion, development of its parks and playgrounds must keep pace with our tremendous population increase.

If our youth is have the same advantages as provided in other major American cities if juvenile delinquency is to be controlled the pro gram to provide clean amuse ment for youngsters must be expanded and intensified." All Sectiona Affected The program as unfolded for the committee yesterday, which probably will be pared down considerably from its original $67,000,000 figure, in eluded park and recreation developments for practically every section of the city. In eluded also was a $6,000,000 item for a zoo and zoological garden to be located in Cha vez Ravine. This figure would also include funds to grade and level land in the same area for a proposed privately financed major league base ball park. Other items listed on the program called for 20 com munity park playgrounds, 18 swimming pools, nine play ground clubhouses, four 18 hole and three nine-hole golf courses. The Recreation and Park Commission also suggested that 58,000,000 be made avail able to purchase land while it is still available that may be needed for park purposes in the years to come.

I Jane Russell, and Husband Adopt 3rd Baby Jane Russell, lissome lead ing lady of the screen, and her husband Robert S. (Bob) Waterfield, got the pink slip yesterday on their third baby by adoption. It gave them title to a win some, red-haired boy, Robert John, whom they took into their home eight months ago, a week after his birth. The decree of adoption Was granted by Superior; Judge Burnett Wolfson.1 Attends to Baby Miss Russell, 34, once a brunette but now a decided platinum blonde, attended to all of Robert John's whims while waiting for her turn to see the judge. In her.

handbag she carried a milk bottle which she popped into her new son's mouth at oppor tune moments. Robert John, by the same decree, acquired a brother, Thomas, 6, and a sister, Tracy, 5, whom the Waterfields also, adopted as newly-born infants. Movie Producer' Waterfield, 36, is now a mo tion-picture producer. But he first became a public figure while playing football at UCLA and later in Cleveland for the Rams before the professional team was moved to Los Angeles. He and Miss Russell were married April 24, 1943.

The Waterfields were represented by Atty. Harold E. Aaron. County Clerk Harold Ost-ly will not presume to pass on the validity of quickie Mexican divorces, but He acknowledged yesterday that his staff is under strict instructions to issue no marriage license to a participant in a not-yet-final California divorce even if it has been supplemented by a Mexican or any other type of quickie decree. The issue was crystallized several days ago- when Dep.

County.Clerk T. H. Carrick in Santa Monica refused to issue a license to Mortimer Hall, radio station owner, and Actress Diana Lynn, who want to be wed Dec. 7. Another Divorce When the couple appeared at the beach office, Carrick recalled that last March 29 Hall was divorced in Santa Monica by another actress, Ruth Roman, and that the decree cannot be made final until March 30, 1957.

In vain did Hall protest that last Oct. 14 he received a Mexican divorce and that Miss. Roman herself relied MELBOURNE One of our small problems down this way consists in becoming accustomed to the local newspapers. Jt isn'J easy. They're newspapers, a 1 1 right, but they are very different from what we get at home, NEWSPAPERS Just at the moment, of course, Melbourne journalism is pretty well afflicted with the Olym-f pic, virus.

It's quite a scourge. Sweeps through the from cover to cover like a pestilence, They not only have lots of sports news about the Olympics on their ample sports pages, but from front to back, the papers are dotted "with pictures features, interviews and' important sounding opinions having to do with the Olympic Games. The front page tells, with some glee, of the Sydney scamps who staged a fake Olympic torch with a homemade flame and almost got his nibs the Lord Mayor to come out and accept it with a speech. When; you get back into the want-ad section you see the pages dotted with "personals" offering choice tickets to the Olympic Games at a not-so-slight premium price. ATTITUDE The general attitude of journalism in this country is a bit more flamboyant than ours.

If you want my opinion, all this stuff about British dignity has no possible connection with their journalism. London and Australian make our wildest tabloids look lame by comparison. They love human interest yarns. A fellow who committed suicide after seeing the dogcatcher destroy some 20 of his collection of canine friends who were deemed a bit of a nuisance got a big play. There are always a few hot divorce suits ii the papers.

And there is quite a play for crimes of passion committed here or any place else. The story of a Frenchwoman who was acquitted after shooting her lover got pretty nearly as much play locally as if it had been committed here instead of half a world away. OPINION They go in for pretty deep stuff on the sports pages. They're not satisfied just to print the fact that Davis Cupper Ken Rosewall beat somebody for the something-or-other tennis championship. The story shouts "Rosewall's forehand shaky type of interview they publish with some obscure but sexy French girl high jumper will be headed, 'Not in best says Giselle." They are particularly worried about the possible performances of Australian athletes and produce endless analytical articles by and about their various swimmers, none of whom really seem to need much in the way of an alibi.

WORLD NEWS The crisis over the Middle East situation, which seemed to me to be a pretty hot story when Heft home, wasn't getting Jnuch play here. It was covered, and quite adequately, but had a hard time edging Into any prominence in competition with everything else. Certainly the story seemed to rank as more im- to the Los Angeles Imes than it did with any of the Australian newspapers despite the fact that Suez 13 a major Australian lifeline to the mother country, and Egypt and the whole Middle East are a bloodstained battlefield In Australian history. They support the position taken by Anthony Eden in the Middle East and are critical of United States policy, but they don't seem to be in any great stew over it. ODDS AND ENDS The local Saturday newspapers, which approximate our Sunday editions, since no local newspapers are published on Sunday, are pretty good sized.

One of them seems to average about 64 pages, of which almost half appears to be devoted to the want ads an amazing1 percentage. Australian newspapers, which are crazy about local sports, particularly horse racing, pay no attention to American college football and the Yank sports writers went daffy during their first few days here trying to find out who won the big games at home finally catching up through the radio reporters Who had telephone contact with the United States. structions from Ostlv he must recognize only the California decree. "If Miss" Roman and Mr. Hall want to dismiss the suit in this said Ostly, "that would be another mat ter.

But we cannot issue a marriage license to a person shown by our own court records to be still undivorced." Not Passing Judgment Ostly hastened to add that this does not mean that his office is undertaking to pass judgment on the validity of divorce decrees granted out side the State. But it does mean that if an interlocutory decree is pending here his office must take it at face value. "The court granting the de cree here has found that the parties to it are husband and wife," Ostly explained. "So it would be ridiculous for us to ignore our own records." Ostly conceded that his Turn to Page 8, Column 1 War I feats and holds the' Congressional Medal of the Distinguished Service Cross with nine Oak Turn to Page 12, Column 1 Fiery Actress Anna Maria Alberghetti slammed down the telephone on a transat lantic call from Italian Count Alberto Mochi early yesterday a few hours after she had announced their impend ing' engagement. The 20-year-old singing star later said fretfully; ''He called me at 2 a.m.

from Rome woke up the whole household." That isn't the thing that made her mad, however. "He wants me to give up my career," she wailed. "He said he has plenty of money and I should come to Italy to live after our marriage. On Climax! Tonight "How can I give up my ca reer when tl'a just getting started? Show business is my life. I was only 6 when I gave my first concert.

'Now I am becoming known as a dramatic actress not just 'that cute little girl who sings. Rickenbacker Named as Rose Festival Marshal Schwieger to Conduct Philharmonic Concerts Miss Alberghetti is appearing in a dramatic role on television tonight playing the part of a gun moll on CBS's Climax! The actress admitted Tues day that Count Alberto, wealthy scion of a centuries-old Italian family, is coming here at Christmas time to ask her father for her hand. He is bringing with him, she said, a pearl and diamond engagement ring that is an heirloom that once belonged to the family of former Queen Elena of Italy. Hopes He'll Cell' Miss Alberghetti was asked if the slammed-down phone means the engage-, ment is off. "I don't know," she said.

"We left it just like that." Does she think the Count will call her back? She paused before answering. "I hope so," she said softly. phonic Espagnole" for violin and orchestra, and "Pictures at an Exhibition" by Modest Moussorgsky as arranged for orchestra by the French composer, Maurice Ravel. CONDUCTOR Hani Schwieger to conduct two concerts of Philharmonic. i l.

One of America's greatest war heroes, Capt. Eddie Rick enbacker, will be grand marshal of Pasadena's 68th Tour nament of Roses Parade. Announcement of the high est honor Pasadena can bestow came yesterday from John S. Davidson, chairman of the Tournament of Roses Association, who said the pioneer flier and aviation executive will ride with his wife at the head of the annual parade. The Rickenbackers will ful fill their initial duties at the Dec.

28 coronation of the Rose Queen and court, Davidson said. War Achievements Rickenbacker, 66, is chair man1 of the board of directors of Eastern Air Lines. He is also a member of the execu tive board of the Boy Scouts of America. He shot down 22 planes and four balloons in his Contract Let for Freeway Work The Department of Public Works in Sacramento yester day let a $2,423,493 contract for construction of a 1.9-mile section of the Long Beach Freeway through Lynwood from a point .3 mile south of Rosecrans Ave. to .4 mile south of Imperial Highway.

Comic Dictionary IGNORANCE A widespread virtue because without It there would be mighty little conversation. Conrllht, br Evta Ir Hans Schwieger, guest con ductor, and Michael Tree, violinist, will be appearing for the first time with the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra during performances tonight and tomorrow afternoon in the Philhar monic Auditorium. Schwieger has been music director of the Kansas City Philharmonic Orchestra for 10 years and earlier this month conducted two operas during the Los Angeles sea son of the ban Francisco Opera in Shrine Auditorium. Tonight performance will be at 8:30 and tomorrow's will begin at 2:15 p.m. College Big Night This evening will be Col lege Big Night, with students from several Southern California colleges attending the concert and the after-concert reception in the Biltmore where the "conductor and soloist will be honored guests.

Program for the concerts will be: Joseph Haydn's Symphony 94 In Major, "The Eduard Lalo'i "Sym ii ii il MODEL SWIMMING POOL Members of citizens committee examine swimming pool of typt proposed In pork expansion. From Itfr, Miss Ruth Saint, Stephen D. Gavin, vice-chairman, qnd Mrs. Raymond Allen. Tlmw phot i.