The Los Angeles Times from Los Angeles, California • 71

IEW PART IV THURSDAY, APRIL 15, 1971 i 'v mmmmlim J'r T- 11 A7 7 vits-: WhTMI linMrf T.l.'tf ill I full 'V II I I 1 II I II Hi II II ..1 1 I nil I 'v RIGHT ON Mrs. John Alison and Mrs. Lloyd Hand, honoree, jockey Willie Shoemaker, gets kissed by at Learn and Return party at Hollywood Park to from left, watch as "Uppity Night At the Races" Mrs. Ed Hookstratten (Pat Crowley) and his wife benefit the Frostig Center of Educational Therapy. Times photo by Jurtrt Gunderson Race Track Party: The Hoof beat Goes On peared on invitations as well as in the form of hostess pins on members at the party.

So, guess what the girls gave The Shoe as a memento of the evening? A pair of bronzed racing boots, the very boots Shoemaker wore at Del Mar last, fall when he won his fi.033rd race to break a world record and become "the winningest jockey." (The Shoe's shoes wers not that hard to come by Please Turn to Fg.19, Col. were on a wide-angle screen, not down on the track. Winner of the third race in the third set was big winner of the evening, jockey Willie (the Shoe) Shoe-maker who in addition to being guest of honor is a longtime backer and memher of the board of the Frostig Center, a nonprofit, nonsectari-an school for children with learning disabilities. The party's emblem a bottle of champagne tucked inside a racing boot--ap- fun that the 1,200 or so Learn and Return racing fans forgot the track didn't officially open until the next day. However, there was an exhibition of thoroughbred racing on thp main track during salad (when most of the crowd was still inside the Turf Club enjoying gratis cocktails).

There was anoihrr clever fund-raiser, too racing ia a movie screen suspended in BY SHARON FAY KOCH Tlmai Staff Wrilr Learn and Return, the scholarship auxiliary of the Marianne Frostig Ontpr of Educational Therapy, proved you don't need ponies to have a pood day at the track. Tuesday night at Holly-wood Park, the group hpld a benefit first an "I'ppity i at. a a blacktie event, which was so posh and so much front of the Turf Club Terrace where three sets of three former Holly park races were projected in color during the evening. Bettors with two out of three winning names on a ticket were the winners of each set and collected prizes bottles of champagne. It was like watching football on television even the near-sighted see more.

And from the sounds the fans were making, it was hard to tell that the ponies racing JACK SMITH Recycling a Day in the Park Jeff Hain Is 15. He's a 10th grader at Fairfax High School and like all Fairfax students he is out of school at noon these days. In the afternoon the school is used by the displaced students of Los Angeles High School, wrecked by the earthquake. I got. a letter from Jeff the other day: "With so much spare time on our hands, my friend Bill and I decided to keep ourselves busy and out of mischief in the afternoons by cycling to points of interest in the Los Angeles area You are hereby invited to cycle with us and see the things we see: No crowds, but people, laughing and enjoying themselves, not griping over taxes or fighting rush-hour traffic; the day people, not the weekenders; the people you never see It sounded like a good idea.

We agreed to meet at 2 p.m. Tuesday at Clyde's Cyclery, near Griffith Park. Jeff rode up on his bike. He said his friend Bill couldn't come. 1 rented a blue bike with three speeds and a hand brake.

Jeff had plotted an easy trip. "We'll just go up to Travel Town and back," he said. "It's a good place. There's lots of scenery." We took the bridge over the river and pedaled up Zoo Drive, pushing through the wind. The sky was darkening.

I felt a raindrop. It was bracing. Travel Town was only a mile or so away. We put our bikes in a rack and walked among the old retired vehicles. There were no crowds; only a few day people.

I had seen them before in other parks on weekday afternoons; mostly young women with small children, getting out in the sun. Jeff told me about his Boy Scout, post. "Wp're conservation oriented. One of our projects, we went, out in the desert and built water holes, for bighorn sheep." I asked him how you build a water hole in the desert. "You find a spring, and then you get some redwood and build it up around the spring, go it makes a and the water doesn't all run off." We stepped up into an old yellow streetcar, the kind that used to rattle and clang down our streets, before the buses came with their gassy blasts and shrieking brakes.

1 sat on one of the wooden seats. It felt good. "You ever ride in one of these?" I asked. "1 don't think so. They were before my time.

We've sat in one, though, my friend and I. We bought some ice cones and sat in here." "The yellow cars were great," I said. "I used to ride to high school on the old No. 7." We walked on to the old trains and climbed Into the lounge car of the City of Los Angeles. "We're going to build some nests for doves," Jeff said.

"You have to build their nests?" Doves are notorious for not. building good nests. They just put down a couple of sticks. If you build one, they'll come in and lay their eggs." There were pink velour chairs in the lounge car, and pictures from a long-gone time. "Did you ever ride in a train?" I asked.

I think so. Once. From downtown to Disneyland, or Knott's Berry Farm." Outside again we lookpd up at an old Navy bomber from propeller days, inside a fence; gallant and forlorn. "I wish we could climb up on that," Jeff Said. So did I.

It was mostly downhill cycling back. We pulled up at a stop sign and a car came up beside us. The windows were shut and the man inside looked like a store window dummy. He lurched away, blasting us with hydrocarbons. I felt superior.

The bicycle had outlasted the streetcar and the train and the propeller-driven airplane and it would very probably outlast the automobile. Back at the cyclery I thanked Jeff for the idea and the ride. It had been a pleasure, getting out in the air and seeing the day people, And it isn't every day you can spend an hour with someone who build3 bird'a nests and water holes in the desert and never rode a streetcar. MUSIC REVIEW Lightfoot 'Arrives' in Concert iii.n in mm ii ijiiiimi ii miwiii mm miT mm mm1 m.w if I cCC I jr- A It -J i Th i i It JT i 1 BY ROBERT HILBURN Tim Pop Muiie Critic Because it was his first local appearance since the national success of his "If You Could Read My Mind," Gor-d Lightfoot's concert Tuesday night at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium was, in many ways, a sort of homecoming celebration for the singer-songwriter. Though Lightfoot has enjoyed for some time now the respect of musicians and what might, be best described as a folk underground audience, he has not until recently received the general popula rity that the quality and influence of his music should command.

His songs have been recorded by such artists as Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash and Barbra Streisand, But the success of his recent "If You Could Read My Mind" album and single (both nearing the $1 million mark in sales) has finally brought Lightfoot the attention in the general pop music market. He Has Arrived As the large crowd for Tuesday's concert and heavy advance sale for a Wednesday night concert at Santa Monica showed, it is apparently time to stop referring to Lightfoot as the "next" major star on the contemporary pop music scene. He has, it appears clear, finally arrived. Both Lightfoot's newer fans the ones attracted to him because of "If You Could Read My Mind" and th cult of Lightfoot followers the ones whose enthusiasm can be traced to such earlier songs as "Early Morning Rain" were on hand Tuesday to provide a warm, responsive welcome. Except for his native Canada, Los Angeles has been one of Lightfoot's most receptive markets.

He has made a series of successful appearances both in clubs Please Turn to Vg. 22, Col. 1 STRAIGHT SHOOTER Daughter of movie cowboy Tom Mix, Tommie Gunn, here with daughters Gussy, left, and Gina, rep resents the ACLU in Laguna That city's police chief says she "helps to bring resolution to community problems." Times photo by Deris Jeannetts Tom Mix Daughter Dons White Hat for ACLU THE VIEWS INSIDE BOOKS: Mortimer J. Adler's "Th Common Sense of Politics" by Robert Kirsch on Page 12. TO SEE: USC readies all-university open house, the USCaleidoscope III by Ursula Vils on Page 3.

AND BE SEEN: Debbie Shelton, a level-headed Miss U.S.A., visits Los Angeles by Julie Byrne on Page 10. BY SUE RE1LLY Timti Staff Writer LAGUNA BEACH A confrontation is in progress in front of the Laguna Beach Taco Bell. The policeman quietly, firmly states his case. The youth listens impatiently, then replies, "You can't do this to me. I know mv rights.

I'll call the ACLU." The policeman reaches Into his pocket, pulls out his wallet and removes a card which he hands to the young man. It reads: Tommie Gunn. American Civil Liberties Union. Or ange Coast Branch. Telephone 494-300S.

Policemen in most cities do not distribute ACLU cards. But policemen in most cities do not have a Tommie Gunn. Mrs. Gunn, 50ish, thrice married, slender, only child of old-time movie cowboy Tom Mix, is a community calmer. Laguna Police Chief Kenneth Huck says of her.

"She is a conciliatory, level-headed person who helps to bring resolution to community problems." (Chief Huck had second thoughts about posing for a newspaper, picture with Mrs, Gunn, though. Said people might Last summer, when street people and police were working themselves into heated and hostile confrontation, Mrs. Gunn let both sides have it with both barrels. She pointed out that in one situation the police were overreacting, and that on the other hand some of the street, people were begging a felony conviction. Under her influence, things calmed down.

In a mediation situation the is low-key, soft-spoken, hard-nosed, informed and very to the point. Her street admirers say she's a very together person. Her straight-friends say she has the courage of her convictions. She has been quoted a3 saying: "I'm glad I'm rich because this way 1 don't have to worry about what people think of me." She amends that to: "Not being reliant on other people for my income being financially free allows me to take a stand on issues without fear of repercussion from an employer." Mrs. Gunn has no compunction about taking a stand on any issue.

Her posi- Please Turn to Vg. 8, Col. 1 AND OTHER FEATURES Dear Abby 18 Joyce Haber 20 Astrology 15 Margo Page 17 Bridge Page 16 Parties Page 2 Comics Page 27 Cecil Smith 25.