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State Probe Looms in College Firings 20 Cents Per Ride Allowed The State Public Utilities Commission Wednesday granted Long Beach Motor Bus Co. a 4-cent basic cash fare increase to 20 cents effective June 2. As an alternative to cash fares, the PUC ordered sale of tokens at the rate of three for 50 cents or cents per ride. No tokens are sold at present. PUC also authorized a boost in school fares.

These will be sold at the rate of 12 for $1, good in all zones, in lieu of the present schedule of 40 single zone tickets for $2.40 and 40 multi-zone tickets for $3. THE COMPANY had asked for a 20-cent cash fare, tokens at the rate of five for 90 cents and the equivalent of a straight 10-cent school fare in all zones. The state commission's action on cash fares astonished City Manager Sam E. Vickers, chairman of the City Bureau of Franchises which had suggested that a 17-cent rate would be ample. Vickers said the full bureau, including four city councilmen, will be asked to study the PUC decision before debating whether to attempt to block the increases by court action, WEDNESDAY'S decision superseded one issued early this year granting an interim cash 1-cent fare increase to 16 cents.

It ordered the company to follow through on an agreement to provide a two-zone instead of a three-zone fare for residents of an east Long Beach section known as East Zone 2 traveling to Lakewood Shopping Center in North Zone 2. Otherwise zone fares and zone boundaries will remain unchanged. Under the order the higher school fares are to be made available to all students through grade 14. The present limit is grade 12. PUC cited a wage increase, effective last Oct.

1, as the principal reason for the higher fares. It estimated that annual costs from this cause would increase 500, compared with a company estimate of $112,920. Finn Twin Loses Bout in Court REDONDO BEACH--One of for their many and prolonged the fabulous Finn twins, legal jousts, lost another courtroom tussle here Wednesday. Charles C. Finn, 43, of Los Angeles was found guilty of a traffic violation by a jury of four men and eight women in the court of Municipal Judge John Shidler.

Charles and his brother, George, spent most of the day pleading the case to the jurors. Charles was charged with entering a highway under unsafe conditions following a minor traffic collision last Dec. 14 in the 1700 block Pacific Coast Hwy. in Hermosa Beach. After he was found guilty, Charles was fined $11 by Judge Shidler.

The slightly built defendant asked for and received one-week stay of execution indicating he might appeal the case to superior court. The twins received considerable notoriety in recent years as a result of legal maneuvering over their rights to a war surplus plane. Picnic Sunday The Hiawatha Brown County, Kansas, picnic will be held Sunday in Bixby Park. The Southland's LONG BEACH 12, CALIFORNIA, THURSDAY, MAY I 15, 1958 B-1 Passengers Hit Increase in Long Beach Bus Fares Long Beach area customers of the Long Beach Motor Bus Co. reacted loudly Wednesday to a State Public Utilities Commission announcement it was granting the firm the right to hike fares to 20 cents.

Clerk Sherry Wright (upper left), 1885 Redondo said: "I think it smells." Pensioner Agnes Troy (upper right), 3430 Artesia decided: "I think it's just awful." Pipefitter Ernest Tomlin (right), of North Long Beach, said: "I think a 20-cent fare is too high for a person who rides as often as I do. And if this keeps up, we'll soon have a 50-cent -(Staff Photos by Chuck Sundquist.) Feeney Heads Scout Camp Fenton Feeney, dean of curriculum at Taft Junior College, has been named director of Camp Tahquitz, Long Beach Area Boy Scout Council camp, for the summer season. Gifford Hanson, council camping chairman, who announced the appointment, said Feeney is a Silver Beaver Scouter and was director at Camp Idyllwild for the past two seasons. FEENEY, a leader in the honor camping society, Tribe of Tahquitz, said he plans to use 40 or 50 members of the tribe on his activities and hiking staff this summer. New staff members announced by Feeney are Ronald Kautz, commissary director; Warren Arnett, pool manager; George Rogers and Ray Walker, program advisers; and James Burns, truck driver.

Camp Tahquitz will operate for eight one-week sessions, starting June 29. MORE THAN 2,314 reserva-1 tions have been received. A breakdown of the figures, released Wednesday by the area council, revealed that 2,094 Scout campers will be accompanied by 157 adult leaders and 63 members of the camp staff. Three Radios Stolen Three radios, two of them pocket size and worth $400, were stolen by a burglar who smashed the front window of the Dean TV and Appliance Store at 975 American Ave. Tuesday night, it was reported Ito police.

ORDERED TO HOSPITAL Housewife, Killer of Infant, Insane A pretty Bellflower reason of insanity of daughter, almost became state hospital Wednesday. Gloria Chamas, 24, of 10031 Center was committed to Atascadero State Hospital for an indefinite stay by Superior Judge Ralph K. Pierson Wednesday morning. Then someone discovered Atascadero is an all-male institution. The order was changed to read Patton State Hospital.

JUDGE PIERSON ruled Mrs. Chamas was insane Feb. 11 when she shot tiny Loretha, Chamas in her crib, and still is insane. The court's finding came after Mrs. Chamas waived jury trial and her attorney, Deputy County Public Defender William H.

Sansom, and Dep. Dist. Atty. Thomas W. Cochran agreed that the case be submitted on the transcript of her preliminary hearing and reports of three psychiatrists who examined her.

Of the three, one found her insane Feb. 11 and now, another said she was sane then and insane now, and the third ruled she was insane then and sane now. MRS. CHAMAS shot herself in the chest after slaying the infant, and was confined to the County Hospital prison ward for several weeks. Two More Women Identify Lakewood Man as Attacker Identify Attacker of the El Segundo slayer are not Parcells'.

MEANWHILE, detectives said Parcells is talking about the crimes and admits freely the attacks in Buena Park, Lakewood and Wilmington. Sheriff's detectives quoted Parcells as saying he suffered from severe headaches prior to the time the urge overtook him. The suspect said he had been seeing a psychiatrist about the headaches but had not mentioned his sex crimes. Parcells was taken from the Firestone station to Los Angeles County Jail where he was booked for multiple crimes of kidnaping, rape, assault and sodomy. Faculty Members Adamant By WARREN WALTERS State College faculty members hotly cross-examlined a high State Department of Education official Wednesday on the firings of two instructors and told him that unless the issue is resolved fairly they will seek a legislative investigation.

The meeting with Dr. J. Burton Vasche, chief of the Division of State Colleges, was called by one faculty member, "The roughest conference we've yet." It was Dr. Vasche's second visit to the state college pus within a month in tion with the decision of Dr. P.

Victor Peterson, college president, not to renew the contracts of Frank Black and Dr. Clyde B. Martin. GROUNDED, TOO Pilots and planes aren't 1 the only ones grounded during strike, now nearing the end of its third month. This of WAL inactivity at Municipal Airport to build a round rubber bumper of passenger loading ramp.

home when the strike Photo.) Inside Out -By HARRY FULTON- THIS IS A STORY about a kitten which two days ago had no name. Today it is known as Houdini, for reasons to be explained. This kitten was born about eight weeks ago. It was one of a litter, and the owner was able to find homes for all the kittens but this one. That caused a problem.

The owner also has three dogs, and although the mother: cat has sense enough to stay away from the dogs, the kitten does not. Consequently, fearing bloodshed, and unable to give the kitten away, the owner at last decided to take the kitten to the pound. THE TRIP TO THE POUND took place Wednesday, and leaving, owner placed the kitten in a cardboard box, turned down the lids and tied them securely. However, the when she got to the pound opened the box, the kitten and was gone. She looked all over her car for that kitten and could not find it.

Animal Shelter men helped her remove rear seat cushions and things in the -but still, no kitten. With that, she returned home and engaged the services of a garage mechanic to look for the kitten. And he finally found it--in the trunk, where once they had looked. Nobody knows how that kitten got out of that box, but it certainly was a stroke of good luck for that feline Houdini. Now the lady doesn't have the heart to take it to the pound, and she's trying again to find it a home.

It's a cute little kitten, with a talent for escape. And if you know of a home for it, call HE 2-0752 between 1 and 5 p.m. IT'S OBVIOUS HOW the City of Long Beach got its name. You also probably know that Los Angeles is the City of the Angels. But have you ever wondered how some of the towns in nearby Orange County got their names, or what they mean? This is the story on some: Santa Ana-Portola, the explorer was responsible.

He came here in 1769 and camped on the banks of a river, which he called Rio de Santa Ana, Later, when William H. Spurgeon founded a settlement near the river, named the settlement Santa Ana. Silverado -Got its name when silver was discovered there in 1870. -Named for D. E.

Smeltzer, the man who discovered that celery could be most successfully grown drained peat land. do Seal Beach -First called Bay City, got its name because its beach was the home of many seals around 1911. Named by Philip Stanton, developer, for whom the town of Stanton was named. Orange--Some say it was named by the winner of a poker game in which losers favored the names of Lemon and Olive. Others say it was named for Orange County, Virginia, original home of two of the founders.

Still others say it was named in anticipation of a flourishing orange industry. Anaheim--Some say it was named for a little girl named Anna who lived in the original settlement. Heim means "home" in German- "Anna's home." Others claim it reterred to "home" on the Santa Ana River. Brea is the Spanish word for "tar." Garden Grove, they say, got its name in 1859 "and was settled by a group of men who believed that, in a gold-crazy country, more money could be made growing fruit and vegetables than in digging for gold." COSTA MESA MEANS coast tableland, and Corona del Mar means Crown of the Sea. Fullerton was named the man who routed the Santa Fe railroad there: Huntington Beach once was called Pacific City; La gorge or pass, and Yorba Linda was named for Spanish Habras family named Yorba.

Wintersburg honors Henry Winters, a specialist in celery culture, and Westminster was named for the Westminster Assembly. Tustin got its name from Columbus Tustin, an early lundowner, and El Toro was named in 1838 nice tame bull lived there." At least that's what the historians claim. L.B. Mental Health Unit Has Dinner Lawrence T. Cooper, chairman of the Los Angeles County Mental Health Commission, will speak at the annual Long Beach Mental Health Association dinner tonight at the Petroleum Cleo.

Cooper is expected to report on a mental health survey now being conducted in the county. He is a member of the board of directors, Los Angeles chapter, American National Red Cross, Blue Cross of Southern California and of the Merchants and Manufacturers Assn. A social period is slated for LAWRENCE T. COOPER 6:30 p. m.

and dinner at 7. Talks Tonight the Western Airlines tiny bird took advantage cozy little nest inside the It'll have to find a new Cleaning of Lots Started City crews and contractors began work Wednesday on a six-week job of clearing away the tall crop of weeds in vacant lots throughout Long Beach. By July 1, some 2,500 lots and parcels--ranging from the average-size house site to whole tracts--will have been shorn of growth that in some cases already constitutes a fire hazard. Because of the heavy rains early this year, it is the biggest weed-cleaning job faced by the city in 10 years, according to Robert Kennedy, manager of the administration division of the Public Service Dept. Most of the work will be done by Ballard Wood of San Bernardino, city contractors.

Contractors as well as Public Service Dept. crews are using heavy -driven discs to topple the weeds. Burning of such growth was banned last year by the County Air Pollution Control District. Parkways with only moderate crops are being mowed. Cost of the work will be billed next January to property owners who do not clean their own lots.

I. P.T Wins Honors for Promotion The Independent, Press-Telegram circulation promotion program Wednesday was rated among the top three in the nation by Editor Publisher magazine. The P.T was awarded a certificate of merit for its 1957 "You Asked for It" contest for carrier boys. Stanford Stanley, circulation promotion manager, received special commendation for his work. Also honored by the trade magazine were the Chicago Daily News and the Minneapolis Star and Tribune.

In the P-T contest, carrier boys selected prizes toward which they wanted to work, explained circulation director William J. Morrissey. Among the prizes were airline trips. "It must be a sign of the times," said Morrissey. "A few years ago, the boys prizes like bikes.

Now travel's the thing." Today in Long Beach OPEN HOUSE-Long Beach General Hospital. will have open house from 1 to 4 p.m., part of its 10th anniversary celebration. BALL--Armed Forces Ball, military personnel and their ladies admitted free, at. Municipal Auditorium, beginning at 8:30 p. m.

ANNUAL DINNERLong Beach Mental Health Association annual dinner, open to the public, at the Petroleum Club, 7 p. m. ASKED FOR his version on the outcome of the meeting with the steering committee, Dr. Vasche said, "I don't know if there has been an outcome." He explained he was charged by the State Board of tion last Saturday in Fresno with the job of examining the procedures involved in the decision not to retain the two instructors. He explained he will submit his report on the outcome of this meeting and subsequent investigations and conferences to Dr.

Roy Simpson, state director of education, in about a month. THE HOUR-AND-A-HALF morning meeting was held with the college's new steering committee comprised of 14 elected faculty members and five representatives of the administrative staff. Dr. George Korber, president of the campus chapter of the Assn. of California State College Instructors, said he told Dr.

Vasche: "If, after your report is submitted, we feel there are no justifiable reasons indicated for not retaining Black and Dr. ed Martin, we will carry the issue further." He continued, "We will report back by letter to each member of the State Board of Education on our feelings about the report, and then we will try to get the matter before the appropriate legislature tees." housewife, found innocent by murdering her eight-week-old an inmate of a "men only" Preemie Dies After 36-Hr. Life Struggle A prematurely-born baby, which the parents thought dead until their arrival at a Long Beach hospital, died Wednesday afternoon after a 36-hour struggle for life. The couple is Mr. and Mrs.

Ruel Richard Scott, 979 Via Wanda. It was belief a girl, born alive at 3 a.m. Tuesday, had succumbed minutes later. When an ambulance delivered mother and child to the hospital, it was found the infant was breathing. Attendants placed the babe in an incubator.

Mrs. Scott was released from the hospital late Wednesday. Teacher Gets Post Norma M. Marinelli, of 175 La Verne Ave. a Long Beach Unified School District teacher, has received an appointment a group leader for the 1958 summer program of The Experiment in International Living.

She will accompany 10 American students to Italy for a visit. Where's Business It's HERE! FACT NO. 14... Long Beach area bank debits (active money used for purchases and the conduct of business) INCREASED 861,715 last year. above the 1956 figure.

The money is HERE. So is business. What are you doing to stimulate it? Source: Long Beach Clearing House Association. THE FACULTY member also warned Dr. another has indicated its interest in the agency with far powers issue.

This agency, Dr. Korber said, is the American Assn. of University Professors. He added that if the AAUP investigates and finds the issue has not been resolved fairly it could lead to the organization censuring State College. This would make it dificult for the college to recruit new faculty members, Dr.

Korber said. Another faculty member, Dr. Cramer Schultz, queried Dr. Vasche on mission at the college and after hearing the official was here to see personnel procedures were in line with those at other colleges asked: "Is this going to be another whitewash?" DR. VASCHE replied there was to be no "whitewash." He said the investigation was going to be thorough.

Dr. Korber said efforts to dis. cuss the reasons for the dismis. sal of the men were not fruitful. Black reported after the meeting that Dr.

Vasche said he was not concerned "whether I was a good teacher or not as far as this investigation is concerned. He told me his objective was merely to see if the proper procedures were followed in the matter of my missal." Two additional victims kidnap, rape and assault have identified a 34-year-old Lakewood suspect as their attacker in a show-up at the Firestone sheriff's office. The two new victims make a total of five who have positively identified Norman Michael Parcells, 5843 Candlewood as their assailant. PARCELLS WAS arrested Tuesday at his business in North Long Beach and later was positively identified by three other victims. The latest to accuse Parcells are Orange County women.

They identified him Wednesday night. Orange County Sheriff's of- officers and the Buena Park police hold complaint reports involving kidnap rape assault cases similar to those laid to Parcells. One woman is from Los Alamitos and was attacked in that area Nov. 9, 1956. The other woman is a Buena Park resident.

She was attacked Oct. 27, 1956. Three teen-agers, victims of rape, robbery and assault in El Segundo, the aftermath of which cost the lives of two policemen, failed to identify Parcells as the suspect in those crimes. The sheriff's office said fingerprints believed to be those BLACK, AN instructor in the education division, said he showed Dr. Vasche letters from USC commending his work as an instructor.

He reported, "Dr. Vasche said the ratings mean nothing." After the meeting, Dr. Vas. che said his interest "in the long pull" was "seeing that the faculty and the administration work together to develop college-wide machinery to work together on all problems for the benefit of the college." Woman Named in Bookie Charge A three-count bookmaking complaint against Marie Shave, 43, of 2278 Radnor was issued Wednesday by the dis. trict's attorney's office.

She was arrested Tuesday 1 1000 Redondo where sheriff's officers said she wal operating a horse race bet phone station..