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srr? NEGRO NAMED TO PLANNING COMMISSION fr term expiring in April, 1968. By GEORGE WEEKS lent of the Long Beach Area Scout Council. Both appointments were for six-year terms. Edwin Wilson, a NegrO attorney with offices at 130 Pine will be the first member of his race to serve on any city commission other than those limited to advisory functions. He -was named to succeed Aubrey L.

Edwards on the planning commission for Edwards died July 2. Aside from his private practice, Wilson is secretary treasurer of the Long Beach Bar Association and has worked as a volunteer in such organizations as the National Conference of Christians 'and Jews, the Red Cross and Travelers Aid. Robert M. Mulvey, now i planning commissioner, will replace Fred S. Dean as are Llewellyn Bixby member of a pioneer Long family, and James G.

Craig president of an investment brokerage firm. They succeed M. W. Daub-ney, the dean of West Coast harbor commissioners, and John P. Davis Jr.

Daubney, a retired bank manager, had served on the board since 1947. Davivhead of a fumi-turo is "the second oldest member in point of service. He was first appointed in 1950. Both Bixby and Craig are prominent in Long Beach civic organizations. Bixby is also a member of the Long Beach State College Advisory Board and president of the Bixby Land Co.

Craig is presl- New appointees-'replaced three veterans on two semi-autonomous commissions Tuesday, and the first Negro ever to serve on a major Long Beach city agency was named to the Planning Commission. The City Council confirmed eight appointments to three commissions Harbor, Water and Planning after t-1-hour private conference with City Manager John R. Mansell; the appointing official. Althoughtwo of the succeeded themselves, the net effect was the most extensive reorganization of top commissions here hr many years. New harbor commissioners Tfc It JInmI Morning Nmipapor i 1 WEDNESDAY, JULY 21, 1965 SECTION B-Paga B-l MARKETS ON PAGES LLEWELLYN BIXBY JR.

On Harbor Board member of the Board of Water Commissioners. Dean has saved on that board since 1951, longer than any other member. Mulvey, president of a blueprint company, was complet-ing Ms firat four year term as a planner. His new appointment is for a five year term. One incumbent water commissioner, Oliver W.

Speraw, was reappointed for a fifw term. He has been a. board member since 1954. In addition to Wilson, new appointees to the Planning Commission are Donald W. hillips, owner of a downtown restaurant and prominent in businessmens organizations, and W.

Robert Pierce, owner of a piano and organ store. They succeed Mulvey and Harry J. Moore, a commissioner since 1957. Roland R. Bach, a planning commissioner since 1956, was named 'or a new term.

Council confirmation of all the appointments was unanimous. But Councilman Robert F. Crow left the chamber mo-, mentarily rather than vote on the harbor appointments. He failed in in effort to have the two port board -personnel changes delayed for a week. Crow praised both Bbcby and Craig, but he remarked that Daubney and Davis had served the harbor during a period when' it gained world recognition.

At Ms suggestion, the council voted to present special plaques to the retiring commissioners in addition to the usual resolutions of Stoll PM kv SKIP IHUMAN LT. CMDR. MARVIN SMITH SIGNALS "OK Gesture Maries Completion of Record Flight on Race Bias in L.B. Housing Modified at Meeting group could either ask the council to act upon the. program or request authority for the committee itself to act upon it.

westside property owners of attempted blockbusting in their, area. They had urged city leadership toward open housing. Committee meeting Tuesday. The committee reduced the program to five points and softened some of its language. If the modified program is approved by the committee in its next meeting 19, the 10 member advisory By WALT MURRAY -An eight-point attack on racial discrimination in housing was modified, and referred to the city, managers office redrafting in a Long Beach Human -Relations Altitude Mark Set Lt Cmdr.

Marvin Smith flew a Riley turbo-supercharged, single-engine Cessna 210A from Long Beach Airport Tuesday to a world light-plans altitude record of 38,500 feet .77 The previous record for planes of this' weight class was.3l5()0, set by the Japanese in 1959. Smith career Navy officer, made the flight in tribute to his wife, -aviatrix Joan Merriam Smith, who was killed in a plane crash Feb: 17. The plan was proposed'Ey proposed a broad Committee Chairman E. John community effort toward Hanna after complaints by policy of open occupancy. As modified, the program asks the City Council to reaffirm that the city favors open occupancy, and requests that the Long Beach Board Realtors and the Apartment House Owners Abels lee, 26, Ready for Rugged JAMES G.

CRAIG JR. PortCemmlsslontr to Remove Stop Signs HE' SAID HIS wife who. was on a routine flight in Southern QaUfomufwhen- she waskijled, Md madQi eelf. He planned to name the record he Joan' Merri-. am Smith Memorial WorbfoAftitude Record.

Mrs. Smith made aviation history last when she completed the flight attempted by Amelia Ear hart in 1937. Cmdr. Smith also hoped the flight would illustrate the value of turbo-supettharging light aircraft! enabling them to fly safely above most weather. 7 He is commanding officer of the Long Beach-based Tr-riinw weeper andTs scheduleaTSTJeave' 1 soon on a years tour of duty with the U.S.

Armed Forces Joint Staff in Saigon. By PAl)i WAEOlCE Figuratively 'to most 16- year-old boys but literally ItojrLee Graham the whole world lies arifead. At age when most of Ihis contemporaries' are content to venture out only for weekend hikes into the mountains -orJmef tussles with the surf off San Onofre, Lee. is preparing to embark alone In a small sailboat for what he hopes will be an around-the- world sola voyage. The former Mono Bay lyouth, now.

of Honolulu, hopes to shove off from Fleitz Bros. Yacht Landing in San Pedrb Monday for Honolulu on the. first leg his voyage. Despite his youth, he brings I to the chore of challenging a vast and Implacable sea far etter qualifications than most adults who. set off in yachts for offshore cruises.

The husky, big-for-his-age lonolulu high school junior is a veteran of three long acific passages on small craft Aboardoats under 40 feet he has made the sail to Hawaii twice. In 1961, le was afloat 13 months on a cruise from San Pedro to the South Pacific and back. In ail cases, Lee was part of the crew on family boats skippered by his father, Lyle, Honolulu building contractor. About a year ago, Lee got he idea of a long solo sail. Nurtured by hisfothers love of the the idea gained substance at the end Of the school year last month.

We couldnt, find a boat that suited us in Graham said. So they returned to -the criminatory listings; Committeeman Melvin L. Mould said licensed realtor cant initiate a restrictive listing, but the seller has the right to initiate such a' listing The program also requests iheLbng Beach' P-TAXouncQ and Area Council of Churches to continue to use their influence toward solving human-relations problems' Committee members disagreed on how much authority the committee already had to carry out the proposals Our responsibility is to make recommendations to the council' said Committeeman Joseph Brooks, and if we can also take immediate steps ourselves 7 Byron W. ONeil of the city managers "said that none of the original points was out of scope of Committee action. been 13 accidents and five injuries at the crosswalk since the signs were Installed in Even the presence of a crossing guard fails to stop motorists who are hot, expecting a sign at that.

point, he reported. Lt- His pew proposal was that children en rdutqTto school walk the 1,200 feet to Atherton Street and cross at the signalized intersection. -7 Councilmen declared they-, were hot impressed by the prospect of pickets. But they suggested among other possibilities the installation of traffic signals at the Stude-. baker-Driscoll crossing.

4 I 1 4 J-S- mainland, and Dop, an inboard towered Lapworth oot-longf sloop-rigged, white iberglass sailboat. LEE, WHO will be accompanied on his trip by two cats, expects to use a wind vane self -steering device mounted on a small mast on his crafts stem to relieve him of tiller duty. Such devices keep sailboats on constant courses relative the wind. When the winds shift, the vane must be ad-usted to keep the boat on compass course. Otherwise, steers the boat itself.

Lee will take 50 days water and -provisions-His boat is well equipped, but does not lave a two-way radio which the Grahams consider unnecessary. Dedicated to the plan of actually continuing from Hawaii on around the world, he hopes to complete his high, school education by working on correspondence course dur-ing his anticipated Two-year cruise." At the end, he hopes to enroll in the California Merchant Marine Academy and make the sea a career A protest petition ami' a hint that a human chain may formacrossa Mghway stymied a proposal' Tuesday to remove stop signs from Studebaker Road, at Driscoll Street. City councilmen delayed action on an ordinance until Aug. 10 while engineers take a new look at the change in traffic Parents living in an area east of Studebaker Road filed the protest petition bearing 357 signatures. One of their spokesmen, Mrs.

Willard Hastings, 7014 El Cedral said the reaction in the neighborhood was that if the signs go, a chain of parents strung across Studebaker vtill replace them- The parents' fear for the safety of theis children who ft. with Malcolm plei In Dash at ONG Beach members of the Grandmothers Club contrived a fine greeting for this columnist upon this weeks return from vacation. Right into the office came Beulah Nelson ami Amy Davis, officers of the organization. They plunked down a $60 check for This years United Crusaae campaign, the proceeds from a card party. Thq party was staged spe- nearjhe river, observed that some one had painted a yellow line down one side of the paved river bed.

A week later, she happened to seeacharterbus driving towards Long Beach in the river bottom, between the Artesia and Long Beach BlvcL bridges. She wants to- know if theyre changing the river into a traffic artery, an idea sometimes broached over the $125 Pfetol StolCTT" A 38-caliber pistol valued' at $125 was reported taken must cross the busy roadway Tuesday from parked car Mother Hurt to reach the Tlncher Elementary School, she said. City Manager John R. Mansell, who recommended the belonging to Henry S. Sarvas of 5400 The Toledo.

Sarvas told police Ms car was looted while parked in an under- sign removal, said there have ground garage. A 14-year-old boy was I killed when he ran into the cifically in answer.to an ajx. umi hlr in Wni nrMninT y7 1 answer. Can I Tuesday in Bellflower, peal here to local orgamza anybody give us the dope on I at the scene was this phenom? David Wesley Goff, son of Mrs. Robbie Jane Goff, of peal here to local organizations to hold benefits for the Crusade that finances a host of' local health and RITA LETENDRES ART FAR FROM STATIC youth, welfare agencies.

There are three local chapters of the California State Grandmothers Club in Long. This contribution came from No. 44. Any other group, want to follow suit? VOTING that this dept is sensitive about inadvertent or deliberate slights to Long Beach, Dr. George Korber of the State College faculty has sent along a postcard a friend picked up in Mass.

T7VERYBODY who has ever 1 10303 Trabuco St Witnesses been, dose to the late, jtold deputies that the youth great Adlai Stevenson, has had a go -of telling their impressions in the last weekend now its my turn. My meeting, with Stevenson was at least unusual He was here for a speech at the Auditorium in me of his presidential campaigns. I was writing politics at the time and some of iu.got together, with-him for an informal press conference in a roonf at the Breakers (then Wilton before the: auditorium ran into the side of the tanker as it pissed a drive-in refreshment stand at 10032 Alondra BlvcL the Accident, occurred at pm The driver of the rig, George Dayton Bryan, 43, of 15324 Lancelot St, Norwalk, told deputies he' saw. the youth on the sidewalk moments before. He said the boy suddenly dashed into the street The It will wake people up.

We go along with gently rolling fields and green grass around us, never If once a week something makes us wake up and really see, then other tMngs into focus and' we start living. TMs French-Canadian dynamo generates electric excitement as she-, speaks, black eyes crackling, word tumbling out, hands in motion. -She is, in Long Beach By ELISE EMERY At Long Beach State College Rita Letendre, artist of repute, is painting a picture on a 21 by 24-foot -wall above a 10-foot-high coy-; ered passageway. hit the middle of the tanker-and then Bryan of him. at a Bellflower said death was It -pictures the sign at Provincetown, on the tip of m5eting- 7 Cape Cod, marking the east it turned out that there end of US Rte.

6. The sign wait for Steven lettering indudes: To Long son to gd over and some of hospital Anafli WillSU Lla 1m SVa I with Mm victim' rear lost inght Doctors caused from head and internal I injuries. as Flees Fire A young Long Beach mother suffered a broken left leg Tuesday when she and her family escaped while fire burned through their apartment at 1508 Magnolia. Ave. Police saidMrs.

Carolyn Cervantes, 20, was Injured when she Jumped from the roof of a carport to escape the flames. The injured womans hus-wnd, Robert, 24, discovered the fife shortly 4 un. and awakened his family. He and his brother, 13 helped Mrs. Cervantes lfi 2-ymr-Md son, Richard, out through the' back window of the second-floor apartment and onto the carport roof.

Mrs. Cervantes was treated at St Marys' Hospital for. the leg fracture and the others were treated for minor cuts and bums. Battalion Fire Chief Don Wilson said the fire apparently started in one comer the Ceryfotes living room and quickly spread throug apartment. GSA Award for Customs Center Made I Ross Fisher JncTof Los Angeles wa awarded contract Tuesday to bulk a U.S.

Customhouse on Terminal Island. It is not known when construction wfll begin. The contract was awardee by the General Services Administration hr Washington. -The -320x420-foot building will be built on a nine-acre site at the northwratem edge of Reeves Field, bounded by Ferry Stieet and the Vincent Thomas Bridge. with her husband, Kmlptoir Xosso EIoul, and the paint- ing is her contribution to ---the International Symposia umiaking place at the col- So interested in her ptoj-ect are chemista at Fla- Coat.

Craporation in Paramount that, they are creat -ing two new products'for hffi- '7 Rita is using the com- panys epoxy resin system paints. Shewanted a bril- liant cadmium yellow. 7 Nobody makes piint 7 that color, the chemists said. r--7 Thats because' no one else ever has needed such, 'intensity, but -I-do, answered the painter. The -company is now creating the color.

Next, Rita told them she would require a matte var- nUh for the finish coat The chemists didnt bother to say, "Not available-no one uses it They started work on the formula I chore the wall over the passageway because want people walking in and out Of my painting, it must not be it must be dynamic with action and ah interaction that continues in theTjnind of specta- tor. us stayed in the room. For some reason (perhaps women occupied the dun) he and I sat on the floor and talked for 15 or 20 minutes. Of. course -L found him friendly; sensible, and above-all charming.

From our positions on the floor I did get a loqk at the spies of his shoes, and I saw no hole. Beach, California 3517 miles coast to coast." Notes Dr. Kofben- Vlt seems there are some. enlightened folks in the 1 great commonwealth of 1 Massachusetts who do pot confuse our fair city with that obscure Spanish settlement beyond the porthem suburbs of Long Beach that is called Los Angeles, I think." 7 its good to know the Provincetown sign is still there. Unfortunately, U-S.

IRbk 6nq longer tuns all the A AnlJP-TAd AimsMoney YburWaysi Had 25 to 30 calls from my LP-T want ad to sell two Bigelow' rugs, Riggsge, clothes and TV remote control and reedver. Six months ago I had marvelous re- suits a hearing aid for exactly the price I asked, reports -Elsie ThreadgeU, 333 W. Fourth Time after -time an P-T classified want ad will roll out. the carpet For the phone HE 2-5959; from Lakewood phone ME 3-0764. TTS WELL to be informed on A some jof the new laws that might concern some every-day action we might take, and- SB 125 Is one of those.

It prohiMts pedestrians from suddenly leaving a curb other place of safety and wanting or running into the path of a vehicle so close as to constitute an immediate way toLang cut off at Bishop under a new highway nunfoering set up But the distance is right and one. can still drive on through to this city over the coast-to-coast hazard. One sees somebody iWHAT goes in the Los AnxloThli now-and- then, evi- geles River bed besiderTlefitiyTdying-bh-the-pedes-. dribble of water that makes trian protection law. The sud-j.

the word river soqnd kind dm' move to this front of a I of funny? close car Is no longer pro- Elaine Guylerwho lives tected. Iifthe painting, low areas pierce and bunt against a blackJack- ground. (Continued Page R-3, CoL 1) Ptaia sv aoesa.poAa INTENSE ABOUT her plans for dynamic mural at Loogeach State Cdlege, artist Rita Letendre talks animatedly in front of miniature of the hih-' contrast work In which she win employ newly developed -i '-V i i -j 1 1 j. I i 7 i 0 J. I A 7, I' '1 yC v.1 v1 1 a v.

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