Independent Star-News from Pasadena, California • Page 89

No Job, Home Lost, Family of 8 Found in Ttnt SCHOOL Tl DECISION DUETUESDA1 Bond Issue or 44-Cent Rate Jump Pending By JOHN BURTT The Pasadena Board of Ed; lucation is expected to decide and transferred to General Hospital whether or not to fi- Los Angeles. An unemployed plumber living with hb wife and six children In tent In San Gabriel Canyon was jailed yesterday for smashlnj a bottle of bleach on the wife's head. Sam Culbertson. 37, was booked by San Dimas sheriffs deputies on suspicion of assault with a caustic chemical, assault with a deadly weapon and wife beating. Mrs.

Ascension Culbertson, 33, Infant son, Steven, 18 months, whom she was holding at the time of the attack, treated a't Inter-Community in DEPUTIES START A SECOND YEAR OF SEARCHING A new bulletin is issged to Sheriff's Deputies D. E. Torguson, left, and J. refreshing their memories with facts and faces in the Don Baker-Brenda Howell missing persons case. Patrol cars from the San Dimas and Temple City substations are constantly searching for the pair who vanished a year ago on a San Gabriel Canyon bi ke ride.

'Missing Kids' Case Year Old By DON FITZGERALD "The Case of the Missing Kids," almost one year old today, stands as one of Southern California's most baffling miss-1 ing persons cases. i It will be a year on Tues day since Don Baker, 13, and I a Howell, 11, rode bi cycles into San Gabriel Cany a disappeared pletcly. To dale sheriff's detectives and police have followed up hundreds of clues, only to come up with the same results -nothing. JACKET, BICYCLE FOUND Only the bicycles and the boy's jacket have been located in the year-long search, which has involved hundreds of investigators and thousands of man-hours of work. "The Case the Missing Kids," as it is termed by juvenile investigators at the San Dimas substation and the downtown office, fills the thickest investigation folder in the substation files.

The story began Aug. 6, when Don, son of Sirs, and Mrs. Jess a 5745 N. Rockvale Azusa, and and Brenda, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

FaV Howell of Ft. Bragg left on a 6 a.m. cycle ride to Morris Dani, expecting to return a few hours nance the continuing program of school rehabilitation by levying a 44-cent surplus tax rate in the coming year and thus raising about a million dollars for the purpose. i If the board decides to con-; tinue "pay as you go" rehabil-l itation, the tax rate needed to 1 operate the school pay off bonded indebtednes and! raise the million-dollar repair; fund will be $3.45 per $100 assessed valuation. If the board decides a any further rehabilitation should be financed with instead of tax revenues, the tax rate will be closer to $3.01.

PUBLIC HEARING This question and others which board members and the public may raise will be discussed Tuesday at the required public hearing on the 1957-58 school budget totaling some $18,917,463. The meeting will convene at 7:30 p.m. in the board hearing room, 351 S. Hudson Ave. Last year, the board levied the higher rate and diverted the surplus revenues to rehabilitation.

Edgar Barratt, board member, has said he will urge that this policy be continued. In the long run, he pointed bond financing a increase the cost of construction by or more, because of the interest charged. COSTS RISING Walter Shatford, board member, on-the other hand pointed out that with construction costs rising, it might be more economical to float a bond issue and get construction under way as soon as possible. The proposed 1957-58 school budget is a greater than last year's budget. But the needed to finance Deputies said the baby was burned about the' by the bleach.

Mm. Culbertwm fered burns on the arm and buck, beer- ated head and bruises about the face and body. Culbertson, who told deputies he moved to ttie Shady Oaks camp after losing home about 3 weeks ago, has been unemployed because of the current plumbing strike. His wife, an expectant mother, and the five other children, ranging in age from 4 to have, been living in an-8 by 8-foot tent The children were turned over to a relative for'care. Independent the youngest of four Howell daughters, had been visiting a sister, Mrs.

Mary Edw a s. 5751 Rockvale, for a vacation. She and Don, who lived across the street, had become close friends during the stay. two failed to return that evening, Mrs. Edwards called Azusa police for Bowman vanished last March help.

The word was passed on to San Dimas Sheriff's deputies and search of the canyon area was launched. In the following week, an inch by inch, night aand day canvass of the canyon was made by scores of deputies, mountaineers, Navy divers, police and the families, the BRENDA HOWELL by juvenile officers armed with the youths' pictures. Bulletins are regularly diS' patched over the country show, ing pictures and giving case details in the constant hope tha patroling out-of-state officers will make an identification. DISCOUNT ACCIDENT An interesting point, brought out by Sgt. Straight is, "There still is nothing in this case to indicate that an accident or criminal violence has occurred --if there had been something would have turned up by now!" The case is still as "open" with the parents as it is with authorities.

Mr. Baker expressed ther feelings last week by commenting: "The Sheriff's Department certainly has done a fine job, checking out. every possible angle. We're sure they arc doing everything possible and have faith in their investigation." But he added. "We'll always be on the lookout ourselves until something comes up, one way or the other." Still a mystery, too, is the strange disappearance of another child in the San Gabriel Mountains.

The youth, 8-year-old Tommy DON BAKER TOMMY BOWMAN Howells having arrived a Northern California. DKSCUIPTIONS POSTED Pictures and descriptions of the pair were widely spread by- newspapers, radio and television. Hundreds of began to pour in from citizens who had "spotted" the pair and deputies began chocking them all. Heading the case was San Dimas juvenile officer Sgt, E. V.

Straight. In the months to follow, he crawled through snake-infested mountain under- searched abandoned Army camps, eyed anonymous letters from spirtualists, listened to I he mumblings of hypnotized men and followed the directions of a pendulum swinging over a ma) in a shadowy Oakland room. Other tips led officers to Bullion, nnd other Southland vacation communities, ax well as Into Arizona, New Mexico, a Pennsylvania nnd Flnrlda on "hot lends" received In and b.v phone, Deputies of Iho Sheriff's Field Servicf! Unil, a downtown office assistance group, recently joined Sgt. Straight In the Investigation in a continued effort to "chock nnd rechcck" every possible turn In the cnsc. Jlenulnr Inspections of the Mor- 7-ls Dam-San Gabriel Canyon nrca arc mnrto by radio cars.

Schools, piny areas nnd amusr- mMit. spots throughout Hirsute are regularly canvassed 23 while hiking in the Arroyo Seco, north of Pasadena. Tommy is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Elcion Bowman of Rcdondo Beach, who were visiting relatives in Altadena at the time of the tragic excursion into the mountains.

The boy was hiking with his an uncle, a brother and 'Copter Saves Injured Hunter An areo squadron helicopter and Lancaster sheriff's posse rescued, a 38-year-old injured hunter from Tie Summit in the Angeles National Forest yesterday afternoon. Rescued was Athmar Lis- berg of Los Angeles, who had fallen off the top of Tie Summit, about 15 miles north of Altadena. Lisberg suffered a broken hip and possible internal injuries. A sheriff's rescue party was sent from the Lancaster tion and Capt. Sewell Griggers, who was on a routine flight in the helicopter to Catalina Island, was ordered back to the mainland to remove the man sister and two cousins when he ran ahead of the group, rounded a bend in the trail and dropped completely from sight.

No trace of him lias ever been fourtd. RITES HELD FOR 6-YEAR-OLD GIRL Six year old Anne Louise Munson, daughter of Mr. and Wrs. Gordon M. Munson, 2922 Sierra Madre Blvd.

was in- urncd at Mountain View Mauso- eum yesterday following funer- jal services at the Todd Me-! morial Chapel in Pomona. Thej little girl died Wednesday after! an extended illness. Besides her parents, she is survived by two sisters, Pamela and Susan, and a brother, David; her maternal grandmother. Mrs. David H.

Lane of Pasadena and her paternal grandparents. Mr. and Mrs. Open Ticket Sale for Knowland Talk Tickets go on sale tomorrow for the Fifth Annual United Service Clubs Community Luncheon Sept. 11 at which Sen.

William F. Knowland will speak, Mrs. Sam Goldstein, general chairman, said. Tickets for the luncheon, open to the public, may be obtained at Vroman's Book Store, 695 E. Colorado Hoclscher's, 615 E.

Colorado and Bank of America, 160 E. Colorado St. SECTION A--PASADENA, CALIFORNIA, SUNDAY, AUGUST 4, 1957 LA. Negligent? FIRE VICTIMS BLAST CITY Girl, 2 Men Beat, Rob Pedestrian A 38-year-old machinist was beaten and robbed of $21 by two men and a woman yesterday while waiting for a taxi in Mt. Washington property owners last night charged that gTMtol'9019 E.

Valley the City of Los Angeles "negligently failed to supply water at adequate pressure" to fight a brush fire that razed 12 homes in the Highland Park section Thursday afternoon. The victim, Walter W. Stewart, 9324 E. Blackley Members of the Ml. Washington meeting en masse Temple City, told sheriff's dep.

at 4163 Central Terr, with their lawyers, claimed that the City of Los Angeles: 1. Should have foreseen sudden emergency demands on the water system serving the W. Avc. 37 area and installed mains adequate to meet such emergencies. 2.

Should have realized that one 6-inch main would be inadequate to supply pressure for fire hoses when no sup plcmentary mains were by. 3. Should have a vacant lots of dry brush. Frank Clark, whose home was first to be claimed by the flames, said that after further conferences with their lawyers it is almost the same, because fj re victims will proceed with of an increase in assessed valuation of the school districts, and certain changes in state apportionments. Barratt has indicated he may question the rising per- pupil cost of instruction and administration, called for in the new budget.

School administrators said they would be prepared with figures to show way the increases are necessary. The public also will be invited to comment on the budget. DEADLINE THURSDAY The budget may be adopted Tuesday night, or at any rate will be adopted before the deadline Thursdav when it must be filed in" final ut that the stricken area was with the county superintendent! 36 oyone 6-inch mam Wh of schools. legal action against the City of Los Angeles; "We Mt. Washington prop- jerty owners have a right to demand and get proper fire protection.

It is tragic that a disaster must occur before corrective action is taken," Clark said. He and his wife escaped the flames with two poodle dogs, the clothes on their backs and their car. Everything else was destroyed. Samuel B. Nelson, chief engineer of water works for the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, said there was an ample supply of water for the Mt.

Washington area $26,000 FIRE RUINS HOME Damage in. a house fire at 3659 San Pasqual was estimated at $26,000 by county firemen yesterday. The blaze, which broke out in the attic home close owned by Mr and Mrs Russell Bolinger shortly before midnight Friday, gutted the attic and second floor of the 2-story stucco house, according to firemen of County Engine Cos. 5, 44 and 66 and Battalion 4, which fought the blaze. Jane Bolinger, a daughter of the owners, and several neighbors discovered blaze simultaneously.

Damage was estimated at $16,000 to the house and $10,000 to contents. Cause was undetermined. LICCTURE LAB DUE Whittier's College's John Stauffer Laboratory, for which ground was broken last week, will be built as a wing on present Hoover Hall. It is scheduled for completion in February. fire ex Arthur Marino.

Munson of San PAINTING DEMONSTRATED A demonstration of hurl painting iskills in still life oil will be given today at 2 p.m by Mrs. Hazel Hanes Park of Los Angeles in the Dcscanso Gardens Hospitality House. She currently is one of three cxhi bitors there. Others are Barton Meier and Mrs. Elaine Malco.

LA State's Valley Unit Gets $7,000,000 An appropriation of for construction mid equipping nf new buildings at the Ramona campus ot Los Angclex Slate College hns been approved by the Stale Legislature. The allocation is the second phase nf a 5-ycar liulldine; program for (lie Rninona cnmpus, which Is located north of the Ramona Freeway and just west of Alhnmbra. The latest appropriation provides funds for construction of the administration building, physical education building, cafeteria, outdoor physical education facilities, $749,800, and additional Kiln In addition, the new funds allow fur equipping of now under construction--flnr iris, IBrt.OOO; Industrial 'arts, mimic, JmOOO; aprwh'drama, and library, ('omnleflnn dnle for buildings now under construction Srplrmbrr, Ifl.W. Bond Market Won't Affect Transit Plans An unfavorable bond market will not deter the Metropolitan Transit Authority from issuing $45,000,000 in revenue bonds to purchase facilities of Metropolitan and Los Angeles Transit Linos and later develop a new rapid transit system. Ralph P.

Merrill, general manager of the MTA, said that despite the current bleak outlook for revenue bonds-one of (he major reasons for postponing action nn the proposed civic auditorium and music center in Los Angeles --the transit authority will continue with its plans. The MTA has a contract with the New York investment firm Scorching June and July of Bear, Stearns Co. to issue temperatures damaged some The actual tax rates which the board will be discussing Tuesday night are $3.05 per $100 assessed valuation, the maximum legal tax rate'which may be levied, and $2.61, the rate which the administration estimates will be sufficient to operate the schools. Neither rate includes a 40- cent rate which also will be levied to pay off school bonds. The difference between the rates Is the amount which may be applied to rehabilitation.

The 44-cent difference will raise about $1,105,343. "When all hoses being used to fight the fire were connected to this main, the water pressure dropped," Nelson said. Arson investigators said they were looking for two 12- year-old hoys who were seen trailing i i through the brush near the base of Mt. Washington just before the fire raged up on W. Ave.

37. uties a pre-war model black sedan passed him slowly, made U-turn and then stopped in front of him. Two blonde men in their 20s, one dressed in a' cowboy outfit and the other wear- Ing a blue suit, got out of the vehicle while their dark- haired a companion waited behind the wheel. Stewart said the man in the blue suit struck him above the right eye, knocking him to the sidewalk, while the second suspect twisted his arm behind him and took his wallet from his trousers. WINS CERTIFICATE A certificate marking completion of a company basic and intermediate training courses in insurarice counseling has been awarded Lloyd E.

Einburn, 135 Anita Pasadena, by the New York Lite Insurance according to Warren H. Day, manager of the company's Pasadena General Office. Pre-Dawn Party 5 Youths Charged With Corrupting Teen-Agers A pre-dawn drinking party yesterday led to the arrest of five Pasadena youths on charges of contributing to the delinquency of minors. Three juvenile boys from Pasadena were also picked up for curfew' violations, while two teen-age Sierra Madre girls were escorted home by police at 4 a.m. The adults arrested were Frederick Robert Ray, 19, of 258 N.

Chester Manuel Newman, 18, of 738 Summit James E. Ahlquist, 18, of 258 N. Chester Jesus Gutierrez, 20, of 1286 La Pintoresca, and William James Hull, 19, of 537 Summit all of Pasadena. Police were summoned to the Chester Ave. address after a complaint of a wild party.

They found 22 empty beer cans, 2 empty vodka bottles and 3 empty wine bottles, according to reports. UNDA VISTA FIRE STATION TO EXPAND The City of Pasadena will pay $5,000 for a 50-foot lot north of the Linda Vista station, to provide for pansion of the station, under a contract approved by City Directors this week. The land at Linda Vista Ave. and Salvia Canyon Rd. will be purchased from Ralph E.

Smith and H. S. Jurgcnsen. Heat Scorches Valley Citrus, Vegetable Crops bonds. The first bond issue will probably be used to buy and operate Metropolitan and Los Angeles Transit Lines.

A later issue may be used to build a now rapid transit system. A schedule nf action is expected at the Sept. 12 meet- Ing of the MTA. Merrill nlnii mentioned the possibility of acqufrlng prl- vale transit lines In several nearby cities. It is believed that lines In Pasadena, Ixing Reach and Whllllnr are being considered for purchase.

NAMF.M DIRECTOR Dtirwood Howes of 33! 'S. Lake Ave. hns been circled to the hoard nf dlrrctnrK of the Retail Jewelers of America. of the county's major crops, Harold J. Ryan, agricultural commissioner, said yesterday.

Most seriously hurl was citrus, with much smaller than normal crops predicted for next year. Throughout the most vegetables wore in moderate or light supply compared with cooler years and consequently brought high wholesale prices. Valencia orange i have slumped because the hot weather hns caused tho fruit to soften. Lemons were sunburned In thin follngod trees, nnd the next nnvcl orange crop hns boon reduced by district agriculture! Inspectors to 55 per rent of voRiilnr full crop, rnoto by Itrn NEW 'FREEWAY' FOR WATER ONLY This broad ribbon of cement stretching away toward the hills may look like the first link in a new super highway. But it's actually just the new bottom of Eaton which two firms are improving under multi-million dollar flood control contract with U.S.

Army Corps of Engineers. This section done by E. Irish Corp, of los Artgeles stretches from south of Foothill boulevard lo vicinity of Sierra Madre boulevard, where it will join with on underground link leading to the debris basin east of St. Uke Hospital, latter part of work is being done by T. M.

Page Corp, of Monrovia..