Press-Courier from Oxnard, California • Page 1

Sun 8 This LI fjm. ftXNARP, CALIFORNIA, FRIDAY. DECEMBER 27, 1957 Is Oxnard billy gouts A father we know tried to lackle this question early today soon after the shock of his alarm clock. The query came from his six-year-old son. In his half-dream slide of consciousness the father formed a vision of goats cavorting on the seashore, of goals diving through the breakers, of goats in bathing caps.

"No, no, no, no," the man shouted, trying to shatter the vision. "They can't swim?" the son asked. the father began. There was a long silence. "Don't you know, Daddy?" "Weil, maybe goats are like horses.

Most of them can swim but few do it for pleasure," I "Oh." The son was apparently satisfied. But the father wasn't. He would still like to know. Can goats swim? The Ford AIniaiinfl and Gar dener's Guide for IOjS is out now for the fifth year, Polks always look at almanacs for weather forecasts, and Ttv Ford almanac claims 80 per cent accuracy, So, taking a glance what is immediately ahead, we find the prediction that Tanuary will open up cold, with i warm wave In the fourth week bringing a thaw to many areas. But the outstanding stormy period lor this area of California is mapped as likely lo come around February 13 to li, with strong winds, heavy seas, flooding rains.

Inez Robb. who is writing a column ou our editorial page while Frederick Otbman is on vacation is given a paragraph of woman, "Thanks to a persistent Inez. Robb, your mail-box can now be painted any color. Hers is bright yellow. She had a two-year.

battle with posiul bureaucracy whose old-as-thc-hills rales said rural mailboxes had to be white. merfieki changed the rule." There are tips for housekeepers, such as: "Lemons slay fresh longer if snored in tightly closed Jar of water in the refrigerator. Also they will give twice as much nine lesi lur mus, iu wliat "light to ki.nw, if hun, schcduied they wcio suddenly loft alone. Write yes or no, after the questions'! to lest yourself: Would you he able to carry on ip.mi'y Do yD-i know whether the title of properties would allow you full ownership? Do yon know the stale law of descent concerning survivors? Does youi husband have a will? i Du you know the amount of family debt? Do you know the total family assets? And money owed to you? Do you know the amount of life insurance carried by your family? Bo you know the amount of insurance carried on buildings and personal pruperiy? Po you know the contract terms of real estate loans and personal property or credit loans? Du you know where deed: bonds and insurance policies are stor The Ford Almanac is full of useful suggestions for farmer ranchers and gardeners. Grimes PURPLE HEART 39 YEARS LATE VENTURA A Go-year-old World War I veteran in Ventura got a long-delayed Christmas girt this week, a Purple Heart medal he earned 33 years ago.

Eddie Johnson of 2-10 North Olive street was wounded Del. 23, by German ma-fhlnegun fire on the Meuse-Argonno. Mr. Johnson never applied for 1he Purple Heart. This week the modal came from the Department of ihe Army withoul any explanation of the 159-year delay.

Mr. Johnson, who recently Applied for a pension, said someone probably found tho oversight whilfl examining Mi Oxoari fte55- Courirr I IL I I 11 TRUSTV Mr. and Mrs. Edwin L. Carty look over 30-06 rifle Mrs.

Carty uses on hunting trips, Cartys will leave for Asian tour soon and will hunt Bengal tiger in India. Cape Lmffalc Mr. Carty shot in Africa hangs on wall. l'ress-Courier Phota Cartys Going after Tigers; Asian Tour Starts Jan. 15 Supervisor Edwin L.

Carty and his wife, Doris, will leave Jan. 15 lor a South Seas and Asian tour to be climaxed by a hunt for a Bengal tiger in India. The Cartys have hunted big game all over North America, from remote corners of Wyoming to the Canadian Rockies and the White country in tne Yukon. In' 1952, they spent several week 5 nn safari hi Africa. Two years ago they shot polar bears in the Arctic.

Their trophy room is already bulging with heautiful specimens, including rugs the ferocious Kodiak bear. Keek Other Game On their trip to India, they seek perhaps the biggest prize Carty also hopes to get a shot at a rare black antelope unique in India, and a leopard, and to lake ctarr, similar to the Honolulu, Fiji Islands, a it "'cm 01 fishing in New Zoa- squeezing. Jland. four davs of slehtseelns "Blubard, a combination of rhubarb and blueberries, will soon be available as pie mix, pancake syrup and jam. "Zippers on clothes should be closed before garment is wash- in Australia, three Bali, three days in Singapore at the Raffles Hotel, then on to India.1 Bangalore, Mysore, Bombay, Sinrc many tji wiiiows, almanac a all types of game, and the jCartys are confident they'll re turn Willi their Bengal tiger.

After the hunt, Ihe Cartys will travel to Kashmir in tile Himalaya From there, they will Journey to Calcutta, Bangkok, Manila, and Hong' Kong. They will spend a week in Japan during cherry blossom time before re-Uiini: home April 6. Mr. Carty's son, Robert Carty, of Oakland, and his Marie, will also be going abroad in February. They will go to Florence, Daly, where Mr POMONA itn The Fruit Frost Service said lowest temperatures tonight at key South ern California citrus study for his doctorate at the Academy ot Fine Arts, liooert Carty nuw teaches in Oakland Junior College.

They will take their three children, twins Annie and Edward, five months of age, and Robert Junior, two years. They plan to stay in Italy for a year. Meiners Oaks Move for City Makes Progress MEfNERS OAKS A cam paign to obtain signatures on a petition for this community west of Ojal can probably start next week. A notice of Intention signed by 25 local property owners has ferocious cape buffalo of been adjudged legal by the Dis-Their itinerary! jtrict Attorney's office and will go to the County Boundary Commission somtime next week. The commission will review maps of the proposed city to determine accuracy of the boundaries.

If they are approved, petitions may then be New Delhi, the Taj Mahal in circulated. 23 Persons Must Sign At least 25 persons representing not less than 25 percent of the area's assessed valuation must sign the petition. Throe persons must attest that the signatures are genuine, The next step takes the petition to county supervisors far ,7 Frost Warning senling 51 percent of the assessed valuation oppose the move, the plan call be tabled for al least one year. If approved by supervisors, boundaries are fixed and an election is called. Candidates for city' councilnien, city clerk, and city assessor will be nominated and their names placed on the A majority vote for incorporation would transform Meiners Oaks into a rity immediately.

A majority vote against would ta ble the idea lor would be 31 degrees. Occasional Estimates of population in the breezes were expected in areas run from 1 ,500 to resi open to the north or east. SERVING VENTURA COUNTY Dallas School Integration Date Voided NKW ORLEANS, La. The Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled today that the public schools of Dallas need not Integrate in January, as a U.S.

district judge In Dallas had ordered. A ruling came at tne request of the Dallas School Board which contended Federal District Judge William T. At well went beyond his authority when he issued 'an uitfgralicn order this year. The Appeals Court said Dallas School Board is still un der orders to end racial segrega tion "with all deliberated But Judge AtweU's mid-term deadline was overruled and no new deadline was set. "Deliberate Speed" The appelate court said in i nine-page opinion that Kegroe.

who brought the original inte gration suit had asked only that the schools be integrated with all deliberate speed. "Accordingly, this clfcuit courlj fixed no date for desegregation more specific than from and af ter such time as may be neces sary to make arrangements for admission of children to such schools on a racially non-diS' criminatory basis with all liberate speed. The court of appeala cautioned In decision, that if the Dallas School Board stalls, then it will be up to Judge Atwell to see that Dallas Public schools are integrated. When Judge Atwell ordered Dallas School integrated, hi made it plain that he did so reluctantly. He put into his decision the phrase that "if there are civil riehts there are also' civil wrongs," and contended the U.S Supreme Court followed principles of sociology rather than law in ordering public schools desegregated.

Eisenhower Goes To Farm to Work On Union Address WASHINGTON President Eisenhower left for his Gettys burg farm today for a week of est and work on his state the union-and budget messages to Congress. The President was pa'nied by Mrs. They probably will stay on the; farm until Jan. 2, Accordlms to present fchedule the President must be back In Washiiii'Uir. bv when new Civil Eights Commission holds its first formal meeting.

The President has promised to participate in at least a portion of the meeting of the commission established by the'last session of Congress. Press Secretary James U. Hagerty said- work on the state of the union message will be the President's primary chore in Gettysburg. He will devote some time to his budget message fur fiscal 1053, that starts next July 1. Republican oars to tin, House: Democrats 233; Re- mostly that they could do it ground men do not like what publicans 200; Vacant 2.

ibetter. they hear. Prom what they I Diffurmicii.i Pointed Up The voters picked off such hear thty fear that Repub-1 Tlw ewuensm is that al- senators as incsc. ROCK HUDSON TOPS BOX OFFICE HOLLYWOOD Theater owners across the nation have selected Rock Hudson as the top box office attraction of 1DS7 in a poll conducted by Cjuigley Publications. The" list of the top 10.

money-makers included John Wayne, Pat Boone, Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra, Gary Coojier, William Iiolden, James Stewart, Jerry Lewis, and Yul Brynner. No female performer made the list fur the first time in the 20-year history of the poll. Death Takes Bruce J. Kitt, Union Leader Bruce James Kilt of 533 Mag nolia avenue, Oxnard. died yesterday at a local hospital after a lingering illness.

Mr, Kitt, a resident of Oxnard i' 11 years, served as president oral No. 0, Brick Masons ana Plasterers International Union of America, for two years before his illness. AX the same time he1 was president ot No. at Santa Barbara. He Joined the union at Des Moines, Iowa, in February of 1909 and was issued his "Gold Union Card" in Febru ary of 1956, Married In J905 He was married on Christmas Eve, 1905, in Sua-Francisco.

Two years ago, he-and his wife, Hannah, celebrated their golden wedding anniversary with their entire family here. Besides his wife, Mr. Kitt leaves four sons, George of San Anselmo, Karl of Denver, Lt. Cmdr. Robert B.

Kitt of New port, R.I., and Carl of Denver; a daughter, Mrs. Helen Splllmati of Oxnard; a brother, Daniel of Sacramento; a sister, Mrs. Louis Wil lis of Sacramento; six grand children and four Funeral services will be conducted by the Rev. Magee Wilkes at 11 a.m. tomorrow at Reardon Brothers Mortuary, Burial will follow at Ivy Lawn.

Two Police Cars Slightly Damaged Two police cars received minor damage in accidents last night and early this morning. Officer Spencer Heath scraped the front left fender is -car against a gtancnlon underneath the police station car port at 6:00 p.m. yesterday. Officer William G. Rouw dented the left front door of hia unit carlv this morning when he struck a post behind the Mom and Pop's grocery store on Ventura road.

He turned left into the post after in specting the rear uf the store. Public Hearing Slated On El Rio Oil Search A public hearing is scheduled for 10 a.m. Jan. 7 at tho Oxnard City Hall on a special U3e permit application by the Standard Oil Co. fnr nil and gas production in El Rio along Highway 101, northwest of Vineyard avenue.

GOP Worries over '58, '60 Elections By Lylc C. Wilson can Party will emerge from, though the Republicans WASHINGTON HFl Ko tell-1 next year's congressional con-ling what, tin- Republicans weaker than at any time led for Christmas but there is, since Ihe political upheaval of jno doubt about what the party ill needed most, The Republican Party needed i top flisht political strategist, i political genius type. They ire hard to come by. The Re-mblicun Party must, however, come uy sucn a jcaacr or Or else refers to the JDriS vmu'i'v el- ''1 and be yond that to iho Presidential contest of There are poli ticians 111 Washington who keep nut one but both cars to the in this strange posture they have been listening to the grass roots for portents of next November's congressional poll- That nomliiT Hooscvelt tho year In which ried all but Maine and The Tnth Congress elected in lOSH consisted of: Senate: Democrats 75; Republicans 1(1; Progressives Farmer-Labor Independent Republican 3. House: Democrats 333; Republicans KS; Progressives farmer-Labor Vacant 1.

That was the low point for the Republican Tarty since the 1 tne xw. heading to a new congressional low nest November, they surely will take a bad beating. Thirty-two Senate seats will be up for grabs in 105S, eleven of them now Democratic and L'l Republican. All -13a members of the House must seel; re-election or retire. There is a peculiar difference between the political outlook for Senate Republicans and what actually happened in the New Deal elcctiun triumphs of 1031 and which so humiliated the Grand Old Party.

In 1031 and 103G the voters cut down tho flower of Re publican conservatism. Repub Tho oath Congress elected lastllicati candidates who survived year consisted of: I those elections generally wera Senate: Democrats 40; Ropub-i politicians who latched onto Henna -17. New Deal and promised Frederick C. Walcott Simeon Fess (Ohio), Hamilton Kean (K.J.), Arthur Robin son Roscoe C. Patterson Felix Hebert and David A.

Reed Sen. PaL-terson was succeeded by an unknown named Harry S. Truman. These defeated senators are gone and long forgotten hut they once were among ttv shock troups the conserva tive GOP. Next year it prob ably wilt be a bit different.

Of the 21 Republican senators whose terms are expiring, the experts generally agreed that only hvo could be absolute shoo-ins, couldn't ho beat. They arc ben, George W. Malone (R Nov.) and Sen. William E. Jennor (R-Ind Jemier has do cidod not to run again.

That, however, docs not alter Ihe fact that he and Malone SEABEES COMPLETE pattern for a mold they will use to pour concrete roof section for building on Okinawa. Thousand members of Mobile Construction Battalion 3 will sail- Jan. 8. Photo Sputnik Provides Timetable For Travel Between Planets Russia's pioneer sputnik has provided first timetable to- the planets. You take off today and you arrive on Mars the first day of spring, Sputnik ceaselessly circling the earth since Oct.

4, has clocked up a distance estimated by British scientists as more than 35 milliuii miles in SI days This is equal to the 'mileage from the earth to when the planets are at their closest. At ground level on the equa-tur the earth is 25,000 miles around. The satellite covers many mare miles in its revolutions bceause its strongly elliptical orbit takes it several hun- U.S. Consults With Allies on Answer to Russ WASHINGTON OB The United States, moving to back up agreements at the Paris NATO conference, today planned long consultations with us allies Before replying tn Soviet Premier Nikolai Bulganin's "peace" proposals. In a second step to carry out Paris decisions, Secretary of State John Poster Dulles scheduled a conference with 20 Latin-American ambassadors today to seek closer ties between the Atlantic Pact and other regional defense groups.

At the recent Paris North Atlantic Treaty Organization "sum mit" meeting, the 15 member-nations agreed to set up closer, consulting methods to avoid policy' differences and clashes such as the Suez canai split. Reply Pelayed These methods, to be followed in drafting tho U.S. reply to Pre mier Bulganin, will probably de lay the reply to Moscow until! mid-January. The reply, when sent, will likely Premier Rulganm'a proposal fur an JUHSt- West heads-of-goveniment con ference to try to settle world ills The United States is now dratt-ing it3 reply to Premier Bulganin. "When ready it will bt sent to the permanent Council in Paris for study and suggestions at its meeting early next month.

This country's draft, and 1hose of other nations that received Similar Bulganin letters, then will he returned io their home governments for final drafting and transmission lo the Kremlin. This is a more extended consultation process than normally followed in such international diplomatic exchanges. It presumably is Intended to meet criticism by some NATO members that this counti'V, and oilier members us well, failed to take into account tho views of till the allies in dealing with Russia and other crucial issues. Vol' example the United States publicly indicated it wanted toj brush off the latest Hulganln letter so rrnicli litvpaRmula only to find allies interested vative anti-Ike men alone in exploring the possibility of have matte, new taiKs with the Russians, (jood Afternoon VOLUME 50 NUMBER 151 PRICE TEN CENTS 1.000 Seabees Given Biggest Postwar Job dred mile3 away from the earth at its farthest point. There seems to he no doubt said selenographer (moon ex pert) Patrick Moore, that Sputnik I already has travelled fartner than from liarth to Mars.

There is a catch in the timetable. Mr. Moore says it would be "very wasteful of fuel" to try to go to Mar3 in a straight line, llie celestial mechanics, the men who draw the -road maps of the skies, recommend what they call tne "transier or sun. a route halfway around the This would add millions of lies and a number of months to the journey, according to Mr. Moore, but would be necessary in the present state of rocket ship fuel.

Mr. Moore, an official of tile British Interplanetary Society, said his group expects Russia1 to fire a tmrtl satellite soon, this one would be aimed to orbit many hundreds and perhaps thousands of miles into space would circle the earth forever. The first two satellites are dy temporary and are being slowed down gradually by their brushes with the Earth's atmosphere. Draft Board Defers Presley for 60 Days MJEMPHIS, Tcnn. (IB Elvis Preslev was granted a (50-day deferment from the Army today that he can complete Ms fourth movie.

Ron Bowers Mr, Pres ley's draft board chairman, an nounced that the 'three-member Selective Service board had voted unanimously to permit Mr. Presley to defer his induction. The singer had been slated to report to Champ Chaffee, Ark, Jan. Mr. Presley's Hollywood stu dio had asked for the deferment, saying "preparatory investments" amounting to almost .000 had been made for Mr.

Presley's fourth movie "King Creole" lo be started In New Orleans in mid-January. AUCKLAND, New Zealand, ft Sir Edmund Hillary took commanding lead today in his hell bent" race against a British expedition for the honor of making the first overland trek to the South Pole in '15 years. The Zealand team head ed by the conqueror of Mt. Kda less limn 300 miles from the Pole today. The Rrltlsh expedition headed by Dr.

Vivian U'uchs was some 500 miles away at last report. A radio message from Mr. Hillary to New Zealand's Scott base on McMurdo Sound this morning reported the team had covered 10 miles during the nlghL That would put him auout mties irom his goal. Uarriug unforeseen mishaps, the Hillary party appeared a sure winner. It was making the trek along tho general routes by the only two expeditions ever to reach the Pole across the icy wastes Sail Jan.

8 For 2 Years On Okinawa PORT HUENEME Construction Battalion 3 leavel Jan. 8 for the largest Seabee construction job without non-military participation since end of World War II. About 1,000 Seabees will transported to Okinawa, in tha Ryuku Islands chain south of Japan, to construct a Corps helicopter base. The heliport will be used for the transfef of Marines out of Japan into Okinawa. The $6 million project will in clude about 40 structures; including quarters, barracks, Duiloings ana operational facll- ities.

Worked at Cobl foist MCB 3 was one of five battalions of Seabees that leveled a mountain at Cubi Point to build an airfield with associated harbor and other facilities. This was by far the biggest Seabee job since World War but was shared by private contractors. About $40 million worth of work at Cub! Point is done by Seabees. MCB 3 is led by Cmdr. John Raymond Jr.

Executive officer is Lt. Cmdr. William Stepnen- Tiie men ot MCB 3 are com pleting their training at Naval Construction Battalion Center before Lt. Cmdr. Stephenson- said today 1 that the battalion has had a 110 percent turnover in personnel since returning from Cubl Point July' 17.

Two-Yew Project The men-will be away on new project two years, with on leave. Every construction specialist's rating in the. Seabees will be utilised. The base will be constructed at Futema, on Okinawa. Tne slM is.

about 1,000 from southern Up of Japan, tha tip of Formosa, and tha Chinese mainland. About 220 officers and men already at the site preparing an old school, the Kubashl-Ameri- caii High School, once used for Army dependents, for tne bass camp of the Navy men. Caves a Problem Okinawa is honeycombed with" large limestone caverns, and care must be taken to avoid building, atop "one of these hol lows. Core holes will be drilled to spot themj. This investigation will be: one of the earliest Jobi in tne project; Construction will be of tllt-up cement slabs, the first Seabee job of any magnitude to employ, this technique exclusively.

will also be of precast concrete, made of panels of uniform size. MCB 3 personnel will depart aboard the transport General Gaffey. Equipment will be shipped aboard the Pendleton month. Hillary Takes Big Lead In Overland Race to Pole Roald Amundsen in December, lilll, and Britain's Capt, Robert F. Scott in January, 1912.

All five men in the Scott party died on the way out. No expedition has gone overland from one edge of Antarctic- across the South Pole to the other edge of the continent. The British expedition left in November from Shacklelon Ease on the Weddell Sea, on opposite side of the continent. it is attempting to make tht first overland crossing of Ant arctica, a hazardous 2,000 trek. But while the Hillary party enjoyed both good luck and good weather, the Kucha expedition was h'orassed by blli-zards, mechanical breakdowns and the dangers of bidden vasscs.

The British was scheduled to "Jump frtun its advance base "Smlh Ice" Thursday with 600 mllM of unexplored terrain brtWMI It tha South Pota,.