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'4 Two Most Isolated Campgrounds Are 100 Miles From Los Angeles island and at Frenchy's Ccivt on the north side. Remember that sea conditions around both islands tend to get rough in the afternoon, and be sure to check with the L. S. Coast Guard for. maps and other pertinent information before you go out.

Park rangers patrol th waters around the islands with the National Park Service boat. Cougar, and may be contacted by radio for emergency assistance and information. Your best bet, unless you ar an experienced sailor, is to use the public transportation offered by commerical firms from' Ventura, San Pedro, or Santa Barbara. For further information on this unique park experience, I'd advise you to write the park headquarters at' 200 S. A.

Oxnard, or vgrite to the Superintendent, Channel Islands National Monument, P. O. Box 1388, Oxnaid. 93030. Oxnard is about 60 miles norih of Lqs "Angeles, just off State Route 101.

California license and observe the state regulations, The clear, cool waters make scuba diving a delight, air though opportunities for snorkel-ing and free diving are limited by water depth and heavy surge conditions near the shore. A winter bonus for nature lovers is the annual migration of gray whales from December through April. On their souths bound trip from the arctic to Baja California, where these 35-to 50-foot monsters mate and bear their young, the whales pass Anacapa's eastern shore. On return trip, which extend into spring, the whales pass on buth sides of the Channel Islands. While public moorings are not maintained at either island, visitors in private boats may anchor in the sheltered area on the northeast side of Santa Barbara and go ashore by skiff, as there are no piers.

Anchorages at Anacapa in-" elude East Fish Camp and Caf Rock on the south side of the The most spectacular floral display occurs from March through May when the giants coreopsis blooms, painting the hillsides with patches of gold that can be seen 10 miles at Coreopsis, a species of sun- flower that has survived through half a million years, is unique to the Southern Cali- fornia coast and the offshore islands. The world's largest stands. of this bizarre flower-tree are found on Anacapa and Santa Barbara. Thanks to their isolation, the islands rare superb, wildlife refuges, offering sanctuary Jo such endangered species as the California brown pelican. Opportunities to view birds and wildlife abound, and the undis- turbed tidepools are unsurpassed anywhere on the California coast.

You can fish in the monu- -'meht's protected waters, which extend one nautical mile from the islands, or scuba dive for abalone, providing you have a RUNS IN THE FAMILY First woman engineer in the Santa Fe Railway, N. system, Christine Gonzalez. 21, at controls of switch engine. After nearly a year' of training, her first full-fledged job will be pushing ore cars in a coppersmelter yard in Hurley. (AP Wirephoto) Lady MP Officer I- a a a Respected by Men By RONALD H.

WALKER Director, National Park Service Distributed By Copley News Service You may find it hard to believe, but two oi the most isolated, remote and uncrowded campgrounds in the entire National Park System are less than 100 miles from the teeming metropolis of Los Angeles. They are on the islands of Anacapa and Santa Barbara which comprise Channel Islands National Monument, a "unique area of exceptional beauty and great scientific importance off the California coast. These are primitive campgrounds with none of the amenities of civilization. v- But for the camper who doesn't mind packing in his own water, food, camping gear and cooking equipment, a night on one of these rocky outcroppings in the Pacific Ocean can be an, unforgetabie experience. Both campgrounds are small, with only 25 campsites only "conveniences'" are pit toilets and picnic tables.

You will find true solitude in the Channel Islands. Here you ill find escape from the pressures of civilization with only the sounds of the wind, the gulls and the surf, plus the occasional bark of a sea lion to disturb the silence. And here you can feast your eyes on spectacular seascapes, craggy headlands and grotesquely beautiful rock formations. Be sure to take your cam-era: Tiny Anacapa, only five miles long and one mile wide at its widest point, thrusts put of the Pacific Ocean in the Santa Bar-, bara Channel, some 15 miles from the cities of Oxnard and Ventura. Anacapa- is actually three-closely linked islands distinguished by high, sheer seacllffs which seabirds use for nesting purposes.

Its 700 acres are a mere pinpoint in the Pacific. Even tinier Santa Barbara, one and one-half miles long and one mile wide and comprising only 650 is in the' outer Santa Barbara Channel some 40 miles from Anacapa and 50 miles from the mainland. These islands look for all the world like submerged iripuntain-tops and, indeed, that's what they are extension of the Santa Monica chain that' once were part of -the mainland before great land masses subsided to leave eight small mountaintops 7 protruding from the Pacific. Attractive as Anacapa and Santa Barbara are to the hardy camper, they also offer many delights to the day visitor. They are perhaps most beautiful in the spring when they come alive with thousands of wild flowers including lupine and poppy, Indian paintbrush and icepiant.

21 -year-old First Woman RR Engineer Hurley, N. M. UP Christine Gonzales has earned her railroad engineer's cap and has begun work, pushing copper ore-filled railroad cars around a -smelter yard. She's the first woman to become an engineer in the Santa Fe Railway system. But that's-not so unusual considering her railroading family.

Her father, Frank A. Gonzalez of El Paso, is' a conductor on the Southern Pacific. Her mother, Betty Jo, is -secretary to the Santa Fe trainmaster in El Paso. Her mother's father was a. conductor on the Southern Pacific until he retired.

Her father's mother was one of the Santa Fes famed Harvey Girls, early day train stewardesses. Her father's father was a Pullman conductor. An uncle is a conductor on the-Santa Fe. When Christine, first announced plans to become an engineer, "My mother was excited about it," she said. "My dad was kind of shocked." Of her new job, she says: "I like it.

They give me my share "'i i i' i ft -i'-t nrr f-tvi rrT -rr-tmrmni 'S' By EVAN'S WITT IAsonalrd Prrss Writrr) San Francisco Lt. Laura Lynn Livingston is a woman in a tough business: she is an officer in the'U. S. Army's military police. One of the first five female officers in the MP corps, she 1 pulls patrol duty at San Fran-.

Cisco's Presidio and has commanded an all-male Lt. Livingston carries a .38 caliber revolver instead of the MP standard and in other ways does not fit the stereotvpe of Ni burly, tough MP. 'Oh. I'm not really that mean," she says. "She's very very professional and a fine leader," said Lt.

Col. Van D. Lolladay, commander of the crack 504th Military Police Battalion, at the Presidio. For several months, Lt. Livingston commanded a platoon -of 23 military policemen all of them male.

"Initially, I did have "problems," she admits. "But I' spent two weeks on bivouac wittrthe mem as a platoon leader. "I picked creepy crawlers out of my hair arid. I went without --a bath for a week. After you come out of something like that, you've earned the respect of your men." She is now battalion assistant logistics officer, a step above platoon leader in the- military hierarchy.

"I've got as many brains as anyone else and, as far as having men work under me, I certainly do now," she said. Obvious discriminate against females in civilian law -enforcement is the reason she gives for joining the MPs. She says an undergraduate degree in criminology magna cum laude from Fresno State University did not lift any barriers" for her in the Fresno County Sheriff's office. For 18 months, she- was a booking officer at the jail, "wrestling drunks" and searching prisoncjrs. "It was a great start, but I wouldn't have gone anywhere," she said.

In August, 1972. she joined the Army and spent two months in military police training at Ft. Gordon, with 57 men and four other women. As the 504th's first woman of- TAKING IT EASY These are elephant seals on Santa Barbara Island, one of the two islands in the Channel Islands National Monument, lejs than 100 miles from Los Angeles. The other island is Anacapa, 40 miles away.

Aside from the wind, the gulls, and the surf, only the occasional bark of a sea lion disturbs the silence. Children in Vietnamese Orphanage Miss Pampering by Departed GIs ficer, she says shehas found no sexist discrimination. "I'm treated as a lieutenant" said the 504th first woman's officer. "My commander does' not discriminate against me." Lt. Livingston is an enthusiastic solder, proclaiming the good points of the MP program.

And she has a good word for recruitment billboards that feature the MPs a man and a woman. 'I cheer every time I go by one," she said. She is uncertain if she will stay in the militarybut Lt. Livingston plans to stay in law enforcement and is working tor a master's degree fn justice administration. I'm a carccr cop whethcr-it in the Army or out of it." City's Trash Collections Continuing More than 360 truckloads of trash and debris have already been hauled from the households of Wilkes-Barre" residents in the first two weeks of the, city's annual Clean-up Campaign.

Steve Bonomo, supervisor of this year's March Clean-up Campaign, reported that 158 loads of debris were removed during the week from the North End and East End Sections of the city. During the first week's collection, 205 loads were taken from the Wilkes-Barre area. Starting tomorrow, Bonomo reportsJhe clean-up campaign vwill swing into the Rolling Mill Hill section normal Wednesday garbage collections are 1 made. Persons residing along the Wednesday garbage collection route are requested to, have trash and other bulk items on the curblines tomorrow morning: The Rolling Mill Hill section will be served this week, and the clean-up campaign crews will- only make one pass through the area. where I had to leave, so, alfcut 5 thaUevening I put down my tools and walked away." He.

paused, then continued in a monotone. "I was '16 days getting to Parkersburg kept getting lio'st in the woods, and because I couldn't swim, I'd have to out places where I could get across the creeks. I didn't have anything to eat but two hamburgers and a few green apples I'd find every once in a while. I'd have starved to death those apn'es. "Late one night at Parkersburg I crossed the river- into Ohio and worked my way along doing odd jobs and sleep-ng in barns.

I'd almost reached Columbus when I was lucky enough to meet a good farmer who wanted somebody to work. I stayed with him most of the next 19 years and had my own room over a cellar house. When I wasn't working I spent a lot of time in the woods hunting." The farm whore Good lived his' secret life was just 100 miles west of the home in which Good's wife and two sons spent those lonely After Good's arrest in 1951, they had moved in with Mrs. Good's parents near Spencer, in central West Virginia. Good had been 1 a bricklayer and home owner in another West Virginia town.

And then, one day, he was arrested on a charge, of armed "I was falsely accused of robbing an elderly farm down in Mason County," he until I was put' in jail there, I had never been in Mason County before never had seen the inside of a jail never-had even gotten a Man Who Escaped Jail Goes Home After 19 Years I of work.v- She adds:" "I'm at the bottom of- the seniority list. I'll be working from midnight to around 7 oclock in the -I'll be dumping ore all night for the-crusher. But I'm a full-fledged engineer now. I came through." Working in blue she wears her long dark hair tied in a knot for safety reasons. Miss Gonzales, who stands 5 feet 7 and weighs 130 pounds, says women's lib was not the initial motivating factor in her decision to become an engineer.

But she admits that becoming the first woman to take on the job began to challenge her. How long will 'she be dumping ore all night in the Kenne-cott smelter yards? "Until some more people get out of school. About six weeks." She started her training in the Albuquerque yards nearly, a year ago as a hostler one who, takes the engine from the round house to the engineers. The final phase was the six weeks of simulator school at Topeka, where she earned her engineer's cap Feb. 12 with 13 other graduates, all men.

"They got used to me," she said of her classmates. traffic ticket. I was innocent but I couldn't get anybody to believe me. "I had $454 on me when I was arrested, but -it -was money I'd saved up and at my trial accounted for every penny of it," he "But the judge and my grandfather had, had a falling out-years' before and I paid for He was taken to the prison at Moundsville. He had been there for three years and seven months' he walked away.

"I never had a single 'mark on my record while I was. in prison," he said, "and that's pretty hard to do. They let me -out every day to work and lots of nights I'd come in and have to 'rattle the bars at midnight to get back inside. They were as good to as they were to anyone and I hated to break their trust, but my life' had been threatened and my life came first." The Goods had to sell their home to. meet legal expenses and her husband went to prison, -Hazel June at that time an attractive young woman with raven-black hair-took her two young sons to live with.

her parents: "We never knew for sure whether he was alive all ithose years," she said. 4'But I never gave- up trying to clear his name." Good gave his wife a little hug. "God bless her. she never gave up on me. Many was time I was tempted to write her, but I was too scared.

I was afraid I'd have to go back and I just couldn't stand the thought. I used to get the Charleston paper every chance i iiiiirii i Their father was in the Army, off on some remote battlefield. That's the way it is in Vietnam. Then in 1970, the division pulled out of Vietnam, part of the American withdrawal The tears, the fears, the loneliness all the pains of being an orphan, returned. "We have enough food to eat, but what we need is more pcared and Millard Good reappeared.

"He was given probation, but I'm sure that before long it will be a full pardon," said Rev. Mr. Dodrill. Good worked for a while on the maintenance crew of a state-. hospital, but arthritis forced him to retire.

"You know, the thing that amazed Rev. Mr. Dodrill said, "was Mr. Good's lack of bitterness. When the governor told him he was free, he "said" he wasn't angry with anybody, that all he wanted to do was be alone and live t)ut his life I thought that was tremendous." Another person who speaks highly of Good is the man who owns the farm where Delbert Shamblin" lived and worked.

He still keeps track of "He never seemed to want to talk about his life when he was here and nobody pushed him," the man said. "He was like a member of our family "after, all those years and when he told me his story just a few weeks ago, I'll admit it came as a "Lots of people have been good to me," Good said, "And all I want right now is to spend what's left of my life with my wife and children. My boys were just babies when I left them and I wasn't with them when they needed me, but they've made awfully good boys, good workers and good citizens." there is. one more thing," he added. "I'd like some- help that prison I left I understand there's been a lot of reforms since I left and believe me, there was room fpr lots.

It needs a lot of help, but there's no way I can help, I reckon." sW- love," Bui Cam Hong, now 14, told a recent visitor. "We have waited for our father to get out of the Army and bring us home." But Hong received news of her father's discharge from the army about a year ago. He also had taken a second wife. They never returned for Hong and the other children. There ae now 80 children in Bethlehem ranging in age from 5 to 15.

Hong and about 20 others go to a nearby government frtgh school while the. younger children are taught in class-. rooms built by the American GIs in the orphanage itself. For the older orphans, aside" from being uncertain about their future, there is the pain from the invisible partition tween them, and other children in the government school. They don't understand it.

Among life orphans are two American-Vietnamese children, a boy and a girl. Their Ameri-, can fathers returned to the United States and their Vietnamese mothers are unable to support them. The boy 6-year-old Pham Hung, "is suffering from eye and ear ailments. He is fearful of being taken back by his father, but cannot explain why. The girl, Pham Thl Le Trinh, says she loves he American father but "father doesn't love me he' goes away I miss mother but mother has ho rice for me.

There has been no word from either parent. So far Bethlehem has not. faced any critical shortages as there are still funds left by the 1st division. Rev. Nguyen Van Thang, of the Vietnamese Protestant Church, director of the orphanage, says he also receives some help from the South Vietnamese government, the World Vi-siortr-an international charity organization and citizens in tha United States.

But he says the inepme meets only half the need and the savings are being used up. "Now the children can have meat with their rice only onc a year for Tet, the Vietnamese lunar new year," says Mrs. Thang, helps her husband run the orphanage. Lai Khe. Vietnam The American GIs from the "Big -Red One," wherever they are scattered, will remember.

In 1967, troocs from the 1st -infantry division built a home near their Lai Khe base camp, 30 miles north of Saigon, and named it the Bethlehem Or-phaHffgTWter the birthplace of Christ. I could to see if I could find out anything about my family and I chose the name Delbert Shamblin Delbcrt is my son's name and Shamblin is my mother's It was clo.se as "I could get to with them. "During the time was in Ohio, my my brother and my sister all died. My boys grew up and her hair (he said, gesturing to his wife) turned to white. I sat down lots of times and thought to myself I'd just.

go ahead and die. But then I'd think about my wife and my children. He shrugged and looked at his wife. They were 6eated in the living room in the parsonage of the St. John's United Methodist Church in Spencer.

A The minister, Rev. Carl Dodrill, helped Good shed his false identity and return to his wife and family, which now includes six grandchildren. There was an intermediary, a man who somehow knew that Delbcrt Shamblin was Millard first was contracted about Mr. Good three yoars ago by a friend of his," said Rev. Mr.

Dodrill. "But I did not give it much thought at the time. The fellow was a friend of Mr. Good's in Ohio and I don't know how he learned about the story. I didn't ask him.

The friend had the feeling that Mr. Good, been misjudged and something ought to be done." Good does not discuss this friend. Rev. Mr. Dodrill says, "I got the that he had spotted Mr.

Good and that be had known him from before he went to jail. VThen, when Mrs. Good con They brought clothes and food for the thildren, brightening their Itickless days. Christmas was a special treat then. Santa Claus would arrive in an Army jeep loaded with toys, cookies and other goodies.

Bui Cam Hong her two sisters and a brother were among the first enter the orphanage then after their, mother died. tacted me a year later, began to make some inquiriers into the case and became convinced the man had a valid 'argument. It was a long and drawn out and I went to Charleston and met with the' governor a half a dozen times. At first he was skeptical, but after he had his staff make some inquiries, it finally reached the point where he said he wanted, to see Mr. Good sitting across a desk from him." Rev.

Mr. Dodrill said it was pure coincidence that he was contacted by both Good and-Good's friend. During two years of investigation, Rev. Mr. Dodrill didn't tell Mrs.

Good that he had learned her husband was alive and working near Columbus, Ohio. "I didn't tell her because I felt if I didn't get something done for.him, it would just make matters worse for her. I couldn't see any reason to build up her hopes," he said. But-with Gov. Arch A.

Moore Jr. interested and ready to "talk with Good, Rev. Mr. Dodrill had her place an advertisement in the personals column of the Columbus newspapers. "I spotted it right away," "said Good.

"I always checked the papers. I called the number she had put in the paper and. came home the day before we went down to' the -governor's office. It was first time we had been together in nearly 20 years." "It's simply had reached the point where Mr. Good had to trust somebody," Rev.

Mr. Dodrill said. "But when we walked into the governor's office. I could sense he still wasn't certain it wasn't a trap." That day last Oct. 4, was the day Delbert Shamblin disap- fPITOR'S NOTE: Fr marl? Ht yfars, Millard (iond Htm) and worked nn a farm Ohio.

He nsrd thr name Briber hhamblin and kept his true identity a nrcrH. Re lived in fear of bring sent bark tft the prison from whirh he had caped. Mranwhile. his children grew Jl0 milr away in West Virginia and his Ttitf srpvr 'old wondering whrthpr hrr husband ill lived. Finally, Good went home.

By STRAT DOUTHAT (Avtociatrd Press Writrr) Spericer, W. Va. (A Millard Good is a creation of life, that master sculptor. After 58 years, his face is deeply chiseled, his hands are scarred and work-shaped and his eyes carry the reflection, of 7,000 lonely nights. But the voice is quiet and gentle.

"Yep, I just failed my driver's he says softly. "The poles weren't placed far enough apart for my big, ol' car." The hands, their sausage-thick fingers sticking oiit like spokes, become the poles. "They were this much too close together, even the state policeman said so. He was real nice about it and said he was sorry but he couldn't pass me seeing as how people had watched me knock over the pole. It's nothing.

It just means I've got to wait seven days before I can try again." There was no impatience. Mif-lard Good, if anything, is patient, He learned it during the 19 years he was Delbcrt Sham-. tilin. Good became Shamblin one July evening back in 1954 when he walked away from the West Virginia Penitentiary and a 20- year sentence. "I was at Camp fairchance at the time, a full trusty.

I was working outside the fence and wasn't due to go backnuntil 9 oclock. It bad got to the point.