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32 Wednesday, Aug. 18,1954 gffegaKfflfelfrfflaltfpnttatt Billions in Dividends Now Subject to Lower Taxes NEW YORK Some seven million owners of corporate stocks I are extra happy over tax relief on dividends. That's because di- vidend payments this year are 7.5 per higher than a year ago. And prospects are good for divvying-up with the share owners in the rest of the year. Percentage gains in dividends are greater than the rise in corporate earnings.

And they run ii counter to the general drop in "industrial activity. More Net Profits The new tax law may help -stockholders to'get a still higher 'percentage of corporate gross Tax relief will allow many corporations to bring down "a greater percentage of their 'gross earnings to net profits taxes. Since, the shareholder wonlt have to report all I of his dividends as taxable income, April 15 will be a happier day for him. And the amount involved isn't small. The Office of Business Econom of the Department of Com -merce reports that corporations Jpaid out about 54,500,000,000 in the first six months 1954.

In the same period of a time of booming industrial activity, they paid less than Some Lose Not all stockholders have "gained. Some have seen smaller checks, or none at all. "Companies cutting jjayments are scattered through most industries. But the federal agency re- sports that the industrial groups which have paid less as a whole LILLIAN GISH TO MAKE FILM HOLLYWOOD Eight years her last film role and 41 "years after her first, Lillian Gish returned to the film capital to in a new motion picture. Charles Laughton, who will direct the film, and Shelley Winters, will co-star with Miss Gish, ''met the veteran actress on her "arrival from New York yester- day.

She appeared in her first 'movie in 1913, later attained fame 'for her part in "Birth of a Nation." are: textiles, leather, nonferrous metals and automobiles. To these the New York Stock Exchange, in its monthly magazine out today, adds the following from stocks listed with it: farm machinery, American-owned companies operating abroad, and foreign stocks listed on the exchange. For its 1070 listed common stock issues as a whole, the exchange also reports the gain this year in dividends paid out was 7.5 per cent. It says 924 of the common stocks paid dividends, with 520 shelling out the same amount as last year. But 314 paid more than a year ago, and only 126 paid less.

The 125 are scattered through all 27 of the categories in which it lists its stocks. Aircraft Gains Biggest percentage gain In amounts paid, the exchange reports, was in the aircraft industry, up 77percent. Largest dollar vol- umne was by the utilities of their common stocks paying a total of $561,500,000, a gain of 11 per cent. A close second was the $473,000,000 total paid to share owners by only 49 oil and natural gas issues. Wall Street is betting on dividend payments increasing still more.

Girl Scouts Back From Week's Jaunt Californian News Service RIDGECREST Thirteen Girl returned to their Ridge- I crest homes after a week's out- ting at Camp Kaweah at Green- Jhorn Mountain. While there they learned camp- I craft from Mrs. Emeling Kiehl; "hiking and music from Mrs. Lou Kahrt and handicraft I from Mrs. Bernice Olsen.

Mrs. 'Alice Pray, a registered nurse, 'was on Huty continuously to "handle problems of health and "first aid. Mrs. Thelma Golyer, cafeteria manager for the School, was the camp cook, little Judy Golyer was the -Scout mascit. I While the girls were enjoying "the camporee, they were visited Mrs.

Charlotte Gould, regional -director of Girl.Scouts, who mained as their guest for a "cook-out." Hedden Made Head of Night School Office Gerald W. Hedden. has been appointed principal of Bakersfield Evening High School, it was announced by District Supt. T. L.

McCuen. Under a plan recently adopted by the board of trustees of the County Union High School Board Awards Building Contract Contract for construction of a new headquarters building for the county road commissioner has been, awarded by the Board of Supervisors to William A. Drennan, lowest of 12 bidders. Drennan's bid was for a net of Before deduction of an alternate item, the bid was for $29,489, only a few hundred dollars below the next lowest bid. by O.

D. Williams. All other bids were bunched fairly close. Contract for drilling a water well at the S.P.C.A. dog pound, north of the Highway 99 overpass, was awarded to D.

W. Slocum on his low bid of $4,234.55. The job will include drilling, and installing casing to a depth of 385 feet. The new road commissioner's office, which will have 2,840 square feet of floor space, will be built just off Roberts Lane, near the small fry fishing lake East of the Highway 99 overpass. The commissioner is now occupying space in buildings north of the county fire department.

Five From Kern to Attend Parley Californian News Service young peo- Iple and their counsellor, Mrs. Miller, leave Thursday to attend the Youth Conference of 'the Church of the Brethren in 'Anderson, Aug. 23-27. In the party will be Janice Bowman, Dwayne Bowman, Barbara Root, Merrill Lehman and Mrs. Miller.

They will attend a send-off supper at the La Verne of the Brethren before starting east. They will visit I Grand Canyon, the Mormon Tab- in Salt Lake Bryce and Zion Canyons, and Chicago. Tone Ends Suit Against Lloyds Continued from Page 31 juries were covered by his $100,,000 Lloyd's policy. But the surance company maintained Tone provoked the fight and ex posed himself to danger "while 'in a state of intoxication." Deputy County Counsel Resigns Robert Wykoff, deputy county counsel who joined County Counsel Roy Gargano's staff about a year ago, has submitted his resignation and will be succeeded by Dennis McCarthy, formerly of Bakersfield but more recently with the district attorney 's office at Santa Cruz. Wykoff is leaving county serv ice to attend medical school at Loma Linda for the next four years.

Kit Nelson, assistant county counsel, said McCarthy was formerly iiuprivate practice in Bakersfield. He will step into his new job here next Monday, Nelson said. Bible School Classes Open in Delano Church News Service DELANO Forty-six children attended the opening session of the vacation Bible school at the of the Nazarene. The 1 school will run this week, closing Saturday. Classes will be from a.m.

through 11:30 a.m. The school will close with a picnic lunch. Visits Parents Californian News Service Pfc. Joe Towery of the Marines was home j'over the week end to visit his parents, Mr. and Mrs.

Arthur Towery. He later sailed for Korea. and Junior College District for the reorganization of the district's adult education program, Dr. H. Parley Kilburn was elected by the board to the post of district director of adult education.

Under the reorganization plan and as a part of the adult education program; the Bakersfield Evening High School will be headed by Hedden. An instructor at North High School, Hedden came to the district in 1949 to teach at Shatter High School. After two he returned to Stanford University to work on his doctoral program which is in its final stages. He became a faculty member at Bakersfield High School where he served for a year after which he transferred to North High School where, he taught this past year. Hedden is a graduate of Bradley University, Illinois, where he earned his B.

S. degree. He took his Master's degree at Stanford as well as teaching and administration credentials. He has studied at the University of Illinois and Wayne State Teachers College. During World War II, Hedden served in the Air Force for three years as a gunnery instructor.

The principal has been active in local professional circles, and served as president of the North High School Faculty Club last year in the first year of that new institution's existence. He is also vice president of the local field chapter of Phi Delta Kappa, men's national professional organization in the field of education. The 31-year-old educator lives at 4919 Randy with his wife and young daughter. Barney Gill Takes Course S. B.

"Barney" Gill, attorney, has just returned from a two- weeks course on estate planning, with particular attention to pertinent sections of the 1954 Revenue Code, given for practicing attorneys by the University of California at Berkeley. Gill commented that the course was very useful and indicated that the 1954 Revenue Code would probably entail all persons with estates of any size to re-examine their present estate plans to conform with new Revenue Code changes. During the week end of Aug. and 8, Gill attended the Republican State Convention at Sacramento. He was placed on the resolutions committee and participated in passing of drafting some 40 resolutions presented to the general convention.

Suspects in Two County Hornicides Man and Wife GERALD W. HEDDEN night principal Rabies Incidence Increases Sharply HOUSTON, Tex. U.S. Public Health Service official says Houston and Harris County's rabies problem, in terms of incidence, is the worst he has ever seen in this country. "I feel very strongly right now that a mass immunization campaign must be made," Dr.

Ernest S. Tierkel of the health service's communicable disease center at Atlanta, said yesterday. Jan. 1 through July 30 rabid animals analyzed at the city health laboratory totaled 370. Dogs accounted for 95 per cent of the animals.

Baker Removes Equipment From 'Lehi' SAN FRANCISCO Baker, skipper of the ill-fated raft Lehi, prepared today to collect some of equipment salvaged from the abandoned raft by a generous fishing boat Farstad. Farstad and his crew took off the raft equipment including a generator, lifeboat sextant, two compasses, a transmitter and other gear. Under maritime law he is entitled to keep whatever he found floating in the Pacific. However, Farstad agreed yesterday to return all the equipment and to charge Baker only a day's wages for his two crewmen who transferred the equipment from the raft off lower California. Baker, who still hopes to sail his raft to Honolulu, if he can ever find it, said Farstad's terms 'ere so far charged me such a nominal I hate to even mention it." He didn't.

Baker recently made a flying trip to" one of the Guadalupe Islands off the lower California coast but by the time he arrived the illusive raft had been swept out to sea again. Sylvester murder suspect, indicted yesterday by the Kern County grand jury, is the true husband of Barbara Louise Capers Gilds, 35- year-oid convicted slayer, Asst. Dist. Atty. C.

J. McGovern has revealed. Mrs. Giles pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the ax-slaying of her common-law husband Lowrell Clark, 39, and was moved from the county jail two days ago. to begin a one-to-10- year sentence in the State tution for Women at Chino.

Giles was arraigned before Superior Judge Norman F. Main last evening and had his next hearing set for 10 a.m. tomorrow for taking of his plea. Atty. John M.

Nairn was named to represent Giles, accused of killing John Harris, 32. Harris was stabbed through the heart in front of a South Cottonwood Road store Aug. 1. His death occurred a little more than a month after the gruesome slaying of Clark. McGovern, who presented the facts of the case before the grand jury, said he has been able to, find no record of the Giles couple being divorced.

Investigators say Clark was the father of Mrs. NOR Group Will Study Sanitation The North-of-the-River Citizens Health and Sanitation Committee will meet tomorrow night 4i 7:30 p.m. in the Community Youth Building on Norris Road to discuss sanitation problems in the district and the proposed revenue bond which will appear on the November ballot. Committee officials report the meeting is open to all interested residents of the North-of-the- River area. II Giles' infant.

There are three other children by an intervening "common-law" marriage. County Pathologist Dr. W. Huntington found both victims "definitely drunk" at the time of. their demise, according to blood alcohol counts taken at the hospital, morgue.

Mrs. Giles told arresting officers she struck Clark with an ax as the climax to an all-day drinking bout on the victim's part. She said he persisted in calling her obscene names. Giles, with a previous record of arrests for contributing to the delinquency of a minor and being drunk, was arguing with Harris over who was going to get the last drink out of a bottle of wine when the stabbing occurred. Witnesses George S.

Harris, 43- year-old brother of the victim, and William J. Baley, 30, told the grand jury they thought the two men were "just having some horseplay" when Giles warned John Harris: "Don't come upon me." The suspect is said to have whipped out a paring knife and lunged at his adversary. Also called to testify before the grand jury were Brit Thomas Sheriff's investigator Al Strasner and Dr. Huntington. Mother of 4 Servicemen Gets Citizenship Papers By JOHN M.

BERNIER FRESNO Guadalupe i the White House to receive the Hernandez, 46, had never thought Medal of Honor, he made the of herself as anything but an i trip by plane with his brother, Actress Claims Ingrid "Unhappy Continued from Page 31 Seven Little Foys," now in pro duction. In real life, the 21-year-old actress has never married or become engaged! "In fact," she laughed, "I don't even have a boy friend. In Italy if you have a boy friend you are you engaged!" Miss Vitale was accompanied to this country by her mother who until recently also accompanied her on what few dates she had. "Italian families are still very careful with their girls," she admitted, "and believe it or not we are so old-fashioned that we marry for money like the American signorinas." June Ecksrine Freed of Narcotics Charge LOS ANGELES Eckstine, 27-year-old former wife of singer Billy Eckstine, has been cleared of a narcotics charge. Superior Judge Clement D.

Nye threw the charge out at a pretrial hearing yesterday. He ruled that police acted without sufficient evidence when they arrested her in her Hollywood apartment three weeks ago. The 'officers accused her of possessing marijuana. American. Especially after she saw four of her sons put on the uniform of the U.S.

armed forces. She thought herself even- more a real American when her son, Rudy, limping from wounds in the Korean War, went to the White House in Washington so the President of the United States could place the Medal of Honor around his neck. But there was something missing. So Mrs. Hernandez took time off from her job in a turkey proc- essing plant to become an American citizen.

A brief ceremony in Superior Court made it official. "I don't know why I waited so long. I always felt like a citizen," she said. Born in Mexico Mrs. Hernandez was born in Mexico City.

Her family brought her to California when she was 3. She was married when in her teens and had eight children. Not long after the youngest was born her husband deserted her. "I had to work' hard to keep the family together but we made out all right." Two of her sons are still in the armed forces. David, 21, is in the Navy and Tom, 18, is with the Marines in Japan.

Her oldest boy Gilbert, 27, is a former paratrooper like Rudy. "I'm very proud of Rudy," Mrs. Hernandez said. "But I'm proudj of all my children." In Korea, Rudy stopped an enemy attack by killing six Communist soldiers with a bayonet before he fell unconscious from his wounds. To make things easier, citizens of San Joaquin Valley donated materials and labor for a new home for the Hernandez family not far from the Fresno Veterans Hospital.

When Rudy was summoned to JPeopie and parties an Continued from Page 27 MRS. EDWARD L. Commagere, who has been visiting her niece and family, Mr. and Mrs. M.

C. Kelley, 2416 Barnett for two weeks, left recently for Lewiston, Idaho, where she will visit another niece and family, Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur Kelley. Dick Kelley, 6-year-old sbn of Mr.

and Mrs. M. C. Kelley made the trip to Idaho with Mrs. Commagere to visit his grandparents, the Clarence Kelleys.

Currently at the home of the M. C. Kelleys are Mrs. Kelley's mother, Mrs. A.

I. Kline, and brother, David Kline, both of Denver, Colo. Tom. President Truman asked the war hero why his mother did not come with him for such an auspicious event. "She's afraid of planes," Rudy told the President.

Mrs. Hernandez says that isn't so. "I let Tom go in my place," she said. "I was afraid he might never get a chance to see the Capitol or the President otherwise." THE TABLES were neatly turned on a group of contented husbands out to enjoy themselves with an evening of canasta at the home of Mr. and Mrs.

Arch Taylor, 2613 Laurel recently, when their wives produced crepe paper aprons hats, made especially for the occasion, and advised them that they were to be hosts for the evening. The men ruefully served refreshments and dutifully did the clean up work. Attending were the Messrs. and Mesdames James Smith, Robert Whittemore, Ray Hoekstra, Vern Basden, Arch Taylor and Everett Feay. WINNERS AT yesterday's bridge session at Bakersfield Country Club were Mrs.

Dan Mettler, first place; Mrs. Ed Warren, second; and Mrs. Joe Foster, third. Attending the Tuesday afternoon gathering were the Mesdames Charles Smith, Joe Foster, Jack Rump, Dan Mettler, John Giese, Ed Warren, George Robinson, Roy Brown, Holmes Miller, W. B.

Hall, John Logan and Roy Brown Jr. MRS. HUGH ADAMS entertained at a layette shower for her daughter-in-law, Mrs. William Adams, recently at her home, 249 St. The honoree is visiting her parents and friends, having recently returned from Hawaii where her husband is tioned 'with the United States Navy.

Attending were the Mesdames William J. Carpentier, Charles Miller, Roy Robinson, Clair Wesley Green, Ted Luttrell, Ernest Sites, R. Hicks, Robert Nelson, Fred Panetta, Harold McBride, Harold W. McBride, John Campbell, Walter Edward Craigan, Clyde Mills, Jack Kirkbride, George Kelley, Victor Mutz, Homo Tubbesing, Charles Hughett, Sam West, and C. F.

Martin. Children present were Rose Marie and Diana Muntz and Michael Hicks. Mrs. Adams was assisted by Mrs. Carpentier, Mrs.

Miller, and Mrs. Hicks. MR. AND MRS. Sam Ziegler and daughter Lisa, 8, 431 11th have recently returned from a 10-day vacation at the Reynold Mettler summer home at Lake Tahoe.

School Shift Under Study Californian News Servics According to H. C. Maughan, president of the Indian Wells Valley Union School District board of trustees, has as yet been no time limit set for ballots to be returned to the district superintendent's office in the matter of the relocation of Burroughs High School. The proposition on which opinion poll is being sought is whether Burroughs High School should remain where it is or whether a new fully equipped plant should be constructed in the vicinity of the Wherry housing tract. The occupation of the Wherry houses tends to move the China Lake High School population center in that direction.

The relocation of Burroughs High School with its present plant to be turned over to the elementary district is also contingent upon the granting of federal funds to construct the new plant. Church Plans Two More Chicken Dinner Fetes Californian News Service more barbecued chicken dinners will be served this month to benefit the Church of God in Christ in the Rev. W. A. Gipson announced.

Dinners may be ordered by calling Delano 2129, for delivery to any home in the city Saturday, or will be served at the Gipson home, 1317 Clinton St. Soldier Home Californian Service BUTTONWILLOW Assistant Mess Sgt. Raydeaif Burrow arrived home Aug. 11 for a. 15-day furlough: He has been stationed near Anchorage, Alaska.

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