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Hitchhiker hit-run victim, near death JIM Mary Holman-Dodge, a lieutenant in the Bakersfield Police Department, author of one of the best books extant on juvenile delinquency and police procedure, a formei- malhemalics teacher, an Wave and all a lady in ihe definite old-fusli- ioned connotalion of the term, was coinplimemed Ijy her do- partnienl and many friends who appeared at her retirement dinner at "Freddie's Top of the Hill" last week. 1 felt lionoreti and ))rivileged tu )e among those attending. Lieutenant, now Mrs. Hul- nian-Dodge. was the first policewoman here, taking over a summertime assigimieni in 1941 when R.

B. Powers was the chief of police. She served in the Xuvy during the war as an aerogi-apher at a weather station. When she returned to the police department Chief Horace V. Grayson sent her to the L'niversity of Southern California for special studies In delinquency control.

parsed higli on a civil service examinaUon and was appoiin- cd a lieuieMunt uf the department here and ordered to take charge of the juvenile department which slie did with notable success and the un (iuali- fied confidence of Chief Grayson. Through of service in this deiiartment slie achieved a record and dis- LOCAL SECTION BAKERSFIELD, CALIFORNIA, MONDAY, JULY 5,1965 PAGES 13 TO 22 MARY HOLMAN DODGE tlnclioM by no olhcr cfficer ill California and during this tenure she became the author of a biMik entitled. Police Officer and the Child." which is the best exposition vf its kind available. Its tenets are based on the pragmatic experience of Mary llolniiin -lJoilge and lier ligent of this ex- lieiience and its iiitcrpreia- tion lor a valid to the pioiiiems entailed In h.ni- dling juvenile deliniiiieiits. Tlii- book nou has an International reputation not only In police siliools but among sociologists as well.

But irrespective of the book's Inleniatlonal reiiuta- lion. I'd like to write a woid aliout Mrs. Dodge's reputation, having followed her professional career here since she became a member of the police de))arimem. She has been intelligent, thoroughly compe- see How 'no' on tax wi out classes By BILL GHARRITY I 'hnto Wearing on official Nature Boy Gypsy Boots T-shirt with left arm around Nature Boy himself is Dennis Chuchian of 2421 Beech friend of the one-time public pork tree-dweller who's been on tv, in movies and here in our city. Nature Boy frolics through with goodies Wife knifes mate who put tot in toilet Bakersfield man was by his wife last night after he repoitedly attempted to thrust their son in the toilet In their 1721 Brooks St.

residence, the sheriff's department William Childs was treated in Kern General Hospital for stab wounds in the neck and right chesl after ti la.si night, then released. -Mrs. told Shei-- iff Investigators Wayne Frank and Del Kay her husband had drinking heavily and during a quarrel, gi-ablml the infant and marched to the bathroom, depositing the baby in the Ixiwl. Mrs. Childs, 20, told depu- tie.s got a kitchen knife and plunged the blade into her husband's iwdy.

She said he relinquished the baby, staggered outside, and collapsed. Investigators said the baby, William did not to Ije harmed. The sheriffs depanment no charges have been filed, but investigation is continuing. Carrying a basketful of healthful giKklles for himself, -Vaiure Hoy BCHJI-. in his third visit to Bakersfield 111 leccm la-l ueek he is lieailed ujiward in the world.

One of his coriioratioiis in nboia two weeks will introduce to the confectioner's shellcs the high energy "(Jypsy Boots Knergy Bar" coniaining sesame, sunflower Harold Sticke is dead after )rief illness services fcii- Harold L. Stickel, .71. of iili; Golden Court, will held Saturday in the Cull) Funeral Home In (ioshen. Iml. ulio was a-- sociaiod with a son Kicliard.

of Mojave. in operation of Slickel Tehachapi and died afternoon in a Tehai-hapi ho-pital following ii brief illness. Interment will be in Cemetery. Baugo Township, bill. Born inotl.

in Baugo Township, he had resided in thn-e lioins at the Te- iiarliapi mortuary are iK held the afternoon and evening hours and Tues- ilay. Survivors, in addition to sec 14 honey, dates and figs ami maybe raisins, he Then in about six weeks, he said, his Ixiok. Feet and Go(xl Things to Fast." should to roll off the To his lips, witli a little encouragement, came his "(jypsy a Go-Go had the sheet mii-ic for this. Ill basket Acre a couple banana-, a lew oraimes and an older blank for his (-'ypsy Boots Wild T-Shiil (price 82). two or three bumper stickers advertising the candy bar and.

In a large screw-lid jar. a u.irm yellowi-h lii uhich he saiil was herb tea. and again he would inienujit his rapid-fire conversation alxjut his life by tak- inu' ii pull of this lea. slopi'ing drops of it around Ihe office. he has long hair, sandals and a beard.

But. he says, he's not a beatnik. Boy confides he is not as fanatic as he hxiks nor as nutty and wild as he acts. He is in Bakersfield. he said, visiting his friend Uennis Chuchian of 2421 Beech who piano now for a living but who until IlHil grew grapes in the area.

Chuchian is currently pla.v- ing at the Royal Palms Motel where Boy says he will apj)ear himself as a guest Wednesday night and execute his wild dance. Continuing the reiwrt on the effects of the reduction in the Kern County Union High School District's teaching staff if a override is not approved at the polls July 27 here are the statistics on five more of the district's schools. AIcFarland Higii School one class eliminaied in each of the following publications, speech, general a 1 world i y. electricity, ll akin g. mecliani- drawing, tyiiing.

aiul general shop. North High School One class eliminated in each of the following mechanical drawing, harmony, photography, Reading Reading CD, German, home economics. Math 9C, geograi)hy and two study hall sections. Shafter High School General 9. required of all students since in57.

would be dropped from the curriculum. The action involves two staff teachers. Shafter Is the only scluKil ill the district iiig the collide. The school's report on plans says. "The or honors, classes which we have offered in Knglisli.

math, ence and social science (jr si years, arc being dropped." Tlii-. SIIKKJI officials said, was done to avoid other cla in college preparatory curriculum. Gonerall.v. have taken honors classes as elect Ives and us an aid to ol)- tain admission to colleges aiiil unh ersilics. South High School This schcKil says that of its students, aljout I't per cent of enrollment, will Iw limited to the numl)er of courses may take next year.

Generally, this means they will take five subjects instearl of six. South High has dropiied 20 clas including one each in drama, French. Spanish, math; four in photography, one each in Soc'ial Studies secretarial practice, Homemaking 9 and Homemaking 10. caipentry. crafts.

Government 9. 10. recordkeeping. inp. auto mechanics.

Metal 10 and Metal 12. West High School The newest will in September. Classes eliminated froin its planned schedule include one each in Latin 9, ait metal stagecraft, electronics, business law, see 14 Pbolo This three-legged chick named Trino is owned by Mrs. Josefina Amoyo Del Rio of 2409 Larcus Ave. The third leg dangles out of its tail in about the same position as bockhoe is offixed to 0 tractor.

Trino says "cheep," the third foot gives the ground a slight nudge but moves no dirt. The other two feet ore normal. bv Staff Jack Attendants take one of three men injured Saturday in a freak Edison Highway truck- auto accident to woiting ombulance. Cor shown here wos being towed west when it broke loose from the towing vehicle, jumped a divider island and hit truck cab headon. IIUIVC lUUSC Hum iiib vbti.wv, Steam-injection oilmen add to demands for precious water Bv BILL RINTON The oil industry, Sansing re- water wells, ranging in By BILL RLNTO.V years ago ilie arrival of the water drag a train haiilinu' tank cars of drinkini; water uas the signal for a celeliration in the Ijooiiiiiig lint oil toun of Tal'l.

more lor water tents a barrel than lor oil. which sold for as little as IS cents a Toda.v. thank- to a new oil- recovery technique, water oiire aLiaiii is at a premium on the West Side and a nuicli soiiiilit after ity ill many other oil-producing areas of Kern County. Strange as it might sound, water seems to lie the ke.v that will unlock untold milliipus of barrels of oil from Taft's oil field iUid other of Keru County's dojgiiiy old fields. The technique that created the water consists of -tinuilating oil jiroduction by injecting sleam into oil-jiro- ducing sands, a methixl known variously as steam fUxxling, steam soak, and huff-'n'-puff.

To make steam, of course, one needs water. The demand for water on the West Side, according to Sansing. general manager of the West Kern County Water District, has from approximately 000 barrels a day two years ago when oil companies began turning to steam injection to 80.000 to 81,000 barrels a day today. The district is pumping to capacity to deliver increased output. And this is only the beginning.

Four-doy stay The oil industry, Sansing re- IKirts. has indicated it's going to want some 380.000 barrels a day of water in the future. close to five times the amounl presently available. What's being done to get more Iiitere-lcd oil some IS of them, have put up to pay for preliminary studies aimed at expanding the present water uliicli is on lied the West Kern County Water District. The district 2'-: years ago bought out the Western Water which had served the Side since the lOlUs.

The district purchases water on a royalty basis from Kern County Uind protlucing it from three reh.tively deep Nannette tops for popularity -Nanette Thomas, Bakersfield in the Miss California contest for the right to represent the state at the Miss Inteniational Beauty Congress, was voted by contestants Miss I'opularity during the pageant held Thursday and Friday in Los Miss Thomas is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lionel Thomas, 2204 Bradford St. water wells, ranging in depth from to 780 feet, near Tupman in the valley floor. The water Is pumped through a lU-inch line some 14 miles uphill to the Taft area.

The next in securing more uaier for the West Side is expected to be the putting up of an additional SI million by the oil companies to pay for the ))roposed expansion of the district's water system. The companies, in turn, under an agreement being negotiated with the district, would bo reimbursed from the district's profits over a stated period of time, jierhaps five or six Six major oil companies together with a dozen independents are in the group formed to work with the district in seeking more water. The majors include Oil Richfield Oil -Shell Oil Standard Oil Co. of California. Texaco.

and Tidewater Oil Co. J. .1. Oliphant of Mobil serves as chairman of the liai.son committee working with the district. The IS companies that have liut up shares of the S50.000 for the jireliminary expansion studies.

Ollphant reports, may be joined later by others interested in underwTiting the estimated million expansion of the water s.vstem. negotiations with the water district progress, the oil companies will set up a nonprofit corporation to work with the district. The rebate system, adopted in principle at the district's June meeting in Taft, ensures see 33 2 sailors ind man on roac A team of physicians in Ridgecrest is desperately tiying to save the life of a 21-year-old hitchhiker found lying on Inyokern Road, two miles 'vvest of Inyokern this morning. It's according to California Highway Patrol Officer Ralph Johnson, the critically injured man, Stephen J. Bradley.

21, of Trona, was the victim of a hit-run driver some time around 1 a.tn. He was discovered by two China Lake sailors returning to their base. Bradley, who celebrated his 21st birthday ap- liarently was hitchhiking from Trona to Bakersfield where he hoped to get a job. Officers located an Inyokern resident uho reialled giving Bradley a ride from Trona to Inyokern. Patrolman said Bradley was apparently walking to Highway to try to catch a ritie into Bakersfield.

-Although mostly incoherent, Bradley told officers he only recalls falling. Investigators believe Bradley heard the hit-run car overtaking him, turned and may have fallen just before it hit him flush, driving over his body. Physicians at Kidgecrest Hospital indicated they didn't expect Bradley to Tammie Lynn Henson, 2, ot 9701 Waco Lamont, is reported in serious condition at Kern General Hospital today where she is being treated for a cerebral concussion suffered in her driveway yesterday. CHP investigators said the little girl was run over by a backing pickup truck driven by Columbus Andrew Holmes. same address.

Holmes told officers he didn't see the tiny girl. Mystery surrounds the manner in which critically injured -Aird 19, of Canoga Park was hurt yesterday, the a IP said today. Officers said -Aire) first ap- Ijeared at the offices of a Kernville physician at 0:00 how he arrived were not known given emergency treatment and transferred to Kern General Hospital. From sketchy details, officers said, they believe -Aird was involved in a motorcycle accident somewhere in the Kernville area. One of three men involved in an accident Satui'day afternoon on Edison Highway near Fairfax road remains in critical condition at Memorial flospital today.

He is Carter L. Hooper, 55, of 2012 Fairfa.x Road. Hooper. CHP officers said, was driving a sedan west on Edison Highway, being towed see 14 Japanese student here on good will mission With Japanese and American flags on the handlebars of his bicycle, 22-year-old Akira Kawaguchi of Hosei University. Tokyo, Japan, arrived in Bakersfield yester- da.v.

He was greeted on the steps of City Hall by R. V. Karlen and seven memliers of the Bakersfielil People-to-People Committee. Shuttling between television cameramen, Kawaguchi (his friends call him Ike) explained he was on a one-man good will mission on the 10th anniversarj' of the sister city program between the United States and Japanese cities. On the rear of his blue jacket is an a Japanese and a California flag.

On the front is the large round international of the People-to-People program. Traveling an average of 10 miles per day. he started his trip in San Jose and last week visited in Delano. He has also visited Lodi. Fresno and Hanford.

He will visit another 16 California cities. bicycle, a 10 speetl was presented to him ill Westminster. B.C. (The bicycle, incidentally, was made in Japan), His racer. While in Bakersfield, be will be the guest of Mr.

and Harry Tatsuno, 4633 until tonight, stay with Mr. and John Deeter untQ for Glendale Tues- Mr. Quarter He will Mrs. leaving day. The youth also plans a 90- bus tour of historical of interest in the United States and Canada.

Unlike other tourists who complain about California's congested freeways. Kawaguchi's only complaint was that he is not allowed on them with his bicycle. day places Photo Mayor R. V. Karlen greeted Akiro Kawaguchi on the steps of City Hall yesterday.

Kawaguchi, bicycling through several California cities on the People-to-People program, will stay in Bakersfield through Tuesday..