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if 1', San Bernardino news County news Friday, Nov. 26, 1976 The Sun-Telegram, San Bernardino, Calif. Section City, school incumbents to seek re-election an industrial park, revitalization of the Central City area and deteriorating residential areas, completion of the downtown county government complex and more housing for senior citizens. Wheeler, 53, said he has not absolutely made up his mind to run because of some "minor inconveniences" associated with holding office while working for the San Bernardino school district. "I think I will," he said.

"I like it; I think I've done something for the town." If he runs and is re-elected, Wheeler said, it will be his last term. Wheeler has said 12 years is the He was elected to a full four-year term in 1973, but lost by two votes to Esther R. Estrada in a 1975 recall election. He contested the result, claiming that persons who were not ward residents had voted. In December, 1975, a Superior Court substantiated his charge and he reclaimed his seat from Estrada.

Estrada supporters launched a second recall which he turned back by capturing 54 per cent of the vote on March 9. Gross, 48, won a seat on San Bernardino School board in a 1972 (Continued on B-5, column 1) be filled on the County Board of Education. In the San Bernardino Community College District, the terms of Lois J. Carson and long-time board members Carleton W. Lockwood and Edward F.

Taylor are expiring. Five trustees will be elected to the newly formed board Of the Baker Valley School District. Holcomb will be rounding ou his sixth year in office next spring. He was elected first to a two-year term, then won a four-year term when voters amended the City Charter to provide a longer term for the office. If he's re-elected, Holcomb said, he'd like to work for completion of By HARVEY FEU Sun-Telegrm Political Editor SAN BERNARDINO Mayor W.R.

Holcomb heads the list of city officials and school board members planning to seek re-election here next year. First Ward Concilman Tony Campos plans to run again, while Edward S. Wheeler Second Ward councilman, indicated he probably will seek a third term. Graciano Gomez, president of the San Bernardino City Unified School District board, and board member John P. Miller both said they will run again.

Board member Clara T. Gresham and Richard J. Gross said they are undecided about seeking re-election. Dec. 9 is the first day for city and school board candidates to file nomination papers.

Deadline for filing papers for city offices is noon ori Dec. 30. School district candidates have until Jan. 7 to file papers. School district elections and the San Bernardino city primary election will be held March 8.

The city general election will be May 3. There is no runoff election in school districts. Elections will be held in 39 school districts in the county, with 112 seats at stake. In addition, three posts will limit a person should hold public office. Wheeler is employed as a full-time contract substitute teacher.

Norman Forrest, a former board member of the East San Bernardino County Water District, is said to be interested in running for Wheeler's seat. Campos, 40, said he will continue to push for redevelopment of the Mt. Vernon area if he wins another term. He is a project coordinator for the County Community Services Department. Since he won the seat in a 1972 special election, Campos has had an up and down career on the council.

Ancestors on Mayflower Four county residents descendants of Pilgrims urn mnwmimmll0iKmt i By CHUCK PALMER Sun-Telegram Staff Writer "Out of such small beginnings, great things have been produced and as one small candle may light a thousand, so the light here kindled hath shone to many, yea, in some sort, to our whole nation" from "Of Plymouth Plantation," by William Bradford, first governor of the Plymouth Colony. The light of which Bradford wrote in the years following the landing of the Pilgrims at Cape Code perhaps shines a little brighter in the lives of four San Bernardino County residents on Thanksgiving because of their family histories. They can trace their geneology back to the Mayflower and the Plymouth Colony. Their ancestors include the young couple romanticized in Longfellow's poem" The Courtship of Miles Standish," the Pilgrims' religious leader, the first man to be convicted of murder in the new colony and a doctor known as "the beloved physician." Mrs. Nancy Bell, of Big Bear Lake, traces her family back to William Brewster, church elder and one of the earliest figures in the Mayflower story.

Brewster was a graduate of Cambridge University in 1584 and was one of the early campaigners for religious reform. During the reigns of Elizabeth I and her successor, James religious dissent grew in England. One group, known as the Puritans, hoped to reform the church from within. Another group, the Separatists, favored a complete break. Historians say no disloyalty to the Crown was intended, but neither Elizabeth nor James accepted that and the dissidents became victims of religious persecution.

In 1607, the two groups, with Brewster as one of the leaders, i 4l 1 If If if. rn I 1 1 Ancestors include Pilgrim religious leader Miles Standish and another man who was the first to be convicted of murder in the new colony. the Mayflower "I've written to so many individuals libraries and museums I've nearly lost count. Mormon libraries in several parts of the country have been helpful." She said it seems appropriate that William Brewster was the university-educated member of the Pilgrim band. The families of both Bell and her husband, Ralph, superintendent of the Bear Valley Unified School district, have been educators for generations.

During the middle of the 18th Century, Bell's family moved from Massachusetts and Connecticut to New York State and remained there until her father moved to Los Angeles in the 1920s. A former teacher, Bell has furnished her home with some of the first rustic furniture built in Bear Valley, as well as with antiques from New England and Europe. "You can see were history buffs. Now that I have researched my family's history, I'd be glad to help anyone else to do the same," she said. On Thanksgiving Day, the Bells will entertain their three sons and two daughters and other relatives at their lakeside home.

Knowing the family connection to the Mayflower will heighten her enjoyment of the holiday, she said. Charles B. Hanley is another Bear Valley resident whose ancestors were Mayflower passengers. He said he traced his geneology through the Billington and Eaton families to the Plymouth colony. "John Billington, his wife, Ellen, and their two sons were aboard the Mayflower as so called because they were not part of the religious community and are presumed to have joined the expectation just before the departure from England," Hanley said.

"The elder Billington had the Continued on B-5, column 1) SLIP COVERS Mads To Order Opn 9 to 6 tncludtng Sofoy CLARK'S CUSTOM HOUSE 1261 888-1181 A Thought for Today The worship most acceptable to God comes from a thankful and cheerful heart. Plutarch. First Federal Savings Loan Association of San Bernardino 533 St. 889-0881 Also in Barstow and Loma Linda A replica of The Mayflower and a smaller ship, Speedwell, which had picked up the Pilgrims who were leaving Holland, were to meet at Southhampton and sail together across the Atlantic during July and August Their destination was the northern part of the Virginia colony, about 200 miles south of Cape Cod, where they actually disembarked. According to her captain, the Speedwell was unfit for the passage and all those aboard who still wanted to brave the crossing were crowded onto the Mayflower.

The expedition was financed by the London Adventurers, business- men who chartered the ship and paid for the general supplies. Each family was responsible for obtaining its own food for the voyage. The colonists and the sponsors were to share in whatever fish or raw materials were sent back to England. The arrangement never worked well and the partnership was dissolved four years later. Bell said her research began a year ago and only last April she traced her family back as far as the Revolutionary War.

Since then she completed her research to prove her father's side goes back to Brewster. "I'm descended from the families of two Continental Army soldiers, Jesse Foote and Harmon Van Buren, and from Martin Van Buren, the 8th President of the United States," Bell said. LANZ SLEEPWEAR In For Christmas FRANCIS SHOP 331 W. HIGHLAND AVE. For Energy ConMrvotion INSULATE NOW Hill ESTIMATES TfKMS AVAIL Hi MORRISON-HOPE, INC.

205 SO. ARROWHEAD 885-6881 GRANDFATHER CLOCK SALE SALEM MAPLE SHOP 288 W. Highland 886-1610 Ada Turner, Mayflower descendant, holding a miniature chest built by one of her ancestors Actions by city against 4dog lady' continue in court on two fronts 4io phof by Orf Stinldr nance by operating a kennel without a special use permit. McCraw said he filed an answer In (Continued on B5t, column 1) began moving from England to Holland, eventually settling in Leiden. During the 11 years they lived there, some of them settled comfortable and permanently into the Dutch way of life.

Since they couldn't return to England, most of them began looking for a place to settle beyond the reach of the established church, but still under the sovereignty of the mother country. The natural choice seemed to be the American continent and a place in England's Virginia colony, established about 35 years earlier. When the Mayflower sailed from Plymouth, England, Sept. 6, 1620, she was loaded with her crew and 102 passengers, including the ancestors of Bell, Mrs. La Vaughn Lane, of Yucaipa, Charles Hanley, of Big Bear City, and Mrs.

Ada Turner, of Grand Terrace. line rape during which the woman was threatened with a knife, they said. Deputies then learned Perkins had been arrested by San Bernardino police about 30 minutes after the market holdup. A search of Perkins' car disclosed a bloody towel that apparently is part of a matched set in Barringer's home, they said. Deputies also said the murder victim's boyfriend told detectives Perkins knew the victim and had visited the house at least twice.

inmate arrested stabbing death Reitz said the civil action Is based on the contention Hassell's dogs are a public nuisance and that she is in violation of the citv's zoning ordi County jail in Crestline A man already In county jail for investigation of robbery was booked Wednesday in connection with the fatal stabbing of a Crestline woman. Sheriff's detectives say Kenneth Perkins, 20, of 1088 Jupiter Way, Crestline, is responsible for the Friday night murder of 18-year-old Abigail Barringer. She was stabbed 17 times In the chest and back and was left nude in the bedroom of her home at 22M64 Grandview Drive. Shortly after being booked for the slaying, Perkins slashed his left wrist In an apparent suicide attempt, deputies said. He suffered only SAN BERNARDINO Court action by the city against a woman who collects strav dogs continued this week on two fronts.

On Monday Deputy City Attorney Ron Reitz asked Municipal Court Judge Theodore G. Krumm to dismiss a citation accusing Evelyn Hassell of having more than three dogs at her West San Bernardino home without a kennel license. Reitz cited "insufficient evidence" In requesting the dismissal, according to the docket, but Reitz told a reporter later he asked for the dismissal because the city is seeking an order in a superior court civil case which would require her to remove the dogs. On Tuesday Reitz appeared before Superior Court Judge Don A. Turner on the civil case.

The matter was postponed until next Monday to give her a chance to obtain an attorney. Deputy Public Defender Scott McGraw said he had been appointed by Superior Court Presiding Judge Henry M. Busch to represent Hassell and would appear with her next wet'k. minor injuries and was returned to his cell, deputies said. Perkins has been in jail since he was arrested Monday for investigation of a convenience store robbery in San Bernardino.

When arrested, Perkins was carrying a dagger that Investigators now believe was used in the slaying. Sheriff's Detective Dennis O'Rourke said detectives initially believed Barringer had been raped. While pursuing that possibility which has not been confirmed homicide investigators learned Perkins is a suspect in a Nov. 10 Crest.