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Dec. 30, 1961 Vallety Times TODAY the same thing cheaper at a lot in Granada Hills. The owner said people often spend three or four hours hunting for the right treedriving around to all the lots trying to save 50 cents and spending a dollar on gas. The third was a man who looked at me and said he'd buy a plain tree for $2 and do his own flocking. It came Christmas Eve.

Late. Finally the owner said "it was no fun sitting around in the cold and all that jazz waiting for people to buy and he shut out the lights and went home. It's dark on a lot after the lights go out. Dark and cold. Fifty-two of us were left.

Two hundred had gone to the homes with the lights blinking on the hills. We didn't see the owner for several days. Then he came back, took down his sign, and stacked us atop the other. "This was a good he said to the man who helped him. He held me high.

"You sort of feel a personal attachment to them, living with them so long, pointing out their good points." The other man nodded. "I would have given them away Christmas Eve just to let someone make them beautiful. No one came to ask me. Think of the people didn't have a Christmas Mine tree. Maybe they didn't have the money." The other man didn't say anything.

He continued stacking us up. We're going to the city dump for New Year's. Something about the old heave-ho. Forlorn Leftover Christmas Tree Awaits Only Heave-Ho On New Year's rowed their choice to 14. I was included in top three and eliminated when the 10- The owner said children usually made the final decision.

alone. The owner said more women than men came alone to the lot. She looked me year-old wanted a blue tree. The second was a woman lover and decided she could Valley Times TODAY Photo by Alan Hyde A CHRISTMAS TREE'S LOT IS A LONELY ONE Ralph Clark learns sad plight of rejected trees. L.A.

Prepares For Pension Suit Fight Valley Times TODAY seeking increases in the City Hall Bureau pensions paid retired city Faced with an unfunded employes and the widows liability of half a billion dol- of retired employes. lars if key cases are lost, Sheppard, whose law ofthe Los Angeles City Board fices are at 458 S. Spring of Pension Commissioners will be used to interFriday sought legal aid out- cede as a "friend of the side the office of the city court" in a case now pending attorney. in Pasadena. By unanimous action the board passed a resolution If the claimant in that case recommending the City is successful, the board said, retain attorney John it could set a precedent that former would be disasterous in Council C.

Sheppard, presi- cases pending against the dent of the California Bar Association, to help fight city. back claims against the pen- Board president Vincent sion fund. M. Burke said retaining More than 15 cases are outside legal aid has the pending in the courts, full support of the mayor San Fernando Library To Make L.A. Patrons Pay Valley Times TODAY North Valley Bureau After January 1, it will cost Los Angeles residents $5 to obtain a library card from the county library's San Fernando branch.

The agreement between the City of San Fernando and the county library system was made because San Fernando, not Los Angeles, assumes the costs of contracting with the library system for the services, San Fernando Mayor David J. Cameron said. The fee now is charged Los Angeles residents in county libraries in Burbank By DOUGLAS FIR As told to Valley Times TODAY Staff Writer Ralph Clark Take it from me: The loneliest place to be on Christmas Eve is in a tree lot. No one wants you because you have a flat side, missing limbs, a thin top, a wide bottom. And you cost too much.

There are 52 of us stacked up here in this Studio City lot waiting for the old heave-ho, I heard the owner say. Something about spending New Year's Eve in the city dump. Almost as bad as Christmas Eve in a tree lot. I'm a Douglas Fir. I came tied up in a bunch of five and the owner bought us for $3.50.

He flocked me with synthetic snow and tried to sell me for $5. 1 I knew a 14- footer who came in a bunch with two others. The owner bought that bunch for $6.50, but the 14-footer sold outright to a woman for $8- unflocked. I'm not very tall. I'm four feet.

The owner said I'd look good standing on a table and he put me out front so everyone would see me. Someone knocked me over and the flock fell off. The owner flocked the unflocked, but it didn't look the same. One of the other trees in my bunch was painted pink and two were painted blue. The others remained plain.

The owner said white flock was the favorite, but many people couldn't afford it and so the biggest seller was just the plain green tree because flocking cost $1 a foot. The biggest buying day came five days before Christmas. I nearly got sold three times. The first was a family. They spent 40 minutes in the lot.

They liked 26 trees, the owner said. Then they nar- Court Makes NAACP Ban Permanent and Glendale. Danko. 1956. $250,000 ESTATE Recluse Leaves All To U.S.

OGALLALA, Neb. (AP) churches, colleges or his people he met on the A lonely bachelor who said relatives. street, neighbors said he he wanted everybody to have "I am grateful to my was not unfriendly and of his country for the blessings of was always willing to exsome money has left freedom it has given me and change work. an estate estimated worth for the opportunity to ac-, The little farmhouse where $250,000 to $300,000 to the quire, hold and own proper- he died was heated only with federal government. the will said.

It left a coal-burning stove. It had This bequest came to light H. everything "to the United neither electricity nor run10 days after Esley States of America." ning water. Sproat owned a Sproat, 64, died alone in the Hastings said Sproat had 1930 radio and a 1953 model unpainted, had $136,000 in government bonds car. Buildings on the treeunheated farmhouse where his parents less farmstead in state are a lived before him.

Neighbors, and six quarter sections of disrepair and been ill, good wheat land. A dispute cently sold off his cattle. Sproat reknowing he had broke into the frigid house with relatives following the a and found of 13 him blankets. dead under death of his parents SISTER MADONA layer ently was one of the Spiritualist Reader and adviser, George Hastings of pal, reasons Sproat left his and will help troubles you and with show all you your the worries way Grant, executor of Sproat's estate to the government, to happiness. estate, said Sproat passed Hastings said.

14152 VICTORY BLVD. suggestions leave Although Sproat was a Open, Phone Daily 7 STate a.m. te 2-7637 10 his money to hospitals, recluse and rarely spoke to MONTGOMERY, A 1 a. (AP)-A circuit (state) court judge has made permanent a five-year-old temporary injunction which barred the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People from operating in Alabama. The ruling late yesterday came just four days before the deadline for action set by the U.

S. Supreme Court. Judge Walter B. Jones issued the decision a few hours after the conclusion of a three-day hearing. He took note of the supreme court's order to act by Jan.

2 and said it "prevents this state court at this time from writing a full opinion in the case." He added: "This court does now reserve the right at a future date to state in an opinion its full and complete findings of fact and its ruling on the law in this case." Attorneys for the NAACP said before the decision that a ruling against the organization would be appealed. written Judge Jones' three page decree NAACP "has been and continues to do business" in Alabama despite the temporary order issued in June, Balaguer Due To Tell 7 7-Man Ruling Council SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) A new seven-man government waited in the wings today, ready to take over rule of this Caribbean nation after 31 years of Trujillo dictatorship. The National Assembly of Deputies and senators last night gave final approval to constitutional changes providing for a provisional state council to govern the country until elections can be held and a new government installed, in February, 1963. President Joaquin Balaguer is expected to designate formally the membership of the council today, and it will then take over its task. Balaguer, under a formula proposed by him and accepted without enthusiasm by the chief opposition groups, will remain head of the council until the Organization of American States removes the diplomatic economic sanctions it imposed against the Dominican Republic in 1960.

Then he has promised to resign. The United States already has announced it favors lifting the sanctions. Diplomatic sources here said they believed other American republics will take the same view. ALGERIA Continued from Page 1 Secret Army Organization jammed his broadcast in Oran. Plastic bombs favorite weapon of the right diehards, shook radio and TV relay towers at Toulouse, Nimes and Toulon in France.

Bombs also went off in the Algerian city of Constantine. The French president's nouncement that the French army would be withdrawn from any case" -was a severe blow to the Europeans in Algeria who have looked to the army for political as well as military support throughout the eightyear nationalist rebellion. In Algiers Europeans felt cut off. Their statements boiled down to a feeling that now they were on their own. But De Gaulle's pledge was taken as a sign of good faith by the Algerian nationalist leaders in Tunis.

Rebel representatives have been reported engaged in secret contacts with the French for the past few weeks to lay the groundwork for a formal settlement. Services Set Monday For Actor Parnell Services will be held Monday for movie and television actor James Daniel Parnell. Parnell, a member of the New York company of "Oklahoma" for five years, died Wednesday at the age of 38. He resided at 11905 Woodbridge North Hollywood. Services will be at 2 p.m.

Wednesday at Good Sheperd Mortuary, 11020 Camarillo North Hollywood. Burial will be private. Parnell leaves his widow, Velma Lee; a daughter, Melanie; his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Emery Parnell, and a brother, Charles.

Macapagal Sworn In As Philippines' Chief MANILA (AP) Peasantborn Diosdado Macapagal was sworn in as the fifth president of the Philippines today and pledged to fight against corruption and communism. Macapagal defeated President Carlos P. Garcia in the election, Nov. 14. AJAX CARPET SERVICE Offers you a Holiday Discount FREE ESTIMATE 24 HOUR SERVICE ST.

2-2823 Licensed and Insured Wall-to-Wall Carpet Cleaning, Repairing, Restretching, Relaying and Sewing, Parker To Yorty Vice Mayor Samuel W. Yorty today apparently had the final word on enforcement of Los Angeles municipal ordinances governing vice. Police Chief William Parker personally delivered to Yorty Friday a copy of a memorandum directing enforcing vice officers to continue all 14 of the ordinances except the one specifically invalidated by the State Supreme Court. Receiving, Parker's directive, which superseded his instructions of Thursday that none of the code sections were to be enforced, Yorty said: "This is not an open town. It is not going to be an open town." At the same time, former Vice President Richard Nixon, a candidate for the Republican gubernatorial nomination, urged Gov.

Edmund G. Brown to put the question of vice laws on special call when ethe State Legislature meets next year. "Local law enforcement officials, particularly in our larger metropolitan areas, must be empowered to act Mrs. Schoop Funeral Set For Today Services for Van Nuys resident Bonnie Schoop, 45, wife of composer Paul Schoop and sister-in-law of choreographer Trudi Schoop, were to be held today at 1 p.m. at Forest Lawn Hollywood Hills Memorial Chapel.

The Rev. Herbert J. Schneider of the Christ Mrs. Schoop morial Church, North Hollywood, was to officiate. Mrs.

Schoop, formerly a professional dancer under the stage name of Bonnie Vallarino, worked in the thelater and in motion pictures. She died Dec. 25. Mrs. Schoop, 5311 Ventura Canyon is survived by her husband, Paul; and two children, Eric, 4 and Paula Jean, 9, and her parents, Mr.

and Mrs. Edward R. Mudock of Scotland. Last Rites For Ralph E. Nesbit, 84, Of Van Nuys Services for Ralph E.

Nesbit, 84, 14829 Sherman Way, Van Nuys, who died Tuesday, were to be at 10 a.m. today at First Baptist Church, Van Nuys, with burial in Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale. Born in Pittsburgh, Mr. Nesbit was a retired orange grower. He had lived in Van Nuys 25 years.

Survivors include three sons, Ernest Sepulveda, Harry Azusa, and Roy Porterville; two daughters, Mrs. Ruth E. Sossaman, Sepulveda, and Mrs. Edith J. Henson, Calabasas; 11 grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.

Gives In Over Enforcement and confidence in this field," Nixon wired the governor. Parker's memorandum, made public by the mayor, instructed all vice enforcement officers to continue "to utilize all applicable state laws regardless of the effect of the Carol Lane decision on the Los Angeles municipal code." Parker said the loss of the resorting law as an enforcement tool was damaging but that the other laws would be brought into force to close the gap. Yorty agreed that "we've lost a valuable law enforcement tool in suppressing prostitution. Now, with the tools we have left we will be more vigorous." The chief said 62 per cent of the persons arrested this year for prostitution were arrested under the resorting section. Yorty's order to Parker Thursday to enforce all but the resorting ordinance came after City Atty.

Roger Arnebergh had ruled that the court's ruling invalidated all city vice regulations. For the second time in two days, a municipal judge yesterday dismissed charges against two women because of the court decision in the Carol Lane resorting case. Judge David D. Williams freed Marilyn Jean Fraser, 24, and Mary Turner, 24, who were arrested Dec. 3 at the Park Wilshire Hotel, Wilshire Blvd.

The misdemeanor, charges recommenda- were tion of the City Attorney's office. Rites Set Today For Mrs. Dunbar TRAFFIC Continued from Page 1 in Santa Clarita Hospital, Saugus. Driver of the other car, Porter A. Ramsey, 48, 16827 Tribune escaped injury.

California Highway Patrol officers said the collision occurred Thursday evening on Bouquet Canyon road, two miles north of Texas Canyon, and probably was caused by one of the vehicles swerving over the center line on a curve. Earlier, Henry Garcia Candelaria, 59, a retired laborer, 1125 Acala San Fernando, died in Los Angeles County General Hospital from injuries suffered Christmas Eve. San Fernando police said Candelaria was attempting to cross through traffic in an unmarked crosswalk on Brand boulevard at Mott street when he was struck by a car driven by Bonnylin Goebel, 60, an employe at the Veterans Administration Sawtelle Hospital, Federal West Los Angeles. BERLIN Continued from Page 1 cross the border without identification. Two days before the Watson incident, Howard Trivers, executive political officer of the U.S.

mission in Berlin, was stopped by East Germans at the crossing point because he refused to identify himself. He, too, was his way to Soviet headquarters. Americans riding in official cars are under orders to refuse to show identity papers to the border guards of Communist East Germany which the West does not rec- ognize. Beauty Sues Mate DENVER, (AP) Miss America of 1958, Marilyn Van Derbur Nady, is seeking a divorce from her football hero husband, Gary Nady, after less than seven months of marriage. California Weather HI LO Los Angeles 52 L.A.

Airport 73 45 Bev. Hills 38 Big B. Lake 12 Bishop 20 Blythe 71 44 Burbank 74 44 Daggett 62 36 Death Valley 33 El Centro 34 Long Beach 48 Mt. Wilson 43 44 Needles 40 Newport 39 Palmdale 24 National Hi Le Albany 0 Albuquerque 20 Atlanta 17 Boston 35 15 Buffalo 13 Chicago Cleveland 12 Denver 52 29 Des Moines Detroit 11 Fort Indianapolis Worth 17 26 -4 Las Vegas 30 Louisville 36 24 21 20 Memphis Miami 43 Hi Lo Palm Spgs. Pasadena Paso Robles 62 98 Riverside 72 35 San Berdo.

73 37 San Diego San Pedro Sta. Barbara Sta. Maria 35 Sta. Monica Bakersfield 35 Fresno 37 Sacramento 48 37 S. Prancisco Report HI Lo Milwaukee 10 Paul Orleans 50 31 New York 28 16 Oka.

City 39 Omaha 14 Philadelphia Phoenix Pittsburgh Richmond St. Louis Salt L. City 47 Seattle 40 Tampa 33 Washington 19 Holdup Nets Trio $177 Three masked gunmen robbed a Sun Valley market of $177 Friday night. Armed with two .32 caliber revolvers and a sawed-off rifle, the men wore handkerchiefs over their faces during the holdup of the Quick Market, 7601 Vineland shortly after 9 p.m. The gunmen ordered clerk Wesley E.

Bergstrom, 7700 Craner to hand over the money in the cash register and then fled in a car. Dance Planned At Somis Club The Valley Star Dancers, a square dance club, will hold a New Year's Eve party at Somis Woman's Club beginning at 8:30 Sunday. Joel and Ray Orme will be calling. A buffet will be served during the evening. Reservations are not needed.

The "Around the Square" column on the Interests Page of Thursday's Valley Times TODAY incorrectly stated that the square dance will be held at Sylmar Woman's Club. GIULIANO CRESCENTINI Announces the opening of his New Location al Imported Service SPECIALISTS IN SERVING ITALIAN CARS TH. 5-3597 2809 W. Olive, Burbank Funeral services for Mrs. Esther Loucetta Dunbar of North Hollywood were scheduled to be held at 3 p.m.

today. Dr. William H. Hornaday of the Church of Religious Sciences will officiate at Utter-McKinley Valley Chapel, 5530 Lankershim North Hollywood. Interment will follow at Valhalla Cemetery.

Mrs. Dunbar, 61, died Thursday at her home, 12755 Hortense St. She is survived by her husband, William I. Dunbar; two daughters, Esther E. Long of Venice and Dolores Wood of Whittier, and a sister, Mary Raber of Palisades, Colo.

3,000 Due At Minnesota Picnic More than 3,000 former Minnesota residents are expected to attend the annual Minnesota Picnic from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday in Brookside Park, Pasadena. Dr. Charles W.

Mayo of the Mayo Clinic, Minnesota Gov. Elmer L. Andersen, University Homecoming Queen Nancy Parkinson and the University band will be featured at the event. and the city attorney. Board member Harold E.

Levitt added: "'We have not yet won a case as defendants in pension litigation. This is a dangerous position to be in. An adverse decision by the court now could virtually destroy the pension system for municipalities in the state. This is why we seek legal aid from sources other than our city attorney's office." Two Yanks To Stay In Russia, Tass Says MOSCOW (AP)-Two Russian-born Americans touring here have decided to remain in the Soviet Union, Tass reported today. The two were identified by Tass as Galina Vasko and her male companion, Danilo FINE CARPETING and LINOLEUM EARLL FLOOR 5066 Lankershim N.

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But in the past 11 months the and Vice President have seen eye-to-eye on many subjects, much to the of many politicians. Valley Times TODAY Washington bureau reporter Fletcher Knebel back over these past twelve months and reviews the political relationship of Kennedy and John- KNEBEL son. He'll report his findings to Valley readers in a special 4-part series on the Opinion Page. Read "How Goes The Austin-To-Boston Axis?" beginning Wednesday on the Opinion page of the. Valley Times TODAY.

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