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w. if -1 'yt-r. Iffi IfJlr i-i M- fc VB'" ifllk $0 VALLEY TIMES, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1957 ANNUAL TRIP OCT. 27 Poets In Visit To McGroarty Home Members of the California Federation of Chaparral Poets will herald National Poetry Day Oct. 27 with the 15th annual pilgrimage to the Tujunga home of the late John Steven McGroarty, Californias third poet laureate.

McGroartys home is now Antelope Fete On Anniversary Of Constitution Americas Foundation of Freedom was given a giant, strictly-for-free birthday party-by Antelope Valley citizens today, marking the 170th Anniversary of the United States Constitution. Following free refreshments, a program was presented featuring the Rev. Bob Richards, three-time Olympic pole-vault champion. Heading th? festival committee were Les Shelton, chairman, and Jack Sands, co-chairman. They were assisted by a large committee of Antelope Valley citizens representing civic and fraternal organizations, industries, and local firms.

Master of ceremonies for the Patriotic Day was Alfred J. Mc-Courtney, judge of the Antelope Municipal Court. The Edwards Air Force Base Band, under the baton of Warrant Officer Harry R. Uhland, provided music. PLAN ANNUAL McGROARTY PILGRIMAGE Members of California Federation of Chaparral Poets make plans for 15th annual pilgrimage to John Steven McCroarty home in Tujunga Oct.

27. From left to right are Florence M. Bigham, secretary-treasurer of Alpha chapter; rs. Myrtle A. Krause, president of Alpha chapter; Margaret McHale, niece of the late McGroarty; Mrs.

Frona Lane, president of California Federation of Chaparral Poets, and Malcolm Crocker, member at large. Valley Times photo. VISUAL CAST PROJECTOR DONATED, Dr. Leon Z. Wolpe, right, head of the radiology department at the Northridge Hospital, demonstrates new Visual Cas X-ray film projector to Ralph D.

Dyer of Canoga Park who donated the piece of equipment to hospital. Machine, which will help to maintain the health of the residents of West San Fernando Valley, is versatile. Not only, does it enlarge and project X-ray film on screen, but it can also project 4 by 4 slides and 35 mm. translucencies. Easy Theft INSURANCE LICENSE COURSE Prtporu for Brokers' or Agents' Examination in 8 Lossona.

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(Studio City) SHERBROOKE, Que. (A5) Zoo officials say they intend to hire a night watchman for the zoo afteT two reporters visited the zoo one night and reported they could easily have released 125 animals. POplar 6-301 8Tanlsy 75061 Richmond 9-3111 niniEZ0esF 'Grizzlies' Annual Meet Tomorrow Members of the California Grizzlies," 144th Field Artillery, World War will hold their 40th annual reunion tomorrow in the Redwood Room of the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel. LAPD officer Walter E. Jacobs, now retired, will preside.

Bob Frankel is chairman of the arrangements committee. The VALIEV TIMES is Proud to Honor Its llenspapcrboy Organization known as the McGroarty Recreation Center and is located at 7570 McGroarty Terrace. It is operated by the citys Parks and Recreation Department. Visit Theme Accent on Youth is the theme of this years visit and will feature Michael Thomas on the trumpet. Larry Ashurst on the trumpet.

Both are from the USC school of music. Poet Laureate Gordon W. Norris will also take part in the days program. Edythe Richters poem to James Whitcomb Riley and Rileys Rose poem will be read. The theme song of CFCP will be a song by Ethel MacDermott Johnston and there will be original songs by Alva Cunningham and Esther Baldwin York.

Composer and teacher Eugene Lud-holm will accompany baritone Albert Kraska with these selections. Hostesses will be Helen Bangs, Grace R. Ballard and Marguerite Stanley. Ushers are Scholer Bangs and Louise Clague. Jack Gormley will render the Riley Red Rose Day Commemoration.

The federation has chapters in the Glendale, North Hollywood. Burbank, Sherman Oaks, Reseda. Van Nuys, La Canada, La Cres-centa, Montrose and Tujunga sections of the Valley. McGroarty was appointed poet laureate of California in 1933. He came to Los Angeles at the age of 40.

He was elected to the United States House of Representatives in 1934 and served from 1935 to 1939. He wrote many California heritage poems and produced The Mission Play. Knighted He was called to Madrid, Spam, by the King of Spain and made a Knight of the Order of Isabella the Catholic and later was called to Rome and knighted by the Pope. On Nov. 6, 1942, the John Steven McGroarty Auditorium cornerstone was dedicated and the auditorium was rededicated and built at Verdugo Hills High School during the past year.

The Cross of San Ysidro atop Mt. McGroarty is also a memorial to McGroarty and the early settlers In Sunland Tujunga Valley. Mrs. Frona Lane, president of the California Federation of Chaparral Poets said that one poem from each of the 30 chapters throughout California will be read by Dr. William B.

McC oard professor of speech University of California: Helen Helming, poetry curator of the Ebell Club; Ann Clendenning, drama coach and Edythe Hope Genee, past presi dent of Chaparral poets. The Poetry Day Proclamation by Gov. Goodwin J. Knight will be ready by William Strong of the Aeolian Chapter. Miss Margaret McHale, niece of McGroarty, will extend greetings.

Walter Stussie will be master of ceremonies. Accidents Up As Darkness Lengthens Traffic accidents are Increasing as the nights grow longer in the fall and winter months, Bernard Caldwell, California Highway Patrol commissioner, warned today. Darkness at the peak home-bound traffic hours is especially dangerous, Caldwell said. By following five rules, motorists may help avoid traffic accidents in the early evening hours, Caldwell explained. The rules are: Use headlights, not parking lights, as driving lights.

Allow extra time to avoid driving at unsafe speeds. Drivers, watch for pedestrians, and pedestrians, keep alert for cars. Drive in the right-hand lane on multiple lane highways when driving slower than the normal flow of traffic. Be ready for any emergency that may occur on the roadway ahead. Fund Drive Set By Democrats Supporting the national Dollars for Democrats Drive, nine Democratic clubs in the 42nd Assembly District will take part in the door to door fund raising drive Oct.

21 and 12. More than 1,000 members of the following Democratic clubs will participate: Greater North Hollywood, Club 21 for Democratic Women, Valley Plaza, Coldwater Park, United Democratic Club, Sun Valley, Albers-Whitsett, Sun-land-Tujunga and the F.D.R. Democratic Club of Burbank. Mrs. Idee Silverman, North Hollywood, director of the Dollars for Democrats Drive in the 42nd Assembly District, states that the goal this year is $25,000.

"Starting Friday evening, Oct. 11, and all day Saturday, Oct. 12, our Democratic Party workers will be ringing doorbells and asking for contributions to the partys 1958 election campaign fund," explained Mrs. Silverman. Our party must depend on many small contributions, mainly from working people, instead of a few large ones," she said.

Every Democrat i urged to contribute whatever he can when the official volunteer worker comes to the door. Any Democrat who wishes to volunteeer his services as a worker may do so by calling POplar 3-7811. Continental Lift Of Air Cargo Set A $15,000,000 program to provide the largest transcontinental all-cargo lift ever scheduled by an airline will be put into operation by the Flying Tigei1 Line next Thursday. Six Lockheed Super Constellations will go into service exclusively on the airlines domestic system, U.S. Air Freight Route No.

100. They will provide a total daily lift of 258,000 pounds, or 129 tons of freight, Robert Prescott, president of the Burbank firm said. Prescott said the freighters will be operated bn schedules which will provide the fastest all-cargo service on record. We will provide next morning all-cargo deliveries on both coasts, the first time this has been possible," he added. Additionally, we will establish the only non-stop all-cargo flight betweeen Los Angeles and New York.

It will leave Los Angeles at 10:30 p.m., and arrive in New York at 9:25 a.m. Reds Ask End Malaya War SINGAPORE WV The Malayan Communist Party today appealed for an immediate end to the nine-year-old civil war in Malaya. It gave no indication, however, whether it would accept the governments amnesty offer. In letters sent from inside the Thai border to foreign press services and Singapore newspapers, the Communists asked for legal recognition of "various political parties and public organizations which pledge loyalty to the Malayan fatherland. The fact that the letters were postmarked in Thailand lent credence to reports that the Communist leader, Chin Peng, is now stationed across the border.

Under the recent amnesty offer, terrorists who left the jungle and renounced communism would be returned to Malayan society. Others who surrendered would be sent to Red China. Americans Travel More WASHINGTON (fll Americans are increasing their travel abroad. The Commerce Department reported today that spending for trips to foreign countries reached a record $1,800,000,000 in 1956, nearly 200 million dollars over 1955. Of the total, foreign countries received IV2 billion dollars including $1,200,000,000 spent within those countries and 238 millions paid to foreign sea and air carriers for transportation overseas.

U.S. carriers received 301 millions. The department said 1,240,000 Americans spent 680 million dollars, exclusive of fares, in area other than Canada and Mexico, in 1956, as compared with who spent 592 millions in 1955. Texas Integration Hearing Nov. 22 NEW ORLEANS HB The U.S.

Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals today ordered hearings set for Nov. 22 in Fort Worth, on the Dallas, school integration suit. Appeal Court Judge Richard Rives ordered briefs in the case before the federal court in Fort Worth by Oct. 25 from the Dallas Independent School Board. Opposing briefs must be filed within 15 days of Oct.

25. The hearings will be on an application lor writs of mandamus sought by the school board. 3-speaker High Fidelity phonograph Care On Toys By Japanese TOKYO By early next month only Japanese toys decorated with lead-free paints will be going to American and other overseas markets, an inspection director said today. Yokichi Sato, managing director of the Japan Metal Toys Inspection a government sgency, said a new regulation for toys shipped abroad will be announced in the Japanese official gazette Oct. 15.

He said this step was not taken because Japanese metal toys being made now are considered dangerous, but to fulfill the requirements of American customers. There have been some charges in th United States that Japanese toys might be harmful to Young GOP Rally Slated A rally and reception for Miss Bertha Adkins, assistant chairman of the Republican National Committee, will be sponsored by the Los Angeles County Young Republicans at the Statler Hotel Tuesday evening. Miss Adkins will speak to the Young Republicans on the subject "The Republican Party and the Future. County Young Republican President William Roberts announced that the public is invited to attend the rally beginning at 8:15 p.m. in the Golden State Room of the Statler and a no-host reception which will follow.

Other guests at the meeting will include 64th Assembly District Republican Candidate Lou Cusano vich and National Committeeman Edward S. Shattuck. Alvin J. Livingston, regional vice president of the California State Young Republicans, is general chairman. the VALLEY TIMES 1 Child Authority Plans Lectures The Elementary School Child will be theme of a parent education lecture series which Dr.

Elta Pfister, child guidance authority, will conduct beginning at 8 p.m. Tuesday at Telfair Avenue Elementary School, 10975 Telfair Pacoima. Schuschnigg To Talk Wednesday Kurt von Schuschnigg, chancellor of Austria before World War II, will open Loyola Universitys annual lecture series Wednesday at 8:30 p.m. in the Loyola library. Schuschniggs address, which will be co-sponsored by the Loyola University International Relations Conference, is entitled Adenauers Victory: What It Means to the West.

U.S. Pledges Fund To Aid Refugees UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (IB -The United States pledged $21,800,000 for the relief and rehabilitation of the 900,000 Palestine refugees as a contribution to the security and peace and prosperity of the entire world, Hollywood actress Irene Dunne announced the pledge as the United Nations General Assembly went Into an all-day fund-raising session. The Assemblys delegates were called on this morning to make pledges to the U.N. Relief and Works Agency for Palestine refugees (UNRWA).

This afternoon, the procedure will be repeated to- raise money for the U.N. Refugee Fund which covers the world. The positions of leadership now held in our community by men who were newspaperboys a generation ago, prove beyond doubt that the initiative, the aggressiveness and the will to succeed which are developed in news- paperboys carry them far along the road to greatness. In recognition of the constant unfailing sendee of these lads who operate their own successful little businesses, the Valley Times today pays public tribute to the fine, upstanding youngsters jvho hold the future of our com-munity and our country in their capable hands. Sproul Named Rose Marshal Robert Gordon Sproul, president of the University of California since 1930, will be grand marshal of the 69th annual Tournament of Roses in Pasadena New Years Day.

John H. Biggar president of the Tournament of Roses Association, said the 1958 pageant would honor the field of Th CONCERTO Two 6" 9" oval bass plus 5" high frequency speaker 6 watt amplifier precision automatic, multi-speed intermix changer auxiliary speaker connection complete with stand. In handrubbed mahogany 12450 MOVING ANNOUNCEMENT! THE SAN FERNANDO GLASS COMPANY 130 N. MACLAY, SAN FERNANDO MOVING TO NEW LOCATION ON OCT. 14 TO 1941 FIRST ST.

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