The San Bernardino County Sun from San Bernardino, California • Page 19

(CCC) THE SUN-TELEGRAM B-3 Barstow Council Clears Way for 11-Club Sign Sept. 20, 1969 Easy visibility from a heavily traveled city entrance where traffic enters both from the freeway and, via Barstow Road, from the Big Bear-Lucerne area. Relatively uncomplicated acquisition of the right to erect a sign there. Ownership of the involved property. City Manager James O.

Tennant explained, was transferred to the city by the state when it became apparent the land was not needed for freeway landscaping. What the task force and city planner had to do. then, was to enlist council support for their plan and secure yesterday's "vacating" action. It was felt this might be simpler and possibly less expensive than an effort to erect the sign on private property. BARSTOW The City Council took a necessary legal step this week to allow a sign listing the city's service club, near the Central Barstow freeway offramp.

The council "vacated approximately 600 square feet of land on Barstow Road across from the Mojave Valley Museum. The action dispenses with any need to use the property for road purposes and frees it for sign or other use. Just south of Interstate 15 and east of Barstow Road, the land was chosen by a task force representing 11 local service clubs as the site for its first sign. The task force was called together several months ago by City Planner Chuck Zimmerman as a way of uniting individual service club sign projects. Chamber of Commerce president Dean Devoe owns land next to the sign site, expressed misgivings about the sign plan.

Isitt said high speed traffic enters Barstow Road from the nearby freeway offramps and said he feels the sign might create a hazard at the proposed location. The nearby Virginia Way intersection, he added, further contributes to a possible hazard. He suggested a sign site at a proposed new fire station, also on Barstow Road. He said putting it there would enable drivers to pull over and view the sign better than they could at the location chosen by the city planner and task force. With Mayor Ida Pleasant and Councilman Blendon Beardsley absent, the other three councilmen voted to vacate the property from road usage.

The site reasons: was chosen for two basic Jewel) photo Miss Needles Day In Anti-Pollution Lawsuit ward, Rhonda Kenner, Nanette Curtis, Janis Hes-tand, Clara Fragosa, Susan Alley, Kathy Dudley, Diane Andrade. The winner will be crowned at ceremonies scheduled tonight. Surrounded by a bevy of beauty Miss Needles contestants, Mayor Dan Aalberg signs proclamation declaring today as Miss Needles Day. From left, Sharon Swain, Virginia Stockig, Judy Har- Ballard Urges Open Trial Against Top Automakers Miss Needles Contest San Bernardino Mayor Al C. Ballard is urging residents to contact the U.

S. attorney general to ask for an open trial in the Justice Department's antipollution suit against the nation's largest auto dealers. The mayor sent a letter this week to U. S. Atty.

Gen. John N. Mitchell protesting the administration's proposed out-of-court settlement of the antitrust action against the big four automakers. He said the public interest would best be served by an open trial in which all of the evidence were made available. "The Southern California area has become increasingly alarmed over the NEEDLES By proclamation issued by Mayor Dan Aalberg, today has been designated Miss Needles Day and the 12 girls who aspire to wear the Marathon Queen's crown will learn their fate tonight when they appear in the Miss Needles Pageant at 8 p.m.

at the high school auditorium. The contestants will meet the judges for the first time at a brunch at Loma's Restaurant at 10 a.m. and again at a public reception to be held at 2 p.m. in the lounge of the pro shop at the Municipal Golf Course. The program at the high school auditorium will open with the overture played by the Needles High School Band, directed by Wayne Hodgin.

Following the introduction of three very special guests, Carlene Anderson Miss Teen Southwest, Lana Schnell Miss South Dakota 1st Runner-up, Susan Ellen Anton Miss California, and Connie Enriquez the reigning Miss Needles, and twelve contestants will be introduced. While the girls change from street clothes for the swimsuit competition, the At ever, yesterday's public hearing, how-' Realtor Kirk lsitt, who with continued rise in air pollution, and people are actually leaving our community because of it," he said. "People are concerned. They want action. They have a right to know why the auto industry has not applied itself to a greater degree in solving this problem," he continued.

"The antitrust suit charged foot-dragging on the part of the auto industry. But unless we, the people, can bring this matter out into public view, we will have lost a valuable weapon in our fight to control, and eventually eliminate, air pollution." Under the proposed settlement, the car manufacturers and their trade asso the board for the establishment of a fact-finding panel to look into the problems of the district. The three man body would be composed of a member selected by the FTA, one by the board and one selected by the first two members of the panel. "We have received encouragement from members of the community," Roper said. "People with whom I have talked think this is a good idea." Roper also said he wished to clarify "misinterpretations" of comments made earlier in the issue regarding classified employes of the school district.

"Never have I intended to imply that the classified employes of the Fontana Unified School District should make less than an equitable wage," Roper said. Water Quality FTA Optimistic That Dispute With Board Near Settlement Tonight This year each of the contestants has been sponsored by a business firm or civic organization. Contestants and their sponsors are Susan Alley, Owen Motors; Linda Diane Andrade, Oldham Chevrolet; Nanette Currie, Van's Shoe Emporium; Kathry Dudley, Weatherby's Furniture; Clara Maria Fragosa, Sambo's; Judith Harward, Rotary Club; Janis Hestand, Business Professional Women's Club; Rhonda Kenner, Radio Station KSFE; Teresa Patterson, Pi Epsilon and Xi Theta Rho chapters of Beta Sigma Phi sorority; Virginia Stockig, Community Drug; Sharon Swain, Marie's Beauty Shop; and Wendy Lee Tierney, Rod and Gun Club of Pacific Lighting Service and Supply Co. $20,000 in Damages Storm Called Substantial BARSTOW "It was a noteworthy storm," said City Engineer Bob Beach. Beach's report to the City Council this week listed $20,000 in public property and other damages as a result of the Sept.

6 downpour in the Barstow area. The council authorized payment of overtime to city employes along with other expenses caused by the flash flood. Beach called the storm "moderate" and then explained that meant it had caused "substantial" damage. He explained the fire department reported a downpour of .65 of an inch in the 35-minute burst. "Our rain gauges," the city engineer added, "indicated .75 of an inch." A so-called "10-year return storm," he added, might bring approximately two-thirds of the early September rainfall.

Beach indicated his department has a sizeable list of "first priority" projects pressing for attention in the wake of the flash flood. "the boy certainly has no inhibitions." This was the second babysitting incident in the last few days. On Sept. 10, another apparent heart attack victim, a truck driver from Covina, drove into the station with his four-year-old son. Officer Charles O.

Crafts rushed the man to Pass Hospital and the boy you guessed it ended up at the Crafts home. Victorville Postpones Wiring Code Adoption VICTORVILLE The city council has postponed its intended adoption of the Uniform Wiring Code, pending a roundtable discussion by electrical contractors of the area. Objections came at the council's last meeting from Francis M. Curran and George Beardsley, both contractors in that field. Curran insisted the uniform code, prepared by inspectors, not contractors, is full of "fetishes" and unnecessary requirements.

Beardsley held that changes are being made constantly in the code without good reason. Curran displayed a copy of the Na- Care for Two Children More Information on Dump ciation would be prohibited from conspiring to delay or obstruct development and installation of pollution control devices for motor vehicles. The action came about a week after 18 House Democrats charged the Justice Department with engaging in "closed door negotiations" in a move toward abandonment of tfe civil suit. In a statement released by Ballard yesterday, he said. "The public has until Oct.

10 to appeal the decision. I urge every citizen to let the U. S. attorney general know that we want this matter to go to trial so that the public interest will he served." "If a five per-cent increase is not adequate for a teacher, the same percentage would not be adequate for a classified worker. Nor, is an unsatisfactory negotiating process any better for those employes than it is for the Association.

"My comments are aimed at areas of waste not at individual employees," Roper added. The FTA has asked for sanctions from the state level to be imposed on the Fontana district. The sanctions could be stopped before they are imposed if the district and Association can come to an agreement. "We have done our part," Roper said. "We hope the board will do its part." Board Wants deferred a decision until a November meeting.

Shone was asked to provide more information on the exact location, size, height and timetable for construction of a levy which the board requires to prevent dump debris from flowing into the river during flood season. Car-Train Wreek Injures Hinkley Girl A Hinkley girl is in critical condition with head injuries at the County Hospital today after her car was sliced in two by a Santa Fe freight train yesterday morning. Robin Ann Dial, 18. of 36743 Phillview Hinkley. was taken to the Barstow Community Hospital for emergency treatment, then transferred to San Bernardino.

California Highway Patrol officer T. Bardwell said the accident occurred at 11:35 a.m. at the Almeda Street railroad crossing in Hinkley. Miss Dial, according to Bardwell, apparently was crossing the railroad trac ks when the westbound train sliced into the car, cutting the car completely in half Bardwell said the girl was ejected in the collision, suffering severe head wounds. In one case a high school girl accepted a ride because she thought the driver was a woman.

When she discovered her mistake, she demanded to be let out of the car. The informant said the man, who acted extremely nervous, asked her to accompany him to his apartment. She declined. Thursday evening suspect was seen driving near San Mateo and Tennessee Street and later in San Timo-teo Canyon. judges, Mrs.

Ruth Anderson, who judged the Miss Phoenix Pageant and who attended the 1969 Miss America Pageant; Curtis H. Williams, president of the Blakely Oil Co. of Arizona; and Steven McMaster, operations officer of the Valley National Bank, and a judge for the Miss Phoenix Pageant, all from Phoenix, will be introduced along with Richard Horn, operations officer of the Needles branch of the Bank of America, who will serve as auditor. Each of the three special guests will perform during the evening and each of the contestants will be required to perform her special talent. After the intermission, the girls will return to the stage for the evening gown competition.

The girls themselves will award the Miss Congeniality title to one of their number. A first and second runner-up will be chosen to serve as princess attendants to the queen, who will reign as the Marathon Queen during the 22nd annual Needles Colorado River Marathon celebration Sept. 26-27-28 and who will be sponsored in the Miss California Pageant. tional Electric Code, as a guideline. The which he prefers city in the past has followed this code, and adopted only the inspection fee schedule of the Uniform Code.

City Building and Safety Director Jerry Brummett said the contractors' chief objection has been to the requirement for metal conduit in the multiple-family dwellings and commercial structures. He said that the Uniform Wiring Code is used in "perhaps 98 per cent of cities in the state. that don't follow it have even tougher codes." about a tiger he once owned which climbed a big tree, fell out, and run away. Officer Little said he decided to take the boy home to await relatives because of possible danger at the station where the huge trucks constantly roll in. And just as he was saying this, the telephone rang.

It was Mrs. Little, "You're right," she told her husband, Highland Church News Church Sets HIGHLAND An old fashioned hymn-sing has been scheduled Sunday evening at the Highland First United Methodist Church. The affair will be preceded by a covered dish supper at 5:30 p.m. Sunday School will be held at 9:30 a.m. The young adult class will meet at the home of Mr.

and Mrs. John Cramond, 6995 Bradford Avenue. Rev. Richard H. Adams is engaged in a series of sermons based on The Sermon On the Mount, and this week's sermon is "The Word as Deed." Tuesday evening, the Ever Faithful and Golden Rule Class hosts Mr.

and Mrs. SangBoone who are on a year's leave from their missionary station in the Philippine Islands. They will be lecturing and showing slides. The evening's activities will begin with a potluck dinner at 6 p.m. Also scheduled for Thursday evening is the square dancing class for beginners and those with experience.

A professional caller is on hand for the class CHP Officers Turn Babysitters FONTANA Optimism for a settlement in the dispute between the Fontana Teachers Association and the school board was expressed yesterday by FTA executive secretary Dallas Roper. "We could be nearing the end of this matter," Roper said. The FTA negotiating council and the school board will meet at 7 p.m. Monday to discuss problems confronting the Association in its relations with the board and district administration. "There have been signs from the board of a willingness to enter into meaningful talks," Roper said.

"Our position is reasonable and we hope theirs will be, too." At last Wednesday's school board meeting, Roper presented a proposal to Elderlv Turtle Leaves Her Home: Alice Is Name CHERRY VALLEY A 70-year-old turtle has wandered away from Green Pastures Home on Cherry Valley Boulevard and residents hope he will be returned. Ms. Shirley Bross, director of the home for mentally and emotionally retarded people said "Alice," a male turtle about 15 to 18 inches across crawled away from the home last Friday. Alice has a name plate attached to his back. His name and a Pasadena address are engraved on it.

When last seen, he also had a ring with a bell and small red ribbon on his back. Anyone seeing Alice can contact Mrs. Bross at Green Pastures 38356 Cherry Valley Blvd. Gibbs and Mrs. Susie Roddick.

Following the morning service, there will be an "Acquaintance Time" in Mayflower Hall with Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Greenleaf and family in charge. From 9.30 to 10:30 a.m. the Sunday Morning Adult Forum will hear Dr.

V. V. Kniseley, assistant superintendent for instruction of the San Bernardino Unified School District. His subject will be "Sex Education In the School and Church." The public is invited. A fifth and sixth grade Church School Class swimming party will be held Sunday afternoon at William Jacobs, 7277 Seine, Highland.

Dr. John E. Janbaz, pastor of the Bible Presbyterian Church, announces his sermon topic for Sunday morning will be "The Work of the Holy Spirit" from Galations 5. The special music will be a solo by Dr. James Moreland.

The pastor's evening topic will be Vain Worship" from Matthew "A Plans for extending the city dumpsite east of Alabama Street at the edge of the wash didn't win the approval of the Santa Ana River Regional Water Quality Control Board, but they weren't turned down either, Redlands Public Works Director John R. Shone reported yesterday. The board, meeting in Costa Mesa, listened to the Redlands proposal, discussed the feasibility of dumpsites along riverbanks and the possibility of water pollution down stream, then Si reus FRIDAY: AMBULANCE: 1:46 p.m. 23975 Central. 5:44 Greyhound bus Depot.

6:03 921 Hillcrest, Colton. 6:57 Base Line and Cactus. 8:22 1760 W. 28th St. 8:59 700 block N.

Riverside, Rialto. B. FIRE 5:55 p.m. Tar pot, 837 Rosalind. 6:26 Auto, 900 block Lynwood.

CALIF. DIV. OF FORESTRY: 12:10 p.m. Power pole, 8838 Calabash. 1:34 Power pole, 8821 Etiwanda.

4:03 Hay, 13000 Apple Valley Rd. 4:20 Vehicle, 25416 Cooley. Old Fashioned Hymn Sing SAN GORGONIO PASS California Highway Patrolmen know in the back of their minds they may someday be called on to deliver a baby, but local officers have gone one step further they've entered the babysitting field. A three-year-old boy, who says his name is Darin Michael Lawrence, is glad. Because Darin is safe and sound at the Banning home of CHP officer Ken Little where wife, Judy, is taking care of him.

The episode started when an Indio-to-Los Angeles bus pulled off in Cabazon and notified the CHP freeway weigh station it had an apparent heart attack victim aboard. Rushed to San Gorgonio Pass Memorial Hospital was the boy's mother, who hospital records list as Linda Bashaw, 22. Three-year-old Darin, meanwhile, had nowhere to go, and to his delight soon found himself at the weigh station "helping" the officers in their duties. Officers there found him a delight. "He's a cute little fellow," said officer Little, "with no inhibitions." The tot's greatest concern, it turns out, has to do with a tall tale he told the CHP Official Is Opposed To Oil Refinery BEAUMONT (AP) Citizens' groups opposing the proposed construction of an oil refinery here have an ally in Albert Pearlson, chairman of the Air Quality Committee of the State Environmental Quality Study Council.

Pearlson said Thursday the $10-million refinery tentatively planned by the Clinton Oil Co. of Wichita, should not be built here until more is known about how much pollution It would create. Search On for Man In Curly Wij which starts at 7:30 p.m. Rev. W.

John Parker, minister of the Highland Congregational Church, will preach the third sermon of the series "Life and Tomorrow" at the 10:45 a.m. service and his sermon topic will be "Adventure and Experience." Greeters for the morning will be Mrs. Elizabeth Deputies Investigate Copper Wire Theft VICTORVILLE Sheriff's deputies yesterday were investigating theft of some 5,000 pounds of copper wire, valued at $3,400, from the Continental Telephone Co. storage yard, near 16071 Mojave Drive. The wire was on 20 to 30 rolls.

All bare copper wire, it was of various sizes, reported Sheriff's Deputy Bernard G. Bishop. The theft was reported Thursday afternoon by a company employe, Robert Harris. REDLANDS The Police Department doubled its efforts yesterday to find and question a man driving a dark, late model, fast back style automobile with Alabama license plates. Officers would like to ask him why he drives around town wearing a curly blond wig and woman's clothing asking young women to ride with "him.

As of yesterday noon five reports had been made of the suspect's activities this week. ii ii.