The San Bernardino County Sun from San Bernardino, California • Page 27

8-4 THE SUN (CCC) Thursday, Nov. 19, 1970 Victorville Views Film Premiere Without Spotlights, Rolls Royces By PRISCILLA NORDYKK Sun-Telegram Staff Writer VICTORVILLE There were no spotlights, microphones, Rolls Royces, minks or flashy jewels just the basic ingredients for a premier film. But there were the usual screen stars and autograph-seeking movie fans. In a way, it was like homecoming. The Hollywood "beautiful people" mingled with local folks of all ages.

Co-star Sherry Bain, who claims Lake Arrowhead as home, graciously signed autographs and repeated, "Thank you for coming." The audience identified with scenes of a local mortuary, cafe, school, businesses and streets. Twice, the men- tion of Victorville brought laughs and applause. The premier had the same informality as watching home movies, only the story was much more interesting, the photography was first class and music to be released in an album shortly was better than good. If local acceptance means anything, Hanawalt and Topper expressed their appreciation to the community for cooperation and friendship extended to movie crews while on location in early spring. They hope to make other films on location in Victor Valley in the near future.

A major portion of the movie was shot at "The Ranch," a cafe southeast of Apple Valley and at Kemper Campbell Ranch. Also seen are Dudley Mortuary, Bob's Tire Shop, Street businesses, St. Mary's School, an Apple Valley service station and the Shannon adobe in Lucerne Valley. Scenes were also shot in the mountain communities, at Lake Isabella, Carmel and Monterey. A feature of the Victorville premiere was display of the chopper, "Baby," built by Frank Cherolla of Downey.

He supplied 11 motorcycles for the film and played a minor role. Also appearing in the film and premiere showing were Larry Eisley, John Cestare, Miss Bain's consultant; and Kathy Conley, an Apple Valley resident who played a minor role. "Carry Me Home, Brother," set for general release in about six weeks, may be renamed, "To Bury An Angel," said the producers. Sun-Telegram phots Victor ville Fan Club Sherry liain talks with local youngsters while signing autographs -m X. vf tr tfW i "Carry Me Home, Rrother," will be a success for movie makers and stars alike.

It certainly was a success for Victorville Kiwanis Club which realized a profit of nearly $1,200 for youth work in the community. Written and directed by Burt Topper, who attended the showing with producer Charles Hanawalt, "Carry Me Home, Rrother" is the story cf a Vietnam veteran (Robert Fuller) who returns from war with the body of his best friend and a request from the dead man to take care of a motorcycle, referred to as "Baby." Fuller does all that and subsequently falls in love with his buddy's girl friend, played by Miss Rain. Miss Rain, whose movie career began four years ago when she was "discovered" while working as a grocery clerk in Hollywood, was born in Redlands and raised in Lake Arrowhead where her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Harold Rain, are owners of the Sportsman Restaurant.

She is 22 and a graduate of Jtim of the World High School. She feels a kinship with the desert. "I love it here and I loved every minute of my work here. My skin tanned and my hair turned blonde I never looked so good in my life." 'Good Idea' Mikesell Tells City Poll Shows No Interest Fontana Cold Shoulders 'Share the Airport' Plan RIALTO the airport" proposals have received a cool reception from Fontana, Mayor Vernon A. Craig reported yesterday following a telephone conversation with Fontana's Mayor Ted Porter.

Porter informed him, Craig said, that a poll of the Fontana council showed its members were unanimous in their disinterest in a proposal made Monday night by John Grow at a regular meeting of the City Council. At that time Grow moved that Mayor Craig be instructed to discuss the possibility of a 'joint powers" agreement with Fontana by which both cities could share in both advantages and maintenance of Rialto Airport. "Now," he added, have a com-, pleted, operable airport and feel it is one with which any community can be proud to be affiliated." The re-activiation of Gilfillan has been opposed by Rialto largely on the grounds, of safety. Traffic coming in on the Highland Avenue field would make it necessary for Rialto to correct its flight patterns, changing them from north to south in such a manner as to direct-planes over heavily-populated which they are largely able to avoid with the present patterns. Yesterday afternoon, Mayor Porter was reported out of town and the Sun was unable to reach him for additional comment.

Craig said his conversation with Porter indicated that Fontana is not only disinterested, it also has no money in its budget to cover its share of airport expenses and that Fontana is still hopeful of having the Gilfillan airport on Highland Avenue re-activated by the county. Craig commented that Rialto undoubtedly would have made such a proposal earlier if the city had realized how interested Fontana was in airport development. He said, however, he did not think it would have been fair to ask Fontana to participate in a project which was nebulous and only in the initial stages of development. Sun-Toleqram pholo by Bob Smith Rescue Team Tries Out New Iloisl At Inland Center Through Saturday While four members of Ibe San Bernardino Sheriff's Mountain Search and Rescue Team bring up a leammal on a litter, Sheriff Frank Bland receives operating instructions from builder Herschel Boyce for a new trailer-mounted winch. Bland praised Boyee and his son, who was Killed in an accident recently, for constructing the winch, and who donated parts for the winch.

The winch, with feet of cable, will be towed behind the rescue unit's carryall and is capable of hoisting more than 3,000 pounds, and is gasoline powered. Ecology Story Told in Display Warrant Charges Kidnaping SAN RERNARDINO An ecology color photograph collection by National Panorama of Conservation Action will be on display at the Inland Center here through Saturday. Eight of the nation's top organizations in the field of conservation and environment have banded together to put the display on a nationwide tour. Each of the groups gets a chance to tell the part of the ecology story that relates to their activities. "We know it is doing a good job," said Paul Anthony, originator of the idea.

The shopping mall in San Bernardino is the sixth and last stop for the display in California until November of next year. In between, the ecology story will be told in 43 areas of the country. Another idea created by Anthony is expected to grow as the tour progresses. This is the "a penny for ecology" plan, a concept to finance ecology and conservation programs through the collection of an extra penny on consumer products bearing the Pennecology emblem. Anthony is collecting signatures of persons pledging their willingness to spend the extra penny.

So far he has about 5,000 signatures and hopes to collect 100,000 before taking his idea to manufacturers of consumer products. said Rrassell struck him three times, knocking him to the ground, then drove him 70 miles to Iiarslow where doctors used Ifi stitches to close the cuts on Corley 's scalp. Corley said Rrassell also made him tell doctors there that the injuries were received during a fight, in Las Vegas, rather than in San P.eniai'dino. Corley said Rrassell then drove him to Indio where he worked for a government, plant experimentation station. There, Corley said he was ordered by Rrassell to call his supervisor and resign.

Rrassell then ordered Corley out of the state, Follett said. Follett said Rrassell was reported to be in North Carolina on Nov. 14 and believed to be returning to the San Rernardino area. SAN RERNAKDINQ A bench warrant has been issued for the arrest of a university graduate student on charges he kidnaped, robbed and assaulted a governmental employe here earlier this month. Sheriff's Lt.

Charles Foiled said the warrant was issued yesterday for Charley Harney Rrassell, a doctorate candidate at the University of Utah. According to Follett, the complaint and warrant charge that lirasscll attacked, robbed and then kidnaped Ernest Lulhcr Corley 2(i, of 2251) Darby Muscoy. Corley told detectives that on Nov. (i. he was outside a trailer where Krassell's ex-wife, whom Corley knew in South Carolina, was living, and he heard a noise in the shrubs behind him.

He turned, thinking it was a dog, and saw Rrassell approaching him with a metal bar or pipe in his hand. Corley RIALTO "It seems like a very good idea to me" so commented Supervisor Daniel Mikesell late Tuesday afternoon when he learned of the "joint powers" proposal being put forward by liialto to Fontana concerning use of Rialto Muncipal Airport. He told the Sun he felt the matter represented a "friendly gesture" on the part of Riallo and expressed hopes the two communities can reach agreement on the matter. Not only is he in favor of the proposal being pursued, but he also expressed a wish to sit in on any discussions which may be arranged between representatives of the two concerned communities. The supervisor said it would probably be sometime next week before he could give the matter more Intensive study.

He said he is leaving today for Washington D.C., where he will testify for the need of funds to aid flood control projects in the county a matter which he considers very crucial because of the devastation of the recent forest fires. Military Trial Set in Death of Kiehard Voices SAN RERNARDINO A military indictment has been issued against an Army non-commissioned officer in connection with the shooting of an Upland soldier in his barracks in Vietnam last July, Itep. Jerry L. Pettis, R-Loma Linda said yesterday. "The Department of Defense has told me that a non-commissioned officer has been indicted in the killing of Spec.

4 Richard H. Vokes, and that he will be tried Monday at Long Binh," Pettis told, The Sun-Telegram in a telephone interview. "They told me I will be advised of the verdict on or about Nov. 30," he said. "The Department of Defense said the reason I was not informed earlier was because it took them this long to investigate the case because of conflicting testimony." Yokes, 22, was wounded In his barracks at Moc Hoa, near the Cambodian border, July 5, and died at a field hospital near Saigon July 25.

His father, John Vokes of Upland, had just boarded a commercial airliner to fly to his son's bedside when he received news of the soldier's death. Since receiving a telegram on July informing him that his son was in critical condition, the elder Vokes had tried repeatedly to receive permission from the Army to fly to Vietnam. After receiving assistance from Pettis, Vokes learned that the Army could not. provide transportation for a civilian into a war zone, but would not prevent his trip if he could afford to fly by a commercial airline. An anonymous donor provided Vokes, who had been out of work for seven months because of illness, the fare for a round trip passage to Saigon.

Since receiving news of his death, the soldier's family has been attempting unsuccessfully to learn the circumstances of the shooting. Pettis, on several occasions, criticized the military officials for their delay in providing the information to the family. Slu pid Bird' -Or Is It? window its own perhaps pecking away at the glass in an attack against reflection. He feels ecology and conservation could get the support of 40 million Americans and the Pennacology program could raise $100 million a year with one-eighth going to the eight orga-' nizations in National Panorama of Conservation Action, one-fourth going to special projects selected by a board of trustees and the rest for local projects and new national programs. The public would be able to vote for Pennecology programs by using the Pennecology emblems from products, each emblem giving them a vote.

The Bank of America is paying the transportation expenses of the panorama's California tour. Organizations involved include: Na- tional Audubon Society, The Fund for Animals, Enrivonmental Defense Fund, American Forestry Association, National Wildlife Federation, The Nature Conser- -vancy, The Sierra Club and The Wilderness Society. Willie Mays Visits Desert For Lecture By ELAINE MARABLE Sun-Telegram Staff Writer VICTORVILLE An enthusiastic audience viewed the baseball world, through the recollections of the world-famous Willie Mays Tuesday at Victor Valley College Gymnasium. A crowd of nearly 300 persons ranging from young Little Leaguers to oldtimers heard the San Francisco Giants center-fielder admit that this, his first lecture tour, had him "a little leery." After five hours visiting Victor Valley and the homes of VVC Dean William 1 Alcorn and the Charles Hyders, Mays commented, "People here are so close. This reminds me of home." "Home" to Willie Mays was the town of Birmingham, which he left as a teenager to play professional baseball first in Philadelphia and later with the old New York Giants.

The nattily dressed outfielder frequently displayed his droll humor as he devoted most of the evening to a lively and sometimes abrasive question-and-answer session. Mays put down Jim Bouton's recent book "Ball Four" as "a lot of injustice, to a lot of players and not good for baseball." Mays doubted he would ever Babe Ruth's home run record. He said he needs 87 more to go and I don't, think I'll be around long enough. Hank Aaron has a better chance." Mays might not capture that title he did capture an audience Tuesday night, one that will long remember his visit to the high desert. 'A if' i-''iTW'r-- I'1--" ALT A LOMA (AP) A little bird has a daily habit of telling something to the Anthony Fcld family.

Like, when to get up. The bird, which appears to be a barn swallow, acts as a fowl alarm clock, says Mrs. Feld. Jt taps on a window pane every morning. Leaving an open window didn't change things.

The bird found a closed window. The Felds theorize either the bird is exceedingly faithful, or a little stupid 0)iaU: of Masses' Will Ho Discussed SAN RERNARDINO Rabbi Norman F. Feldheym will preach the sermon at the 8:15 p.m. Sabbath Eve service at Temple Emanu El, 3512 North tomorrow. His subject, will be "Religion is the Opiate of the Masses." Due to the recent fires the EMTY (Emanuel Temple Youth) Winter Retreat planned this weekend at the Roy's Club of Hollywood Camp near Running Springs has been canceled.

As a substitute the youth will hold a picnic-type "Thing" Sunday, Nov. 22. The group will meet at the temple parking lot at 10:30 a.m. and go by motor caravan to Perris Hill Park. The program will include dancing.

Train Derails Willi 4 Cars of Volatile Liquid COSHOCTON, Ohio (UPI)- Twenty-five cars of a Pcnn Central Railroad freight train, including four tank cars filled with flammable liquid, derailed southwest of here yesterday, forcing evacuation of a St. Regis Paper Co. plant. Coshocton County sheriff's deputies said volunteer fire departments from North Tuscarawas and South Tuscarawas poured water on one ruptured tanker containing highly volatile methyl methacrylate. Two other tankers contained vinyl chloride and a fourth tanker was filled with acetone.

The derailed cars were at the middle of a 119-car freight en route from Colbus, Ohio, to Pittsburgh, when air brakes broke. The wreck tore up 700 feet of the railroad's two-track main line. Employes of the paper company were evacuated from buidings 25 feci from the wreckage. Officials sealed off Ihe area. USMC pholo here being tested by GSgt.

Frank Kojder at Twentynine Palms Ularine Corps Base, capable of bouncing signals off satellites to 8,000 miles away. Marines Test Idea Looking toward the day when field commanders can receive orders directly from Washington, KCA Victor developed this prototype radio transmitter,.