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Ventura County Star from Ventura, California • 4

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Page 4 The Ventura (Calif) County Star ree Press Monday May 31 1948 5 i I rp 4W gfy sM rT? VVV AW1 4 I 1 A i' VI r7? fifes 77 Hj Ursz WOMEN HATER Tommy Thompson 4 New Britain Conn wears a suit but share the general feeling among seafaring men about women He still thinks a world The object of his disdain is 6 year old Ruth Swanson of Brook lyn Ruth was sailing on the Gripsholm for Sweden and Tommy was seeing some friends off Black Market Typists Getting Rich In Japan TOKYO (UR) market are getting rich in pov erty stricken Japan because of the shortage of English language type writers The lack of typewriters actual ly is a big bottleneck in foreign trade picture The demand for typists and American typewriters to handle the unprecedented amount of Eng lish language business transactions is far greater than the supply Japan never has had facilities for making western style type writers and there never has been such a demand for English lan guage paper work as there is to day Thousands upon thousands of reports must be made by Japan ese government officials to allied headquarters Thousands of pag es of English language typing are required daily in strug gling post war export business US officials are trying to help that important business along be cause it brings in foreign credits that Japan needs and tends to les sen the burden on the American taxpayer who currently is foot ing the bill here Japanese men and women who know how to and who have typewriters can just about write their own tickets or mere straight copying of documents a typist can get 300 yen per page Three hundred yen is about $125 War Planes Turn to Crop Dusting In Largest Campaign in World CALEXICO Cal Some 25 former war pilots are operating converted and navy train ing planes in what is probably the largest crop dusting campaign in the world The 25 planes can dust 25000 acres a day and the 500000 acres in Imperial valley are dusted at least once each year Some sec tions are dusted twice and even three times a year The work is dangerous because the pilots fly only two to four feet above the ground but only three planes have cracked up in the past year and no pilot has been in jured The poison used in the spraying is the war time developed DDT powder which is used in five and 10 percent strengths The planes can apply the spray at the critical moment when the soil is wet and other equipment Nevada Hotel Operator Threatens Court Suit LOS (UR) Operator Sanford Adler threaten ed today to sue over sale of the El Rancho Vegas hotel Las Vegas Nev for $3000000 to somebody else Owner Joseph Drown announced yesterday the new owners El Rancho incorporated will take possession June 14 under an agreement wherein they will lease the hotel for 10 years then buy it Drown said the new corporation includes Tom Kattleman and Ber nard Van der Steen both of Los Angeles and group of Nevada El Rancho hotel and Village in corporated headed by Sanford Adler has operated El Rancho Vegas since 1946 under a lease Adler contended he had spent $300000 on improvements and should have been given the first opportunity to buy He said he would file suit after he moves out June 14 get on the field The aerial attack on the millions and trillions of bugs worms and insects that inhabit this rich agri cultural district is successful in all but one case That is the aphis which carries mosaic a virus that attacks melon The problem is the object of research by California universities and experimental sta tions The pilot must do all the dusting either in the early morning or late in the afternoon He starts at dawn and flies till 7 am and again at 4 pm until dusk About 500 acres can be handled in one shift with a cost to the farmer of about $250 per acre Lettuce is dusted first for cut worms then for green worm and loopers and a third time for thrip The thrip is also dangerous to the melon lax requires one application per season to control the beet army worm Beets require three treatments per season Most of the cereal grains require no dusting Recently 3000 acres of cotton were dusted below the border in Mexico The treatment was so suc Humane Society Receives Dog Book The Ventura County Humane society is in receipt of a copy of an unusual directory in the com pilation of which it had a hand The 40 page work is titled With and rep resents a listing Of hotels and mo tor courts in 47 states which ac commodate guests with dogs as published by the Gaines Dog Re search center The data for this community was contributed by the local group Publication of this directory is sure to make for a happier vaca tion season fpr those of the na dog owners who contemp late traveling with their pets at the cunsent open market yen exchange rate Typists have to look for work They can sit at home and type as long as they can lift their hands Big export firms Japanese government offices and private in dividuals stand in line to beg these to take their work They are known as ket because their income runs far higher than the govern ment approved scale for office workers Because of the shortage of type writers the backlog of typing stacks up and foreign trade lags Japanese officials are anxious to import a large number of Ameri can typewriters and applications to bring in English language ma chines have been filed with allied headquarters Their efforts have been balked the Japanese said because of the allied belief that Japan should not import finished products at this time but should use her foreign credits for raw PEIPING A Chinese movie troubles never end representatives of the third Pei ping studio are complaining Some time ago angry barbers stormed a hreater which was showing a picture they deemed insulting to their profession Now a Manchu priest is suing the local studio five theaters and the directors of a movie which he says the shades of his im perial' ancestors He is also suing the principal actors Legal authorities believe that if the priest Prince Chin can prove that the movie really purported to the UUU ana a typcwni the correspondence materials The Japanese however feel that a few thousand typewriters would speed up their economic re covery Undoubtedly they will Doint that out to allied headquar ters when they can find a typist and a typewriter to handle cesstul that next season 40000 acies or cotion win be given 1 aerial treatment 0 0 Chinese Movie Makers Complaining RE ELECT John Cooke State Assemblyman DEMOCRATIC LOOR LEADER LAST SESSION Progressive Aggressive Cooperative Experienced deal with his doings he has considerable grounds for charging libel Most everyone in the picture cither dies a grisly death or chokes someone or goes mad The John con code for bedroom scenes has not been adopted in China incest and a rape scene The prin cess in the film becomes a war concubine The film generally follows the custom of Chinese studios in put ting considerable gusto in their pictures The defense counsel ar gues that the picture entitled No is just the ghost story of the kind Boris Karloff or Bela Lugosi would make The fact the Manchu family KEEP INTELLIGENCE VOTE OR James McBRIDE STATE SENATOR PRIMARY ELECTION TUESDAY JUNE 1st I 4 Primary Election Tues June 1st portrayed bears the same name as the Manchu prince still living is just an unhappy coincidence the defense submits THE PASSING SCENE ELECT This department reserved for the important little things of life Phone your items to 2277 Birthdays VGal Statistics Calendar RICE club Candidate Chance of Progress June 1st Primary Election A LOGICAL STEP ED PIERCE 8 Time and Tide Moon rise on (oWn (6) county SUPERVISOR Police 8:03 2:22 Sun rise Moon rise pm Pm 09 46 0 0 PRESIDENT 2 no YEAR pm pm Supervisor 3rd District of Ventura County 8:03 1:25 REWROTE CITY BUSINESS LICENSE ORDINANCE president venture COUNTY COMMUNITY CHEST Happy birthday to: Robert Mello San Bruno Shirley Elaine Burks ranklin Eugene Chap man Rutn Meilandt Los Angeles David Darhng jr MrsDonald raser Mrs Webster Bernhardt Holt Betty Jane Hart Mrs Allen Newton Hill Louise Ann letcher Carol Schullanberger loradel Green Earl Royer Piru Ronald Ester Mrs Cliff Hopkins Beverly Jean Broad bent Lucier Bonham rances Strick land Verna Mae Strong Norman Wardman Hazel Cardwell Bakersfield Kathleen Delores Mercado Santa Paula Bobby Jo Baca Santa Paula Hilda Lerma Nola Coble has filed for an annulment of her marriage to Ervin Coble and Jessie Lee Todd has instituted a separate maintenance action against George A Todd actions filed in superior court show Masonic dinner club Masonic tem Masonic temnle 6:30 club Tom Tom cafe Senior Teen Time 981st MONDAY MAY 31 Optimist club Ted Russell house 6:30 nm 20 30 club Sidecar 7 pm Ventura County Model Railroad club Oxnara community center 7:30 pm Los Cantadores junior college music room 7:30 pm BIRTH NOTICES COPADO Born to Mr and Mrs Daniel Copado at county hospital May 28 a daughter 'WARORD Born to Mr and Mrs Bobbie Lee Warford Ventura at county hospital May 29 a son SINGLE Born to Mr and Mrs Mon roe Single Santa Paula at Santa Clara Valley hospital May 26 a daughter MACIAS Born to Mr and (Mrs An thony Macias Santa Paula at Santa Clara Valley hospital May 26 a son PAYTON Born to Mr and Mrs Virgil Payton Ventura at Santa Clara valley hospital May 27 a daughter MORISOLI Born to Mr and Mrs Joseph Morisoli Santa Paula at Santa Clara valley hos pital May 27 a daugh ter MILER Bom to Mr and Mrs Charles Miler Santa Paula at Santa Clara Valley hospital May 26 a son 07 43 Ed Walsh Ventura has been called to Eureka because of the sudden death of his eldest broth er Dr Joseph Walsh Willie Lee Cameron is seeking a divorce from annie Mae Cam eron according to an action file in superior court Dryesf Year On Record Completed TUESDAY JUNE 1 Business and Professional club Masonic temple noon Casa de Rosas club 2 pm pie 6:30 pm Compass club pm Oxnard 20 30 7 pm Pan American center 7:30 nm National Guard Battery 981st A bn Seaside park armory 7:30 pm Plasterers and cement finishers union Labor temple 7:30 pm Oxnard city council city hall 7:30 pm Theodosia Burr Shepherd branch American Begonia society Alice Bart lett clubhouse 7:30 pm Los Padres ski club gas company 7:30 pm auxiliary' Typographical union 7:30 pm Carpenters union Labor temple 7:30 pm Oilworkers union No 120 65 ix way 7:30 pm DeMolays Masonic temple 7:30 pm Knights of Pythias IOO hall 8 pm San Buenaventura lodge No 214 and AM Masonic temple 8 pm Moose lodge oster park 8 pm Tonda council Degree of Pocahon tas IOO hall 8 pm VW IOO hall 8 pm juiuujiem ciuo uxnara ioof nail Santa Paula KaRfpm Star Moennir temple 8 pm American Veterans committee 84 Ventura avenue 8 pm SUN AND MOON May 31 Sun rise 5:47 amSun set 1:56 amlMoon set June 1 5:56 amfSun set 2:21 amlMoon set THE TIDES Mav 21 Low 12:04 am 2611:26 am High 4:15 am 346:19 pm June 1 Low 12:52 am 2012:06 pm High 5:36 am 336:44 pm Treed 'Cat' Offers Much Excitement OCEANSIDE (UR) Officer Tony Telebar answered a telephone call from an excited woman who reported that her dog had treed a cat near her home As Telebar arrived on the scene the dog left left the treed cat and chased the officer The cat then jumped from the tree and bound ed down the canyon The dog switched back after the cat and again treed the feline This time the officer turned a flashlight on the tree and saw not a house cat but a full grown wildcat He fired his service revolver and the animal fell from the tree into a clump of bushes There from the area but Telebar de clined to approach the wounded cat In the morning there was no sign of either a dead or wounded wildcat MARRIAGE LICENSES John Russel Shapard 38 Oxnard Nina Turner 26 Oxnard Orla Elton Johnston jr 34 Moor park Kathleen Winona Perdee 36 North Hollywood loyd Calvin Gressett 22 357 Leigh ton drive Virginia Hart 24 Ventura Charles Taylor Kalbaugn 21 700 Cedar street Twila Lee Visnick 26 242 Dalton street Billy Duane Pierce 18 Oxnard Mary Ellen Moorhead 17 Porterville Personal Mention LOS ANGELES June normally the beginning of the dry season will complete one of sou thern dryest years on record this year the weather long range forecast said today Average rainfall for the month ranges from only a trace at some points in the Imperial Coachella valley area to half an inch in a few mountain spots No rain at all is received in many years while rare out of season storms sometimes bring an inch or more Mountains surrounding Owens Valley and east of San Diego will be most likely to get appreciable rain the bureau said Temperatures will range from 70 to slightly above 80 degrees at beaches most June days rising to few surges of 110 in the lower in terior and desert regions (Political Advertisemit) jr IT) 'K Im Bi Ml 0 ill 1 chest i EiRi iwsWsWMfc Mk am WHAT PROMINENT LEADERS SAY ELECT I i Jim i JM uw Mtn rt jUtfSaa 'Sam' Barrett Supervisor 3rd District of Ventura County 500 CITRUS TREES OR SALE 1 Year Old Valencia ORANGE TREES Good Stock Sweetroot Yungling Rt 1 Box 113 Telegraph Rd Santa Paula Phone Santa Paula 744R1 Now Open Whitchurch Cleaners EKED and ET1 A Phone 2 6368 Ventura Ave Brock Rd Casitas Springs Mail Route 1 Box 554 Ventura Calif I iETeSramblett I CONGRESS 1 Pgr I only wish the farmers of your area knew of all the fine work that you have accomplished on their behalf Clifford Hope Chairman Agriculture Committee House of Representa tives I wish to express to you my deep appreciation for the co operation you have given and the interest you have evidenced in Veteran affairs The fine measure of success that we have had was due in no small part to your efforts Cross Col Inf Acting Deputy Administrator Veterans Administra tion May I suggest that you carefully analyze the record of every candidate for public of fice and determine Ais back ground and the Identity of his supporters GOVERNOR EARL WARREN There is no more conscientious or harder worker in Congress than Ernie Bramblett I hope that every free thinking Jeffer sonian Democrat will vote to return Ernie Bramblett to Con gress at the June primaries James Mellon State Chairman The Jeffersonian Democrats of Calif (Ernie) Bramblett is one of the rare public officials who puts Country above politics He has been a strong champion for veterans in every just veteran cause He has worked with tireless ability for a strong na tional defense Lynn Peterson Executive Chairman of the American Legion JggKwx I If 'Aral Wr Congressman Bramblett has al ways been a consistent friend of the Public Schools He knows the problems of education and is anxious at all times to assist in the passage of the various proposals which have to do with publio education Roy Cloud ormer State Execu tive Secretary California Teachers Association We wish to express our sincere thanks for the splendid support you gave the Rivers Oleo Tax Repeal bill White Secty Mgr Southern Calif Retail Grocers Asso Agriculture Men Endorse Bramblett Congressman Bramblett has gone all out for legis lation which has been beneficial to the agriculture interests of California and his district Vegetable Agriculture armers Ardants Guadalupe Never in the history of this county has able ex perienced representation been so necessary Ernie Bramblett has every qualification for being return ed to Congress Parks Prominent Grower and Rancher We strongly endorse Congressman Ernie Bramblett for reelection He is well Informed with respect to the problem of agriculture I Phillips Pres Calif Vegetable Growers Congressman Bramblett has consistently support ed all matters effecting agriculture and is the only member from the West on the important Agricul ture Committee I strongly endorse his candidacy and urge his re election rank Steindorff State Director arm Bureau ederation Keep an Independent Congressman ERNEST BRAMBLETT Vote for air and Impartial Representation Next Tuesday Bramblett for Congress Gene Dayton Chairman.

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