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WEATHER -VENTURE COUNTY 10 CENTS A COPY row. Little change in $1.50 a month. tures. mostly' sunny today and tomor- Star Free Press delivered and mail substriptions The single-copy price of The Star-Free Press is 10c. HomePatchy early morning fog but EIGHTY-FOURTH YEAR, No.

28 (18 PAGES TODAY) VENTURA, CALIFORNIA, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1958 ONE SECTION SINGLE COPY PRICE, TEN CENTS 'CHRIST CHILD' STOLEN MADONNA'S VIGIL The Virgin Mary stands at the nativity scene in Oxnard's where the Christ Child's image disappeared three days ago. Police said they are the theft. Meanwhile, parks and recreations department officials have issued a plea mannikin be returned since there is no time to get another. "What kind of person a thing like this?" one policeman asked today. (Star-Free Press photo by Bob Ventura Physicians Cool To Hospital Proposition By BOB VENTURA physicians listened lion profit making hospital On a show of hands, only one said he would favor such a C.

Jump. But hospital developer Marvin Berke made it plain he will try to build the hospital, even if the medical profession doesn't approve. The only thing that can stall his plans, he said, is if doctor disapproval causes prime investors to shy away from the deal. Berke said he is confident the hospital can win doctor acceptance in time, if its service and rates are competitive. At the conclusion of the meeting, Berke told a reporter he is encouraged at the attitude shown by the doctors.

ANSWERS QUESTIONS Berke and consultant Walter Metzer, administrative head of Mt. Sinai hospital, Los Angeles. answered many questions about the proposed hospital, which will be located on six acres of land on the south side of Tele graph road opposite Ventura college. Berke has the land at 4850 Telegraph under long term lease. He said he is sure Ventura's growth will create a need for all the beds in his hospital, and any that Foster Memorial can add too.

HOLT to plans for building a $1 milin the community last night. doctor of more than 40 present hospital. The one was Dr. Walter Dr. Joseph Maguire said he had heard that if local doctors didn't cooperate with the hospital, Los Angeles doctors would be brought in.

'ONLY LOCAL DOCTORS' Berke said there was no truth to this. Whatever happens, he said, he will deal only with local doctors. Asked by Dr. Fred Shore what he would do if a doctor disapproval resulted in no patients for the hospital, Berke replied: "I don't know, doctor." Metzer discussed the preliminary plans for the hospital. along with Architect Albert Criz who was present.

The structure will be onestory, of wood and stucco and masonry construction (Class III) and in the form of an The crossbar of the will be the auxiliary wing, including administration, surgery delivery room, etc. The other two wings will be the patient wings. The plan is for 49 beds for those ill, and 50 for convalescent patients. The hospital would have three surgeries, two delivery (See PLANS, Page 4) ZONING COMPROMISE REACHED: ROBERT LAGOMARSINO ELECTED OJAI MAYOR DOBERT Lagomarsino, 31-year-old was elected mayor of Ojai-the Lagomarsino, who was elected ceed Dr. Monroe Hirsch who has Two senior councilmen, D.

E. were nominated but declined. Lagomarsino was then the unanimous selection of the council. COMPROMISE OK'D In council business, the major item was a compromise proposal of the zoning issue concerning 17 acres of land in the city owned by William Lucking. On Nov.

24, at Lucking's request, the council approved a zoning change which would have allowed one-half acre lots on the property. Lucking appeared before the council last night to read a statement and to make a new request. The statement indicated that Lucking had been able to work out an agreement with neighboring property owners on a basis of developing the land into 21 lots on 21 acres (four of the acres being outside the city.) Some of the surrounding property owners have signed the agreement, Lucking told the council, and others will be asked to sign. He said he wanted the individual council members to indicate they would be favorably inclined to vote necessary action to approve such a proposal. (The land can be Elementary School Tax Rise Sought VENTURA elementary school board members last night voted to seek a tax rate increase at the polls during municipal elections April 14.

Trustees said they had no idea how much more than the cur. rent 95-cent tax rate would be necessary to satisfy increased demands of keeping the school district operating. A decision is to be made soon. But Superintendent A. Rolland Walker said, "The board has known that it was going to have to go into some deficit financing." 'LOWEST BUDGET' Bruce Johnston said the election "seems inevitable" with Ventura operating on one of the lowest budgets in southern California.

"It should have been increased in '58," said board President Lawrence Palmer. A $9,000 survey, since last July 1 under the chairmanship of Irving Melbo, dean of the school of education at USC, apparently brought the tax rate question to a head. A preliminary report from Melbo indicated that the district could not survive with so low a tax rate. The district's assessed valuation per pupil, Melbo reported, has dropped from a $41,777 high in 1953-54 to 862. By 1961-62, ne added, the valuation per pupil will be $20,000, less than half its worth five years ago.

And district's valuation tumbled, the report showed, enrollment rose so rapidly as to nearly double during that same five-year period. Projected estimates point out that school populations will continue to increase. Another factor: Every new group of students requires new (See VENTURA, Page 9) Russ Security Chief Ousted MOSCOW. -IP- The Soviet Union's top policeman, Gen. Ivan A.

Serov, has been relievled of the his Soviet job. The announcement newsgovernment paper Izvestia today said he had been transferred to other duties but gave no hint of what they were. Serov's successor as chairman of the committee for state security also was not announced. Most foreign observers in Moscow believed Serov may perhaps have been given an even more important job. He has long been a friend and close associate of Nikita S.

Khrushchev, who heads both the government and the Communist party. Some Western experts on Soviet affairs believed Serov had been demoted because the Izvestia announcement did not give his new post, the customary procedure when a Kremlin official is promoted. Serov, a 53-year-old army general, had become well known abroad in recent years for being in charge of security arrangements on Premier Khrushchev's trips. He was widely known earlier for directing the plan to liquidate anti-Communist elements in the Baltic countries in 1940. Jury On $900,000 California craft harbors commission this morning authorized a loan of $900,000 to the Ventura Port district for the purchase of land for a proposed small boat harbor in the Pierpont area.

Ned Porter, attorney for the district, called The Star-Free Press from Blythe, where the commission is meeting, to say the action was unanimous. The authorization must be approved by the state legislature next January, according to Porter, but it is believed that this will be a technicality. The commission's approval of the loan gives the port district the go signal for land negotiations which will be one of the last steps before actual construction of the harbor. The district requested the interim loan for land acquisition purposes. Acquiring the harbor property was made a prerequisite to obtaining the private finances for harbor construction.

The state loan expires in three years and is to be repaid at two percent interest, Porter said. The money to repay the loan will be included in the revenue bonds for the harbor construction, he said. The Robert Schweser Omaha, has agreed to purchase the district's revenue bonds for harbor construetion when all conditions are met. The small crafts harbors commission was meeting today to consider loan requests from various parts of California. Four Hour Traffic Snarl at Madera; 11 Are Injured MADERA.

-P- A snarl of traffic that lasted four hours on fogbound U.S. highway 99 five miles south of Madera this morning sent eleven persons to Madera hospitals, one critical injuries. A Greyhound bus was so badly wrecked its passengers were taken to Madera for transfer to another vehicle. Three of them were treated for minor injuries. Four ambulances and a score of highway patrol cars were kept busy.

Sylva Antone of Wester boulevard, Hayward, was trapped in the cab of his heavy truck when it was smashed in a 12-vehicle pile-up. A school bus, the Greyhound bus and four trucks were involved. No pupils were in the school bus. The first accident report was shortly after 7 a.m. Highway Patrol cars were still directing the slowed down traffic at 11 o'clock, although fog had then lifted to give fair visibility.

13 Nabbed In Huge Bank Fraud OS ANGELES. -(UPD-Details of a fantastic million dollar bank fraud scheme came to light today in the aftermath of arrests of 13 businessmen and banking officials. Among those arrested were the president, the vice president land a cashier National of the nearby the Valley bank, institution which allegedly is short one million dollars or more in cash. FBI agents revealed after yesterday's mass arrests that bank was methodically drained of its funds over a period extending more than three years by means of persons cashling thousands of worthless checks. One man allegedly cashed $296,067 in checks against an account containing only $131.

Three others issued checks for $208,116 against an account with $1.30 in it. Eleven men and one woman were arraigned on charges of conniving with John E. Petersen, mild-mannered former vice president of the bank, to cash checks without sufficient funds. CALLED 'VICTIM' Asst. U.S.

Atty. Thomas R. Sheridan said Petersen was a "victim of cir "He began by cover 1) for friends who wrote che they couldn't cover. When 's learned he was being a 'good guy' to his friends they demanded he hold checks too, and soon he was enmeshed." Sheridan said national bank examiners had failed to detect the situation in regular checks because only a 100 percent audit could reveal it and the records were so doctored that money was taken out of the general fund to cover such checks. The case broke Dec.

2 when Petersen was arrested several days after the bank had been sold to the Security-First has tional bank, which guar- anted depositor's accounts. ACCOUNTS BACKED The depositors' accounts also are backed by the federal government. All were released after their arraignment on bail varying (from $20,000 to $500 except his Cla- brorence C. Claycamp and ther, Henry, both of Pacoima, who were held in lieu of 1000 bail each. Others arraigned were Maurice Ratner, bank president; Charles Forsch, 50, a bank director; Frank Fishkin, 39, Sun Valley; James G.

Bonar, 47, Glendale; Walter John Gauger, 27, former assistant bank cashier; Carl L. Horn, 34, Encino; Lester Gam, 62, Burbank; Jeanette Claycamp, Henry's wife, and Charles Bascom Tribble, Sun Valley. VETERAN JUDGE F. E. BAGNALL AFTER LONG SEIGE OF ILLNESS Judge Frederick Ernest Bag-1 nall, who presided over courts in Santa Paula for 23 years, died yesterday in a San Bernardino hospital after a long illness.

At the time of his death, Judge Bagnall was judge of the unito fied Santa Paula-Fillmore-Piru judicial district court. He was made judge of the former Santa Paula city court in 1935 and three years later was elected justice of the peace for Santa Paula township. Born in 1873 in Beloit, Mr. Bagnall came to California 8 with his family in 1880, settling 15 first in Los Angeles. In 1888, the 18 Bagnalls moved to the Simi val9 ley, where Mr.

Bagnall was en14 gaged in agricultural enterpris7 es before moving to Santa Paula 13 in 1933. The family home is at 1321 Fern Oaks drive, Santa Paula. Couple Sues Hospital For $200,000 A Ventura couple has filed $200,000 dam age suit against Foster Memorial hospital, Stella Walker and number of John Does, over the death of their 33-day-old daughter last January. Plaintiffs in the suit are David G. and Shirley Webster, 1226 Brunswick lane.

They are asking damages for what they charge was wrongful death caused by malpractice, according to court records. The Websters' daughter, Tamara, was born on Dec. 24, 1957, at Foster hospital, and died on Jan. 25, 1958. On Dec.

31, 1957, the suit claims, the child was "carelessly and negligently cared for and treated." An excessive dose of medicine is said to be the cause. The parents also claim that three named doctors were careless and negligent in examining, treating, and diagnosing and caring for the child. Attorneys for the Websters are Magana and Olney of Los Angeles. Regulus Firing Set Tomorrow Plaza Park investigating that the would do Button.) The navy today canceled a Regulus II missile shoot aboard the USS King County after two half-hour delays in firing off the Ventura county coast. The missile test ship, a converted invasion ship for tanks, turned toward its Port Hueneme berth shortly after 1 p.m.

Naval spokesmen said the supersonic missile will be fired sometime tomorrow morning. Today's firing was to have been the first surface-ship firing of the Regulus II. It has been launched from the submarine Grayback at least once in this area, and three times from ground launching devices. Regulus II is capable of traveling with an atomic warhead at twice the speed of sound targets more than 1,000 miles distant. ON THE INSIDE Community Chest to decide its own fate.

Story on Page 13. Other features: Bridge Page Comics, Puzzle Page Editorials Page Passing Scene Page Radio, TV Logs Page Society Pages 6, Sports Pages 12, MINOR INJURIES Renner, 32, of 174 He was instrumental in the boulevard, Thousand founding and development of the sustained minor injuries California Prune and Apricot afternoon Growers' association as well as off W. Potrero road the California Walnut Growers' a hillside, the high association. Active in community reported. He was affairs, he played a role in the St.

John's hospital. unification of the Simi school Goldfine Charges Adams Pal Faces 18-Count Action By HELEN THOMAS WASHINGTON. -(UPI)W indicted by a federal grand tempt of congress. The charges were based on questions -all involving transactions ment -at house hearings last July on his troubles with federal regulatory agencies and his friendship with presidential as sistant Sherman Adams. The indictment charges that Goldfine "unlawfully refused to answer pertinent questions." Goldfine told the house legislative oversight committee the questions concerned the "internal affairs" of a private com- ADAMS WRITING BOOK, THEY SAY BOSTON, Mass.

IP- The Boston Globe said today Sherman Adams, former sistant to President Eisenhower, will get $100,000 4 for book on the Eisenhower administration. The Globe article said of Adams: "He will sign in the next few days a contract with Harper Bros. and Life magazine at figure of around $100,000, according to New York publishing circles." Adams declined comment. The newpaper said Adams has been working on his book almost constantly since he quit his White House job after charges of using influence for his friend, Bernard Goldfine, gift-giving Boston industrialist. Adams has denied any wrongful influence in his acceptance of gifts from Goldfine.

pany and were therefore outside the committee's powers of inquiry. Today's indictment was the second legal action involving Goldfine in two days. A U.S. court of appeals in Boston terday denied Goldfine's appeal from a lower court order that he turn over certain finrecords to U.S. tax investigators." The records, involving five Goldfine textile firms, were taken by truck to the Boston internal revenue service yesterday afternoon.

House investigators said Goldfine had borrowed money from Boston Port Development a real estate firm in which he was majority stockholder, over a period of eight years. It said that during this time the company failed to file required reports to the securities and exchange commission (SEC). Committee counsel Robert W. Lishman said such reports' "would have revealed this situation to other stockholders or the public," and that the committee had a right to find out whether SEC regulations needed strengthening or whether "improper pressure" was involved in the SEC's lack of action. The house voted 369-8 last August to cite the New England BULLETINS IS PASADENA.

-(UPI)- The Pacific Coast Conference terminated the of UCLA today, an that probation. means mainly that the Bruins will be allowed to participate in profits of the coming Rose Bowl game. NORFOLK, Va. -(UPI)-A crippled tanker plane, laden with fuel, slammed into one of cluster of three houses today near the Norfolk naval air station. The plane's four crewmen and two chil.

dren in the house were killed. WASHINGTON. -P- Sen. ate sources said today that Premier Khrushchev told Sen. Hubert H.

Humphrey (D. Minn.) the Soviet Union has an intercontinental ballistic missile capable of delivering its warhead more than 8,000 miles. (See Earlier Story Page 2) STARGAZER SAW: MILDRED SPILLER finding her notes. MARGARET DeWITT tang(ling with a microphone. Industrialist Bernard Goldfine was jury today on 18 counts of con- Goldfine's refusal to answer 18 of the Boston Port Develop- manufacturer for contempt in balking at 22 questions.

Prosecutors said the number was reduced to 18 because of legal technicalities in the way in which four of the questions were asked at the hearings. Goldfine is to be arraigned in federal, court here Friday. Judge John J. Sirica set bond at $1,000. a Ventura attorney, last night youngest in the city's history.

to the council in April, will sucasked that he be replaced. Coleman and Frank C. Robinson, I ROBERT LAGOMARSINO ed in such a manner only after Ventura restrictive covenants expire in Oaks, 1965.) yesterday Lucking said the new auto ran and down will allow him to develop the way patrol (See COMPROMISE Page 2) treated at If convicted, Goldfine could sentenced up to one year in prison and fined up to $1,000 for each count in the indictment on which he is found guilty. BERNARD GOLDFINE 12,600 Acre Feet To Be Released From Lake Piru Heavy releases of water from Santa Felicia dam are to be resumed tomorrow with approximately 12,600 acre feet of water to be sent down Piru creek to the Santa Clara river and on to the Saticoy diversion works within two weeks. Announcement of the increased releases was made today by officials of United Water Conservation district who said that land owners and water users along the creek and river are being notified of the resumption of major flows along the channel.

The releases have been reduced to a minimum during construction of diversion works protection at Saticoy. This final release period will complete the planned use of waters stored during the 1957- 58 runoff season. A maximum storage of 78,500 acre feet behind the dam was reached in May, At the present time 18,600 acre feet still remain in storage and when the release period is completed the approximately 6,000 acre feet remaining will be held as a reserve. During the runoff season last year and with the releases from the dam, a total of 74,500 acre feet was diverted at Saticoy and spread in the Saticoy and El Rio spreading grounds. This is approximately three times as much water as was ever diverted and spread at Saticoy prior to the completion of the new facilities.

Judge Bagnall and his wife, the former Sadie Lothridge of Oxnard, who survives him, celebrated their golden wedding anniversary last April. In addition to his wife, Judge Bagnall is survived by three daughters, Mrs. Fred H. Ward of La Canada, Mrs. Harold B.

Santa Paula attorney Edwin Beach was appointed today by the board of supervisors to fill the unexpired term of Judge Bagnall Brown of San Bernardino and Mrs. Robert S. Smith of Santa Paula, and four grandchildren. Private services will be conducted tomorrow morning in the Simi Community Methodist church, with Dr. Ralph W.

Lee, former pastor of the church, and Dr. William H. Clark, pastor of the Santa Paula Presbyterian church, officiating. StephensBobbitt mortuary of San nardino is in charge of arrangements. Friends who wish to attend commitment services may meet, at 12 noon tomorrow at the Simi Icemetery.

Stock Averages 30 industrials 558.13, up 2.05. 20 railroads 153.94, up 0.16. 15 utilities 87.45, up 0.25. 65 stocks 194.63, up 0.57. Sales today were about 000 shares compared with 000 shares Monday.

SHOPPING DAYS LEFT BUY CHRISTMAS SEALS 1958 CHRISTMAS GREETINGS 1958 8 HELP FIGHT TB JUDGE F. E. BAGNALL district and in the building of the Simi Community Methodist church. Judge Bagnall conducted an insurance business in Simi and Santa Paula for many years,.