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i jc'- -v Ml 4- 3 CITIZEN-NENS Hollywood Tuesday June 91 953 £an Bajailed riculum A tigged the bombahelL v-fw Day wsX first inhde a legal holiday Jn-NewXtekinVM 1873 and is now obaerved lnall' but a few of the Southern States' of the United SUtea yJ the entire sum neatly" placed under a -stone on his front 'steps by the repentant thief CUPPERS CONTUSION Official reporters of debate in the House aeldmnenake mistakes in identifying members but a crew haircut evidently threw them tv The Cbngressional Record quotes Rep Holt (R-Calif) as asking a question or-two about mining Holt -who has no mining In his LJL Qwnty District did a little investigating The questions hie found were asked by Rep Rhodes (R-Ariz) Holt hu worn a crew haircut since his days In' the Marine Corps' Rhodes came: to Congress wearing his hair- fairly long but decided on a crew haircut last week Hence the fusion One school administrator hung the label of TbombshelT todajon the proposal of Harry: HQhnan member-of the Board of -Educa-tianto reorganize the school ad- ministration ir- --'V' And the superintendent of schools Dr Alexander Stoddard' -approached the question gingerly agreeing that's shake-up gentle pne might be all right i but'- cautioned that suggestions may not be te answer program submitted to the School board yesterday would put a deputy superintendent in charge of educational functions from kindergarten through Junior college Six of seven the IV 000 tesaiers complained in a recent -survey that not enough consideration Is devoted to selection of classroom materials such as books and charts he pointed out Declaring that the survey indicated a "lack of continuity In our educational program" Hillman said his program would lead to no reduction in the staff and might coat the school system some' money How much he was unable to say Maurice Blair associate superintendent in' charge of cur i Police spread a drasnet today for two thug who dragged a 52-year-old father of 10 through the streets behind their speeding car Antoniq Portillo a laborer of 464S Gleason died at Angelus Hospital of a broken neck and pavement -i Deputies at first quoted a witness as saying Portillo was roped to the car's rear bumper- and dragged until the rope snapped Later they said this report had net been confirmed and Portillo may have caught his neck In the bumper in trying to Jump on the car as It was driven away Capt' Floyd Rosenberg said Portillo got in an argument with two men in a bar at 4639 XL Third Just before bis death The dispute continued outside the place he said and the two men rammed their car into an auto owned by Portillo1! friend Reyes Bustamente 42 of 815 Blades St An unidentified witness chased the strangers' car' and fired ala shots In a vain effort to halt It He stopped when Portillo fell away from the car in front of 539 Arizona Ave his neck broken 'The death car hw not been found -The dead body was identified from fingerprints and by his son Antonio Jr 28 who was summoned to the County Morgue to make the positive identification Portillo is survived by his widow Frances 46 and 10 children ranging in age ft vm'8 to 28 9039 Resarfy BU today said -Raymond Tanori 37' OC1Q032 Croesus St stepped 'right' out of the pages of an Henry short story Tlshori flipped a brick through liquor store window at 1607 E- 103rd St he would arrested patrolmen A- Kant-hack andD-XX Porter reported TVe been trying to get in Jail all day and all Tanori said "I tried Firestone sheriff's station and -the Watts Newton St and Lincoln Heights precincts but everywhere I went the ps Just laughed and told they couldn't arrest me until did Bone thing illegal so busted the window" When the 77th St precinct police puled up in the prowl car and grabbed him Tanori like the Henry carbon-copy character in "Hie Cop and the Anthem' whined: a a break changed my mind I want to go to Jail after alL" He wa booked on charges of suspicion of burglsry Refugee Agency Asked WASHINGTON (OD The Senate Judiciary Committee yesterday approved a bill to make one'UJS official responsible for an overall American refugee policy and program in an Office of Commissioner of Refugees- with its head appointed by the President 1 how our family maybe i (mm TELEVISION SURVIVES This TV receiver being examined here by Francis Wilson was virtually the only undamaged item -in bouse demoK ished by tornado which struck Erie Mich yesterday Mrs Constance Leyland of Wellesley Mass pleaded guilty to a speeding charge but the Judge agreed she had a legitimate excuse She was arrested May 8 while rushing to a hospital to have a baby THE TRAVELER -t The Bronx Zoo has a new boarder No one knows how the a penguin from the southern tip of South America made his way north Joseph Marano of the Bronx found the bird in his front yard Mrs Biby sqy Sobbing Identify Dead Rescue site of Mich CD at this bleak site without uttering a sound As bodies were Identified FIGURES DON'T So directors -of the National Dairy Council kM-' going 'to use their own to try- to -prove: that dairy products aren't fattening all weighed in to start 90-day diet calling for daily recommended amounts of food nutrients The diet includes Plenty of milk at least "a half pint per meal meat cheese butter fish poultry ice cream fruits and vegetables v' OPERATION STOOP i students at UCLA have begun a "snipe i hooting" expedition in search of thousands' of dis-' carded cigaret butts The students claim mlx- ture of cigaret -ashes day and sand when properly-fired produces a beautiful glaze on pottery UNIMPRESSED JUDGE James Pharr 25-year-old Negro accused'of draft-dodging told Chicago court he believed he was immune from service as a descendant Neanderthal He fold -'Judge Joseph Perry that he found a striking resem-lance between the contours of his skull and a statue of a Neanderthal man at a Chicago museum "Five years" said the Judge CONSCIENCE Yves Chiron's house inVic-Sur-Cere France was burglarized of 1400 TWo days later he found Father Attacks Kidnap Suspect Pent-up anger towards the spect accused of kidnaping Ms three-year-old daughter exploded a court corridor as the irate ether slugged the prisoner and kicked him in the- punts Thrget of the assault yesterday was Joseph CL BairoS 42 who was found by police In his room at 1723 Pico Blvd with the girl Zambia Grader last day 28 after the clerk in a nearby market John Katsouloudakia 30 noticed him offer the child some candy and then led her away by the hand Monroe Frazier the father tore into Bairoa as detectives escorted him into court yesterday Municipal Judge Louis Kaufman heard the' evidence against the defendant and ordered him to stand trial in Superior Court Kin of Hoover Rites Pending Funend services are for MrsJ: Mary Hoover Leavitt T6'-Eater of fanner President Herbert Hoover who died Sunday at her home following an extended illness She lived at 428 11th St Santa Monica Mrs Leavitt and her husband ComeliusVan New Leavitt retired contractor celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary March 12 1949 at the home of their son and daughter-in-law Mr and Mrs Van -H Leavitt of Santa Monica She also leaves two grandchildren and a brother Theodore Hoover of Davenport Calif retired dean of ''engineering at Stanford University LA Officer -Faces Term Convicted of misdemeanor manslaughter a Los Angeles policeman who cried as he described the fatal accident In court faces a possible year in County Jail -for the desth of 10-year-old baby-sitter whom he ww driving home Robert Cbffman 26 ww fount guilty yesterday by 'Superior Judge David Coleman who scheduled his sentence for July 2 Marilyn Klopfenstein was killed in an auto accident as Hoffman returned her home last Feh 8 after she had tended the child of Mrs Marilou Slathiel 7109 Brynhurst Ave date for the evening mother Mrs Edna Klopfenstein of 5337 Glasgow Court told Judge Cbleman she care to press charges Traat Vw HICH BLOOD PRESSURE 1 At Him ISfCK S'ti mrmal tv (Uih TrM a pram VSITt hr Hll tlTKMTME DR OHN AYDKLOTTI SSSS lafca An 1-424 Worry of USETEETH Slipping or IrritsfiwfF CRosfvloW conned us nfgAf dr door1 tlieh' telephpM 4- 1 y- 4 their names were written mi the numbered tags attached to their eet when there were feet The crowd thinned Sobbing arm in arm they left the building in small groups One little old woman remained behind her-once soft face now isle and stone-like as sha made a second round of the remaining bodies She lifted the sheets aMrata time Then she moved eirto the next row-' 1 WORST TORNADO KILLED 689 IN 1925 DISASTER By the Associated The nation's record tornado tooktfie lives of 689 persons in Missouri Illinois and Indiana when it whipped through the three states March 18 1925 Death tolls in some other tornadoes: 420 on Feb 19 1884 in Alabama Georgia North Carolina and South Carolina 306 on May 27 1896 at St Louis Mo 268 mi May 21 1932 in Alabama 231 on March 21-22 1952 in Arkansas Tennessee Missouri Mississippi Alabama and Kentucky IftST TAPS Services Set Tomorrow for Army Bugler Funeral services for William Harbottle 81 who played the lest taps of his long career as bugler on Memorial Day In Rose-dale Cemetery willbe held to-w at 2 pm in the chapel of the same cemetery Mr Harbottle in ill-health for many months had insisted upon being discharged from Sawtelle Veterans Hospital in time -for the Memorial Day observance the lastv time IT ever play taps" he confided to friends at the time He seemed to know he was playing them for himself as well as for his departed comrades He died Saturdays his home 1316 65th PL -V A musician -all his life Mr Harbottle served as national and state bugler Torrhe United Spanish War Veterans last year He was a member of the Theodore Roosevelt Camp USWV Mrs John Lawler RitesSIated For Thursday Funeral services for Mrs John Lawler 83 active here in dub political and church circles for the last 50 yean will be conducted at 2:30 pm Thursday at 1000 Venice Blvd Mrs Lawler who died Sun day at her home at 2989 Pico BJvd was a member of the Chamber of Commerce Auxiliary a past vice president of the City Club of Los Angeles and long active in the Southern California Republican Club She leaves a son Silas JLaw-ler of 1329 Spaulding Ave grandson Byron Lawler and nephew James Raw all of this area Civil Service appointee as a clinical stenographer At the time of his death he was chaplain of the Mutual Advancement Guild of the Blinc and an active worker for the Braille Institute Besides his widow Mr Williams leaves two daughters Mrs Persia Allen of Palo Alto and Virginia Williams of Santa Cruz a son Edgar Jr auditor in Los Angeles for the State Board Education: five grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren THE BIBYS TELEPHONE: wt never lot touch The tdephone Edward Bibys descrilw "Low-Cost Family is how tho FLINT workers death and destruction had a difficult time of it It wasn't the scores of dead and wounded that gave them trouble It was the living and well Inside the National Guard armory 106 lifeless bodies were stretched on the floor In rows A sheet covered each body In a comer another sheet covered parts of bodies Outside a sobbiifg almost hysterical mass of people pushed against a thin line of steel-hel-meted National Guardsmen trying to get inside to claim the remains of their loved ones "For sake don't let anyone in here until we can get the cleaned up a little" a Red Crocs -worker shouted to a er-geant From the midst of the surging throng outside came the wail of a young blonde woman wearing blue Jeans and a fur coa' me in let me in want my baby my baby" she cried clenching her fists toward the dark sky Two medics moved along the front row of the throng passing out smelling salts "If you feel faint after you get inside use this" they told each one waiting to get in By 3 ajxb the blood had been mopped from the door Fresh sheets were placed over the num be red but otherwise unidentified corpses and the crowd was ad mitted to the armory in groups of two and three Cries of anguish were heard as the recognizable dead were found by their survivors The blonde woman found her child a little and fainted TORNADOES Coa tinned from Page ly went to Monroe Hospital with fractured skulL The Erie twister turned over heavy trucks op US-24 north of the Michigan-Ohio border Two little girls Carol Ann 6 and Judith Winkler 2 were found dead in a field 100 feit from their home The twin tornadoes which struck Northern Ohio struck hardest as Cygnet in Wood County Eight persons died in the town located near Bowling Green The twister there also destroyed homes and buildings and injured scores of residents Cleveland suffered property damage estimated at 33000000i One resident-reported picking up hall stones as bigas manges in New Baltimore Oo The twister knocked cars and trucks alike' off reads and left' trees looking as If a major battle had been fought In the area Tmiii-n BttMTlftU Wilms Ml 1 At eleven one night recently the telephone rang in the home of Edward EL Biby owner of a small Los Angeles mattress factory His son a senior at USC calling "Dad my broken down and if I get my date hack to her sorority house before midnight both in the Like other dads Ed Biby jumped into his car and rode off to the rescue Later he said "That typical of how the telephone works in our home Ifs a real member of the family" Rites Retd- for Williams Publisher Worker for Blind 3 Like other businessmen Mr Bifcr find enough hours in the day to finish his work'But his home telephone permits him to make the few necessary evening telephone calk his business requires while he enjoys his family Mr Biby speaking of the telephone said "Thera are few things we buy today that do so much coat so little" I i t' i Funeral services for Edgar Williams Sr 90 former Redlands newspaper publisher the first California State Civil Service Oommissionec and a crusader for the blind and other causes were conducted at 3 pm today at Utter Broadway Chapel 4254 BrMaway A native of East Orange NJ Mr Williams had been a Southland resident for 43 years and lived at 527 Gage Ave He died Saturday As a young man he edited and published the Orange (NJ) Journal and added the South Orange Bulletin and the East Orange Gazette to his con-troL He also served as clerk first In the New Jersey Assembly and' subsequently in the Senate In 1910 he sold the three newspapers and came to California purchasing the Redlands Daily Review which he published until 1915 Mr Williams becan the first State Civil Service Commissioner in 1913 and served until 1923 He la credited with starting the GvU Sendee merit system and with-writing most of the amendments to the CSvil Sendee -laws He' was a representative of the State Insurance Department and a State deputy real estate cmnmlasioner In he suffered a stroke and spent the rest of his life in semi-retirement from business However he remained active in campaigning for the blind and also for the advancement of colored people His widow Matilda Alison Williams whoTJs blind Is the author of "Stars in My Night" Mr Williams opened the first classification for ths Mind in At your service for pennies a call 2 Tooth is aerred too Mrs Biby deacribea eon Jim and Aawghtov Jean a senior at Dorsey High School Lois Angeles as "telephone They started using the telephone shortly after they entered grammar schooL They use it even more now when they axe so active in school affain and enjoy so many friends WED JUNE 10 2 pm 7 Complote Officos of OFFICE FIMU EQUIP 1019 -SO LA BREA (elf Ofynpii IM) Nearly new DESKS TYPEWRITERS ADDING MACHINES CALCULATORS CHECK WRITERS FILINC CABINETS DICTAPHONES PITNEY-BOWES STAMP MAILING MACHINE CHAIRS UPHOLSTERED RECEPTION ROOM FURNITURE LAMPS ETC The like other families throughout the have found that while their taxes and the cost of moat things they buy for their home have 'gone away up telephone rates have remained low So low in fact that the telephone DtQl car ties their messages fot pennies a calL No wander ifs rated a bargain in the Bibys budget YOU TELE PHONE IS ON OF TO DAY'S 1ST ARO A I 'vrr-'1 i S'-i- ill TRI 1 i' Ij- ws art Sf v- -r.