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ROAMING AROUND With AUSTIN CONOVER THURSDAY JULY 14 1955 13 Planet of Plastic Seen for Tomorrow Tomorrow's super sonic planes may have skins of plastics instead of aluminum or steel Bernard W Fishel plastics manufacturer told his fellow Sepulveda-Panorama City Kiwanis - Club members the other evenings "The plastics industry today is on the lookout for new materials that will withstand high temperatures and erosion "For instance there is terrific erosion when a plane passes through a rainstorm at more than 400 miles per hour The rain will pit or completely erode that part of the present day plastic hood in the slipstream Tomorrow it may-be different" Flshrl showed plastic shields now used by police and prison guards that will stop any kind of small arms fire Showing a section of fiberglass refrigeration door he explained: "This material is money in the pocket to owners of refrigeration trucks Because of its lightweight trucks can carry a much bigger pay load" Fishel had as his guest Lloyd Wilson who is in the plastics business with him Frank J Dunbar banker and president of Sepulveda - Pano-( rama City Kiwanis announced that- the house which his fellow club members built for sale is now in escrow Proceeds will be used to further the club's youth work The Kiwanians sponsor an Explorer Scout Troop help families in distress and co-sponsor with other West Valley Kiwanis Clubs all-night Canoga Park and Van Nuya high schools " W W “Dirk" Speer lieutenant governor of Kiwanis Division 23 introduced Gordon Lathrop 15-year-old Van Xuys High junior whom the Kiwanians helped to send to Key Club International Convention in Detroit this summer He was there elected vice president of the international organization which is sponsored by 'Kiwanis He is the son of Mr and Mrs James F Starbird of Sherman Oaks His speech of thanks to the Kiwanians was brief and effective Whea will the housing boom end? "The end is not In sight” replied John F Faffrsth mason contractor "The boom' will go on" Dick Saylor painting contractor predicted “as long as people pay’ the mounting building costs” "It certainly is ' in high gear out here iii the Valley” commented Carl B Mason insurance broker who explained: "Broadway and Bullocks are or will spend millions of dollars on buildings in Panorama City General Motors plans to add a $2300000 unit to its Van Nuya plant" Arthur Icardo rancher opined that - Sepulveda business will boom with more paved streets in the area ' Herbert C Lightfoot realtor has set up the club's program next week with a view to learning how Sepulveda can take better advantage of the business boom Howard Smith clothing store owner toki me Qf families that he knows who have built their own home One family got into the house building business from the handsome profit resulting from sale of iii own home Roy-T Wergeland building contractor who spearheaded the club's housebuilding project told me that he is ready to take on another such project The Kiwanians next time may hire more professional help to speed construction They will still make a nice profit for youth work Harbor Freeway Contract Awarded The State Dept of Public Works today awarded a $4087-411 contract for construction of a 18 mile strip of the Harbor Freeway Guy F Atkinson Co of Long The action of the Los Angeles City Council in 1930 in giving 12 graduation party for i Los Angeles residential properties for annexation to the City of Beverly Hills is today prompting Veteran Actor Stanley Price Heart Victim f Funeral services for Stanley L Price 54 veteran stage and screen actor who recently completed a role in '"The Ten Com-Beach was the successful bidder mandments" will be conducted for the work between 92nd St at 11:30 am Saturday in the and Gage Ave The project calls for two 58-foot roadbeds separated by a 16-foot median to provide an eight-lane divided highway i LOST FOUND Lost reg sable collie female 9 mol vie Branford A Osborne Sun Valley Boy's pet Reward DI-716T7 collect Dost — Parakeet lite blue name Pepsi Please return to 6222 Lexington HO-74T13 rew LOST gold initialed charm bracelet (N-JC) vie La Brea A Hiywd Blvd Rew HQ33346 Lost Movado ladys sport watch walligator leath bracelet 79 Reward HQ-77049 Florence LOST yellow ’parakeet Nos SFV 54 A 954 vie Clybourne AKittfidge Rew'rd SU-13900 LOST — Toy black poodle vie Sunset Strip-Ooheny Reward CR-6!446 HQ-42141 LOST — Brown leather brief case Rew NO-39141 ext 347 LOST— Girl’s glasses redpTaldl Holly H ia rea RrwH O-8764 Cat Siamese lost vie Los Felix Catalina Rew NO-49808 Lost gray wool itoleVentura Bl Studio City Rwd SU-30590 $10 Rew Glasses lost Penny’s Burt Speck frame TH-6B10S LOST— Iran pen with pearl A diamond Rew $2$ CR-12S50 ‘WELL DONE' Gordon Lathrop 15-year-old Van Nuys High School junior who was elected vice president of Key Club International at recent convention receives ‘‘well done” greeting from More LA Land Owners Want to Join Beverly BEVERLY HILLS Police Get New Cars Name Askins to Board v BEVERLY HILLS — The first’ Shapiro Don White and Aaron of 14 new police Cars arrived to- Cohen bicycling to New York have arrived in Salt Lake City in "fine spirits” that city’s Mayor Earl J Glade wrote their parents Val Lewton University-High School graduate and crosscountry track star hat been honored with a one-man exhibit of his paintings lp the Art Gallery erf the Los Angeles Board of Education R E James representing North American Aviation accepted the J W Robinson blood donor trophy for winners in the latest Beverly Blood-mobile competition- day according to Chief Clinton H Anderson They are being serviced and will go into immediate operation he said The City Council authorized the purchase of the new fleet after taking bids from local dealers several weeks ago Each patrol car will be equipped with new short-wave radios Anderson said NEW CIVIL SERVICE MEMBER— At a brief City Council meeting Tuesday night Laurance B Askins was appointed a member of the Civil Service Commission t Askins who resides at 913 N Roxbury Dr wjll serve until June 30 1957 filling ous the unexpired term of E O Blackburn who resigned f The Council also reappointed to the Traffic Commission C S Howe V H Fait C C Bollman H H Rhoads and Robert W Hamsher J BEVERLY HILLS ! LITEM — Irl R Goshaw county-commander of the Los Angeles Council of the American Legion has been named judge advocate of Beverly Hills Post No 233 Three westside students Richard Stuart Owner oi Hotel Rites Held 9 i Funeral services for Allan Jack Stuart 64 owner of the Toluca Hotel at 332 N Pass Ave Burbank were held today in Forest Lawn-Hollywood Hills Mr Stuart died Monday at his hotel He leaves the widow Stella and seven" sister- chapel of W A ' Brown A Son Funeral Home Stricken with an apparent heart attack in his home at 19908 Strathem St Canoga Park Mr Price perhaps best-known locally for his portrayal of Judas in the Pilgrimage Play died yesterday shortly after arriving at a doctor’s office in Reseda A charter member of the Screen Actors Guild he played Abie in the second major com-’ pany of "Abie's Irish Rose” log- j ging 1100 consecutive perform-j ances over a period of three years in Chicago It was in the cast of that play that he met his wife Frances Mrs Price is a sister of William Severens general manager of Hollywood Bowl Besides hia widow Mr Price is survived by a son Stanley a daughter Frances of New York a brother James of San Antonio Tex and a sister Mrs Laura Clay of Kansas City Mo nitun-Nnri phot FOR A KEY MAN OF THE KEY CLUB a request for similar treatment in relation to other properties in the same neighborhood News reports of the 1950 transfer featured the fact that one of Mass at Carmel For W T Jefferson Requiem Mass for William T Jefferson 87 pioneer advertising man and Southern California real estate investor will be conducted tomorrow at Carmel Mis-s i o n with arrangements by Pierce Bros Los Angeles Mortuary i f He died on the SS Berlin HIGH-' june- 29 one day out of New dressed "Beverly Hills" is is re-York City on his annual vaca- directed to the Los Angeles Post tion trip to Europe The body Office and reaches its destination was flown to Pierce Bros from four or five days late Rogell the first port of call Bremer-haven Germany Mr Jefferson belonged to the California Club Los Angeles and the Metropolitan Club New York was the oldest member of the Lambs Club and- was 'I member of the Union Alliee Club Paris Interment will be in the family plot at Mission Memorial Cemetery Seaside Hospital Leadership Course at Cedars A two-week course on leadership and supervision for hospital administrators and nurses from six Western states today is underway at Cedars of Lebanon Hospital ' Sponsored by the UCLA School of Nursing the course began yesterday and ia being taught by Eleanor C- Lambert son associate professor of nursing at Columbia University -l a : STANLEY L PRICE Bhotcn here in 1937 McCARY SWIM GYM rt SWIMMING LESSONS NEXT CHILDREN'S COURSE STARTS JULY 18 Adult Lessons Afternoons and Evenings Two Heated Pools 721 W THIRD ST (mm RefcertM M) M( Mrs Maury B MaCary DtraafaM Kiwanians W V (Dick) Speer and Frank J Dunbar (right) Sepulveda-Panorama City Kiwanis Club sponsored Gordon’s trip to the convention (See Roaming Around) the applicants was the politically powerful Hubert Eaton a Forest Lawn official whose lobbyists at the city hall lined up the necessary votes Opponents of that property transfer from Los Angeles to Beverly Hills emphasized in vain the loss to Los Angeles of large investments in utilities and the annual loss of thousands of dollars in taxes that was involved Now six other property owners adjoining the properties that were detached declare that the earlier action has created an “island" of their properties and that they are deprived of proper police and fire protection and other city advantages Their spokesman is Albert Rogell a motion picture producer whose property is at 9954 Sunset Blvd Until recently the boundary line between - Los Angeles and Beverly Hills at that point was the middle of Sunset Blvd Ibis created a problem for the Los Angeles and Beverly Hills police Neither was sure ’whether it was its duty to make an arrest en the street or to have an injured He doubted the authenticity Of person removed from-the atreeciVV? ?neur but did not use of Bev- wo Then the boundary line erly Hills was moved over to the curb line in front of the six properties which extend back to the Lob Angeles Country Club golf course Now Los Angeles firemen and policemen traverse a Beverly Hills street to reach that particular segment of Los Angeles People living there send their children over a Beverly Hills street t o' reach Lo4 Angeles public schools When mail is erroneously ad- says Now Rogell and his five neighbors through their councilwom-an Rosalind Wvman are seeking City Council permission to have Beverly Hills annex them as it did the Eaton group When the matter comes before the City Council it will go to the committee headed by Councilman Debs who is given credit for the success of Eaton's plan The others who seek annexation to Beverly Hills are according to Rogell John IL Harris 9940 Sunset Blvd: John Cording-ly 9966 Sunset Blvd: Leo Pop-kin 9970 Sunset Blvd: Ivan Wells 9984 Sunset Blvd and Frederick Perkins 9996 Sunset Blvd Freeway Bond Sale Urged By Committee Sale of $2000000 worth of bonds to speed up freeway construction was advocated yesterday by the Citizens' Traffic and Transportation Committee appointed by Mayor Poulson - Robert L Gordon chairman of the committee said the issue would be backed by state gasoline tax money now being used to finance the freeways on h pay-as-you-go basis “It seems to many who have studied this matter” Gordon said “that even though such a program would cost moderately more from the standpoint of original cost as the result of charges incident to the financing the economic value of getting the freeways sooner by many years than would otherwise be possible would more than offset such additional cost" CR-S-8227 faae Parhiaf SHADES OF MANET Jury Decides Trench Masterpieces' Fakes By BILL BECKER BEVERLY HILLS LPi — Art lovers up to their eyebrows in French impressionists were given some trembling moments by a jury which convicted a prominent auctioneer of falsely advertising five paintings as the work’ of celebrated French artists Roy J Goldenberg was found guilty yesterday of representing as authentic five paintings attributed to Edouard Manet Edgar Degas Raoul Dufy and Rosa Bonheur The jury weighing four days of expert testimony concluded they were fakes The traffic in French art has been booming in this area since World War II with paintings bringing up to $100000 The jury of six men and six women found that Goldenberg made misleading statements in newspaper and catalogue advertising but held that he did not make statements with deliberate intent to defraud ’ SIX CONDEMN Goldenberg had testified that he believed the paintings to be authentic but the jury heard six prosecution experts label them everything from "lousy” to "intentional forgery” One expert Dr John G Re-wald of New York City estimated that the paintings if authentic might bring more than $100000 Municipal Judge Henry H Dreager allowed no testi-money on what Goldenberg expected to get for them While Goldenberg said he had attempted to verify the works before offering them for auction he added on the stand: "I do not publish an authentic catalogue it is a descriptive catalogue I have never heard of an auction house which authenticates its paintings Dr Rewald art writer and consultant to leading US galleries called the Degas and Dufy paintuiga "intentional forgeries” and the two ascribed to Manet "unintentional forgeries” By "intentional" he said he meant obvious fakes by painters trying to imitate certain artiata FORGED LATER "Unintentional" indicates the painter didn't try to copy an artist's style but that somebody forged a signature later word “forgery" in connection with it -Of one-of-the Manets art critic Arthur Millier observed "It's the type of painting -any painter of no talent could turn out — it’s just a lousy painting " Defense counsel Tom O Wil- liams produced a witness Dutch- bora Cornelius L J Damme who drew what he said were the strokes of Manet and Degas Damme and two other defense witnesses defended the paintings as genuine Williams moved for a new trial and a hearing on the motion was set for Aug 10 Goldenberg is free on $230 bond until then’ The misdemeanor conviction carries a maximum penalty of six months in jail and $500 fine Complaints in the case were filed by art dealer Frank Peris who contended that an influx of bogus paintings has hurt the legitimate art market in this area LA County Population 5085864 A total of 53795 new residents settled in Los Angeles County during the past three months and boosted the area's population to an estimated 5085864 the Regional Plannirg Commission said today The Commission said the current record figure is nearly 1-000000 higher than the number recorded in the Federal census of 1950 Los Angeles was the largest city in the county with a population of 2189128 Long Beach was next with 292107 residents Population figures for other incorporated cities in this area were: Beverly Hills 30977 Burbank 92782 -Culver City 30603 El Segundo ll§73s- Glendale 115057 He r m o a a Beach 15030 Inglewood 55358 Manhattan 29105 Palos Verdes Estates 5915 Pasadena 117057 Redondo Beach 38717 Sn Fernando 45i730 Santa Monica 77981 Truckers Reduce Demand on Rates The California Trucking Assn said today It has reduced its current request for an increase in haulage rates from the original 10 per cent to 5 per cent Shipping interests which have been opposing lbelO-per proposed rate boost before the State Public Utilities Commission immediately announced withdrawal of protests Joseph Kaspar research director for -the association said the recent wage increase granted drivers was responsible for the proposed boosts -I- : bollywood open flday Clllxan-Hawi phots ART PATRONS— Among notables attending pre-Renoir exhibition last night at the Los Angeles County Museum were Mr and Mrs Victor Carter pictured here with one of the Renoirs they loaned for showing “Study of a Number--of Figures” Exhibition is open to the public beginning today CURRENT TONIGHT Liana— 7 BraatwaaS Houk Epclio Bafara— 7’36 pm PBI Weatnrood Eaclaa lotary — t-jo pm: 17S00 Vrntura Graaada Hill Katarr— 1:30 pm Granada Hill Women’ Clubhouaa Xarthridra Ktwanla— 7 pmi 1730 Canbr Ave irorthridce 1 an Fernanda Liana— 7 pm: Porter Hotel: Bill Hormuth chairman: Ward Oillllan ipeahtr 'Trout Fishlna In l California" genaiveda Optlmlat— 7:30 P m: 1131 Van Nurs Bird: Dr Peter 8 Xent speaker Tariaaa Llona— 7:1 pm: 1B671 Ventura Van Knjra S0-3S— 7:30 Pm: TIU Van WtatVVa!ler Optimists— 7 pm IM Vantura TOMORROW (All maetinca at noon nnleaa otherwtae achoduiodt Bavaria Hills Bnalnaaa and Prafsaataul Men's AMseiatlan— Wtlahirs Bird: Pedro O Ramiros Philippine Consul H-Ur-Md Bar Aeeaclntlem— RoUrwood Roosevelt Hotel - Lee Aarelee Llama— Blltmore Hotel: UtU Blalock chairman: John Pottlop - speaker “KncUahman Discovers America’ : welcome home for Jon Jones and Clyde Martyn Las Aaceier Batarr— Btatler HoteJU Cal Parley speaker 'Help tha Under-prtvllesed" Uona-Loa Fells rown Darbr Whiter H McDonald speaker " tha Ba Done Mlsaanrl “Shaw Me" risk— P m: MS B Broadway: Prank L Robinson pre-aldlnt: the Rev Krlne Allen speaker "Teklne tha Offensiea Toward Ufa Helen Ward Jeffs to prasent Jo Ann Potts and MarllmUontyomsry musicians festive Sens ( Gll West— Clark Hotel Ranch Park Optimists— T 30 a m : Pico Blvd: Kan Campbell ipeaker “Optimism an Fernand Batary— Porter Hotel might til 930 pm EVENTS Stadia City Klwante — Eaton’s Studio City resisurant: film on miditowers Van Neve Liana— 0410 Van Nuys Westwaad Kiwanis— Truman’s: Sheldon W Hymer chairman: Douslas Dashiell reporting on convention: O L- Cowash “East of tha Iron- Curtain” Actress Proteste Tramp' Comment Actress Mary Beth Hughes has accused her estranged husband of being ih contempt of court because he called her "a tramp" when he found her visiting with an unidentified friend Misi Hughes made her charge in an affidavit presented in superior court yesterday accusing singer David Street of violating b pre-divorce trial order not to annoy or molest her The actress said Street made his alleged remark about her be- ing “a tramp” when he came to a home last month where she was -visiting a friend She also charged ' Street with being behind in temporary alimony payments and of selling their furniture in violation of a court order A hearing’ on Miss Hughes contempt charges will be held Monday - make light of stunner Nicely shaped black and white cheeked gingham dresscli- i maxaa in a wonder- fully full skirt flaYorfd with rieh black velvet trim Misses sites $25 hollyvood or westwood