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Bartender Describes Fatal Shotgun Blast Identifies Bickley in Court Charles D. Bickley, 22, was identified in Superior Court Monday as the bandit who fired: a shotgun blast which killed a bar patron here Jan. 30, 1961. "He (victim Elvin Feightner, 31, of 6311 Orange Ave.) was lifted off the ground and thrown back (by the blast)." bartender George Pappas told a jury in Judge Fred Miller's court. PAPPAS, a key prosecution witness in Bickley's first degree murder penalty rehearing, said Bickley and an accomplice entered the bar, at 2585 Atlantic and announced a stickup.

"Mr. Bickley fired a warnling shot into the wall," Pappas reported. "I don't believe anyone thought he was serious." Pappas said Feightner broke a beer bottle and threw it at Bickley. The defendant then herded patrons towards a rear wall and tried to open a cash register, Pappas added. "I heard Mr.

Young (Bickley's companion, John LaRue Young, 21, who is imprisoned for life) say 'Help me, I can't stop Pappas continued. "I TURNED around and Mr. Feightner was going after Mr. Young. He had something in his hand that looked like a beer bottle.

"Mr. Bickley jumped over the bar and 1 Mr. Feightner went after him. He grabbed at the gun--I don't know how many times. "Mr.

Bickley said something like 'I don't want to hurt Then the gun went off." Bickley, formerly of 3285 Lemon was sentenced to death in 1961, but the State: Supreme Court ordered a penalty hearing. Torrance Narcotics Arrest The son of a Torrance city councilman was arrested here Monday on a narcotics charge stemming from a marijuana party which he "set up" for police. Long Beach police booked Jerry Joe Sciarrotta, 24, of 2119 Andreo Torrance, for investigation of possession of marijuana. Sciarrotta, police said, notified officers Friday night of a planned narcotics party in an apartment at 477 E. South St.

Plainsclothes, officers arrested Sciarrotta, two men and two young women but released the informant after booking the others. IN SEARCHING the apartment, officers said, they found marijuana and quantities of pills. Monday, Sciarrotta, a truck driver for the City of Torrance, admitted taking marijuana residue to the party "so there would be something in the apartment for sure when police arrived," officers said. In a signed statement Monday, he admitted smoking a marijuana cigarette with the two other men. Sciarrotta is son of Councilman Ross A.

Sciarrotta, of 21017 Madrona Torrance, a Long Beach City College government and world affairs instructor. BOOKED Saturday morning wore William C. resident of the South Street apartment, and Emett J. DeBennett, 27, of 2443 Gramercy Torrance, a sausage dealer! who was released on court order. The two women were not identified.

Late Monday night Sciarrotta posted a $2,625 bail, set on a court order issued by Judge Charles T. Smith. The Southland's LONG BEACH 12, CALIFORNIA, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1962 Page B-1 FEWER ANIMALS Mama Dog, Cat License Shelved A proposed law to curb the cat and dog population in the city was rejected Ordinance Committee. Committee members shelved a request by a Humane Society oficial 1 for a $10 yearly license fee against females of both species. The cat license would have been the first of its kind here.

It was opposed by James Kincaid, whose Public Service Department operates the City Animal Shelter. SUCH A LAW, Kincaid said, would be "enormously difficult to enforce." that the cat population is decreasing anyway. The department handled only 9,337 cats last year compared to 17,000 in 1952. Dog population here also is decreasing, Kincaid reported. He favored retaining the present $3 fee for dogs.

Mrs. Amy Spano, treasurer of the California Branch of the U. S. Humane Society, had urged the legislation in a letter to the committee last May while councilmen were drafting a new curb law for the walking of dogs. Prison Sentence for Gun Assault Casmer Reznick, 44, of E.

Imperial Downey, was sentenced to prison for up to 10 years for assault, by Superior Court Judge Maurice C. Sparling Monday. Police said Reznick threatened Mr. and Mrs. Ronald G.

Johnson with a pistol, and fired a shot which went between them, in their home at 5615 E. Second St. Aug. 12. Johnson reportedly is Reznick's son-in-law.

by the City Council's -Staff Photo by Kent Henderson LBSC COEDS ASPIRE TO CAMPUS REIGN One of the big events leading up to the Long Beach State College Homecoming Oct. 13 is election of the campus queen. Barbara Stewart (left), of 1970 Caspian and Connie Sonntag, of 2248 San Anseline are two of the three college beauties vying for the honor. The other candidate, Sherie Mason, was not present for photo. Voting for queen and four princesses will take place Thursday and Friday, with crowning of the queen and her court Monday.

New Buffums' Store Opens; 5th Under Way With the use of a helicop-lin ter, Buffums' department store organization cut the ribbon on a new store in Pomona Monday, and broke ground for another in Palos Verdes. The ceremonies occurred within two hours, and drew thousands of persons, The Pomona store became No. 4 in the Buffum group, the Palos Verdes store will be No. 5. PRESIDING at both ceremonies was Harry Buffum, chairman of the board.

Mrs. Buffum cut the ribbon in front of the Pomona store on the world-famous mall. With- two hours, the same group of Buffum executives, including a load of newsmen, had broken ground for the Palos Verdes store. President Vaile G. Young of Buffums' spoke at both ceremonies.

Introduced were supervisors, mayors, councilmen, editors, civic leaders of both areas. Buffum, at Palos Verdes, said Buffum store No. 6. will be built at Corona Del. Mar, and a seventh store will be built at an undisclosed location.

BUFFUMS' is a historic Beach A Combing With Malcolm Epley THIS is the season when sports interest gets complicated and out of hand. Fans at the Coliseum Sunday to see the Rams football game followed, by transistor radio (there were hundreds of them) the Dodger and Giant baseball games. Occasionally the crowd would shout -over something heard on radio, puzzling the football players on the field who had done nothing to shout about. For Los Angeles fans, football or baseball, there was little to shout about all day. The Rams have gotten SO bad their fans cheer, out of sheer desperation, when their team makes a first down.

HoW have some been sports commercial- events ized to the point of ridiculousness was illustrated at the Ram game, Spectators were puzzled at the long time allowed to elapse after a touchdown and at other points in the game. The official charged with putting the ball down for the kick-offs was extremely deliberate, seeming almost relucant to let the game get going again. The explanation was to be found in watching a man with a red shirt and red cap who squatted on 1 the sidelines. This fellow had earphones and a little electronic box and obviously was monitoring the broadcast of the game. At various junctures he removed his red cap.

As long as it was off, the officials would not re-start the game. They watched him, and when he put the cap on his head the action was started. What was he doing? Waiting for the broadcast commercial to be concludea, du course. So the game nowadays is paced by the commercials. Somebody in my row suggested that penalties were called to allow a little time for the advertising.

It hasn't come to that, let's hope. A CERTAIN -Long sensitive Beach quite Beautician Jailed for Car Death Navy Suit on Sinking to Begin Attorneys for the federal government and 38 defendants filed a 300-page stipulation Monday in U. S. District Court preliminary to the opening today of arguments in the Navy's suit to recover $54 million damages blamed on subsidence. The document is a recital of numerous facts which are thus excluded from forthcoming arguments.

Among the defendants' attorneys who signed were Atty. Stanley Mosk for the City Attorney Gerald Desmond for the city and representatives of companies producing oil in the Naval Shipyard area. FACTS stipulated include the history of the shipyard, the development of the oil field and the inauguration of unitized production. Excluded are the causes of subsidence and the extent of damages, These also will be excluded from the phase of trial starting today. Instead, issues of law will be argued, including points which conceivably could obviate damages.

The stipulation was filed with Judge Harry C. Westover, who will hear the case. The trial opens at 10 a. m. in the Federal Building at 312 S.

Spring St. Funds Set to Remedy Subsidence Long Beach- Harbor Commission Monday approved expenditure of $750,000 to raise la one-mile section of subsidence-hit Seaside Boulevard. The project is to begin Dec. 1 and should take about nine months to complete, according to Chief Harbor Engineer Bob Hoffmaster. Involved is the entire length of Seaside between Pier and the Navy Base in the port district.

In some spots, Hoffmaster said, the level of the street will be raised 19 feet with earthen fill. He also said the five-phase construction timetable calls for construction of a new intersection with the Terminal Island Freeway and a new gate the Navy is planning to build at the military shipyard and installa-1 tion. While the boulevard is beraised, a detour will be employed, Hoffmaster said. The engineer told, commissioners that the roadway is so subsided that if a break in the dike should develop the of water at high tide. Swimming Classes More than 2,000 elementary school youngsters received Red Cross swimming instructions at Downey High School plunge during the summer vacation, school officials said Monday.

MRS. EVA G. MINER Mrs. BPW of L. B.

Beauty's Mother Also Wins Southern California institution founded in downtown Long Beach in 1904 by C. A. Buffum and E. E. Buffum, young brothers from the prairie country of Illinois.

They established a business known as "The Mercantile Company" with 21 employees on a site which is still part of the Buffums' headquarters establishment as the Men's Store. Buffums' today can boast of more employes than many substantial industriesmore than 1,500 men and women. C. A. Buffum, father of the present board chairman, Harry, died in 1936.

He was responsible for the buying, receiving, marking, merchan(dising, bookkeeping and sales promotion of the original store. E. who died in 1956, managed personnel, trimmed the windows and supervised physical operations, A three-story building at Pine and Broadway was erected in 1912, the same year The Mercantile Company became Buffums', and a sixstory was added in 1926. These, plus a Varsity Shop added in 1960, a completed Red Cross Shoe Store added the same year and a four-story parking garage adjacent to the Buffums' property complete the main store complex in Long Beach, Also available to shoppers there, however, is a new 488-car Lincoln" Park underground parking facility under construction by the city of Long Beach. CHARACTERISTIC of clientele has been an increasing influx of shoppers from other communities, and to accommodate these, a policy of expansion outside Long Beach was adopted.

The first store under this policy was built at Santa Ana in 1950 under direction of Welton Becket Associates. Rapid growth of Orange County required expansion of facilities in five years, and a new unit known as Fashion Showcase was added in 1955. One of the characteristics of the Santa Ana operation, which Buffums' regards as a key to the solution of all downtown shopping problems, is a parking area of 126,000 square feet. Last year, in July 1961, Buffums' completed second step of its expansion, program by opening Marina Sportswear Store in Long Beach at Alamitos Bay, devoted to carrying the finest lines of men's, women's and children's sportswear. expansion plans call for three additional specialty sportswear stores similar in character to the Marina Store, but larger.

The $3 million (Palos Verdes store is one of them. Student Election Tom J. Eastman, 19, of Garden Grove has been elected president of the Fullerton Junior College Associated Students. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs.

Dale Eastman, 11081 Iris Winning awards seems to be a habit with one Long Beach family. Mrs. Eva, G. Miner was named Mrs. BPW of Long Beach during the sixth annual merit award banquet Monday night of three local Business and Professional Women's Clubs.

Her name was entered by Harbor District Dental Assistants Association. Just three weeks ago daughter Dyane, 20, was chosen at Salt Lake City to represent Utah in Miss World beauty competitions. The daughter lost out during semi-final judging at Huntington, W. Va. MRS.

MINER, who assists her dentist husband, Mark, in his practice, was picked from an eight-woman slate. Judgling was based on personal development and participation in civic and world affairs. She was presented with a desk pen-and-pencil set during the banquet, attended by 165 at the Petroleum Club. Other nominees and their sponsors: Dorothy Annis, Long Beach Board of Realtors; Mary Barnhart, California School Employes Association; Yola Brazil, Manuela Nieto BPW Club; Barbara Moss, Long Beach Advertising Club; Gladys BPW O'Donnell, Margaret Ives Club; Gene Page, Belmont Shore BPW Club, and Laurel Weibel, Lakewood General Hospital: They received framed certificates of honor. Three Girl Scout Councils in Merger A Torrance hair stylist was jailed for a year Monday for traffic manslaughter.

Webber Dean Dartt, 25, of 3725 Emerald also was put on three-year probation by Superior Court Judge Maurice C. Sparling, and lost his driving rights for the year following his release from County, Jail. DARTT was arrested May 31, four days after his auto fatally injured JoAnne Marie Thompson, 46, a bar owner of 1919 San Francisco as she crossed Santa Fe Avenue at 25th Street. Police said Mrs. Thompson was hurled 53 feet.

Dartt originally was charged also with hit-run driving, but Judge Sparing dismissed that count Monday, Honor Planned for W. S. Grant about the remarks his wife makes occasionally about sports. She's a lovely girl, but quite unsophisticated in the field of athletics. The other day they went to Los Angeles in a auto party of six.

Before they joined the others, he implored her to refrain from any observations of any kind on football or baseball. But he forgot to caution her not to ask questions. About half way to the field, she turned to him and asked: "Jim, is Waterfield still in charge of the Dodgers?" SOME of my readers think that the tidelands oil background of Pier development should get some recognition in plans for symbols and names in connection with the 1967-68 world's fair here. Anona Buse, for example, suggests that "Black Gold" might be a more appropriate name than "Golden Isle" for Pier J. Golden Isle was favored by a Chamber of Commerce group studying the question, Likewise, she suggests a jeweled oil derrick as an insignia for the fair.

This, she points out, would make lapel gadgets for men and pins for the ladies. Well, black gold does have some significance in this project, doesn't it? MRS. friended M. D. for Hull has several beyears an orphanage in Pusan, Korea.

The Korean gentleman in charge regards her with near- reverence and figues she can do almost anything. In his last letter, he told Mrs. Hull about a sheep that is milked to obtain liquid nourishment for the orphanage children. He said he had seen newsreel pictures of mechanical cow milkers and wanted to know if she could obtain a mechanical sheep milker and dispatch same to him. She'll have to inform him that the only thing she has seen in the way of a sheep milker over here is usually identified as a lamb.

Assemblyman William S. Grant will be honored tonight at a dinner sponsored by 1 the Chamber of Commerce in the Breakers International Hotel. Retiring to private life soon Grant has been in the legislature for 14 years. The dinner will be preceded by a recepItion at 6:30 p.m. groups would conserve resources of the councils, centralize the staff and provide a broader range of intertroop activities for the scouts as well as eliminate duplication of services.

The new council, made up of 700 troops in 14 communities, expects a membership of 16,000 by the end of next year. Dr. Carl W. McIntosh, president of Long Beach State College, was guest speaker at the dinner. He said the public must come to depend more and more upon youth organizations to teach what the schools once taught- -character and attitude.

Three Southland Girl Scout councils were merged Monday night into the Greater Long Beach Girl Scout Council, representing 12,000 girls. More than 350 persons tended the incorporation din- Willows Council (Bellflower, ner at Cerritos College, La Mirada, Norwalk, Artesia, walk, The merged councils Hawaiian Gardens and Dairy are the old Long Beach Coun- Valley). cil (Long Beach, Avalon, Signal Hill and Lakewood), the Aliso Grande Council (LynEXECUTIVE Director Mrs. Paramount, Florence Johnson said the wood, Compton, consolidation of the three and Hollydale) and the Green doing this inadequately now due to greater scholastic demands being made upon them," he said. Mrs.

Harold W. Hodges of Reach a installed president of the new council. Other new officers are Mrs. Laurence Hines of Compton, vice president; Mrs. Robert M.

Mulvey of Long Beach, second vice president; Mrs. Charles O. Moomey of Bellflower, third vice, president; Mrs. James Grant of La Mirada, secretary, and. Mrs.

Wayne Layton of Lynwood, treasurer. "THE SCHOOLS may be -Staff Photo GIRL SCOUT leaders discuss problems of modern youth organizations with Dr. Carl W. McIntosh, president of Long Beach State College during Monday night's dinner at which the new Greater Long Beach Girl Scout Council was incorpo- rated. At left is Mrs.

Donald Kudlich, chairman of Girl Scout Region 12 who installed Mrs. Harold W. Hodges. (center) president of the new council..