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NEGRO NAMED TO PLANNING COMMISSION Council Confirms 8 Appointees -Staff Photo by SKIP SHUMAN LT. CMDR. MARVIN SMITH SIGNALS 'OK' Gesture Marks Completion of Record Flight New Light-Plane Altitude Mark Set Lt. Cmdr. Marvin G.

Smith flew a Riley turbo-supercharged, single-engine Cessna 210A from Long Beach Airport Tuesday to a world light-plans altitude record of 38,500 feet. The previous record for planes of this weight class was 32,500, set by the Japanese in 1959. Smith, 40, a career 1 Navy officer, made the flight in tribute to his wife, aviatrix Joan Merriam Smith, who was killed in a plane crash Feb: 17. HE SAID HIS wife, who was on a routine flight in Southern California when she was killed, had made prey wrights anu" pranntu unanengo me secure self. He planned to name the record the Joan Merriam Smith Memorial World Attitude Record.

Mrs. Smith made aviation history last year when she completed the flight attempted by Amelia Earhart in 1937. Cmdr. Smith also hoped the flight would illustrate the value of turbo-supercharging light aircraft, enabling them to fly safely above most weather. He is commanding officer of the Long Beach-based minesweeper USS Endurance and is scheduled to leave soon on a year's tour of duty with the U.S.

Armed Forces Joint Staff in Saigon, Beach Combing With Malcolm Epley a LONG Beach Grandmothers members Club of contrived a fine greeting for this columnist upon this week's return from vacation. Right into the office came Beulah Nelson and Amy Davis, officers of the organization. They plunked down a $60 check for this year's United Crusade campaign, the proceeds from a card party. The party was staged specifically in answer to an appeal here to local organizations to hold benefits for the Crusade that finances a host of local youth, health and welfare agencies. There are three local chapters of the California State Grandmothers Club in Long Beach.

This contribution came from No. 44. Any other group. want to follow suit? NOTING that this dept. "is sensitive about inadvertent or deliberate slights to Long Beach, Dr.

George Korber of the State College faculty has sent along a postcard a friend picked up in Provincetown, Mass. It pictures the sign at Provincetown, on the tip of Cape Cod, marking the east end of US Rte. 6. The sign lettering includes: "To Long Beach, California 3517 miles coast to coast." Notes Dr. Korber:" "It seems there are some enlightened folks in the great commonwealth of Massachusetts who do not confuse our fair city with that obscure Spanish settlement beyond the northern suburbs of Long Beach that is called Los Angeles, I think." It's good to know the Provincetown sign is still there.

Unfortunately, U.S. Rts. 6 no longer runs all the way to Long Beach, but is cut off at Bishop under a new highway numbering setup. But the distance is right and one can still drive right on through to this city over the coast-to-coast route. WHAT goes in the Los beside Angeles River bed a dribble of water that makes the word river sound kind of funny? Elaine Guyler, who lives By GEORGE WEEKS are Llewellyn Bixby mem-Ident New appointees replaced ber of a pioneer Long Beach three veterans on two semi- family, and James G.

Craig autonomous commissions president of an investment Tuesday, and the first Negro brokerage firm. ever to serve on a major They succeed M. W. DaubLong Beach city agency was ney, the dean of West Coast named to the Planning Com- harbor commissioners, mission. John P.

Davis Jr. Daubney, a The City Council confirmed retired bank manager, had eight appointments to three served on the board since nissions-Harbor, Water 1947. Davis, head of a furniand Planning after a company, is the second hour private conference with City Manager John R. Mansell, the appointing official. Although two of the nominees succeeded themselves, the net effect was the most extensive reorganization of top commissions here in many years.

New harbor commissioners of the Long Beach Boy Scout Council. Both appointments were for six-year terms. Edwin J. Wilson, a Negro attorney with offices at 130 Pine will be the first on any city commission other member of his race serve don than those limited to advisory functions. He named to succeed Aubrey L.

Edwards on the planning commission for al oldest member in point of service. He was first appointed in 1950. Both Bixby and Craig are prominent in Long Beach civic organizations. Bixby is also a member of the Long Beach State College AdvisoryBoard and president of the Bixby Land Co. Craig is presi- term expiring in April, 1968.

Edwards died July 2. Aside from his private practice, Wilson is secretary treasurer of the Long Beach Bar Association and has worked as a volunteer in such organizations as the National Conference of Christians and Jews, the Red Cross and Travelers Aid. Robert M. Mulvey, now a planning commissioner, will replace Fred S. Dean as a The Southland's WEDNESDAY, JULY 21, 1965 SECTION B-Page B-1 MARKETS ON PAGES B-6 B-7 Attack on Race Bias in L.B.

Housing Modified at Meeting An eight-point attack on racial discrimination in housing was modified and referred to the city manager's office for redrafting in a Long Beach Human Relations By WALT MURRAY Committee meeting Tuesday. The committee reduced the program to five points and softened some of its language. If the modified program is approved by the committee in its next meeting Aug. 19, the 10 member advisory group could either ask the council to act upon the program or request authority for the committee itself to act upon The plan was proposed by Committee Chairman E. John Hanna after complaints by Lee, 16, Ready for Rugged Solo Sail Around the World By PAUL' WALLACE to most year old boys -but the literally Graham whole world lies ahead.

At' an age when most of his contemporaries are content to venture out only for weekend hikes into the mountains or brief tussles with the surf off San Onofre, Lee is preparing to embark alone in a small sailboat for what he hopes will be an world solo voyage. The former Morro Bay youth, now of Honolulu, hopes to shove off from Fleitz Bros. Yacht Landing in San Pedro Monday for Honolulu on the first leg of his voyage. Despite his youth, he brings to the chore of challenging a Boy Killed In Dash at Truck Rig A 14-year-old boy was killed when he ran into the side of a gasoline tanker rig Tuesday in Bellflower. Dead at the scene was David Wesley Goff, son of Mrs.

Robbie Jane Goff, of 10303 Trabuco St. Witnesses told deputies that the youth ran into the side of the tanker as it passed a drive-in refreshment stand at 10032 Alondra Blvd. THE ACCIDENT occurred at 9:15 p.m. The driver of the rig, George Dayton Bryan, 43, of 15324 Lancelot Norwalk, told deputies he saw the youth on the sidewalk moments before. He said the boy suddenly dashed into the street.

The victim hit the middle of the rear tanker and then Bryan lost sight of him. Doctors at a Bellflower hospital said death was caused from head and internal injuries. An Ad Aims Money Your Way "Had 25 to 30 calls from my P-T want ad to sell two Bigelow rugs, luggage, clothes and 1 TV remote control and receiver, Six months ago I had marvelous results selling a hearing aid for exactly the price I asked," reports Elsie Threadgell, 333 W. Fourth St. Time after time an P-T classified want ad will roll out the carpet to an easy sale.

For the hot line to continuing success phone HE 2- 5959; from Lakewood phone ME 3-0764. member of the Board of Water Commissioners. Dean has served on that board since 1951, longer than any other member. Mulvey, president of a blueprint company, was completing his first four year term as a planner. His new appointment is for a five year 1 term.

One incumbent water commissioner, Oliver W. Speraw, was reappointed for a new term. He has been a board member since 1954. In addition to Wilson, new appointees to the Planning Commission are Donald W. Phillips, owner of a downtown restaurant and prominent in businessmen's organizations, and W.

Robert Pierce, owner of a piano and organ store. They succeed Mulvey and Harry J. Moore, a commissioner since 1957. Roland R. Bach, a planning commissioner since 1956, was named for a new term.

Council confirmation of all the appointments was unanimous. But Councilman Robert F. Crow left the chamber momentarily rather than vote on the harbor appointments. He failed in an effort to have the two port board personnel changes delayed for a week. Crow praised both Bixby and Craig, but he remarked that Daubney and Davis had served the harbor during a period when it gained world recognition.

At his suggestion, the council voted to present special plaques to the retiring commissioners in addition to the usual resolutions of commendation. LLEWELLYN BIXBY JR. On Harbor Board and implacable sea far 16-better qualifications than most adults who set off in yachts for offshore cruises. The husky, big-for-his-age Honolulu high school junior is a veteran of three long Pacific passages on small craft. Aboard boats under 40 feet, he has made the sail to Hawaii twice.

In 1961, he was afloat 13 months on a cruise from San Pedro to the South Pacific and back. In all cases, Lee was part of the crew on family boats skippered by his father, Lyle, a Honolulu building contractor. About a year ago, Lee got the idea of a long solo sail. Nurtured by his father's love of the sea, the idea gained substance at the end of the school year last month. "We couldn't find that suited us in Graham said.

So they returned to the Mother Hurting as Family Flees Fire A young Long Beach mother suffered a left leg Tuesday when she and her family escaped while fire burned through their apartment at 1508 Magnolia Ave. Police said Mrs. Carolyn Cervantes, 20, was injured when she jumped from the roof of a carport to escape the flames. The injured woman's husband, Robert, 24, discovered the fire shortly before 4 a.m. and awakened his family.

He and his brother, Edward, 13, helped Mrs. Cervantes and 2-year-old son, Richard, out through the back window of the second-floor apartment and onto the carport roof. Mrs. Cervantes was treated at St. Mary's Hospital for the leg fracture and the others were treated for minor cuts and burns.

Battalion Fire Chief Don Wilson said the fire apparently started in one corner. of the Cervantes living room and quickly spread through the apartment. GSA Award for Customs Center Made Ross Fisher Inc. of Los Angeles was awarded a 000 contract Tuesday to build a U.S. Customhouse on Terminal Island.

It is not known when construction will begin. The contract was awarded by the General Services Administration in Washington. The 320x420-foot building will be built on a nine-acre site at the northwestern edge of Reeves by Ferry Street and the Vincent Thomas Bridge. mainland and bought the Dove, an inboard auxiliarypowered Lapworth 24-a 24- foot-long, sloop-rigged, white fiberglass sailboat. LEE, WHO will be accompanied on his trip by two cats, expects to use a wind vane self-steering device mounted on a small mast on his craft's stern to relieve him of tiller duty.

Such devices keep sailboats on constant courses relative to the wind. When the winds shift, the vane must be adjusted to keep the boat on compass course. Otherwise, it steers the boat itself. Lee will take 50 days water and provisions. His boat is well equipped, but does not have a two way radio which the Grahams consider unnecessary.

Dedicated to the plan of actually continuing from Hawaii on around the world, he hopes to complete his high, school education by working on a correspondence course durhis anticipated two-year cruise. At the end, he hopes to enroll in the California Merchant Marine Academy and make the sea a career. westside property owners of attempted blockbusting in their, area. They had urged city leadership toward open housing. Hanna proposed a broad community effort toward a policy of open occupancy.

As modified, the program asks the City Council to reaffirm that the city favors open occupancy, and requests that the Long Beach Board of Realtors and the Apartment House' Owners Association encourage their members, practices. 7 During debate on the problem of realtors accepting discriminatory listings, Coramitteeman Melvin L. Mould said a licensed realtor can't tiate a restrictive listing, but the seller has the right to initiate such a listing The program also requests the Long Beach P-TA Council and Area Council of Churches to continue to use their influence toward solving human-relations problems Committee members disagreed on how much authorlity the committee already had to carry out the proposals "Our responsibility is to make recommendations to the said Committeeman Joseph Brooks, "and if we can also take immediate steps ourselves" Byron W. O'Neil of the city manager's staff said that none of the original points was out of scope of committee action. More local news on Page B-3 Protests Stymie Bid to Remove Stop Signs A protest petition and a hint that a "human chain" may form across a highway stymied a proposal Tuesday to remove stop signs from Studebaker Road at Driscoll Street.

City councilmen delayed action on an ordinance until Aug. 10 while engineers take a new look at the change in traffic control. Parents living in an area east of Studebaker Road filed the protest petition bearing 357 signatures. One of their spokesmen, Mrs. Willard Hastings, 7014 El Cedral said the reaction in the neighborhood was that if the signs go, a "chain" of parents strung across Studebaker will replace them.

The parents fear for the safety of their children who must cross the busy roadway to reach the Tincher Elementary School, she said. City Manager John R. Mansell, who recommended the sign removal, said there have been 13 accidents and five injuries at the crosswalk since the signs were installed in 1960. Even the presence of a crossing guard fails to stop motorists who are not expecting a sign at that point, he reported. His new proposal was that children en route to school walk the 1,200 feet to Atherton Street and 'cross at the signalized intersection.

Councilmen declared they were not impressed by the prospect of pickets. But they suggested among other possibilities the installation of traffic signals at the Studebaker-Driscoll crossing. JAMES G. CRAIG JR. Port Cemmissioner near the river, observed that some one had painted a yellow line down one side of the paved river bed.

A week later, she happened to see a charter bus driving towards Long Beach in the river bottom, between the Artesia and Long Beach Blvd. bridges. She wants to know if they're changing the river into a traffic artery, an idea sometimes broached over the years? I can't answer. Can anybody give us the dope on this phenom? EVERYBODY who has ever to the late, great Adlai Stevenson, has had a go of telling their impressions in the last week, and now it's my turn. My meeting with Stevenson was at least unusual.

He was here for a speech at the Auditorium in one of his presidential campaigns. I was writing politics at the time and some of us got together. with him for an informal press conference in a room at the Breakers (then Wilton) before the auditorium meeting. It turned out that there was to be a wait for Stevenson to go over and some ofus stayed with him in the room. For some reason (perhaps women occupied chairs) he and I sat on the floor and talked for 15 or 20 minutes.

Of course I found him friendly, sensible, and above-all charming. From our positions on the floor I did get a look at the soles of his shoes, and I saw no hole. TT'S WELL to be informed on some of the new laws that might concern some every-day action we might take, and SB 125 is one of those. It prohibits pedestrians from suddenly leaving a curb or other place of safety and walking or running into the path of a vehicle so close as to constitute an immediate hazard. One sees somebody do this now and then, evidently relying on the pedestrian protection law.

The sudden move to the front of a close car is no longer protected. $125 Pistol Stolen A 38-caliber pistol valued at $125 was reported taken Tuesday from a parked car belonging to Henry S. Sarvas of 5400 The Toledo. Sarvas told police his car was looted while parked in an underground garage. RITA LETENDRE'S ART FAR FROM STATIC Walk Into Her Painting By ELISE EMERY At Long Beach State College Rita Letendre, artist of repute, is painting a picture on a 21 by 24-foot wall above a 10-foot-high covered passageway.

"It will wake people up. We go along with gently rolling fields and green grass around us, never seeing. If once a week something makes us wake up and really see, then other things fall into focus and we start living." This French-Canadian dynamo generates electric excitement as she speaks, black eyes crackling, words tumbling out, hands in motion. She is, in Long Beach -Staff Photo by ROGER COAR INTENSE ABOUT her plans for a dynamic mural at Long Beach State College, artist Rita Letendre talks animatedly in front of miniature of the highcontrast work in which she will employ newly developed materials. with her husband, sculptor Kosso Eloul, and the painting is her contribution to the International Symposium taking place at the college.

So interested in her project are chemists at FlexCoat Corporation in Paramount that they are creating two new products for her.Rita is using the company's epoxy resin system paints. She wanted a brilliant cadmium yellow. "Nobody makes paint that color," the chemists said. "That's because no one else ever has needed such intensity, but I do," answered the painter. The company is now creating the color.

Next, Rita told them she would require a matte varnish for the finish coat. The chemists didn't bother to say, "Not available- -no one uses it." They started work on the formula, "I chose the wall over the passageway because I want people walking in and out of my painting. It must not be static- must be dynamic with action and an interaction that continues in the mind of the spectator." In the painting, vivid yellow areas pierce black and burst. against a ground, (Continued Page B-3, Col. 1),.