The Malibu Times Bu Autumn Festival
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AUTUMN FESTIVAL An Independent Newspaper Of, By and for ALL the People of Malibu Township. IN WINTER CANYON U.S. Postage TOMORROW NIGHT PAID Those gay Japanese lanterns Section 562 you'll see swaying in the gentle P. L. & R. night breeze drifting through Permit No. « Winter Canyon tomorrow night will be lighting up a scene of Malibu, CaDf. gaiety. It's the first annual Mali- The Malibu Times bu Autumn Festival. The Official Legal Newspaper of Malibu Township - Adjudicated by Superior Court of Los Angeles County, March 7,1950 You'll be dancing under the stars to the sweeping strains of VOL. 5 NO. 21 MALIBU. CALIFORNIA Friday, September 8, 1950 a waltz or perhaps you'll be shak- ing a hip to a torrid rhumba. Or you may be doing a Missouri Sheriff's Deputies Aid Walter Gunn Heads Malibu-Topanga Drive MOTHER OF RITA hoedown to the twang of rural San Pedro Woman KERWIN PASSES music. Or Eric and his Tyrolean Troubadors will be coming by Being "Kidnaped" AWAY IN S. M. your table to you serenade and Malibu 'Deputies last your party with your request Sheriff's Funeral services were held the of numbers. week went to aid 20-< last Sunday in New York for year-old Mrs. Lucille Ackerman Mrs. Pacline Lane, mother of Mrs. There is no admission charge, jl San Pedro, who sair\ she was Kerwin of Malibu. Mrs. so it's cheaper than you think. Frank being kidnaped by her husband. Lane passed away in Moni- Have the "head cook" Santa Mrs. Ackerman told deputies ca a week ago last Wednesday prepare box lunch, tie it up a I hat her husband, Jack, of Cul- following a two week's illness. real fancy-like crepe paper, with ver City, had enticed her out of The body of Mrs. was re- gay ribbons, buttons and Lane bows, 'Jie building in which she was at to where the' majority etc and turned N.Y. git to the "doings" by work in San Pedro. Then, she of her children reside. Besides six She'll deposit o'clock. her box said, he forced her into his car Rita Kerwin, wife of the owner at the entrance and it be will and drove away. of Seacomber Cafe, off. The male the Mrs. Lane auctioned lucky Her husband told her he was is survived by son, Harry purchasing the box delect- a Lane, gets a taking her to Canada, snid. attorney for Internal able meal and the pleasant she the Revenue com- nd threatened to kill her if she Department in Washington D. C, pany during hour of the dinner ttempted to stop him. and two other who some charming daughters live Malibu belle. When they reached Malibu La in New York City. Rumor has it boxes the will be Costa they Bob Web- with stopped at Mrs. Lane, who was only 53 at filled fried chicken, buttered er's Service Station for gasoline. ■ rolls, all the time of her passing, resided biscuits, kinds of "dag- Mrs. Ackerman got out of the wood" at 1029 18th Street in Santa Moni- sandwiches, rich pastries car, went into the ladies rest- and big green ea. Her husband passed away and black olives. room and later ran up the hill WALTER LEE GUNN will be chairman of this year's There door four years ago. will be prizes and back of the station to Rambla Community Chest Campaign in Malibu and Topangra, it prize hams given away. Grand The Malibu Times extends its Orienta. She hid in the back of was announced by H. E. Cassidy, West Area chairman. deepest sympathy to Mr. and Mrs. prize of the evening will be a Vivienne Osborne's car. When Gunn met with a local advisory group of civic minded Kerwin for their untimely loss. beautiful custom, - hand knitted Miss Osborne appeared she dress to told citizens in the Church office in the Plaza Building last ■k- be knitted and fitted to her story to the film actress. the lucky week. Pictured above, left to right are Charles Spurgin, winner's measurements. When Miss Osborne saw a man Help Dr. Rodney McQuary of Malibu Community Mountain Lion Gives celebrate the close of the approaching, she threw a blank- Church, and summer season by coming Father Gallagher of Our to the et over the girl and drove the Lady of Malibu Church. Seated Jim Barclay "Look" funfest—and bring a friend, too. car up to with Gunn is Mrs. John Koster, a member of the West There's the hill the Sidney no limit on fun. Have Searls. Later she returned the Area board of the Welfare Foundation as are Father Jim Barclay of Broad Beach as much as you want! Winter girl to the Sheriff's office. Gallagher and Spurgin. Dr. McQuary, Father Gallagher Road tells of up Latigo Canyon is behind driving the Old Malibu The suspect was apprehended and Spurgin act as Canyon week and Inn. The festival site will vice chairmen to Gunn in the last when near is adjacent after a patrol car was notified Chest with to the John L. 1950 drive, Father Gallagher representing Mulholland Drive having a big Webster School. by radio. He was turned over to Topanga Area and Dr. Look for the Japanese Lanterns. the McQuary and Spurgin the mountain lion come out of the San Pedro authorities. Malibu area. And we'll be looking for you. -k- ■ brush and lope along in front Prorating of Malibu of the car, not leaving the road until Jim honked the horn at tt, Telephone Company Water Gets Go Signal Joe Stephens Acquitted of when it turned and gave him from Commission "a very nasty look." The animal Plans Mar Vista small Malibu Water has was no wildcat but a good Company sized mountain lion. Expansion Effort received permission from the Charge of Molesting Child State Public Utilities Commission Work on a $42,000 expan- Stephens, Malibu well drill- torney Zeman's cable to ration irrigation water to its Joe Lee motion for a sion project to provide er, was acquitted in Judge Orlan- addi- customers on a monthly quota, new trial on the grounds that Malibu is Elated! tional telephone service Mar do Rhodes' Santa Monica Super- for through times of water shortage. "due to circumstances of the Vista residents was started ior Court Tuesday morning on a this Authorization was also grant- week, according to D. charge violating Section 288 of time and conditions, the defen- R. Collins, ed the company to change its of FID TO HOLD OPEN district manager the of Associated rates, and other changes State Penal Code, crimes a- dant was denied the right to an Telephone Ltd. make gainst The acquittal HOUSE AT ZANZIBAR Co., Construction in operating rules. children. end- individual opinion of each juror." will be completed some ed 15 months of litigation. time dur- Application by the firm to sup- I With respect to "time" and "con- SUNDAY AFTERNOON ing November if all materials on ply irrigation water contract Stephens was arrested several ditions", Judge Borde was re- order arrive on on All of schedule. basis only was denied months after the date fixed in ferring to the fact that the Stro- Malibu was elated this The area which bene- week to learn that Fid will be The company will be permitted the complaint of the alleged crime ble case was at that time receiv- Max—the fitted by this new —Amsterdam line lies north' to sell surplus water for domes- —Feb. 19, 1949. The complaint ing a great deal of noteriety. Af- is finally leaving from Venice Blvd. to National tic named Stephens for allegedly mo- ter being unable to reach a de- Malibu! Er—that is, we mean, he or commercial irrigation pur- is BJvd and between Inglewood poses. lesting a 9-year-old local girl. cision and then later in the same going into business in Santa Blvd. Monica. great and Centinela Avenue. Ruling by the Commission A preliminary hearing was held day bringing in a guilty verdict, It's a gain for Mal- project will a The will involve place- take effect before the end of on June 21st, in Malibu jus- the court explained that some of ibu—and terrible blow to San- ment of a major size the 1949 ta Monica, cable from month. tice court. Stephens the jurors may have been sub- but there it is, folks. the was bound The Fid is central office in Mar Vista over to Judge Borde's Court in jected to prejudicial opinion. The the new proprietor of north to Park to- Ocean Avenue, Several continu- judge'remarked that he may have "The Fiddler's Zanzibar" at 3rd gether with Santa Monica. reinforcement of sev- Malibu Firemen Take ances delayed trial until said something to influence the and Broadway in Santa Monica. with March is eral lines new paralelling of this year. days jury.) There one bright bit of news and Shaughnessy Cup In After 5 m in whole cable the rearrangement of court, a jury found Stephens the sordid affair, how- still other lines. ever. The Fid is B'nai B'rth Playoff guilty. Judge Borde ruled, how- Since last March there have holding Open at With these new facilities in Malibu's very much up-and-com- ever, jury's be been several continuances and a House the "Fiddler's Zanzibar" operation, that the decision on existing congestion in ing softball team of Los Angeles set granted Defense At- change of venue. Judge Orlando Sunday, September 10th be- telephone aside and tween lines will be greatly County firemen did decisive Rhodes took the case under ad- 4 p.