Annual AFD Fete Saturday The only civic sponsored and air-to-air guided missiles. Vico, Torrance City Manager the center's prize-winning Los Angeles, North Torrance Armed Forces Day parade DISPLAYS Wade E. Peebles, Armed precision drill team, the High School marching band, and military equipment dis Large indoor displays by Forces Day General Chair 1 >os Angeles County Sheriff's the 4th Missile Battalion. play in Southern California the Army and Air Force will man Fred Rathert, Miss Youth Band, a marching 251st Artillery of the Los will kick-off at 10:30 a.m. show in graphic dioramas Armed Forces Day, Bobbet contingent of sailors from Angeles air defense area, the next Saturday, when units and photographic panels the King, and her Princesses, the Navy cruiser USS Los Lawndale ' Elementary representing all of the na manner in which U.S. inter Myra McCartney and Judi Angeles, the Navy Wave School marching band, and tion's armed forces march in continental defensive mis McTee, Torrance Chamber Drill Team from Long Beach the Torrance USAettes, a Torrance, it was announced siles are launched from un of Commerce president, Har Naval Station and the Seal newly organized youth today by General Chairman derground silos. old G. Frentz, and the Tor Beach Naval Ammunition marching and performing Fred Rathert. Soldiers from California's rance High School Tartar Net Depot's float showing group. Heading the parade as 40th Armored Division and marching band. both tl\e Terrier and Side- Division'111 of the parade Grand Marshal will be Un 63rd Infantry Division will COLOR GUARD winder guided missiles. will consist, of several ele der Secretary of the Navy show visitors tanks, armored Heading the military units A. F. BAND ments of the 63rd Infantry Paul B. Fay, Jr., a veteran personnel carriers, artillery will be Division I containing The 15th Air Force band Division, including the divi World War II PT boat com and infantry weapons. Both the Fort Mac Arthur 72nd from March Air Force Base sion band, division color mander who saw action in divisions also will operate Army Band, garrison color will lead Division II. Fol guard. 3rd Battle Group of the South Pacific in the model Army field kitchens guard, honor guard and lowing will be Miss Air the 15th Infantry and the same torpedo boat squadron for the messing of their per Woman's Army Corps de Force Sweetheart Carol Gos- 3rd Battle Group of the 27th as did President Kennedy. sonnel. tachment, missilmen from sett of Gardena,. a Coast Infantry, all from Southern In addition to more than The parade will lead off the 47th Artillery Brigade Guard marching unit from California. Division III also SO marching units in the pa with a Prologue consisting (Air Defense), a mobile Nike the llth Coast Guard district will have the 736th Trans rade, a wide array of the of the Torrance Mounted Po Hercules guided missile, the headquarters at Long Beach, portation Truck Company of country's most modern wea lice, South Torrance High First Marine Division Drum the Redondo Union High Long Beach, the Torrance pons will be displayed to School band, Grand Marshal and Bugle Corps and Wom School Hawkettes and Sea- Junior Youth band and the the public at the Torrtmce Fay, Deputy Adjutant Gen en Marine Trick Drill Team hawk band, the 3rd Recon Bob Cole Majorettes from PARADE PRELIM Captain Robert M. Donaldson of Civic Center, Torrance Blvd. eral of California Brig. Gen from Camp Pendleton, Calif., naissance Squadron. 185th the'Torrance area. 20103 Saltee Ave. places the Torrance Fire Chief's at Maple Ave. Bernard J. Kitt, Mayor Al Marine Corps recruiting en Armor of the 40th Armored LOS CABALLEROS hat on Miss Armed Forces Day, Bobbet King of 343 Among the exhibits for bert Isen of Torrance, Los tries, including Miss Ma Division from Inglcwood, Leading Division IV will Polos Verdes Blvd. Captain Donaldson will lead Com the viewing public will be Angeles County Supervisor rine Recruiting Sweetheart 40th Armored Division band be the 5th Marine Communi pany D, 3rd Battle Group, 27th Infantry, in the Armed an Air Force Than inter Kenneth Hahn. Torrance Mary Jean Poer of Gardena, of Los Angeles, the divi cations Company of Long Forces Day parade here at 10 a.m. May 19. The fire continental ballistic missile, councilmen J. A. Beasley, the Navy Polaris fleet ballis sion's 132nd Engineer Bat Beach, the Los Caballeros chief's hat is symbolic of the 27th Infantry's (Wolf a Navy Polaris missile and Victor E. Benstead, Nickolas tic missile, the famous San talion with headquarters at Youth band of Carson, the hounds) nickname, 'The Fire Brigade," which it earned a varied assortment, of Army O. Drale. Ken Miller, Ross A. Diego Naval Training Center Manhattan Beach, the 119th Aviation High School band during the Korean conflict. and Navy surface-to-air Sciarrotta. Sr., and George Drum and Bugle Corps with Military Police Battalion of (Continued on Page A3)
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VOLUME XIV NUMBER 9 WEDNESDAY, MAY 16, 1962 3238 SEPULVEDA BLVD., TORRANCE, CALIFORNIA lOc A COPY WOMAN DIES DAUGHTER NAPS Spouse Finds
PAY HOMAGE Members of the Torrance Police De mast in honor of police officers who have died in the partment Monday morning paraded before city hall as line of duty. On hand for the ceremony were elected th« opening ceremony of annual Police Memorial ob- Body city officials, department heads and guests. servance. Flog was raised and then lowered to half- ______(Press Photo) A 41-year old Torrance mother late yesterday after noon took her own life as County Approves her rU-i-year old daughter slept in the next room. Preliminary Plan The body of Rosemary Margaret Fuehring. 2280!) Fern St., was discovered by For Court Building her husband, Paul H. Fueh A Long Beach architectur ring, when he returned home al firm was instructed to from work. / prepare preliminary plans The distraught woman for a four-story Superior had smothered herself bv Court building in the Tor placing a plastic bag, similar rance Civic Center after the to those used to wrap Board of Supervisors gave cleaned clothes, over her their approval yesterday. head. Included in the plans will 5:4f> p.m. yesterday after- be the superior courts, a Body was discovered at sheriff's civil division and noon. Police Investigators law library, office space for estimated that she had been the county clerk, public de dead for a p p r o x i m a t e 1 y fender and district attorney. three hours. Cost will be approximately Daughter. Toni, asleep in ENTRY WAY Burglars, piesi.iim.-u her bedroom, had not awak kept for protection. Thomas com $3.057.080. to be children because of small hole mented that loss of money didn't In charge of designing the ened. Husband of the dead woman reported that, when in wall, chopped their way into the bother him as much as the thought of structure will be the archi Roaring Twenties,, cocktail lounge at the gun in the hands of youngsters. tectural firm of Adams, Mor- he called her at 9 a.m. yes terday morning she had 16612 Crenshaw Blvd., early Monday He said that the vandals apparently gnn, Lat.ham, Kripp and morning. Cutting a second hole into Wright. seemed quite calm and had smeared themselves with grease whilt asked him to bring some the office of owner Bub Thomas, they making their entry and should be easy thing home for dinner. made off with $25 in till, contents of to identify. NEW DIRECTOR vending machines, ond a .38 pistol Dan Ingram. Torrance re He told investigators that (Press Photo) sident and salesman with she had been under psychia PLAQUE PRESENTED Torrance Po names of officers who die in the line tric treatment at Harbor lice Chief Percy Bennett Monday ac of duty. Shown here at the presenta Pacific Pla/a Realty, was re cently elected to the board General Hospital for some cepted this memorial plaque, present tion are Councilman George Vico, time but hadn't returned for Torrance Family of Three Dead After ed by the police officer's association, Bennett, City Manager Wade Peebles of directors of the South Torrance Lions Club. treatment, in the past six- in the name of the city. Plaque, which and Councilman Ken Miller. months. already bears the name of Officer W. (Press Photo) Weekend Auto (rash at Camp Pendleton R. Lewis, killed in 1958, will carry the Three Dead in A Torrance area family of ell car. Jones had just re and his daughter Sharon, 1. three were killed Sunday turned from visiting his par. Clark was the driver of evening in a head-on colli ents In Torrance when the the second vehicle, officers Torrance Councilman Calls for Auto Newhall Crash sion near Camp Pendleton. crash occurred. said. Three students, on leave Nine persons died in the He is a graduate of North from Chadwick School in wreck and three others were Rolling Hills, were killed High School. injured critically. Officials reported that Fire Consumes inspection to Reduce Traffic Toll Sunday night and four oth Dead were Lance Corporal ers were injured In a two- Mitchell's car apparently Torrance City Council cars. Drale's program other Items which could John Ernest Mitchell, 19, swerved out of control after car crash near Newhall. his wife, Joan, 19, and son, $30,000 in Hay man Nickolas O. Drale, would set up a system of affect the car's perform Dead are Joy Rucker, 16, it entered the camp, crossed licensed inspection sta ance or could interfere John, Hi. A 100-ton loss of hay seeking the Democratic and Charles John Rucker, a divider, and crashed into valued at $30,000 was the nomination to the Assem tions throughout the state, with the safe operation of son and daughter of Union Mitchell was the son of a second vehicle. and , require motorists to the vehicle. Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Mitchell, result of a fire yesterday bly from the 67th Dis Carbide head C. Nelson Ruc Also killed in the crash afternoon at Ben Cluff Dairy, have their vehicles check "To assure ourselves 1008 W. 208th St. Mrs. trict, this week called for ker, 900 Via Del Monte, were Mrs. Judy Trimble, in, 22010 S. Avalon Blvd., ac ed four times a year. that vehicles are safe is Palos Verdes Estates, and Mitchell was the daughter of Vista; Lance Corporal quarterly ingpection of of Herbert Schrimp of Tor cording to county firemen. "Too many times we just as important as im David Richard Lynn,_ 17, James M. Hatcher. 19, of The fire was located in California automobiles "to have read of terrible acci posing certain require rance. rut down the terrible acci grandson of Cmdr. and Mrs. Tacoma; Hospitalman Dean the center of three 200-ton dents caused by various ments on drivers," Drale Joseph H. Chadwick, found Critically hurt in the crash L. Clark. 31. of Oceanside; dent toll in the Htate." mechanical failures haystacks on the property. or de said. ers of the school. was Pfc. Raymond Frank Mrs. J. B. Mclntyre of Vista, According to Chief Paul To assure that the ficiencies," Drale said. The vehicle inspection Critically injured were Jones, 20, son of Mr. and sf,;it,e'.i streets and high Inspection should in Schneider, Battalion Seven program is one of several Claude Nelson Rucker III, Mrs. Russell E. Jones, 3424 and 3. of the Los Angeles County ways would be occupied clude lights, brakes, wind important items on Drale's 52, Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Poir- W. 186th St., Torranre. by mechanically sound Also injured were Lane* Fire Department, four units shield wipers, tires, and campaign platform. ier, «nd James L. Cole, 18. A passenger in the Mitch Corporal Richard Trimble | answered the 3 a.m. alarm.