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* TORRANCE if CARSON Inside the Press 24-Hour * AVALON - 81 * IOMITA VILLAGt Classified ...... 4 * * HAMOI Darlrne Cop« ...... 5A CITY Sports ...... 4 5A * WAITER IA TORRANCE PRESS tAd Service Tele-Visions ...... 8A Wan * LROLLIj TV Log ...... 7A Mil Women ...... 1 - 2B DA 5-1515 3238 SEPULVEDA BLVD., TORRANCE, CALIFORNIA lOcACOPY VOLUME XII, NUMBER 48 SUNDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1960 FOES CLASH IN TAX FIGHT Tempers Flare in School Tax Override Issue The hottest local issue of merce, Torrance Council the season, the Torrance PTA, as well as endorsements Unified School District pro received from business and posed tax override of fifty labor leaders and various re- cents, entered the home ligous spokesmen. stretch this week. Many of these endorsees School officials, headed by "do not live in Torrance, or Dr. .T. H. Hull, school super- they are indebted to the indent, hammered home the school district in one way or pointy that increased popula another," Lynn countered. tion, the largest enrollment The fifty cent override tax in the school's history here, would be used to pay in and -'increased operating ex creased operating costs of penses make the tax override Torrance schools and would "absolutely essential." become effective in 1961-62. "The tax will average a Hull 'said. "Operating costs nickel a day, or $20 a year," include only salaries, books, Hull said. equipment, operating bills. Polls will he open from 7 and similar things. They do a.m. to 7 p.m. at all the ele not include construction of the Torrance hciu is paid . . . AND THE OTHER . . . Joining in the Mill, chairman of mentary schools here, and at new buildings, which the Tax Committee; Councilman Nickolas O. Park . for by bond funds." he added. battle against* the stork and supporting El Reti'ro Torrance Unified School District's request Drale, and R. L. Herbert, chairman of the ONE SIDE Heading a one-man crusade the people." Lynn, here with his wife, Lilyan, (Maiming this was a "false "If the operating tax ceil a tax override are Mrs. William Poser, Chamber of Commerce education committee. to defeat the proposed school tax- 50-cent told the Walteria Business Men's Association presentation to t h e voters." ing were raised by this vote, for chairman of Mothers' Committee, Torrance Voters will decide Tuesday whether to auth« override, City Planning Commissioner Bert and the North Torrance Civic Improvement Bert Lynn, local civic lead it would be $2.00. At present Council PTA; Mayor Albert Isen; Fred W. orize a tax override for Torrance schools. Lynn denounced the school administration Association ihis week "people are afraid to er and President of the City it is $2.40. lower tha,n any here this week as "an ever-growing monop voice their opinions because of pressure by Planning Commission, an of the neighboring districts," oly constantly asking for more money with the school administration, but there is no nounced "the tax override has he added.. out a time limit and seldom accounting to fear in the voting booth." no time limit." "We gave the Jn calling the election, the Water Company school hoard a ,tax override Board of Education cited Dominguez of seventy-five cents four these reasons: Constantly in Eyes years ago. It is still on the creasing enrollment, from Hike Here Lions Club Mayor Al Isen hooks. Perhaps better school 2000 to 27.000 in 13 years; Seeks Huge Price administration is the answer Continued building, w i t h The Dominguez Water man for the firm announced at .Siy.G24.600. has some 80 instead- of a blank check for thousands of children In new Company, which serves some today. The water company is employees here. It w;v first White Cane Day more money. "Our override ly-built homes; The inflation 5000 customers here, has ap seeking a 37 per cent increase formed in 1911 and r(.v.;;:m- to Represent will total $")() per homeowner spiral, affecting all phases of plied for a vJ8 per cent rate from domestic and commer ized as. a corporation in 1037. Launching their tenth year of similar sales, members It is entirely company-owned. Lions Club will station7 themselves on per year." , school operation; A higher increase. A hearing by the cial sales. of the Torrance of high school stu Commission The application to the Pub Covering a 35 square mile street corners here Friday and Saturday, Oct. M and 15, Meanwhile, Thill announced proportion Public Utilities City at Meet a Committee of 100 has been dents, whose educations cost is set in the Torrance City lic Utilities Commission also area, south of Los Angeles, to sell miniature white canes. Mayor Albert Isen will rep more; Less state aid; and chambers for noted "general increases in north of Wilmington. east sponsored by the group through formed to back a "yes" vote. Hall council "White Cane Days," the City of Torrance also added an affirmation More costly "Space Age" Wednesday, 10:30 a.m.. Oct. costs have reduced the com of Redondo Beach, and west out California and Nevada, resent He at the forthcoming Inter of the tax override had been teaching equipment, science 10. pany's earnings to the extent of the Los Angeles River, the Is designed to aid the blind of white canes," Morris said. equipment, language labora- to servo the pub that, the present rates will not Dominguez Water Company who purchase American Municipal Congress endorsed by the Torrance In "In order partially sighted school Contributors dustries Tax Committee, the tories. limited TV use. and lic with good quality of serv produce sufficient revenue to listed the following custo a miniature white cane to pin in San Diego, Oct. 16 through of Com others. we must be, compensate^ meet expenses in 11)60." mers: children, according to Ralph on their lapels may donate Torrance Chamber ice, Morris, president. 22. for our product." a spokes The company plant valued W M»» 1>A as little or as much as tljey delegates coming "In the past several years, choose, Morris emphasized, With the Torrance Lions Chub has "with all funds raised ear from many South American donated almost. $7000 to var marked for aid right here in countries as well as from (oflee Ready to Match Wits ious blind and sight conser Torrance," he added. throughout the western vation projects, solely from As m result of their annual states, the convention will monies raised from the sale (Continued on Mt« 2-A King study approaches to adminis Debating Congressman tration and municipal govern Tom Coffee, Republican Congressional candidate for ment. the 17th District, has accepted a challenge to debate the Cecil King, Democratic candidate The legal basis and struc issues of the day with for the same office. ture of municipal govern Coffee agreed to the debate after King challenged the ment, functions and citizen candidate. In a letter to King, ' * " participation are topic head Coffee listed six cities in details for the debate could ings, Mayor Isen announced. which he would be willing to be agreed upon, Among speakers at the con debate. They are Torrance, Arrangements for the dates Haw- and meeting place are items clave will be Secretary Gen Tnglowood. San Prdro. thorne. Rcdondo Beach, and t.o be discussed before an un- eral Carlos M. Moran of Westchester. biased newspaper publisher. Havana, Cuba, and Jose De Coffee also named six sub- Coffee "prefers to make ar- Sa Friere Alvim. Prefito jccts which could be covered, rangemonts for the debate in Municipal of Rio de Janeiro, These include taxation, spend- an office of a newspaper be ing, foreign policy, labor, pri- cause, "they are widely Brazil. vate enterprise and comnum- known for having a sense of ism. fair play." In his letter. Coffee offered Coffee further agreed to a AiResearch Corp. to meet King in any news- series of debates rather than Ready to Move paper office in the area where one alone. ___ Staff Here Soon The first group of produc lion employees will be. t.ran PAINT THE TOWN Torrance Junior Cham ing signs reading 'Don't be a Litterbug f erred from A i Research's f. ber of Commerce members are down on their Keep Torrance Clean." Here launching the cility at Century and Sepu hands and knees this weekend in a paint the civic project are Jerry Dunn, Dick Florence veda Blvd. to their new i.' town spree. Some 15 volunteers are stencil and Bob Vroman, group president. acre site at 190th and Cm. sha'w in Torrance\ within tin next, few weeks. Richard K. Palmer, division manager, an Local Pied Piper Teaching nounced today. Start of production in t h e WHITE CANE TIME Members of the Torrance Lions Club $2.6 million facility culmin Here Plays 'Mean 9 Tarogato have completed plans for their annual "White Cane Day," ben* ates years of study by Gar- The Pied Piper u ho tootled 2 ot those Tarogatos. 3 sar- youngsters who ha\r studied fiting the blind and school children afflicted with eye trouble. rett's AiResearch Company, youngsters out of town in the rusophones in various sizes, for at least a year. We also Sale of the minjature canes is scheduled throughout Torrance Palmer declared. historical yarn had nothing contra base trombones, slide expect between 150 and 200 all day Friday and Saturday, Oct. 14 and 15. Discussing the The Torrance site was se on Torrance music - maker trumpets, horns, drums, bas beginners to start learning an vent here are Ralph Morris, president, Paul Ludwig and Dr. lected in the interest of Ai Milton Marcus. In fact, he was soons you name it. instrument this year," Marcus Robert Barrett. Research employees, after de- a piker in comparison. A sarrusophone, Marcus ex adds. elding additional facilities Music teacher in three Tor plains, is a double reed sort Learning to play an instru were needed for expansion, rance elementary schools of saxaphone, invented a few- ment "gives youngsters dis Hoodlums Jump Couple in Brawl he said. A survey was con Lincoln, Casimir and Carr years after the saxaphone. cipline, a feeling of accom * The Skipper Inn, IDOth St. them with chains. They also ducted to determine where Marcus blows a mean Taro His classes in the three ele plishment, improves their and Hawthorne Blvd., was knocked Mrs. Pigsley to the most employees lived. gato. For the uninitiated, a mentary schools here are citizenship, and develops a that 80 per cent the setting early Saturday ground. The assailants.drove It revealed Tarogato is an ancient Hun large. "Music has more than wonderful sense of responsi morning for a»fight, when 4 live in the South Bay area. garian gypsy instrument, a charm for the juvenile beast," bility," Marcus maintains. off, but Mr/i. Pigsley was As a result, Garrett, limited "Kids get to arith rr.cn lumped Mr. and Mrs. TAROGATO, ANYONE? Music maker Milton Marcus, teach distant cousin to a saxophone. says Marcus. "ft. does not replace Laurence Pigsley and Mr, able to get their license num its search to that area for the Some men collect golf school early, so they get in a metic or reading, as in some ber. of its employees. ing youngsters a host of instruments at Casimir, Lincoln and and Mrs. Eugene Vohe, all of convenience avail clubs, stamps, or fishing gear. few licks of practice," he as schools." says Marcus, "but were taken to By the end of the year Ai- Carr schools here, can double in brass on any instrument Wilmington, as the ebuples The men 55 instruments are a tarogato, .Marcus collects instruments, sures. in future pleasure and en Harbor General Hospital with Re1 search will have, trans able. In hit private collection of "We have 120 'old timers' joyment in a school orchestrt were- leaving. gypsy type saxophone, a sarrusophone, double reed invention, the more unusual, the better. The hoodlums k n o c k e d teeth knocked out, and cuts ferred 800 employees to the He has 55 of them. He owns in our classes, mtaning M Pet* Ml J.he men down, and belted and* bruises. new facility. and an ancient bassoon, shown here. I