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Barrington Named on Draft Board; Gardena Legion to Honor Selectees

H. C. "Jack" Barrington, well-known Torrance Welding an machine shop owner, was appointed by Gov. Olson thla week tc serve as' a member of Selective Service Board No. 280. He sue ceeds A. E. Cameron of Palos Verdes Estates, who resigned July 30. Barrington's appointment brings Board No. 280 up to Its ful strength of three men, the oth. era being Carl 3tecle, Torrance chairman, and James W. Lough ridge, Walteria.

The new board member has been a resident of Torrance for the past 18 years. He operates the Barrington Welding and Ma- chine Shop at 1124 Border ave. and lives with his wife and twcchildren, son J. A., 16, am daughter Frances, 13, at 2368 Torrance blvd.

The local board members are a unit of the 15,000 California civilians serving without pay the work Incident' to the Induc- tion of 800,000 men a year for peace-time military training. Tha gratis workers' duties are di vlded between local board mem- bers, medical examiners, appeal board members, advisory boards and their associates, medical ad- visory boards and appeal agents. . Legion Plaiw Dinner Here

Barrington served two hitches In the U. S. Navy. He first en- listed In 1912 and served two years. In 1917 he re-eJillstcd and served as Chief Boatswain's Mate until after the Armistice He was first with Oil Barge Nc. 9, a mother ship for sub chasers duty on the U.S.S. Vicksburg and the U.S.S. West Carnifa> the, latter being the first food ship Into Germany following the Armistice.

Barrington and other members of Selective Service Board No. 280 will attend the breakfast party honoring the 17th con- tingent of 29 men who w|ll leave from. Gardena next Wednesday morning, October 15,- following the meal to be served at th< Gardena American Legion club house.

The Torrance American Legion Post will honor the 29 selectee; at a dinner Monday night, Oct. 13, thus establishing a custom that will be carried out for each contingent leaving this district hereafter. The affair will be stag and Informal, with a speaker present to "give the boys some friendly advice."

Cabrillo Deal Must Have I.C.C. Okay After All

Approval of the Interstate Commerce Commission must be obtained after all for the aban- donment of the P. E. o'f the Ca- brillo ave., right-of-way sold to the city last March.

And City Attorney John E. McCall and City Engineer Glenn Jain wouldn't be a bit surprised to learn one of these days that the OPM or even the Setting Sun chapter of the Sons and Daughters of I Will Arise lodge have something to say about the Cabrillo deal.

Those two officials are Irked no end by the technicalities, misinformation and general un- certainty that has accompanied the years' old efforts to obtain possession of the right-of-way from -ToiTunce blvd. to Plazu del Aino.

Waiting For The I. C. C.Last week they thought all

the formalities hud been con- cluded when the California State Railroad Commission's approval of the line abandonment was re- ceived. Thin week they learned that the I. C. C. (which moves

29 Scheduled For Induction On October 15

Members of the 17th conting ent — second largest to be In ducted from thlH area since the Selective Service Act sent an In itial four men Into training: Nov23. 1940 — who will be lnducte<from here next Wednesdaymorning, October 15, are:

Eugene Frederick Stegelmeyer24. liquor (tore clerk and stu- dent, 1104_ Beech St., Torrance WtUtor Toshlaki Miyamoto, 21 farm laborer. M. R. 4 Torrance Ralph Kenyon Palmer, 21, heat treat trainee, 24422 Los> Codona Walteria. Adolph Uldrtk Ander- ion, 21, apprentice carpenter, Rt

1, Box 229, Lomita. Wilfred Ar- buthnot Walker, 26, petroleum dent, 1104 Beech st., Torrance. Joseph Frederick Juenke, 24, air- raft production control, 16424

Halldule ave. Gardena. Theodore Charles Luck, 24, general labor- er, 447 Soledad St., Salinas. Mace McCrackcn Morse, Jr., 21, book keeper and salesman, Box 234, Rolling Hills. George Wilbul Franklin, 22, laborer, 23010 Nar bonne ave. Lomita. Yamo Hlr- ata, 23, farm laborer, 2461 Chap- man .st. Lomita. Klyoshi Kido, 26, florist, Rt. 1, Box 116, Tor- ance. Aklra Roy Shlmatsu, 24, farmer, 5861 West Boulevard, Los Angelea John Richard Medicus, 26, grocery store clerk, 1141, West 162nd st. XJardena. Kzuo Mlnami, 21, nursery labor-r, 14101 Budlong st., Gardena

Harvey Andrew Cleveland, 23, chauffeur, Plaza Hotel, Torrance. Clyde Lee Bailey, 21, electrician's helper, 25615 Narbonne ave., Lo- mita. Henry Edward Artiguc, 20, unemployed, 10*0 Gardena blvd Gardena. Tsutomu Jumbo Moch-zukl,- 22, horticulturallst, R.F.D. 3ox 95-A, Torrance. Everado Jesus MartlncZ, 26, laborer, 2200 W. Main -st. Hollydale. Leo Bernard Schriever, 28, herpeto-oglst, Rt. 1, Box 239, Lomita.

Pedro Reycs Plna, 21, pre-medl- cal student, 716 E. Amapola st. Porrance. Yuteka Sugasawara, 12, celery packer, Rt. 2, Box 208 3, Gardena. Louis Thomas Ma-

dorc, 22, service station worker, Cravens Apts. Torrance. Elmer Ensign Armstrong, 22, appren- tice plumber, 24822 Oak st. Lo- nlta. Sammy Saishyo, 26, service station attendant, 15809 South Broadway, Gardena. Albert Vin- cent Pougherty, 28, carppnter,8512 Burin ave. El Nldo. George

Slbon, 25, shoe repairer, 2164 West 254th st. Lomita. Robert lenry Kustnur, 21, shipping lerk, 666 So. Corondclet st., Los Angeles. Toyomaro Kojl- noto, 25, nurseryman, Rt. 1, Box .99, Redondo Beach.

High School Getting Desk Replacements

One hundred and twentybrand-new desks were received t Torrance high school Monday, Irst of several shipments which

will replace all of the desks now n use there, according to Prin- ipal Thomas H. Kl.son, He said ho high school will exchange

about 1,000 of Its desks for ither new ones or those which

have been entirely refiniehed.

New Building in Nine Months Totals $361,247

New construction during the first three-quarters of the year has totalled $361,247 In Torrance as compared with $272,860 for' the same period last year. The September building permits amounted to $27,350 while the construction during the same month in 1940 _ was $24,790. ' Four new homes were erected

here last month at a total cost of $10,350. Other construction In- cluded 11 new non-residential structures, $15,326, and feven alteration, repair or addition Jobs, $1,675, according to records at the city engineer's office.

New building permits, issuod during the past week were: Adele K. Tauitrup, two-car ga- rage at 1831 182nd st., $250; Don Howard Rae, Wllmlngton, three- room frame house at 24426- Nccce ave., Walteria, $2,000; M J. Beale, stucco and screen porch addition to residence at 1402 Acacia ave., $300; F. O. Bacon five-room frame and stucco resi- dence wnd two-car garage with a "rumpus" room above, at 1303 Portola ave., $4,250; and the San Lorenzo Nursery, two 23 by 300- foot glass greenhouses at 18400 Crenshaw blvd., $6,000.

Elementary Principal Called^to Colors

SHOWS SUCCESSOR CAMP4JSR. Dykes, who Is now Organized Reserves a.-- left with his successor

on active duty with the a major, is shown at the as principal of Torrance

Elementary school, Bernha'rd J. Strand, formei ly of Carmclita Avenue school in Huntingtoi Park. The change in administration was effects Monday. ' _TeKMC. H«roid rhoi

County Approves Civil Service Work for City

Civil service functions for the city of Torrance will be per- formed by the county under an agreement approved by the board of supervisors1 this week, making Torrance the llth city o receive .similar service fromhe county.

The service vlll cost Torrance$475 for the first year, it Is es- Imated, on a basis of 70. em- >loyes, althqugh this is expected o drop to $285 the second and

subsequent years. County ex- aminers will give all of the ex- amination for city employes.

Other cities that contract with he county for civil service work ire Bell, Burbank, Culver City, Jawthomc, Gardena, Inglewood, lanhattan Beach, Maywood,

South Gate and Redondo Beach.

Woman Hurt in lus-Car Crash

A collision between a Tor- rance municipal bus and a 'ackard sedan at the Intersec- on of 190th st., and Vermont

ave., resulted In Injuries to a woman occupant of the sedan ast Thursday evening, accord- ng to police reports. She was ilrs. Mablc Senyohl, mother of rlrs. Gaen Blanche Ray, Los An-

geles, driver of the sedan. The bus was going. west on

90th and the sedan was travel- ng south on Vermont, accord- ng to reports given police here, rtrs. Senyohl was reported cut nd bruised. She was taken to

a San Pedro hospital for treat- uent.

TO DESCRIBE PRISONSGeorge R. Briggs, member of

u> State Board of -Prisons, will escribe "California Prisons" toJ nembers of the Torrance Rotary lub at the dinner-meeting to- ight in the Legion clubhouse.

The first public school man to be called to the colors from Torrance, Principal Leonard R. Dykes who became head of Tor- rance Klementary school with the start of the 1939-40 term, turned his office over to Bern- hard J. Strand Monday and left immediately to report as a ma- jor In the Reserve Army at head- quarters in the Los Angeles postofflce building. He was or- dered to report last Saturday by telegram fi'om Col. Bowen, chief of staff at the Presidio in San Francisco, but the wire was de- layed enroute.

Dykes Joined the Army in January 1918 and served In France as a second lieutenant

In the Ordnance department. He has been a member of the Re- sen'e Army since the Armis- tice. He was on active duty the last time at Monterey during the summer of 1939 as commander of the First Battalion, C.M.T.C., and underwent a month's train- Ing at Fort Lewis, Washington in the summer of 1940 .

His successor as principal of the Elementary schoo) came here this week from Carmclita Avenue school In Huntington Park where he had served as principal for the past two years. He hat been with the Los An- geles city school system for 15 years. A graduate of the U.S.C.

School of Education, Principa Strand is man-led and lives Bcllflower.

Strand is president of the Lo Angeles Schoolmasters' club am has been a member of the Bell

and 'Bell-Maywood t club for the past sevvanis

years.During the two years Dyke:

has been at the Elementary school, the institution has made notable progress; and his fac ulty, the students and the P.T. A. regret that he had'to leave just at the start of anothe term. They are proud, howevei to. be the first school group in the city to hang a service flag with one star in its center.

Credit BuyingTJROM all over America, from many dealers L in Torrance, come reports that Installment buying is declining because the public does not understand the new regulations governing it.

They think installment buying has been out- lavyed. Or they think It has beep so heavily re- stricted as to be virtually Impossible.

These ideas are, of course, 100 per centwrong.

You can buy autos, household goods andother items on the installment plan today. And it is possible to buy them on simple terms over as long a period as 18 months.

There are only about 24 items affected by the new ruling.

To recapitulate briefly the terms of the new nstallment buying regulations:

All' installment buying is limited now to 18 months instead of the infrequent longer terms previously afforded.

If you buy an automobile on the installment plan you must pay one-third down. (This does lot represent much of an advance over the av- erage down payment heretofore.)

If you buy household appliances like stoves, vacuum cleaners', automatic refrigerators and

New Rules Do Not Ban "Time" Payments

the like on time, you must pay 20 per ccn down. (Little change again).

If you buy household appliances like plumb ing, water heaters or furniture on the install- ment plan you must pay at least 10 per ccnl down t i ,

There is only one very noticeable change ,ef. fected 'by'' thV regulations. "That is on- loans ol less than $1,000 for home modernization madi under Title I of the Federal Housing Act. Thesi previously could be paid for over a three-year period and are now rubject to the 18-month rule

Many items like clothing, furs, jewelry draperies, wall and floor coverings are not af- fected by the regulations at all, and are being sold as usual.

It is a pity that misconception has arisen about these simple rules.

Families have deprived themselves of needec articles.

Merchants have been deprived of sales.American prosperity has suffered needlessly.Every American should acquaint himself

with these rules as outlined above, and disre gard the alarming whispers of misinformed friends that "you can't buy on time any more."

You can. The surest proof of this Is to pro ceed as usual and arrange for credit.

MEXICAN VICTIM OF KNIFE FRAY FOUND IN PARKED CAR EARLY TODAY; MAY RECOVER

Stabbed three times In theitomach by an unknown assail-ant, Pablo PIcaso, 51-year-oldTorrance farm laborer, was dis-covered early this morning in aparked car on Arlington ave.,orth of the Columbia Steellant.Rushed to Torrance Memorial

PIcaso was given eni- ergtency treatment and then aken to the county general hos- ital. Physicians said that unless omplloations develop, the knife- ictlm should recover although lis wounds were described as

Unable to talk very much and unwilling to give the meagre de- tails- prodded out of him by in- vestigating officers, Picaso said he "did not know" who his as- sailant was or where the at- tack took place.

Police believe It occurred In or near the Pueblo - and Plcsso walked from there to the steel plant where he climbed in a car owned by Francis Derouln of 2463 Sonomu ave.

PIcaso told officers he had gone to a local theatre earlier in the evening with Isabel Ibar- ra but had left Ybarra to go

with another Mexican and get some liquor. He claimed he did not" know who his second com- panion was or if that Mexican did the stabbing. They, went to tiie Pueblo.

Doctors at the hospital hazard- ed, that the stabbing took place about six hours before the mar was found. Although his inf-'s- tines were not punctured, they were exposed by the gashes, probably as result of his hike back to Arlington ave., from the Pueblo. PIcaso said he worked for a Japanese truck gardener at Amle and Spencer streets.

State Guard Opens Alondra Park Training Camp Oct. 15; Site Will House 4,000 Potential Officers

It's "full speed ahead" these ays on plans that the Callfor-

State Guard are drafting for penlng the state's first "Plaits- urg" military training camp for ut'lness and professional men t Alondra Park next Wcdnes- ay, Oct. 15. The camp, which ill continue to Nov. 1, will be pen to all California men be- ween 21 and 60 years, subject o physical examination. Its pur- ose is to develop commissioned fflcer material for the State uard, according to Brigadier eneral Joseph O. Donovan, tatp adjutant general. Plans for the establishing of

lie training camp for the pur- ose of developing leaders for ie rapidly growing California tate Guard, the general aild, ave been under way the past veral months with all details

f organization and admlnlstra- on worked out {or the contem-

orary, etreamllned PlatUburg. '

Gen. Donovan said that the Alondra camp situated In North Torrance provider an Ideal training camp site for purposes of easy transportation facilities. The camp accommodates 3,500 to 4,000 men and Is fully equip- ped with all facilities, Including laundry. Within the range of its 365 acres is a field suitable for the landing of the larger type bomber plane In event of an emergency.

Will He State's FirstThe adjutant general said that

the training camp results from numerous requests by State Guard commissioned officers, en- listed men, and California busi- ness and professional men for the creation of such a camp as a medium for supplying the large number of trained offlcera needed to head the many new arma und branches of armed State Guard defence service now printing up over the state.

Plans are for the future es- tablishing of similar training camps at centralized points In Northern and Central California, General Donovan .said, adding that such establishment would naturally depend upon availa- bility of such camps to the Cali- fornia State Guard.

He pointed out that although the Initial training camp la sit- uated In Southern California that It open to all Interested parties. California citizens who pass the physical.

Cunt la $1.50 Per DayInability to secure other camp

sites prior to winter and the availability of Alondra Park prompts the State Ouard to take Immediate steps toward an Immediate training course. A large majority of men already signifying their Intentions to at- tend are men with Army or military background*. A suffic- ient number of phyrioiuu will I

be in attendance to provide ade- quate medical care and atten- tion at the camp.

Operation of the training camp Gen. Donovan said, will be under the command of. Lt. Colonel Frank R. McKeynolds who will be assisted by officers selected from the California State Guard as well as by junior officers and non-commlsyioned officers de- tailed to assist In instruction. From those men who pass all military tests, a certificate of capacity will be awarded, and selections for commissions will be made as vacancies occur In the ranks of the present, ap- proximate mustering strength of 12,000 and In the authorized po- tential strength of 25,000 men.

Expenses for the duration of the two weeks training by can- didates will be $1.50 per day, according to GCJI. Donovan. Tills will Include everything except

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COPS MAKING DRIVE ON WHITE SLIPS

Have you got your rogmra ticii i white i slip In your vai wilt-re it te easily visible?

Torranco police are making a drive on this regulation, it wa: indicated at Judge John Shid ler's traffic court when eight high school bo.vs appeared ii answer to citations.

When all of them either pro auced their registration slips 01 tatisfactorily explained1 \vhy the

atcsccrtifiicars, all \\-cra dismissed without

were not in their

penalty. S: slips to si purchased

eral brought in salestlioy had recently

ara and thp registra-tion .slip:, hud not beena.s y.-t from the State Departnit-nt of Motor Vehicic-b at Sacramento.

"There's a lot of cars going around in the state without gistration slips. This indicates these machines were either en or the owneis are indulging

evasion of the la Itif the duty of the Torrance po- lice department to enforce this law as well as any other," Jifdge Shidler pronounced.

Business Group Dinner-Meeting Set for Oct. 15

All business and professional men and women of Torrance are urgently requested by President Robert McCallum to attend the dinner-meeting of the Torranci Business Men's Association ot next Wednesday evening, Oct. 15, at the Woman's clubhouse,starting: at 6:30 o'clock.

"We want every person *'hois interested in business in this :lty to attend the meeting when

ntw officers for 1941-42 will be ilected and plans made for a eizes. , r jfl promptional filter?

prises that will niakeTorrance the shopping center it deserves to be," McCallum said.

Arrangements have been made /ith the Woman's club to serve

a roast beef dinner to those present. Tickets will be distrib- uted throughout the business district this weekend and also will be on sale at the door of the clubhouse at $1 each. Part of the proceeds will go into the Association's promotional .fund for Hallowe'en and Christmas- activities. ....-..- .

$7,000 Addition To Phone Bldg. Planned HereTorrance's record for growth

ecelved another boost this weekwith the beginning of construe- ion ot a $7,000 addition to the

Southern California Telephone""ompany's building at 1268 Sar- ori avenue. G. G. Draper, nian.-

agcr of the company, said to. ay that the addition will be onstructed of reinforced brick, hat it will be 24 by 40 feet, in- reasing the size of the building >y one-third, and that its de- ign will conform to that of the listing building.

Substantial growth of the .'orrance exchange, which has >een reflected in a gain of 117

telephones in service In the first Ight months of this year, is

responsible for the telephone ompany's expansion program, raper said.Two sections of switchboard,

ncrcaslng the number of oper- ting positions to ten, will be In- tailed following the completion f the building, which is ached- led for the middle of Nuvem-

The telephone man stated the cost of Installing the

ddltlonul .switchboard sections nd associated equipment will

> approximately $10,000.Increase* 1'hune Capacity

It Is planned, Draper reported,o install positions for three lore operators In 1942. Estlma- d cost of next year's expan- ion move was given as $18,000.Installation of the two switch-

oard sections to be provided lib year will. Increase the ca- aclty of the central office by 60 telephones, Draper said, resent equipment has a cu-

juclty of 1,640 stations and the ew sections will raise that to 900.Telephones in Mver, without waiting for M