Miracles Do Happen

The Bell Gardens High School Boosters Club always will believe in miracles.

Last
April, during the club's campaign to raise money to buy uniforms for
the high school band, some anonymous person contributed $5 stipulating
it be used to buy a ticket on a Cadillac being raffled by a Huntington
Park youth group.

To the Boosters, a dedicated parents organization scraping for every dime, it looked like $5 down the drain. But Louis Godfirnow, club president, dutifully bought the ticket.

Last
Sunday, guess what? Yep, the Boosters got the boost they needed. And
not having any pressing desire for a new Cadillac they turned it in to
a dealer for $4,000 cash, thereby avoiding payment of taxes and fees.
And not only will Alex Forbes, director, have bright new uniforms for
his musicians butscholarships will be set up with any money that is left over.

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SPEAKING OF campaigns, an Altadena woman active in community service has been pushing hard to get additional traffic enforcement near school intersections. The other day she made it. She received a citation for running the stop sign at a school.

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RIDING HOME in
a car pool, Gordon Bone, Division of Highways employee, mentioned he
was going on a vacation. "Are you taking your dog with you?" Ernie Diaz
asked. Yes, was the reply. "I figured you wouldn't want to leave your
dog home if there were no Bones in the house," said Ernie, ducking. OK,
so it was a hot day.

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VACUUM
Now it's that barren time of year
When the channels are
    drab and drear;
When tough, hard-riding
    Pistol Pete
Is unhorsed by Old Repete.
    –G.L. ERTZ

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TIME DOES strange things.

Gene Millhauser,
an ardent sportsman, decided to have a go at the sharks which have been
plaguing bathers. He went into a Pasadena gun store and bought a German
Mauser, the 8-mm. rifle used by Nazi troops during World War II.

When
asked for ammunition to go with it, the clerk escorted him to another
counter and brought down from a shelf a box of shells made in Israel.

Gene
headed for Catalina in his 33-ft. boat and about two miles off Avalon
ran into a school of 50 to 60 sharks and hit 17 of them.

The
curious thing is that Gene was born in Nuremberg, Germany, and fled to
this country in 1939 on what was virtually the last boat out of a storm
trooper country.

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A BEWILDERED visitor from Mexico asked the traffic officer at 7th
and Spring something and at length the policeman determined he was
looking for the L.A. immigration office. But the officer's rusty high
school Spanish was inadequate to get through him. Then he remembered
the Beneficial Standard Life office at 756 S. Spring had a sign in the
window stating its employees could say "Welcome" in 18 languages. He
guided him there and the stranger was directed up the street to the
Rowan Building.

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MEMO FROM  station KBIQ
to radio editors stated, "Please revise your listing of the 9:30-10:30
p.m. Mon. through Fri. and 10-10:30 p.m. Sat. and Sun. show as follows:
From Lush Interlude to Evening Interlude.

Those darn drunks are always barging in where they're not wanted.

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AROUND TOWN —
The Legion fireworks show, created in 1932 by Harry Myers, 71, who is
retiring after tomorrow's show, has contributed more than $903,000 to
veterans rehabilitation . . . The American Sokol Organization, dedicated to physical fitness, will hold its [illegible] — gymnastics, folk dances and mass calisthenics — at L.A. High today, tomorrow, and Sunday. The Sokol
creed: "We pledge our hands the world to see, the cause of all humanity
— the right of man to me a man." By the way, a press release refers to
the L.A. unit as the "local Sokol."