Dispatched
A man driving here from Chicago became confused the other day as he neared Los Angeles. His car is equipped with two-way radio so he called the local dispatcher, who is on the same wave length. He identified himself as Chicago 287 and explained his problem. He was coming in on the Santa Ana Freeway and wanted to get to an address near Olympic and La Cienega Blvds. What should he do?
The dispatcher instructed him to continue to the interchange, then turn onto Harbor Freeway and take Olympic Blvd. turnoff.
Soon Chicago 287 reported in again. He was becoming more confused by the minute.
| THE DISPATCHER GOT ON THE AIR and explained there was a lost sheep on Santa Ana Freeway. Could anyone help?
L.A. 97, an Owl Trucking rig, and L.A. 236, which happens to be photog Red Humphreys of KTTV’s mobile unit, checked in and offered assistance. L.A. 97 told the dispatcher to instruct Chicago 287 to pull to the side at Soto St. and he’d pick him up there and lead him through the interchange. L.A. 236 offered to take him from there. The deed was done, and Chicago effusively thanked the dispatcher who relayed his gratitude to 97 and 236. “Tell him,” Humphreys said, “it was just normal western hospitality, electronics section.” :: WEDNESDAY, when the Supreme Court granted a stay of execution and newly disclosed plans for a frankly commercial Dodgerville in Chavez Ravine created an uproar, the newsboy at 6th and Spring was yelling, “Chessman is saved! Now they’re going to hang Walter O’Malley!” By the way, there’s considerable coffee-break sentiment that Ike should take philanthropist O’Malley along to the summit conference to negotiate with Khrushchev. He never seems to lose. :: HALLOWEEN NOTE :: A LADY WHO has been placed on strict diet because of numerous allergies continues to cook choice morsels for her husband, a solid man with knife and fork. The other day she served him lobster thermidor, which she loves but which is verboten to her. When he finished both halves, one of which ordinarily would have been hers, and she suffered through a dab of cottage cheese, she asked wistfully, “Tell me, did I have a good meal?” “Wonderful,” he said heartlessly, loosening his belt, “and furthermore, you’re too full for dessert.” :: ALTHOUGH life may seem ephemeral in these crisis-a-minute days, there’s evidence that plenty of people still, as the saying goes, plan ahead. Announcement that construction was starting on a 252-crypt mausoleum in Memory Garden Memorial Park in Brea, “first of a series of small, intimate mausoleums,” carried the message that almost 50% of the crypts had been purchased on a “pre-need basis.” Nothing’s going to take these people by surprise! :: AT RANDOM — A clerk in a Burbank market informed a customer he was getting a ticket for parking. When the customer went out he found the officer had put three pennies in the meter. Figures he either liked or was afraid of the dog in the car . . . Musician Arthur Lyman and his bird call four eagerly insisted on taking the train instead of flying from L.A. to Las Vegas for their current engagement. Why? Because there are no passenger trains on Oahu, where they come from. The other 48 have lots to learn about the 49th and 50th states . . . During a six-week period the Tic Tac Toe machine in the Electronic Communication Hall at the State Museum in Exposition Park was played 473,129 times. Proving people will take a free chance on anything.
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