Hobbs Daily News-Sun (Newspaper) - July 3, 1977, Hobbs, New Mexico LOOKS FORWARD TO INDEPENDENCE Navy's First Pin-Up Girl Now 80 Fought for Country SEQUIM Wash AP She was the Navy's first pin-up girl a lass of 20 who in 1917 a blue jacket and jaunty cap to pose for a winsome recruiting poster I Wish I Were a Man I'd Join the read the poster and thousands of young men responded Ten days after she posed Bernice Smith joined the Navy herself keeping alive the unbroken string of wars starting with the Revolutionary War in which members of her family had served Others have since served through Vietnam Things have changed so much said Bernice now a widow as she looked forward to Independence Day Things don't mean what they used to I think our country is the only one I'd like to live in but we make mistakes None of us is perfect If you don't make mistakes then you're six feet under and pushing up the she said in an interview Friday But in 1917 her only thoughts were of helping the country defend itself in a foreign war The historic recruiting poster is her pride I would have liked it better if the artist had put that cap on my head in a different manner said Mrs Tongate 80 of the drawing by Howard Chandler Christy That certainly was not regulation I wouldn't nave worn it to the office like that I'll tell you Mrs Tongate was a Los Angeles office worker riding to work on a streetcar when she read in a newspaper about the Navy's recruiting women She rushed to the nearest recruiting office Presenting the newspaper she demanded en- Recruiters went to their commanding officer paper in hand Mrs Tongate followed behind a civilian Christy who was in the office Captain there's a girl here who wants to join the Navy If you will get a hat blouse and a pair of pants I'll make a poster that will turn this town upside Christy told the officer If I was a man I would join the Navy Mrs Tongate remembers telling the men This is the first time our family has never been represented in a war and you've just got to take me I was a nervy little she added The poster was drawn the same day and Bernice Smith soon afterwards became the first woman in California to enlist She served until May 1920 earning chief petty officer's stripes as a yeoman Rejected by the Navy and Marines for service during World War II They said I was too old Mrs Tongate joined the Army serving in military postal facilities at Battle Creek Mich and Riverside Calif Two grandsons served in Vietnam one in the and one in the Navy Hobbs Daily Tlw People Paper MISS Call before p.m daily or before a.m day NUMBER 124 HOBBS NEW MEXICO 88240 SUNDAY JULY 3 1877 SUNDAY 25 CENTS Advent of Alaskan Oil To Spur Market Search LOS ANGELES AP It's taken nine years and billions of dollars to tap into Alaska's vast oil reserves build a pipeline and get the crude flowing south Now there's no place to put about half of it The dilemma is a variation on the petroleum industry's favorite slogan Oil is where you find it In this case it's the market the companies are searching for since the West Coast the nearest and most logical place to sell the oil has neither the refineries to handle it all nor the means to ship it east The first batch of oil entered the Pipeline June 20 and will reach the line's southern terminus the Alaskan port of Valdez late this month Once there it will be strained to retrieve any stray tools left behind in the line and put into storage tanks Then it will be loaded into tankers with the first shipment due to leave in early August Exactly what happens after that is still up in the air Some will be sold on the West Coast and some will be shipped through the Panama Canal to Gulf Coast refineries and on to EXPANDING INDUSTRY Climax Chemical Co has announced that its production plant seen here at Monument will complete a million ex- program before the end of this year The first phase of the program which will increase the production of muriatic acid from 150 to 200 tons per day was completed recently The chemical firm employs 62 persons Photo by Jim Girl Scout Says Kidnaper Bound Sexually Abused Her SARASOTA Fla AP minister who waited out the uncertain hours with the family of a kidnaped teen-ager says Charlotte Grosse's bravery helped her outwit her captor She was unusually took a special measure of courage to stick it out and run when she got the the Rev Williams Echols said Saturday Charlotte 15 was in seclusion for the weekend Suspect in Jewel Theft Denied Release by Court By KATHERYN Of The Staff LOVINGTON An unsuccessful attempt was made Friday to secure the release of Jerry Ray James Ruidoso man facing two charges in connection with a Lea County jewel robbery from a hold order which has been placed against him by a representative of the New Mexico Department of Corrections Plan Urged Itt WASHINGTON U.S Rep Harold Runnels of Humble City has written to President Carter urging his support for the adoption of a food for work proposal Under the proposal certain food stamp recipients would be required to perform public service work in exchange for food stamps I am convinced that food for work is an idea whose time has said the Democrat in his letter to Carter It offers a new resource to state and local governments at no additional On il District Judge John B Walker denied a petition for an alternative writ of habeas corpus which had been filed against Sheriff George Teague on James behalf James a former Hobbs resident is charged with conspiracy to commit armed robbery and with being an accessory to armed robbery in connection with the Jan 27 invasion of the Tatum ranch home of Mrs Dessie Sawyer and the theft of diamonds valued at Arrested June 17 in Ruidoso James is being held in county jail in lieu of bond of set by Hobbs Magistrate Donald Hallam who is scheduled to conduct James preliminary hearing in Lovington Thursday That bond believed the highest ever set in a Lea County case was granted at Continued On Page 5 trying to forget the three days she had been bound naked to a bedpost bruised and sexually molested Her accused abductor Wilfred Rusty Bannister 33 was in Sarasota County Jail without bond on charges of kidnaping and involuntary sexual battery Police defined involuntary sexual battery as sexual fondling Bannister dressed in a prison jumpsuit and shower thongs appeared briefly in court Saturday for a preliminary hearing He kept his head lowered when the judge asked if he understood the charges and simply nodded his head yes Continued On Page S Camps Take Precautions MIAMI AP Security precautions at summer Girl Scout camps have been tightened across the country due to the abduction of a ager at a Florida state park and the slayings of three girls in Oklahoma Richard Knox a spokesman for the Girl Scouts of America's national headquarters said this weekend that extra security measures in many camps include more frequent bed checks added chaperones and extra police patrols He said parents have been calling regional offices to see Continued On Page 5 COUNCIL SEEKS City Home for Kids By AMY PARKS Of The Staff Two little brothers one age 9 and one age 10 They did something wrong this week and they were They were put in the Hobbs municipal Jail That's where the drunk tank is That's the lodging for accused rapists murderers burglars men and women charged with assault and drug possession among other things The boys had broken into a neighbor's house They took three cans of beer and They did it no question about that And also no question about their having little or no supervision or a stable family life So they were jailed Juvenile Officer Ernie Rondeau comes a shade closer to tearing out his hair and There was nothing else I could do We could not return them to the mother That was out Nobody wanted them There was no foster home for them And Hobbs has no emergency facilities for these little kidi children abused children neglected children runaways who more often than most people could imagine are running from sexual or or other intolerable home conditions they all go to jail There are only so many foster homes and Rondeau says Most foster parents don't want these older kids They prefer the very young ones Health and Social Services tries to take care of them but they don't have the funding or the staff I think we're really getting burned here in Lea County We don't get the proper funding from the state level Santa Fe says we're supposed to have and then they don't provide the funding To investigate reasons for Lea County not getting its proper share of available state funds and to see what can be done a new Allied Agency Council has been formed here The council held its second meeting this week and participants include from the police Crisis Line Health and Social Services Lea Action Center Closings Numerous For 4th Most business activity in Lea County will tomorrow in celebration of the birthday although numerous public and private festivities are planned in the area for the first holiday weekend of summer All city county state and federal offices will be closed on July 4 however lobbies of area post offices will be open to allow residents to collect box mail There will be no deliveries either to residential or commercial boxes Summer school students in the Hobbs Municipal School District will not begin their second semester until Tuesday while New Mexico Junior College students also will have a day's vacation College of the Southwest students have just completed the first summer session and will have an eight day break until the opening of the second session Heizer and Humble Pools in Hobbs will be open as will Hobbs Country Club facilities Most local businesses will be closed for Independence Day although the majority of supermarkets and con- stores will be open Gibson's and K mart will also be open while the Western Auto stores will be closed Waste Control of New Mexico will not operate any routes on Monday The firm collected trash yesterday instead of on July 4 A com- pany spokesperson said normal operations will resume on Tuesday Hobbs police officials have already warned celebrators that possession of any ex- plosive commonly called fireworks which are not approved by the state fire marshal is a violation of both city and state ordinances The Hobbs Daily will be published as usual on July 4 but will observe an early holiday deadline Sets Thunderbird Distribution Copies of the 1977 edition of the Thunderbird New Mexico Junior College yearbook will be available for distribution on campus beginning Tuesday Students and faculty members may obtain their copies of the book in Mansur Hall room 105 Henry DeVilllers yearbook sponsor said Individuals may also pick up their copies of the publication between the hours of 10 a.m and 2 p.m on Thursday and Friday Copies of the are 7.50 each DESPITE MOVE Metric Conversion To Continue in U.S WASHINGTON the failure of the plan to convert road signs from miles to kilometers government officials say there will be no halt to a national policy of adopting the metric system the the Midwest Some may wind up in Japan More than 90 per cent of the 1.2 million barrels per day of oil that will flow through the pipeline at full capacity is owned by three companies Atlantic Richfield Co Exxon Corp and Standard Oil of Ohio Arco and Exxon each have about 20 per cent and Sohio 53 per cent Arco and Exxon have West Coast refineries that can handle the Alaskan crude Sohio does not We're pretty well says an Arco spokesman We're going to sell all we can to anybody that will buy says an Exxon spokesman But Sohio has 90 per cent to get rid of so they'll be terribly competitive in trying to push it Shell and some of those who aren't Continued On Page s Metric specialists say Federal Highway Administration acted too quickly and with too little preparation when the agency announced in April that it planned to convert road signs to metrics at a cost of million New speed limit and tical clearance signs would have been installed by Dec Auto Crashes KKK Platform at Rally PLAINS Ga AP An young white man drove a small foreign car at high speed into the speaker's platform at a Ku Klux Klan rally Saturday night in President Carter's home town witnesses said As the small foreign-made car smashed under the platform and through the crowd it cut a swath through people standing at least 15 deep and then into the speakers stand At least 39 persons were injured and lying on the ground after the car cut a swath through the field The extent of the injuries were not immediately known Several persons including police and robed Klansmen rushed the car which came to followed by other sign changes The Highway Administration announced in June that it was canceling this plan because of widespread public opposition Off comments received by the agency about 98 per cent of them were said William M Cox director of the administration Despite this setback for metrics federal metric conversion coordinator Jeffrey Odom said the gradual in- of the system of weights and measures will continue Odom acknowledged that Continued On Page 5 Missing From Farm LOS LUNAS AP Authorities were searching Saturday for two Hobbs men missing from the state prison honor farm at Los Lunas A spokesman for the Corrections Department said Thomas Earl Ellington 25 and Jerry Robert Wilson 22 were last seen on the grounds about p.m Friday Ellington is serving a year prison term for larceny of more than and Wilson was sentenced to a year Continued On Page a stop about 50 yards beyond the stand The driver of the car was hauled away by police The sports car sped through the field and smashed un- the grandstand The speakers fell like rag dolls as the platform dropped People were standing about 15 deep directly in front of the grandstand when the car tore into them About 250 persons were standing in a around the grandstand Continued On Page S Sunday Comics Delayed Today's Hobbs Daily does not in- clude the Sunday comic section because of by the printer in Lufkin Texas The comics mistakenly sent to Utah will be placed in an edition of next week's newspaper as soon as they arrive in Hobbs The regrets the inconvenience to our readers The comic section will be placed in the hands of our readers as soon as possible Eunice Sets July 4th Fete is building here for tomorrow's Chamber of sponsored old-fashioned July Fourth celebration according to Chamber Manager Susy Brown For the 10th consecutive year the chamber will host the all-day festivities which in- clude a barbecue dinner between a.m and p.m contests of every description and a fireworks display Tickets are for the picnic Eunice and Tatum are the only Lea County communities planning sizeable July Fourth celebrations this year cording to Mrs Brown who said attendance in Eunice was down last year when other communities bicentennial activities More than people attended the celebration in 1972 and Chamber President Leonard Pierce said in 1975 nearly people attended the activities which annually begin with a a.m parade of floats cars bicycles and the American Legion Color Guard Sale of the tickets printed for the barbecue is going well Mrs Brown said and more than a ton of ice and pounds of meat are ordered for this year's festivities Special com- memorative printed with the city's new flag design and the date will be sold during the day JULY FOURTH EXCITEMENT Eunice's July Fourth celebration being sponsored tomorrow by the Chamber of Commerce will include steer roping M seen above contests of every description a barbecue dinner and fireworks
