Independent Press-Telegram (Newspaper) - August 18, 1963, Long Beach, California BRIGHTEST STAR OF GALAXY GUDRUN BJARNADOTTIR Easy on the Makeup Party Weekend for Girls The city Saturday paid homage to Miss 20-year-old Gudrun Bjarnadottir and the 86 weary but beautiful ladies of the International Beauty The Downtown Long Beach Association sored a 10 a.m. tional Farewell Day as open top convertibles brought the contestants along Pine Each car stopped at one of the six Arches of so that gifts could be bestowed on the girls by local A 6 MISS COLORADO went to the Colorado state picnic at Miss Minnesota Jane went to the sota state picnic and the rest of the girls spent the afternoon primping and prettying for the tion Ball and banquet at 7 p.m. Officers from the United States Navy served as escorts for the ladies as their hostess chaperones ringed the One young ensign was heard to comment that looks like an admiral's in- But the music and flowing formals took effect as the evening progressed and the Navy demonstrated tion much to the de- light of the s after the girls go to a buffet and swimming party at 2 p.m. at the Petroleum Club Miss Pennsylvania goes to state picnic Miss Tahiti is guest at a luau in Rolling Hills Miss Ireland and Miss Scotland tour a radio station in Glendale Miss Italy visits a Sons of Italy banquet at the Elks Club and some of the girls head for the port and the trip Miss International will fall in front of the J. 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Penney store on Pine Avenue promptly at 10 a.m. Monday in a Chinese goods ance when she places her pretty palms in gooey concrete those who come after her to walk and the IBC will be over until next Light Plane Rams Pilot Killed A Huntington Beach man was killed and another injured when their light single engine plane skimmed treetops in the San Bernardino Mountains and crashed against a Killed was the Richard 34, of 15442 Baffin His Robert B. 28, of 5681 Mangrum was taken to San County Hospital with tiple fractures and head in- Friends said the pair left Sunset Airport in ton Beach in a Fairchild trainer to go The Civil Aeronautics Board and the Federal Aviation Agency were investigating the cause of the Olson operated a TV repair shop in Top International Beauty Starts Her Glamour Reign By CHARLES SUTTON The suspense and prise all lovely run Miss In- of 1964, settled down Saturday to a job for which she seems eminently fitted that of being a reigning beauty The long-stemmed beauty awoke after light filtered through her ers Hotel down before you could say her home town in she was looking freshly demure for visitors who came knocking at her Friday night had been a exciting ing experience for Gudrun in that she broke into tears when officials tapped her for the International Beauty Con- gress DIDNT think I had a she it I didn't believe it at Gudrun not only believed looked it. She wore a simple blue sheath dress despite only three hours sleep the night looked fresh in it. There was nary a shadow beneath her deep gray-green and her peaches and cream com- fairly shone in the morning SITTING ON the edge of a queen-size with her legs crossed Miss Bjarnadottir admitted she'd been quite nervous all through the pageant though she she appears to be the cool and collected She also disclosed that she almost didn't enter the haJ been having ble headaches and I really didn't feel up to she Mrs. son Sumi her of 4029 Pine and my parents me that 1 should go if only for my They said I owed it to the people in I feared I wouldn't be able to take the FOR THE FIRST three days of the the headaches she she still gets them The daughter of a ing boat builder in Gudrun has been living re- cently in where she works as a Her sideline is and she wouldn't mind it one bit if Hollywood none of the studios have approached her she not interested in she stated thereby adding more mystery to an already mystifying GUDRUN'S first roent on the subject was made following her don't want to discuss my personal Page Col 1) OWN SUNDAY Newspaper Phone HE 5-1161 The Mostly sunny today with low clouds and local fog night and early morning High about 80. Complete weather on Page LONG AUGUST 18, 1963 20 CENTS VOL. 12 I 144 PAGES Independent Meredith's Graduation Set Today Miss. Barring unforseen James H. Meredith will receive his bachelor's degree today from the Uni- versity of The 30-year-old a slightly built Negro from became the first known member of his race to attend the 115- year-old university last fall when he was enrolled by the force of federal GOV. ROSS who last fall tried repeatedly to block Meredith's attempted last week to pre- vent Meredith from ing a degree from the same school where the 61-year- old governor got his law But the State College ruling body of public institutions of higher voted 6-5 to allow Meredith to re- his At issue was a statement Meredith issued last June after a sniper assassinated Negro leader Medgar Evers at Miss. MEREDITH called for a boycott of thing possible by as a protest against the racial situation in Negro's life is not worth the air it takes to keep it alive in he in seeking to stop Meredith's contended the statement violated a university rule against Members of the State Col- lege Board said they feared Ole Miss would lose its if it denied Meredith a degree because of his Attend Fete for First Lady's Half-Sister By FRANCES LEWINE Janet Jennings with a surprise boquet from President and Mrs. was the star of an elaborate seaside ball Saturday The introduction to port society of 18-year old half-sister of First Lady Jacqueline touched off a weekend of partying The biggest party of all was the tian with 800 to guests invited to dance un- til dawn in honor of Deb Janet at the 75-acre home of her Mr. and Mrs. Hugh D. of The shingled torian summer home on Narragansett Bay was a beehive of activity as New York decorators and ers culminated months of planning to give it the flavor of the city of music and ro- The gay decor included two huge marquees with Venetian canvas for dancing and one for up on the lawn overlooking the A 40-foot with red and black velvet provided the stand background for Meyer Davis and his society who had played only the night before for the Newport Blue and Silver Ball of Janet's close phine Pearson Taylor of S.C. The musicians were vided with the costumes of gondoliers and told to em- sentimental Italian All the young girls received a golden mask on a stick and the young men escorts were given tic straw worn by in Venice and im- ported from there especially for the The invited some 300 guests to dinner first and a list that re- came to for the ball beginning at 11 p.m. and traditionally con- until dawn with pancakes and scrambled eggs featured at the buffet A Who's Who of Society from Boston and Philadelphia gathered for the in- ambassadors and Janet's two from Miss Porter's exclusive Page Col. 6) Press GOVERNOR EDMUND G. BROWN and wife are received by Pope Paul VT in a special audience at his summer Castel INVITES RETURN VISIT Brown Meets With Pope CASTEL Italy Edmund G. Brown of fornia Saturday met with Pope Paul VI and invited the Pope to visit his A spokesman for the governor said the Pope threw out his arms in a wide gesture which seemed to indicate THE POPE said he was happy to re- the invitation but did not say if he would the spokesman a shook hands with the Pope rather than kissing his ring as is the customary practice for Catholics received in papal audience. He gave the Pope a book entitled which is well illustrated with color photographs of the Golden The Pope told him he would look forward to reading it. The spokesman for Brown said the governor had found the Pope a much more striking figure than his graphs indicate and had described him as a AFTER leaving Castel in the Alban Hills M miles southeast of Brown went to Rome to meet with Italian Foreign Trade Minister Giuseppe After attending church the governor leaves Rome by air for PIED PIPERS Haiti Rebels Report CAN GET OFF r RELIEF ROLL Aerial Foe Downed THOUSAND Calif. you build a better mousetrap and mighty quick the dents of Conejo Valley will beat a path to your A recent drought has driven thousands of little field mice into this ern California residential and the invasion has residents going to every comer market and ware store for Stocks were depleted over the while one firm said it was ordering traps by the gross and ing them like SANTO minican Republic Haitian rebel forces ed Saturday night they had shot down one of two air force planes which they claimed President Francois Duvalier sent against their positions around the town of Mont Organise in Paul spokesman for the rebel forces led by former Haitian Gen. Leon said the plane was shot down after a two-day pitched battle around Mont an interior city which the rebels claim they have Verna said he got the news from rebels by WHERE TO FIND IT THE TYPEWRITER is a musical least it will be in the next Starlight Aug. 23. And Mayor Edwin Wade will be soloist with the Symphony How See Page HOLLYWOOD'S production plans are putting new life in the film capital of the A survey of films in the works and production plans will be found on Amusements Beach Bridge 12 Death Notices Editorials Finance Music and 7 16 Real 12 Ship Sports 6 Women's News 10 He said Cantave and his rebels retreated into the mountainous area around the city after inflicting heavy losses on special army and tactical units of the Duvalier He put the government losses at 125 and the rebel fatalities at 5. For the past several days there have been reports of heavy fighting in the areas between government troops and variously numbered as between 250 and 500 well-armed a former eral in Duvalier's army who fell out with the Haitian headed a force of exiled Haitians that landed near Cap in Haiti Aug. 5 in a move to topple Bombs Wound 20 in Barroom BRUSSELS hand grenades were lobbed into a Congolese bar in downtown Brussels late Saturday First reports said at least 20 persons were several of them Meet Disrupted by Interlopers By MARK CLUTTER and VINT MADER A scheduled human relations meeting to discuss the integration issue in the South Bay areas was broken up at Torrance High School Saturday night by a cadre of heckling demonstrators who hooted the program to a Late Saturday after Torrance police de- clared the meeting some persons re- fused to leave and attempted to carry on the The accused by the panel moderator of be- ing from the John Birch in overwhelming a proposed panel discussion AH of the Centinela Bay Human I Ul VII Relations As the riotous tions continued at an un- controlled and violent C. H. Torrance city prosecutor who was to have been moderator of the declared the ing Long Delay Rights WASHINGTON Leader Mike Mansfield of Montana said Saturday Senate ation of lation will be delayed until late September in an effort to get other important bills Mansfield outlined in an interview a program calling for Senate action on sures to keep the debt limit at to ize spending and to permit ratification of the limited treaty before any rights measure is brought The Seriate is expected to take up the measure Mansfield said regular departmental money bills will be taken up as they are cleared by the House and approved by the Senate He said he also hopes to win passage of an aid but did not say which of several pending ones it would Although Mansfield did not say this seemed to reflect an administration decision to try to get proval of most of the lation it regards as ely necessary before ing into an expected stopping filibuster on civil POLICE Lt. D.C. Cook then proclaimed the ing an illegal assembly and officers began attempting to clear the hall of the dis- sident claque and the mate participants president of the South Bay Bar said later that leaders of this are the Birch The disruptive program began early with loud de- mands from the floor that the gathering be launched with the singing of The Star-Spangled in addition to the scheduled Pledge of ance to the Flag and a The crowd stood and sang Page Col. 4) Bus Crash Injures 34 Ala. A Greyhound bus smashed into a bridge abutment and crazily overturned into a creek near here Saturday while trying to avoid col- liding with a First reports indicated at least 34 persons were in- but there were no im- mediate reports of any E. German Guards Victims of Own Mine Sunday Two East German border their legs blown off by a Communist land crawled to freedom in the West Saturday The border guards were talking to the mayor and some residents of this lage across the barbed wire fence West German border police When they walked back to resume their patrolling they stepped on one of the mines in the ad- jacent to the police explosion ripped off the leg of one border while the leg of the other fellow was still dangling police On their they crawled back to the fence and across to West police Both men were rushed to the nearest UY
