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ter,►photbr:hool Jiree it o[ I the tiga-l BUf-t the iver) auseI out i and if us at he i thecl un-Five some ;eveny es-ising id blinder of a Mrs. pany susly ewer when es.1con-wom-that for it Depleted Lates 1 be-. The vbich icol'dFord ica's vern-viees ppos-ng to i alsoPeople in the News ■Students set up scholarship fund for murdered Ballou boyCombined News ServicesA group of black high school students who “want the world to know that we care” said Friday night they are starting a scholarship fund in memory of Robert Brooks Ballou, 16, who was beaten to death Monday when he refused to surrender his leather jacket. Vernel Carter, 16. a friend of Ballou, said she and another friend, Janine King, 15, got the idea for the scholarship while collecting, door-to-door, for a wreath for Ballou’s funeral today.A Rosary was recited at St. Raphael’s Catholic Church Friday night for Ballou. He will be buried at Holy Cross Cemetery this morning;Miss Carter said she and Miss King first started collecting money for a wreath and when they had about 55SO. they got the idea of starting a scholarship because we want the world to know that we care. She said about 25 other black high school students have been recruited to help collect money and she expressed hope that others will help too. “We want as much help to build as big a scholarship as we can because so many kids can benefit from a scholarship.’’ she said. “It won’t end.” She pointed out that Ballou had been helped by a scholarship.Ballou, the son of a Los Angeles attorney and cousin of former UCLA linebacker. Mike Ballou, was a varsity football player at Los Angeles High School which he attended on a scholarship.So far, Miss Carter said, students helping in the scholarship drive were from Hamilton High School, which she attends, Notre Dame High School, which Miss King attends, and Los Angeles, Crenshaw and Mt. Carmel high schools. All are in predominantly black areas of Los Angeles.David Abraham, an adult adviser to the scholarship drive, said the kids were “trying to make the community aware.”If Ihe kids can show they care, perhaps in the future this kind of thing (the killing of Ballou) would not happen. It would make everyone stop and think and realize that not everyhody in that area docs the same thing.The kids there do care. he said.INDEPENDENTPRESS-TELEGRAMSaturday. March «, l«J volume is. No. U7Phon. HE 5-11*1PH on. HE 5-11*1 Classified HE I-J9SS Settnd Class Post*** paid at Lono Beach. CA HIM.SolzhenitsynAlexander Solzhenitsyn, the Soviet author, will receive his Nobel Prize diploma and medal at a ceremony in Moscow next month, it was announced in Stockholm Friday. Karl Ragnar Gierow, secretary of the Nobel foundation, said he is going to Moscow April 8 to deliver the diploma and medal at a private ceremony at Solzhenitsyn’s home.- He won the literature prize in 1970. Solzhenitsyn did not come to Stockholm to receive Ihe prize at the ceremony here December 1970. Solzhenitsyn has already received the cash part of the prize and transferred it to a Swiss bank.once said, “The others are draftsmen or copyists . . . but Balenciaga alone is a couturier.” In London, couturiers mourned his death and the Swiss-born dressmaker Mattli said, “He was the greatest designer in the world.”have declined to reveal tit* . nature of the ailment that. has brought him near: death.KissingerPowellAdam Clayton Powell remained in “death-like coma” Friday, his life being sustained by a machine that has taken over his major body functions. The 83-year-old former Harlem congressman’s physician and Miami hospital officials have refused to discuss Powell’s case beyond saying that his condition is critical. TheyPresidential adviser Henry Kissinger turned up at an exclusive villa of -p Mexican banker’s family in Acapulco Friday, on a four-day holiday. Kissinger, sources said, is staying alone at the Mediterra-nean-styie villa of the Es-candons, a banker’s family socially active in Acapulco. The villa overlooks Acapulco Bay. has a shellshaped swimming pool and. is close to the Acapulco residence of former movie star Meric Oberon.FielderGov. Reagan, lop slate officials and more than 600 persons Friday attended Masonic funeral services in Dixon for state Agriculture Director Jerry Fielder who was killed in a plane crash. Fielder, 56. was eulogized as “one of ‘he greatest agricultural leaders we have ever had in California.” Fielder was killed Wednesday when his light plane crashed into an open field south of Sacramento during a thunderstorm.BalenciagaCristobal Balenciaga, the influential fashion designer whose clothes were noted for their timeless elegance, is dead at 77. The Spanish couturier suffered a heart attack while vacationing in .lavea. a Mediterranean resort, and was taken to a hospital in Valencia where he died Thursday night. Balenciaga was considered a master even by his rivals. The late C«co ChanelEASTERSPECIAL!FreshEaster4?^ LiliesDIRECT FROM THE GROWERIn Moin Building and Ga,d• n Shop BuildingDOOLEYS Hardware Mart5075 L0NG BEACH BLVD NORTH LONG BEACHCARRIER DELIVERY DAILY AND SUNDAY .SUNDAY ONLY .. .SINGLE COPY SUNDAY ONLY ......How do you turn *100 into a new wardrobePHo trick at all at Ed’s For Style!A btautiful hand-tailorad, double-knit, all woo/, or silk and wool suit—latest style, fully lined, finest quality.$4gooOne pair el one-ya»r guarantee-dated, wash and iv»ar slacks.SQ99
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