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PAGE FOUR Page 4 April 4, 1981 The Hanford Sentinel Roman Slave Auction Lemoore offers answer to college toga party The evening was not without its special entertainment, as would befit a Roman festival. Three men did a partial strip tease (advertising an evening at Birdie McTweets) and a female belly dancer (offered with a Greek dinner), performed a routine. At the previous Lemoore slave auction held in the fall of 1979, the junior womens club netted approximately $5,000. Harrington said money raised from the last auction is being used for Phase 2 improvements to the Tommy Bettencourt Playground, located in Lemoore City Park. She explained that Construction Battalion Unit 406 from Lemoore Naval Air Station will begin installing new play equipment Monday.

These include new play units for handicapped children, a circular slide and a sidewalk. Part of the money from this years auction will be used for construction of Phase 3, Harrington noted. The auction has taken considerable time and effort, she said, and has been in the planning stages for the past six months. food and drinks wore Aphrodite-type outfits. Also, Roman columns were painted on long white paper and were pasted to the walls.

From the time the trumpets heralded the entrance of the Roman guards, most everyone was prepared for plenty of laughs. Items auctioned included everything from tennis lessons, to holiday trips, to boots, to haircuts. There were 46 items on the ledger. Even a Lamaze class was offered. Are there any pregnant women in the audience, auctioneer Gates laughed as the class was up for bid.

It went for $35. The highest bid was for a playhouse, for which Danny Newton paid $640. Designed by David Roach, the structure was built by Steve Avila, Les Brown, Dave Bush, Bill Miguel, Robert Sippel, Bill Stone and Dave Wlaschin. Food was also a hot item. A Greek dinner for eight went for $330, while another gourmet dinner drew $330, and another garnered $300.

Tom Baker paid $400 for a halfside of beef cut, wrapped and delivered. By EDDIE IBARDOLASA Sentinel Staff Writer IJ6MOORE It was I-emoore's answer to an ancient toga party. Yup, it was a Roman Slave Auction San Joaquin Valley-style. Over 400 people crammed into the newly remodeled Lemoore Civic Auditorium Friday night to witness a truly different spectacle. Festivities were like a combination Ben Hur epic and Groucho Marx comedy as many of Lemoores finest citizen donned tunic and sandals, all in the name of charity.

Where else would you have seen city councilman Don Fasten parade on stage wearing only white wrapping paper? Where else would you have seen Navy officers from Attack Squadron 195 dressed like Roman imperial guards, carrying slaves" to the auction block? The evening was sponsored by the Lemoore Junior Women's Club, with proceeds going toward improvements to the Tommy Bettencourt Memorial Playground and for the purchase of new window coverings for the civic auditorium. More than $6,300 worth of goods and sendees were auctioned during the festivities, with Cmdr. Chris Gates at the helm as auctioneer. Approximately 420 people registered to bid on the items, paying $5 per ticket. Publicity chairman Nancy Harrington estimated the club will net between $5,000 and $6,000 from the auction after expenses.

like a real Roman slave auction might have been, the evening was a swirl of activity from beginning to end. "It was an uncontrollable situation, which we managed to control, Harrington said this morning. I was thrilled to see the community come out and support us, she said, adding that people attended from as far as Tulare. A few spectators came dressed for the occassion. A couple of bidders looked like they had just arrived from Saudi Arabia by wearing "sheik" costumes.

To fit the occasion, junior women's club members who served Sentinel Photo by Toni Ramos City Councilman Don Casten (right) puts himself on the auction block during Lemoores Roman Slave Auction Friday night. Casten represented the city in its offer to make available the Lemoore water tower for a custom sign. Auctioneer for the evening was Chris Gates. Obituaries tribute to the Mary Immaculate Queen School building fund. Burial will be in the Lemoore Cemetery under the direction of Phipps-Dale Chapel.

Jesus Cervantes Rocha Jesus Cervantes Rocha, 74, died at his home in Kettleman City Friday. A native of Mexico, Rocha had lived in Kettleman City since 1947. He is survived by his wife Nativadad: three daughters, Alice Rodriguez, Irma Salazar and Lucy Rocha, all of San Jose; six sons. Jess, Raul and George Rocha, all of San Jose, Renaldo and Ernest Rocha of Kettleman City and Henry Rocha of Coalinga; 20 grandchildren; one great-grandchild. Rosary will be recited Monday at 8 p.m.

in St. Cecilia Catholic Church in Kettleman City, with a mass of resurrection to be held Tuesday at 10 a.m. in the church. Burial will be in the Lemoore Cemetery under the direction of Phipps-Dale Chapel. Funeral Chapel.

Verla R. Crawford Services for Verla R. Crawford will be in the First United Methodist Church Monday at 1 p.m., with private burial in the Grangeville Cemetery under the direction of Peoples Funeral Chapel. Crawford, 54, and her husband Wayne were killed Wednesday in a private plane crash near Cholame. A native of Ellis, Crawford had lived in Hanford for the past 30 years and was a court reporter for former Superior Court Judge Robert Rosson for 25 years.

She was a member of the First United Methodist Church and the Kings County Boat Club. Survivors include two sons, Donald Crawford of San Diego and David Crawford of Visalia; one brother, Grant Still of Halbrook, four sisters, Betty Stevens of Lompoc, Roberta Koslowski of Alta Loma, Mildred Remillard of Red- field, S.D., and Opal Ritchey of Courtland, Neb. three grandchildren and several nieces and nephews. Maria M. Pacheco Lemoore resident Maria M.

Pacheco died at her home Thursday. She was 94. A native of Terceira, Azores Islands, Pacheco came to Los Banos when she was 18 and moved to Stratford in 1914. She lived in Tulare from 1918 to 1943 before moving to San Pedro. Pacheco had lived in Lemoore since 1977.

She was a member of St. Peters Catholic Church and the UPPEC Lodge of Lemoore. Pacheco is survived by one daughter, Irene Borges of Lemoore; two sons, Joe F. and John Pacheco, both of Hanford; one sister, Hermina Evangelho of Lemoore; 13 grandchildren; 30 great-grandchildren and five great-great grandchildren. Rosary will be recited Sunday at 8 p.m.

in Phipps-Dale Chapel, with mass of resurrection to be held Monday at 10 a.m. in St. Peters Catholic Church. Friends who wish may con Wayne E. Crawford Wayne E.

Crawford, 57, who died in a plane crash Wednesday, will have a private burial in the Grangeville Cemetery Monday following services in the First United Methodist Church beginning at 1 p.m. A native of Tracy, Crawford had lived in Hanford for the past 30 years. He had been employed for the Safeway Creamery for 27 years and had worked for Stoufer Chemicals in Visalia for the past three years. He was a veteran of World War II, and was a member of the First United Methodist Church and the Kings County Boat Club. Crawford is survived by two sons, Donald Crawford of San Diego and David Crawford of Visalia; his mother Pearl Crawford of Hayward; two brothers, Bill Crawford of Stockton and Ralph Crawford of Hayward; one sister, Paulene Ramsey of Hayward; three grandchildren; and several nieces and nephews.

Funeral arrangements are under the direction of Peoples Bush's drama unfolds Fire guts small home (Continued from Page 1) by ambulance to the hospital. However, when she was advised of possible legal consequences if the child were not allowed to be treated, she reportedly took the child to the hospital. Authorities said damage estimates to the structure and its contents were difficult to obtain because the house was packed so tightly with household goods, furniture, clothing, toys and other items. Some rooms reportedly contained packed boxes from floor to ceiling, while in other rooms access was confined to narrow pathways. Damage to the structure was estimated at $12,000 and at $10,000 to contents.

A second fire on riday, shortly after 8 p.m., damaged the attic and washroom areas of an office building at the Kings Tulare Tallow Division of Baker Commodities, 7416 Hanford-Armona Road. A faulty water heater was listed as probable cause of the fire. Loss estimates had not been determined this morning. Was Reagan dead? Was Bush now president? The first man in line of succession to the presidency was left in doubt for nearly 15 agaonizing minutes to ponder the awesome prospects. In his phone call Haig had explained he was not talking on a "secure line, indicating his information was secret.

Bush's military aide, Force Lt. Col. John Matheny, waited for Haig's message at the airplane's communications center. Finally, the message was received, decoded and printed. Matheny rushed it to Bush, waiting with staff members in his stateroom.

It said Reagan had been shot but was alive. The time was 3:19 p.m. EST 54 minutes after the president was shot. Bush ordered the plane back to Washington. The crew said it would have to stop for refueling, so it continued on to Austin.

The sequence of events, reconstructed by-Shirley Green, a press aide who was on the plane, and Pete Teeley, his press secretary and friend, threw a new spotlight of attention on the vice president. Only a week before, Bush was in the headlines in a struggle with Haig, who unsuccessfully tried to keep the vice president from being named the administration's crisis manager. WASHINGTON (AP) Sixteen minutes after a gunman fired at President Reagan, a Secret Service agent struggled up the aisle of a jet rising off the runway of a Texas airport and alerted Vice President George Bush about the assassination attempt. The first information, received over the agent's earpiece radio as Air Force Two pulled away from Fort Worth and headed for Austin 200 miles away, was that two law officers were wounded but that Reagan was not hurt. Bush decided he would go ahead with a planned address in Austin before the legislature of his home state.

But news from Washington quickly got worse. Two ground-to-air telephone calls from an aide informed Bush that White House Press Secretary James S. Brady was seriously-wounded, and that Reagan, though apparently unharmed, was on his way to the hospital for unexplained reasons. Then Bush received an incomplete and ominous message in a call from Secretary of State Alexander Haig: I think you ought to get back to Washington immediately. Im sending you a message with more information by a secure chcjinel.

Was Reagan shot? Sentinel Photo by Toni Ramos Amato is hospitalized for treatment of smoke inhalation and a severe bruise on his back after burning roof gave way. Ambulance technician and A1 Ybarra, county fire training officer, load firefighter Ernie Amato into ambulance at scene of fire. Listed in stable condition, Curb charges not pressed I PRIZE-WINNING NEWSPAPER ol the CALIFORNIA NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION Agency, there are approximately 160 people in the II-D program which is for the long-term unemployed. He said a majority of these will now work through the end of the month instead of ending April 14 as planned earlier. Some of those in II-D, Lehn said, will still be ending their employment on April 14 because the public agencies they work for planned around that Lehn said the additional time that some of the workers will get will allow his staff more time to help CETA participants find permanent employment.

Some of those local CETA workers scheduled to loose their jobs April 14 will get a short reprieve from unemployment. Additional state funds are allowing the continuation of the Title II-D public service job program through the end of April. Kings County supervisors accepted approximately $60,500 this week to continue the program for the additional time. According to John Lehn, director of the Kings County Employment Training Local CETA workers get short reprieve SACRAMENTO (AP) The attorney generals office says it found insufficient evidence to prove there were massive record thefts by employees of MGM Records Corp while U. Gov.

Mike Curb headed the company. In a terse statement Friday, Attorney General George. Deukmejians office- said it had finished a probe begun in 1979 after a convicted felon accused Curb of taking part in irregular record sales to underworld figures. Deukmejian, a likely Curb opponent next year for the Republican gubernatorial nomination, conducted a preliminary investigation of Curb and then announced in November 1979 he had not found "sufficient grounds" to warrant a full probe of the lieutenant governor. But Deukmejian said there were sufficient grounds for a formal investigation of other former employees of MGM Records.

He did not identify them. J. Anthony, of Deuk-mejians Divison of Law Enforcement, said the formal probe involved interviews with 77 persons, review of bank and other financial records and grand jury testimony about the sale of records to discount houses. The statement said Deukmejians office considered the case closed and would not comment further on the investigation. 'Jrk1rtrkitirk1rk1rk1rk1t SECURITY PATROL hn I.

M- W- hr xoro WoriMtito too dr M' 4 Mwu i moor to I NX co HANFORD SfNTMit HANFODD, CAIIF. 93231 I School Menus Now you know To avoid cracking or chipping when driving nails into a plaster wall, warm the nails first. The Hanford Sentinel The Journal (USPS 334-140) Vol. 1981, No. 80 Published every evening except Sunday by Hanford Senlmel Inc at 4 1 8 West 8th Si Hanford Cjl-f V3230 Entered os second class matte' at the Posi Office of Hanford California The Hanford Sentinel is a member of Audit Bureau of Circulations Subscription Ka'e Home delivery by carrier $4 25 per mo Home de livery by motor route carrier $4 50 per mo Moil delivery (kings County $5 50 per mo All other areas within US $6 00 per mo f-oteign $7 50 per mo Office trou'S 8 a to 5 30 Monday through Friday and 8 to 12pm on Saturdays Circulation Deportment 8 30 a 'a 6 30 Mondoy through Saturday Publisher Jack Morgan Managing Editor Tom Kennedy Advertising Manager Detral Hawkins Circulation Manager Lawrence Damme Oflu Manacn' V'liamm BoUoil Mechanical Superintendent Bill Ihets Press Room foreman hed Gamble Postmaster: Send address changes to The Hanford Sentinel, P.

O. Box 9, Hanford, CA 93232. Model Rocketry Class Classes April 13 to 17 10am at Toy Country $10 entrance tee which includes choice of selected rockets, paint and glue. Supervised class with awards going to the best painted rocket. Saturday, April IS launching Alleged rape victim killed FRESNO (AP) A woman whose husband was acquitted of spousal rape in Fresno Countys first such trial was shot to death at her home here.

The sheriffs department would not disclose whether deputies were seeking her estranged husband in the shotgun slaying late Friday. Lela Schwartz Edelbacher, 25, died of a single gunshot wound in the back, said the coroners office. The modeling school student reportedly was changing her clothes when a single shot was fired at her through a window. Her husband, Peter, 24, a painting contractor, was acquitted five weeks ago of raping his wife at her home. The couple was married 32 years before their separation a year ago.

They were fighting over custody of their 2'2-year-old son in divorce proceedings. INCOME TAX Short Form 15 Hanford Bookkeeping I T4ervice 701 N. Irwia 5I2-2U2 Eva. Sat. by appointment Monday Burritos, cheese wedge, mixed vegetables, big salad, fruit, crackers.

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