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Because it speaks about some of the
· very problems of human environment
which Valencia is being built to over-
come, the editors of The View thank
the Los Angeles Times for permission
to publish these excerpts of an inter-
view for our readers.
?d4l)DING CROWD MAY END MAN
By Jack Smith, Times Staff Writer
Man-the naked ape-has enough
living room for the family unit in Los
Angeles County, but that unit has lost
touch with the tribal group, in the
view of a London Zoologist.
Desmond Morris, 40, author of the
best seller, "The NakedApe: A Zool-
ogist's Study of the Human Animal,"
is having his first look at Los Angeles.
Man can crowd himself on this
planet and racial exter- County Park Launched
mination, Morris s~id. t,.-. aA.I.I.
"We all have need for personal ter- Gwen Gallion, Old Orchard Park administrator (left) and for further suggestions from parents and kips throughout
ritory, our own home base. It's a·very district director, Bob Haller (right) watch progress of a the community on additions for the program.
important place. It has to have iden-
nd paper craft class. Valencia's first county park program Pre-school age program.registration for the fall program
tity. It's our own base a nobody now operates a five day per w"eek schedule of supervised is September 16 and 17 at the Old Orchard Park. This is
else's. play for all children of the area. Mrs. Gallion is looking for 4-year-olds and will be fro,Jll 10 am to 5 pm.
"If the family unit doesn't have a 1---------------=L-------------------,--.. ============================,
base that , gives enough space and
identity; that is going to cause qouble.
We must not imagine we ca11 cram
people into huge blocks of tiny apart-
ments without damage.
"We are such an adaptable species
we can go along with it for a way. We
struggle against it, we decorate the
interior of this territory with personal
ornaments, we try to stamp 6ur iden-
t-ity on this p·lace." .
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1!,\.:.~ • ~ ..J:..._.....::~ ; fl"• VALENCIA SPAIN COAT OF ARMS
prep~ed to-put it that strongly." Since the Valen~ia, Spain crest has
"Looking at Los Angeles," he said, appeared on the View masthead with
"which is so spread out-not up-we the Valencia, California coat of arms,
might say this ought to be the answer. we have,be~n asked about its history.
Your houses are different. You have We are indebted to Senor Alvaro
tremendous individuality. Your fam- Moliner, Chancellor of the Los
ily units ought to be more fulfilled. Angeles Spanish consulate, for send-
'We Live In Groups' ing this official report.
"But that's only half the story. You The crest has a tetragonal shape,
have the person.al family unit, but which is the same as the feminine
that must exist within a social-a coat of arms because the name of the
tribal- group, which must also have city 0£. Valencia is feminine. It shows-
its ide~tity. This is a vast area, with four vertical r.ods on-a field of gold of
too much uniformity with regard to the Kings of Aragon. It carries a royal
the social group. crown because Valencia is the capital
"In Los Angeles it is difficult to be- of a kingdom. The crown is supported
long to a tribal group. We must be by a bat, which, acco~ding to some
part of a small community. We evolved historians is the winged dragon of the
as a species that live in groups of_lOO Aragonese kings seen from the front.
or so. The village community is much On both sides there are paths,
nearer the natural life for a man. It crowned, as testimony to the loyalty
creates much less tension. of the Valencians in the two sieges
"The gor"lla is an unsuccessful suffered during the war of Don Pedro
animal, dying out. But look at us - IV, (the ceremonious) king of Aragon.
billions of us. You'd say we're very against Don Pedro I of Castilla.
successful. Th~ species may very well Valencia bears titles of Illustrious,
exterminate itself as a result of being Soap box race cars fl.ashed down the paseo and into the_ underpass as proud Royal, Magnificent, Noble and Twice
too successful." families roared approval at the first Valencia Community Box Derby Race. Loyal as its legend.