The saga of the alleged Tire-Chalk-Erasers of...

The saga of the alleged Tire-Chalk-Erasers of Palos Verdes Estates is slowly rolling forward.

You may recall that in April, two motorists in the busy Malaga Cove shopping plaza were arrested, handcuffed, frisked and jailed for allegedly trying to circumvent the one-hour parking limit by wiping off a meter maid’s chalk marks. The harsh enforcement drew criticism from the Malaga Cove Business and Professional Assn., among others.

One defendant, Anne Bisco, a receptionist, paid an $89.50 fine this week. But Rosina Baur, manager of a real estate office, pleaded not guilty and will go to trial July 11.

Bisco admitted that when her time ran out, she rolled her car forward and “rubbed it (the chalk mark) lightly.” But Baur maintains that she moved her car into a new parking place, which would comply with regulations.

“I could have paid the fine,” Baur said. “But you can only preserve democracy if you fight for your rights.”

The great-grandson of Jesse James will ride into Pasadena next week for a date at high noon--to deliver a lecture.

Like the legendary train and bank robber, James R. Ross is also involved with lawbreakers, but on the other side. He’s an Orange County Superior Court judge.

Ross, 63, who was a lawyer for three decades in Los Angeles, hopes his new book, “I, Jesse James,” will clear up some myths about Great-Granddad. But he doesn’t paint him as a complete innocent.

“As an attorney I’d hate to argue that it’s self-defense when you’re running from a bank robbery and you shoot a guy who was shooting at you,” Ross said. “He did kill some people.”

But Ross believes that Jesse, who was fatally shot in the back in 1882 by gang-member Bob (“The Dirty Little Coward”) Ford, might have been a preacher like his father. But he was reportedly enraged as a youngster when he was beaten by federal troops and later when authorities broke his mother’s arm.

Ross, who will speak before the Huntington Westerners, a literary group, next Saturday, takes after his grandfather, Jesse James Jr., who was also a lawyer.

“He always said he had a built-in clientele as a defense attorney,” Ross said. “What criminal wouldn’t trust Jesse James Jr.?”

In recent years, innovative Southern Californians have formed such dual-interest social organizations as the Atheist Dating Service, Southern California Freeway Singles, Vege-Gay (gay vegetarians), Lesbian Back-packers and the Millionaire Singles Club.

Now come two more entries:

A pro-marijuana organization in Van Nuys advertises that its meetings offer the chance for “networking” and for making “new friends” (stoned singles?).

And, in La Verne, a John Birch Society Summer Camp is being organized to give “young Americans a concentrated, six-day course in American values.”

So you think the pressure is on the Lakers in their bid for a third straight title? What about the vendors on local street corners selling those Laker T-shirts that say, “Three-peat”?