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24 ......62 53 Dec. 25 67 37 Dec. 26 65 44 Serving the South Bay Every Thursday and Sunday In Yule Slaying Of Navy Chief FORTY-FOURTH YEAR No. 95 10c PER COPY Chula Vista. California, Thursday, December 27,1962 4 SECTIONS 28 PAGES Pa 9 ruing MOT Police and DA Probing Plea Petitions Wear Goal Of Self-Defense o) o.

mm 0 12) Petitions to form a spe The fate of a Chula Vista woman who admitted stab and the Band Played On Sharon Marticke, of 742 Elm Imperial Beach, has a bad habit and one than can be costly. Miss Marticke was attending a youth dance this week in the Chula Vista Recreation Center when she handed her purse to a stranger to hold for her while she danced. Missing are the purse, cash and contents, valued at $7 and the cial district to add 11 park ing lots in downtown Chula bing her husband to death Vista are being signed MaL beside their Christmas tree probably will be decided most 100 per cent." Tom Huntington, a member 'of the parking district committee, said this week. District Attorney Don Keller told The Star-News that he is awaiting results of a Chula Vista Police Dept. investigation before recommending further action against Lola Fae Huntington said signatures, representing 76 parcels of land A.

have been affixed to petitions and signatures representing 21 other parcels are in the process of being signed. Brinnen, 43, of 210 St, 4 ''i THE DISTRICT would com SB Chief Haps Uiiiftr Foes' Claim Of IBigity Grb By PAUL VAN NOSTRAND The key to development of the Unified Port District lies entirely in the South Bay, This, the theme of every study of the controversial UPD, was reiterated this week by the man closest to the matter, San Diego Port Director John Bate, who prise all commercially zoned MRS, BRINNEN is in Chula Vista city, jail, charged with suspicion of murder of her husband, James, 37, a Navy chief petty officer, in the early Boy Improving As Crash Kills Mother, Sisters property between and streets, bounded by Church and Landis avenues. A total of 228 parcels is involved. Financing will be provided by a $370,000 self-liquidating 1 At bond issue, payable in 25 years out of parking meter hours of Christmas morning. Detective Sgt.

Donald Morrison said Mrs. Brinnen admitted stabbing her husband with a 12-inch butcher knife, saying he tried to strangle her. Keller said issuance of a complaint depends on substan-tiation of the woman's claim of self-defense. CHULA VISTA Police Sgt. Harlan King said Brinnen's body was lying under the family Christmas tree when of A Chula Vista boy, 9, is The committee has set Dec still in critical condition but31 as the deadline for rapidly" the petitions, Huntington injuries suffered this )ho is expected to be appointedl of the new dis- carried out "exactly as Chula the director it v-v trict.

in a traffic accident that took the lives of his mother and two sisters, March AFB they have been 'going, we'll make it by then," Huntington said. "Some of this property is owned by persons as far away as New York and the petitions ficers arrived in response to a Vista wishes it." The master plan was drawn up by the San Diego Harbor Dept. working with Chula Vista officials. It was mentioned in a report by Booz, Allen and call from a telephone Hospital attendants said yes- "THE PORT of San Diego and its tidelands are developed just about as extensively as is possible," Bate told the Star-News in an exclusive interview. "Sixty-five per cent of the He said the victim was still wnay.

alive but died before the am-! The youth, James Paul must, be sent to HE SAID there has been. bulance arrived. Stephenson, suffered a frac- Hamilton, management1 consultants, as an extremely ef only one case of outright re tured arm and internal injur Deputy Coroner R. W. Gill cspie said the knife had pierc ficient and well planned ve planned UPD lies in the South Bay.

Careful and complete de- ed Brinnen's neck, cutting the windpipe. Death was caused by The smaller cities are well fusal to sign. This was from a home owner, not a business man, Huntington "We had a couple of residents in the area who were afraid the district would mean a tax increase for them and represented on the UPD com- of blood, he said. ies in a fiery crash on Highway 71 near Elsinore. Killed in the accident were Mrs.

Claude M. Stephenson, 38, of 975 Vista Way, and her two daughters, Patricia, 10, and Susan, 4. 7 rriH "mission. Bate said. And the the great ports of the world.

6 legislation is drawn up so that EVIDENCE in the apartment had struggled police said. This was borne out by neighbors, who me poii curetw iauuCu.no city can have Us own way Chula Vista and National City without approval of represen A Mrs. Stephenson whpn we the city councils for their selec tatives from other cities. Claude, 38, a Navy lieutenant tions Of UPD commissioners. financing, they added their aid they heard a quarrel in the apartment shortly before the stabbing.

commander stationed aboard the carrier Oriskany, suffered mindr injuries, California Mrs. Brinnen's daughter by' James Glasgow was named to "LOOKING at the thing represent Chula Vista and Lo-realistically, what affects Im-renz H. (Larry) Ruehle to perial Beach is going to affect represent National City. jsan Diego," -he said. "And it's "Rr.th niaspnw and Ruehlei going to affect every other Highway Patrol officers said.

signatures along with the others," he said. SIGNATURES representing 51 per cent of the total area in the district and 51 per cent of the land improvement assessments are necessary before He was not hospitalized 4 participating city. Stephenson and the boy are top men with a deep in a former marriage, Fae Brinnen, 21, had been at the apartment earlier in the evening for a Christmas Eve dinner. The girl, who took Brinnen's name when she was five, is a terest in the port," Bate said. A power play by San Die were tnrown from the car which left the road and plung the petitions can be filed with ed down a 200-foot embank- the city clerk.

go would certainly be resented by commissioners from the other cities and would be rejected by their superior voting strength on the commis- "Since their appointments they've been in constant touch with me and my staff seeking information on every phase of port and harbor development." junior at San Diego State Col lege. ment. Officers said Mrs. Stephenson was driving. "Every businessman contacted on Third avenue is in favor of the district and we don't anticipate any trouble," said Brinnen failed to show up for the dinner and mother and daughter ate and exchanged HE SAID a nronnsed Police said the mother and daughters were trapped in the vehicle when it landed upside nntrnnpo in thp hnrhnr is San a Diego has three com presents.

The girl left, promis- Huntington. City administrator F. S. Ful ing to return Christmas day, wiler has predicted the district down and burned at the base of the embankment. The family was returning her mother said.

will be in operation within AFTER HER daughter left, vl bmi Ld three months after filing of 'Km home from a holiday trip to Mrs. Brinnen said she went to! petitions. search for her husband and found him in a bar drinking with a woman. When he refus visit relatives in San Berna-dino. Stephenson had returned here aboard the Oriskany last week.

(Star-News Photo) 'THE SOUTH BAY WILL BE ONE THE WORLD'S GREAT HARBORS' San Diego port director John Bates points out how shipping lanes will converge here. missioners, and Chula Vista, National City, Imperial Beach and Coronado one each. A two-thirds vote is required for approval of the master plan and for issuing bonds. BATE SAID the first item of business of the new commission probably would be a series of studies with city planning departments to determine a master plan for the district. THIS IS the second attempt to form a parking district in the Third avenue area.

A three-year effort to form a dis "must" for realization of its potential. His choice for this is a channel from the south end of the bay to the Tia Ju-ana River bed and west to the Pacific. "This would be more than seven miles long, giving more than 14 miles of industrial frontage along the channel," Bate said. "Combined with development of tidelands along the bay, we'd have an attraction! ed to go home with her, Mrs. Brinnon said, she left and went trict financed entirely by prop to another bar where she join' cd some friends.

The woman said her hus A Review of 1962 Year INSIDE erty assessments was aban doned because of too much op position. The additional parking is re garded as essential by down The district's first 18 months band was waiting for her when she returned home. Accusing her of embarassing him in front of his friends, he struck her and attempted to strangle for industry that can be will be devoted to in no other port on the West: iegai and administrative pro-Coast." icedures connected with its for- town merchants to meet competition from the new Chula roblems Of Progress and her, she said. 'niMienm he said. MRS.

BRINNEN told police she grabbed a butcher knife and slashed at her husband, Vista Shopping Center. PAYMENTS on the bonds will be met from parking meter revenues. A study by Stone and Youngberg, municipal finance consultants, showed these revenues to be more than $32,000 annually. This would be more than After he fell, she called a tele phone company operator and asked her to send the police Unified Port Biggest Event Animal World Art Hoppe Chilson's Bay Scene D-l Church News B-4 Classified Ads D-4-5 Editorial D-6 Entertainment D-2 Food C-6-8 How's Business D-3 Obituaries B-2 Party Line C-l Point of View Sports B-6 Trailer Talk D-5 Women's C-l-5 In Service D-3 to the apartment. It was learned that the coup A primary factor to be considered is the transfer of tide-lands control to the district, Bate said.

This will be the re: sponsibility of the district's legal staff which must con-' sider commitments already made by the cities. "For instance Chula Vista 'i $300,000 bond issue for tiji lands development will'- 'bej come the district's responsiblTj ity but the money will be useaj (Continued on Page 2-A) t. le had a record of previous marital troubles. One source said they had been divorced the southerly second entrance was strictly his own opinion. Other interests have advocated a channel across the Silver Strand near Fort Emery.

"I don't want to be put in the position of telling the UPD commissioners a they should do," he said, "After all, this is going to be their 'responsibility and they have the right to make their own major decisions." Normally a direct, matter-of-fact speaker, the 58-year-old Bate gets a far-away look in his. eyes when he talks about the future of the UPD. sufficient to meet the bond obligations of $25,000 yearly, the firm's report said. Also on hand is a reserve fund of $100,000 in parking meter receipts from previous v- By JOHNNIE LOU LOONEY Chula Vistans this week and remarried "at least once and possibly twice." Police indicated Mrs. Brinnen would not be arraigned before tomorrow if a complaint is issued, years.

The parkins district committee has recommended were getting ready to ring mis iuna De usco as a reserve for expansion of facilities. out the old year a year marked by intensified ef His faith in possibilities of the forts to improve the area's economic climate. A sound economy's worst enemy unemployment i constantly hovered in the port soon becomes infectious to anyone who talks with him. He said the UPD will oper-i ate as an autonomous body Traffic Toll Down for Holidays; Year's Total a Bit Defter Too background during 1962, when Top 10 Local Stories Picked by Star-News Here are the top 10 Chula Vista news stories of 1962 as selected by Star-News editors: 1 A unified port district is.created to develop the bay and tidelands. 2) Elections City Council stays the same, Sen.

Hugo Fisher upset, Lionel Van Deerlin elected the first Democratic congressman from the county, in 10 years. 3) The new Chula Vista Shopping Center opens, with 17 stores as a start. 4) Annexations wholesale annexation of the Sweetwater Valley fizzles out but 775 acres are added to the city or in the mill. 5) California Water and Telephone Co. proposes a 27 per cent water rate hike.

6) Rabies epidemic strikes South Bay, killing dogs, cats and even donkeys. 7) The City Council and Library Board squabbles and Librarian Janice Stewart is fired. 8) Chula Vista's dream to acquire brown Field dies; San Diego gets it. 9) The city and Chula Vista Elementary School District jointly build the unique Greg Rogers School-Park. 10) For bludgeoning to death his mother and invalid sister in Chula Vista's first double Joseph Bernard Morse, 19, is condemned to die in the gas chamber.

government contracts were few and layoffs were frequent at the city's biggest industry, Chula Vista's Christmas with no more obligation to one city in the district than to any other. "COMMISSIONERS will have their own legal staff, write and enforce their own ordinances, make their own streets were about as safe or suffered, in a two-car collision the previous day at Fourth Rohr Corp. dangerous during the first holiday traffic toll dropped avenue and street. 11 months of 1962 as they were this year from that of 1961 for the same period last year. fatally injured May il in and Police Chief James He said 653 traffic accidents another two-car accident New Port Chiefs Meet Tomorrow The first meeting of Unified Port District commissioners will be held tomor-.

row night at 7 p.m. in Mar-ston's banquet room in the Chula Vista Shopping Center. Chula Vista Mayor Keith Menzel called the meeting last week so bay cities officials and commissioners could become acquainted with one another and discuss the newly authorized district and its enabling legislation. Representatives of Chu-ia Vista, National City. Imperial Beach and San "Diego have -i i a they'll attend the conference, which Menzel described as an "informal get-together." Coronado, seeking legal exemption from the ais-ti'it't.

said it will boycott the meeting. contracts and carry out the: BUT AT THE same time, giant steps were taken to bring long-range benefits to the area. After more than 400 years of little activity, area residents Quinn urged motorists to were investigated through Nov. district's affairs independent 30, compared to 651 during the of pressure from special in use extra precaution to make the remainder of the year "saf terests," he said. south of the street ramp on Montgomery freeway, outside the city limits, was Thomas A.

Gauthe, a Navy enlisted man. During 1961, a total of 189 were injured in 140 accidents Bate said the commissioners decided to do something to de velop their chief resource er and saner." are bound by terms of the en Quinn said lour, persons abling legislation to honor the beautiful natural harbor of San Diego Bay and voted were injured none serious tidelands contracts already in ly in a total of 11 accidents effect by participating cities. same period in 1961. A total of 157 accidents resulted in injuries to 195 persons on city streets and to 25 on Montgomery freeway, Quinn said. Freeway accidents are normally handled by the California Highway Patrol through an agreement with the city.

Only one fatal accident was from Friday through yester He belittled claims of UPD day. Of the 11 mishaps, four in the city and 29 mishaps on the freeway, Quinn said. Three of these involved fatalities. "Although the statistics are very close, it's been a little sufer this year than last," were hit-run accidents, he said. The Dec.

21-26 period in 19G1 opponents that the district is a "monstrous grab" by San Diego interests. in a unified port district. At the same election, South Bay residents elected their first Democratic congressman, who contended during the campaign that a man friendly to the administration could possibly best help bring govr- (Continued on fage 4-A) saw six injured in 15 accidents Quinn said. "I urge every dnv HE SAID he believed that Phnhi Vita' niatpp rilun I'm- in the city. Two of these involved hit-run drivers, the police chief said.

Quinn also said Chula Vista recorded in the city. The vie-er to make an extra effort to tim, Mary-. L. keep these figures-from going development of. city tidelandsi 75, died Oct.

2, from injuries any higher." adjacent lo the city would be.