Chula Vista Star-News from Chula Vista, California • Page 1

rrK r3 rv Ham k. 'U 1 rllrV UVM; 'J, -VIA ,1, wmmmmm v. pet; ill towed away from accident near Dairy Mart road. nn FREEWAY CARNAGE near Mexican border claimed fives fi of four youth as their Volkswagon was charged head-on by an aufo allegedly driven south In a northbound lane. LEFT PHOTO: Deputy coroner and aides cover bodies of two of the, youths.

From San Diego fireman Orland Shadoan from San.Ysidro station: Deputy Coroner Glen Sanders, and Mike Socltacs and Paul Da La Have, aiding in removing RIGHT: Mangled Volkswagen driven by one of the victims and in which the other three victims were riding is Photbi by Bob Snyder scene on Montgomery, freeway 1 nllJJfiH Emu 1 State I Mif uu sc PUBLISHED THURSDAYS AND SUNDAYS More News of Chula Vista than Any Newspaper in the World Vista, California, Sunday, September 5, 1965 iiiisiIiiill Vater Eyer FORTY-SEVENTH YEAR No. Whether Chula Vista will 422-8335. 10c Per Copy ere f': FacingCVCqiisiCif extend street east of Hilltop drive in the future may be decided at Tuesday's City Council meeting at 7 p.m. A majority of councilmen, in an informal conference this week, indicated they would approve acquisi immm L'HlsShLoi 71 Chula buy right-of-way now to urday in Dallas. 2) Chief Building Inspector Eugene Grady to an intern' tional conference of building officials in Phoenix Oct.

18-22, i 3) Police Capt. Virgil Seive-no and Detective Lt. Roy Borchers to a police manage, ment institute at the Universi ty of Southern California once weekly for 12 weeks, starting Sept. 28. THE SISTER CITY Commis sion again will request that the i rename Eucalyptus Park to General Roca Park.m honor of sister city General Roca, Argentina.

Councilmen will discuss pro. posed left-turn slots on street at Third and Fourth av. enues. They also will receive a pe tition from Princess Park Es tates developers, seeking reim bursement from for money they spent on public improvements through Prin cess Manor Subdivision. CHULA VISTA Port Commissioner C.

Robert Campbell will report on Unified Port District activities relating to the city. Ross will report on proposed use of the former Street School ground for a Jaycee Constitution Day program. Mrs. William Hedenkamp will be named chapman of a United Nations Day Observ ance Oct. 24, and a resolution is prepared proclaiming Con stitution Observance Week next week.

'The city will seek authority to contract with the state for state and federal funds to complete a new zoning ordi nance, are available under Section 701-of the federal Housing Act of 1954. The council may endorse the Lower Colorado' River Ba sin Project Act. It also may authorize the fire inspector to remove debris from six parcels of city land, the cost becqming a lien against the property. New Police Chief William Winters' will' be s4; 'Four coming back, from Tijuana, two of tnem soutnwesrern couege i jt ii coeds, were crushed to death early yesterday in a gruesome head-on collision on Montgomery freeway. Northbound in a Volkswagen, they were hit by a Buick convertible driving south -in the northbound 'lane.

The wrong-way driver, allegedly drunk, was being pursued by the California Highway Patrol when the accident occurred, two miles north of he international border. Dead in the Labor Day weekend were: Phyllis Messina, 21, of 175 Chula Vista, a Southwestern student employed at La Bella Pizza Gardens Restau rant, Chula Vista, -owned by her, parents. Nancy Artn Dahlinger, 20, Miss Messina's roommate, also enrolled at Southwestern and a beautician Unimart Beau ty Salon, Chula Vista. John J. Linden, 19, a sailor aboard the USS Renville, i Gary Hathaway! a ship mate of Linden's on the Ren ville.

Arrested on charges of felony manslaughter and drunken driving was Smith Rowe, .28 a 'second class petty officer on the'USS Boyd. He was treated for, minor scalp lacerations at County Hospital, then remanded to County Jail. MISS DAHLINGER, the driv and tne two sailors were pinned for 35 or 40 minutes in the mangled Volkswagen while San Diego police and highway patrolmen worked 'furiously to try to extricate them, said San Diego Patrolman Roger Riste He said they were "dead or practically when finally removed from the car. Miss in' the back seat, 'was -removed more eas She 'was pronounced dead about 15 minutes later at Bay General Hospital, Chula Vista, THE i ACCIDENT occurred about 4:45 a.m. on the freeway stretch between Dairy Mart road and Sycamore road.

Mrs. Kitty Raso of. 155 Mur ray Lhula i Vista, mother of Miss said that her daughter and Miss, Dahlinger had gone to Tijuana, i.to sleep at the house of Elisabeth Fig-ieroa, a Mexican beautician friend of Miss She. said they were, coming home: early Phyllis. had- promised ishe'd-ba backi a I PHYLLISslESSINA Worked in time to open up the restaurant about 6:30 a.m.

SHE SAID the were friends of the two sailors, and had-arranged to give them -a ride' from Tijuana" back to their ship. Miss Messina was the fifth young daughter that Mrs. Raso has lost through- The four others all died as children of various forms of can. cer, as did Mrs. Raso's first husband.

Miss Dahlinger's mother. Mrs. Robert San. Diego. an employe of the.

Chula Vis ta J. C. Penney store, had remarried' Thursday.1 Miss Dah linger's father. is William Dahlinger of San Ysidro. RISTE, the San Diego patrolman, said a highway patrol car had its siren going and red lights flashing, trying to warn Rowe he was driving on the wrong side the road, when the accident took place.

However, patrolmen had -not managed to gain the driver's attention, Kiste said. He said two highway pa trolmen witnessed the acci, aeni. nowes speed 'was timated at about 50 mph Miss -Messina, born in New York City, was a graduate of Hilltop High School and in June received her associate in arts degree from Southwestern. She pfanned to re turn to Southwestern this month to take additional courses, her mother said, and intended to become a teacher. In addition -to her mother, Miss Messina 'is" survived by her; stepfather, Anthony; a sister, Mrs.

Rosary McDonald of Honolulu, -nd, two broth (Continued on Page A-3) 11 I said the, fund, as the elementary school fund, will return to Chula Vista City, National, South Bay and San Ysidro' districts the same amount money that' was collected. He said this is because the districts are considered ''poor" under1 state- law, because they have less than $11,000 of assessed valuation- for each pupil. The law is deslgned'toiforce rich districts to share some of their wealth with poor districts In -the event- that unification is rejected by district: voters. SAN YSIDRO alone of the: four districts will get the additional $15 because voters -in that 'district approved; ialfl- drenching official (without Test was spectorst seeking igthing ability warrant an i (Star-News Photo) vehicles. Co.

i Jhat) is Frank engi- i conducted Jfor insurance- in- fo determine if city's fire-f has improved enough to improved rating. i THE MORE WATER, the better chance for lower fire insurance rates' in Chula Vista was the word from officials testing hydrant pressure this week in 27 locations throughout city. This one on Third avenue near, The Star-News spewed out 4,000 gallons water per minute, flooding avenue and tion of flght-of-way at least, through a subdivision owned by Dale Horton, which lies in the path the proposed ex tension. Horton has pressured the council to make a decision on the street so he can begin building. If all of Horton's land were for sale, it was proposed tnis week that the city buy it for a neighborhood park.

City Administrator Fred Ross will the feasibility of such a park. I tS OTHER action on a long agenda councilmen will hold two public hearings on appeals of Planning Commission actions denying variances. Dorothy Davis seeks a variance to establish a children's nursery in a duplex zone at S70 Otis while Edwin Rin- ner, who initiated the second hearing, seeks a variance of narkine requirements for apartments at 215 Madrona, Councilmen are expected to award an $11,711 contract to Fund, low of six bidders, to provide the city with, five-year liability insur nnrp. Other bids ranged to $20,265. A CONTRACT also may be awarded to the Griffith low bidder at $7,462, to con a temporary East itreet extension that will serve a detour during Freeway SOS construction.

Griffith's was 'low of four bids that ranged to $8,931. An agreement has been prepared for the council with the state forestry division to pro- vide a mutual aid pact for fire protection for areas near the east aide of the city which are not Included In either the city pr neighboring fire districts. I Appfoval tvill be sought to tend delegates to three out-of-state conferences: t) City Attorney Don Lind-berg to a southwestern legal conference em planning and cooJof Thursday, through Sat i NANCY DAHLINGER Beautician Courf.Merger BySupervisors Seen Likely The South Bay Munic-' pal Court, district, including justice courts jn Na tional City and Coronado, may be consolidated with the San Diego Municipal 'Court system by county supervisors County Administrator T. M. Heggland week, recom-' mended the merger to supervisors.

1 He s'aid- consolidation "should Iprovidej. for -the in crease, in. judicial workload of the South Bay; Municipal court i- in Chula Vista without requiring full-time1 assign ment of an additional judge." Heggland said he understood the consolidation is favored by the bar; and affected cities. Consolidation, if approved by supervisors, would -beeome effective Nov. 1.

South' Bay 'Judge Manuel Kugler, under consolidation, would become a judge in the San Diego system, local clerks would become clerks of the San Diego court, i'V National Justice Court Judge John Menard' of Nation al City, wheis not an attor ney, would be ineligible for, a judgeships in San1 Diego svstem. -but becnm clerk be given, another po- siuone i' m- cation. All the districts -would have gotten the money if uni- fication( had carried, although the moneys would have gone to, the" unified- district. The state law requires 'uni fication elections In any district that is not unified, and $15 is the reward1- held out to make 'Unif ication popular, It -is- not any great reward, however. The cost educa tion pet average daily- at tendance a method used tol iirure a district's yearly pu pil population) in i the Chula Vista district was $429 National," $372; San Ysidro, $402, and South Bay, ex- -cluslve-of capital expense and law-'xwr.

Elementary school dis tricts in the Sweetwater Union High School District will feel the effect of AB 145, the unification bill-that went into two years ago as law, but there, will be no losers, and San -Ysidro- will gain $15 in state per student average )daily attendance. i The law forces the' districts to pay a portion of their' tax money into county -treas. ury. This amount is 62.8 cents per $100 dollars of assessed valuation. The money is them distributed back to dis tricts on a complicated formu-la.

WYLDER JWODINE of, the cbunty 'education department i i.