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Star SECTION TWO Local News Sports Cmic Editorial Classified ic GOOD MORNING! A slicker keeps you In trirh on rainy days or trims you any old day. An Independent NEWSpaper Printing The News Impartially it PAGE ONE SECTION TUCSON, ARIZONA, SATURDAY lie mm ihrtcoge.Ds New TV Station ames Manager Hays To Head KDWI-TV Which Will Transmit In Color, Black-White About April 1 James W. Hays has been named station manager of Tucson's Delbyoinig Project third television station, KDWI-TV, channel 9, which is expected to start transmitting in color and black and white about April 1. Hays, former KVOA-TV program director, and D. W.

Ingram, R. E. Batchelor Reports For Border Patrol Duty Richard E. Batchelor, 36, assumed duties as assistant chief Inspector yesterday for the Tucson sector of the U. S.

Border Patrol. He will serve under the new chief patrol Inspector Denis E. Wolstenholme with Henry V. Stalling, the other assistant chief inspector for the sector which covers all but the western part of Arizona, Batchelor, who joined the Border Patrol 15 years ago this April, came here from Laredo, Tex. Until Christmas, he was on special detail out of the Laredo office In Washington, D.C.

A veteran of World 'War II, he served with the Navy in the Pacific and was on Saipan and Iwo Jima. Prior to entering the Navy, Batchelor served at Hot Springs, where enemy alien embassy staffs were Interned for 8 months before being The new assistant chief patrol inspector has most of his patrol career in the lower Rio Grande Valley in Texas, serving at Brownsville, Kingsville, Mission and Falfurrias. He is married and the father of two daughters, 5 and 12 years old, and a son, 8. His family accompanied him to Tucson. LilltliifliMniiwuiii Tucson's Bank Debits Quadruple In 10 Years Tucson bank debits for January showed a gain of 27 per cent over the same month of 1955 and set another all-time high for a monthly total with $170,519,489, as VOL.

115 NO. 35 Moving Job Ending At City Hall But Courthouse About To Begin Same Task Moving time Is just about over Jn city hall and is just about to begin in the county courthouse. Mayor Don Hummel and City Mgr. Porter W. Homer and their respective secretaries moved back to the renovated second floor of city hall yesterday, joining several other offices which had previously gone into their new quar- ters.

The mayor and manager vacated temporary offices in the basement which will revert to the police department, which has already taken over most of its old pace. Occupancy of the second floor presumably brings to an end a controversy which, has figured in three city election campaigns. Democrats who assailed incumbent Republicans for spending funds on the old building took over control of the administration and completed the renovation. In the courthouse, workmen are row finishing up on the south wing, part of which is occupied. However, the major moves will be made some time around the end of February, especially for offices to be placed on the first and 6erond floor.

The Board of Supervisors will move into new quarters in the liouth wing and new courtrooms and jury rooms will be utilized on the second floor. 8,454 Eligible To Ballot In City Election There are 8,454 Tucsonans eligible to vote in the city primary election, according to figures compiled yesterday at the city Clerk's office. However, the general feeling is that only a minor fraction of that number will go to the polls since there" are no contests in either party. Votes may be cast only In Wards 3, 5" and 6 to nominate council candidates. The Democrats have a man running in each ward; the Republicans have declared candidates only in Wards 5 and 6.

The possibility that the GOP will nominate a candidate in Ward 3 by write-in is apparently the only question to be settled in the election. At least 38 write-in votes are required to nominate 8 Republican in that ward. Write-ins are also possible in cases even where there is a declared candidate, but none is expected. Woman Jailed On Larceny Charge A 33-year-old Tucson woman was jailed on grand larceny charges early yesterday morning lifter she attempted to elude police by dashing out the back door at 20 Sabino Alley as two officers entered the front door. A third officer waiting at the rear entrance nabbed Beatrice Grijalva, of 1509 Hualapal as fhe attempted to flee into the darkness.

Miss Grijalva is accused by Buster B. Guinn, of the Mac-Arthur Hotel, of taking his bill' fold containing $70 in cash. Guinn raid he was at a West Broadway bar when the woman reached in his pocket, took the wallet and ran. TUCSON TODAY Theatre: "Bell, Book and Can-lie," with Veronica Lake, by Tucson Winter Playhouse, 8:30 p.m. Minstrel Show: By Elks Club, 8:15 p.m., university auditorium.

Bookmobile Stops: Broadway and Swan, 9 a.m.-12 noon and 1-3 p.m. Bridge: Rendezvous Bridge Club, 7:30 p.m., Tucson Bridge Club, 7:45 p.m. THERE OUGHTA BE A LAW! compared with $133,856,831 for January of last year. For January, 1946, ten years ago, the total was only $42,899,376. At that time Tucson was experiencing growing pains and had an acute housing shortage.

The population had passed the 100,000 mark much sooner than had been expected. Today with a population of 200,000, the community is producing bank debit totals averaging four times what they were ten years ago. Increased industrial payrolls, plus greater military payrolls and a consequent growth in retail business are credited with the debit increase. For the week ending Feb. 1 bank debits amounted to $34,576,365, as compared with $29,538,069 for the week ending Feb.

2, 1955. This is a gain of 17 per cent. The dollar increase is slightly more than $5,000,000. announced yesterday upon their JAMES HAYES TV For 8 Counties Programs will be transmitted to eight counties in Arizona and northern Mexico from this recently' installed KDWI-TV tower atop Mt. Bigelow in the Catalina Mountains starting about the first of April.

The antenna will soon be in place on the tower for Tucson's third TV station, and the KDWI-TV studio is under construction at 2175 N. 6th Ave. Color and black and white TV shows will be transmitted to the Jarge area as soon as the station on the air. (Ray Manley photo) Huachuca Honors Tucson Gl Ft. HUACHTXA.

Feb! 3 (Special) Tucsonan Fred W. Ini-gan, of 1000 E. 5th -an instructor with the 1st Signal Group Specialist School, was recently named soldier nf the month here. A specialist third-class, Lanigan won a $25 U.S. Savings Bond.

The contest is hased upon military courtesy, discipline, appearance and knowledge of current local and world events. By Fagaly and Shorten SOMEBODY THROWS THE 1 1 i i i AhhA si -v owner of the new station KDWI-TV, return from the east that all net work negotiations have been completed and the transmitting tower has been installed atop Mt. Bigelow. Network affiliation will be an nounced later, Hays said. If the weather on the peak in the Catalina Mountains permits, the antenna will be Installed on the tower and construction of the transmitter building should be completed by April, station officials said.

A studio with 0,000 square feet of floor space is under construction at 2175 N. 6th and all equipment is in this week, Ingram said. KDWI-TV will extend tele vision coverage in Arizona to a large area in eight counties and northern Sonora, Mex. Its coverage, guaranteed bv General Electric, suppliers of all the equipment for the new station, will include areas north of Miami and Globe, Safford and east to the New Mexico border, Nogales, Douglas and south of these cities, north and west be yond Casa Grande, and into Mari copa county, stopping short of Interference with Phoenix TV stations. Color TV programs will be available to owners of color sets in Tucson and the rest of the area as soon as the station is on I the air, Ingram said.

"The colors on TV are wonder-ful, rich and beautiful," said In-. J-gram, who had recently seen I color TV show featuring a parade of new automobiles. Color receiving sets used to cost a minimum of about $1,000 two years ago, but prices have been dropping steadily until the sets now cost about $600, and are expected to be down to about $500 this year," he added. Don Peterson, a field engineer for General Electric, has been employed as chief engineer for station KDWI-TV and will arrive in Tucson this month. Ingram, -owner of the station and a Tucson lumber dealer, has lived in Arizona for 43 years.

Hays, who will be in charge of the station, is a native of Phoenix and a graduate of the University of Arizona. Hays began his radio experience as an announcer and writer for KOY in Phoenix and in 1940 joined KPHO in Phoenix when the station first went on the air. After four years of service as a pilot with the Marine Corps in World War II, he joined KVOA in Tucson in 1946, serving as radio supervisor and later as TV supervisor. He was named program director for KVOA. last September.

He was on an 18-month leave-of-absence from the station to train aviation cadets at Marana Air Base and rejoined KVOA in 1953. Hays lives at 2626 E. 9th St. with his wife and four children. 30 Taxpayers Protest Hike In Budget NOGALES, Feb.

3 (Special) Some 30 taxpayers protested a request by the Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors to exceed the county budget by $61,000 at a hearing today before State Tax Commissioner Warren Peterson. The request was taken under advisement by Peterson, who returned to Phoenix to confer with other members of the Tax Commission. He said a decision will be announced within a few days. The additional funds are needed for road maintenance, the indigent ill persons of the county and for the public library, the supervisors saicl. The hearing was held at the courthouse in Nogales, and the number of taxpayers attending the hearing to protest the issue was larger than usual.

County supervisors are Gilbert Soto, chairman, Edward Bayze and Thomas Bentlev. IHAT6 WHEM QUE PILE OOOS. OPEM MORNING, FEBRUARY 4, I 1 WILLIAM BRAY JR. WJ. Bray Heads City Demo Unit Native Tucsonan Will Fill Howell Vacancy Villiam J.

Bray Jr. has been elected chairman of the Democratic city central committee to succeed J. Will Howell, who died last week. Bray had been named acting chairman when Howell became ill in January. He will serve until the 1937 city primary election at which time new ward committeemen will be elected.

A native of Tucson, Bray, who is 37, is commander of the Catalina Post of the Veterans of Foreign Wars and is one of the five-member Council for Mental Health Research appointed by Gov. Ernest W. McFarland. He has been active in local political affairs for several years. A veteran of World War II, where he served in the Infantry as an intelligence officer in France, Bray holds several decorations, including the Purple Heart.

Before and after the war, he was employed in the U.S. Department of justice and later was contact representative in Arizona for the Veterans Administration. The new chairman has also served on the military manpower commission for Arizona, a civilian group which aided in recruiting for the Army and Air Force. He is married and the father of five children. Bray said that plans for the forthcoming city campaign are well along but that additional work must be done in setting up party work in Ward 4, because of the recent annexation which greatly increased the size of the ward.

YW Building Fund Reacb" $106,588 A total of $106,588.26 has been collected in the YWCA's building fund campaign, it was announced yesterday at the second report meeting. Goal in the campaign is $160,000. Women's teams reported a new total of $2,702.50 to bring their entire total to $7,428.35. Men's teams reported an additional $795 to bring their total to $1,290.00. William R.

Mathews reported additional advance gifts of $6,305, bringing the total in that division to $97,889.91. The drive will continue for another three weeks, with the third report meeting scheduled for next Friday at the YWCA building at noon. Feb. 15 Is Just 5.5 Days Off-For Some It is later fhan you think if you haven't yet bought your 1956 automobile license plates. The State Legislature this week extended the time for buying plates from Jan.

31 to Feb. 15. Immediately, the number of people seeking plates dropped off, as procrastinators apparently decided they had another two weeks to do the annual chore. But Leo J. Finch, county assessor, pointed out yesterday that February is a mnth of holidays.

County offices will be closed Feb. 13 in celebration of Lincoln Day, which falls on Sunday, Feb. 12. They will also be closed Feb. 14 Admission Day.

That leaves only a half-day today, 5 days next week and one day the following week, Wednesday, to get plates. Rapist-Robber Gets Long Prison Term- YUMA, Feb. 3 lfl A 21-year-f Id convicted "red light" rapist and robber was sentenced Friday by Superior Court Judge Henry C. Kelly to spend at least 30 years in Arizona State Prison. Alfonso D.

Miranda of Yuma had been convicted of flagging down a Winkelman woman with a flashlight covered by red tissue paper, then raping and robbing her on Sept. 11. Judge Kelly sentenced him to a 20-to-25-year term for the rape, 10 to 15 years for the robbery. Then sentences will tun Ji I A Settlement Effected In School Suit Student Gets $3,000 From District No. 1 A three-year-old damage suit against Tucson School District No.

1 was settlaout of court this week with payment of $3,000 for injuries suffered by a football game spectator who fell from a grandstand. The suit was filed after a fall Sept. 19, 1952, by Edward Sa-waya high school student. The bleachers collapsed while he was watching Amphitheater play Mesa High School at Tucson High School. His complaint, filed by Atty.

Frank Barry, asked $26,000 damages, arguing that the district was negligent in failing to keep the bleachers In repair. Judge Robert S. Tullar dismissed the suit on grounds that the district, a division of the state, could not be sued for negligence in this matter since it was immune from damage liability. However, the Supreme Court on April 13, 1955, ruled that the school, acting in a proprietary function, was liable and ordered a new trial. An order, dismissing the suit, was entered in the Superior Court records yesterday.

Intricate Suit Won By Woman Judgment Awarded After 2-Day Trial A Holbrook woman won a $4,769.17 judgment, yesterday in U.S. District Court following a two-day jury trial that revolved around an insurance check cashed by her -ex-husband. Plaintiff and winner in the involved civil suit was Mrs. Lucv Critchley. She filed suit against New York Life Insurance Co.

for the sum after her husband, Ralph Vaughan of Yuma, endorsed her name to the insurance company check and cashed it at a Valley National Bank. The check wasfor the amount due from a policy on her deceased first husband. Mrs. Critchley said she never authorized her second husband to endorse her name to the voucher. The two are now divorced.

They lived in Douglas where Vaughan operated a service station when the insurance check episode took place in January of 1953. Judge James A. Walsh passed judgments on down the line yesterday afternoon after a jury returned with a finding in favor of Mrs. Critchley. The judgment was against the insurance company, which in turn won one against the Valley National Bank of Phoenix, and the bank won a similar judgment against Vaughan, who will have to pay me amount ot tne cneck plus interest.

Tucson Atty. Norman Herring represented Mrs. Critchley, Robert Jennings of Phoenix appeared for the insurance company, William Scanlon represented the bank and Daniel E. Moore of Bis-bee was Vaughan's attorney. New Phone Directory Is Now Ready A new Tucson telephone directory containing some 46,000 is being distributed this week by the Mountain States Telephone Telegraph Co.

John R. Albright, district manager for Tucson, said that about' 62,000 copies will be delivered to subscribers. At the end of December the company had 62,191 telephones in service on the Tucson exchange. The new directory carries hundreds of new numbers, many having been changed since the last edition. The new book contains about 525 pages.

There are 154 whi pages of listings, and 309 yellow pages in the classified section, exclusive of the street directory in the back of the book. This directory will be in force until the change to the "two-five" numbering system goes into effect in September. At that time subscribers will get the first directory carrying numbers with the Vo prefix letters and the five digits, a system which is rapidly becoming uniform throughout the country. Col. White Chief Signal Group FT.

HUACHUCA, Feb. 3 (Special) Col. Edward C. White assumed command of the 505th Signal Group here this week. He succeeds Col.

Francis N. Miller, recently appointed signal officer for the U. S. Army in Alaska. Col.

White, who has been at this Army Electronic Proving Ground since last September, served as chief of logistics until his recent appointment. RICHARD E. BATCHELOR ties and the Tucson Electric Light and Power Co. Officers p.itrolrd (lie area for nearly an hour until all danger from thg high tension Jines was over. They reported mesquite bushes the line had touched were burned and the grass in some areas singed by the electric cur rent.

Linemen said an additional volts could have come down. The wire apparently fell, they reported, because of the cold weather, which caused the line to contract and snap. Larson, who lives at 5258 E. Lee has worked for the Star eight years and delivers about 1,400 papers daily. Deputy llrad 180-Day Extension Sought On Bridge Job Inability to get the necessary steel beams on time may hold up work on the county flood control channel for about 180 days, It was learned yesterday.

If it does, the county may resort to a temporary structure to give at least partial relief from the heavy runoff of summer rains which sometimes inundate the downtown area. Harold Ashton, head of Asliton Building Co, revealed yesterday that he is seeking a 180-day ex tension on the completion date of a bridge at the Southern Pacific Railroad crossing of the channel, one-half mile-west of Alvernon Way. Ashton has had difficulty in getting steel companies to promise early delivery of the special 14- and 24-inch beams needed for the bridge. One firm that said it could deliver In the third quarter of 1956 later decided it could not even make delivery by the end of the year. He then got a firm commitment from Allison Steel Co.

of Phoenix, for the third quarter. However, he needs the steel by April in order to complete the bridge in time for the county to extend the channel east to Davls-Monthan AFB. He is still seeking a supplier who can deliver by that time. However, Walter Burg, county engineer, and Johannessen and Girand, engineers handling the flood project, have agreed that use of multiple plate pipes-under the railroad and under Aviation way, Golf Links road, and Alvernon way may provide a of extending the channel without completing the bridge Immediately. Burg pointed out that the materials could be used elsewhere in the future and would not be wasted.

Kussrll Taylor, of Johannessen and Girand, said this "pilot channel" would handle about 1000 feet of water per second, about nait tne amount of runoff which resulted in the heaviest storm last year. The 1000 second-feet is about one-sixth the design capacity of the completed channel. However, the pilot channel Idea still has to be approved by railroad officials. Journalist's, Artist's Wills Are Filed Will probate petitions of two prominent Tucsonans, Journalist Mrs. Bernice Cosulich, 59, and Artist Hutton Webster, 45, filed this week in Superior Court indicate estates in each case not to exceed $15,000.

Mrs. Cosulich, well-known newspaper woman, historian and author, died Jan. 16. She named as heirs her daughter, a sister and her mother, bequeathing her research on Arizona history to the Arizona 1'ioneers Historical Society. The University of Arizona will receive her notes, notebooks and research on her magazine and journalistic work.

The Webster estate, petition on which indicated real estate and numerous paintings of undetermined value, go to his two sons, Michael, 10, and Peter, 8. Mr. Webster died after an extended illness on Jan. 30. He wa a Pulitzer painter, whore art works are hung In many of the nation's leading galleries.

Hultquist reported that "by his quick thinking and not trying to fix things himself, kept a lot of people from getting hurt." Million Lives Probably Saved Star Employe Reports Electric Wire Menace The alertness and clear thinking of an Arizona Daily Star circulation worker was credited yesterday with possibly saving several lives after a 14,000 volt wire fell from a power pole along E. 5th street east of Craycroft road. Raymond Larson, 38, was delivering papers about 5:30 a.m. yes- terday when he noticed 5th street near Van nuren, Mch.imey anu Sahuara avenues "light up like Christmas avenue in Winterhav-en." Investigating, lie found the downed wire draped across a car at the Charles Carlson home, 5005 E. 5th and along E.

5th street for more than two blocks west of the home. "It looked like a guy was signaling to me with a flare or something from where I was atop the rise just east of Craycroft road," Larson said. Larson then contacted a police car a few blocks away and two city policemen arrived at the scene and notified sheriff's depu tJjST WEM S'OU FlMALLV GET ALL THAT UNT AMD FLUFF COAXED INTO AMD MAkES LIKE A TCWAOO IM THE DUST 80WL- 1 5UOULO HAVE X. Ef (USED THE BUT I A GUESS I'E GOT IT ALL. OvV tl IF I CAM JUST HOLD WV iff I BUEA-mUMTlLr I'M GET IT INTO THE XI 7 IXjf- kr- 1 i 1 -j NJl rSr' Nov About That 35 Vice President Richard Nixon gestures as he speaks with Jose Maria Allcmin, center, new Brazilian finance minister, and Lucas Lopez, right, economic adviser to the Brazilian administration at a luncheon given yesterday by the American Chamber of Commerce of 'Rio in the Brazilian capital.

Listening in background is James C. Dunn, U.S. ambassador to Brazil. Nixon has announced the U.S. will lend Brazil 35 million more dollars to expand her big YoKa Redonda steel mill.

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