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ED LAUBENGAYER, Editor WM. B. SHERRILL, City Editor JAMES B. GARRETT, News Editor F. E.

McFALL, Supt. Musicial Tastes Differ, Dimes Gain KAISERLAUTERN, Germany (IP) Opposite musical tastes of GI units made the local U. S. Army March of Dimes drive $919 richer. An engineer company contributed $119 to the polio fund to hear an Army radio disc jokey play Shake, Rattle and Roll.

An antiaircraft battalion contributed $500 to have him stop playing the num- iUHSCRlPTION HATES: By Carrier, a nth; $12 a year. Tele- 5-261)3 or write The Times. By Mall Jlo a Year; $3.50 for SI lonthi; $2.85 for Three Months. $1 for One Month. liNTKKKL AT POSTOFEICE SANTA MAK1A, AS SECOND 71, ASS MaTTKR.

Published dallv except Sunday by the SANTA MARIA UBLISHING Santa Murla. California sroblished April 22, 1882 Doily Since April 15, 191 TUESDAY 15, 1955 NO. 251 Beauty and the Beach A prime question before the State Legislature is what to do about offshore oil drilling in beach city areas. The issue is drawn as to whether oil or beauty is the greatest asset to a community and by and large where beaches and beauty are inyolved the communities haye voted against oil. The Legislatures consideration of the matter must necessarily be on a broader basis.

It must consider the good of the whole state, and therein lies a strong argument in favor of exploring for oil wherever oil is likely to be found regardless of community interests. One thing which might be said for oil drilling in this day and aee it is not objectionable in' the manner it once was. A drilling well, or a completed one adds little to landscape other than the rig at the well site. Some people see beauty in this. It is a clean operation and is completed within a relatively short time.

Be that as it may. we are curious about one thing where off-shore drilling is found objectionable. That is what the reaction would be if the royalties would be going to an individual city, or to private property owners, instead of to the state at large? A New Plan Needed Omaha (Neb.) World-Herald. For years Omahas City Planning Commission has done little real planning. Its principal job has been to act on requests for a piecemeal job of making a little change here, a little change there.

Rezoning is of course a proper function for any planning commission. But the number of changes reouested in Omaha suggests that something is wrong with the citvs master plan, if it can be called that. Planning ought to be comprehensive. As far as possible it ought to anticipate needed changes, not merely try to catch up with them. More Moisture, Cold Predicted For Americas DENVER itPI Two Colorado weather experts agree that virtually all of North America and Europe would got colder temperatures and more moisture during the next two or three decades.

The long-range forecast was made by Dr. Walter Orr Roberts, director of the Colorado university high altitude observatory at Boulder and Climax, and backed by Dr. Irving P. Krick, widely known rain-maker and weather forecaster. Dr.

Roberts, who bases his educated guess on sunspot ac-; tivity, said he believes the dam- aging 60-vear warm, dry cycle on both continents was just about! over and a very definite increase in precipitation this year sub-1 stantislly in February and March could be expected. The director pointed out that when there is a marked decline in sunspot activity, a drought cycle virtually always follows. However, he said when sunspots redevelop, the very opposite occurs. Dr. Roberts said the sun has been kept under constant 6bsera-tion from the high altitude observatory and that increased activity on the sun has been spotted recently.

He also said recent discoveries indicate that sunspots also control the jet stream by radiation. Dr. Krick said he and his specialists feel there is a definite relationship between drought cycles and sun -disturbances and that there is much support for the theory that our air currents are derived from the sun. Krick also said any change in the suns temperature can be tremendously important, although its hard to pinpoint just where the changes will occur on earth. We do expect the next couple of years at least to bring more moisture in the Rocky Mountain region, he said.

BRANDO NAMED LONDON (IP). The British Film Academy has named Marlon Brando the best foreign actor of 1954 for his performance in On The Waterfront. Occurs to Me By ED LAUBENGAYEB For the benefit of the FBI, I want to go on record that the dealij The Times is having ihe Communists are strictly business. It came about in this wise. A search for a new press for The Times had been going on for many months when an offering was made by the Goss Printing Press Company of a press which fit Times requirements and at a favorable price.

So the deal was made largely by letter and telephone to buy the press subject to inspection. Upon going to San Francisco to see the press in operation, F. E. McFall, The Times mechanical superintendent and learn the press was the one in the plant of the Peoples Daily World. The reason the press is for sale, if I may be permitted a little speculation, is not so much because the Peoples Daily World is going out of business, as it is because the Communist party is not doing so well these days as it once did.

The Daily World came into possessoin of the press when the Reds were at their peak of favor in this country during the early days of World War II. At that time the Commies took over a printing plant from the Jones Printing Company, which had been in the circular printing business. This business had languished with the war because of difficulties in getting newsprint An entire printing plant of three floors was acquired by the Communists and for several years thereafter, the Peoples Daily World was published for a large distribution list. Editions of 20 to 32 pages, tabloid, were being published with press runs of 25,000 to 30,000. But today there is not so great a demand for Communist-edited news in the San Francisco area, a positive sign the party has slipped considerably from the days in which Russia was a U.S.

ally in war. The paper published the day we checked the press was an 8-page tabloid edition with a press run of just over 5,000. It occurs to me this pretty well establishes the trend in Communist af- fairs on the West Coast, at least. The most frequent comment from persons who have learned the press The Times plans to be using in a few months has been used to print a Communist newspaper has been a query as to whether it would be possible to keep the ted ink from showing through. That, I can assure you, will be easy in the sense of any tendency on the part of The Times to give aid and comfort to the Communists.

Also it is hoped the press puts no red ink on the books. On the other hand, this is a pre which will print all manner of color in ads and since red ink is a favorite color for such purposes, there will be no objections in this office to the use of liberal quantities of red ink toward attracting the attention of the consuming public. This man is worthy to die; for he hath prophesied against this city. Jeremiah 26:11. Modern men do not always like to hear the truth.

There are still corrupt cities and corruption in high places. The ancient way was to kill the prophets. Answer to Previous 2700 Pounds Ike Receives Coffee From Ethiopia Bv MRItltlMAV SMITH White JIuuuA Writer WASHINGTON. Backstairs at the White House: Fity the folks who run the ovens in the White House kitchen, President Eisenhower recently received 2700 pounds of green Ethiopian coffee beans from the Lion of Judah, Emperor Haille Selassie who visited the White House last May. The coffee was brought into the executive establishment by truck and now reposes in the White House basement.

Haille Selassies coffee came in 135-pound sacks, 20 of em. Mr. Eisenhower likes coffee in the morning and maybe a demi tasse at dinner. But hes not about to start drinking all the brew from 2700 pounds of heady coffee from Ethiopia. Before he and Mrs.

Ike start using the Emperors coffee, theyll probably want to have it blended with milder coffee from Brazil. A New York operative swears this happened. Robert Cutler, the proper Bostonian and Mr. Eisenhowers chief liaison man for national security matters, spoke recently at the Harvard Club in New York. Cutler told his story: A man was walking down a quiet street when suddenly a small boy hurtled out of a house and grasped the stroller imploringly.

Please come help me, mister, begged the boy. Someone is beating my father. Properly indignant, the man paced into the house with the boy. In the living room of the somewhat seamy dwelling, the man found two men threshing around furiously. The Samaritan shucked his coat and prepared to wade into the melee.

Which ones your father, he shouted to the boy. Thats what theyre fighting about, cried the child. Mr. Eisenhower thinks that Danny Thomas, the TV comic, is one of the finest entertainers he has seen in a long time. The President saw him at the recent dinner of the Radio and Television Correspondents Cat Pat Could Light Light Bulb NEW YORK.

(IP) The Consolidated Edison Company has figured out an alternative to atomic power plants. Lay in a supply of cats. A Con Ed engineer, realizing that patting a cat on a cold day generates electricity, figured out that 9,200,000,000 cat pats would light a 75 watt bulb for one min-te. Hospital Recruit Program For Navy SANTA BARBARA The hospital recruit program of the United States Navy has been inaugurated commencing this month, Commander Charles E. Dunston, officer in charge of Navy recruiting for Southern California and Arizona, announced today.

This is an entirely new program. Young men between the ages of 17 and 31, who are interested in pharmacy, pre-med, or similar work, may now enlist in the Navy as -a high school hospital recruit. Under this program, the recruit, upon completion of basic training, will be assigned to one of two Navy service schools in this field. He will have a choice of hospital corpsmen, or dental technician schools. Full information on the high school hospital recruit program may be obtained from the Santa Barbara Navy recruiter on Tuesdays and Thursdays at the Radio Record Center, 108 W.

Main, in Santa Maria. State Crude Oil Production Increases LOS ANGELES 0PI Crude oil production in California increased 1,456 barrels daily in December compared with the previous month, the American Petroleum Institute reported. The institute said the December production amounted to barrels. During the month 141 new oil wells, four gas wells and three service wells were completed, the institute added. Members of the recently reconstituted City Planning Commission hone to nreppro a new master plan.

Certainly such a rian is needed. We hope the Citv Council will provide the commission with the personnel needed to get on with he job. Communists Will Attempt to 'Smoke Out' Defense Line On the basis of the first three recorded and filmed-for-tele-vision White House press conferences, these conclusions seem justified: That it is a tremendous stimulus to public interest in national affairs to have millions of Americans able to witness real-life Presidential news conferences and to see these meetings with the press as correspondents have seen them for many years. That there -are potential pit-falls in White House editing of what is to be released for direct screening i if abused, could distort the conference. That thus far Presidential Press Secretary James C.

Hag-erty has fallen into none of these pitfalls. That television reporting, if it is prepared to assert its independence, has a powerful weapon of defense against improper editing. I have just gone over the full transcripts of the three televised press conferences and it seemed clear to me that there were no deletions for policy reasons or merely to keep the President presented only in a favorable light. The only deletions were (1) to avoid repetition, (2) to remove purely local questions, and (3) when the President had been negative in his reply because he had not formed judgment or because he was not prepared to discuss for direct quotation a delicate issue or be-question to another department of the government. Here is an example of a conceivably embarrassing question which was left in: Question Why did the White House reverse its decision overruling an action of the Civil Aeronautics Board involving a certificate of Northwest Airlines and Pan-American Airline on flights to Hawaii? Answer President Eisen-h replied: Information came to my attention that con-vinced me that I had made an error.

So I tried to correct it. (He went on to explain the details.) All questions and comments dealing with alleged censorship of the TV films were also unedited. This is a point which needs to be cleared up. There is no censorship whatsoever, of any kind or nature, of the press, radio or television reporting of the Presidential press conference. For several years the press, radio and TV have been completely free to report the full transcript of all the questions asked of the President and all the Presidents answer as long as the Presidents words were not quoted directly.

What has happened now is that, in opening the press conference for television filming, President Eisenhower has authorized even more direct quotations than ever before. But no issue of censorship arises. There has been no censorship in years and there is none today. The position of television and radio is exactly the same as that of the press. They are free to record and screen whatever the President releases for direct attribution just as in the press no more, no less, no differently.

And they are exactly as free to report, with indirect attribution, whatever is not released for direct quotation exactly as is the press. This is why, it seems to me, that the Commonwealth magazine in an earnest editorial, misstates the situation when it says: The fact that the televised accounts are government-censored and the press accounts are not, make the two mediums radically different, radically unequal vehicles of communication. Actually, television possesses a powerful deterrent something near to massive retaliation against any improper captious you must always -make the President look -good editing of the White House press conference. It is perfectly free to interrupt the released screening of the Presidential news conference at any point where it deems improper editing has been forced upon it and inform its audience the exact quection which was deleted and read exactly, in third person, the Presidents deleted answers. This would in fact give the deletion more attention than it would get if it were not deleted.

I doubt if the White House will make the mistake of political minded editing of the press conference. If it does, it will get into trouble and should. (Copyright, 1955, New York Herald Tribune, Inc.) DEBT COLLECTIONS Account Not Claim of any kind of Anywhn In Amer ica. No collodion N'o foe. We advance all conU ('KKI)IT BIT-ILKA IS OF S.M.

A TOM TOC VAT-TKYS llox 375. Thom 5-2564. By GEORGE SOUSA The latest word from KVEC-TV Micro Wave Station to be installed at Soda Lake Tests show that Channel 2, Los Angeles, is booming in. From there it will be relayed to San Luis Obispo. C.B.S.

shows now being carried by Channel 3 will switch to Channel 6 Pabst Blue Ribbon fights, Harry Owens Show, Jackie Gleason and many others. Santa Barbara will lose C.B.S. will fill in with N.B.C. and A.B.C. net work shows.

Some 13 months ago the FCC gave the gfeen light to color television and right away the prophets said that 1955 would be the year when color TV would come into its own. The prophets looked sadly at the black-and-white sets and said they would have to give way to the color era. Well, here is 1955 and where are the color TV sets? Its interesting to note that instead of the 100,000 color sets predicted for 1954 only about 20,000 were produced and most of those are still in the hands of manufacturers, dealers and broadcasters. Only a small fraction have found their way into viewers homes. Six major sets manufacturers have never marketed a set.

Of the five majors who did, only two are now in production, with only one of these producing any appreciable quantity of sets. How come? Whats the prospect for the future? Well, the main reason the predictions have gone wrong is still the problem of producting a low-cost color tube that wont give trouble. The result is that color sets now, and for some time to come, will cost more money than the average buyer will pay. Color is available but the experts now say the $500 big screen color set is 2 years away at least. This adds up to- a good reason for coming in now to pick out that quality black-and-white set at a price thats down to earth.

We have a complete choice of 1955 R.C.A., Zenith, Philco models on display now. SOUSA RADIO and TELEVISION, 308 5. Broadway, Santa Maria, Phone 5-1928. 9:30 KCOY, My True Story -KCOY, Whispering Streets KSMA. Coffee Club 10:15 KCOY, When a Girl Marries 10:30 KCOY, Hour of Stars 11:30 KCOY, Ted Malone 11:45 KCOY, Club News KSMA, Meditation 12:00 KCOY, 3 in 1 at 12 KSM iJhwh 12:15 KCOY, Pul Harvey KSMA, Wealnei.

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The Communists soon will smoke us out again just as they did at Yikiangshan. They will make another aggressive move and find out then whether they can take more territory for the asking or whether they have a real fight on their hands, one Nationalist official said. American quarters here privately have been saying that U. S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles actually promised once that Quemoy and Matsu would be included in the guaranteed area.

Dulles is supposed to have given this assurance to Nationalist Chinese Foreign Minister George Yeh during their Washington conversation, only to be subsequently over ruled by President Eisenhower himself. However, there are two schools of thought here in Taipei about Dulles. Some think he is playing politics with China. Others thing he is one of the Republic of Chinas best friends and is working hard against the Europe first group which gets considerable support from Mr. Eisenhower and Army Chief of Staff Gen.

Matthew Ridgway. F30GRAM KFI 640 KCOY 1400 KFRE 940 KSMA 124C KEY-1 Channel 3 Channel 6 Ihe Times publishes all radio and television logs made available It cannot be responsible for deletions or changes after publication Bt f.arnfst horfrfcht CnrrpsDOiHl TAIPEI. Formosa Chinese ouarters here predicted today the Communists soon will try to smoke out the line on which the United States intends to stand in nrotecting Nationalist offhore islands. The Nationalists pointed out that the Rpds will make every effort to clarify the exact intent of American oromises regarding protection of such traces as Que-mov, Matsu and Nanchi now that the Tachens have been abandoned. Since the Americans have not drawn a firm nublic line, the Communists most likely will do some nrohing to find out where it located.

The Cnmnumlsts first moved toward the Tachens by attacking nearby Yikianshan. When the American 7th Fleet did not ruh to protect that tinv islet, which obviously had to be held if the Tachens were to be defended. the Reds knew the United States would not fieht there. Now, the Nationalists fully exnect the Reds to make some stabs at other Nationalist off- 1-GORDOn-j mnnTiirs I think its fine, when people like the job they do each day but I can pity anyone who finds no time for play for I have often noticed those who labor all the time are lost and dont know what to do, when they have passed their prime. I think that all of us should have some interests which are far removed from daily work we do for when its time for us to quit the job weve known for years well have some other things to do and wont be shedding tears because we have to leave the only kind of life we know and find that in our loneliness, we have no place to go.

So I am sure that wise is he who does his job each day and then can put aside his work and find the time to play. Paragraphs of Past One Year Ago Santa Maria chapter No. 82 of the Disabled American Veterans has joined the honor circle of DAV chapter throughout the nation in being awarded a national citation for reaching and surpassing its membership quota of 25 for 1953-54. Ten Years Ago The Rev. O.

W. Mieger received a building permit from the city this morning, following a priority grant from the War Production Board, to start erection of the parish hall unit of the Grace Lutheran Church building program. Twenty Five Years Ago Mr. and Mrs. L.

W. Stetson have moved into their new home, 601 E. Orange St. 17 Bitter vetch 23 Greek letter 24 She likes to 36 Embellished 38 Extinct bird 40 Spotted 41 Not standing 42 Sea eagle 45 Ages 48 Unaspirated 26 Three feet 29 Soothsayer 31 Cereal grass Indonesians of 49 Fiber knots Mindanao 52 Unit of weight 35 Mo ved quickly 5 4 Tear ACROSS 57 Low sand hill 1,5 Radio singer, 58 Raced DOWN 1 Wanderers 2 Oxidizing enzyme 3 Weight of India 4 Direction 5 Encounter 6 Brazilian macaw 7 Stair parts 8 Shouter 10 Fiddling Roman Clooney 9 City in New York 11 World 12 ReluctalMt 13 Plant (var.) 15 Beverage 16 Play the part of host 18 Note in Guidos scale 19 Transposes (ab.) 20 Sphere 21 Rot flax by exposure 22 Employers 25 Crafty 27 Seniors (ab.) 28 Possessive pronoun 30 Organ of hearing 32 Radio singing is only of her accomplishments 33 Arid 34 Bustle 37 Jewel 39 Thick 43 Sailor 44 Fish eggs 46 Above (poet.) 47 Scottish alder tree 48 Acquire knowledge 50 Light brown 51 Reports 53 Inflate 55 Short jackets 56 Petty malice 11 Put in a stable34 12 Aleut island 1 4 Consumes 6:00 KSMA. News KFI.

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Sundiaiers Club 7:30 KCOY, Bob Gurred KSMA, News, Sports, Weather 7:45 KC'U 1 New KSMA, Sundiaiers KCOV. Breakfast Club KSMA, News A Jobcaster 8:15 KSMA, Mystery Melody .8:30 KSMA, Broadway Parade KC'OV, Muguzine Review KSMA, News, Musle Hall 9:15 KCOY, Chet Huntley KSMA, Music Hall Change of Office Location ROBERT A. WOOTEN is now located at 325 S. McClelland for the practice of PUBLIC ACCOUNTING INCOME TAX SERVICE I A Telephoto DISPLAY PROOF Federal troops occupied El Amo Airport at La Cruz, Costa Rica and hold up a blanket found there which has the insignia GNdeN, which they say can only mean National Guard of Nicaragua. This evidence was flown to San Jose for inspection hy members of the Organization of American States..