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2 Thurtdoy, September IS, 1983, Santa Maria, Timet 1 en mi ir 5 1 i 5 ir i 3 ijjjjj decision to the Board of Supervisors. The vote to reject was a close 3-2 decision, Commissioners Ken Stlllman.of Lompoc and Peg Hamlster of SanU Barbara dissenting. The commission majority, which Included the area's representative, Commissioner Nancy Johnson, felt Ikola's plans SANTA BARBARA (CNS) The unique Santa Maria Historical Park plant were rejected by the county Planning Commission majority Wednesday, which wanted to hold the development line to the west of the freeway. Dr. Roger Ikola said he would definitely appeal the Guadalupe is $12,000 "There's no way we can support these expensive historical buildings with a hot dog stand," asserted Ikola about reducing the commercial use.

Ikola had a slide show that Illustrated other historical parks, such as Heritage Park in San Diego, where old homes were restored on the outside, and contained numerous shops and restaurants inside. Examples included antiques, jewelry, a doll shop and travel agency. Faubbion also stated In the staff report that the project's "commercial character is not unique and approval of the (urban boundary line1) extension would represent an intrusion of commercial uses into an open lands area." The zoning on the 26-acre site is agriculture as are the surrounding lands, and a General Plan change to some form of commercial is seen as necessary by the RMD. Faubbion argued there were plenty of commercially designated sites within the Santa Maria urban boundary, but Ikola retorted that the low cost of agricultural land helps make the historical park financially viable. He noted that moving and restoring old buildings Is actually more expensive than building from scratch.

Ikola said he had the support of the SanU Maria community, the city's Planning Commission and members of the City Council. were more commercial than historical and would set a growth precedent. "I am not willing to open up the east side of Highway 101 unless I'm, convinced it's an historical park," Johnson commented. Although Johnson commended Ikola for his Idea as "absolutely she felt there were too many land use problems, such as extending the urban boundary line across the freeway and extending public services. Ikola's plans are to find historical buildings of Santa Maria, move them to the site at the Santa Maria Way off-ramp, restore them and make a commercial historical attraction of them over many years.

Already, the Newlove house has been moved on the site, while Ikola said other prospects include the 1869 Pleasant Valley School building and the Paulding house, built in the late 1800s, which could house a medical museum as Ormand Paulding was one of the area's first physicians. However, Ikola also expects to have commercial shops throughout the buildings, leading to the Resource Management Department's staff recommendation for denial. "The project as proposed has certain historical features, but it is primarily a commercial stated Kit Faubbion in the RMD staff report. short if sheriff patrols city i. 9 By George Rentschler Times Staff Writer GUADALUPE The lowest estimated cost for the Santa Barbara County Sheriff to take over law enforcement In Guadalupe is $12,000 more than the city's police department budget for this year.

Sheriff John Carpenter met with city administrator Bill Stanton and acting police chief Sgt. Charles Roberts Wednesday to discuss requests from city officials and merchants for cost estimates for the sheriff to take over police services in the city. Carpenter said he gave the officials three general estimates which included a variety of factors that could be combined to form other posslblltles. The lowest estimate was for one officer on duty during day hours and two at night, which would cost a total of $341,484. The city of Guadalupe's 1982-84 police budget projects expenditures totalling $329,415, according to a city spokeswoman.

Carpenter said the highest esti mate was for having two officers on duty 24 hours per day was $571,583. A number of factors, Including whether the county would use the city police department or run cars out of the Santa Maria substation, could be combined to come up with other possibilities, Carpenter said. Stanton said Wednesday that he felt the possibility of replacing the police department with the sheriff would be unlikely, because he felt the costs would be too high. Stanton left for vacation after Wednesday's meeting and was not available for comment. Roberts said this morning he would not comment on the meeting and any information would have to come from Stanton.

Stanton also said Wednesday that city council member John Sherrell had requested the estimates, and the city administrator wanted to talk with the sheriff about "areas where he feels we will be able to Improve our performance." However, Carpenter said discussion about the estimates dominated the meeting. "This was the main i gm It mil' "Vl 1 4' ,1 topic," Carpenter said, "there was some police tactics discussed" relating to "tightening up on alleged addicts." "What we did was just give them some figures that Mr. Stanton requested," Carpenter said. Carpenter did say that Guadalupe is considering putting an officer back on the County Drug Task Force. The city pulled their officer off the task force after budget concerns were raised.

Right now, the task force includes one officer from the Lompoc Police Department and the rest are county sheriff's deputies. Carpenter denied a statement by Stanton that the county didn't send the County Drug Task Force into Guadalupe when the city had asked for it. "In terms of asking for help from the narcotics task force, we've asked for it but we haven't received it," Stanton said Wednesday. "Apparently, the merchants' concern changed their (the sheriff's) priorities." "That isn't true," Carpenter said, adding that he has never received any requests from Guadalupe to send in the county task force and the first time he ever spoke with Stanton was during the last three weeks. The task force made some arrests in Guadalupe Aug.

27 after merchants complained about crime problems. Those merchants will meet Monday at noon at the Far Western Tavern to either form a merchants' association or revive the Guadalupe Chamber of 'I C. jr j. (-, liiliii TWO passengers In this pick-up truck Santa Maria police report. Injured were were injurecf when a car driven south- Beverly Gilllland, age unknown, and bound on Broadway by Bradley Hutch- Frank Ragnet, 74.

Both were treated at erson, 18, allegedly ran a red light at Marian Medical Center and then re- the intersection of Newlove Drive and leased and police said the case is still crashed into the truck driven by Samuel under investigation. umnana, at, Wednesday at p.m., TimesJoe Lopez Crowded classes force student transfers; teachers to be hired costs the district $200,000 to reduce each class by one student, according to the superintendent, and the district is penalized 97 percent of approximately $1,800 in Average Daily Attendance revenue for each child that exceeds the maximum allowed per class. Also at Wednesday's meeting, curriculum coordinator Cora Men-atti presented a year-end summary of students who passed and failed last year. The number of retentions alarmed board members. At each of the nine elementary schools and two junior highs, approximately one out of every five or six students was held back.

At Miller, the numbers were astounding. Only 39 students were advanced, while 30 were retained. A report on student achievement of Limited English Speaking and bilingual students was given by district psychologist Doug Palmer. The most significant factor realized from his statistics was the wide variance from test scores In the beginning of the year to those at the end of the year. Board member Tom Urbanske pointed out that the variance Is largely due to the lack of a summer school program to improve retention of knowledge by students before they are tested at the beginning of school.

Palmer said Urbanske has "a very good point." Funding from SB 813 will be used to reinstate a four-week summer school program for elementary students next year. mentary levels, several classes at Fesler Junior High have enrollments in the mid-30s. The seventh-grade classes there average 33.1. Although the state allows 34 students in the junior high schools, Milo said, "We don't do that. It's bad educational practice." Students will be transferred from Fesler to El Camino.

Milo stated that secretary Stella Robinson's phone has been ringing incessantly the first couple weeks with parents concerned about their students being transferred from school to school. "We told the parents when they registered new students that some of them would be moved around." Milo explained that the state limit for students in kindergarten is 31, and for grades 1-3 it is 30. It Union Sugar wins expansion re zoning SANTA BARBARA (CNS) Union Sugar was successful In obtaining a rezoning around its existing plant for future expansion, as the county Planning Commission approved the request without much debate. The main concern of the Resource Management Department staff was allowing industrial use over the whole property, arguing It should instead be restricted to frontage lands along Betteravla Road. One unique aspect is that the company intends to contract a railway to store up to 575 railroad cars on the site, which was also approved.

The overall site is about 275 acres located in the 2800 block of Betteravia Road. In another matter, the commission approved a time extension delay on Bernard Feldman'B project that was approved in 1981 to split 80 acres into three lots off Tepesquet Canyon Road. Feldman objected to new fees Imposed for off-site road Improvements and park fees, but since it is the Board of Supervisors' policy to charge the fee's, they were approved. However, since the delay is due to a required survey, the commission waived Feldman's application fee. No decision reached for Carter change of venue Testimony continued today in a Superior Court hearing on a change of venue motion for the murder trial of David Jones Carter.

Carter's attorney, Assistant Public Defender Barbara Beck, said she made the motion because she felt there was a danger that the extensive media coverage given to the Carter case in a town the size of Santa Maria could prejudice prospective jurors. Carter, 34, is charged with murder in the Feb. 15 shooting of United Parcel Service dellveryman Jack Dean Whiteley, 48, of Santa Maria, after an argument allegedly broke out over the delivery of a package. Beck has repeatedly said she doubts her clients' ability to assist her in his defense. A trial to determine Carter's competency was ordered by Lewellen and he was found competent to stand trial for murder by a jury of nine men and three women on Aug.

23. Beck has also attempted to get Carter to enter a plea of not-guilty by reason of insanity but he has continually refused, claiming that the president doesn't want him to do that. Carter is being held in custody in lieu of $1 million bail. Search extended south for National Guard jet A search for an Air National Guard jet trainer believed to have crashed west of Vandenberg Air Force Base Tuesday night was to be extended southward today toward the Channel Islands. Lt.

Col. James Arthur of the 144th Fighter Interceptor Wing said Capt. Thomas W. Fishburn Jr. of LeMoore was flying in an exercise "testng our ability to intercept hostile aircraft" when the T-33 jet fighter trainer he was flying apparently crashed about 15 miles west of Vandenberg.

Arthur said the plane left Fresno and was scheduled to return there but it lost radio and radar contact with ground controllers at Vandenberg Air Force Base at 8:22 p.m. while lt was about 15 miles west of the base over the Pacific. It is suspected the plane crashed at about 8:50 p.m. Into the ocean off Point Conception, Arthur added. Paul Short of the 12th Coast Guard District said "the search Is continuing today, they're going to extend it southward toward the Channel Islands." Short said the search team consists of the Cape Wash, 1 96-foot cutter stationed in Morro Bay, a Vandenberg helicopter and a helicopter from the Coast Guard.

Fishburn, a 1970 graduate of the Air Force Academy, was a 10-year Air Force veteran and had been with the Fresno Air National Guard unit since 1981, Arthur said. Fishburn was employed by Merrill, Lynch as a stockbroker In civilian life. Bodies of murdered women to be flown home to Sweden By Hubble Smith Times Staff Writer Supt. Ken Milo wants to proceed to hire two teachers right away for the Santa Maria Elementary School District, and the board of education said it is "all for it." A sixth-grade teacher has already been hired at Rice School. Milo is now looking for two kindergarten first-grade teachers at Tunnel and Rice.

Additionally, another sixth-gradeteacher may need to be hired. With increased enrollment overcrowding the classrooms, Milo contended that it was "bad to let the classes go apy farther down the year. It's better to move the students in the first few weeks." At Wednesday night's board meeting, Milo distributed to the audience two sheets breaking down the number of students in each teacher's class at each school. One sheet contained grades K-6, the other grades 7-8. He called particular attention to sixth grade classes at Miller and Oakley Schools.

Oakley classes had 45 and 44 students, while Miller was also way above the norm at 39 and 40. The state considers 30 students a full class. Milo went down the list of classes at each school and instructed the audience to circle those with enrollments in the mid- to upper-30s. Besides the sixth grade teachers, six kindergarten classes had at least 33 students. Six others had 32.

Both kindergarten classes at Rice are overcrowded and both first-grade classes at Tunnell have 36 students. Board member Susan Wiener said to Milo, "You were right last year when you looked into your crystal ball and saw this all coming." Milo reported that district enrollment has increased by well over 500 from the beginning of last year. Since school opened nine days ago, enrollment has rocketed from 5562 on the first day to 5931 Wednesday. Besides overcrowding at the ele Detective Robert Prevot of the Redwood City Police Department identified the two women the Swedes stayed with as Ann Brown and MaryAnn Mohlin. Detectives said earlier the two Swedish women arrived at the Redwood City residence late In the evening July 21 and left early the morning of July 22 without seeing their hosts for any substantial length of time.

After finding Wahlen's diary, detectives discovered the last entry was made the evening of July 21 and no entry was made the evening of July 22. Detectives said they believed the women were "either incapacitated or deceased" the evening of July 22. The bodies were then found Aug. 18 In a desolate area east of Santa Maria. Both Rogers and Prevot said they don't expect any major break in the case soon.

The bodies of two Swedish women found near Santa Maria last month which have the subject of a coroner's study in San Francisco for several weeks -were expected to be flown back to Sweden today or tomorrow, Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Detective Bob Rogers said today. He added that Sheriff's Det. Bruce Correll, who is leading the investigation into the murders of Marie Lilienberg, 23, and Maria Wahlen, 25, is in the Bay Area meeting with the pathologist who examined the bodies and the people who last saw the two women in Redwood City July 22. The bodies have been examined by San Francisco coroner Boyd Stevens, and he provided detectives with a tentative cause of the deaths. "They (the bodies) were to be picked up today or tomorrow by the Swedish Consulate," Rogers said.

Funeral services for the women have been held up in Sweden while the bodies were examined, and services are expected after the bodies are returned there. Rogers added that Correll will be in the Bay Area until Friday and the detective will interview two women who the murder victims stayed with In Redwood City. WALT ROSEBROCK Publisher Police have no comment on Cortez charges DON BROWN Executive Editor LEW KOFOED Advertising Director PAUL CAZAWAY Circulation Director DAN JONES Office Manager DONTWINO Production Manager ERNEST PARDO Press Room Foreman An unofficial Hispanic group calling Itself the "Neighborhood Relations Committee," formed after the shooting Incident, claims that witnesses to the incident have said that police, did hot give commands in Spanish when they told the Spanish-speaking Cortez to drop his gun. There has been no official conflrma-' tion of these witnesses. The group has announced that they will ask for a special "situation review committee" to be formed by the City Council to study the shooting, that Hicks be suspended and that the Santa Barbara County Grand Jury convene and work with the district attorney to investigate the Incident.

Mathews, acting police chief until Joe Centeno returns Sept. 26, maintains that the officers involved Cortez was charged with brandishing a firearm and not with attempted murder. Plumer also said that if it can't be legitimately argued that a person presents a danger to society or a risk of failing to appear In court lt Is the duty of his office to recommend to the court that either ball be reduced or the defendant be released. A preliminary hearing for Cortez was set for Sept. 28 at 9 a.m.

Cortez was shot after police officers responded to a family disturbance at 1327 N. Russell Avenue and found him in his garage allegedly armed with a rifle. Both Hicks and Detective Bill Marquez have stated that they called out orders in Spanish for Cortez to put down the rifle and that when he didn't and his actions allegedly Indicated that he would use the gun, Hicks fired, hitting him In the upper right stwulder. Acting Police Chief Capt. Russ Mathews said today he had "no comment" on the reduction of charges against Florencio Castro Cortez from attempted murder to brandishing a firearm In the presence of an officer and his release from custody on his own recognizance.

Cortez was booked In the county jail on the attempted murder charge and had bail set at $500,000 on Sunday after being released from Marian Medical Center, where he was taken after being shot by police Sgt. Jim Hicks last Thursday. Cortez, 49, pleaded not-guilty to the new charge at his arraignment Tuesday In Judge James Jennings' Municipal Court. Jennings said he released him upon a recommendation by the district attorney's office. "We reviewed the complaint and filed the charge that was justified by the facts," Assistant District Attorney Steve Plumer said In explanation of why SEPTEMBER 16, 1963 NO.

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