Santa Ynez Valley News from Solvang, California • 1

I 111 II II II I RaWWWWRWWWWWW ct nt a Tin rs 1Ini li'it Arim PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY ft THURSDAY EBRUARY 28 1974 SOLVANG CALIORNIA 1 VOLUME IL NUMBER 21 rss tssraawi: $3 "i Mf Mp Marley Presentation wjr SUNLIGHT WARMS VALLEY AS WINTER ADES On Congress Election Tuesday THE Status Symbol Aviation Research Modifying law Small Paris Jets at SY Airport occurred Conservation Dis NEW ENGINE OR PARIS JET Santa Ynez still does not have of the amount of name in two year in Solvang and the im would conceivably have entire community from local and tourist stand next pm thrust stage theatre in Solvang be located on Copenhagen Drive Members of the Ballard Pro tective and Improvement Assn appointed Stewart Johnson as a liaison officer between the group and the County board of super visors and county planning com mission It will be duty to keep the Ballard group advised of any new zoning laws lot splits or other planning and zoning moves affecting the Bal lard community Members also agreed to make an effort to comply with county ordinances which limit the num ber of animals allowed on cer tain size parcels of land The next meeting of the as sociation is set for April 18 at 7:30 pm at the Ballard School The Santa Ynez Valley Gener al Plan Advisory Committee is now meeting at 8 pm the first four Mondays of each month During March the sessions will be held in the meeting room at Security Pacific National Bank At the meeting this week time was given to the relative zoning of spots of agricultural land remaining from the 1973 study 1 On current Valley items up for county consideratiort the group voted: to allow the Shannon trailer in Happy Canyon if it is screened from the public and not to allow a General Plan change to residential on the Avco Petersen condominium proposal south of the hospital because of high water table lo cation in the flood plain locat ed in an area of individual homes and because it is the only area of professional institu tional zoning in the Valley ing until completion of a current study to find other water sour ces And manager Tom Petersen was asked to order from the Bureau of Reclamation the 3300 acre feet basic entitlement of Lake Cachuma water for the coming year He will also con tract for surplus water which should be a full allotment of 4 880 acre feet this year The regular meeting date was changed to the third Tuesday of each month at 7:30 pm A spe cial meeting was set for March 5 And Rick Connick was hired as a field man for the district By DICK PRAUL Valley News Staff Writer What will happen if a Ventura Superior Judge grants an in junction tomorrow (riday) to halt the special 13th District March 5 Congressional election in accord with a petition of Democratic leaders? BE says Bob Kirkpatrick chief of the County Election Bureau which has just sent out tens of thous ands of sample election ballots to registered voters throughout the Santa Barbara County por tion of the district County Clerk Howard Menzel happy about the conse quences of such an action ei ther postage bill alone in sending out sample ballots has been he said have also been other election expenditures in supplies amount ing to about These costs and other elec tion costs would have to he pointed but un less the special election were to be combined with the June Primary Election As electors seeking to prevent the March 5 special election Mrs Ghita Ginberg Santa Bar bara County Democratic chair man and Mrs Shirley Ghitter man Ventura County Democra tic chairman petitioned for a writ of mandate to have the court declare the 13th District an invalid election area Advisory Plan Study Group Airs Items dollars little aircraft are It is maintained the new 19th District which includes the heavily Democratic Isla Vista university area be utilized and that the election be held in June To a question as to why the suit was filed so late it was filed until eb 20 Demo cratic leaders maintained that it quite a bit of to work out the legal arguments to be presented by Allen Ghit terman Ventura attorney whose firm is handling the suit Then again as Mrs Ginberg says felt the courts should rule on this question before the The stakes are high Republi cans are hoping the election can be conducted in the 13th District boundaries because they would be more favorable to having Re publican State Sen Robert Lag omarsino of Ojai come out with an outright victory over seven Democratic foes To avoid a runoff the winning candidate must gamer the majority of the votes and thus could win the unexpired term of the late Char les Teague the long time Re publican officeholder who died Jan 1 Should there be no outright winner Tuesday that is if one candidate fails to receive 50 percent plus one vote of the entire vote cast another elec tion will be held April 2 among the two top vote getters Sparkling sunlight turns the shadows to black against the green of the Santa Ynez Valley hills as Winter becomes a season of the past and Spring begins to fake over the weather Morn ings continue cool and crisp but the sun in the early afternoon A request for water service for the Insignis Mesa Verde project has been continued again by trustees of Improve ment District No 1 Santa Ynez River Water trict students applied for participa tion in the drama department and PCPA Of that number he noted 700 were turned down HE SAID he begain "court Solvang as far as Sum mer theatre was concerned in 1970 and believed his companies could have played to 88 percent capacity last summer and 100 percent this summer He said the to Sol would require at least 10 years to develop to full at tendance capacity His plan would call for PCPA companies musical and non musical to alternate per formances between Solvang and Santa Maria Two shows he said could be offered simul taneously in Solvang and Santa Maria Marley said it would be neces sary to have the backing of 2000 people see this If organized the theatre in Solvang would have its curtain raiser in August with Marley bringing ing of the and A total of 16 perform ances would be given on Wed nesday Thursday riday and Saturday nights He estimated by 1975 the thea tre in Solvang would be open during July and August with four programs 48 performances and an attendance of 19200 by 1976 July August and through Sept 15 four programs 75 performances and attendance (Continued on Page 15A) modified Morane Saulnier MS 760 Paris jets a four seat cabin monoplane that was developed from the MS 755 leuret fight er trainer which flew for the first time in 1954 Since 1958 the little Paris jet has compiled the best safety record ever in aviation history One accident has been recorded in 500000 flight hours and that was when a Paris hit a tree following take off from a field in Texas during the night The National Transportation Safety Board decided following the investigation that the acci dent was a result of pilot error Morgan Hetrick president of Aviation Research noted that the Paris poses no noise problem for residents of the Valley It generates far less noise than most two engine pis ton driven aircraft and the noise level meets all current and pro jected A noise standards been doing business for five years here and have yet to receive one complaint about he stated fact I defy anyone to know when we come in and THE REASON that jets have gained the bad reputation for noise pollution he said was because people associate them WINNER of the unexpired term would have the advan tage of having Member of Con gress attached to his running for the full term later this year Several events have to slash away at early lead for the position Dem ocrats feel One is the upset victories of Democratic con gressional candidates in early battles this year due to Water gate Another factor that may take a number of vitally needed votes from Lagomarsino is the emergence of a highly conser vative Republican ex army of ficer Herbert A ord 56 of Santa Maria as a write in can didate Democratic leaders see ord who had failed to qualify ear lier for the ballot due to some mixups over nomination papers as likely to attract votes of right wing Republicans who want to go so far as to vote for any of the Democrats THE DEMOCRATIC candi dates include two Santa Ma rians Dr Roger A Ikola 42 a pediatrician and school dis By JOANNE RIE Valley News Staff Writer called an itty bitty jet in the ebruary issue of Town and Country Magazine and is listed as one of THE status symbols among those with a few dollars left over after taxes THE Paris Jet and there are only nine of them flying in the United States ive are in various stages of modifica tion at Aviation Research Corp located in the old letcher Jones hangar at the Santa Ynez Valley Airport The price tag? A cool quarter of a million The lovely The board an estimate water the project will use from Insignis and it expressed con cern about the possible contam ination of underground water supplies in 'the area if a pro posed sewer system for the project is installed In other business the board decided to do no more annex trict president and Han dley 42 of El Camino Junior High instractor and Jol icoeur 52 Camarillo insurance man David Miller 29 Ven tura teacher Joe Deau Champ 46 Carpinteria business man Ojai Mayor James Loebl 46 an attorney and James A Browning Jr 43 Oxnard yer The polls will be open Tuesday from 7 am to 8 Santa Ynez Valley polling places are: Precinct No 135 consisting of Santa Ynez 1 Pre cinct No 136 consisting of San ta Ynez 4 and 5 and Precinct No 137 consisting of Santa Ynez 2 and 3 all in the multi purpose room Santa Ynez School Precinct No 138 con sisting of Ballard and Los Oli vos Ballard School Precinct is taking on a robust glow and warming the first buds of wild flowers in the fields The view is toward igueroa Mountain Hillsides however are turning a shade of brown and ranchers in the area are hoping for an end to the current lack of rainfall Valley News Phofoby King Merrill Water Board Continues Action on Insignis Bid Ballard Group I I ba Court Decision Due Tomorrow Liaison Officer with the huge jet airliners fly ing out of the big cities Com paring the Paris to a 747 is like comparing a rowboat to the Queen Mary he said The Paris weights about 4000 empty the weights of a Cadil lac and the engine is small er than that of a big automo bile In fact the 747 has starter engines that are bigger than the It cruises about 400 mph at 10000 feet with a ceil ing of about 25000 Hetrick said Range is a little under 700 miles It lands at a mere 80 mph It is about 33 feet long and the wing span is also in the vicinity of 33 feet There are two 880 pound thrust Turbomeca Marbore engines Aviation Research or rather a sister company Nevada Paris Jets purchases the jets in rance from either the military or the government and ships them to the Santa Ynez Valley where they are converted to a personal executive jet and then resold New jet engines or over hauled engines are installed and some minor variations in the plane are made The air frame Hetrick said has unlim ited life (Continued on Page 2A) By KING MERRILL Editor Santa Ynez Valley News A detailed outline by Donovan Marley director of Allan Han cock drama department and the highly successful and nationally acclaimed Pacific Conservatory of Performing Arts to establish a Solvang Theatre estival as part of the PCPA or ganization met with enthusiastic response by members of the Sol vang Business Assn at a dinner meeting Monday night at the Veterans Wing of the Veterans Memorial Building If established the outdoor with three tiered seating would behind the present Dama Hall property THE LAND for the theatre is owned by Earl Petersen Royce Lewellen and Avco Savings and Loan Assn of Ventura The Dania property was purchased last week by Petersen Lewel len and AVCO and a portion of it would be provided without charge for a period of three years by the new owners for theatre purposes A model of the two level Da nish style theatre back drop stage seating arrange ments and landscaping was on view on a table in front of Mar ley as he described the history of the drama department and PCPA at Hancock his vision of development of the festival theatre pact it on the both a point Marley was introduced by Roger Nielsen chairman of the SBA's summer theatre commit tee and who was among those who played a major role in bringing Marley and his drama tic group to Solvang for the four night presentation of at Hans Christian Ander sen Park during Danish Days in 1971 Marley described his work at Hancock as an "exciting pro and one where theatre is taught doing Recounting the history of the development of the drama de partment at Hancock Marley said the college had no drama department when he arrived there 10 years ago The box of fice gross at that time for mini mal productions amount to $431 In 1965 his students played 10 nights to 900 people In 1967 he projected box office receipts by 1975 of $50000 gross But that year 1967 receipts hit that figure reached $146000 last year and should attain $165000 by 1975 Last year Marley said 800 Morgan Hetrick right president of Aviation Research located at the Valley Airport shows George Brown public relations man a sparkling new engine for one of the Paris Jets being modified for civilian use News Photo by Joanne Rife Solvang Highs Lows Maximum and minimum tem peratures recorded by the Sol Solvang Theatre Plan Accorded SBA Support 'e i vy 1 Tv rv mt dar WtfAfrWi SBfxSBB JS JS 1 mJ tTililU' 7 Injunction JB Mr W) T1 irirj i ma i a No 139 consisting of Solvang 1 vang Municipal Improvement and 4 Precinct No 140 con District for the week ending sisting of Solvang 3 and 5 and Monday were: Precinct No 141 consisting of eb High Low Solvang 2 all in the Veterans 19 60 38 Memorial Building Precinct 20 62 30 No 142 consisting of Buellton 21 65 32 1 and Precinct No 143 consist 22 63 25 ing of Buellton 2 Buellton Com 23 66 26 munity Services District Build 24 71 28 ing 25 70 29 II rt.