Santa Ynez Valley News from Solvang, California • 16

nt 1 PaA Published Every Thursday In Solvent Santa Barbara County California 423 Second Street Box 647 Solvent Celli 63443 GAYLEN JACKSON General Manager JOANNE RIE News Editor MEMBER: California Newspaper Publishers Association and National Editorial Association Entered as second class matter December 11 1926 at the post office at Solvang California under the Act of March 3 1379 TELEPHONE All Departments (805) 688 5622 YEARLY SUBSCRIPTION: $700 ($800 Out of Santa Barbara County) DEADLINES: Church News Monday 6 pm amily Section Tuesday 12 noon inal News Wednesday 9 am Display ads Tuesday 12 noon and classified ads Tuesday 4 pm PAGE I6A THURSDAY NOV 14 1974 A Strong uture Now that the business of elections has come to an end for a season it's time for ns to look forward to what is in store for us as individuals as a community and as a nation here are those who would be prophets of doom To these people say Crawl back into your holes We have no need of ones like Our community is and will continue to be a vibrant one Valley life will not come to a standstill as long as there are those who breathe the air of freedom and hope As individuals we have a responsibility to see that we remain optimistic viewing the future as a challenge not as an already attained defeat The challenge is great but it can and must be met with enthusiasm vigor and optimism On a national level the same is true If we as citizens are filled with desire and a conviction that the future holds hope we can accomplish great objectives People learn from defeats They rise above them set worthy new goals and then strive to achieve them Only those who fail to learn from past errors will faii in life The optimist will always be the winner He will have a smile on his face and when answering the question of how things are his answer will he "Great be If we listen to him long enough we shall all begin to believe him and our lives will improve because of it Crime of Apathy Are the people of the Santa Ynez Valley apathetic toward the prevention of community crime? So it would seem with the cancellation of the tail end of a lecture series sponsored by the Department concerning that subject The series was designed to concentrate on what the citizen can to to protect him or herself the family property and the community at large from several categories of crime rape burglary delinquency narcotics organized crime and fraud Although the series started with fair attendance it slowly dropped to the point where even the deputy in charge failed to show or those few stalwarts who wanted to hear the final lectures frustration was the name of the crime Interestingly this sort of thing has happened before particularly when someone from the outside world arrives on the Valley's doorstep and is not sponsored by a group An organization has the means to pull support both from within its own membership and through word of mouth We would suggest only that in the future such a series of lectures or meetings be sponsored by such an organization so dial the benefit will not fall by the wayside In the meantime one would hope that the Valley not have crime of a kind that could have been prevented had more people shown more interest Wave of Today Talk about the of the waves of the past have built up a heart warming present for two widows living in a small cottage in the San Bernardino mountains northeast of Los Angeles In a pleasant little human interest story Time magazine tells how the women 67 and 74 who have no phone or auto and whose mail box is a mile and a half down a snake infested track worked up a daily friendship with Southern Pacific freight crews just by waving at them as the trains went by 25 yards from their house Waving was the start but it soon developed into a daily offering of cookies by the two women more than 50000 so far That led to papers and magazines from the train crews It even produced a transistor radio and a TV set One Christmas 42 crewmen who had benefitted from the cookie making collected $110 for their isolated friends more than twice the combined weekly pension Often they and their families drive out to visit the women on days off Moral of the story? Nothing very special just something mankind discovered a long time ago but followed through on often enough: a little friendship volunteered no matter how simple will usually evoke a response in kind and often blossom into something even more heartwarming Daniel Boone you can explore the forest between here and the corner but be back at the settlement by five SWEETIE PIE Just A Come on? XV Xt'WlV' rom the Windy Hills by Joanne Rife The Bean Bag Chair I bought it in a moment of impulse It was so young looking so gay so formless and unin hibited Besides it was cheap and the chair we had in that spot looked like a refugee rom the Oklahoma drought will be better than what we I explained to my husband when I drove home with what looked like a large bright orange balloon in the back seat of the car Actually it was also in the front seat of the car and flowed into the rear luggage compartment did you get a bean bag chair into a he asked incredulous why? And further more how do you plan to get it was something of a problem to get in but what goes in must come out Not necessarily We finally had to send one of the kids in underneath between the car seat and the chair and lift up so that it came out the sunroof whereupon it flowed down the side of the car and perched on the running board gloating I could see already I was in trouble I was in worse trouble when the man of the house sat in it He sank away to the floor with his posterior hitting botton but his knees and elbows stuck out like angle irons out of a marshmallow do you like I asked He growled me outta It turned out to be as hard getting him out of the bean bag chair as it was to get the chair out of the Volkswagen One of the kids had to burrow underneath and lift up so that he popped out like a seed out of a watermellon It occurred to me that perhaps the solution lie in filling the bean bag chair with more beans pumping it up so to speak so that he would not hit bottom when he sat in it and furthermore it would not flow about on the carpeting like silly putty It was when I purchased beans for the bean bag chair that I discovered that it did not have beans in it at all It had little white foam beads I did not know the properties of little white foam beads when I started to fill the chair but I learned rather quickly I unzipped the bottom of the chair and undid the bag of beads and started to pour oam beads do not pour They float They float in the air I leaned the bag of beads against the ironing board The board had a warm iron on it and it melted a hole in the bag while I looking While I was pouring out of one end of the bag the beads were floating out of the other I looked up and there floating behind me were little white beads They floated about for a minute and then through the process of static electricity attached themselves to whatever surface was closest the nose my face the outside of the bean bag chair the carpeting the other furniture the ceiling the walls the window framesThey stuck to the back of my hand and when I brushed them off with my other hand they stuck to my palm Then they began to float right out of the chair interior At this point I think they started to breed reproduce and multiply The beads piled up on the floor By the time I had pushed my way to the front door to safety they were waist high and when I got the door opened they cascaded out into the yard in pursuit of my escaping body already covered completely with the little white beads As I fled down the street I heard a little child cry out Mommy a snowman running down the It controlled until the exterminator came and put a tarp around the house that looked like the bean bag chair We are now back to sitting on the refugee from the drought rom The Valley News Library Leafing Through Pages of The Past 40 YEARS AGO Nov 231 934 The bridge which spans the Santa Ynez river at San Lucas crossing is finished and open to traffic It is nice and wide and a great improvement over the old one which is now being removed Owing to the small bridge over St Agnes creek not being com pleted motorists are unable to travel the new stretch of highway which has been finished for some time Mrs and Mrs Edgar Widup and daughter Gladys of San Jose have leased the College Hotel in Santa Ynez and the hotel is now open for patronage A surprise farewell party was given for Mr and Mrs Alfred Jacobsen at the HG ranch Mon day evening The Jacobsens are leaving Saturday by boat from Wilmington on the 1 1 a America line for Denmark They expect to arrive in Denmark for Christmas eve The Danish Young Society will meet Sunday evening at the Atterdag college A minia ture operetta will be given by the double male quartet directed by Mrs Gudrun Sorensen MARKET AD: SUGAR 10 lb cloth bag 49 cents 30 YEARS AGO Nov 17 1944 The Santa Ynez Valley received a good soaking over the weekend with the storm bringing about 350 inches bringing the total to over four inches for the month of November This is a record breaker for the month of November and some of the old timers say that in 1916 the early rains of October and November caused beans to sprout and a big loss was taken by the farmers The quail season opened on Wednesday of this week but according to some of the hunters they came home empty handed The Sid Stewart house has been purchased by Mrs Amory Hutchinson who will have it moved from the property to her ranch Pvt Clayton Sanchez returned to his post in ort Lewis on Sunday after a 15 day furlough here 20 YEARS AGO Nov 26 1954 Mr and Mrs William Stevens and Mr and Mrs Jed Meese helped Mr and Mrs George celebrate their 15th wedding anniversary Saturday evening by having dinner in Santa Barbara A surprise housewarming party attended by 50 Valley friends on Saturday evening honored Mr and Mrs Daryl Nielsen at their new home They were presented with a money tree Mr and Mrs Robert Miller and children spent Thanksgiving Day in Santa Barbara with Mrs Ella Budd and Mr and Mrs Walter Kiefer The Pinochle Club met last riday evening with Mrs Char les Johnson and Mrs Ray Paaske hostesses to the regular members at the Johnson home 10 YEARS AGO Nov 12 1964 Mrs Georganna Kent Buellton artist with her picture of won first place in the advanced adult class at the Art and Madonna Show held recently in Santa Maria A luau with the 35 guests watching the roasted pig and all the accompanying vegetables brought up from the pit where they had been cooking all day in the ground was the party Satur day night at the rank Sutcliffe home Sunshine scattered clouds and wind was the weather prediction for today in Southern California following drenching rains which thoroughly soaked the area Meandering by Gaylen Jackson A Rationale So the over and once again I voted for more losers than winners I keep telling myself that my day will come and come out on top on score but not sure when that will be I even lost out on the myriad of propositions To start with it would have taken a so called Philadelphia lawyer to even figure out what one was voting for I take the easy way out my wife did though She informed me as we left the ballot area that the propositions were so confusing she just voted no on all of them When I asked her how she went on the judicial propositions that is did we want to keep Joe Blow in office for another 12 or so years she said voted yes on all of Now if you can figure out that line of reasoning like to know your solution One of my pet peeves about California politics is that local officials are not required to be of any particular party registration I've always believed there were some inherent benefits in the two party system going down to the county level in that party structures become more solidified and voters really do have a choice But alas it so in our state We have to guess at the party and hope voting for someone who basically believes the same as we do ortunately or unfortunately if you prefer we in this part of the country have the opportunity to vote for any county officials so party affiliation make much of a difference to us Up in Santa Maria though things were a little different and some pretty strange bedfellows were created Since both George Hobbs and Harrell letcher have been long time friends not about to stick my neck out and say which of them have supported had I lived in that supervisorial district But Harrell who won is a rather staunch outspoken Democrat who has served on many campaign committees and has made some enemies or in the opposite camp George has been a life long employee of the postal department and comes under the Hatch Act and never bothered to ask him what his political persuasions were The point trying to make is that without some rather conservative Republican backing it is doubtful that letcher could have pulled his narrow victory out of the bag Some of those who privately backed him would be drummed out of the corps if some of the other become aware of who they were Speaking about George Hobbs and the postal service reminds me that last column which was not written by me due to an unexpected but short illness was not altogether kind to the servants in the Post Office But the Post Office really is making efforts to help speed up delivery The fact that a salesman from a Santa Maria paper supplier showed me a post card last week which had been mailed from Solvang in 1972 and had just been received in Santa Maria really does indicate progress The pony has been changed on the patches and is now running forward In addition all those pretty bright decals with letters and numbers which some of you see on your mail nowadays means something to Post Office employees Some of the colors and letter codes mean the entire stack goes to one destination others mean the entire stack has the same starting initial in the last name And no jokes please It really true that postal employees can read only by color If it were the numbers and letters in the decals would have no effect Our local postmaster informs me the new system has helped considerably in speeding up the handling of the mails This California by Mike Abramson Burning Issue (Last of a Series) If one flies drives or walks the length and breadth of California with 20 million residents on its nearly 102 million acres it sometimes seems that the state is jammed to the gunwales with human beings This is a state of mind which notwithstanding the great expanses of unoccupied land existing in the state places the question of land management policies in California not far behind inflation and the economy among its major concerns Picture then only 300000 people on over 375 million acres with their own and their future before them and easy to understand why the land use question is a burning issue here in Alaska With legislation resulting from statehood and native claims settlements triggering an initial controversy over how federally retained lands will be dedicated in terms of use planning (and more controversy) is also underway for lands which will be controlled by the state itself and by 12 native regional corporations and 200 village corporations Working with both the state and native groups is the unique Joint ederal State Land Use Planning Commission established by the 1971 native claims settlement act which settled some 40 million acres on Indian Aleut and Eskimo population While advisory to the federal government and the native groups on recommended land selections the commission will have the full power of classification on at least 77 million acres already selected by the state from the 103 million assigned to it upon admission to the Union in 1959 Lands conveyed to the state are largely expected to be designated for use by local governments private developments state parks and recreational activity and resource production The 40 million acres going to native groups will be largely selected for their ability to produce long term income for their new owners who now will behind the federal and state governments become the third largest in terms of leased lands for resource extraction and other development in the state An intriguing example of how the native lands will be managed is the contract between Standard Oil of California and the Northwest Alaska Native Corporation wherein Standard will carry out initial oil and gas exploration and assist NANA in its selection of about 25 million acres of land under the claims act NANA of course will be leasing oil production rights when it acquires title to the lands which are considered to hold high potential for new petroleum finds By assuming the early risk of high cost exploration to assist NANA in its determinations Standard will get first crack at obtaining leases on the land So the land rush is on in Alaska with environmentalists the state itself the native populations resource industries indeed all Americans playing for high stakes The exercise in the legislative halls in Juneau and Washington DC should provide interesting watching for the next decade at least CALIORNIA SPEAKS MARIE MATSEN Richmond STUART EBERHARDT Dan meting out amnesty to the ville sure way to get help conscientious objectors the for US international air moral minded and others of the carriers would be for a foreign kind who refused to go to war I government to buy them then wonder how the judges will the US government would distinguish between them and the surely give them favored treat just plain menta well as JK.