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Guaranteed Paid Circulation of ll't Sn1inef yeiferdy Vi 15,654 Tli County seat daily 'end by mom than 45,000. Every edition present buyers and seller clasuf'ed anri display advertising nes of tne area. Weather Report Yemparatimi for ttia 24-hour period ndlna it 8 am. today Maximum 78, minimum 51. MONTEREY BAY AREA Fog night and morning but clear afternoons through Saturday) little temperature change; west wind afternooni I to 17 knots, i A Serving Santa Cms County for More Than 100 Years 105th Year-No.

195 11V sunnxv una u.niy lC Excepting Saturday EIGHTEEN PAGES Entered as second class matter at tha Post Office at Santa Cruz, California SANTA CRUZ, CALIFORNIA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 18, 1961 0 UODWttM fc CUtll 1 lire Did Lights Bring Birds Ashore He Got The Bird-Or Was It Vice Versa Thousands Of Birds Floundering In Streets By Wally Trabing A massive flight of sooty shearwaters, fresh from a feast of anchovies, collided with shoreside structures from Pleasure Point to Rio del Mar during the night. Residents, especially in the Pleasure Point and Capi-tola area were awakened about 3 a.m. today by the rain of birds, slamming against their homes. Dead, and stunned seabirds littered the streets and roads in the foggy, early dawn. Startled by the invasion, other area was discovered on one bird.

Eight persons were reported bitten by the birds. John Blae-holder, Virgil Comstock and Dick Alendonca, Capitola street i Af ill 1 KyfJ) "KNr, I 111 15' itfri 3 This may explain why the flight of sooty shearwaters crashed into coastal residents early this morning. Lost and confused in the fog off the z. coast, they headed for light. This one reached it.

but he was going full speed and died with his head stuck in the street light fixture. University May Use Cabrillo Facilities To Open Its Doors workmen received tetanus shots. Grant Butterfield, Mike Tiller, Jeff Pacassi, Edna Messini and Ted Stanton, were also reported bitten. Dr. G.

L. Dunnahoo, county health officer, said he did not believe the birds were a health hazard to humans. Five birds are being sent to the state laboratory for a virus check, however. The word of the bird invasion spread fast throughout the state. Cameramen from San Francisco papers were out in the early morning fog.

and a phone call came to The bentinel from mystery thriller producer Alfred Hitchcock from Hollywood, requesting that a Sentinel be sent to him. He has a home in the Santa Cruz mountains. Agency Okays SL Park Pact With Shaffer Santa Cruz redevelopment agen cy, anxious to keep pace with prospective developers, yesterday approved a contract for sale of commercial lands on the westerly side of, the San Lorenzo. Park project to the Shaffer-Swenson-Kump group. Approval was for submission to federal urban renewal agency (URA) officials in San Francisco.

The URA, which is overseeing the $4.4 million redevelopment project, must concur in the contract and supporting documents before they are executed. The agency board was spurred yesterday when architects pre sented preliminary designs for the sector in the post office triangle. This included River street extension buildings for County Bank and California Pacific Title company, both of whom are scheduled for relocation from Cooper-Front area parcels. Keith Shaffer of Opal Cliffs, local spokesman for the prospective developers, emphasized that the drawings were strictly tentative and that they have not been formally presented to the bank and title company. Brick Wall Being Built By German Reds To Reinforce Barbed Wire Barricades By Jack Rannclls The University of California may use Cabrillo college facilities to open its doors long before its Cowell ranch campus is completed in 191J6.

Santa Cruz City Manager Peter Tedesco revealed this last night at a meeting of Santa Cruz county city councilmen and supervisors. Noting the tentative opening date for the Cowell campus, Tedesco added that a lot depends on release of funds by the department of finance. "But it is highly probable that it can function as a university at Cabrillo long before it opens doors on (he hill. "Cabrillo was designed to hold a population it won't have for years to come," Tedesco added. Lewis Nelson, chairman of the county board of supervisors, pointed out that some contracts already are in the works.

Tedesco said reliance on the junior college campus will depend on how soon the Berkeley campus reaches its saturation point, now estimated at 1964. the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. He gave no details. He promised cooperation with the Western allies to get East-West negotiations started. Adenauer and West Berlin Mayor Willy Brandt joined at the session, called to consider the Berlin crisis, in attacking the Communist actions here as a violation of human rights.

Qualified diplomats in London said the United States, Britain and France were considering a token increase of their garrisons in West Berlin, now totaling about residents rushed out on their.) lawns with flashlights, then rushed back inside, as the birds flew toward their light. Television aerial supports were severed, and one power line was shorted out about 4 a.m. on Merrill avenue when the birds hitting the lines slapped them together. The shearwater is a gull-like seabird, slightly smaller than a regular sea gull. It looks sooty from a distance, but has a narrow strip of white under its narrow wings and a thin black bill.

According to information from Nils Bergman, state park ranger, thev breed on islands of New Zealand and South America and range along the Pacific coast. Sometimes they travel in flocks that number the millions. When the light of day made the area visible, residents found the streets covered with birds. The birds disgorged bits of fish and fish skeletons over the streets and lawns and housetops, leaving an overpowering fishy stench. Gilda and Joe Stagnaro of the Cottardo Stagnaro corporation reported large schools of anchovy off the Rio del Mar area.

The invasion started there yesterday afternoon, according to Joe Sunseri, owner of the Pixie Plaza Liquor store near the beach. The most learned explanation of the bird tragedy came this morning from Ward Russell, museum zoologist at the University of California. He said the shearwaters gener ally live in the southern hemisphere. As far as they are concerned this is their winter flocking area. Often when they are disturbed while feeding they will rise in flocks from the water.

A blinding fog covered the coast last night and this morning. "They probably became con fused and lost and headed for light," he said. The only light available was the street lights and overnight lights in some homes and businesses. One bird (see photo) flew full speed into a tall light standard. A sheriff's car prowling throuch the Pleasure Point area was rammed by several shearwa ters as it shined us spotlight into the air.

Richard VonMagus, a teen-ager visiting on Chesterfield drive, rushed out of a home and was struck by a bird. Gibson Walters, 3021 Pleasure Point drive, had to duck a flying bird when he went out a little after 2 a.m. probing with his flashlight. Russell said that this is a fairly rare phenomena and it takes certain atmospheric conditions to cause this confusion. He said that during very foggy conditions the lighthouses along the coast are struck by the thousands of sea-birds.

During October in New York, the Empire State building and other tall skyscrapers must be blanked out to prevent sea-birds from slamming into them. As far as the birds being too filled with fish and flounder-ing in the air, Russell said he did not think this plausable. It was a pitiful sisht especially watching the live birds struggle for flight or trying to hide themselves. Mrs. A.

F. Stadtmiller, 2 3007 East Cliff drive, said she opened her front door at 6 a.m. and several of the birds tried to enter the house. "The smell is terrible." she said. "The birds threw up fish all over the lawn." Cats were drawn to the area and were seen running about the areas.

Youngsters and grownup alike were gathering the live birds in boxes and taking them back to the sea. Once thrown into the water they suddenly became lively and many skimmed over the water into flight. On land they seemed helpless. When they attempted to take off they would gain partial flight then make a thudding "wheels up" landing on their plump breats. A county road craws collected manv of the birds off the streets.

Mrs Ethel Cudgel. 2941 Pleasure Point drive, said she was awakened by the birds "raining" on her roof. Many of the residents said the birds wailed and "cried like babies" as they floundered on the ground. Others said thy "quacked" like ducks. Driving through the streets early this morning I could see little groups of shearwaters, huddled under parked cars, on front porches, in alleys behind homes.

Many were crushed on the street by autos. Harry Smith, bander from 1549 Fscalona drive, arrived to band 65 birds. A band from an Bakersfield Man Named Chief Of County's Juvenile Hall Birds, Birds And More In answer to questions by Wat-sonville councilmen, Nelson said the county feels it will not have to go to bond for the university road developments. "We think we can take care of our commitments and normal road programs with slight increases in property taxes during the next five years," Nelson said. He did not make any estimates of what the access and peripheral road program will cost The federal government will pay about 90 per cent of costs of relation of Empire grade, he said.

Limestone base in the campus area will reduce costs of the campus periphery highway. "But the so-called 'fish hook' road from the River street area will be expensive. Just how expensive, we won't know until we get down to talking about specific routes," Nelson explained. LIBRARY Watsonville library commissioners will be appointed to meet with representatives of the Santa Cruz council and library commission and the supervisors in discussion of a countywide system. Birds -r Kilter carried bak to the set, revived -aJBfl flew On l-nd thy fceeuied helpless.

0 Sheriff's Deputy Ed Cunning-ham inspects the damage to his prowl car roof early this morning when a sooty shearwater seabird seeking light, crashed into the car spotlight. Thousands were stranded in the Ca-pitola Pleasure Point area. 1-Way Street Questionaires Now In Mail Questionnaires have been mailed to 178 downtown businessmen requesting personal opinions of the one-way street system on Pacific avenue and Front street. The poll, sponsored by Front street auto dealer Bert Holland, has been prepared to present documentary proof of the attitude of downtown businessmen at a special city council "re-hearing" on the traffic pattern August 29. Holland, who opposes the oneway streets and pressed for the re-hearing, urged all affected businessmen to return the blanks so that an accurate picture of their feelings will be presented.

Public Accountant Eugene Fourney will recapitulate results. Five questions are asked: 1. Do you feel that one way streets have helped your business? Yes. No. 2.

Has the percentage of your business gane up or down? Up. Down. 3. Have you experienced your normal summer increase? Yes No. 4.

What is the comment of your customers? Good. Bad. 5. Do you feel that traffic has been helped? Yes. No.

Then, personal comments are requested. Holland said the latter section ist give businessmen greater latitude than the simple "yes-no" boxes. Suggestions of other remedies for the downtown traffic congestion problems are welcomed, he said. Questionnaires must be signed to be valid. The city council approved a "summer and Christmas season" trial period, beginning June 18.

This was established on the recommendation of ht city staff, a trafficc onsultant, the off-street parking commission, and with approval of the Downtown association. The action over-rode protests of numerous individuals at the public hearing. The questionnaires have been sent to all retail businessmen on Front and Pacific and the North Pacific-River street triangle. Vice President To Visit Berlin Washington f. The White House announced today that Vice President Lyndon B.

Johnson will flv to Berlin as personal representative of President Kennedy for meetings with West German leaders. Johnson expects to leac from Andrews air force base just outside Washington al iWiit 9 ia. tonight in Kennedys air force jet. Bv Len Klempnauer II. LaVon Kindall, 28, will fill the recently-created post of juvenile hall superintendent, the county personnel office announced this morning.

The job was created in May by the county probation committee when it reorganized the probation department following a statement by the board of supervisors that the department needed another supervising officer. Previously the position was assigned to one of six deputy probation officers. Controversy over the previous setup reached its peak last November when 11 juveniles broke out of the hall. Immediately following the incident, Roger Owen, who held the position, came under fire from county officials for his methods of running the hall. He resigned in May.

Kindall will assume his duties September 15, according to Charles Hovde, county personnel technician. His job will be to supervise, plan, direct and evaluate the effectiveness of welfare and educational, recreational and work activities of children and youth in juvenile hall. 11,000 troops. A British official said "Britain almost certainly will support and follow any lead set by the United States on this question." A Western proposal to the Soviet Union for high-level talks on the future of Germany and Berlin appeared in the making. Reliable sources in London said the United States, Britain and France are drafting new messages, probably to be dispatched to the Kremlin next week, that could lead to meetings of East-West foreign ministers or chiefs of state.

Kindall, who was graduated from Southern California college in 1956 with a bachelor of arts degree, comes to Santa Cruz from Bakersfield where he was a group supervisor in the Kern county juvenile hall since 1957. Married, he and his wife, Letha. have two sons, three and a half and two. He was born in Star, Idaho, and has done graduate work at Fresno State college. The new superintendent will be in charge of eight group supervisors at the hall, plus clerical and maintenance personnel.

His salarv will range from $6024 to S7320 a year. Prior to his acceptance by the civil service commission. Kindall had to pass written and oral examinations and meet with Superior Court Judge Gilbert B. Perry-, the probation committee and Ernie Balke. current probation department head, for interviewing.

Hovde reported 16 persons applied for the job. Supervisor Hulda McLean, who is the board's liaison officer to the probation department, said Kin dall "has had very valuable and excellent experience in the well- run Kern county juvenile hall." hula, "Little Grass Shack." Westlake Christine Bour-riague, 10, song, "Bill Bailey Won't You Please Come Home." Judges included Ralph Gray, a member of the parks and recreation commission: Mike Kilgore. city personnel director; Fred Vtllutini, former councilman: and Nancy Jones and Ron Walters, receration staff members. The new Miss Playground won gift orders from Morris Abrams and I-ad- lassie and a pearl necklace from Dell Williams jewelers. The recreation centers and the baseball school presented skits as preliminary to the Miss Playground competition.

The spectators watched in spite of a chilling fog- By John Fiehn Berlin Iff). East Germany's Communist rulers, miffed at the continued flight of a few refugees, began throwing up a brick wall inside East Berlin today to reinforce their barbed wire barricades. Red guards shot up a heavy truck that three refugees rammed through the wire in the night, West Berlin police reported. But the men reached the haven of West Berlin unhurt. One bullet went into a house wall on the Western side.

With East Germany recruiting youths to swell its army, West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer told a special session of his lower house in Bonn that West Germany will step up its military preparedness within Green Murder Suspect Caught Oakland With guns drawn, 19 policemen surrounded the Oakland hotel residence of a man suspected of the Las Vegas gang-style killing of former Santa Cruzan William Tollus Green, a government undercover agent. As they closed in. Frank Brown 32, walked out of the hotel calmly and asked a policeman: "Are you looking for me?" They were. Police booked him Wednesday night on a holding tliajge at the request of federal narcotics agents investigating the Las Vegas slaying. A week ago Green, 32.

was shot twice in the head in his parked ear. investigators said. Green had testified against one man in a federal narcotics case in Los Angeles and was scheduled to testify against six others there and in a narcotics case in San Francisco. Federal agents said the finger as pointed at Brown by Milton Beasley, 25, who was picked up In Los Angeles earlier for questioning about the killing. Marilyn Demos Marilyn Demos, the darling of Jlission" Hill playground, was named Miss Playground of 19(51 last night.

The 10-vear-old daughter of INDEX Pase ...11 15-16 Amusements Classified Section 13-14 Church News Comics Editorial Features Home Ground 6 ...12 ...17 4 12 16 2 ...23 9 ...10 ...16 Junior Editor Markets Eadio Society, CluhJSews Sports TV Programs Vital, Statistics 5 i Named Miss Playground 1961 vr, ii Mr. and Mrs. Michael Demos, 503 Laguna street, charmed a crowd of about 500 persons at the Santa Cruz recreation department family "Pow Wow" with a pantomime hula to "Luau Cha Cha Cha." She was one of six recreation center representatives who were judged on the basis of talent and jersonality. Other finalists and their talent were: Branciforle Debbie Macchi. 10.

Irih step dance to "Londonderry Square." Garfield Park Debbie Ing, 8. a pantomime. "Too Many Kules." Gault Susie Shav, 6. songs. "Dos Tres" ud "Pineappie Princess." Grant Debbie King, 11, frK Bud Murray, deputy sheriff, trt to f'S'T? tt the my? fy of the sea bird invasiei early 0 this morning along East Cliff drh of hics which crashed inl hymn remained alive.

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