Santa Maria Times from Santa Maria, California • 1

The Weather: Fair tonight and tomorrow; early morn ing fog. Westerly winds in afternoon, 10-20 MPH. High expected today, low tonight, 48-54. It's Privilege to Live in Santa Mario Temperatures Across the Country; High Low Atlanta 92 69 Boston 72 62 Cleveland 83 Denver 94 60 K1 Centro 110 82 Fail banks 68 47 High Low Kansas City 94 78 Li Angeles 85 fe4 Miami 89 74 Minneapolis 81 68 New Oi leans 93 74 Kan Frandsco 75 48 TEMPERATURES High ...78 SUNRISE 6:24 SUNSET 7:46 FIVE CENTS Daily Net Paid Circulation 5,159 SANTA MARIA, WEDNESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 20, 1952 Phone: Business, 5-2693; News, 5-2691 EIGHT PAGES ft rote Register Deadline by days are left for you to register for the November 4 general elections. Deadline for all registrants is September 11.

City and county offices are closed on Saturdays, Sundays, Labor Day, September 1 and after 5 p.m. on week days. Those who must register to vote in the election are: Persons who did not vote in the 1950 general election; those who have moved to another precinct; those who have changed their names by marriage or other means, and newcomers to the city or state. Eligibility requirements include: Registrant must be 21 years of age before the date of the election; must have lived in California one year, the county 90 days and precinct 54 days. Registration places include the county offices at Church and Lincoln street; city clerks office in the city hall at Cook and Broad- Stalin's Retirement Seen With Move to Abolish Red Politburo Hope to Get Permits Soon SAN LUIS OBISPO Good television reception of the Rose Bowl game this year and the prospect of a thousand sets sold in Santa Maria during the first week after announcement of granting of construction permits highlighted a meeting of TV hopefuls in the studios of KVEC-KVEC-TV last night.

Les Hacker, co-owner and general manager of the host station, told the approximate 130 Santa Barbara county and 150 San Luis 300 Namyang Buildings In Flaming Explosion BY WENDKLL.MKKKK (liiited orrspomlcnt) SEOUL, (U.R) United Nations fighter-bombers and barrier-based Navy planes struck a huge Communist troop and supply base at Namyang on the Korean west coast today, leaving DOO buildings a mass of flame and explosions. Navy planes from American carriers cruising off the east coast were the first to swoop down on the target with bombs, napalm, rockets and machine gun fire. They were followed by Thunderjets, F-80 Shooting Stars and Marine and Australian fighter-bombers. American Sabrejets fought five battles with Communist MIG-15 jets during the day and olaimed one of the fighters damaged. O-1 er restroyed or damaged cl is awaited confirmation.

Ton of bombs slammed into the ed base at Namyang, 10 miles southwest of Sukchon. Partial claims included 58 buildings dsetroyed and five damaged. Allied bombers hit several ammunition stores. Five large explosions were reported. The 5th Air Force said 200 sorties were made on the target.

A sortie is one combat flight by one airplane. The one MIG damage claim came when eight Sabres caught four of the Red jets. It was the first score on a MIG in nine days. The attack on Namyang came as the Communist Pyongyang radio was complaining of barbaric United Nations bombings. On the ground, Chinese Communist troops made a weak attack on Bunker hill on the westtern front.

Combine Bids On 'Illegal' Equipment Separate bids authorized by city council during regular session Monday night for standby generating and electrical equipment were combined yesterday afternoon during an adjourned meeting of the board. Councilman Leonard Petersen, who had made separate motions Monday for an emergency generator and a standby switchboard to assure Santa Maria adequate power and water during emergencies, yesterday changed his motion info a unit bid for generator and switchboard. He explained such a move would result in more, bids since a single contractor could handle the entire auxiliary power plant installation. Councilmen Allen Fesler and TELEVISIONISTS Satisfactory television reception for the Santa Maria Valley within the next six months was the hope expressed last night by principals in a TV forum staged in the studios of KVEC and KVEC-TV, San Luis Obispo. Shown above discussing the TV possibilities are, left to right: Colin Selph, president of the Santa Barbara Broadcasting and Television Les Hacker, co-owner and general manager of the forum-sponsoring stations, and Frank Lanser, president of the Santa Maria Appliance Dealers Assn.

Times Photo. Obispo county members of the assemblage that he hoped to have wnwKs xzssrss, at Chapel and Broadway; Mrs. and (be on the air 60 days therea. Hacker said that his station had a non-contested application for channel 6 and planned on affiliating wiht NBC-TV as soon as the permit was granted by FCC. Colin Selph, president of the Santa Barbara Broadcasting and Television told the gathering of potential dealers, service men and home-users of television, that his company fondly hoped for a construction permit in the near future which would permit them to complete their broadcast atop Santa Ynez mountain and telecast the Rose Bowl to set owners in Santa Barbara, Santa Maria, Lompoc and the Santa Ynez Valley.

Selph, a dynamic sort of a guy, reiterated that his corporations application for channel 3, Santa Barbara, was without competition to date and that he hoped to be operating for the Rose Bowl event. If not that, then the next event, he amplified. Mamie V. Carrolls residence at 413 East Central; Mrs. Violet E.

Lloyds residence at 107 West Park, and Mrs. Ellen A. Meaghers residence at 701 South Vine. New Teachers Announced by Supt. Bruce Twenty-two new teachers in the Santa Maria Elementary school system were announced today by Superintendent Robert Bruce, who commented that four teachers were returning to the system for the school year.

The four returning are Mrs. Minnie Ferini, Mrs. Margaret Flynn, Mrs. Marian Lgnz and Mrs. Lulu Northrup.

New teachers, their degree and college, are: Kenneth Milo, AB, Pepperdine College, Los Angeles; 510, 000 Distributed to Groups By Elks Recreation Foundation Checks totaling $10,000, repre-1 allocation to the city was $5,293, senting proceeds from the 1952 1 however $5,000 of this amount Elks Rodeo except for previous- had previously been issued to the Mrs. Lavada Peterson. AB, San Jose State College; Mrs. Janet Franklin, BA, University of Colorado; Mrs. Irene Moss, AB, Santa Barbara State, and Mrs.

Enid Earrett, Fresno State College. Also the Misses Marian Bjerke, BA, Luther College, Iowa; Shirley Baird, BA, Pepperdine College; Lorraine Crocker, AB, UCLA; Betty Foster, BS, North Dakota State; Joyce Garrity, BA, University of Redlands; Alice city to pay a share of the cost of ly-allocated advances, were issued for recreation last night to organizations and communities participating in the rodeo. Distribution of the checks was made following a dinner meeting poVnted outthat the broad- Si tors of the Elks Recreation cast location on Santa Ynez peak down on a iine-of-sight beam into the Santa Maria and Lompoc valleys. Warren Charles, manager of RCA service for Southern California, asserted that recent attachments patented by the Radio Corp. of America made it possible for older or current production sets to be switched over at a cost ranging from $10 to $40 so thorized UFH bands.

There need be no worry about a set U. S. Marshal Loses. Appeal SAN FRANCISCO U.E Edward J. Carrigan, 51, former U.

S. marshal convicted last year of conspiracy to accept a bribe, lost his plea today for modification of sentence. Carrigans attorney, James Burns, told the court that Carrigan had suffered a heart attack since his conviction with two others Aug. 4, 1951. Burns asked Federal Judge Dal M.

Lemmon if he had taken into consideration Carrigans life expectancy when levying the five year sentence. Lemmon said he had, and added. I also took into consideration the gravity of the offense. I am confident he will get proper care in prison. Carrigan, who has lost, 30 pounds since his conviction, is due to surrender Aug.

31 to begin serving the sentence. Havlicek, BA, Colorado State Col-1 that they could satisfactorily re-lege; Jessie Gardner, BA, Hast-iceive pictures on the newly au New Premier May be Named BY PHIL NEYSOM 1 Foreign Analyst Soviet Premier Josef Stalin is abolishing the Communist partys all-powerful Politburo in what may be a move to determine his successor. It could be the aging Stalins effort to prevent any civil war within the party after his death or any grapple for power among such men as Deputy Premier Georgi Malenkov and Lavrenti Beria who also is a deputy premier and chief of the entire Soviet Security system. Details of New Plan Simultaneous with todays announcement in the official party organ Pravda of the first meeting in 13 years of the all-union Communist party congress on Oct. 5, came details of Russias latest five-year plan.

The plan, already in operation for a year, calls for a 60 per cent increase in national income, a 35 per cent raise in wages, construction of vast hydro-electric projects, railways and roads and increases in all production ranging from cereals to steel. But for observers the world over, chief interest will center on the abolishment of the Politburo and the chance it may give for a look behind the iron curtain. Stalin Signs Report The Pravda announcement signed by Stalin said the October meeting of the Congress will adopt a new party constitution substantially the same as the one adopted in 1939 but abolishing' the Politburo which will be replaced by the presidium of the central committee. Pismo Legion To Install PISMO BEACH Installation ceremonies fol incoming officers of the Pismo Beach American Legion post will be conducted here tonight at 8 p.m. in the Womens Club house when Don Armstrong will take over the duties of post commander.

He will succeed Dr. A. J. Madson. A1 Mehn of Oxnard, department vice commander and sixth area vice commander, will be installing officer.

To assist in the ceremonies will be Harry Kohl-stedt, retiring post adjutant and a past district commander. Other members of the 1952-53 staff are Dr. Madson, who was recently elected first vice commander of the 16th district which includes the tri-county area of Santa Barbara, Ventura and San Luis Obispo; Leon Switzer, first vice commander; Oliver Hackle-man, second vice commander; Joe Rouette, chaplain; Erwin Bailey, sergeant-at-arms, and Lofl Soltysik, historian. The Legion Auxiliary will be hostess at a pot luck dinner to be served at 7 p.m. which will precede the ceremonies.

Detroiter Imprisoned For 7 Years by Reds BERLIN, (U.R) Charles A. Noble, naturalized American imprisoned for seven years by the Soviets, said today he was confined in Red Concentration camps in East Germany under inhumane conditions in which men died like flies. The 60-year-old former Detroit, man, a native of Germany, told a news conference he was given a mock trial one month before he was released on July 4. A sentence of seven years which he had already served was imposed on charges of illegally entering the Soviet zone of Germany, smuggling cameras out of Germany and supporting the Nazi economy by owning a camera factory in Dresden. Ike Riqht or Wrong? Times oll Will Tell The Times public opinion poll question this week will seek the Curt Tunnell voted against the motion, but the majority votes of Petersen, Jame? Macdonald and Mayor Glenn Seaman carried.

At the same time, Petersen moved that plans and specifications for a building to house the auxiliary power unit be prepared and advertised for. Feslet entered the only negative vote. Bids on the auxiliary unit and the building are returnable at I p.m. September 2 in the city clerks office. In other business, William M.

Lyles Co. of Avepello was awarded contract for the laying of six-inch sewer and water Lnes along short stretches of Alvin. Superior and Concepcion for low bid of approximately $8,400. Other bids on the project were submitted by L. E.

Webb Co. and Jerry W. Nunn. Contract for furnishing the city with a deepwell turbine pump was awarded to W. C.

Matthews of Santa Maria at a price of $2,777. SS: foundation and guests. The $10,000 brought the total allocated by the lodge for recre ation during the last year to 679.93. In issuing the checks to representatives of the various groups present, Elks foundation secretary Ken Trefts said the foundation recommended that the funds be used for permanent type recreation facilities in each community. Twenty per cent of the net proceeds from the rodeo, or went into the Elks' lodge Camp Cooke Santa Barbara Elks San Luis Elks Orcutt 4-H Club Guadalupe-Nipomo USC (Hancock Field) Druids Lodge Woodmen of World Totals Distribution to communities i becoming obsolete with the ad- Social and Community Welfare fund which is distributed in response to emergencies as they arrive during the year.

Another 20 per cent of the was distributed to eight organizations which participated in the annual Elks Queen contest. Distribution was made ir. proportion to the number of queen contest tickets sold by each group. The remaining $9,947.15 was distributed to nine school districts in proportion to the number of students enrolled in the elementary' schools last year. Receiving the largest share of the rodeo proceeds was the Santa Maria Recreation commission for the Qity of Santa Maria.

Total lengths, he said. Selph, answering a question from the floor about interference, said that his station if a permit is granted us would slightly interfere with reception of certain Los Angeles channels. But we will offer ABC, or NBC television, both of which have they would be pleased to work with us as an outlet station, particularly since we in- See RECEPTION, Page 3 Pre-School Rules For Registration Given by Bruce. Pre-school registration information from the Airbase, Main, Miller, Cook, Fairlawn and Alvin elementary schools was released today by Superintendent R0bert Bruce CLOSE CALL Communist guer. rillas fired on a Pusan-to-Seoul Army train carrying actress Audrey Totter (above), who is entertaining U.

S. servicemen in Korea. Miss Totter was not injured. An Army captain and a newsreel cameraman were wounded NEA Telephoto. the new grandstand at the fairgrounds.

Steve Fairchild, representing the City Recreation commission was given a check for $293.55 last night. Largest single check issued during the evening went to the F.lks community welfare This check, in the amount of $2,124, represented the lodges $3,335.98 welfare fund allocation less an dvance of $1,211.98 for Elks youth band uniforms made prior to the rodeo. Second largest check was for $1,596 and was issued to the Guadalupe Recreation commission. This check was accepted by H. A.

Burnham, treasurer of the commission, who explained Guadalupe hoped to use the money to add to the recreation equipment in Guadalupe City park. Orcutt Recreation commission received the third largest check. It was for $1,451.35 and represented Orcutts share of the fund allocation on a basis of elementary school attendance. In accepting a check for $775.60 payable to the University of Southern California College of Aeronautics for the schools participation in the queen contest, James B. Stone in return entrusted the check to the custody of the foundation for later distribution to some worthy cause.

Below is the allocation of checks to participating organizations and communities in the queen contest on the basis of queen tickets sold by each group: Sales 1,267.00 851.00 1,363.00 1,826.00 5,238.00 3,878.00 1,198.00 1,363.00 Allocations 253.40 170.20 272.60 365.20 1,047.60 775.60 239.60 272.60 $3,396.80 $16,984.00 $9,947.15 owing the accepted the Alamos Recreation Knotts received for Recreation at the meeting called to issue the checks were; A. B. Hanson, president; Frank Shields, Paul Sanchez, 1 R- Griffith, E. E. Rubel and Ken Trefts, secretary.

Building Plans At High School In 'High Gear' Building plans for -the high school plant moved along rapidly during a special meeting of Santa Maria high school district board of trustees last night. Low bid of $101,740 submitted by Davies, Keusder and Brown of Los Angeles was accepted for rehabilitation of the girls gymnasium, school architects Daniel, Mann, Johnson and Mendenhall were authorized to prepare plans for a new boys gymnasium with seating capacity of 2,400 persons and the trustees agreed the present auditorium should be changed into a library and study hall. These actions whipped the building program into streamlined continuity with the girls gym rehabilitation and the new science building being completed January 15, 1953, work to start on the new bos gym at that time with completion date set for June 1, 1953. During the fall session of 53, the boys gym will then be used as an auditorium while the present inadequate auditorium is being shifted into a library and study hall. With this set-up, the high school will not lack auditorium facilities during the entire construction program, Supt.

Van Wyk pointed out. In other business, the board referred discussion regarding increases in salaries of non-certific-ated employes at the high school to business manager Leon Furrow. Furro.v intends to confer with the employes and report back to ther board. Pay Hikes for Newspapermen SAN FRANCISCO, (U.R) Editorial and clerical employes of the four major daily papers here were granted $2 to $6 weekly pay raises in an arbitration award by Clark Kerr, University of California chancellor, it was announced today. Arbitration was under the wage reopening provision of the contract between the San Francisco Newspaper Publishers Association and the CIO San Fran-cisco-Oakland Newspaper Guild.

Newspapers affected were the San Francisco News, Call-Bulletin, Chronicle, and Examiner. GIANNINI DIES SAN FRANCISCO (U.R) Lawrence Mario Giannini, president of the Bank of America and ono of the nations last financial answer from representative Santa died last night after a ling-Marians on whether Eisenhower ering illness He waa 57 years old-was right or wrong in turning down President Trumans invitation to be briefed on the international situation. Co to FI.ETCHEH'S CRAM) OPEN-TNO riurlnr week of Auuut 25th nt 208 Went Main St. I-utent HOME APPLIANCES. Kaolent terms udv.

ings College, Nebraska; Jeanne Hutchinson, BA, UCLA; Helen Krmpotich, BA, Colorado State College; Marjorie Kronsnabel, BA, State Teachers College, North Dakota; Mildred Meehan, AB, Fresno State College; Elinor Moore, BA, University of Washington; Josephine OMalley, AB, Western Michigan State; P.atricia Parker, Eastern Washington College; Phyllis Runels, AB, University of California, Santa Barbara; Mary Watkins, AB, University of Oregon, and Betty Williams, AB, Pomona College. of Confers On Factory. Chamber of Commerce officials were today in Los Angeles conferring with a Sears and Roebuck Co. representative regarding location of a garment factory with an annual payroll of $400,000 in Santa Maria. Chamber manager Joe Venable left for Los Angeles by plane this morning and was met there by chamber president George C.

Smith Jr. Name of the Sears-Roe-buck representative was not known. Smith and Venable began dickering for the factory, to employ 200 women, during a trip to Sacramento and San Francisco last week. Porter E. Maeruder, of the State Department of Employment, was credited by the chamber officials with aiding negotiations on the factory site.

Due to local climate, the fact that site for the factory is available and that the one-story, square foot structure can be built by a local person, Venable expressed the belief: We ve got a good chance of landing the factory for Santa Maria. Knowicnd Speaking Dale is C(rcctcd Senator F. Knowland w'ill speak at an Eisenhower-Nixon rally in Veterans Memorial buijding September 25 instead of August 25 as erroneously reported in yesterdays Times, according to Walter Palmer, druggist. The date for Knowlands appearance was originally set for September 23 but changed to Thursday, September 25 because of the previous scheduling of Father Flanagans Town choir on the former date. Those who should register next Monday between the hours of 9 a.m.

and 2 p.m., Bruce said, are: 1 All children who will enter the kindergarten for the first time. 2 All cliildren who are new to Santa Maria schools. He pointed out that kindergar- Bonita teit classes of 30 pupils would be formed for each session and a waiting list set up after this number have been registered. Registration should be on both enrollment and registration cards, Bruce said. Use the map avail- Betteravia Orcutt Casmalia Guadalupe Blochman Los made by the average daily attendance in elementary schools participating in the rodeo was as shown by the table below: Allocation 89.93 53.58 1,451.35 133.60 1,596.30 277.72 275.02 5,293.55 776.05 i Alamos Santa Maria Nipomo ADA 36.33 21.63 586.00 53.94 644.52 112.13 111.04 2,137.34 313.34 Totals 4.016.27 Jack Burrows of Betteravia, re-! left -Blochman still ceiving the check for $53.58 for 0 the Betteravia Recreation commission advised the money would go toward more swings, slides and sandpits in a playground behind the Betteravia church.

Don Black accepted Orcutts Don Bastenchury allocation for Los fund and George Nipomos check Officers of the Elks foundation present at the school nearest you to notovmi a hmmHorioc anH CrllfiV determine boundaries, and study the advertisement in todays issue of The Times on page five which spells out the exact boundaries for each school, he said. Kindergarten pupils will be admitted if they are four years and nine months of age on or before September 1, Bruce announced. First grade pupils will be admitted if they are five years and nine months of age on or before September 1, he added. Admissions will be only during i the first month of school in both kindergarten and first grade classes unless exempted for good cause by the governing board of the school district, Bruce said. ME AND MY SHADOW Dwight D.

Eisenhower is followed in closa pursuit by his bodyguard and security officer, Sgt. Louis Swee (right), as the Republican presidential candidate walks briskly to his hotel suite in Denver for lunch. Sgt. Swee, on leave from the Chicago Police department, keeps a close eye on Eisenhowers callers, cspeciajly the curious who show up at noon to shake the Generals hand." NEA Telephoto. check and Art Young received the $133.60 for the Casmalia Rec reation commission.

No check was issued to the Blochman Recreation fund because Blochman had previously flet'chfks 208 Wont Main st. received a $467.95 advance from -m; i the foundation which, when the 25th, watch lot it. udv. "'Li $277.72 was allocated last night, FI.ETCIIF.KS have a complete line of Maple and Provincial furniture and acceNorleft at 208 Went Main t. Watch for onenlng: announcement during week of August 23th adv..