Santa Maria Times from Santa Maria, California • 3

Santa Maria Times 3 WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 20, 1952 Drouth Responsible for Early Colonization of Area Radke Severe drouth was responsible I atop a bluff, shooting a line out for the breaking up of large land to ships anchored a few hundred holdings and the colonization of feet off shore and 'then letting YES IT SnOOK AGAIN Reports of a recurrent earthquake in the Santa Maria area early this morning were verified today by an United Press report from Eerkely which said that a moderately strong quake starting at 2 39 a.m. and still continuing at 10:20 a.m., was reported by the University of California seisrnographic station. 260 Replacements Arrive at Camp Cooke CAMP COOKE Officers of the 44th Division said today that a total of 260 men had arrived here as replacements for the 466th anti-aircraft artilley battalion which recently lost many of its men to overseas shipments. Most recent arrivals were members of battery of the 30th battalion from Fort Lewis, Washington, who detrained here last Friday, it was announced. CHURCH THE DEALER in IimtHITT AITTTT A'f VI.IH 116 E.

Main Phone 5-3515 Police Tuebday: 9:15 a.m. Tnm Nubias, 306 Fast Chiel, reported entry of his apartment sometime last week during Ids absence In Santa Monica, Thuisduy through Saturday. a.m. W. E.

Suyuggs, 30 1 East McKIhaney, reported Theft of guitar, a bolt action shotgun and an air rifle Horn his house. 11:17 a.m. A1 Fumla, 411 South Lincoln, reported theft of two front hubcaps from ills ear while It was parked In Galllson's parking lot. 1:41 p.m. Car stolen from Santa Barbara during the night, found abandoned in 10U block East Chapel.

7:01 p.m. Manuel Olivers, 923 West Cypress, reported someone destroying garden produce during his absence. 11:15 p.m. Bud Shaw, 821 East Orange, reported theft of deep sea fishing pole and reel from his nouse. SENTENCES Albert Udell Yeukey, 29.

soldipr, Camp Cooke, drunk in ear, $25. AKKKSTS Tuesday: p.m. Violet Mae Sinclair, 48, housewife, Shell Beach, drunk and disturbing peace, 100 block East Main, $25 bail posted. Wednesday: 1:30 u.m. Samuel Lee Marshall.

55, Navy, San Francisco, driving while drunk and drunk in ear. three miles south of Suntu Mariu on Highway 101. 115,373 CASUALTIES WASHINGTON (U.R) The Defense Department announced today American'battle casualties in Korea now total 115,373, an increase of 688 over last weeks figure. Would You 3 would you like to stop scratching and dulling your expensive porcelain anJ chrome plumbing fixtures buy no more scouring powder? Yes, of course you would! Call Ted Davies Rheem Soft Water Store, 125 E. Fesler, Phone 5-2434.

A Rheem Water Softener saves your household $20.00 every month. Watch' Repaired Wa tehee Restyled Rings Remounted Beads Restrung Crystal Repairing HEADS ROTC UNIT Lt. Col. James M. Cochran heads the new branch general Army KOTC unit at Cal Polv.

Cochran predicts that the Cal Poly ROTC unit which will open with 300-400 volunteers in September will soon be the largest Army ROTC program in California. Sell what you no longer need with a Times Want-Ad. Reception (Continued from Page 1) formed them that our station would cover half of Los Angeles and all of Santa Barbara county, he said. Charles pointed out that residents in the San Luis Obispo and Santa Maria areas could expect good reception with a 12-foot aerial. The expense will not be significant, he said.

Hacker informed the audience that the KVEC-TV broadcast station was half completed and would broadcast from a location high atop the mountain range immediately north of the city of San Luis Obispo. Selph said that his proposed station would telecast from an altitude of 4,300 feet. Both assured the audience that the Santa Maria Guadalupe -Lompoc valleys district would get good reception. There may be some valleys that reception wont be good in. That is something we dont know until we try it out, agreed.

Other speakers on the panel which was moderated by George, L. Taffe, dealer representative, Pacific Gas and Electric San Joaquin division, Fresno, were; L. K. Devlin of San Francisco, district radio and TV sales manager, Westinghouse Electric Supply who spoke on merchandising TV sets; Charles, who spoke on servicing, emphasizing that all dealers should take immediate steps leading to setting up a competent service organization for TV, and Seymour Johnson, consulting TV engineer for the Santa Barbara concern, who, it was pointed out, had built from the ground up, the two princiilal television stations in Los Angeles, Introduced as co-host for the occasion wes Mrs. Christine Jacobsen.

co-owner of radio sta tionKVEC. ITS SMALL WORLD WORCESTER Mass. (U.R) Two women whose maiden names were Shirley Weagle unrelated and never met before gave birth to sons at the same hospital here, six minutes apart. down their cargo at the same time pulling in provisions. A steamship comany eventually established a loading pier at Avila which would handle both passengers and products of this area, he related.

Then the Pacific Coast narrow gauge railroad was built to connect the port with Santa Maria vallev and Santa Ynez valley. The railroad went as far south as Los Olivos. Radke said three accidents one a severe flood which washed out the railroads track in Santa Alamos and the third a collision with a train on the Santa valley railroad all contributed to the downfall of the Pacific Coast. It was interesting to me to note some of the rolling stock from the Pacific Coast railroad being used to haul sugar in Hawaii at the start of the war, Radke reported. The speaker told how the discovery of oil here along with the basic agriculture industry had served to help stabilize the economy of the valley and to make Santa Maria known occasionally as a city which had never felt a depression.

Radke was born near Gary and was graduated-from Stanford in 1941. He was a civilian employed by the Navy in connection with Pacific Naval Air Transportation service during World War II. Preceding Radkes talk, Frank Brown, Rotary president, announced the club would meet in Elks clubrooms at 7:30 a.m. next Tuesday for a beef breakfast and that B. W.

Burnside, local cattleman, would show a film on the cattle industry. this area following the Civil war, Hugh Radke who makes Santa Maria Valley history a hobby, told Rotarians here yesterday afternoon. Radke explained the Spanish settled Southern California and then skipped over this Central Coast area to colonize Northern California around Monterey and San Francisco. It was ultimately the English who came to California aboard sailing vessels and married into Spanish families who received the Spanish land grants in this area, the speaker related. The original old ranch homes were built on high land on the sides of the valley, according to Radke.

He said an original settler once told his grandmother that he had sat on a horse at Fuglers point and seen the entire valley covered with a sheet of water. That was in 1850. The people who came here to settle came largely from foreign countries during the great western movement following the civil war, he continued. They homesteaded the land in the valley. During a drouth in the latter part of the 1890s the farmers jvere all but ruined, according to Radke.

But they banded together, drilled wells around Betteravia lake which had dried up and got enough water to save their cattle. The speaker then related how a wet season in 1913 had flooded out farms and changed the course of the river and property boundaries. At that time, he said, they dug a deep, ditch across the valley and lined it with perforated redwood so that the water would drain underground. Early farmers, he continued, attempted to set up the fruit industry here. According to one source they were successful in raising excellent fruit but the one cannery which furnished the only market would take only the choices and farmers decided to destroy their orchards and return to dry farming.

Radke said local farmers until relatively recently had a problem uOOCOOSCCCOOCCOSOOSOOeeCCOSOSCSOOOO8OOOOOSGOSC0f( TORTILLAS Expert workmanship, projnpt service and reasonable prices. One year Guarantee on Watch Repairs. CORN TORTILLAS WHOLESALE RETAIL TAMALES ENCHILADAS TACOS (Ready to Take Out) Now Open For Business Robt, Mollica JEWELER WE GIVE GREEN STAMPS AT 205 N. Santa Maria Broadway Phone 5-3535 Obituaries Funeral Rites Set For Mrs. Tucker, 58 Dial 5-4573 Broadwoy at Main fi DELIVERIES ON LARGER ORDERS 8 jbososososcceosaccccecoccososccoososooooooeeoooscS Funeral services for Mrs.

Rosamond Jones Tucker, 58, Porter ville, will be held in chapel of Dudley Mortuary at 10:30 a.m. Saturday with Dr. Willis L. Gold- get mg the.r products out of J-smith Porterville Congres- LEGAL ADVERTISING OTICE OF TIME RET FOR. HEARING PETITION FOR PROBATE OF WILE JP the Superior Court of the State of California, in and for the County of Santa Barbara.

No. 47528 IN THE MATTER OF the Estate of FRED J. DeMARTIN, also known t8 F. J. DeMartin, Deceased.

Notice is hereby given that Friday, the 22nd day of August, 1952 at 10 o'clock a.m. of said day and in the Court Room of said Court, at the Veterans Memorial Building in the City of Santa Maria, in the County of Santa Barbara, have been appointed as the time and place for proving the will of FRED J. DeMARTIN, also known as F. J. DeMartin, deceased, and for hearing the application of Pia A.

DeMartin for the issuance to her of letters testa thereon. Dated August 8, 1952. Attest: J. E. ur.WIS, Clerk By F.

G. BAKER Deputy Clerk (Seal) MARION A SMITH ROBERT L. TRAPP Attorneys for Petitioner Published Aug. 9, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16. 18.

19 and 20. 1952. No. 3257. IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA NO.

46862 NOTICE OF HEARING PETITION TO LEASE REAL PROPERTY AND FOR AN ORDER TO ENTER INTO AN OIL AND GAS LEASE FOR THE PRODUCTION OF OIL, GAS, AND OTHER HYDROCARBON SUBSTANCES. In the Matter of the Estate pf MANUEL V. DIAS, sometimes known as M. V. Dias, sometimes known as Manuel Dias, Deceased.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Alfred E. Gracia, as executor of the Estate of Manuel V. Dias, sometimes known as M. V. Dias, sometimes known as Manuel Dias, deceased, has filed his Petition praying for an order authorizing the leasing to the General Petroleum Corporation, a Delaware corporation, of the real property herein, after described, for oil and gas purposes and for the production of oil, gas and other hydrocarbon substances for five (5)-year period, and for so long thereafter as oil, gas and other hydrocarbon substances are produced from said premises, upon royalty of one-eighth (tilth) of all oil and gas saved and sold from the premises hereinafter described, and for the payment of Fifteen Dollars ($15.00) per acre for the deferment of drilling operations for a period of two years, and that Friday, the 12th day of September at 10:00 A.M.

in the Superior Court of the State pf California, in and for the County pf Santa Barbara, in Department 3 thereof in the Veterans Memorial Building, in the City of Santa Maria County of Santa Barbara, State of California, have bedn appointed as the time and place for hearing said petition. Reference is hereby made to said Petition for further particulars as to the terms, and conditions of said proposed oil and gas lease. Said real property is situated in the County of Santa Barbara, State of California, described as follows: All that portion of the following described land lying within the North half(N'j) of section 1, Township 9 North, Range 33 West. 3.B.B. County of Santa Barbara, State of California, to-wit: Beginning at the intersection of the north line of said Section 1, with the west line of the Tepusque't Ranch; thence south along the west line of said Rancho -to an angle point in said west line; thence east along the south line of said rancho to Its intersection with the east line of said Section thence south along said east line to the northeast corner of the 2nd parcel of land described in the deed to Kathereen J.

Goulart, recorded in Book 151. page 148 of Official Records; thence West along the North line of the land so described in said deed .60 chains to the northwest cornet thereof; thence south 16.66 chains to the south line of said Section thence west along said south line to the northeast line of the 60 ft strip of land described In the deed to Pacific Coast Railway recorded in Book 126, page 192 of Deeds; thence northwesterly along said north-easterly line to its intersection with the west line of Said Section thence north along said west line to the southwest corner of the land described in the deed to John I.eport, recorded in Book 119, page 572 of Deeds; thence east 301.4 feet; thence north 298.6 feet to the north line of said Section thence east along said north line to the point of beginning. Dated; August 11. 1952. J.

E. LEWIS. County Clerk Bv L. R. Head Deputy Published August 13, 20 27, 1952 No.

3258. IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA IN ANII FOR THE COUNTY OF SANTA' BARBARA No. 46513 In the Matter of the Estate of MARTIN W. LUNDGREN, also known as M. W.

Lundgren, also known as Martin W. Lungren. Deceased. NOTICE OF SALE OF PERSONAL PROPERTY AT PRIVATE SALE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that RAYMOND C. LUNDGREN and LEON JULLIEN.

Executors of the Estate of Martin W. Lundgren, also known as M. W. Lundgren, also known as Martin W. Lungren, will sell, subject to confirmation by the Superior Court of the State of California, In and for the County of Santa Barbara, at private sale, to the highest bidder, on the 28th day of 1952, at 10:00 o'clock A.M., or after said date, at the office of Marion A.

Smith and Robert L. Trapp, 321 South McClelland Street In the City of Santa Maria, County of Santa Barbara, State of California, all the right, title and Interest and estate of said decedent, at the time of his death, and all the right, title and Interest the estate has, by operation of law or otherwise, acquired other than, or in addition to, that of said decedent at the time of. his death, In and to the following personal property, to wit; Note and Deed of Trust securing an indebtedness in the amount of $29,920.39, owned by decedent Martin W. Lundgren. Said note being secured by a Deed of Trust thg following property: Lots One (1), Two (2), Three (3).

and Four (4), in Block Three (3) of Thornburg's Division of the City of Santa Maria, County of Santa Barbara, State of California, according to the map and survey-thereof made by J. W. Lewis in 1874, and filed in the office of the County Recorder of said County. Terms and conditions of sale: Cash In lawful money of the United Statqs, at least 10 of bid to be paid at time of sale; balance on confirmation pf sule by the Court. Bids and offers for said property must be in writing, and will be re-reived at the law office of Marion A.

Smith and Robert L. Trapp, 321 South McClelland Street, Santa Muria, California, ut any time after the first publication of this notice and before the making of said sale. Dated this 15th day of August, 1952. RAYMOND C. LUNDGREN LEON JULLIEN Executors of the Estate of Martin W.

Lundgren, also known as M. W. Lundgren, also known as Martin W. Lungren, Deceased. Published August 16, 18, 19, 20, HI, 22, 23, 25, 26, 27, 1952.

No. 3263. sional church officiating. Interment will follow in Santa Maria cemetery. Deceased died at 4:37 a.m.

today in a local hospital. A resident of Porterville for 15 years, she had come to visit her family here when she become sick. She was the wife of George Tucker, Porterville, the mother of Gordon G. and Robert J. Tucker and the grandmother of Nancy N.

and Kendall G. Tucker, all of Santa Maria. 1 Born February 10, 1894, deceased had been childrens librarian in the Porterville public library for several years. Arroyo Pioneer Dies; Funeral to be Monday ARROYO GRANDE George Gearhart Petker, 82-year-old pioneer of this community, died yes terday in his home on Short street after a long illness. He was born in Russia October 31, 1869 and had lived here for the past 43 years.

Funeral services will be con ducted by the Rev. William Jen zen of Sunnyvale at 10 a.m. Mon day in the chapel of the Wood Funeral Home. Interment will be in. the Arroyo Grapde district cemetery.

Mr. Petker was a retired farmer and had formerly driven the Star mail route for 16 years. He i survived by his wife, Mrs. Mary Petker of Arroyo Grande; six daughters: Mrs. Kate English, Mrs.

Goldie Quaresma, Elsie Reis, all of Arroyo Grande; Mrs. Plo of Lompoc; Mrs. Anna Harding of Oroville and Mrs. Mary Harding of Sacramen- i to; four sons: George, John and Arthur Petker, all of Arroyo Grande, and Henry Petker of Bakersfield. Three brothers and sisters, 20 grandchildren and 23 great-grandchildren also survive.

LIFE O' RILEY The county fire department on Santa Maria airbase has not had a fire call for two weeks, it was reported today. "And we hope it continues that way, added district fire warden H. H. Gordon. the valley.

He told how a group had established a boat landing at Pt. Sal by mounting an A-frame Higher Prices On Steel and Autos Okay WASHINGTON (UR) The government formally authorized higher prices on steel and automobiles today, and enlisted the housewives of 54 cities to help enforce ceilings in grocery stores. Three orders, destined to affect millons of American families, rolled off the mimeograph machines of the office of price stabilization. These were the highlights: STEEL Price Stabilizer Ellis Arnall, still grumbling about having to do it, gave the steel industry the official nod to raise the price of carbon steel by" $5.20 a. ton, and the prices of costlier alloy and stainless steel by 4.7 per cent across the board.

The price increases were part of the deal that settled the 55-day steel strike, but Arnall took the unusual step of stating in his order that the increases averaged $2.36 a ton more than the industry deserved under price rules. He said he signed the order only cause the White House told him he must. AUTOMOBILES Effective Saturday, automobile dealers will come under a new pricing regulation' which permits each one to figure his own ceilings and his own conditioning charges for such services as tightening up any bolts the factory left loose. Officials estimated the order will mean an overall rise of about on'e per cent in retail car prices $20 on a $2,000 car. GROCERIES Arnall announced that beginning about Oct.

1, grocers in the 54 cities where there are OPS offices will be required to post charts showing their exact ceiling prices on various items. The idea is to let houswives see for for themselves whether they- are being overcharged. The system was used generally in World War II, and has been used experimentally in recent months in Fargo, N. Fresno, and Jacksonville, Fla. The price lists will cover about 300 market basket items.

Fruits and vegetables wont be listed, because they are exempt from price controls. Fresh meats, on which ceilings are set on a regional basis, will not be lsited at first, but may be added later. FOR SALE CHEAP 2500 BARREL TANK Extra heavy, GalvaiOxed corrugated. Excellent condition. Located in Casmalia.

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