Santa Ynez Valley News from Solvang, California • 12

Santa Unez Waller News Published Every Friday in Solvang, Santa Barbara County. California KARL R. JORGENSEN Publisher KING MERRILL Editor MEMBER: California Newspapers Publishers Association and National Editorial Association Entered as class matter December 11, 1925, at the post office at Solvang, California, under the Act of March 3, 1879. TELEPHONE All Departments S. Y.

8-5522 YEARLY SUBSCRIPTION: $3.50 4B FRIDAY, MARCH 6, 1964 Follies and Festival Nearly 500 Santa Ynez Valley residents, both young and old, were treated to some fine entertainment last Friday and Saturday nights when the Valley High School PTA presented its 1964 version of the gay and colorful "Red Garter Follies." For a community of the size of the Valley, it was an ambitious effort and a complete success. Show director Marge Kelley, her assistants and members of the big cast. deserve a round of applause from the Valley as a whole for staging such a memorable show. Aside from perhaps being a bit too long, this year's follies was equally as good as last and we know Valleyites are already loking forward to a follies presentation next year. Santa Ynez Valley residents are afforded the opportunity several times during the year to enjoy good, hometown talent.

Such is the case tonight when youthful musicians and singers from the Santa Ynez Valley High School and Midland School join forces to present the 24th annual Spring Festival of Music. Performing under the baton of high school music director Henry G. Kleine and Midland boys chorus director Victor Bryant, students of the two schools will present a lively and diversified program of music. Selections ranging from the classical to the modern are sure to satisfy the musical tastes of even the most discriminating. Interspersed, 1 too, will be a variety of solo and specialty numbers, including dance presentations by a group of Valley high school girls.

Tonights program will culminate weeks of practice and rehearsal and the presentation will clearly reflect the high calibre musical instruction being offered to today's high school students. For an evening of musical enjoyment, we heartily recommend tonight's festival. A Time for Review There are some things to admire. The man displayed we wish this country would Panama at the moment. Will Somehow that situation reminds into a corner by a mouse.

We also think that the grudgingly admired the way own country in trade matters. and use of atomic weapons, where the French leader stands such stands. about De Gaulle that you have a courage of leadership that exhibit. We are thinking of Panama conquer the U.S.? us of an elephant backed rest of the free world rather De Gaulle has protected his Even in military protection everyone in the world knows and his reasons for taking Now all this preliminary leads us back to this country's efforts to be the kindest, most generous, and most helpful nation in the world. It seems to us that we can all be tremendously proud in this respect, but now that we have saddled ourselves with the biggest debt load this world has ever seen and the interest on that debt has become one of the big items in our national budget, we think it is time that this Nation takes two steps.

One is a complete review of our foreign aid program and the second, some attention to the protection of the golden goose that is making all this sharing of the wealth possible. We can't imagine De Gaulle allowing Australian beef and veal to flood into his country, especially when the domestic cattle business was at a low ebb. The United States of Europe are banded together as a trading block, but their very first aim is to protect their own agriculture. They have done this very effectively. The United States of America has tried by good example to get the rest of the world to lower trade barriers, and in trying to do so, they have given away home markets that really hurt.

It is our contention that this country has reached a point in its economy that it can no longer afford to give away food, money, war material, and technological knowhow, and at the same time, give away its own markets where this give-away wealth is being produced. -Jack Pickett, California Farmer FUNNY BUSINESS "Boy! Was that a wild pitch!" At Last 64 BACKWARD a Plateau '65 66 INCOME TAX Thru Files Of Valley News The, moved to Santa Barbara. Last Tuesday was a memorable day in the lives of the K. P. Knudsen family for it marked the Golden Wedding Anniversary of Mr.

and Mrs. Knudsen, pioneer residents of Solvang and the Santa Ynez Valley. Open house was held at the Knudsen home beginning at 3 p.m. More than 200 friends called to congratulate them. Mr.

and Mrs. Jens Mathiesen were honored with a surprise housewarming on Sunday afternoon planned for them by Mrs. Robert Miller, Mrs. Russell Larsen, and Mrs. Clarence Lentz.

Mrs. Marion Richards, a teacher at the Vista del Mar School, suffered a fall Monday evening, fracturing her leg. She is a patient in the Lompoc Community Hospital. Is Budget Really Balanced? The preamble of the tax reduction bill (now a public law) outlines Congress's request for expenditure reform by the executive branch. However, since the Johnson Administration Budget doesn't seem to me to incorporate such reform, I could not support the Tax Bill when it was voted on in the House last week.

To give the "expenditure reform" passage in the preamble more teeth, an unsuccessful effort was made to hold expenditures for fiscal year 1964 at $97 billion and for fiscal year 1965 at $98 billion. The failure of this move means that we have an $11 billion tax cut with no Congressionallyenacted expenditure ceiling. The treasury will now have to compensate for the tax cut thru increased borrowing, which, in turn, will further boost the already staggering national debt. In my opinion, a tax cut financed with borrowed money while times are good constitutes fiscal irresponsibility. Last year, Congress was twice forced to approve increases in the national debt ceiling, and this year's combination of the Johnson budget and the tax cut undoubtedly will make such action again necessary.

Of course, the administration claims that the $11 billion tax cut will prove such a boon to the economy that Treasury receipts will skyrocket. However, fiscal experts, with sharper pencils than those used by the bureaucrats, have shown that an average increase of more than 20 percent in taxable income would be required to realize the Treasury's estimate of higher revenues. Such a tremendous increase in national income in the short two-year period covered by the tax reduction law seems implausible to me. As for the Johnson 1965 budget, it is a beautiful exercise Memo Pad By KING MERRILL 62 63 LOOKING 30 YEARS AGO Warm sunshiny days in the Santa Ynez Valley have proved an attraction for a large number of Santa Barbara visitors in the last few days. Another attraction for visitors is the unusual beauty of the landscape since the rains.

Wildflowers are beginning to blossom, and because of the timely rains the promise is for the most gorgeous display in many years. Cutting of alfalfa hay has started in the Valley. On the John Orton Ranch Lutch Burchardi started cutting, stating that the stand is heavier than usual. The haying has started unusually early this season owing to the warm weather. Aage Rasmussen this week leased from Andy Andersen the store formerly occupied by Zink's Clothes Shop.

He plans to put in an up-to-date men's furnishing store which will be opened this month. Contractor H. C. Skytt and crew started the construction of a new 12 room, Californiastyle residence this week. The house is being erected on the property recently purchased by Mr.

and Mrs. S. W. Dabney in Windmill Canyon. The tract of land consists of 300 acres and another 600 acres adjoining it which is under lease.

Hans Knudsen purchased a half acre of ground from Hans Christensen this week. Mr. Knudsen will move his new house recently built back of the Mission Theatre on the land acquired. 20 YEARS AGO Another real estate deal consummated this week by Wallace A. Coons and Fred L.

Mattei, local real estate brokers was the 10,500 acres, balance of land owned by the La Laguna Ranch sold to R. I. Gale, of Montecito and Cleveland, 0. There were originally 20,500 acres in the La Laguna Company holdings, all of which have been sold by Mr. Coons and Mr.

Mattei during the past three years. Mr. and Mrs. Don Kilbourne sold their 30 acre ranch last week to Mr. and Mrs.

Tom Coleman of San Gabriel. Air Cadet Erwin Paaske, who has been hospitalized at Marfa, Tex. for a bad ear and throat trouble was taken to El Paso, Tex. for a mastoid operation this week. Erwin was scheduled for graduation this month for his wings.

His many friends here hope for a speedy recovery. Mr. and Mrs. Murdo Campbell entertained at dinner Sunday in honor of their daughter, Mrs. Robert Saulsbury, in celebration of her birthday and in observance of the 38th wedding anniversary of Mr.

and Mrs. James Saulsbury. Decorated cakes for each event added to the attractive dinner table. Mr. and Mrs.

Saulsbury were married in Girard, following which they came to Channel 12 Set to 'Go' California to make their home in Santa Barbara County. Their children were all present, except Mrs. Mario Borgatello of Santa Barbara who has been ill, and Robert, who is with the Navy in the Pacific. Ansgar Hald of the U.S. Marines stationed at Terminal Island and his sister, Miss Marie Hald instructor in the Pleasantia schools, spent last weekend in Solvang with their parents, Rev.

and Mrs. N. P. Hald. 10 YEARS AGO Mr.

and Mrs. J. D. Alum- baugh have purchased a small home and eight acres of ranch land from Mr. and Mrs.

Norman Howton on Refugio Road. R. R. "Dick" Lawton began work Monday as the Santa Ynez Valley's new Standard Oil Co. distributor, succeeding R.

E. Campbell who has Rep. Teague Reports Santa Ynez Valley television viewers will soon be able to enjoy a new television channel. It is KCOY-TV Channel 12 in Santa Maria which has been "on the air" the past week or so with its test pattern. The Channel 12 signal has boomed in at our house with or without an external antenna to give assurance that once the programs begin they will be received with clarity and strength in the Santa Ynez Valley area.

When Channel 12 will formally take to the airlanes with its schedule of "all new" programs for this area is up to the Federal Communications Commission. Bob Williams, operation manager of the new station, said the test pattern application is now in the hands of the FCC. Operators of the new station are hopeful that the FCC will act quickly on the test pattern application and that the station will go on the air for the first time next Monday. Station personnel are happy with the scope of the test pattern. Checks have revealed that the station's signal has been received as far south as Ventura and as far north as Camp Roberts.

It has also reached into the Bakersfield area. It is estimated the four or five county coverage area of the station will reach into about 400,000 homes. We learned more about the plans of Channel 12 and its programming last Saturday when we talked with Bob McGraw, public relations director for the station in Lompoc. Bob and I were among the judges at a 1964 Journalism Write-Off Contest held at the Lompoc High School. Bob told us that KCOY-TV Channel 12 will be basically an NBC network affiliate station and noted that James H.

Ranger, one of the partners in the company owning the station, is in New York at the present time discussing a lineup of other programs with CBS. McGraw emphasized the fact "there will be no duplication of any of the programs now being seen in our area. We will offer many of the top shows and special features not now available for local viewing. And, in addition, we will have 11 to 12 more hours of color television every week." Plans at the moment call for the station to be on the air about 17 hours a day, starting at 9 a.m. "And, we will not go off the air early Sunday nights," McGraw added.

"We'll have a late movie every Sunday night for our viewers." Here are some of the programs and their times which the new station will provide: the Huntley-Brinkley news, evenings at 6:30 (Huntley-Brinkley will also be seen during the coming months with special pre-primary and general election features) and lots of sports, including a baseball game of the week, golf classics, Santa Anita races, roller skating and wrestling. "And, we are trying to get boxing," McGraw commented. Other shows which will be seen on Channel 12 include Disney's Wonderful World of Color, Mike Wallace, The Real McCoys, Pete and Gladys, Search for Tomorrow and for the benefit of the youngsters and mothers who are worn and harried after a day with the kids, a Mickey Mouse Club at 5:30 p.m. weekdays. Top shows will be offered on Sunday, including Meet the Press at 6, Bill (Jose Jiminez) Dana at 7, the Judy Garland Show at 9 and a Show of the Week at 10.

Scheduled Monday evening at 7 is an NBC network movie, featuring top-flight recent movies. Due on Tuesday nights are Sing Along With Mitch and the Bell Telephone Hour at 10. The Kraft Theatre will be seen on Thursday night at 10 and International Showtime with Don Ameche will be offered on Friday at 7 p.m. The Saturday evening array includes a local movie at 5 p.m., followed by The Lieutenant, the Joey Bishop Show and a network movie starting at 8:30. An impressive array of new shows, we'd say.

And, we'll add, we know Santa Ynez Valley viewers, a great many of them now limited to a single channel, will welcome the emergence of the new station in Santa Maria. VALLEY VIEWS Tom J. Murphy, of Sun Motors, Solvang, has been named one of the nation's leading Ford dealership salesman and will receive Ford Motor Company's Top Hatter Award at a banquet in Los Angeles next Monday the Top Hatter citation, the highest sales honor accorded by Ford Division of Ford Motor Company, will be awarded nationally to less than two percent of the nation's Ford salesmen Murphy, it should be noted, has captured the Top Hatter Award on several previous occasions Don't forget the Spring Festival of Music which Santa Ynez Valley High School and Midland School musicians and choristers will present tonight at the Veterans Memorial Building in Solvang And, for a 8 in top-notch breakfast outdoors, we heartily recommend the ones which will be prepared by the Valley's master breakfast chef Axel Nielsen tomorrow and Sunday mornings from 8 to 11 at the Nielsen Market Center all proceeds will go to the Valley Hospital building fund and Hospital Auxiliary members will be on hand with tickets on "Bartender Peake," the Rancho Jabali quarterhorse, which is being offered as another benefit to the hospital fund campaign Bright of the Week: The first graders were learning scientific facts about sound. In introducing the role of the senses, the teacher asked them why smell was important. "Because," chirped a voice, "it helps me like my breakfast before I come downstairs" Did you know department? That berries of the red sage, common in the Southeastern U.

S. are poisonous? the American Medical says the plant, sometimes called wild sage and found in flower gardens, along fencerows and in fields, poisoned several children recently in Hillsborough County, one fatally And, Science Topics tell us that fat parents and tension often add up to overweight Dr. Edward M. Litin, chief psychiatrist of the Mayo Clinic, says overeating in general represents an effort to ease intolerable tension but tension or otherwise, there's no question that fat persons beget fat children if parents are overweight, the odds are as high as 80 percent that their children will be too, according to Dr. Litin Education quotes: B.

Frank Brown, principal of non-graded Melbourne High School at Cape Kennedy: "We don't know how to make our students more curious, but we're certainly skillful at making them less Marie Hald's newest book, "I Entertained Angles Unawares" is now on sale at the Monogram Shop in Solvang And, speaking of the Monogram Shop, it and its neighbors, Tinker Bell Shop and Village Candle Shop, will celebrate their formal openings today all three shops will host open houses this afternoon and evening. refreshments will be served and everyone is invited to attend Valley roadsides are looking messy again with the usual spring array of empty beer cans, bottles and loads of paper trash it's too bad are so many litterbugs in the world. It was there standingroom-only for the first Saturday film matinee presented last Saturday by the Solvang Friends of the Library in the multipurpose room of the Solvang Elementary School Due tomorrow at 2 is "The Coral Reef." in deception. In the first place, in order to bolster its claim of frugality, it shifts $4.2 billion into the current year's budget. If Congress stands still for this, nearly two-thirds of the $6.5 billion it saved during the first session (thru strong bipartisan support of cuts in appropriations requests by the Administration) will be wiped out.

In spite of this slight-of-hand maneuver, the 1965 budget will still stand at more than $6 billion above the amounts Congress approved for spending in 1964. The claim is made that this budget will cut the deficit in half. However, to conceal a probable deficit of $10 billion or more, revenues are overestimated and expenditures underestimated. The administration also proposes to increase Federal spending by $6 billion in 1965 for some new programs and the enlargement of old ones. These increased costs are to be financed, the Administration insists, thru savings in other existing programs.

Actually, they will be financed by $2.3 billion obtained thru sales of existing Government assets and by about $1 billion in bookkeeping juggling. When the administration talks about "saving in other existing programs," it can only refer to a reduction in the funds requested for national defense. For it is a fact that the sum of all amounts proposed for non-defense spending in 1965 represents a substantial increase over that to be spent this year. In addition to the above arguments, I believe the majority of the people, as much as they would like to have their tax bills cut, want to see such reductions accompanied by assured cuts in government spending, annual deficits and the national debt. MUTT JEFF Al Smith DO YOU FREEDOM KNOW IS THE PAST, WHAT PRESENT AND FREEDOM THE FUTURE IS? IF WE BUY U.S.

SAVINGS BONDS! AL SMITH to STRICTLY FRESH It is said that if you drink a glass of water every morning for 1,200 months, you'll live to be 100. All that old-hat stuff about football players being all brawn and no brain has been proven untrue; however, one fellow we know won a football letter and his coach had to read it to him. When you feel like criticizing the younger generation, just remember who raised them..