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it's Privilege to Live in Santo Maria Temperatures Across the Country: The Weather: Fair with light fog ut night. Moderate to strong winds. TEMPERATURE High 65 I.ow 4G Rainfall 7.54 To date last year 7.53 SUNRISE (1:05 SL'NSKT 6:14 FIVE CENTS SANTA MARIA, MONDAY EVENING, MARCH 20, 1950 EIGHT PAGES 3 3: "ZL T2 SAUCER BLUEPRINT This, according to Dr. Craig Hunter of Berkley Springs, IV. is what a flying disc or saucer looks like.

He claims he saw the real thing while driving on a highway near Clearfield, Pa. The Air Force flatly denies such things exist. Scientists Seek To Make H-Bomb Issues Public Editors note: The American Society of Newspaper Editors committee on atomic information, in collaboration with the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, has prepared six articles on the A-bomb and H-bomb. The following is the first the hydrogen bomb distributed by the United Press. A great number of Americas top scientists are worried.

They are worried by the new means of destruction that may soon be given to man in the hydrogen bomb. They fear Americans have not been told what this and other new weapons can do to them and that Americans are not deciding and not even being given the means to decide how to behave in a world that contains these new weapons. The scientists fear that whether or not a hydrogen bomb can be built, the total of all modern weapons is affecting our nations security so rapidly congressmen and generals and the people are being left far behind. Many fear that 1950 could be the eve of war, and that America is not properly using science to prevent or win it. Three weeks ago a representative of a publication called the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists visited 'a Midwestern editor, chairman of the committee on atomic information of the American Society of Newspaper Editors.

The representative carried a sheaf of magazine proofs the pages of the still-unpublished March issue of tjie Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. A scientist who worked on the wars Manhattan project edits the Bulletin. Scientists and scientist-educators like J. Robert Oppen-heimer, Albert Einstein, Harold C. Urey and Lee A.

Dubridge, president of the California Institute of Technology, are its sponsors. For four, years, the visitor said, scientists maintained a self-imposed censorship on talk of the H-bomb. They were reluctant to foster any belief that America was actively developing such weapons, for fear of stimulating the arms race and further straining world relations. But now the lid has come off. Now, they feel they must talk.

They do not all agree on the issues, but they all agree that Americans ought to be thinking and talking. How can we give the people this message? The editor conferred with colleagues all over the country. The result is this series. Its purpose is only to report what the scientists are saying and to raise, as the scientists are now raising, a number of questions. The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists started raising three questions in late 1945.

In June, 1947, the Bulletin put a clock on its cover. The hands stopped at eight minutes to midnight to mark the little time that remained to solve nuclear fissions immense human problems. Last October, when President (Continued on Page 8. Column 1) Switchman Dies After Falling Under Train San Luis Obispd, Mar. 20 (U.R)--A slip under the wheels of a freight car cost the life of Southern Pacific railroad switchman Arthur E.

Stafford. Stafford died in a hospital here yesterday after having both his legs cut off when he fell under a moving freight car Friday. I L. W. Pingree, Santa Barbara banker, and party in Santa Maria for dinner last night.

Mrs. Joe Kanter singing Happy Birthday to You to Mrs. Fernand Pimentel last night. (Mrs. Kanter celebrated the day previous).

Toby Mortensen tabbing nine-month-old Patsy Garrett a "character. Albert Smith engaging in a verbal duel with a San Luis Obispo fan at yesterdays Poly-Indian baseball game. Mr. and Mrs. Omer Jacobsen here to see Santa Maria friends after an absence of the past five years at Watsonville.

Twelve-year-old Earl Leitner singing and playing Big Bouquet of Roses as an encore at the American Legion birthday party. Arroyo Grande To Have Elks Queen Entry Jointly sponsored by the Arroyo Grande Rotary club and the Ni-pomo County Indians, an organization of Elks. Miss Margaret Ruth Holloway will be candidate for queen from Arroyo Grande valley for this years Elks Recreation Foundation Rodeo in Santa Maria June 3 and 4. Guy Palmer and Maury Brennan are co-chairmeri of a committee of Arroyo Grande Rotar-ians to manage the candidacy of Miss Holloway. She is a student in Arroyo Grande high school, a member of the school girls basketball team and plays in the school orchestra, ensemble and band.

She plays string bass in the band and ensemble and the violin in the orchestra: We mean to have Miss Holloway represent all of the Arroyo Grande area, said Palmer, in announcing her entry into the contest. While the Rotarians are officially sponsoring her candidacy, she will represent Shell Beach, i Beach, Arroyo Grande, Grover City, Oceano, Halcyon and Fair Oaks. The Nipomo group, in consideration of the support our area gave Miss Marian Wineman, its candidate last year, is not entering, a candidate this year, but will back ours. Miss Holloway was queen of the Arroyo Grande Harvest Festival last fall. Eugene Brown, Santa Maria, chairman of the queen contest for this years rodeo, said Santa Maria will only have three candidates this year.

All others will come from outside of Santa Maria. He is already promised candidates from Santa Ynez valley, Paso Robles and Guadalupe, in addition to Arroyo Grande. The womans club of Arroyo Grande has voted to join the Rotarians in sponsoring their queen candidate. Smith Hearings Open Today in Los Angeles Hearings on the Smith Transportation Co.s application for common carries' rights reopened today in Los Angeles before officials the Public Utilities Commission. The hearings had been continued from January 17 after one days testimony.

PUC officials now are hearing witnesses of the Pacific Freight Lines, who are contesting the application. Smiths hearings ended in October. George C. Smith Jr. is in Los Angeles to attend the hearings and is expected to be there for a big part of the week, reports from his office say.

Farmers Take Action to Battle Pests, Diseases Santa Barbara county farmers were off today to a new start for the year in attempting to settle their troubles with virus diseases and pests in their crops. They decided in an all-day session in Lompoc Saturday the things they wish the Agricultural Extension Service to solve for them this year, tho, at the conclusion a state official told them the Extension Service is inadequately staffed to handle the experiment work in the state. The speaker was T. C. May-hew, state leader of the service.

He said the growth of the state in population and increased farming activities has been too rapid for the inadequate service and declared, as an example, there are more than 200 commercial crops growing in the state, all requiring research endeavor. Mayhew spoke at the end of the days conference of farmers, following their reports on the things they wish done. He complimented the farmers of the county for attacking the problems earnestly, sincerely and intelligently. The meeting elected Garrett Van Horne, Goleta to succeed Ralph M. Sharer, Santa Maria, as chairman of an executive committee to keep contacts with Sydney M.

Anderson, county farm adviser, and his assistants during the year in carrying out the farmers suggestions for expert study and help. The committee, to consist of heads of departments in the County Farm Bureau, was also elected as follows: Livestock department Francis M. Sedgewick, Los Olivos. Field and truck crops Robert Winters, Santa Maria. Orchards Erno Bonebakker, Carpinteria.

Dairy department Arthur Ainscough, Santa Maria. Farm Home department Mrs. Gerald Mercer, Lompoc. Youth department Robert P. Rowe, Goleta.

1 Sharer presided over the meeting, and Sedgewick acted as secretary. Matters in which principal interest lies in Santa Maria, on which requests were made for service, were in the Truck and Field crops and Dairy departments. Dominic Ardantz, Santa Maria, as chairman of last years Truck and Field crop department, reported his group, meeting during the morning had decided to request: Testing for materials to prevent root-rot in btans. Testing for new materials to combat the sugar beet nematode. Testing for control of the lygus bug in beans.

Testing for cover-crop varieties to increase bean yields. Distribution of all available material on mechanical blocking and thinning of sugar beets. The Dairy division, which submitted a report thru Leslie Stocking, Solvang, sought: Information on balanced rations, especially relating to new feeds on the market in comparison to old established feeds. Hold disease symposiums with new faces as speakers. Continue work on proof of dairy bull sires and investigate possibilities of using artificial insemination as part of the dairy herd improvement program.

Continue work in the county (Continued on Page 8. Column 31 20-Fcot Fall Kills SLO Coast Guardsman San Luis Obispo, March 20 (UR) Arthur Wetzel, 18-year-old coast guardsman, died yesterday of injuries received when he fell from a 20-foot cliff hear the beach. Wetzel, a seaman on the Coast Guard cutter Alert apparently fell from a pathway along the edge of the cliff while trying to find the beach in the darkness. He landed on his head on the pavement below, fracturing his skull. Spring Fashions To Be Unveiled Here Tonight The latest in spring fashions will be unveiled to the public at 8 tonight when some 100 models parade down the ramp of the Veterans Memorial building in the Retail Merchants Assn, annual spring style show.

Mrs. Dorothy Darling, in charge of plans for the show, said everything is ready for tonights display of 1950 vogues. Arrangements and rehearsals for the show have gone off beautifully, she said. The fashion show is the final feature of the associations celebration of the coming of spring in Santa Maria. Plans have been formulated under the direction of Ezra C.

Lyon, association president. Some 27 local merchants will be represented in tonights production. Each store is allowed six models which will show one outfit apiece. In addition to the childrens division, six types of clothing will be shown, Mrs. Darling said.

These will be sports, casual wear, dressy outfits, cocktail wear and formal dress. Entertainment will be furnished by the Theater Arts group and will consist of separate acts at intervals thruout the show. The audience also can expect a surprise or two, Mrs. Darling hinted. Performers in tonight's show will be Diane Edwards, tap dance; Bing Stafford, magic act; June Isom, imitations; Ralph Lutz and Doris Ballengee, duet; and a small band.

Director of entertainment to be presented is Dale Isom, Mrs. Darling said. A longer ramp than has been used in the past should improve the show tremendously, according to Mrs. Darling. Previously, the ramp was 48 feet in length.

Now it has been increased to 90 feet, almost the entire length of the hall, it was explained. The Bouquet Flower Shop, 415 South Broadway, will furnish floral arrangements for the show, Mrs. Darling said, and will give corsages to the Rainbow Girls who will act as usherettes. Commentator for the show will be Wally Seidler, manager of radio station KSMA. Proceeds of the fashion show, it has been announced, will be given to the Theater Arts organization and to the City Recreation Commission.

Dr. Daniels to Speak Tonight Dr. Neil M. Daniels, supervisor of secondary education in the Santa Barbara county public school system, will be the speaker tonight in the third session of the weekly seminar for parents on juvenile behaviour. The meeting will be held at 7:30 in the social hall of junior college.

Dr. Daniels subject will be, Have You Ever Been Taught This Way? Last session will be next Monday at the same hour when Miss Kellogg of the Santa Maria high school faculty will discuss the subject, Do You Know Todays World? The meetings are under auspices of Santa Maria Valley Parent-Teacher council and are open to the public. Earthquake Shakes Sacramento Sacramento, March 20 (U R) An earthquake shook the Sacramento valley today but there were no reports of damage. Residents of valley towns called police and newspapers to report rattling windows, but there were no reports of so much as a cracked dish, altho it was recorded in Berkeley as a fairly strong quake. Gambling Measure on Ballot Sacramento, March 20 (UP.) A proposer measure to legalize and license all forms of gambling in California qualified for the November election ballot today with 223,326 signatures, Frank M.

Jordan, secretary of state, said. Spring to Blow In With Brisk Wind Tomorrow Spring was just around the corner today, and the U. S. Weather Bureau at Hancock field predicted a dry and fairly windy afternoon tomorrow, the first official day of spring. Winds of 20 to 30 miles per hour whipped thru the city today and were expected to be back again tomorrow, weathermen indicated, altho not quite so brisk.

Temperatures should be normal, between 65 and 70, they added. Weathermen again gave a negative reply when quizzed on the possibility of rain. This is getting to be a dry March, they observed. Today marked the fifteenth consecutive day in which no rain has been recorded here. Last precipitation measued was .02 of an inch March 5.

A. A. Howard, city weather observer, reported a high of 69 yesterday, and the federal bureau registered a high of 68. Temperatures reached 74 yesterday in Los Angeles as thousands jammed Southern California beaches. A crowd estimated at 200,000 jammed the sands from Malibu to Venice, and 76,000 more were in the Redondo Beach area.

While Los Angeles enjoyed one of its finest days, winds as high as 00 miles an hour were recorded 15 miles east of Barstow, and a near-blinding sandstorm hit Victorville. The first sign of the coming of spring was signified yesterday at San Juan Capistrano mission where the swallows returned on schedule, true to their 174-year-old tradition. The swallows arrive each St. Josephs day and depart each St. Johns day (October 23) for their winter homes in South America.

While the western part of the United States was getting ready to usher in a warm spring, the eastern -part of the country prepared for more winter. Snow, sleet and freezing rain fell from Missouri and Iowa eastward to Indiana and Michigan. Freezing temperatures were general thru the Midwest and Northeast, and the mercury dived to near zero in upper New York state. Holds Burglars At Bay With Unloaded Rifle Earl Jennings, 19, Orcutt, last night captured two burglars with an empty .22 rifle after rgportedly catching them in the act of rifling his garage and held them in the doorway of the garage until local sheriffs officers arrived some 20 minutes later. Held on investigation of burglary charges today in connection with the incident were Samuel J.

Ruiz, 23, Adams ranch, and Am-ando J. Ruiz, 18, also of the Adams ranch. Arrested with the pair, officers said, was a 16-year-old youth who has been turned over to juvenile authorities. The trio was booked at the local police station about 11:23 p.m. Amando was taken into custody by officers when he was found in an auto the three were using.

The car was parked across the street from the Jennings garage, and Amando had apparently remained in the vehicle during the entire incident. The other two were trapped in the garage by Jennings when their actions aroused the suspicions of one of Jennings neighbors and friends, John Lima, who, with Jennings, was visiting in the home of D. L. Gibboney. Gibboney lives next door to Jennings, and as Lima left the Gibboney home to make a trip to an Orcutt store for some ice cream he saw the Ruiz auto and noted what he thought were suspicious actions by its occupants.

He told Jennings that he suspected they might be rifling Jennings garage, and Jennings and (Continued on Page 8, Column 5) While House Denies Vinson MaySucceed Secy. Dean Acheson Key West, March 20 (UR) The White House today denounced as "a complete fabrication recent broadcasts and published reports that Chief Justice of the United States Fred M. Vinson might replace Dean Acheson as secretary of state. In an unusually strong denial, President Truman, thru his press secretary, gave Acheson a big boost and said he had no idea of taking him out of his post. There is no truth to this story said secretary Charles G.

Ross. "The President has complete confidence in the secretary of state and believes he is running the department admirably. Technicality in Law May Keep HaleonCouncil A legal question raised over the week-end was expected today to retain J. W. Hale in office as councilman for another two years and toss the candidacy of Charles Campodonico for a council seat in Guadalupe out of the window.

Richard Clare, city attorney of Guadalupe, said he had no comment at noon today. I am looking into the matter and until I have satisfied myself one way or the other, have nothing to say on the question, Clare declared. I shall probably have an opinion for the city council tonight. Hale was appointed October 3 to succeed Warren F. Locke, who had been elected to the council for a four-year term on April 13, 1948.

Under a law effective for many years in California, an appointment to fill an unexpired term was only good until the next general election. However, as pointed out over the week-end, the Legislature of 1949 adopted a law to the effect a person appointed or elected to fill a vacancy, holds for the unexpired term of the lormer incumbent. Hale was elected to fill the unexpired term by the Guadalupe council on September 19. The new act did not become effective until October 1. Hale took his oath of office October 3- The question of whether he holds office under the old or new act may depend on whether the date of his appointment or the date of his taking the oath is to be applied.

Hale has filed for re-election under the old law, and Campodonico also filed also for the two-year post. Hale need not run, in order to hold his office two more years, if it is ruled he took office when he took the oath on October 3, for he was thus under the new law. Report Shows Extent Of Curtailment of Oil Drilling in Valley Confirmation of what The Santa Maria Times has been saying for a year, came over the week-end from the California Oil and Gas division. Its statement is that oil wells drilled thus far this year totaled 328 compared to 563 for the same period a year ago. The drilling has been curtailed, not because the companies dont care to prospect, but because they cant sell the oil if they find it and are, for the most part, drilling only to fill lease obligations.

Richfield has abandoned its Florence A-2 in the Cuyama valley, which was a test hole on Sec. 21, 11-27. It was drilled to 5,000 feet without finding oil. Cottonwood canyon bisects the section, which is almost due west (jn the direction of Santa Maria) from the rich Frank Anderson wells in the White Rock field. Burglarize Durant Home Hollywood, March 20 (UP) More than $350,000 in securities, most of it non-negotiable, were stolen from the home of philosopher-author Will Durant, it was reported to police today.

Local Jewelry Store, Home Theft Victims City police today still were in- vestigating the burglary of a local jewelry store and a residence, reported within a few hours of each other during the week-end. Marells jewelers, 121 South Broadway, was reported as burglarized about 12:55 a.m. Sunday when police officers on patrol duty at Broadway and Main were alerted by a ringing burglar alarm. Officers said in investigating the alarm they found the front glass at March's store had been broken by a large stone wrapped in canvas, possibly a piece of awning. Marell, summoned to the store, officers said, reported that approximately 40 watches had been in the window before it was broken.

Marell was not sure how many had been taken, officers said. The jeweler told police he would submit a list today of the stolen articles after a check of the stock. E. W. Lancaster, 713 East Orange, told officers about 9:41 p.m.

Saturday that someone had ransacked his home. Lancaster said he had been away, from home between 1 and 9:40 p.m., officers said. Listed as stolen by the intruders were a wrist watch, four silver dollars from a piggy bank, a pin, a double strand of pearls, a ring, a locket, a pair of ear rings and a pair of small scissors. Investigating officers said the glass had been broken and the window lock opened. They said the burglars probably left thru the same window.

Funeral Tomorrow For P. J. Broyles Funeral services will be held tomorrow at 2 p.m. in chapel of Dudley Mortuary for Peter Jack-son Broyles, 52-year-old oil-worker, who died suddenly yesterday morning at his home, 705 East Central. Death was attributed to a heart attack.

Broyles was born July 18, 1897, in Boon-ville, Miss. Deceased is survived by his widow, Mrs. Mildred A. Broyles of Santa Maria. He was the brother of Jim and Merle Broyles, Miss Maggie Broyles and Mrs.

Jessie Bean of Fort Stockdale, and Mrs. Anna Wilcox of El Paso, Tex. The Roy O. Youtz will conduct services. Interment will be in the Arroyo Grande Danish Gym Team to Show Here Tonight Denmarks 1950 gym team, now making its third tour of the United States, will put on a gymnastic exhibition tonight at 8 in the fairgrounds pavilion under sponsorship of Santa Maria high school.

Members of the Danish gym team were to have been luncheon guests of the high school board of control today. The two-hour show is to in-elude rhythmical gymnastics, fundamental gymnastics, Danish folk dances, acrobatics and tumbling. Following the regular performance, Santa Marians will be invited to participate in folk dances with the performers. Coached by. Eric Flensted-Jen-sen, the Danish gym team slopped here two years ago for a show at Veterans Memorial hall.

Flensted-Jensen is also coaching the 1950 composed of a completely different group of Danish youths. The New York Times said tumbling, as done by the Danes, resembled a form of attempted suicide. Ballet and tight-rope walking techniques are also among the deeds of the Danes. Midway in their exhibition, the gymnasts relaxed with about 15 minutes of folk dancing that would have tired most basketball players, the New York Times said after a two-hour performance for students of New York university. One of the aims of the Danish gym team is to present the best in Danish physical education to the people of this country, Flen-stcd-Jensen has said.

Instructors for the gym team include Miss Kirsten Stampe Andersen, girls team; Flensted-Jen-sen, boys team; Frode Jensen, fundamental gymnastics; Jens Eilif Welling, tumbling; Miss Andersen, folk dancing, and Gunnar Engberg Hansen, pianist. Demands Sfro-'e Budget Cut ef $46 Million Sacramento, March 20 (UP) An economy-minded Republican Assemblyman today outlined $46 million in cuts he said could be made in Gov. Earl Warrens $971 million state budget. I The proposal was made by As-! semblyman Jonathan J. Holli-! baugh, Huntington Park, as both houses of the Legislature prepared to take lip the budget.

The Assembly set it for tomorrow morning and the Senate for late today. Tarzon Creator Dies Tarzana, March 20 U.R) Edgar Rice Burroughs, 74, creator of modern fictions most famed character Tarzan the Apeman died while reading in bed yesterday. associates, lie superintended an extensive drilling program in a search for oil. When the Japanese took the country in 1942, Mr. and Mrs.

Ireland were made prisoners and interned in Santo Tomas internment camp until Gen. Douglas MacArthur liberated them in 1915. They returned to Santa Maria and remained until two years ago, when they went back, Ireland to act as superintendent for development program for Philippines Grunion Scheduled to 'Run' Tonight on Southern Beaches From Philippines, Reports 'Things Rugged If you are a grunion "fisherman, altho hunter is a better word, you have an opportunity to get some of the fish for the next four nights if you are also a grunion psychologist. The little silvery fish that flip themselves out of the 4urf to spawn in the sand are due to make their appearance on South- WE SEE BY THE ADS that you can get a Iree dust pan; that you can buy a heavy-duty car battery for only $12.45, plus your old one, installed; that a new Beauty Salon is opening in Santo Maria; that you can purchase a 1 950 model stove with no cash down. Read every Times ad and save.

ern California beaches for the next four evenings, beginning tonight. While piscatorial experts set this as the date for their appearance, none appears familiar enough with their habits or the cause of their appearing on certain stretches, to say just where they will begin flopping in. It may be on Oceano beach or at Point Sal and it may only be down on the Ventura Rincon. Wherever they appear, they are available to the grunion catcher as long as he catches them with his hands only. No nets or buckets may be used, under the California law, and a game warden, if he catches you catching them illegally, will arrest you as quickly as he would for taking a baby clam or shooting deer without horns.

The next legal run will be in July, according to the reports of those who claim to know. Ireland, Back By G. A. MARTIN Sptclul Writer) "Things are rather rugged financially" in the Philippines at present, because of a shortage of dollars, 'Said A. E.

Ireland today, returning home after an absence in that country for two years. Mr. and Mrs. Ireland are guests of Santa Maria Inn until they restore their home in a canyon opposite Solomon Lookout, south of Santa Maria. Tho they have been twice in the Philippines in Islands a more stable currency.

As told in The Times last week, the Philippines government has even banned the issuance of money orders to the United States for the present. The returned Santa Marian cited that the condition is similar in a way to that of England and many European countries, which, because of shortage of dollars, are unable to balance their exports and imports. Financially' in The father said today the financial situation in the Philippines is somewhat confused" at present as a result of the shtytage of dollars, due to lack of export sales. The nation has been spending more for imports than it has been receiving from the sale of exports. It has been necessary, he explained, to cut imports as a result.

The Central Bank of the Philippines is now in control of finances and, with government officials, is attempting to work out ten years, about four years of which they were prisoners of the Japanese, they are not ready to say if they will return there or not. We will be residents of Santa Maria again for a time at any rate," Ireland said today. Having worked in a supervisory capacity for O. C. Fields in oil developments in the vicinity of Santa Maria for about 'G years, Ireland went to the Philippmes in 1940 for the Far East Oil Development financed by Fields and Oil Development Co.

Ho remained this company until he and Mrs. Ireland returned home this time. Their son. first Lt. Alfred Edward Ireland is now stationed on Clark field, near Manila, in the U.

S. Air Force. The younger Ipeiand won his wings during the World War and later took an engineering course, while remaining in the service, and has won his promotion since completing his college work. 1.