Santa Maria Times from Santa Maria, California • 1

It'i a Privilege to Live in Santa Maria Tsmptraturcs Across th Country The Weather: Overcast tonight and oarly tomorrow morn ing, with' chance) of sprinkles early morn ing. Fair tomorrow afternoon. High, noon today 44 Yesterday's high 75 Low 42 Last year to date .00 Rainfall for season .78 Normal to date .34 Sunrise 6:17 Sunset 5:13 High Low Boston 48 44 Chicago 77 48 Cleveland 72 46 Kansas City 71 40 Los Angeles 79 55 Miami 82 77 High Low New Orleans New York Pittsburgh Seattle Thermal Washington 83 60 56 45 63 43 53 40 84 43 55 49 FIVE CENTS Doily Net Paid Circulation 5,466 SANTA MARIA, CALIFORNIA, FRIDAY-EVENING, OCT. 26, 1956 Phone: Business, 5-2693; News: 5-2691 EIGHT PAGES $U47fooo Bid rs i Sf I nf School Possibility Gets Cuyama School Contract WASHINGTON. Oct.

26 Y-j School News It 'l-i Written by i (' Jl I 1 I 7s I I I "Stiff. k--ri WN School Pupils Read Saturday's Santa Maria Times John Deeter, Bakesfield contractor, last night was awarded contract to construct a branch high school in New Cuyama for the Santa Maria high school district. Deeter's low bid of $1,147,000 was $20,000 below the architects' estimated cost of $1,147,000. Construction, to begin Oct. 31, is to be completed in 310 days or by Sept.

7, 1957. Other bidders included: Azores -Construction Culver City, Maino Construction San Luis Obispo, C. C. Sharps, Arroyo Grande, R. J.

Duam Construction Hawthorne $1,208,300 and Barringer and Botke, Santa Paula, $1,198,400. Deeter's bid figured out at $18 to $19 per square foot. Santa Maria sub contractors listed in Deeter's bid were R. McGray for street, asphalt and paving and Roberts Garden Center for a chain link fence. The contractor and architects indicated they felt the ut "i 'J i Boone Facts ifa ''') 'SF 1 V-fc 1 Presented to 1 Kiwanis Club school could be completed for occupancy by next fall, barfing any holdup on delivery of hard to get steel.

Acceptance of the low bid last night climaxed nearly two years 'work by trustees following a successful fight to keep the Cuyama area in the school district. J. M. Boothe Phoio. One of these seven Santa Maria high school co-eds Juanita Ardantz, Anastacla Porter, Ann Michele will be crowned homecoming queen tonight at and Vicki Saladin.

Front row: Deenle Thomas, the Saint-Paso Robles football same. Back row: Diana Averbeck and Carol Pabst Thieves Steal $282 From Tour City Motel Money Box i Saint Royalty Saint Homecoming Tonight Music will be furnished by Port Jullien's band. Admission to the dance is limited to high school students and their guests with guest cards. The Lettermen's club is sponsoring the half-time activities and the dance. The royal party was elected by the student body from those girls nominated by the Lettermen's club.

dantz, Diana Averbeck, Ann Michehl, Carol Pabst, Anas-tasia Porter, Vicki Saladin, and Deenie Thomas. The girls will enter Boyd field in convertibles with the school band as their escort. Johnny Ventura, student body president will present them With arm bouquets as they are introduced. A special royal box in the senior rooting section has been Thieves who apparently knew just what they were after and where to find it stole $282 from the Tour City motel, 1311 North Broadway, yesterday, police reported today. The money vwas reportedly taken between midnight and 11:30 a.m., yesterday, from a metal filing cabinet in the motel Nothing else was disturbed, "according to the' motel proprietors, Mr.

and Mrs. Frederick V. Burk. The Burks said entry was made through an unlocked office door, with the' burglar either taking the key to the metal filing cabinet from their living room or found it ire the cabinet lock. The Burks, who live in the apartment adjacent to the office, say they usually leave the door of the office open during the daylight hours, but if no one is tending the office, the key to the money cabinet is taken 'out of the lock.

The theft was the second large one within a week, with burglars making off with some $300 or $400 from the Lucky Spot cafe over the weekend in a nocturnal break-in. STEPHAN TO VENTURA Judge Morris Stephan of Santa Maria Justice court today was assigned to the Ventura Municipal court for one day. Judge Robert Stewart of Guadalupe handled local court cases in the absence of Judge Stephan. Annual Orcutt Carnival Scheduled Tomorrow Night We expect to sell 6,000 cascarones, and our crowd should be at the minimum over eleven hundred, members of the Orcutt PTA Halloween Carnival committee said today. The event is to be held 6 to 10 p.m.

Saturday evening in the school gym, and will feature booths for all ages, games, a U.R) The United States, Bri tain, and France are opening discussions immediately on possible United Nations' action aeainst, Russia for mili tary intervention in Hungary, diplomatic sources said to day. The State Department al-readv is consulting with am bassador Henry Cabot Lodge U.S. delegate to the UN, on the possibility of UN action. Talks involving Britain, France and other nations win De inuiatea in New York and other allied capitals. Officials said these powers wiu try to determine 'whether free world interests would be advanced by a UN "review" of Russia's action in Hungary.

Investigation of possible UN action is onlv one of many moves under consideration here. Other moves could include offers of financial and economic help to Hunearv. Poland and other sa tellites, and an angry protest to Moscow over' the killing of Hun garians by Red army troops. Other free nations could join in such actions, it was said. There was one report tnat trie idea of UN action was moved aloncr after Hungarian rebels had asked British diplomats in Budapest to undertake it Diplomats said UJN action wouia dramatize Russia's "interfer ence" in Hungary.

But they ac knowledged that the "court or world opinion" seems to be the i. only recourse Because sanctions against Russia appear to be impossible. 1 UN action might be taken in i ml a general or specmc way. ma Hungarian case could be brought up in the UN security council as a threat to peace, or charges might be made directly against the Soviets. Rut the situation could be brought up in the UN general assembly when it meets in XMew York next month; Nn decision on Dossible UN ac tion will be made until full re ports are received on the bloody events inside Hungary.

The State nenartment itself does not have such reports at the moment. 9 Rebels Control Large Share Of Hungary vnrwMA rw 9fl Rebel ItUiUU) rAno eai7pd rnntrnl of most 0 Hungary today, set up a revo- 1 1 ill. a lutionary regime ana Daiuea wj oust all Russian troops from with the help of Hungarian army elements, So viet deserters ana a genci workers strike. Diplomatic reports said heavy mortar and tank firing continued in the suburbs and center of the capital city of Budapest where the revolt started as a protest demonstration Tuesday night and spread into full-scale rebellion. Three Belgian travelers who reached Austria this afternoon said "the whole of western Hungary is in the hands of the rioters." They said all the small villages they passed through en route to the frontier were in rebel hands.

Symbolic Soviet red stars had been removed practically everywhere. The travelers said the people told them the revolution's main goal was "to get the Russian army out of the country." through the fourth day, radio Budapest continued to broadcast repeated pleas for an end to bloodshed and calls for the rebels to lay down their arms witnou iear of-retaliation. Thus far. there nave Deen nu accurate figures on oasualUes, but estimates have rangea up vu than 3.000 killed and thou sands more wounded. BOONE MOVIE SLATED Three local Chamber of Commerce committees are slated to view the city's Boone street movie on Wednesday at noon at the uteris inn it was announc- ed today.

The committees are toe governmental relations, muuauioi and highway groups. MOROCCAN HEAD RESIGNS RABAT, Morocco, Oct 26 an Premier Si Bekkai resigned as head of the Moroccan government today. Facts on the controversial Boone street trafficway were presented to Santa Maria Kiwanis club yesterday noon in the. city's first attempt to put befdre the public information pertaining to the proposed crosstown traffic route. Complete with movies of diagrams and traffic charts, the half hour presentation will be made to Rotary club Nov.

6 and to Minerva club- Nov. 8 Any other organization wishing to receive the information may do so by contacting the city offices. Mayor Curtis Tunnell termed the trafficway "of vital concern," pointing out that he like many other Santa Marians, would prefer to see our city remain as it is. This city how ever is going to share in the state tremendous growth, Tunnell added. fWe can't control it and must plan lor it," the mayor said.

Construction of industrial plants to the west of 'the city and residential expansion to the east will mean that workers must traverse the city in an east-west direction, Tunnell explained. Present employment figures from the Santa Maria Freezing plant, first industry established to the west, indicates two shifts of 600 to 700 workers each when the plant is at capacity or a total of 1300 to 1400 The mayor termed construction of the two-mile trafficway a "future essential," stating that the city would have to build the trafficway on its own in the future if "we can't get State help now." Planning consultants Bill Wey bright, and Larry Wise of Hahn, Wise and Associates of Redwood City predicted the city's auto traffic will double in the next 20 years and the population will exceed 25,000. Traffic counts developed last month by the firm revealed 10,000 cars on West Main in a 24-hour period, 11,000 on North Broadway and 14,000 on South Broadway. Majority of the 10,000 on West Main will be traveling crosstown to the freeway east of the city when it is completed, the planner The consultants forecast a second crosstown trafficway, in the area of Fesler and Alvin, will also be needed in the future. LaFranchi Represents Planning Commission Henry LaFranchi will represent the city's planning 'commission at next week's annual convention of the League of California Cities in Los Angeles.

LaFranchi rounds out the list of 13 city officials led by Mayor Curtis Tunnell that will attend the sessions. Most of the, convention-goers will leave tomorrow for Los Angeles, with the remainder going on Sunday. The convention opens Monday and runs through Wednesday. White House Denies 'Mild Relapse Story WASHINGTON, Oct. 26 (IP) White House press secretary James C.

Hagerty categorically denied today that President Eisenhower suffered a "mild relapse" on his campaign swing last week. Hagerty said a newspaper had advised him that columinist Drew Pearson would publish such a report tomorrow. is the most amazing docu-ment of falsehood I have ever seen," Hagerty said." He said that with the exception of a bloodshot eye caused by two small pieces of confetti lodging in it in Portland, Mr. Eisenhower "felt fine" on the campaign trip. Hagerty.

said Mr. Eisenhower naturally felt tired after some of the long days of campaigning. He aso denied categorically that Mr. Eisenhower had a "gastric upset" as a reporter said had been rumored among newsmen covering Democratic presidential candidate Adlai Stevenson. Pearson said in a statement issued by liis office here that his story was "carefully checked" ana tnai i Deueve it to be true." "Mr.

Hagerty." he said. "has been operating an iron curtain on information for a long. time. His technique is to deny and clobber over the head any newspaperman who disagrees with him." Navy Plane So Shot Down by WASHINGTON, Oct. 26 (IP) The Navy has told the story of a freak accident in which a jet fighter plane flew so fast that it shot itself down.

It apparently was the first time, it has happened in military aviation history. The Navy said an F-11F supersonic fighter plane shot itself down last month by running into its own cannon shells. Proof of the accident was the discovery of a cannon slug in "the jet engine of the crashed plane. The accident occurred Sept. 21 when a test pilot was trying out 20-milimeter cannon over Santa Maria high school's homecoming queen and her court will reign over tonight's activities at.

Saintville. The whose identity is not yet known, will be introduced to the student body and alumni with her six princesses during half time activities 6f the Santa Maria Paso Eoblea football game. The royal party Is made up of the Misses Juanita Ar Madonna to Build Highway Near Paso A nn A fWTLTmA A0 Nil Madonna Construction Co. of San Luis Obispo has been awarded a $3.3 million contract to construct 5.1 miles of U. S.

Highway 101 in and near Paso Robles. The State Department of Public Works awarded the contract yesterday. The agreement calls for the construction of a four-lane road between 1.3 miles south of Paso Robles and one mile north of the city and the building of five concrete bridges. Planners Study Zone Ordinance The city planning commission opened study of the city's zoning ordinance last night and took three hours to get over one page. The long discussion was largely devoted to setback requirements in residential areas and what various land uses would be permitted in residential areas.

Seven commlssiQn members attended the meeting to confer with representatives of planning consultants Hahn, Wise and associates. Chairman Leonard Petersen presided. Other commission members on hand were Dr. A. M.

Knudsen, Mrs. Leo Acquistopace, Mrs. Albert Missall, William Fickle, Henry La Franchi and Marion Smith. It was the first meeting for Smith, who was appointed at the last city council session by Mayor Curtis TunnelL The date for the next zoning discussion will be set at the commission's regular meeting Thursday, Nov. 8.

Halloween Party Set By Sisquoc SISQUOC. Ghosts, goblins, and witches galore will parade at the Benjamin Foxen school here Saturday evening at 7 as the opening attraction of the annual Halloween carnival in which the school and community participatePrizes will be awarded to the children whose costumes and disguises are con sidered best. Many attractions have been planned for the evening's fun by Mrs. Basil Lewis, carnival chairman, and her helpers. Among the many booths will be a bean guessing contest with a Thanksgiving goose or turkey as the prize to the winner of the contest.

There will be a pop corn booth, where hot buttered pop corn is available, a grab bag, country store, base ball throw, bean bag throw, ring pitch, ping pong, balloon darts, and dish pitch. Live fish will be the prize for winners of one of the pitching games, and a mysterious number called the "green goose" is expected to attract much interest. For the young people a dance from 9 to 10:30 should prove to be as popular as it has been at other carnivals held here. Presidlnf over the kitchen be Mrs. Jack Bright, Mrs.

Harry Goodchild and Mrs: Ynez Good-child, where there will.be available a variety of cakes, pies and other foods with plenty of coffee. School children have been busy collecting egg shells, large coffee cans, jars, and white elephants of many kinds to be used at the carnival. Funds raised at the carnival are for the Blochman PTA reserved for them. The girls' white formals will be set off by bright red lettermen's blankets upon which they will sit during the second half of the game. Crowning of the queen will be the highlight of the -after -gamerdance in Vets halL Captain of the team, Darryl Eisner, will have the honor of crowning Her Majesty.

beverage at little over cost. All proceeds will go to the PTA fund for children. Hussein Shooting Denied by Jordan AMMAN, Jordan, Oct. 26 (IP) The royal palace today denied reports that King Hussein had been assassinated. A palace official said there was no truth to the reports, which originated in Paris earlier in the day.

He said King Hussein presently was in Basman paace. Previously, the Jordanian embassy in London officially denied the reports. A spokesman for the embassy said that the Jordanian ambassador had "just spoken to the royal palace in Amman which denied the report completely." Bunco Artists Spotted Here City police and the Chamber of Commerce warned local residents and merchants today that a band of nationally-known "con' artists had been spotted in the Santa Maria area. The group was tentatively identified as part of a clan of bunco artists described in the Oct. 27 issue of the Saturday Evening Post.

It was believed that the group may be posing as "roofers," offering to oil-coat roofs of local homes. District Atty. Roll Dies, in Los Angeles LOS ANGELES, Oct 266 (DV-Dist Atty. S. Ernest RolL 52, died today at his home.

The district attorney had undergone exploratory chest surgery July 13 which disclosed he had a. tumor in the left lung. Since that time he had undergone radiation therapy in attempts to correct the condition rather than by surgical removal costume contest with prizes of- prizes fered, many, and most important to an extra fine dinner at 6 p.m. Mrs. Joe Gray, president, is to be assisted by her husband, and by Mr, and Mrs, William H.

Nott, general chairman, and a committee to take care of each of the 31 booths being set up. Overtaxing the building, the booths are' named ring-a-duck, pop guns, floatinp candles, fish pond, Chinese pagoda, darts, cascarones, goldfish throw, house of horrors, freak show, live target, ring toss, country store, pirate's chest and others A 'teen-age dance, and horse drawn hayrides will offer entertainment, and there will also be kiddie rides. All children attending are expected to wear Halloween costume. Children have worked the past three weeks to make the supply of cascarones (decorated eggshells filled with confetti) large enough to meet the demand. Growing to proportions of a small county fair, members are to spend the entire day tomorrow, decorating their concession stands that line the hall.

The menu committee is offering a choice of enchiladas, beans and green salad, hot dogs on a stick, or. cream chicken and jel-lo salad, and home made pies, cake, cup cakes, and choice of Park York, general chairman of the local "trick or treat" drive, announced that the young people participating in the project, should meet at the First Methodist church at 6:30 p.m. on Halloween to receive their containers and identification tags. After collecting in their designated areas, the canvassers will return to the church for refreshments and games. There will be extra adults on hand to count the coins as they are turned in.

Aiding York in organizing the drive are Mrs. Betty Ohlstrom and Harwood HalL Fast It's Own Bullets the Atlantic ocean near Long Island by firing the guns into the ocean from a series of dives. The pilot was injured, but not critically. From an altitude of about feet, test pilot Tom Attridge put the plane into a shallow dive at a speed of 'about 880 miles per hour. Attridge fired one four-second burst from the four cannons, and then after a pause, fired another four-second burst.

As he continued down in the dive, the bullet-proof canopy of the plane was cracked. Attridge thought he had hit a bird. Christian and Episcopal. Christ Methodist is unable to participate, but will take any special offering for UNICEF as a means of helping out. junior high and older youth groups of the -other seven churah-es along with their advisers will canvass the community.

Last Halloween the young people of the Methodist church were the only ones participating in the drive and they alone collected $122.55. This year, with all the churches invited to join forces, the organizers of the project are highly opiimisiic as to its outcome. Seven Churches in UNICEF Drive Seven Santa Maria churches will join forces this Halloween in a drive to raise funds for UNICEF, it was announced today. Mayor Curtis Tunnell also proclaimed the night of Halloween, Oct. 31, an official night of "Tricks and Treats for all the World's Children." The project is under the auspices -of the local Ministerial association and is conducted in conjunction with similiar one-night drives across the nation.

Churches participating locally this year include Presbyterian, First Methodist, Church of God, Nazarese, Four Square, First Mayor Tunnell's proclamation commended the support of all Santa Maria's citizens "in this worthy project." "While our young Americans practice the principle of sharing, they and you will help perform miracles of self-help and food and medicine for 600,000,000 of the world's needy children," the edict concluded. Last year, according to Tunnell's Droclamation. 6000 Ameri can communities collected $450,000 to buy treats of milk, food and medicine for needy children around the world. Barbers to Clip Customers For Extra Two Bits Oct. 30 Santa Marians will get clipped an additional quarter when they get their hair clipped next week, city barbers reported today.

of local 941 voted last night to raise the price of a. hair cut to $1.75, effective Oct. 30. The new price raise which includes men, women, children and sheep dogs affects eight barber shops in the city..