Santa Maria Times from Santa Maria, California • 1

It's a Prfvll3 to Uvt In Santa Majla Temperatures Aerate the Country THE WEATHER: Variable high clouds tonight ond tomorrow. Low tonight 43-41. High, noon today 7S Yattardoy't high 80 Lew 49 Rainfall for season .81 To data last year tract Normal to date .77 Sunrist 6:48 Sunset 4.38 High Low Bolton 52 38 Chicago 36 19 Cleveland 36 26 Kana City 35 25 Lo Angeles 85 63 Miami 74 47 High Low Minneapolis New York Pittsburgh Seattle Thermal Washington 26 19 49 .35 ...35 29 38. 31 86 43 37 30 mmM FIVE CENTS Daily Nat Paid Circulation 5,538 SANTA MARIA, CALIFORNIA, TUESDAY EVENING, NOV. 271956 Phonal Business, 5-2693; Hawis 5-2691 TEN PAGES Reserve Fund Abandoned 00Dir efts II A my OH Santa Maria elementary school trustees "changed horses in midstream" last night in an effort to quell rising public sentiment in opposition to a proposed $2.50 tax for a six-year period.

The. board resolved that the $2.50 would be a tax ceiling only, stipulating that it was their intention to attempt to hold the actual rate to about $1.90 next year. The action changed the board policy in regards to levying the full $2.50 to build up a surplus during the first three i lit LiV Freedom Fighter Leaders Arrested Through Nation VIENNA, Nov. 27 (U.R) A wave arrests was reported from Hungary today in the wake of Soviet-sponsored puppet premier Janos Kadar's announced crackdown on "criminals and counter-revolutionaries." Reports reaching Vienna said' Hungary's puppet government was losing no time in putting its new "tough" County Supervisors Approve New Los Alamos Fire Station policy into effect. Arrests ol SANTA BARBARA District Attorney Vern Thomas was instructed by the Board of Supervisors Monday to draw up an agreement between the county and the Los Alamos Fire District board with regard to construction of new fire station buildings in Los Alamos.

It has been proposed that the Times Photo Santa Maria Is rapidly taking on the Christmas season appearance as workmen install bells and lights prior to official Christmas opening parade slated for Saturday. Chester Robinson and Bill Phillips add one of the many ornaments to downtown street lights. Yule Look Ex-District Highway Engineer In San Luis Regains Position years to carry through the; final half of the six-year plan. Trustees also resolved to "wholeheartedly support'" a juni- The Santa Maria Stanford survey citizens committee, headed by Glenn Seaman, will meet tonight at 7:20 to discuss the school board's change of policy in regards to the forthcoming tax election, the chairman reported today. rtj-fm--rs.

0- high school program if it too mandate of the people of the Eanta Maria high school district tint a junior high system be The board's action came just ticn Dec. 7 on establishing a 52.50 lax ceiling for a six-year period. In other action pertaining to the forthcoming election, trustees established a principal's salary policy which would grant an approximate $800 raise to seven principals. Average salary of the principals would be $8150' with th highest paid receiving $8766. The principals' salaries are based on their placement 1 on a teacher salary schedule, which requires length of time in the district and educational qualifications, plus $500 responsibility pay and a $2 per student enrollment factor.

Assistant Superintendent John Mudge was granted an increase in pay to $9500 on a two-year contract. His present three-year contract calls for $8250 with a $250 per year raise. Supt. Robert Bruce's salary will remain at $12,500 for the remaining two years of his contract, the board decided, after considerable debate regarding a proposed $1000 raise. Trustee ft i IsmiWi "rSS-tion.

to maintain Bruce's pres' ent salary was approved by a 5-2 vote. President Don Melby and clerk Mrs. Hazel March voted against the motion. All proposed salary increases approved by the board last night are contingent upon voters' approval of the $2.50 tax ceiling on Dec. 7.

More than 50 persons attended the Vh hour board session last night during which time Melby, Smith and Glenn Seaman, chairman of the Stanford survey citizens committee, dominated the discussion. Melby proposed the board's change in policy regarding building up a reserve during the first three years of the six-year plan. "I feel the election won't pass if the reserve is set up," he said. "The public is invited to sit on our necks at budget meetings to make sure we are not spending too much money." The board president said he felt "98 per cent of the "objection would be removed" if the trustees changed their plan to build up a reserve during the See TAX, Page 3 Lost Your Dog? Dial L-o-s-f D-o-g SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 27, IDV A new service aimed at helping pet owners recover their, lost animals has been inaugurated here, thanks to the Society for the Prevention bf Cruelty to Animals and the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph company.

In case of a lost pet, simply dial L-O-S-T D-O-G. A recorded voice will answer and describe all dogs and other animals brought, into SPCA headquarters in the past 24 hours. BSIffirS BEIFIKS SRfc district contribute approximate- $27,000 of funds now on hand to the construction cost with the county to pay the balance on structures having a total estimated cost of about $60,000. Involved in the agreement also are the furnishing of equipment, maintenance, and the degree of structural fire protection to be afforded Los Alamos. Prior to adoption of Supervisor Alfred E.

Gracia's motion to have an agreement drawn up, Supervisor C. W. Bradbury expressed opposition to furnishing funds for Los Alamos structural protection which are not also afforded other fire districts. Gracia said it was understood that the Los Alamos agreement must be co-ordinated with other shifts of county fire equipmentparticularly into Solvang and he added thri 80 per cent of the Los Alamos area was watershed land and rangeland for which the supervisors are responsible so as fire protection is concerned Bradbury then seconded Gracia's motion, which was passed unanimously. Firefighters Still Battling Killer Blaze RAMONA, Nov.

27 (IP) An army of firefighters worked with fev erish determination today to control a wind-fed forest and brush fire which has claimed 1 lives. The fire, burning on a 44-mile front, has blackened more than 40,000 acres in the Cleveland national forest of San Diego county. Eleven firefighters' met death Sunday night when they were trapped in a ravine by a sudden windshift. Forestry officials reported this morning the fire was 80 per cent controlled. Winds had decreased and the only hot spots were in areas heavy with brush but little timber.

The firefighters said they hoped to have the flames under control tomorrow morning. Walter Puhn, supervisor of the Geveland National Forest, said an estimated 15 to 20 miles of the 75-mile perimeter was raging out of control. He said the spots were on the southeast and north flanks where the 11 men were burned to death. More than 1,600 men are battling the four-day blaze. It started Saturday on the Inaja Indian reservation of nearby Julian.

The fire created pall of smoke over San Diego, 20 miles to the southwest. C. A. Connaughton, regional forester for California, expressed sympathy to the families of the 11 victims. He said a full investigation has been ordered into the tragedy.

COMMITTEE TO MEET The city's committee is scheduled to meet tomorrow at noon at the Santa Maria club, it was announced today. GUARD TO MEET The local National Guard unit will hold its regular meeting tonight at 7:30 p.m. Plans will be made for an inspection by the battalion commander. former "freedom fighter leaders were reported underway all over the country. Returning diplomats reported the crackdown was.

started even before Kadar told the nation in a radio broadcast "I solemnly declare that all criminals and counter-revolutionaries will be sought out and put to trial." Kadar himself announced the first two candidates for trial." He named them as journalist Miklos Girnes and. writer Andras Szan-dor, both recognized as "Tito-ists." In the countryside, the Russians arrested the entire 600-man-strong Hungarian army garrison of Hegyeshalom, near the Austrian frontier. Soldiers were charged with supporting the freedom fighters by helping refugees to find a safe route to freedom across the iron curtain border. Premier Kadar was riding roughshod over the disheartened leaders of the uprising regardless of the effect on the striking See HUNGARY, page 3 Guadalupe Discusses City Garage bUADALUPE iToildwin the discussion of the construe-' tion of a pole barn to houe citjr equipment to be built across from the adobes on. Tenth street, Ray Portwood, servic station operator, offerad the use of half of his garage at a $30 -monthly fee.

The council accepted the rental of the Portwood's garage and expressed the feeling that the city garage project would ba tabled until next year. They did feel, however, that a city garage would be needed in th future, and further information is to be obtained on construction of same. Pipe eosta and labor chargei are to be investigated by street commissioner Charles Campo-donico for the drainage line to be run from Tognazzini street to the river. The line is to be cut through Pat Mahbney'a property and the city will hava to stand costs of the loss of a strip of beet crop if the line is not installed within the next three weeks; Robert Winters, Union Sugar agricultural director, stated that beet planting will begin about that, time, Guadalupe BanI Captures First GUADALUPE The elementary school band, under the direction of Burrill Monk, received first place award in its division Saturday at the fifth annual Western Band festival in Santa Barbara. Six top elementary school bands of the central coast area i were competing.

The 48 playing members and seven majorettes were taken -to Santa Barbara by school bus with Wes Matson, and Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Arnoldi AMA Prexy Warns of Federal Intervention SEATTLE, 27 fl9 Dr. Dwight H. Murray, prei- ident of the American Medical Association, said today it was time all the nation's doctors "sounded the alarm against tha soft and superficial security" offered by the intervention; of government in medicine; Murray, of Napa, told tha AMA's house of delegates the association's annual convention that the medical profession, along with business and industry, "is caught between those who desire to promofa sound government prograas' and those who desire even more intensely to perpetuate party politics." WITHDRAWAL URGED LONDON.

Nov. 27, (IBLord Beaverbrook's Daily Express suggested today that Britain laavt tha Ujutad Nttiaasv- School to Lease Rooms At Air base Santa Maria school board last elementary night steps to lease portions of the 311 wuvw iui a jupw Al lege upholstery class ana Marvin School instruction. The board voted to advertise for bids, a legal" necessity, to lease a room at the school to Marvin School with low bid to be not less than $1. Bids will be opened Dec. ,19.

Trustees also will be legally advertise intentions to lease the auditorium room for a junior college 'upholstery class. In other matters the board: Took under advisement bids on darkening drapes at Miller school from Education Equipment Co. for $291, including installation and from Hank Hig-gins Speciality Co. for $297, including- installation. Heard a report from principals Jack Patten and John Condon on the recent Zaca Lake conference for county administrators.

Received aji attendance report from Supt. Robert Bruce Shewing 2,986, Granted Bruce permission to attend the State superintendent's convention Dec. 2-34. Accepted 95 arithmetic, 85 match, 35 singing and 40 music books from the State. Strewn Bodies Left as Warning By Red Guards EISENSTADT, Austria, Nov.

27 (W Hungarian refugees reaching freedom here today said they saw at least 20 bodies of would-be es capees who were shot and killed by Communist border guards. The Hungarians said they saw the bodies in the fields near Buc-su, Hungary, opposite the Austrian border village of Rechnitz. They said their fleeing countrymen apparently were shot only a few hundred feet inside Hungarian territory. They said the' Russians forbade local Hungarian authorities to bury the bodies in order to "deter other Hungarians from escaping to Austria." Dorsey Choked While Sleeping GREENWICH, Nov. 27, (TO A medical examiner ruled today that bandleader Tommy Dorsey, the "sentimental gentleman of swing," accidentally choked to death in his sleep.

Police and Dorsey's family denied there was any mystery surrounding his death -yesterday in the locked master bedroom of his $130,000 home. He died just two days before he was due to appear in court to reply to his third wife's divorce suit. Medical examiner Dr. Stanley Knapp said after an autopsy the 51-year-old musician threw up while he slept, and food lodged in his windpipe and lungs. Demo Leaders Study $815,389 Question' Nov; 27, Iff! Democratic party leaders today took up the $815,389 questionhow to get out of the red? The executive committee of the Democratic national committee returned to a closed meeting to consider ways of meeting the 'party's campaign deficit and to shape winning strategy for tht 1958 and 1960 elections.

FORMULA APPROVED SACRAMENTO, Nov. 2T, BB A Senate, committee agreed today "in principle' to a formula for dividing $120 million in Long Beach oil royalties for beaches, park aad'- other aatuxal resour- Twenty-Five Feared Dead In Plane Crash CARACAS, Venezuela, Nov. 27 (IB A Venezuelan four-engine constellation airliner en route from New York to Caracas crashed into a mountain 10 miles from a safe landing here today. Airline officials said all 25 persons on board were killed. The plane left Nev York's Idle-wild international airport last night.

But it hit a mouhtainpeak in the Naiguata range, 10 miles north of Caracas, as it came in for a landing in rain and a thick overcast. Officials of the LAV (Linea Aeropostal Venezolana) in New York said the constellation carried 18 passengers and seven crew men. I he passengers included 10 Americans, six Venezuelans, a German and a Cuban. It was raining and there was low overcast at Caracas about the time the plane was due. But officials said the weather was not considered "dangerous" for flying operations.

When the aircraft failed tp arrive on schedule, LAV put out an air alert; Later, it was reported the plane hit a peak in the Naiguata mountain range 10 miles north of Caracas. India Fears French Buildup In Suez UNITED NATIONS, N. Y. Nov. 27 India's V.

K. Krishna Menon asked Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold today to obtain immediate assurances from France that it is not reinforcing its forces in the Suez canal zone. Krishna Menon made the request after Egyptian Foreign Minister Mahmoud Fawzi' read to the United Nations general assembly a press report that French tanks were being landed at Port Said in violation of the world organization's repeated demands for the withdrawal of British, French and Israeli forces from Egypt. "I ask leaye to read a cable I have now," Fawzi said, "which says that the French defense ministry spokesman in Paris today refused to confirm deny this press report." He attributed the Paris cable to United Press. Winds Peril Crops In Ventura County VENTURA, Nov.

27, (IP) Hot, dry weather and high winds have seriously damaged avocado, orange and hay crops in Ventura county, according to Department of Agriculture commissioner John Schall. Schall said winds have blown nearly 60 tons of avocados to the ground. Oranges have been scarred, and hay has been sunburned. Stock raisers said they needed rain within the next two weeks to save their grassland. dimes that made up the Sam hid in a trunk because he didn't trust banks.

Sam, 86 and his 78-year-old wife, Theresa, went to their only son's home for Thanksgiving dinner. Rosie stayed home. While they were gone, someone broke into the Italian immigrant's apartment and made off with the "Rosie must have seen the thieves' he said. "If the jwuld only, talk t. I Spied Four 'teen-age girls screaming when one was handed a letter with overseas postmark; at the Postoffice general delivery window.

A minister's Mfe calling The Times society desk to say that the men have no excuse to stay away from the bazaar Friday as a TV set is installed for the championship fight. White House Reaffirms Ties With Britain AUGUSTA, Nov. 27 (IP) The White House said today that differences between the United States and Great Britain and France over the Mid-East situation should not be -regarded as "a weakening or disruption" of a great and historic alliance. The White House statement, designed to shore up shaky relations between this country and-the western allies, was issued at President Eisenhower's vacation headquarters here after the chief executive conferred by telephone with Secretary of State John Foster Dulles in Key West, and acting secretary Herbert Hoover Jr. in Washington.

Dulles will come to Augusta next Sunday for a first-hand review of the international situation with Mr. Eisenhower, preparatory to Dulles' departure for the NATO ministerial council meeting in Paris Dec. 11. 15000-Acre Fire Costs $400,000 SAN BERNARDINO, Nov. 27 art The fire which burn SACRAMENTO, Nov.

87-API-E. Lv Peterson, former district en: gineer for the State Division of in San Luis Obispo, has gained back the high post he lost following an investigation of construction practices in the area. A division spokesman said Peterson has been assigned as a principle engineer in the office here. He held the same position at San Luis Obispo before before being reduced in civil service grade to supervising highway engineer as an aftermath to the division's probe of construction records and methods. Peterson, who was moved here after the investigation', was said to have accepted an illegal gift of an overcoat from a contractor and failed to exerciseproper supervision over his workers.

However, the division official said Peterson was given only "verbal reprimand" and no further action was taken. He had been reduced in grade on the recommendation of State Highway Engineer G. T. McCoy, but "was kept on because of his "many years experience in the field." The spokesman said Peterson has been "restored to his former rank" in the Sacramento planning office, where his job will be to highway projects." Teen-Age Crime Plans Exposed ST. PETERSBURG, Nov.

27, HP) "Juvenile authorities said today 'fantastic" plana for crimes had been revealed with the arrest of teenagers in a crackdown on gangs of young hoodlums. Four more high school boys were arrested yesterday. In the past two weeks 39 boys, ranging in age from 13 to 16, have been apprehended by authorities. Officials said crimes planned included an elaborate scheme for wrecking a passenger train by using, skeleton switch lock keys to switch the train to the wrong tracks. Sween Added to Safety Speakers Melvin Sween, Santa Maria Drilling company superintendent, has been added to the list of speakers for the Santa Barbara Coastal Area Oil Industry Safety conference, which begins tomorrow at the Santa Barbara Biltmore hotel.

Sween is slated to speak on drilling rig safety. The safety conference lasti for two days. PLANES COLLIDE RAYMOND VILLE, Nov. 27 Two Navy-trainer planes collided in flight 17 miles north of Raymondville today and went down a Zmtt, kHIicg both pOoU. rvisors Study Funds For Libraries SANTA BARBARA The county Board of Supervisors is holding a special meeting today for decision, if possible, on several items of business.

One is the matter of the county sharing costs of operating three city libraries in the county, instead of giving a lump sum appropriation to the Santa Barbara Public Library, as in the past, for county-wide service to unincorporated areas. Another matter is the report of the administrative officer on a questionnaire concerning departmental audits. Supervisor E. Gracia of Santa Maria requested the special session. He has proposed that library funds be appropriated on a per capita basis.

The suggestion that the city libraries at Santa Maria and Lompoc be given support separate from the Santa Barbara Public Library appropriation was made by Supervisor R. McClellan of Lompoc. The matter of annual departmental audits also was brought to the attention of the board by Gracia, who pointed out some time ago that state law requires them. More Money Sought For Mental Care SACRAMENTO. Nov.

27 (ffl -The State Department of Mental Hygiene today requested a budget for the 1957-58 fiscal year to increase the level of care and treatment for the state's 50,000 mental patients. Dr. Walter Rapaport, director of the department, asked for new positions at a cost of New positions sought by the department for individual hospitals included 34 at Atascadero and 133 at Camarillo, showed no justification for traffic signal there. It had been originally proposed that the city, county and state share costs of installing the signal. Th luperviwri tied tha-ra- port.

ed unchecked in the creek drainage area near here for five days last week cost $400,000 to fight, U. S. Forest service offici als estimated today. Rangers described the fire as one of the most costly in Southern California history. Their esti mate included the actual cost of fighting the fire only and not the property damage.

Organ Grinder's Monkey Has Key to Disappearing Sayings Stowell-Broadway Signal Not Justified by Traffic Counts CHICAGO, Nov. 27, RPI Sam Canzona'i his partner and source of income for 20 years, today held the secret of the old organ grinder's stolen life savings. Sam was probably the last of Chicago's hurdy-gurdy men grinding out his favorite numbers, Marie" and "Th Sidewalks of New York" en the near north side until his retirement last July. His monkey "Rosie" collected th pennies, tad SANTA BARBARA The State highway division staff at San Luis Obispo reported to the Board of Supervisors Monday that a traffic count at the intersection of Broadway and itowH Xotd. Sant lria,.