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1 a a Maria, Times, Tuesday, June. 5, 1973 Obituaries Teruko S. Mun Marsden Poulton: Funeral for Mrs. Teruko S. Military graveside' service (Terry) Mun, 43, of 1206 S.

for Mr. Marsden (Dinger) Western will be at. 2 Poulton, 62, former Santa p.m., Wednesday in the Maria resident, was at chapel of the Magner Sawtelle Veterans Funeral Home with the Rev. Administration Cemetery, Kenneth E. Nelson, chaplain, Los Angeles.

U.S. Air Force, officiating. Mr. Poulton, born Aug. 8, Burial will, be in Santa 1910, in 1 Oakley, Idaho, died Maria Cemetery.

May 26 following a long Mrs. Mun, born March 14, illness. He was a 1929 1930, in Tokyo, Japan, died graduate of Santa Maria High Monday in a Vandenberg Air School. Force Base hospital. She had Survivors are four sisters: been a Santa Maria area Mrs.

Jennie Openshaw Groo resident since 1961 and was of Santa Maria, Mrs. Melba employed at the Vandenberg Colgan and Mrs. Zelma Exchange. Finney, both of Los Angeles, Survivors are her husband, and Mrs. Myrtle Barnard of Harry Mun, and a daughter, Twin Falls Idaho, and four Miss Pamela K.

Mun, both of nephews in Santa Maria. the home. Friends may call until 9 p.m. today and through Rosary time Wednesday. Linda K.

McKee Rosary for Miss Linda K. (Mimi) McKee, 14, of 317 E. Camino Colegio, will be recited at 8:30 p.m. today in the chapel of the Magner Funeral 'Home with Requiem Mass to be celebrated at 10 a.m. Wednesday in St.

Mary of the Assumption Catholic Church. Burial will be in Santa Maria Cemetery. Miss McKee, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John E.

McKee, owners of McKee Furniture, was born June 15, 1958, in San Luis Obispo and died June 2 in a local hospital. A freshman at St. Joseph High School, she was a member of St. Mary of the Assumption Catholic Church and the YMCA. Miss McKee was on the honor roll at St.

Joseph High school and taught at CCD, a Catholic organization. Survivors are her parents, two brothers, John E. McKee Jr. and Larry Bill McKee, both of the home. Pallbearers will be: Paul Riehle, Greg Brent Rodenburger, John Donati, Brian Hosp and Bob Ziemba.

Friends may call through Rosary time today and may make memorials to St. Joseph High School. Cecil Thompson Cecil Thompson Mr. Cecil Thompson, 64, died today in an Arroyo Grande hospital. Funeral is pending at Wood Funeral Home, Arroyo Grande.

Matt Hammond Funeral for Mr. Hammond, 53, of 295 Broadway, Orcutt, will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday in the chapel of Dudley-Hoffman Mortuary with the Rev. Berry Woods of St. Peter's Episcopal Church officiating.

Cremation will follow. Mr. Hammond, born July 30, 1919, in Santa Maria, died Sunday in an Arroyo Grande hospital. He attended local schools and graduated from Santa Maria High School in. 1937.

Mr. Hammond was a member of St. Peter's Episcopal Church. He was employed with Coit Drapery Cleaners and was an avid sportsman. Survivors are his widow, Mrs.

Dorothy Hammond of Orcutt; two daughters, Mrs. Helen, "Brady of Santa Barbara and Mrs. Ann Blackwell of Santa Maria; a brother, Harry Hammond of Santa Maria, and three grandchildren: Honorary pallbearers will Albert Rice, Tony Gomes, Parnell Tilley, Bud Cooper, Mark Gomes, Lloyd" Isham, Bernie. Wilson, Bion Campbell, Michael "Gomes, John Grindle, Jack Burke, and Bill Cooper. Friends may call until 9 p.m.

today. Friends, if they wish, may make memorials to the Heart Fund. SANTA MASSLE CAPITAL OF THE FREE WORLD ROBERTS. MAGEE Publisher FRED L. SENTERS Executive JOSEPH W.

BOESSENECKER Circulation Manager B. E. PIKE Production Manager JUNE 5, 1973-NO. 38 0 Published daily except Sunday by Santa Maria Publishing 201 West Chapel Santa Maria, Calif. Second class postage paid at Santa Maria, Calif.

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Telephone WA. 5-2691 City Councilmen To Cost Of Ecology Report Study 73-74 Budget Moved by Bothers a protest by "a insurance Small for all employes Builders small businessman against and $3,000 life insurance telephone conversations A Santa Maria city budget June 18 meeting. Major programs proposed before Monday's vote. showing total revenues of The council will meet at 7 for the year include the city's $150 fee for policies for police. Standard The city council also: $6,722,940 and expenditures p.m., half a an hour early, to reorganizing the planning environmental impact Life Insurance Co.

was given Agreed to eliminate two. of $6,655,200 was plopped start the budget talks. department to meet reports, the Santa Maria city a contract to provide $5,000 parking stalls in the city lot on the desks of city The new budget includes environmental impact report Monday night life insurance policies for on West Cypress Street to council voted councilmen Monday night. pay, raises granted employes requirements and to provide unanimously. for a staff other employes and leave a loading zone for A The figures are a big boost January, and Grogan said long-range planning, a new report as soon as possible to disability insurance for all Little Something shop on from 1972-73 figures of personnel: represent computer tally system for modify the fee for small employes.

Main Street and to facilitate $5,330,650 revenues and 71.9 per cent of the total elections, remodeling of the projects. David Hobbs reappointed four garbage pickup. $5,262,130 expenditures, budget, up from last year's police completion of Souza told the commission, and board Extended for 60 days a but City Administrator 70.5 per cent. However, the improvements at Simas Park council he needs the council contract to provide the Robert F. Grogan proposes city has only 7.36 employes and Elks Field, completion permit to build Souza's appointment to the one library new Santa Maria' Public Airport concurred in to hold the property tax line per 1,000 of landscaping at Preisker Body Shop at 1131 W.

board with with a policeman to meet at $1.07 per $100 valuation, compared to the national Park, replacement of the Cypress but can't get the member's secret federal the new average of 8.74, Grogan permit until he $150 name kept anti-hijacking with the additional money irrigation system at Buena pays until the post is accepted. requirements. largely coming from reported. Vista Park, planting of 500 the impact report. Souza Reappointed were Joseph Ordered construction of for increased sales tax revenue Capital improvements street trees, and acquiring said he wants to get a Olivera, long-time chairman a sidewalk along West and federal revenue sharing.

recommended total right of way for a water favorable impact report of the Stowell Road between The council turned down $1,353,730, a jump of transmission main from the before laying out money for Winston Wickenden and" Broadway and Thornburg planning commission; Grogan's request for budget $982,620 over last year, 6-million-gallon reservoir. it. "If I give them $150 and Councilman Elwin E. Mussell Street. sessions every Monday this with a substantial part of the Proposed revenue increases they deny me the use to the board of museum Issued a resolution month, and went along money coming from federal include a $255,000 jump in permit, don't get a and the advisory honoring the late Ray Jerry L.

Evans Funeral for Mr. Jerry Lee Evans, 17, of 1371 Via Del Carmel, will be at 3 p.m. Wednesday in the Newhart Family Garden chapel with the Rev. Ira Patishall, retired Baptist minister, officiating. Burial will be in Santa Maria Cemetery.

Mr. Evans, born 1956, in Yuma, died Sunday afternoon at his home. He was a sophomore at Righetti High School. Survivors are his parents, Alfred L. and Patsy A.

Evans, of the home; three sisters, Debra, Kristie and Lisa Evans, all of the home, and maternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Ed Beasley of Lompoc. Pallbearers will be: Dennis Cota, Stan Miles, Kim Simpson, Rick Bridges, Jerry Collins and Tony Holland. Friends may call until 9 p.m.

today and until service time Wednesday. .1973 JUNE 1973 TWIGS 2 3 7 8 9 10 1144 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30. Today's Briefs VOLUNTEERS NEEDED "I Care" is seeking, new volunteers who are interested in 1 people and who are willing to listen. Interested persons are asked to contact I Care; 2-7878, as soon a as possible and leave their name, address and telephone number. 4-H LEADERS Orcutt, Sisquoc and Los Alamos 4-H area leaders meeting will be at 7:30 p.m.

Thursday in the home economics room of Orcutt Junior High School. Leaders and parents are invited. WARRANT ISSUED A bench warrant was. issued in Superior Court Friday for Stacey Singleton, .20, after she failed to appear on charges of possessing. marijuana, possessing cocaine for sale, and possessing drug paraphernalia on April 3.

CAKE, GARAGE SALE The Santa Maria 'Marine Corps League Auxiliary" will have a combined cake garage sale' Friday and Saturday 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. at 3815 Mono off of Los Padres Road. Proceeds will benefit the Orcutt School District art program. REUNION MEETING Members of the Santa Maria High School graduating class of 1968 will meet at 7:30 p.m.

Thursday at Denny's Restaurant, 1019 E. Main' to discuss final plans for the Class' five-year reunion. $360 FINES Two motorists were fined $360 apiece in Municipal Court Friday for drunken driving. Jerry, William King, 32, of Santa Maria was fined' for an offense of April 26. Stephen Roger Engel, 22, of 224 E.

Foster as fined for an offense of March. 24. MAN JAILED Grover City jailede, Charley Clayton 'McMurtrey, 24, of the Nipomo mesa on suspicion of grand theft auto after he allegedly' was apprehended in Ocean8 at 8:01 p.m. Monday driving a car reported stolen by Edward Peters Banks, 1566 Atlantic City Grover City. instead with Mayor George S.

Hobbs suggestion, that councilmen study. the budget alone and confer with 'staff on any questions they have before the council takes up the budget at the Developer Reservations Are Arriving Reservations are beginning to arrive at the Santa Maria Valley Developers office for the 12th Annual Dinner-Dance Meeting to be held Wednesday, June 13, at 7:30 p.m. at the Elks Lodge 1538 of Santa Maria. The evening's activities will include a formal, brief installation of executive officers and members of the Board of Directors, a cocktail function, dinner, followed by dancing and entertainment as performed by. "The Gallions," and vocalist Janie Tartaglia.

TWO COMMITTED Two men arrested in March 15 drug raids i in Guadalupe were determined in Superior Court Monday to be drug addicts and were committed to the California Rehabilitation Center at Corona. Edward Barron Escalante, 24, and. Fred Lopez Armenta, 18, were charged with selling heroin. Criminal charges are suspended during their treatment. $300 FINE James G.

Jackson, 25, of Lompoc, was fined $300 in Superior Court Monday and placed on five years' probation for possessing marijuana. Jackson was arrested in Lompoc during mid-March drug raids in the north county. YEAR IN JAIL Junior Ray Hines, 18, was sentenced in. Municipal Court to a year in jail for possessing marijuana on March 18. The term is to be served concurrently with a served concurrently with a term Hines is serving for petty theft and possessing beer in public on May 8.

NAME WRONG Linda's Lassies baton corps. of Paso Robles was a first place winner in Saturday's Elks Rodeo The parade list indicated it was the Linda Lassider group, which was incorrect. HYPERTENSION CLINIC Santa Maria Hospital will sponsor a hypertension detection clinic, from, 9. a.m. to noon Wednesday in the Outpatient Clinic on the south side of the buifding, Parkview, between W.

Park and Morrison Aves. The service is free to persons bf all ages. Nurses will take blood pressure readings and record them on file cards with other pertinent information. Those needing medical attention, for elevated blood pressures will be referred to their physician. 4 Sentenced For Marijuana Possession Four young persons were sentenced in Superior Court Friday for possessing.

marijuana in a Solvang residence on April 12. Robert Allan 22, was fined $500 and placed On three years' probation, for a felony offense. The offense was ruled a misdemeanor for three other defendants, Gary Lynn Tonda, Nicholas William Johnson, 23, and Thomas Bolduc, 24, who were fined $250 apiece and placed on year's probation. revenue sharing programs. The jump in capital outlay accounts for most of the $1,393,070 increase in the budget over last year.

sales tax, $364,520 in federal revenue sharing, $143,000 increase in sewer fees, and a $242,000 increase in gasoline taxes. Four Victims Of Crash Identified Identification of four persons killed recently in an auto accident in northern San Luis Obispo county has been established by the sheriff's coroner department. A fifth victim still is unknown. Dead are David Louis Turns, 18, Los Angeles; Kim Ann Coton, 17; and Kenneth James Schneider, both of Schenectady, New York, and Richard Wayne Robinson, 25, West Covina. The fifth person, a male negro, is believed to have been in his.

early 20's and was wearing blue levis, a long-sleeved brown sweater and black tennis shoes. The five died either late Thursday or early Friday' morning when their southbound vehicle plunged over a steep cliff near Ragged Pt. on Highway 1. The auto tore out 60 feet of guard rail before dropping 450 feet to a beach below. Authorities recovered the victims' bodies by utilizing a helicopter and identified the victims through cooperation with police departments of Los Angeles and New York.

Ownership of the wrecked auto is being traced and i it appears to have belonged to Robinson, deputies said. The vehicle was in Berkeley late last week. Gourley To Join Local Law Firm, G. Bruce Gourley, formerly assistant district attorney in the Santa Maria D.A.'S office, has joined attorneys Gary J. Dunlap and Rodney S.

Melville as a partner in their law firm, it was announced today. Gourley returns to Santa Maria after a year and a half as a professor of police science at Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, where he taught criminal law and related subjects. Before joining the district attorney's staff, Gourley was a partner in the firm of Gourley, Minier and Kirkpatfick. David D. Minier is now district attorney for Santa Barbara County, while Richard C.

Kirkpatrick is a Society To Sponsor Lectures The International Meditation Society is sponsoring a second in a series of lectures on Transcendental Meditation as taught by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. The meeting will be held' in the Nelson Room of the Public Library, Wednesday, June. 6 at 7:30 p.m. Michael Porter of Santa Barbara, guest lecturer and. feacher of the technique of Transcendental Meditation, will explain in detail the advantages and the beneficial effects of the simple technique.

The public is invited to the meeting and admission i is free. For, further information call 925-7613. EEEFEEE This test pattern is. part of the Times quality printing control program to give you the nations finest newspaper. permit, don't get a refund," he said.

City Attorney John A. Van Ryn explained that the city has little option in the case at present, because state law and court decisions have mandated procedures dealing with environmental impact reports. When'a use permit is required, the impact report is required, and before any ruling is made on use permits, the city must take the impact report into consideration, Van Ryn said. Councilmen admitted the $150 fee is an arbitrary figure, but said the city hasn't had enough experience with impact report (EIR) costs yet to set a different figure. Mayor George S.

Hobbs Jr. tossed out a motion to lower the fee to $35 for projects with less than 100 feet of frontage, but that. was beaten 3-2. The council then agreed to ask for the staff report as soon as possible. Souza was told he- can pay his $150 under protest in order to get on with use permit, and that he might be in line for: partial refund if a lower fee if set later.

In another action, the council awarded two contracts for employe. insurance. Founders Life Insurance was given a contract to provide health Four Plead Guilty To Drug Counts Four men who were involved with eight kilograms of marijuana on May 16 pleaded guilty in Municipal Court Monday to marijuana charges. Michael Bryan Thompson, 25, of Oceano, pleaded guilty to possessing marijuana. Gregory Barnes Pedigo, 24, Emory Robertson Pedigo, 20, and Earl Graham Ward Ill, 22, all of Santa Maria, pleaded guilty to possessing marijuana for sale.

All are to appear June Friday in Superior Court. The four were arrested after. undercover narcotics agents arranged to buy a large quantity of the weed. OBON PRACTICES Obon dance practices will take place twice weekly from 7:30 to 9 p.m. in the Santa Maria Community Center, 134 N.

Western in preparation for the annual Obon Festival coming to Guadalupe July 22. Joe Honda, general chairman, has invited the public to the practices. Star Cleaners and Coit Drapery Cleaners will be closed all day Wednesday, June 6, 1973 in loving memory of -Matthew Matt" Hammond. Star Cleaners Coit Drapery Cleaners 217 East Main landmark committee; and Chester Langenbeck to the library board. Beth May, a time library board member, asked not to be reappointed this year, Hobbs said.

Hobbs said each councilman approved his unnamed nominee to replace Mrs. May in Koyama for his community services. Adopted a plan offered by Aetna Life Insurance Co. for deferred compensation to participating employes. The retirement benefit plan costs the city nothing, City Administrator Robert F.

Grogan said. School District Seeks Bids On Two Buildings The Santa Maria Elementary School District Board of Education Monday ordered readvertising for bids for replacement of two school buildings, one at Fairlawn School and the other at Miller School. The board, in special, session, rejected two bids received May 16 and ordered the readvertising. The May 16 bids, by Thilman Co. of Santa Barbara at $898,000 and Tri-Central of Fresno at $839,900, were more than $100,000 higher than the maximum limit set.

down as a condition for a state loan to pay about two-thirds of the cost. The readvertising came after. conferences between the district's architectural firm, Anthony and Langford of Whittier, and the State Allocation Board. Meanwhile, a study will be made on how to reduce costs in the event that bids are over the maximum a second time. The project was set up to cost about $734,000, with about $500,000 being paid through a state loan and the remainder coming from district funds already raised by an override property tax.

The new buildings will old structures which are unsafe from earthquake under provisions of the state Field Act. Hobbs Target Of Council Hijinks His fellow city councilmen threw a little surprise party for Mayor George S. Hobbs Jr. Monday night. The low key hijinks began near the meeting's close when freshman councilman Thomas B.

Urbanske pulled a large, dirty mail bag from under his desk, and pulled out two letters. One noted it was Hobbs' 20th anniversary with the Post Office, and the other- patently spurious proposed Hobbs be named postmaster or some other less demanding job. Dan Firth then presented Hobbs with a historical painting, depicting Columbus's ship Santa Maria with a whiskered Hobbs in the crow's nest. C. Clayton Kyle gave Hobbs a sail from the Santa Maria, closely resembling a bedsheet, which bore a painting of the city's new seal featuring the ship Santa Maria.

Mayor Pro Tem Elwin E. Mussell, wearing a blue. postal type cap, closed the briet rites with some anecdotes about Hobbs' tenure as mayor. G. BRUCE GOURLEY Municipal Court judge here.

Gourley is a graduate of Northern Arizona and received his law degree from Southwestern University College of Law. He retired from the Los Angeles police department as a lieutenant, worked for the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and was a Navy intelligence officer in World War Il. Gourley and his wife Helen have -two sons, Bruce a graduate student at San Diego State, and Greg, a junior at Northern Arizona. The new law firm will have offices in Santa Maria and Lompoc. Rowan's GRADUATION Sale! Samsonitel Classic I COMMUTER 3" sizeReg.

$32.50 SALE $2745 MAGISTRATE 5" size Reg. $35 SALE $2995 Rowan's 106 W. MAIN DOWNTOWN..