a a Jan. 7, A.G. Festival Committee Sets Meeting ARROYO GRANDE First meeting of the new year for the Arroyo Grande Harvest Festival Committee is set for Monday, Jan. 12. B'Ann Smith, president, will convene the meeting at 8 p.m.
conference at Mia State Bank, '2026 Grand Avenue, Arroyo Grande. Main purpose of the meeting is to elect officers for 1976 and possibly set a date for the annual community celebration. Also anticipated is a financial wrap-up report on the successful 1975 event. All local organizations are urged to send representatives. Since this is an allvolunteer committee, anyone interested is welcome.
Second Murder Charged SAN LUIS OBISPO Patrick Ronald Lee was indicted Monday on a second murder charge, making him liable for the death penalty if convicted. Lee, 21, of Oceano, was accused by the San Luis Obispo County Grand Jury in the July 25 beating of his stepmother, Thelma, 67, who died Dec. 30 of head injuries inflicted by a meat tenderizer. Superior Court Judge Richard Kirkpatrick postponed Lee's trial on an indictment alleging he fatally shot Albert Kodak, 21, of rural Arroyo Grande, in Lopez Canyon, Aug. 5, to further hear motions on Jan.
15. The trial had been set for Tuesday. Arraignment on the new indictment is set for Thursday. SKYLAB I RECORD On June 17, 1973, Skylab I astronauts, in 24th day aboard orbiting space station, broke man-In-space record set by Soviet cosmonauts. BORROWING KING On June 18, 1625, Charles I resorted to a loan for supplies in the war against Spain after Parliament refused to approve his monetary request.
Siren's Song Falls On Deaf Ears In Sleepy Pismo Beach PISMO BEACH Residents of this somnolent seaside village seemingly slept through the siren's song New Year's Day. The sirens of the Fire Department shorted out and began wailing around 1 a.m. on Jan. 1. It took Fire Chief Dave Zardeneta an hour and a half to shut them down.
All three sirens in the area were activated, forcing Zardeneta to drive to each to shut the power off before the sirens fell silent. "It made long night for me," he said wearily. Oddly enough, with all the noise, the complaints were few. "I think it would be safe to say we had a dozen calls," said Pismo Police Chief Jim Keane. "It doesn't say too much for the town," he joked.
"What if it had been an air raid?" "I think I heard them," Spell Whets Interest Water Project Bond Issue could drop out and peddle their entitlements. And there's no shortage of takers. Deputy County Engineer Clinton Milne expects Santa Barbara to defer SWP for another two years. But he also notes that if inflation continues to escalate, it may reach the point where it would be cheaper for San Luis Obispo County to. go it alone than wait on its southern cousin.
There is some indication of interest by the City of San Luis Obispo. in the Nacimiento project, which lost a November 1974 election in a zone covering five other areas. Acting City Administrator Jean Fitzpatrick has posed a series of questions on the comparative allocations and costs of SWP and Nacimiento water in a letter to the county. And City Planning Director Rob Strong has declared supplemental water will be SAN LUIS OBISPO If this winter turns out to be a dry one, San Luis Obispo County's once-defeated Nacimiento Lake water project may have a good chance of getting on the November ballot. And if the City of San Luis Obispo can get its act together on water versus growth, it may end up helping put the bond issue probably for $31 million or more over with the voters.
Regardless, both San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara counties must decide again by next Jan. 1 whether to go ahead with the coastal aqueduct of the State Water Project or defer it, probably for another two years which would delay delivery of Feather River water until 1984. The counties, which can hang together or separately, have another alternative on state water, of course. They needed by the city in the early 1980s unless population is limited to 42,000. With only moderate growth, Strong said, 3,000 to 6,000 acre-feet a year would be needed to take care of 64,000 people, but under the "induced growth" program for 86,000 population, as much as 7,500 acre-feet a year more would be needed within the next 20 years and that would have to come from the state project.
Moreover, Mayor Kenneth Schwartz figures the city would be needing supplementary water as early as 1982 or 1984. The city's course may well be set in forthcoming hearings on its new general plan. The Nacimiento project has top priority in the county's master water plan. Meanwhile, Milne still has hopes of getting state permission by May 1 to go through with the county's previously rejected plan to sell its SWP entitlement on a year-to-year basis to the Lost Hills Water District in Kern County. And he said findings from drilling of a second observation well on the Oceano beach confirmed the first well's indication of a large water-bearing formation underground but not another one deeper.
The formation may contain as much as five million acrefeet of water how much of it can be extracted isn't known yet. Milne said quality is comparable to most of the water in the Nipomo area and usuable for most crops as well as being "quite acceptable" as drinking water. The tests, costing $30,000, are part of a joint county-state study that will cost a total of $240,000, split 50-50, although the county's share can be in services instead of cash. County Supervisors Approve, Ramada Inn, Other Matters SAN LUIS OBISPO County Supervisors gave new chairman Hans Heilmann's area a $2 million present Monday: Unanimous approval of a negative environmental declaration for the proposed Ramada Inn at Atascadero. Although the 3-acre site is in past chairman Richard Krejsa's district, Heilmann's includes much of Atascadero and the north county which would directly benefit from the project.
Developer Erling Edvards, who angrily chose the site after the San Luis Obispo City Council insisted on a deeper environmental study, said plans are to break ground March 1 or April 1. Construction would take about 16 months, he said. Edvards escaped an impact study by reducing the height of the 112-unit motel--which would have a banquet room for 500 to 700 from four stories in one section to three, the same as the other part, satisfying fire protection requirements and obtaining data indicating the project would not overload the sewer system. Acting Atascadero Fire Chief Edward O'Malley said Edvards' promise, to be carried out through planning departmental review, to provide a sprinkler system throughout the motel along with other measures-satisfied him. (The site is PUBLIC NOTICE Superior Court of the State of California IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF SAN LUIS OBISPO No.
16175 In the Matter of the Estate of FAY H. BROOKS, NOTICE OF TIME AND PLACE FOR PROVING WILL AND HEARING APPLICATION FOR LETTERS TESTAMENTARY NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that BANK OF NT SA has filed with the Clerk of this Court, a petition for the probate of the will of FAY H. BROOKS Deceased, and for the issuance of Letters TESTAMENTARY to BANK OF AMERICA NT SA, and that Monday, the 19th day of January, 1976, at 9:30 o'clock A.M., in Department at the Courtroom of said Court, in the Courthouse Annex in the City of San Luis Obispo, County of San Luis Obispo, State of California, has been set as the time and place for the hearing of said petition by the Court and any person interested may appear and contest the same, and show cause, if any they have, why said petition should not be MISBETH WOLLAM Clerk Mary Barnes Deputy Clerk Dated January 6, 1976. (SEAL) CLARK- HAMMER PO. Box 406, Grover City, Ca.
93433 Attorneys for Petitioner No. 10 Pub 3T Jan. 7, 9, 14, 1976. 1976 -Five Cities Times-Press-Recorder, Arroyo Grande, Calif. Page 16 CELL OBITUARIES Christine Loomis between El Camino Real, Highway 101, Santa Rosa and San Gabriel roads).
And County Engineer George Protopapas said the estimated 237,000 gallons per minute peak load the motel could place on the nearby pumping station would be under its 250,000 g.p.m. capacity. Even with full development of the remaining 180 acres served by the pump, Protopapas said, the peak would still be under capacity at 248,000 g.p.m. He said the peak population served would be raised by the project from the contemplated 1,484 to the equivalent of 1,551. Krejsa had some qualms.
Citing the troubles encountered by the former Ramada Inn just south of Paso Robles, he said "It's only after a venture becomes unprofitable' that the taxpayers are affected, as in the case of a Nacimiento Lake project. What's really needed, he said, is an economic report. But Heilmann said the board can't shepherd projects financially. Edvards figured the motel would bring in up to $65,000 a year in bed taxes, which would go to the county unless Atascadero incorporates. O'Malley said the developer will provide on-site fire hydrants, adobe interior and exterior walls, two-hour fire walls in halls and one-hour fire walls between rooms and concrete floors and roofs.
"This type of construction is very commendable," O'Malley said. "'This is the optimum." Since there is only one dead tree on the site, the ecological impact was regarded as virtually nil. On other matters, the board: -Set for special session Jan. 20 at 9 a.m. report on hospitals system's need to borrow $758,078 from general fund to pay state MedicareMedi share costs.
-Invited the 14 members of the health systems agency committee, other consumers and providers--including physicians who declined to be represented on the committee to apply for appointment by the board to a screening committee to examine applications for appointment as county representatives on the proposed four -county governmental agency. The 14-member committee was appointed to study Monterey County's proposed compromise plan for a nonprofit agency instead of a governmental one. Chairman Art Jack said the committee's chief recommendations were that elected officials named to the agency governing body not be limited to supervisors and he noted that the compromise would require three counties to agree on dissolution. Under the previously considered governmental (joint powers authority) setup, dissolution could occur if only one county pulled out with 90 days' notice before the end of a fiscal year. -Rejected, 3-2, Krejsa and Kupper in the minority, Kupper's resolution for locally designated scenic road corridors, but agreed to refer it to the land use element study as a suggestion.
Krejsa said "I see this as a further protection of agricultural lands when I think what's going to happen between Atascadero and Templeton and Templeton and Paso Robles once the (Templeton) sewer line goes in." But Heilmann said he thought Highway 41 would have become a scenic highway if the planning department hadn't tried to include more than the minimum requirements. And Mankins said Kupper should have gathered support beforehand. He also worried about costs and other problems of designating which roads. -Approved, 4-1, Kupper dissenting, attendance at Jan. 28-30 seminar on public employe retirement in Orlando, by Municipal Finance Officers Association for Pension trustees Fred Cusick and Donald King and Animal Control Contract Amendments Proposed GROVER CITY A revised animal control contract, proposed by county representative George Silva, didn't meet with much interest by the Grover City Council Monday night.
The contract has been prepared by Silva, based on the costs for the animal control program during its first year of operation. It has not yet been approved by the Board of Supervisors. The major difference in the new contract is the inclusion of specific costs for various components of the contract. The new contract also includes a maximum cost for each city, based on projections of revenue and costs for the coming year. The proposed maximum for Grover City would be $3,800 for the first year.
The figures. that the maximum was based on was the $2,200 cost to the city for executive secretary Burton Peterson at cost of $650 each, $1,950 total. Kupper was opposed because Peterson said the trust wants to put off pending court rulings a study on the effects of adjusting pension contributions by women employes. -Continued a week action on low bid of $254,500 by Bunnell Construction Co. for building animal shelter.
-Authorized purchase of San Luis Airport clear zone 34 acres for $203,500 from Henry Zanolli and others. --Granted variance to Leach Carter modular and precut homes sign along freeway at Santa Maria river for height of 28 feet instead of 37 feet height sought; 3-2 Krejsa, Kupper opposed. -Continued two weeks resolution to include airports served by commuter lines in definition of "air carrier airports" in pending congressional bill to make them eligible for more money. reported Mrs. Amy Lewis, of Shell Beach, "but it didn't bother me a bit.
I was glad to know the Fire Department was on the job." The problem with the sirens is far from over, however. to The find, short and has not all proven fire difficult locations work as yet. The phone company has sent linemen out to work on the wires nearly every day since the problem occurred, but they have not met with too much success. Lee Balatti, head of the phone company in San Luis Obispo, said he thought they had the difficulty licked Monday after repairing faulty auxiliary ringing equipment in the central office. Then, when the linemen attempted to bring the sirens back into" service, they took off again.
"We're still working on it," sighed Balatti. Demands for Fence Delay Pearwood Lot Split Request ARROYO GRANDE Fences are meant to be climbed, according to one planning commissioner, but a fence kept Richard Lemon from getting a lot split last night. Lemon requested a lot split for his property at the end of Pearwood Avenue. A petition signed by 83 of his neighbors in the area requested that if the lot split is approved, a condition be added, requiring a fence at the top and bottom of the bluff along the edge of his property. Several residents of the area complained that the hill at the end of Pearwood was dangerous to children and that rocks rolling down the hillside end up in the street, on houses and against cars.
But commissioner Pearl Cole. said the fence would be an attractive nuisance for children. John Sandoval said ARROYO GRANDE Mrs. Christine Loomis, native Californian and World War I Navy nurse who married into a pioneer Arroyo Grande Family, died Sunday evening in Arroyo Grande Community Hospital after a brief illness. She was the widow of Ivan A.
Loomis, native of Arroyo Grande and long-time feed and grain dealer who died in 1953. Mrs. Loomis was born in San Diego but grew up in the Bay Area. She lived in Palo Alto and on the historic Hooper ranch in Woodside, attending Miss Harker's School in Palo Alto and Stanford School of Nursing. After completing training at old Stanford Lane Hospital in San Francisco, she enlisted as a Navy nurse, with the rank of ensign.
She went overseas in 1917 and was stationed in Dingwall, Northern Scotland during World War I. There she met Ivan, who also was stationed with the same Navy unit. They were married a year after the Armistice, on Sept. 6, 1919 in the redwood grove at the Brown adobe in Woodside, and came to live in Arroyo Grande where Ivan became a partner with his father, Edward, in the firm still known as E. C.
Loomis Son. Both Mr. and Mrs. Loomis were charter members of the Arroyo Grande Legion Post, and Mrs. Loomis was a charter member of the Arroyo Grande Women's Club.
She was active in Red Cross work locally during the Depression and was a Grey Lady during World War II at the County Hospital. She also did volunteer nursing and drove for the blind for several years. She was the leader of the second Camp Fire Girls group in the South County, and served as nurse at several of the summer camps. Since her husband's death she has managed the Tar Springs Ranch in the Huasna, a cattle operation and until recently a turkey farm. For several years she raised some 12,000 turkeys a year, doing much of the work herself.
Mrs. 1 Loomis is survived by four children, Patricia Loomis of San Jose, Peggy (Mrs. Andrew) David, John and 1 Richard Loomis all of Arroyo Grande a sister, Mrs. Lorraine of Woodside; a brother, Jack Hammond of Grass Valley; 13 grandchildren and two greatgrandchildren. Graveside services were conducted at 11 a.m.
today (Wednesday) in the Arroyo Grande District Cemetery under the direction of Wood Funeral Chapel. Burial was in the family plot. Lloyd Berry SHELL BEACH Graveside services were held at noon Tuesday for Lloyd E. Berry, 72, of Shell Beach in Los Osos Valley Memorial Park. His grandson, the Rev.
Greg Berry will officiate. Mr. Berry was born Feb. 7, 1903 in Goffs, Kan. He lived in Shell Beach for 18 years.
He died Friday at an Arroyo Grande hospital. Mr. Berry operated a sign painting business in Arroyo Grande. He was a deputy sheriff for special services. He was past master of the Raising Star Lodge 668 in Raising Star, Tex.
Surviving the deceased are one son, C. V. Berry of Pismo Beach; a daughter, Dorothy Mills of Morro Bay; a brother, Lester of Grover City, two sisters, Mabel Ochs of Los Angeles and Fern Hill of Burbank, and eight grandchildren and nine greatgrandchildren. Tools Taken In Two Burglaries ARROYO GRANDE Tools were stolen. in two separate thefts over the weekend, totaling $620 in value.
Frank Maita reported to police that on the morning of Friday, Jan. 2, someone entered the unlocked cab of his pickup truck parked in the alley in the 500 block of Nelson St. and took $500 worth of assorted electrical tools. On Monday, Jan. 5, Mr.
Avery Setzer reported the theft of a tool box and tools' from a residence under construction at 364 Walnut. The tools were taken from the garage sometime between 6 p.m. Sunday and 7:30 p.m.' Monday. 1 Mrs. Christine Loomis Lena Lowe Dale W.
Zimarik GROVER CITY Graveside services for Lena E. Lowe, 88, of Grover City, were held today (Wednesday) at 10 a.m. at the Arroyo Grande District Cemetery. Rev. Stanley Durham officiated.
Mrs. Lowe was born June 23, 1887, in Missouri. She died Monday in a San Luis Obispo hospital. She had been a 32 year resident of Grover City and was a member of the First Southern Baptist Church of Grover City and the Royal Neighbors of America. Surviving her are five sons, Leonard A.
Ewing of Morro Bay, Roby A. Lowe of Arroyo Grande, Baxter R. Lowe of Nipomo, Charles B. Lowe and William F. Lowe, both of Santa Maria; a brother, Thomas Davis of Lemoore; 12 grandchildren and 24 greatgrandchildren.
Arrangements under the direction of Wood Funeral Home, Arroyo Grande. Marguerite Allen ARROYO GRANDE Private funeral services for Marguerite B. Allen, 79, of Arroyo Grande, were held at 9 a.m. Tuesday in the Sunset Chapel, Grover City. The Rev.
Cornelius Leih of Bethel Baptist Church, Grover City, officiated. Intombment followed in Pacific View Memorial Park, Newport Beach. Mrs. Allen was born Oct. 31, 1896, in Kendall, New York.
She died Saturday in an Arroyo Grande hospital. She had been a resident of Arroyo Grande 15 years. Surviving her are a sister, Alma Dawkins of Arroyo Grande, and nieces and nephews. Peggy Falco PISMO BEACH Recitation of the Rosary was held Monday at 8 p.m. at Miller's Tulare Chapel in Tulare for Peggy A.
Falco, 68, of Tipton. She was a part time resident of Pismo Beach. Funeral services will be conducted at 11 a.m. Tuesday at Miller's by the Rev. F.
J. Gallagher. Mrs. Falco is survived by her husband, Louis A. Falco of Tipton, and three brothers and three sisters.
Burial was in the Tipton Pixley District Cemetery in Tulare County. Car Accident Injures Youth ARROYO GRANDE A man received minor injuries Sunday evening in a single car accident on Valley Road. Lee Barton, 18, vi Arroyo Grande, was northbound on Valley Road when he missed a curve. The vehicle left the road, struck a water hydrant, and turned on its side. Barton was taken to the hospital by city police, where he was given stitches for a knee injury.
ARROYO GRANDE Private services and burial were held Saturday for Dale W. Zimarik, 18, of Arroyo Grande. Funeral services were at Wood Chapel. Dale was born in Los Angeles March 16, 1957. He died Thursday in an Arroyo Grande hospital.
He was a graduate of Arroyo Grande High School and a student at Cuesta College. is survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. William E. Zimarik of Arroyo Grande; his maternal grandmother, Marie Marchese of Akron, Ohio and his paternal grandmother, Odette Herz of San Diego.
The family suggests that those who wish to may make donations to the Dale Zimarik memorial scholarship fund at Arroyo Grande High School. Mabel Peterson ARROYO GRANDE Private funeral services for Mabel E. Peterson, 85, of Arroyo Grande, were held Monday at the Wood Funeral Home chapel, Arroyo Grande. Mrs. Peterson was born June 24, 1890, in Glover, N.D.
She died Saturday in an Arroyo Grande hospital. She had been a resident of Arroyo Grande 11 years. Surviving her are a son, Howard A. Peterson of Falls Church, and two grandsons. Bessie Thomas ARROYO GRANDE Funeral services for Bessie H.
Thomas, 90, of Arroyo Grande, were held today (Wednesday) at 2 p.m. at the Sunset Chapel, Grover City. The Rev. Cornelius Leih of Bethel Baptist Church, Grover City officiated. Burial will follow in Arroyo Grande District Cemetery.
Mrs. Thomas was born in Rising Sun, Oct. 26, 1885. She died Monday in Arroyo Grande. She had been a resident of the South County for 20 years.
Surviving are her husband, Richard Thomas of Arroyo Grande; two daughters, Helen Lehman of Arroyo and Hazel Patten of Kansas; a. son, Richard W. Thomas of Oregon; a brother, Robert Higbee of Indiana; seven grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren. the first 10 months of operation of the program. Silva estimated that the cost to the city this year will be about $3,000.
The actual cost of all animal control services provided to the city, Silva said, was about $7,500. But revenue collected from dog licenses and impound fees help pay the city's 60 per cent share of the cost. The county picks up the other 40 per cent of all costs of the services. At the end of Silva's lenghy presentation, councilman Woody Lynn said he basically supported the contract. Don Heath and Bob Newdoll: both said the city should wait until the county accepts the contract before taking any action.
Acting city administrator Arnold Dowdy recommended continuing for another year with the existing contract to gather more in-! formation. "fences are made to be climbed. I can see a fence at the bottom of the hill." A at the top, he said, would be just an added restriction. Mrs. Cole said a lot of the problem with rocks is caused by wind and weather, not people climbing on the hill.
And Kelly Calhoon said it really didn't have anything to do with the request for a lot split. Before the discussion of the fence, the commission voted 6-1 to grant the lot split and a previously approved zone change negative declaration status, exempting the project from having to prepare an environmental impact report. Al Ries opposed the motion. The commission finally voted unanimously to refer the lot split back to the city staff for suggestions on the problem. Vincent Noviski ARROYO GRANDE Requiem Mass was held at 9 a.m.
Tuesday at St. Patrick's Catholic Church 'in Arroyo Grande for Vincent Joachni Noviski, 17, of Arroyo Grande. The Rev. Michael O'Sullivan officiated. Noviski was born Feb.
24, 1958, in Orange, N.J. He died at his home Saturday after a long illness. He is survived by a great aunt, Louise Evans by Arroyo Grande. Burial was in Arroyo Grande Cemetery. Arrangements were made by Wood funeral home..
