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100-Acre Forest Fire in LA Area; Camper Arrested Los Angeles (U.R) The U. S. Forest Service last night threw "all available men and equip ment" into fighting a 100-acre fire started in Angeles National Forest by a camper who was cited for violating a closure or der in a high-fire hazard area. The fire was not large com pared to blazes which have blackened thousands of acres of valuable watershed in previous years, but the forest service rated it as a "serious, major fire," fearing it could spread to other tinder-box brush. " Citation Issued The Forest Service said an officer issued a citation to a man who started - a gasoline stove in a brush area near Swit zer camp, about' 75 yards off Angeles Crest highway 14 miles north of here. The stove 'exploded, starting the blaze., The forest service said the camper had entered an area that had been closed to everyone because of an extreme ly, high fire hazard, a misde meanor violation. The Angeles Crest highway was closed on both' sides of the forest as heavy fire-fighting equipment rolled in to fight the blaze. Stations Vacated Two forest service stations were evacuated. A woman look cut left the Josephine lookout and a forest officer's family was evacuated at the Waterman guard station. There were hundreds of week end campers in the national for est, but officials said no one was endangered, although they said campers in the Charleton and Chilao areas would be "in convenienced" since they would have to go home by roads other than the Angeles Crest highway, some of them dirt trails. Some 350 firefighters, includ ing "hot-shot crews" from four southern California National forests in San Bernardino, San Diego and Santa Barbara, were put into the mile-long fire line last night with hopes of bring ing the blaze under . control early Sunday morning. The weather was favorable with no high winds, although daytime temperatures reached the 100 degree mark. It is estimated that about one sixth of all the patents issued yearly in the United States are related to the automobile industry. Another Big When You Buy That New ' HOT WATER HEATER 0HLY$ LVK7 Other Hot Water Heaters . . TRADE-INS! YES' Re9 City Appliainice, lime. SPEAKER Rex Miller, news commentator and former diplo mat, will speak at a public assembly at Southern Oregon college, Ashland, Wednesday. Obituaries W. A. TUCKER Private funeral services for W. A. Tucker, 86, who died in a local hospital Friday, will be held at Perl funeral home at 1:30 p.m. Monday with the Rev. George R. V. Bolster, rector of St. Mark's Episcopal church,' of ficiating, interment will be at Siskiyou Memorial Park. He was born in Wiltshire, Eng land, on Sept. 16, 1869. Coming to the United States in 1890, he was naturalized two years later and was active for a number of years in the real estate and auc tion business. The deceased was a member of St. Luke's Episcopal church and Long Beach Masonic Lodge 327 AF and AM. Survivors include his wife, Grace, now in Medford; a daughter, Mrs. Mildred Wil cox; two grandsons, Lyle Tucker Wilcox and Robert Fletcher Wil cox, and a sin-in-law, Lyle P. Wilcox, all of Medford. DELIA CROTEAU Funeral services for Mrs. Delia F. Croteau, 84, a Medford resi dent for 38 years, will be held in the Sacred Heart Catholic church at 9 a.m. Monday. Father N. J. Deis will officiate.' Mrs. Croteau died Friday. Interment will take place in the Medford I OOF cemetery, Recitation of the Holy Rosary will be held at Perl funeral home at 7:30 p.m. Sunday. Mrs. Croteau was born in Clif ton County, Ireland, on Dec. 28, 1870, and was a member of the Sacred Heart Catholic church, She leaves two nieces, one in Massachusetts and one in Ire land. . Death Valley in east Californ ia and western Nevada compris es a land area about 140 miles in length and from four to 16 miles in width. SOtliCfj Anniversary UPRIGHT MODEL Regular $144.75 fl5 (5)95 II U.Z3 2J Exclusive Hotpoint Dealers "Hotpoint Changes Your Viewpoint Automatically" Russian Sailors Request Asylum Washington (U.R) The . Unit ed States Saturday was report ed considering appeals from nine Russian sailors for permis sion to enter this country as refugees from Soviet commu nism. Chances were believed good that they would be given asy lum. But the opening of the Geneva Big Four conference on Monday was likely to delay early action because officials do not want to rile the Russians during the meeting. The .sailors are part, of the 49-man crew on the Soviet tank er Tuapse seized by the Nation alist Chinese Navy on June 23, 1954. Moscow has bitterly and repeatedly, protested detention of the vessel and its crew. The Russian embassy here also has sought to discourage the United States from granting asylum to any of the sailors. Dispatches. Saturday from Taipei, the Nationalist capital, said 29 of the Red seamen were being repatriated to Russia through, the good offices of the French embassy on Formosa. But the Nationalist government was said to have granted po litical asylum to , the other 20 and some of these want to come to the United States. Many Korea Ex-Pows Eligible for Benefits Many Korean ex-prisoners of war, several of them from Ore gon, are eligible but have not filed for benefits. Names of a large number of veterans, or their survivors, who qualify are known but their addresses unknown. The foreign claims commission has sent ap plication forms to them but they were returned for lack of proper address. Anyone possibly eligible for such benefits is asked to see Charles Holbrook, county vet erans service officer, at the county courthouse. INSPECTOR HERE ' Camp White D. Glenn Elli son and Bernard C. Sullivan, civil service inspectors from the 11th regional office, Seattle, dur ing the -past week have been conducting a personnel manage ment and position classification survey of the Veterans Admin istration domiciliary station. They will remain during . the coming week. This is. the first time a thoroughgoing study of classification at this center has been made, Personnel Officer H. J. Heitkemper reported. $99.95 up Your 127 Local and Paving to Begin City Engin eer Ed McKinstry reports paving construction will begin early this week on Hamilton st. from 13th st. to 106 feet south of 11th st. Clearing operations have been continuing this past week. Card Party The Pythian Sisters are scheduling a public card party Tuesday, July 19, at 8 p.m. to be held in the Pythian building, Fifth and Grape sts. Bridge, canasta and pinochle will be played, and refresh ments served. Interview Frank Heming way, Bel Air radio' commentator, Los Angeles, who is visiting in the valley, will be interviewed Monday, July 18, at 7:0 p.m., over radio station KBES-TV by Ken Schwartz, a brother-in-law, during Schwartz' program, "Modes in Maple and Fashion." .- Accountants Meet The Rogue Valley chapter of the Oregon Association of P u b lie Accountant will meet Monday, July 18, at 7 p.m. at the Jackson hotel Election of chapter offi cers will be conducted, accord ing to Chapter Chairman Clay ton Lewis. Permits Issued Two build ing permits of $1,350 and $4,733 were issued by the city building repartment Friday. The first was to Medford Neon Signs, 911 North Riverside ave, to erect a sign', and the second too Richard V. Finch, 223 Bradford way, to erect an addition to a residence. . Front Street Thefts Bernice Oma Hanscom, route 1, box 159, Eagle Point, reported $50 worth of clothing stolen from her parked auto on South Front st. about 1 p.m. Friday. A hammer, tape measure, T-square and car penter's apron were reported ta ken a short time earlier from a car belonging to Loyal W. Bates, Ashland, also parked on Front st. Return Mr. and Mrs. Gary James Pree, newlyweds who were hurt July 10 in an auto mobile accident near Seattle, Wash., are expected to return to Medford today, much improv ed from their injuries, his father, James Pree, reported yesterday. The accident occurred on the pair's : wedding trip to Canada after their July 3 marriage at First : Methodist church . here. They have been recuperating at the home of his mother, Mrs: D. N. Sanders, Seattle. Mrs. Pree is the former Eleanor Dale Da vis, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Davis, 384 O'Gara st. No. Central Ave. I- , 't '-i M." Across from Penney s Our New No. 3-5306 Personal City Picnic The city employ ees picnic of 1955 will be held at 6 p.m. Thursday, July 21, at the Elks Picnic grounds. ' Bike Stolen Ronald Joseph Schaecher, 1129 Dakota ave., re ported, to city police that his bike was stolen from Hawthorne park Thursday, July 14. '. . . SWAP to Meet Members of the Song Writers, Arrangers and Publishers club, known as SWAP, will meet at Girls Com munity club, 229 North Bartlett st., Monday at 8 p.m. Main topic of discussion will be a change in the meeting night, it was stated. ... Kansas Picnic Set The exe cutive committee of the Kansas Southern : Oregon association, meeting at the home of Mrs. El mer Gott, 542 South Ivy st, has set Sunday, Aug. 14, as the date of the association's annual pic nic. It will be in Ashland's Lith ia park, starting at 1 p.m. ; Baby Born Mr. and Mrs. Richard Pervorse, Inglewood, Calif., former Medford residents, are the parents of a 7 pound baby boy born July 13. He is named David Lee and is the second son for the couple. Mrs. Pervorse is the former Norma J.ean Neathamer, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Neathamer, 119 Jeanette ave. . . . . Return Mr. aifd Mrs. Glenn McCullough, 29 North Keene way, have returned from Banff Springs' hotel, ' Banff, Alberta, where they attended a conven tion of Provident Life Insurance company representatives. McCul lough was presented with a wrist watch in recognition of his agency having more than $1, 000,000 worth of insurance in force. High School Instructor Mrs. J. P. obin, 147 Highland drive, has been elected by the board of School District 49 to teach Eng lish and be chairman of the Eng lish department at the Medford High school during the coming year, it was announced Satur day. Mrs. Tobin has had previous teaching experience in Colorado and at the University of Wash ington, and has served as a school principal and English de partment head in other schools. She succeeds Mrs. L. C. Taylor, , who resigned at the end of the school year. News About Servicemen BECOMES PARENTS A son weighing 8 pounds was born recently to Navy Lt. (jg) and Mrs. Derald Z. Skalla at the Naval . hospital at Memphis, Tenn., according to a Navy news item. Lieutenant Skalla is sta tioned at the Naval air technical training center there. ' , , Mrs. Skalla is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Holt, 18 Sum mit ave., Medford. The baby is the Skallas' second, , and was named Gregory. Thomas. GRADUATED Maj. Joseph A. Peacock, whose wife, Mae Lucille, lives at 400 North Berkeley Way, Med ford, recently was graduated from the infantry school's as sociate officer course at Ft Ben ning, Ga. Major . Peacock was Army reserve unit adviser in Medford before being assigned to the infantry school. A Korean veteran, . he wears the bronze star, the purple heart, commen dation ribbon,, combat infantry man's badge, and Korean service ribbon.' PROMOTED Harry A. Daugherty, son of Harry Daugherty, 738 Ross lane, Medford, a dental technician at an Army hospital in Tokyo, Japan, recently was promoted to corporal, according to an Army news item. . ,., JOINS SECURITY AGENCY - George B. Weir; son of Mr and Mrs. G. B. Weir, 115 High land dr., recently enlisted in the Army to serve in the security agency. Following eight weeks of basic training at Ft. Ord, Calif., Private Weir will attend the security agency school , at Ft. DeVens, Mass. - A graduate of Medford High school. Private Weir, 'also at tended the University of Oregon and1 Southern Oregon college, earning the bachelor of arts de gree. DIRECT. ENLISTMENTS . Direct enlistments for the 3rd Armored 'division, which will soon be assigned to duty in Ger many, are now being accepted, according to Sf c. Warren M. Long, Army recruiter here. Under the Army's "Operation Gyroscope," members of the di vision will be assured permacV ent unit assignment during their tour of duty. The division is now at Fort Knox, Ky. Details may be obtained from Sergeant Long at his office in the post office building. ', About 27 per cent of the Phil ippines people know some of the English language. ' Sunday. July 17.' IISS Last of Stolen Detonators Found Portland, Mich. U.fi) A life-and-death search for 2,000 explosive detonators, believed to have been taken by children from a munitions supply plant, ended last night when police rounded up the last of the dang erous objects. . ..'. The tiny detonators were re ported missing Friday night by officials of the Barley-Earhart Co. after nine-year-old Keith Jones was killed while carrying away 50 of the objects. A carton of the detonators ex ploded as the Jones boy and a 10-year-old playmate, William Gorman, of Alma, Mich., were walking across a railroad bridge near the business section of this town of . 3,000 persons. Jones died instantly, and Gorman was taken to a Lansing,: Mich., hos pital where his condition last night was still listed as critical. A quick inventory of the Barley-Earhart warehouse showed 40 other cartons of the detona tors missing. Police sent out ur gent appeals to residents of Port land to search their homes and query their children concerning the whereabouts of the explos ives.' ' ' -' Police said young Jones and Gorman climbed an eight-foot fence and pried open a ware house door to obtain the fatal carton Friday. , However, Deputy Sheriff Jay Clark reported last night that all the detonators were account ed for. Nearly 2,000 were found hidden near the home of the Jones boy. Planning to .X 1 1 A WEny Woo:? With Our HOME IMPROVEMENT PLAN You Can E n j o y Any of T h e s e W o n d e r f u I Additions To Your Property NOW! mom A00 . '. - Miffln mori Z-ZyL imgfh ROOMS SS 0 ' " ' , with " V- " ABSOLUTELY PORCH VV Ori F.H.A. Approved Ns. . 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