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.
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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. .
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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.
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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."
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Buenos Aires (U.R) This
city's slimmest Saturday papers
in years gave major play Sat
urday to President Juan D. Pe
ron's "swan song" speech and
preliminary estimates of its ef
fects on Argentina,
Peron announced Friday he is
resigning as head of his power
ful Peronist party and restor
ing constitutional freedom to the
country, ending the restrictions
imposed on liberty during his
12-year "revolution."
The president's voice was
barely recognizable in a record
ing to his speech broadcast to
the nation. His voice broke
several times during the speech,
and there were several long,
painful pauses. - ' :.
He announced his decision to
become the non-partisan "presi
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(Travelers from Argentina
reaching Montevideo said .the
atmosphere in Buenos Aires is
still tense despite the failure of
the revolt. They said the motor
ized regiment attached to the
defense ministry has been rein
forced and issued extra ammun
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