5,000 Men Battle Southern California Forest Fires
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Industrials, Rails
Pace Stock Decline
New York -4IPD- Industrials
and rails paced stocks in their
10th consecutive decline to
day.
Industrials on average fell
back to the mid-March levels
and rails traded at their low
est levels since September,
1958.
Union Carbide, Du Pont and
Eastman Kodak fell around 5
4 and 3 points, respectively, to
pull the industrial average
down.
DOW-JONES AVERAGES
- New York-ttW-Dow-Jonee
final stock avaragett 30 in
dustrials 609.87. off 6.76; 20
railroads 135.84. off 1.76: IS
utilities 93.12. off 0.69 and
65 stocks 202.89. off 2.16.
Sales today war about
2,850,000 shares compared
with 2,510,000 shares Thurs
day. Allied Chemical
Alum Co. Am.
American Can .
American Mtr -
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AT&T
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Anaconda Copper 48 '.4
Armco sicei o-.s
Bendlx Avn 86
Bethlehem Steel 44 l
Boeing Air - 29 ,
Caterpillar Corp. r I5
Chrysler Corp. 43
Continental Can 38
Crown Zellerbach 40
CurUas Wright 1B',4
Cow Chemical 80
Th. Dnnt ' ..1M
Eastman Kodak
Firestone
General Electric
General roodr .
General Motors
Georgia Pacific
Graham Paige
Greyhound
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Homestake Mining
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Police Investigate
Holdup, Burglaries
' Portland -fllPB-Police today
Investigated a holdup and
three burglaries which oc
curred a few blocks apart in
northwest Portland.
According to police, a rob
ber entered the Beaver Bar
and Grill Thursday morning,
pointed a gun at a woman
cashier, and demanded the
contents of the safe. When the
woman hesitated, he walked
around the bar, picked up $13
in cigar boxes and some pa
pers from the safe, and de
parted. Earlier, the proprietor of
the Pastry Pantry reported h
the theft of a box containing
$550. Two other thefts were
reported on a nearby street.
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Democratic Picnic
Planned Sunday
Congressman Charles O.
Porter is scheduled to be the
guest speaker at the Jackson
County Democratic Central
committee picnic Sunday,
July 24, at TouVelle State
park. . it was announced to
day. It will be cosponsored by
the Young Democrats club.
Porter will speak about 3
p.m. and Paul Edwards from
the Philippines will discuss
the world conditions. The
picnic will begirt at noon.
Entertainment and games
for the children have also
been planned by the Central
committee. AH Jackson coun
ty Democrats have been in
vited to attend.
Each family has been ask
ed to take fried chicken, a
salad,-and a dessert plus one
extra serving to accomodate
out of town guests, according
to the food committee. Guests
expected include the YDC of
Oregon executive board here
for a meeting tomorrow.
Other week end activities
of the local club include aj
xuu social meeting at tne
home of Gary Picard, 3400
Jacksonville highway at 8
p.m. Saturday.
At the picnic, prizes will
be awarded and all Democrat
ic candidates for office are
expected to attend, according
to club spokesmen.
This is the first time that
such a picnic has been staged
in Jackson county in about
12 years.
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102,500 Acres
Charred; 400
Homes in Danger
Light Winds Give
Crews First Break
Los Angeles - (UN) - Light
winds and Increasing hu
midity today gave 5,000 fire
fighters their first break this
week in their battle against
six major fires.
The blazes, plus some small
"nuisance fires," had charred
more than 102,500 acres since
the first big fires started Sun
day. Three blazes still were un
checked in Angeles National
Forest north of here, threaten
ing an estimated 300 to 400
homes.
There were 4,000 men fight
ing those fires.
40 Homes Burned
Forty homes and cabins al
ready have been burned by
the devastating flames that
raged throughout Southern
California all this week be
cause of erratic winds, low
humidity, and a scorching
heat wave.
Thousands of campers,
home-owners and picknickcrs
were forced to flee the path
of the flames that crackled
through the dry countryside.
Two fires in Angeles Na
tional Forest were partially
contained after winds dropped
during the night and the hu
midity increased.
It s looking better, said
information officer Dick John
son of the forest service. "But
we still have 58,000 acres of
wildly out of control fire. It's
better now, but not good.
Storms Forecast ' ,
Weathermen promised fire
fighters little aid today. They
forecast continued hot weath
er and thunderstorms - the
cause of many of the moun
tain fires-over the fire areas.
Two hundred miles north,
750 firemen also made head
way against a 37,000-acre
blaze that for a time threat
ened the Hearst Castle near
San Simeon.
Water bombing planes,
heavy equipment, helicopters
and scores of fire units were
pressed into the fight to stop
the advancing flames.
Gov. Edmund G. Brown
has declared Los Angeles
County a disaster area and
County Sheriff Peter J. Pitch-
ess has ordered the first gen
eral mobilization of some
2,000 reserve units to assist
his 3,200 regular deputies in
evacuations and to prevent
looting of deserted homes.
Cause of most of the fires
was lightning over Southern
California Wednesday. But
fleeing deer, rabbits and other
game also spread the fire
when their pelts caught on
fire and they darted through
the dry brush.
Government
Asked To Help
Retarded Children
Portland - (UPD - State Sen.
Monroe Sweetland (D-Mil-waukie)
told a congressional
subcommittee Thursday that
the federal government should
provide assistance in the
training of retarded children.
Sweetland said Oregon was
"in the vanguard of states
which have taken progressive
steps to train and educate re
tarded children. He spoke at
the opening here of a two-day
hearing of the congressional
subcommittee on special edu
cation. Sweetland r e c o mmended
federal assistance for train
ing of retarded children in
four areas: Training of special
teachers; establishment of
"sheltered workshops;" voca
tional training programs in
institions; and home training
programs to teach parents.
Rep. Edith Green of Oregon
is a member of the subcom
mittee. Albacore Tuna Price
Set at $375 a Ton
Astoria -fflPD-Columbla Rlv
crnackers Assn. Inc., Thurs
day posted a price of $375 per
ton for Albacore tuna. The
CRPA orice applies to Alba
core tuna here. The price is
$25 lower from Newport
south.
It was reported that south
ern California tuna fishermen
voted to accept a $375 per
ton offer from packers in Cal
ifornia. The fishermen refused
to fish at the $325 per ton
price of a few weeks ago.
CALLAS CANCELS OUT
Ostend, Belgium - (UPD -American
soprano Maria Cal-
las Thursday night canceled
an appearance at this resort
because of a sore throat, "I
am really terribly sorry," she
CAMPERS DRIVEN OUT Relaxing at Wrightwood Com-
munity center near Big Pines, Calif., are some of the 1,000
SF Chronicle Files SI. 5 Million
Libel Suit
San Francisco-fl)PP-Thc San
Francisco Chronicle filed a
S1.5 million libel suit against
The San Francisco Examiner
Thursday charging that Exam
iner stories about The Chron
icle's "Last Man on Earth"
were willfully and malicious
ly false.
The Last Man on Earth
was Bud Boyd, Chronicle out
Educators Think Students
Who Won't or Can't Learn
Should Be Allowed To Quit
Chicago (UPI) Students
who will not or cannot learn
should be allowed to drop out
of school, many educators be
lieve. A poll of school superin
tendents by the Nation's
Schools showed 73 per cent
of them to be against com
pulsory attendance at school
until the age of 18 or the com
pletion of 12 full grades of
school. Sixty-one per cent of
the administrators p o 1 1 ed
would permit students to
drop out of school after their
16th birthday.
A Michigan superintendent
who would permit students to
drop out at 14 suggested plac
ing them in a type of work
camp. "I visualize something
Seaside Girl
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Killed in Crash
Seaside -HJPD-Loretta Ann
Butler, 21, Seaside, was kill
ed Thursday night when the
car in which she was riding
missed a curve and rolled over
twice on highway 101 near
here.
State police said the acci
dent occurred while the car
was attempting to elude them.
Driver of the vehicle, Ed
gar H. West, 25, a sailor at
Tongue Point Naval base, was
taken to the hospital at As
toria with serious injuries.
State police say the car
went out of control just as it
passed another vehicle.
Trio Indicted For
Slaying ot Marine
San Diego - (UPD - Three
youths today were undor In
dictment for the slaying of a
Portland Marine, Pvt. Dennis
Virgil Parker, 21.
Those Indicted Thursday by
the county grand jury were
Aristco G. Torres, 18; Johnny
M. Cruz, 20; both of Ocean-
side, Calif., and Fred Zavala,
IB, a Camp Pendleton Ma
rine.
Parker was slabbed to
death July 3 in a street fight
In Oceanside.
California Man Bound
Over To Grand Jury
Charles Edward Strunk, 20,
of Torrance, Calif., was ar
raigned in district court Wed
nesday afternoon on a charge
of grand larceny.
Strunk, who waived the
right to an attorney and pre
liminary hearing, was bound
over to the grand jury with
bail set at $1,500. He is
charged with taking an auto
mobile from Selby's Chevro
Against SF Examiner
door writer, who had taken
his wife and three children
into the wilderness June 28 to
determine how "a last man"
might survive with only a
handful of equipment after a
nuclear attack.
Boyd wrote that the family
hoped to exist six weeks with
only the clothing they wore,
on the' order of the old CCC
(Civilian Conservation Corps)
camps," he said.
Educators against compul
sory school attendance up to
the age of 18 called it a waste
of time both for the schools
and the students.
Force No Good
"Forcing students with no
interest in school to remain
there does not assure their
making good use of the op
portunities," a superintendent
from Pennsylvania said.
An Illinois administrator
termed compulsory attend
ance for these students a
waste of the schools' efforts
and a hindrance to the proper
education of those who want
to learn.
A Vermont administrator
sun.med up the feelings of ed
ucators in favor of requiring
12 full grades of schooling
for everyone. "We must pro
vide an education for all
youth," he said. "Each child
should complete a high school
course tailored to need, adap
tability and capacity.
Some educators favoring a
compulsory 12 years of school,
however, suggested that it
provide technical training for
those with low academic ach
ievement.
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mamhar nf tha famllu ulll ha found In ..
youngsters evacuated from
southern California's major
pocket knives, an ax, rope,
twine and salt.
The Chronicle said today
the Boyds were forced to
abandon their experiment on
the 12th day "because mem
bers of the family were suffer
ing unbearably from dysen
tery and malnutrition."
On July 10. according to
The Chronicle, Boyd, 41.
found that his wife, Betty, and
their three children, Susan,
15, Sharon, 12, and Bruce, 8,
were being weakened by sick
ness. "They had been soaked by
storms, and frozen by moun
tain winds," The Chronicle
said. "Their diet of fish, wild
greens and roots, and a single
snared fawn, had proved
grossly inacquate. Boyd de
cided to endanger his family
no longer."
Story's Implications
The Examiner story told of
discovering kitchen matches,
shells from fresh eggs, empty
spaghetti cans, sugar cubes
and a spent .22 caliber cart
ridge at the camp site.
This story, The Chronicle
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summer camps In the path of
brush and timber fires.
(UPI Telephoto)
asserted, implied that "the
Boyds had not really existed
for 11 days on only the fish
and game they caught with
handmade equipment and the
mountain greens they boiled."
Scott Ncwhall, Chronicle
executive editor, said that
"during the 11th dny of the
experiment - and up to that
time they had no supplies
whatsoever other than the
items we had publlshcd-they
were brought some food to al
leviate their suffering."
Tills, he said, was why Ihe
egg shells and other items
were found by The Examiner
at the Boyds' camp sito at Lip
stick Lake in Klamath Na
tional Forest.
Narrative Continues
Newhall said, "There Is
nothing in The Examiner that
will not be explained in the
continuing narrative." The
scries was In Its ninth day to
day. Boyd's stories, which were
published in 41 other news
papers, were published In
"complete good faith and
honesty," Ncwhall said.
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