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I TONYTOVAR Michael Rogers wins science writing award SCOUT Sloan, center, and Tony Tovar, (below) will be awarded the Boy Scouts highest honor, the Silver Beaver, tonight in a ceremony in Riverside. At left is Mrs. Sloan and at right, Julian Blakeley, longtime Boy Scout leader. Scouts honor James Sloan, Tony Tovar James Sloan of Redlands and Tony Tovar of Mentone will be among 13 persons who have been selected to receive Scouting's highest award to volunteers, the Silver Beaver, tonight. The presentations will be made at the California Inland Empire Council's Annual Recognition Banquet at the University of California Riverside Commons.

To be eligible, recipients must perform distinguished service to boys of an exceptional nature, be nominated by their peers and then be selected by a special committee to receive one of the limited number of awards. Sloan, an Eagle Scout, was member of Troop 25 of Grayback Council. He received the Order of the Arrow, was scoutmaster of Troop 7 at Cope Junior High and served on the Scout executive board for 15 years, 1959-74. Sloan, who is widely-known for his photography of celebrities, published three books of photographs. All were dedicated to the Boy Scouts.

They were: "Faces in the Crowd," "More Faces in the Crowd," "Faces and Places." All of the proceeds, $21,000, from the books went to Scouting. He is a graduate of U.S.C. and is a past president of Redlands Country Club. Mr. Tovar, who is a scoutmaster, lives at 1787 Capri avenue in Mentone.

He has been Pack 10 Cub- master, scoutmaster of Troop 12, now with Troop 10 and works with underpriviledged boys. He is an Order of the Arrow member and is very active in the Order of the Arrow lodge dancing team. He did all of the plumbing work on the new Redlands Scout Regional Service center. Other recipients of the Silver Beaver award tonight are Don Colvin, San Bernardino; Chester Gilbert, Carolyn Jackson, both of Sunny mead; Kenneth D. Johnson, Apple Valley; Kathryn Lehman, Phil Lehman, both of Hemet; Robert Marion, Palm Springs.

William Peacock, Victor ville; Savas Robledo, Colton; Ed Slaughter, Highland; and Gerald Stewart, Corona. About People Robert J. Massey recently enlisted in the Air Force and is currently attending a six- week orientation course at Lackland Air Force Base, San Antonio, Texas. Following basic training, he'll be assigned for technical training in law enforcement. Massey is the son of Mrs.

N. Massey of Redlands. He attended Yucaipa high school and received his diploma in June of 1974. Thomas K. Nielsen of Redlands recently enlisted in the Air Force and is currently at.

tending a six-week orientation course at Lackland Air Force Base, San Antonio, Texas. Following basic training, he'll be assigned for' technical training as an aircraft mechanic. Nielsen is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Nielsen.

He attended Redlands high school and received his diploma in June, 1974. Battery stolen Police are investigating the theft of a car battery from an auto owned by R.M. Radsick, 502 Esther Way that took place yesterday. The battery, valued at $40, was stolen while the automobile was parked at Redlands Community Hospital. Michael Rogers, a Redlands high school graduate, is in New York this week to receive one of three national science writing awards presented in 1974 by the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Westinghouse Electric Corp.

He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. D. E. Rogers, 1045 Cedar avenue.

Rogers, now an associate editor for Rolling Stone magazine, will receive the $1,000 award for science writing in magazines for an article that described the total solar eclipse in Mauritania in the summer of 1973. That story, "Totality, A Report," appeared in Oct. 11, 1973, issue of Rolling Stone. Rogers, 24, specializes in science writing and oversees all book coverage for Rolling Stone. He joined the staff in San Francisco in January, 1973, and has written articles on such topics as holography, biofeedback, pollution, and Pong, an electronic game.

A native of Santa Monica, he graduated from Stanford University with a B.A. in the sciences, particularly physics, while at Stanford. Rogers sold his first short story to Esquire at the age of 18, one of the youngest writers to be published in that magazine. The same short story was anthologized in "Secret Life of Our Times" and his fiction and nonfiction have been published in Playboy, Analog, If, Place, and The New York Times Book Review. He has written one novel, "Mindfogger," and recently compiled a collection of previously published short stories which he hopes to put out in book form.

He is working on a second novel. Rogers, who lived in Michigan for a time, attended Cope junior high school and graduated from Redlands high school in 1968. He has worked as a hamburger grill man, an assembly- line worker, and an experimental subject. A he resides in San Francisco. PSI Search PSI Search, featuring scientific findings from parapsychological research, will be at the California Museum of Science and Industry in Exposition Park, Los Angeles, 10 a.m.

to 5 p.m. Jan. 31-Mar. 2. Worman named Harris merchandise manager The appointment of Ronald N.

Worman as General Merchandise Manager of Harris', effective February 1,1975, was announced today. He succeeds Robert N. Creamer, retired as of January 31. As General Merchandise Manager, Mr. Worman heads Harris' Merchandising Division for all stores and is responsible to the president.

Since 1971, Mr. Worman has held the position of Divisional Merchandise Manager for the Home Furnishings Division of Harris' San Bernardino, Riverside, Indio and Redlands stores. Born in San Bernardino, he has been affiliated with Harris' since 1956, with the exception of two years in business for himself as co-owner of the Roth Young Employment Agency, dealing with recruitment of executive personnel for retailing and allied industries. He returned to Harris' in 1969 as Central Buyer of Television and Major Appliances. Mr.

Worman makes his home in Redlands, 368 Los Robles Crest, with his wife, Jo, and two children: Ronald, a sophomore at Penpprdine RONALD N. WORMAN University, Malibu, and daughter Cynthia a senior at Redlands high school. He has been active in the Junior Chamber of Commerce, Arrowhead United Fund, the Navy League and the Rotary Club and is a member of the board of directors of the American Red Cross. DAILY FACTS, Redlands, Calif. Saturday, February 3 Campaign $22,500 short of goal Chest uses reserve to aid agencies Two killed in desert plane crash Officials yesterday released the names to two men killed when their single-engine plane crashed near Daggett on Thursday.

The victims were returning from a vacation in Mexico. Dead are the plane's owner, Vernon William Henry, 43, and his passsenger James Donald Johnson, 34, both of San Jose. The men, both pilots, were flying in a Beechcraft Bonanza. The crash took place Thursday five miles west of the Barstow-Daggett Airport. The men had landed in Las Vegas shortly before the crash and were last heard from at 13 p.m.

when they radioed Federal Aviation Administration officials at Daggett for weather information. A pilot who saw the crash said it appeared that a governor malfunction made the propellor turn excessively fast. The witness said the plane banked sharply and went into a steep dive moments before the tail, a wing and other portions broke off. Johnson owned a construction company and Henry was a barber and owned several barber shops, Deputy Coroner Ben Rubidoux said. Helicopter helps round up horses Residents of East Sunset Drive North and other streets overlooking the Redlands freeway were treated to a light show beginning shortly after 7 p.m.

yesterday. The Sheriff's helicopter was called out to aid Redlands Police in rounding up several horses that had escaped from the corral at the home of Charles Larson, 653 Golden West drive. The chopper used its floodlight in an attempt to spot the horses. The chase ended at 9 p.m. with the animals safely in custody, police said.

Guitar stolen Police are investigating the theft of a Ventura-Bruno Classical Guitar from the band room at Redlands high school. The instrument, owned by Ronald A. Welch, 835 Carlotta court was valued at $100 and was discovered missing Friday. The guitar had a walnut body and an orange front, police said. 1975 will be a lean year for member agencies of the Redlands Community Chest, but a decision yesterday by the Chest Board of Directors to allocate half of the reserve fund may soften somewhat the loss of $22,500 in the United Way campaign just completed.

The Board unanimously approved a recommendation of the executive committee to add about $16,000 in reserve funds, about half of the total reserve, to the $169,422 earmarked for agency allocations by the Budget and Admissions Committee. While the Board supported the executive committee's recommendation, some directors expressed concern that such action could not continue indefinitely and might again be necessary should next year's campaign also fall short of its goal. The 1975 United Way campaign produced $213,500, still $22,500 under the $236,000 goal, campaign chairman James Celano said. "But we wouldn't have come anywhere near this total without the help of a lot of people in our special effort," he said, referring to "Operation Recovery" that was designed to recoup some of the loss resulting from the closing of Lockheed and other adverse developments in the economy. Chest director John B.

Clark said about $19,000 of the $22,500 loss is directly attributable to the closing of Lockheed. "We lost only $3,000 or $4,000 in the community due to the gloomy economy," he said. Board president George DeLange told the Board that $1,000 of the $213,500 pledged in the recent campaign has been designated for organizations outside the Community Chest; $8,000 has been allowed for shrinkage; $35,078 has been aloocated to operate the Chest office, the same as last year (Chest office expenditures have risen only 11 per cent in the last five years, despite continuing double-digit inflation); and $169,422 remains for agency allocations. The $16,000 in reserve funds will bring the total to $185,422 for agencies use, about $12,000 less than they received collectively last year. In other action the Board: a request from the American National Red Cross for $81.82 in emergency funds to pay for repairs to air conditioning equipment in the Redlands service center.

an announcement that the Chest has received $695 as partial settlement of a claim against Sage's for $6,950 in employee contributions to the Community Chest. to cancel $1,515 in pledges for 1973-74 and heard a suggestion from DeLange that Chest directors set up a program to encourage the participation of new employees in the United Way campaign in an attempt to replace employees who leave local businesses. the gift of $785 for the United Way campaign that Citrus Village merchants raised through a recent art show. with regret the resignations of directors Dr. Jerome Thornsley, superintendent of the Yucaipa Joint Unified School District, and Donald Postlewaite, who has been transferred to Georgia by Universal-Rundle.

the date for the annual meeting as Feb. 27 at 6:30 p.m. in the Casa Loma Room of the University of Redlands Commons. the next Board meeting for Feb. 24 at noon in Robbins Auditorium of Redlands Community Hospital.

Orange Show 55 employes to lose jobs to attract FFA members Members of the San Bernardino County Future Farmers of America are preparing to exhibit their animals in the Junior Fair Department at the 60th National Orange Show in San Bernardino running March 13 through 23. The last five days of the Orange Show are given to the FFA members, who will compete for cash premiums totaling $4,525. Members of 4-H Clubs exhibit during the first five days. Participants from the East Valley area include: REDLANDS Greg Barlow, Linda Forsberg, Bruce Holt, Pam Lorimer, Mark Noyes, Phillip Quesada, Tracy Ramirez, Lisa Spenser, Gina Testa, Mike Tomlinson, David Van Grouw. Allen Du Perron, Frank Quesada, Fred Kelser, Terry Palhegyi, Lauraine Poteet, Vanessa Poteet, Dorothy Schott, Bobbi Dowell, James Green, Darrell Leslie, Alice Oliver, Todd Snowdy, Marianne Derby, Dennis Du Perron.

YUCAIPA Linda Hammock, Barbara Herold, Mark Schaedel, Rhonda Skaggs, Rod Skaggs, Paula Stephens, Bobbi Quintard, Robin Whitt, Robyn Law, Tammy Downs. Scholarship dinner Monday Members of the Redlands Community Scholarship Foundation will hold their ninth annual dinner meeting Monday at 6:30 p.m. at Kingsbury elementary school, 600 Cajon street. Directors and corporate members will be elected, new officers will be introduced, and the group will hear the annual report of the president and treasurer. Stevens Hosiery to close Redlands plant in March Stevens Hosiery, a division of J.P.

Stevens and will close the Redlands plant at 105 N. Tennessee street to all but distribution and customer service operations at the end of February, company spokesmen confirmed yesterday. The entire hosiery dyeing process will be shut down and 55 employees terminated, said Les Rossi, employee relations director in the company's New York office. Nine of the plant's 64 employees are expected to remain to handle warehouse and customer service operations. All of the plant's dyeing equipment will be shipped to the company's two remaining plants in North Carolina, Charles Spivey, plant manager, said yesterday.

It's a shift in production," he said. "Our customers won't notice any difference in service." Yucaipa adult school tour 48 area residents visit Ensenada Ensenada, Mexico, was the weekend classroom for 48 Redlands and Yucaipa residents who participated in a recent inter-cultural experiment sponsored by the Adult Education program of the Yucaipa Joint Unified School District. The group spent three days exploring shops and various points of interest in the Mexican town, accompanied by local Spanish-speaking guides, and enjoyed spicy native meals. Many of the group also attended Catholic and Protestant church services before returning to Yucaipa. Local residents who participated in the field trip included Mr.

and Mrs. William Adams, Mr. and Mrs. William Hartzell, Dr. and Mrs.

Harold Hill, and Mr. and Mrs. William Van Cleve, all of Redlands. Yucaipa residents were Virgil Barnes, Mrs. Dorothy Dutiel, Dr.

and Mrs. Douglas Eadie, Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Gottier, Mrs. Jessie Graham, Mr.

and Mrs. Walter Neuendorff, Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Prentiss, Mr. and Mrs.

William Raine. Mr. and Mrs. Winston Robey, Mrs. Helen Rodgers, Mrs.

Aileen Sage, Mr. and Mrs. Donald Scheuch, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Sharp, Mr.

and Mrs. Randolph Taylor, Dr. and Mrs. Robert Treacy and their children Liz, Emerson and Camille, Mr. and Mrs.

Claude Walker, Mr. and Mrs. Othmar Wild, and Mr. and Mrs. E.

William Wolfe. Vance Sims, principal of Adult Education, and his wife accompanied the group, which was led by instructor Dr. Pauline Eadie. Company officials would not comment on the reason for closing the local plant, but a continuing slump in the hosiery industry is believed to be partly to blame. "We (the industry) are still in a slump," Spivey said.

Stevens Hosiery, one of the major hosiery producers in the country, opened the Redlands plant in November, 1968, with 250 employees. Automation and a slump that began in 1970 when foreign imports flooded the market and pant suits began growing in popularity had reduced that number to 77 by August, 1973. The Redlands plant is the company's only West Coast facility and is the smallest of three plants Stevens operates. The local plant dyed stockings and pantyhose produced in the East and served as a distribution center for 11 Western states, Alaska and Hawaii. Folk guitar class slated Wednesdays Instruction in the fundamentals of beginning folk guitar will again be the topic of special classes offered by the Redlands Recreation Department this Winter.

Classes will be held on Wednesday evenings at the Recreation Center, 515 Texas street, beginning Wednesday, Feb. 5. The class will be held from p.m. Registration fee for the program is $15. Wendy Hilliard, well-known local folk singer and guitarist, will provide instruction.

Persons interested may register at the Recreation Office. A six-string guitar is needed for the class. Africa art Decorative Arts of West Africa will be displayed at the Bowers Museum in Santa Ana through Feb. 2. VA HOSPITAL PROGRESSING Workmen began assembling the heavy steel framework of the 500-bed Veterans Administration Hospital in Loma Linda on Tuesday and had erected a portion of the four-story structure's first two floors by Friday.

An estimated 7,000 tons of Bethlehem Steel will be used in the building, but the skeletal structure pictured above represents only about three per cent of that total. The first above-ground work visible to local residents, the hospital structure sits perpendicular across a utility tunnel. The opening is visible in the lower center. Contractor for the grading, foundations and structural steel portion of the $53-million hospital is Robert McKee of Los Angeles. (Facts photo by Kenison).