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THE FRESNO BEE SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 1 1935 3 bl YT Th heat Iac vat OIL TEST PLANNED COMPANIONS 50 YEARS Valley Citrus Leaders Plan Fight To Preserve Shipping Independence LINDSAY (Tulare Co) Aug Citrus leaders here to night declared 99 per cent of all Central California shippers are prepared to oppose a change in the Agriculture Adjustment Administration citrus marketing agreement which would abolish the Central California shipping area and join the Fresno-Tulare-Kem County section to the Southern California EAST GF HANFORD A Arthur 45 Of Inglewood Loses Life In Automobile Accident Cook Property Purchased By New Firm Opera tions Will Start At Once area BAKERSFIELD (Kern Co) Aug 31 An Inglewood man waa killed and a young Claremont woman seriously injured when their automobiles collided head-on near Lebec CLOVIS (Fresno Co) Aug Purchese of the large Cook Company Inc fruit plant at Midway Avenue and the Tollhouse Road waa announced to-day Priller Of McFarland Wildcat Signs Agreement For Kings Project BAKERSFIELD (Kern Co) Aug Webb announced here tonight he will ptart drilling a teat well on the Orwig ranch between Goshen and Hanford at once Webb declared derrick equipment will be hauled to the ranch within a few days under an agreement signed by Webb and Orwig and said to call for immediate drilling Orwig recently acquired leases on 2000 acres adjacent to his own1 property on the Visalia-Hanford Highway eight milea east of Hanford Webb is now drilling a test well three miles east of McFarland Surface casing was set at 782 feet in this hole The cement will be drilled out to-morrow and coring will start to chuck the formation for the next 1800 feet by a newly organized corporation on the Ridge Route Highway south headed by Fresno men The purchasers are Charles Ka-lajian president of the company John Aharonian vice president and Leon Kalajian secretary -The sale was made by Mrs Cook who operated the plant last season following the death of her husband -The new corporation plans to commence operations Immediately The plant comprises four departments for fancy packing paste of here to-night A Arthur 45 of 8923 Fifth rStreet Inglewood died of a fractured skull and other injuries a few minutes after the accident Miss Marian Hall 25 438 Bauman Avenue Claremont was brought to the San Joaquin Hospital here with chest injuries Arthur was enroute to Inglewood when the accident occurred Investigating officials say he was EARLY DAYS IN LI School Trustees Prepare To File As Last Day For Applications Nears CLOVIS (Fresno Co) Aug The trustees of the Clovis Union High School District arc ezpected to file with the Public Works Administration California headquarter in San Francisco Tuesday an application for federal financing for an auditorium building to cost approximately (1X0000 The filing will be made on the eve of the closing Wednesday of the period during which applications for federal loans and grants will be received by the PWA Should the request be approved Ithe PWA woud contribute 45 per iccnt of the cost of the project the school district providing 55 per cent Plans for the building as prepared by Fred Swartz Fresno architect call for an auditorium with a seating capacity of 1100 persons Adjoining this woud be two other rooms each a small meeting hall capable of seating seventy-five per- sons One would be used as a practice room by the school band and the other aa a rehearsal room by the high school dramatics classes attempting to pass another car on a grade when his automobile and that of Miss Hall met Arthur's body waa taken to the Flickinger-Digier Mortuary here William Stockton Served As Coroner Justice And County Supervisor (Continued from Page 1-B) neighbor "and playmate tbe late noted actress and singer Lotte Crabtree While in Santa Cruz County he attendee Watsonville Academy when Professor Van Dorn was with that institution Became Blacksmith Mr and Mrs Marlon Robinson of Hanford who will greet friends at open house Monday on the fiftieth anniversary of their marriage in Grangeville The pictures show them as they are to-day and aa they appeared at the time of their wedding Kings Couple To Fete 1 85 Grangeville Wedding HANFORD (King's Co) Aug Mr and Mrs Marion Robinson who drove twenty-four miles by horse and buggy to Visalia to get a marriage license for their wedding September 2 1883 will hold open house at their home three miles northwest of Hanford Monday on their fiftieth wedding anni- Leaving school Billy went to work on hie father's ranch and learned the blackamith trade In 1872 ha came to the San Joaquin Valley -sad engaged In grain farming near the village of Central Point Here ho opened a blacksmith shop and apent what time he could spare from hie ranch in pursuit of hie trade When the town of Loa Banos was established in 1888 Stockton moved hia ship and became the pioneer blacksmith of that place There he has lived ever since In 1890 he opened the first undertaking parlors in Los Banos and for four years was county coroner and public administrator He also served many yeara as justice of the peace and for several terms as a Merced County supervisor In fact to list the public service of Uncle Billy would require all the apace permitted here Stockton explains that the first Los Banos later known as Old Los Banos was located several miles from the present town It was about two milea due south of the present Volta He says: "Old Los Banos was established after the flood of 1868 At that time Gustave Kreyenhagen waa flooded out of his trading post at Lons Willow Station sleven miles east of present Los Banos He gave Henry Miller $1 for a ten-year lease on 160 acres of land and built a store This was the first building In Los Banos "In 1873 Kreyenhagen sold to Mosee Korn and moved to Poao Chane near present Coalinga Some of his children still live near COalinga Korn added a hotel which in 1876 he sold to Harry Thornton About that time he sold an Interest in his store to Hirsch-felL Korn and Hirschfelt later sold their store to a man named Sheeline The change valley shippers declare would deal a serious blow to orange growers of the three counties by forcing them to market their crop over a season based on Southern California rather than Central California weather conditions Crop Periods Differ They point out Central California Navel oranges mature from November to January and now are marketed during that period Southern California Navels however start to ripen in November shortly after those of the valley and continue to mature into May Should the valley district be farced to prorate its shipments over the seven months from November to May instead of tbe three from November to January the citrus leaders here declare a large proportion of the crop would spoil before It could be shipped A similar condition they say exists with regard to valley Valencia oranges which mature from March to June aa against a longer season from March to November for the Southern California district Data la Prepared The valley growers and shippers are preparing to present their case fully before an AAA representative who is scheduled to conduct a hearing in Los Angeles the last week in September on the citrus marketing agreement Accurate data covering shipping conditions le being assembled by a committee named by the three valley subsidiaries of the California Fruit Growers Exchange The committee and leading shippers will urge strongly at the hearing that the present marketing agreement be continued unchanged The move for the change they declare is being backed by a group of Independent shippers Valley Armenian Group To Picnic Near Kingsburg Harry Halrabedian past supreme grand master of the Triple Fraternity of California will be master of a e-monies at an annual San Joaquin Valley picnic sponsored by the Fresno and Selma chapters Monday In the Oak- wood Park Kingsburg Speakers will be Hubert Phillips dean of tbe lower division of the Fresno State College Captain John Shishmenian of Exeter and Suren Too 1 a of Oakland The following program will be presented: Vocal solos Aaron King Rouben Baboian Celia Vaa-nalan and Michael Sohigian accordion selections Herbert Nurmi readings Ralph Moorvartian comedy skit Wright instrumental solos Yukio Kawakaml Ne-vart Shamgochlan will be the accompanist Members of the committee In charge are: Nerces Asadlan Newton Krikorlan Charles Ashjlan Aram Tootellan Gaspar Magadan Henry Adama and Arakel Mlrigian 83-Y ear-Old Easion Woman Is Hurt In Crash Mrs Seraflna Hansen S3 of Easton Is In the Fresno County General Hospital with head lacerations bruises and brain concussion suffered In an automobile collision at Fig and Central Avenues yesterday Peter Haneen her husband suffered bruises Hansen waa driving the car when the collision occurred Roy Thompson of Coalinga was treated in tna Fresno Emergency Hospital for multiple lacerations on the arm suffered nine miles west of Fresno when he ditched his automobile to avoid striking another vehicle DEL REY (Fresno Co) Aug 31 The various committees in charge of the annual Del Rey Fair announced to-day that their arrangements have been completed and that the fair which will be held next Thursday Friday and Saturday ia expected to surpass the records set in previous years Thursday evening a program wilt he In charge of Sanger groups Reimans will put on the program Friday evening and Saturday evening's program will be In charge of the local Accordion School A free dance Saturday evening will conclude the annual event The local poet of the American Legion will have charge of the concessions and the legion auxiliary will handle the wiener and hamburger booth The pie end coffee booth will be in charge of the Womens Improvement Club and the aid of the Meth- odist Church will preside over the ice cream booth The Rosedale Prairie Bethel Fortune and DeWolf Schools plan displays The flower exhibits will be in the parlor of the Legion Hall with Mrs Raymond Fincher in charge The fashion show will be in charge of Mrs Shannon of Selma and Mrs Helen Wells and Mrs Agnes Poulsen will preside over the home economics department Ralph Gibson is the chairman of the committee that will be in charge of the automotive commercial products and implements tent Flower entries must be listed bv 10 o'clock Tuesday morning anil the school displays muat be in place hy Tuesday evening or Wednesday noon ClOM 17 73 57 4 il 34 4 17 Ir 41 43' 4 40 43 3 1341 1533 1357 laae 1341 11N imp la imp! malW 373 1113 I Thole MOO (on tat a Ital lot) mall arsble ilorrd ever sends 33-34 I 339 da 13 i tiered ft 13 ounda seed 114 I ra up to 3i4 that 21s Reeks larred i I3e Is and ISr eld So dote: iso wends 414 IU ta I Sale 3773 1373 1690 13223 OWC 4935 0310 4775 4030 3295 0919 JM61W euiti 100 117 113 13 130 430 10 722 313 34 114 200 13 519 manufacturing candy making and glazed fruit processing and packing The purchase of all machinery necessary for the operations le Included in the deal Charles Kalajian has been In tbe fruit packing business in Fresno since 1907 bis son Leon has been employed for six yeara aa a store manager and aafeaman for the Boons and Pappas Grocery Company and Aharonian has been superintendent of Death Valley castle for five years The Standard Oil Company's f-e1 ewe- iiaat McFhall No 2 in the North Bel TAI Til lir 1 1 ridge light oil field yesterday waa I flr I III nr HI I Riven an official potential of 5900 I 111 I IU 1 1 UU I barrels of gas and 80000000 cubic feet of gas dally The well located on Section 36 waa drilled to 8500 feet penetrating the second light oil zone in tbe field Reconditioned Well Froducee Pumping at a rate of more than 300 barrels of 204 gravity oil daily a redrilled Fruitvale well reconditioned by Sy Wicker of Bakersfield and Knickerbocker of Los Angeles has been placed on production The well is on a five-acre tract owned by Frank Lane of Fruitvale It waa drilled to a depth of 4083 feet three yean ago by the Fruitvale Oil Company The original company gave up the project and the well had been standing until recently when Wicker took it over Wicker plugged back to 3950 feet and with casing set at 3637 successfully completed the well McKendree Well Suspends Drilling operations have been suspended at 6606 feet In the McKen dree No 1 of the Company The deeper showings were insufficient to encourage a production test The well will be plugged back and tests made from the upper oil zone It is on Section 11-30-28 east of the Bakersfield sewer farm The Union Oil Company drilled a deep teat on Section 9 southwest of the sewer farm and the Starr Drilling Company reached a deptn of 5516 feet on Its sewer farm lease both with negative results Kern Front Welle Flow In the Kern Front oil field where the shallow heavy oil wells are usually pumpers the Republic Oil Sompany has completed two flowing wells The company's Strass-berger No 3 yields 400 barrels of oil dally and Its No 4 Is flowing 460 barrels daily The wells are in the eoutheast portion of the Kern Front The Republic crew Is rigging up for drilling No 5 Test Faseee 760ft Feet General Petroleum Corporation Is drilling ahead below 7600 feet In Its Mattson No 1 south of Arvin No showings have been reported Cuyama Test Planned George Letngang after four After a compliance check of 178 years of negotiations has com- of the 182 farm nartlcinatlnr Pan drilling the Lein- or the 182 farms participating in No i on section 32-10-25 the corn-hog adjustment program In Fresno County the allotment committee has passed tentatively all but twelve of the contracts One contract was rejected because of the failure of the rancher to reduce his 1935 production 10 per cent below hia 1932-33 base Eleven other contracts may be recommended for cancellation because of the ranchers' retirement from hog raising Behlen of Central chairman of the committee and president of the Fresno County Hog Production Control Association says seventy-two of the ranchers have yet to produce 25 per cent of the base a minimum requirement added to this adjustment contracts Full compliance was shown by 106 ranchers Get Benefit Payments Assurance the participants in the voluntary hog adjustment program will receive benefit payments of (15 a head for the 10 per cent reduction haa been given by the committee upon advice from Washington No figure has been estobllshed for the 1936 production quota This year's allowable production la 90 per cent last year it was 75 per cent of the base Nix Jr is secretary of the local hog control association Hanford Man Accused Of Failure To Provide HANFORD (Kings Co) Aug 31 Arzo Smith 30 a lineman was booked to-day at the Kings County Jail on a charge of failure to provide for hia minor children He was arrested by Deputy Sheriff Moore Santa Barbara County in the Cuyama Valley Herbert Arndt secretary of the Taft Chamber of Commerce announced a contract calls for drilling operations to be commenced on tne west half of the southwest quarter of the section not later than November 1st However Arndt says It Is expected work will start before that date Premier Area Active The Premier area east of Lerdo is the scene of active drilling The Associated Oil Company haa completed three line wells started drilling its No 4 well and is building a derrick for No 5 on the west line of the southwest quarter of Section 4-28-27 The Standard Oil Company Is completing its first offset well has a steel derrick up for the seconn grading for the third and has locations for the fourth fifth wei! Section No 5 The Ohio Oil Company ie Dieting its No 6 on Section 32 has the derrick up for its No 7 a short distance northwest of the Associated and Standard activity The Golden Bear Oil Company ia preparing for a production test of it deep well on the northwest quarter of Section 32 The Golden Bear has 200 acres In Section 6 comprising the northwest quarter of the section and the southeast quarter of the northeast quarter RUES TIT-ARE WINERY VISALIA Tulare Co) Aug 31 Charles Bacon to-day filed suit in the superior court here against the Tulare Winery Company demanding (500 for alleged breach of contract He says the company refused to accept delivery of 60000 grape stokes ordered through him DRILLING IN KERN LIGHT OIL FIELDS TO BE SLACKENED Drastic Changes In Price Expected To Boom Activity In Heavy Fuel Production Recall Strife Two Arrested In Attempt To Pass Bad Check Three New Teachers Engaged Freshman Registration Set For Sept 13th CENTRAL (Fresno Co) Aug 81 of the Centrsi Union High School which will open the Fell term on Monday September 36th announced to-day that three new teachers have been chosen to tAke the place of instructors who have resigned Mins Geneva Speas former Fresno teacher will succeed Pierce who resigned because of ill health (the will teach public teaching and debate Elmer Burleigh succeeding Gilmore Erickson who accepted a position with the Hanford High School will head the music department He la a graduate of Fresno Stats College and has been directing musical organizations since his graduation having apent one year with the Dollar Steamship Lines Craig a Davis graduate will surceed Jewett as the agricultural instructor Jewett has accepted a position with the Puente High School The other members of the faculty are II Spillers principal Hav- rah Bell English Carpenter 'hoys' physical education Miss Minna Fast English and history Fenn commercial Miss lone Fox mathematics Fred Hartman history journalism and physical education Miss Anna Hartz home making Ingle commercial Miss Faye Kincade art and mechanical drawing Ray Massinger shop Miss Elvira Peterson Spanish Latin Miss Lois Sutton physical education Mrs Elizabeth Taylor German and English and Vinbs science Principal Spillera announced that freshmen and new student! will ireglster at' 9 Friday September I3th and that all upper classmen who wish to make changes In their courses are expected to report at the same time That morning Spillera said all buses will pick up students along the routes followed last year and Mill convey them to the high school For the first few days classes will ha hold only from 9 o'clock until 1 to permit the students to work at home In the afternoons OPENING DATE SET DAI HYLAND (Madera Co) Aug 31 The Dalryland Grammar School will reopen Tuesday September 10th with Mrs Jorgensen as principal Miss Colwell will teach the Intermediate grades and Mrs Grace Trabue the primary grades TO MERCED (Merced Co) Aug SL elementary schools in Merced County scheduled to begin rlssses Tuesday are Applegate Canal Johnson Livingston Merced Falls Merquin Monroe Occidental Knelling Whitmer Clay Guaflne Romero and Volta On September 9th McSwaln Arundel Flower and Ballico grammar schools will open Arena Cresscy Dob Palos Elim El CapF Eschoscholtzia Franklin Buhach Center Delhi El Nldo Fairview Farmdale Fruitland Jordan Merced Colony Pioneer Riverside Rotterdam Hopeton Los Banos Mitchell Plainsburg Planada Vincent Washington Winton West Side and Sunset will open September 10th September 16th Tuttle Ath lone Hilmar and Le Grand The Merced High School registration will open September 9th MISS ROYALTY TO TEACH ACADEMY (Fresno Co) Aug 31 Dry Creek Elementary School will open Monday morning September 16th Miss Ida Royalty will teach again this year TUlMESClOL ATHLETE IS versary The trip to Visalia waa necessary because Kings County had not yet been formed and the ter? ritory of which It waa to be comprised was still a part of Tulare County The bridegroom was 30 at the time of the wedding and the bride 17 The wedding took place on the porch of the Tilton residence the home of the parents a short distance northwest of Grangeville then the principal settlement In the west end of Tulare County Elder Craigie Sharp performed the ceremony Songs and Instrumental music were given hy Misses Josie and Birdie Tilton Katie Mc-Kelvey Ella Robinson Jennie Shores and Nettle Maschmeyer Messrs Ed Doyle A IV Lane and others Marion Robinson a eon of Robinson who entered this part of the valley in the early was born in Pike County Illinois and came to California in 1880 He baa engaged in farming since that time Though now 80 years of age he still does hia work on the ranch Mrs Robinson who before her marriage waa Mlae Addle Tilton played aa a child beneath the original Tilton apricot tree which her father Tilton then Kings County horticultural commission-r produced on hie ranch a mile and a half northeast of Grangeville Tilton plnnted the first orchard in this part ot Tulare County before thin section waa cut away to form Kings County The orchard wss planted in 1877 A few years later Tilton produced the Tilton apricot one of the best known va- BAKERSFIELD (Kern Co) Aug Slowing down of drilling operations in the Mountain View oil field 1 anticipated by oil jJ Sndsayfd7 here as a result of the drastic cut 16-year-old Lindsay youthf to-day "There was always internal strife at Old Los Banos The Thornton Hotel was a short distance away from the store Harry Thornton made fun of the storekeepers for keeping so many dogs and called the place Dogtown As such it became well known on the West Side as far awav as Ferry and Hirschfelt were not slow to retaliate and because Thornton kept hoga to eat the kitchen refuse from the hotel called his place Hogtown So Dogtown and Hogtown they were until the ran tings waa quieted by the establishment of a third rival known as Central Point "Being located closer to the center of population In the Loa Banos district Central Point grew rapidly But upon completion of the railroad all three gave way and most of the establishments were moved to the present Los are held in the county jail here accused of attempting to pass a fictitious (11 check after purchasing merchandise in a local store Officers say the store clerk became suspicious of the check and started to the bank to see If it waa good As he started out the door both Mlllwee and hi companion ran Police Officer Roy Suhp joined in the chase and captured them Millwee and his 14-yes r-old wife recently moved to Lindsay from Arkansas The Lindsay youth has been certified to the -juvenile court and in the price of light oil This la offset by renewed activity in the heavy oil fields which are unaffected by the alash as heavy oils are now at the top of the price schedules for the first time in the history of Kern County Kern Front Round Mountain Poso Creek and ML Poso proven and wildcat areas are now the scenes of increasing activity and the centers of the liveliest drilling campaigns in ten years Schultz local member of the executive board of the Oil Producers Agency of California said an Intensive drive is in progress Settlers Knew Poverty to obtain signatures to the Jail unable to furnish producers' agreement September Red hy Justice Gareth 9th has been set as the deadline obtain a 95 per cent signup piv- ing the way for resumption of cir-AlgrceJ Crash Victim To tailed production and restoration1 1 Be Buried In Missourt of prire levels ricVies' Mrs Robinson was born In Sola iBmt County near Napa In 1867 andanrt cnme here in 1877 The daughter Mm com-naphne Johnson of Oakland and andjtheir son Leslie Robinson whi iVs on a ranch adjoining that of adjoining srhuiat there wITfbT'an ini MERCED (Merced Co) Aug 3L -Herbeit Hall of Topeka mediate restnraion of JnJiKas is scheduled to arrive hers for light oil following price an gondav to accomriv th hoHv of agreement among the producer to accompanythe body of hia brother George Gordon Hall Farm Mechanics Teacher Engaged his parents will assist in entertaining friends of the couple between 3 and 6 and 7 and 9 Monday Former Pioneer Selma Woman Dies In South SELMA (Fresno Co) Aug 31-J Mrs Elizabeth Snyder 97 for many years a pioneer resident of I the Selma district until she to Burbank fifteen years ago died! tees es Speaking of pioneer conditions on the West Side Uncle Billy says few people can realize what the early settlers went through Here la hia description of those early days: "I often wonder If people really know what poverty is During the Cleveland Administration there was a lot of land thrown open to settlement Everybody high or low rich or poor went out and took up a quarter section myself included "I took my wife and little girl some blankets and grub and we went out and camped on the claim All we had to contend with were coyotes rsttlesnskes skunks horned toads grasshoppers and kangaroo rats north winds and dry yeara "We planted grain out there on the plains until we were so poor I hadn't a friend in the world I would go a mile and a half out of my way to avoid meeting a man I owed a couple of dollars and who needed it aa badly as I "After it seemed thst I had lived there beyond ell hope I used to gulp about three times before I would ask a man to trust ms for four bits' worth of besns 0 -o 1 Then Came Water to Kansas City Mo for burial Hall died here Tuesday a th result of a traffic accident involving three automobiles and a truck Sunday night on the Golden Stats Highway north of Atwater He waa pirtM to hav hitch-hiked a rids Dy Hast Oil OCfZOOJ With Fred Cowan Reed 46 San I Francisco aalesman who also died EASTON (Kreno Co) Aug 31iof "uttered when the autev 'mobile he was driving collided Members of the hoard of trus-can a machine driven by of the Washington Union Johnson of Oakland School announced hers to-day thaij Iall wa Identified by descrip- h'lfjrK' t1 iJasr local chool 10 inch Joint Stock Land Bank Mortgages Are Foreclosed MERCED (Merced Co) Aug 31 Judge Rector today awarded judgments foreclosing mortgagee held by the Pacific Coast Joint Stock Land Bank of San Francisco on lanu in the Cressey district aggregating 798 acres The mortgages foreclosed are on 495 acres held hy Mrs Joele Rusconl and on 303 acres held by Frank Rusconl and Lucille Fiaher The mortgage on the 495 acres had been given as security for a (37298 note and that on the 303 acres as security for a (36048 note in her home in the South to-day Surviving her are two daughters Mrs Anna Irving and Miss Lou Snyder both of Burbank and two sons in the East Funeral sendees will be held Tuesday morning at 9:30 o'clock In the Byrne Parlor here ith Rev II Hayley officiating and burial will be in the North Selma Cemetery cultural mechanic here ri Recently Schreiber accepted aa in hS Hsrs Alrm offer to teach agricultural mocha-! 1 nice in the Mariposa High School Home but n-ked the Mariposa trustee for his release when the local offer I was made The Mariposa trustee granted hi icquest and announced that the school in the mountain: county will postpone the inauguration of an agricultural mechanic 'class for another year Hia Fourteen Slot Machines Seized a Reedley Cat Laps Milk With Rat if iWoofy Halts Feline Degradat ion 6 1 6 Youth ilillCS uuring! beediev PIT Rnrnprl When wwj wj ati(l cats is cats even in Reedley although Woofy Max 10 4111 1 1 Weir Maneuvers 01 prcbrcd cat an idea that one particular and cats is cats even in Reedley although Woofy Max 7-ycar-oId purebred alley cat has an idea that one particular 1 I Reedley ct i a rat UaSOHIie In Kern Raids i nr it 7 m1 uilOttlCr JClllCll Utl IglllteS Charge Of Leaving Children Alone Yesterday Hare heard loud laughter in the rear of a store near hia pharmacy Investigating show of genuine emotion that hc went to and got Woofy to see Visalia (Tulare Co Aug 31 ms TULARE (Tulare Co) Aug 31 Raymond Eggleston 18 Tulare High School football player and irtar shot-putter died In a Tulare hospital to-night He had been 111 three week Eggleston won three football letters during his high school' career here playing guard on the Tulare Red Skins team He recently was swarded a scholarship at the University of California in recognition of his hich school achievements and was to have entered the university this Fall Eggleston won valley-wide prominence when he placed in the high school division shot put event in the West Coast Relays in Fresno Kc was born in Berkeley Surviving him are his parents Mr and Mrs Harvev Eggleston residing three miles east of Tulare: an aunt Miss Gera Chism of Tulare and a uncle James Chism of Fresno Funrrai arrangements are being made hy tbs Goble Undertaking Farlora here "When it seemed thing had gotten so bad I couldn't stand it any more a man came along and said are you getting along Mr I answered Then he said to me Stockton I am going to dig a canal right above your land1 Talk about the voices of angels they are nothing compared to those words Henry Miller told me could have credit at his store About fifty or ua held meeting to agree about taking water from the proposed canal All of us could not nave raised a thousand dollars to save our lives And no bank would have loaned it to ua either "Miller went to work and dug us a canal forty miles long and 100 feet wide He filled it with water and told ua to go to it Not a man of us who owned an acre of land thet he did not make a rich man Henry Miller was the finest man ever knew In 'my life" r5acton would be Tashjian 16-year-old son of Woofy being a veteran and I Mrs Tashjian of the Exeter dia-knowing not only her business but trict suffered second degree burns BAKERRKIELD (Kern Co Aug Willi the addition of fourteen slot machine to the storage in the Kern County Jail basement seventy machine are now being he discovered a group of idlers in a circle around a half-grown cat and a rat that were lapping milk from the same saucer The interested group had seized a neighbor's cat and thrust him inside the circle but when the astonished feline saw one of his own tribe consorting peacefully COALINGA (Fresno Co) Aug 3L Mrs Burt Etter of Coalinga was lodged in the Fresno County I held by Sheriff Edward Chimp-Jail by Constable Joan Petersen on nee a misdemeanor charge following The machines were confiscate! her arrest here yesterday during a raid on establishment In HANFORD (Kings Co Aug 31 Frank Buckner of the Hanford Chamber of Commerce today took steps to induce a contingent of army filers to make the Hanford Airport their base during the next war maneuvers A group of officers of the army flying corps landed here this week' and apent a part of a day inspecting the local landing field with the idea of considering it In relecting a location for plansa during a aeries of her duty cave scant attention to the degradation of her renegade cousin passing it up with a throaty noise that waa half meow and half snarl Instead she devoted her attention to the tradi- early to-day when gasoline he was pouring into a tractor became ignited from a lantern he was carrying The boy ran away from the tractor with his clothes ablaze Hi uncle Mike Tashjian gave chase and overtook him and threw dust Constable Petersen said the arrest waa made aa a result of reports from neighbors that Mrs Etter had left tier two children South Taft McKittrick Fellow and Ford City Sherff Champners said that although frequent warning have been i-aued some esutw li-hment kept tne machines epa rat ms until they were eonfia-iaUd with a rat ha emitted a terrific i tinnal enemy who will lap no more yowl an1 departed henceforth in milk from saucers maneuvers wliTcii "will be atagedjY! haste The renegade cat slunk down an I Hare was so touched with this alley with hia whiskers drooping soon on him extinguishing the fire andalone In their home here while she saving his life Iwent awav with men friend 5 i 1 I lfc it.