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The Times from San Mateo, California • Page 3

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The Timesi
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San Mateo, California
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SAN BRUNO Detective Sergeant Hugh Fraser this morning examined some of the weapons allegedly found in the home of Calvin Stephens of San Bruno. Stephens was charged with possession of stolen' property. (See story on Page One.) (Times Photo) 197V San Mafeo--3 ervisors to Anti-Logging County supervisors'. will be asked tomorrow to cancel a permit to log three million board feet of virgin redwood timber south -of the Butanb-Pescadero Divide. The permit was granted by the County Planning Commission last month to the Santa Cruz Lumber Company, the county's major logger, over the objections of conservationists.

The Committee for Green Foothills filed an appeal with the Board of Supervisors and a public hearing. is scheduled for 2:15 p.m. tomorrow in Redwood News City. Pat Barrantine, CGF executive secretary, said the-appeal is based on the question of whether the. permit falls under The moratorium, due to expire February 17, was clamped on alj new logging operations pending a complete review of the terms of a moratorium thatj logging -in San Mateo has been in effect for eight I County.

In granting the permit, -months. the Planning Commission made a finding that the owner had right to log by over-all permit granted in, 1965i" The Santa Cruz ny carries on logging 'opera: tioris, according to an.estabr''- lisheS program, on itsMandsv throughout the southern part of. the county. Mrs. Barrantine said -a thorough review of ths of virgin redwoods is particularly in view of the- pending report under the moratorium.

Under the permit; 7-0 per cent: of the large redwoods' in area would be harvested: Fire Damages School A two-alarm fire set 'by bur- the. school's physical education glar-arsonists did an estimated a a to Hoover School, 650 Charter Street, in Redwood City, yesterday. Fire Chief John W. Keller said damage was 'extensive to rooms, where Softball and foot- 'ball equipment were taken, apparently by the arsonists. Joseph Lodi, retired Redwood City fire chief, told Policeman Lawrence Crider and Lawrence Taylor at the scene that he saw Manslaughter Charge Set Arraignment was scheduled this morning for a 26-year-old San Bruno'man on charges of manslaughter, felony i and run and reckless driving in the death of a Pacifica man Friday.

Robert W. Lugg, of 823 Hensley Avenue, was arrested by off-duty San Francisco policeman early Friday morning after failing to stop when his auto struck a car driven by Lee W. Schmidt, 57, of 1153 ShDila Lane, Pacifica. Schmidt was Witnesses told police they saw the 'by 'Schmidt traveling eastbound on San Bruno Avenue'in the slow lane. It was followed' by the car driven by Lugg.

Both, according to wiU nesses, were exceeding the speed limit. Police said that as they approached the intersection of Mills Avenue the Schmidt vehicle -Avas struck from 'behind by the car driven by Lugg. The impact caused Schmidt to lose control. The vehicle hit two street signs, PGE power pole and exploded and burst into flames after stopping. Schmidt was thrown from the vehicle.

Police said Lugg controlled to drive on. An effort to stop him at intersection of San Mateo Avenue failed. The off-duty officer finally apprehended Lugg at the intersection of Fourth Avenue, police said. Couple Charged in -Child iBeatins Aircraft Burglarized in Carlos Burglars broke into nine aircraft at the San Carlos Airport during -the weekend, making off with nearly worth of radio and fiavi-gatdon equipment, police report. Police Sgt.

Mike 'Rokitiansky and Officer Geoge Don-Ion said that the planes, one owned by Peninsula Aviation and the others by were either in the tie-down ar-ea or the Peninsula firm's hanger. Biggest Joss was reported by Dahlem C. Magner, San Francisco, who said radio and glide scope valued ait a total of $3,400 were taken from his plane in the tie-down area. Other losses ranged from $500 to One owner said his jplane had been broken into, but nothing had been taken. Burglar Hits However, electrical and roof I two youths run from the area and drive off in a brown pickup truck shortly after he arrived to watch the fire-fighting.

Fire Capt. Arthur Kitto suffered a cracked rib when a lad- repairs were made in time to assure the opening of school for classes today following the two-week Christmas vacation, Fire Inspector Alfred McKendry reported. McKendry said the fire was set in three places, in papers in a cardboard carton on the floor next to a divider wall in the room, on top of a file cabinet and on top of a desk. Youngsters playing at the i school saw the flames and smoke and reported the fire to a der. slipped and he fell from" ceiling to the floor while -wear-: ing an oxygen cannister smoke mask.

He will be off duty. for ten days. Two other firemen suffered less serious injuries. Capt. Earl Conrad stepped on a nail, a Fireman Jim Serra was on the right thumb.

Death Claims Famed Pilot Henry C. Kristofferson, 65, teacher, Richard A. a med pilot and former division who was working in for Pan American part of the building. Kauffmann; world Airways when ha was a called the fire a ti re of San Mateo, died New Year's a a his horns in Fall- brock, San' Diego County. The San Diego County-Coroner's Office reports his wife, shortly before 3 p.m Firemen said when they arrived flames were shooting up the walls through the ceiling into the attic.

Atotal of 50 firemen joined in the fire-fighting effort. Chief Keller said it was necessary to cut 'holes in the roof to vent the fire and to search for extension of the blaze through the attic. U.S. Bond Drive Chairman Named Edgar' F. Kaiser was appoint-, ed today to the United States Industrial Payroll Savings Com- by Secretary of the Treasury David M.

Kennedy. He will serve as chairman of the San Francisco Bay burgh, is chairman of the 1971 'U. S. Industrial Payroll Savings Committee. He succeeds Gordon M.

a 1 Chairman of the Board of Sears, Roebuck and Company, Chica- A Menlo Park couple were ar- ly after midnight by a Deputy D.A. Edgar F. Kaiser for the committee's "Take Stock in America" campaign. Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Kaiser Industries Corporation, he joins leaders of 54 other large interstate corporations on the committee which sponsors the annual nationwide promotion to encourage systematic purchase of Series Bonds through the Payroll Savings Plan. Kaiser led the 1970 Bay Area "Share in America" campaign which exceeded the assigned goal of enrolling 6D.COO new payroll savers.

With fellow committee members, he will meet with Secretary Kennedy; John B. who will sucesd Kennedy on February 1st; and other major government officials in Washington, D.C. on January 14 to'launch this year's drive. B. R.

Dorsey, President of the Oil Pitts- Area go- The new national chairman has announced that the aim of the committee is to stimulate regular purchase of U. S. Savings Bonds to help wage earners achieve personal financial security and to assist in the management of the public debt by non-inflationary means. From corporate headquarters in Oakland, Kaiser directs an industrial organization with operating facilities in 35 of the United States and in 24 other nations. There are more than one hundred affiliated Kaiser companies with some two billion dollars in sales on thousands of products and services.

The annual payroll for 70,000 employ- ees is $600 million. Kaiser's career includes national public service on a number of presidential advisory committees, notably in the labor-management relations and urban housing fields, where he has won high honors for his achievements. rested on felony child beating charges early yesterday after who took her to police. Officers said the girl told fh'o-m slip had gotten into an ar- their 13-year-old daughter was lament" ViiF her mother con- admitted to Stanford Hospital suffering from multiple bruises, abrasions and cuts, police report. Booked at county jail were John Bolto, 50, a PGE em- ploye, and his wife, Judith, 41, a cerning the latter's drinking.

She said she was beaten by both parents and w.as hit toy a crutch. The daughter added that she was told to leave the house and "never come back." Hospital attendants reported that the girl suffered numerous nurse's assistant. cuts and abrasions of the back, Police said their daughter, Linda, was found wandering barefooted near the home short- bruises of the left arm and wrist and a cut on the back of the head. A deputy district attorney returned to his San Carlos apartment last night following a holiday weekend absence discover he was a burglary victim. Edward D.

Thirkell, a deputy in the South San Francisco Municipal Court, told Policeman Lewis El'dridge that the apartment had been ransacked and a steel strong box containing $2000 worth of assorted stock certificates, his birth certificate, a passport and other papers was missing. Tame Lion Surprises Neighbor Roy W. Pegiau was raking eaves in the backyard of his hone at 2C5 Laning Drive, Woodside, yesterday when hej found'himself face lo face with a mountain lion. Pegiau, 65, did what- came naturally. He dropped the rake, ran house and cabled the was present at the time.

She said he had died after an apparent heart seizure. Kristofferson was a brigadier general in th? Air Force Reserve, and was credited with numerous successful airlift ac- around 'the world. During World War he moved the entire Eighth Air Force and its 2,900 heavy bombers, from England to the U.S., and on to the South Pacific, after VE Day. Earlier, he had helped establish air service "over the lump" from India into China acrors the Himalayas, was known as the first piiot io fly to Himalayas at night, and had operated the prewar "British life- ine" to save English troops in Henry C. Kristofferson a'.

1930 Santa Margarita Road, Fallbrpok, with his wife; Mary. Survivors include his wife; daughter, Mrs. Karen Kerchen- bausr of West Point, N.Y.; and two sons, Kraig and Kris; who has recently won fame as a folk At the end of World War II. TMsic and country-western sing-' sheriff's office. When Deputy Caldwell got there he found the' situation well under control.

With Pegiau -was a neighbor, John T. Silver, 18, of, 240 Laning Drive. Silver explained, Caldwell re- he was placed in charge of Pan Am's expansion in the Pacific, but served two hitches of active duty in the Air Force during the (Korean War. During cne of Sheriff Les these of service, he organized military air transportation operations from the West Coast to 1955, he led a team of American experts to help the government of Pakistan estab- ported, the animal was lish an air transport service, pet, a year-old domesticated li- A year later, he left Pan Flames Ruin Carlos Home A fire apparently 'starting in the downstairs did extensive damage to the Don C. Hodges home, 48 Roslyn Avenue, in San Carlos this morn- Firemen were called at 8:59 a.m.

and arrived at the house to find flames spreading from the basement garags to th2 first floor of the structure. Council Meets The. San Mateo City Council will meet at 8 p.m. tonight at city hall's council chambers. jness named'Nancy, who had sneaked out of her cage while his back was turned.

Caldwell decided that no action was necessary except to a brief report and to admonish the youth 4o -make certain that Nancy stays in her cage. American to serve as manager of the aviation division of the American-Arabian Oil Company, with headquarters at Dhah- rac, Saudi Arabia. He had made his home for years at 521 Dorch- Friends of the family report there will be no funeral services. Driver Loses in Hot Chase A San Francisco man was arrested in Daly City after-successful! evading the California Highway Patrol during a hot chase yesterday. Richard Alley, 21, was spotted along Geneva Avenue in Daly City by policeman Edward Jensen seme 45 minutes 'after ne had outrun a CHP unit dur- 111,3 1 1 1 1 i Ui V-- kj ester Road, San Mateo, but left jing a chase Army, his area at that time.

He has -more recently interchange in San Fran- lived i cisco about 3 a.m. Peninsula Robberies Reported FILLING OUT his final flight log entry as pilot for Pan Am, Captain Jack Myers, '1215 Alameda de las Pulgas, Belmont, ends a 31-year career of flying people across oceans to Central and South America, and to the-Far East. An expert, in radio, he has helped develop modern aids to communication and navigation, used by all the airlines. A gunman held up a San Mateo motel Saturday evening and escaped with an estimated $470 in cash and checks worth about $65. Police said the robber, -a young man said to be about 25-years-old and about 5-5 in height, entered the registration -of the Firestone 2175 South El Camino a i shortly after 5 p.m.

and signed for a room. When the manager of the motel, Thomas J- Lohrum, turned his back on the man the robber placed a gun in the manager's back, police said. The manager" was told to call his wife from inside their adjoining apartment. He did so and the pair were then ushered into a rear bedroom. The manager's wallet was rifled and about $40 in cash was taken by the robber.

Both victims were then tied up with- nylon stockings. The suspect, who was reported to weigh about 120 pounds, went directly to a night stand in the bedroom where the manager kept the motel's receipts and took them-out. Cash and checks removed. The cash register at the front oj the registration room was also rifled of about S430, police said, Emmric Lincoln was robbed of some $300 at knifepoint inside his Daly City apartment last night. The victim told police he was in a a at 404 Eighty-ninth Street when the robber entered the room via a fire escape about 6:30 p.m.

Four men driving a red van broke into a Daly City home early Saturday morning and carted off an array of guns and ammunition. Police did not know what had been stolen from the Carter home on San Miguel until the owner returned from'vacation yesterday Some seven weapons, including handguns, rifles and a shot- gun along with'a Quantity of ammunition, was taken in. the The suspects theY- home shortly before 3 -placed a ladder against the side of the house and' entered through a second, story window. A neighbor 'dent-to police. Amana NO SPECIAL WIRING CLEAN-SAFE- FAST COOKING IT SAKES-ROASTS- BRGILS-THAWS NOW ON SALE AS LOW AS $399 A I and Ktpumtiim Art 'Assft.

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