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The San Francisco Examiner from San Francisco, California • 22

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21 Ell Sunday, Stpt. 23, 1951 CCCC Forest Fires in North Subside; Still Threaten SHIFTING Slit Towns to Use Fluoride Bv The AsMKlatrd Preni Oregon's most critical spot 60 Million Pound Building Moved for Freeway was on Santiam Creek in the Willamette Valley. A rekindled old fire there has covered more than 13,000 acres and for a time Nearly a dozen major fires in parched forests of the Pacific northwest slowed their advance yesterday but cloudless, smoke-darkened skies held the threat of new peril. Two Permits Grant eel By State Pleasanton In Alameda County, and Rio Vista in Solano County, have been granted State Health The biggest house moving job ever performed in northern California got under way yesterday in Oakland. threatened the communities of Actually, It wasnt a house at A continued lack of rain, low all, but the four story Olympic Gates and Mill City.

In the oft-ravaged Tillamook burn about 100 miles to the northwest another blaze mushroomed over 9,000 acres of previously scorched humidity and the possibility of reviving winds provided a fertile Department permits to fluoridate their public water supplies, it was announced yesterday. Hotel, at the corner of East Twelfth Street and Second Avenuesixty million pounds of hotel Incubator for new outbreaks. More than 65,000 acres of virgin land. timber, slashings and cut-over The permits were approved by In northern California, three big jrrirM ii' 1- 1 14 If 'it-ill in-' 'trr" Hl land have been seared in North fires were uncontrolled in the Six Rivers National Forest in ern California, Oregon, Washington and British Columbia in re the State Board of Public Health, following assurance from the At torney General's office that th Del Norte County and the Trinity National Forest. Another was out of hand in Humboldt County The hotel Is being moved across Second Avenue, at the rate of ten feet per hour, to clear the way for a new freeway on East Twelfth Street.

R. B. Montgomery, house-moving specialist, is in charge of the operation. Special 100-foot beams were ordered from Oregon for the project. Winches are attached near Garberville.

The two fires in the Six Rivers forest were only two miles apart One of 1,300 acres was on Lem's Ridge and the other of 900 acres was on nearby Summit Ridge. to a huge pier, with tractors turn The Trinity fire near Weaver- ville had scorched 7,600 acres cent days. Hundreds of begrimed firefighters remained on the lines and appeared to be slowly winning their battle against multi-million dollar blazes in the northwest's woods. Washington, with 35,000 acres burned over, has been hardest hit. The little Olympic peninsula logging town of Forks in the State's northwest corner was still surrounded by spot fires yesterday but the 28,000 acre blaze which singed its outskirts Thursday night was at a virtual standstill.

East of Bellingham, a 4,000 acre fire bulged out of its southern front but was expected yesterday. Special Matinee For Bible Drama health department action Is legally sound. As- a result, Pleasanton and Rio Vista will probably be tha first California communities to add fluoride to their public water; systems for the reduction of dental decay. Any other public or private water supplier may now request similar permission, a spokesman for the State Board of Public Health pointed out Some doubt as to the legal powers of the department to au thorize fluoridation under its regular water-supply permit system arose when the 1951 Legislature rejected provisions of a bill which expressly authorized purveyors of domestic water, including utility and irrigation districts, to add fluoride. The doubt was resolved, however, by the Attorney General's opinion.

The permit action was announced by Dr. Malcolm H. Meer rill, acting State Director of Pub ing the winches. Joseph W. Harris and Henry J.

Arnaud, real estate operators, are owners of the seventy-room structure, which will be renovated at a total cost of $500,000. Said Harris: "So smoothly is Montgomery performing the job that he hasn't even caused a glass of water to spill In the hotel." Montgomery expects to complete the operation by The "Life of Christ," a pantomime with broadcast Bible dialogue, will be held over through Friday at the Oakland Auditorium Theater. A special children's and Second Avenue. The 60 million pound structure it hown on tilt and tkidi at it prepared to tnove. gan Francisco Examiner Photo.

GIGANTIC-Oakland' Olympic Hotel it tteppinj out of the tits it occupied for tome year at corner of Eait Twelfth Street to be corralled by today. In matinee is scheduled this western Pacific County near the coast, a 1,200 acre fire on a plane at Westchester County Squally Jim Mountain was gradu The drama is produced by Airport, White Plains, N. Y. Cpl. Howard A.

Walker, of Ft (Jeiara sionaker. it features a fixion," "Sermon on the Mount'' and a tableau of Leonardo Da Vinci's painting rjf "The Last Supper." Tree Farm Honored ally being surrounded. It had consumed valuable stands owned by the Weyerhaeuser Timber Co. cast of fifty-two. There are thirty scenes, including the "Cruci- Corporal Charged With Plane Theft LANSING Sept.

22 (INS)-Michigan State Police today arrested a young Air Force corporal charged with stealing Slocum, N. was arrested after he landed the plane at Houghton Lake Airport early this morning. The soldier was placed in the Five Hurt in Fire CLEVELAND, Sept. 22 (AP) Five firemen were injured, two seriously, when a rear wall collapsed during a four alarm fire today at the F. H.

Parking Garage on Cleveland's east side. THE EMPORIUM Market Street Shop 9:30 to 5:30, Mondays till p.m. YUkon Mill Sec the Big advertisements on pages IS, 21, 23, 30 and 38, Main News section; page IS, Second News section; Crawford County jail, pending page 6, Smart Set section. arrival of New York State Police, lic Health. Dedication Rites At Bodega A bit of California's past and Open Monday Evenings 'til 9- future history receives its measure of tionor at 2:30 p.

m. today when the Joy Woods Tree Farm SAVE ON COMFORT! SAVE ON COMFORT! SAVE ON COMFORT! is dedicated near Bodega in Sonoma County. It Is a small acreage so far as timber conservation goes only 750 acres but selective cutting has been practiced for ten years. As a result, Joy Woods has repeatedly attracted national attention in forestry circles as an ex ample of how to keep small forest properties in continuous produc tion. The California Redwood Asso SoH, ahaorbtnt cotton Jf Xl Fett art reinforced 5 fi Coif, trarm at tontt JCwrw I ironing, keep their ohapc It 1 Angelic pmtel tkmdet Jj Psattti V.

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