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ii-i -luu j.n. 4, 1964 5C2H 5 The Snow Has Scanners Snowed i i i i i i i i i i i ll ii il li I I I I I ti i I I IIJM. WWWWWIIIIIII California's unpredictable snowpack is living up to its unfathomable nature again this winter, the state's weather scanners conceded yesterday. Another fathom of snow, say the scanners (they detest the term experts), would be the answer to everyone's prayers. Six feet of snow would solve the problem of ski resort owners at the lower eleva-.

tions (below 4,000 feet), and it would be added insurance for resort operators in the higher elevations, who al-. ready have an abundance of snow inches of early snow. In other areas, like Lake AI-manor, they note things are only 88 per cent of normal, with but a inch blanket of snow. As for the possibility of a drouth in the summer, there is no snow studier willing to make a prediction. They note that late January generally brings the great Sierra blizzards, and they note, too, that the biggest packs, as in 1961, don't arrive until well into February.

In fact, the State Department of Water Resources won't even take its first cautious look at snow until Feb. 10. weekend and probably will attract even more this weekend with its annual Birthday Slalom. Among the men who watch snowpacks for their ultimate effect on the state's reservoirs, power projects, and irrigation systems, there is a tremendous sense of fallibility in forecasting. The early snowfall has been good compared to 1962's absolute lack of snow, but it is poor compared to the lush (or slush) years of 1900 and 1961.

In some areas, like Twin Lakes at the top of Carson Pass, they note a 228 per cent improvement, with 26 At lower elevations, the flux of Christmas season skiers literally "wore out the snow," leaving rocks and stumps showing above the snowline. As one tow operator puts it: "There hasn't been a thing since Sinatra," meaning the Sierra blizzard which hampered the search for the famed singer's kidnaped son on the weekend of Dec. 7-8. At higher levels, all is not well either, for the absence of new snow has left ski runs with hard pack "ice snow." Squaw Valley packed in 27,000 people last SAVE MOW I SAVE MOW! Wind Outwits Death by Gas (Continued from Page 1) Hospital, and two of them iiiii xr-f I already had been suffering from respiratory diseases. It all began so routinely.

On Pier 4 of the Supply Depot, stevedores were busy filling up the holds of the freighter President Grant, due to leave this morning for Guam. TRACTOR Down the planked pier rumbled a little tractor, hauling six little wagons, each carrying a steel cylinder, two feet in diameter and five feet long. Each held a ton of chlorine gas under 125 pounds of pressure per square inch. A cleat gave way on the side of No. 3 wagon.

The big canister toppled off. It dropped no more than 18 inches, but it was enough to split a seam. The thick, ugly fumes began oozing free and for a split moment everybody froze. were kept overnight. Only persons listed officially as in serious shape were William T.

Washington, 41, 771 47th Oakland, and Peter Ladjimi, 64, Los Angeles, both stevedores with a previous history of respiratory ailments. COP HOSPITALIZED Rescue work was quick to organize. The Navy, at first, thought of rigging up two huge six-foot blowers to keep the chlorine going bayward. But, on reflection that the pitch of the fans might send the gas landward, the idea was abandoned. First base police at the scene had no gas masks for protection.

One of them, helping 200 persons leave a fringe of small houses at the outer limits of the danger zone, became a hospitalized hero. Almost a dead one. Patrolman C. J. Ganci, 56, Fine quality men's clothing! Special groups from current stocks greatly reducednewest styles, superb tailoring! THE CENTER OF THE OAKLAND NO-MAN'S LAND Cylinder (center) rolled off wagon (lower arrow points to cylinder cap mWTTm 1 TtETT LIKE WAR GAS 4600 Manila Oakland, was directing traffic at the Wiiiz-llici In Guam, the chlorine was ins North Wharf and Third St.

going to purify water sup Big Value suits: worsteds, hopsacks, plain, striped, glens. Lounge Tradtionaf. 2FOR86 plies and neutralize garbage. when a tongue of gas licked at his face. He stuck to his But, in more concentrated form, it was the same gas Title US Chess post.

'HAD TO HELP' "I got sick and my eves used with such horrible effect by the Germans in World War I that no nation has NEW YORK (UPI) dared unleash it voluntarily were burning," he said, "but I had to try to get those people out of there." One of the three buses Arson at Catholic Church A young Ohioan emerged last night from the confessional box of a a 1 i church in a 1 a and stacked Christmas trees from a nearby Nativity scene in front of the altar. Then he set them afire, police said, and caused an estimated $7,500 damages to the St. Louis Bertrand Catholic Church at 1014 hauling casualties to the hospital came upon the officer as lie held machinist Law- 1 I h0 it It burns the eyes, sears the throat, lacerates the lungs. The cry of "Gas! Get the hell out of here!" put everybody into action. Enoch 31st Oakland, was opening a hatch on the American President Lines' freighter when he got the rence Smith, 40, 723 Sweeny San Francisco, on his Well-made, fong-wearing worsteds.

Exceptionally good buy. Some suits with vests. 2FOR II8 2 and 3-button models-Newest models in muted plaids, stripes, glen plaids. 2FOR $I52 wobbly legs. Both were taken aboard.

ii "I'm sure glad he stayed." word. wheezed Smith. COULDN'T GET BREATH' "I ran for it but had to go Four Oakland fire depart ment companies led by Asst. through the stuff, 'cause it Chief Cecil Ross and the Oak was around the gangplank," land fireboat crew all 101st Ave. equipped with gas masks he said at Oakland Knoll Naval Hospital.

"I ran down the dock about a block. I couldn't had better luck in helping the While the trees sizzled around the altar, the suspect Navy put things shipshape. I Bobby Fischer, 20, of Brook-j lyn (N. won the U. S.

I chess championship last night for the sixth time, establishing a national record with a clean sweep score of 11-0. Fischer, who first won the championship at the age of 14 and is a contender for the j' world title, defeated Dr. An-I thony Saidy of Puerto Rico, in the final match of the 12-l round tournament. It began here Dec. 15.

Saidy, as White, conducted an English Opening against Fischer's black pieces and an exchange of queens oc-f curred on the 15th move. By the 23rd move-, all of the pieces had been exchanged except one bishop for Saidy and one knight for Fischer. Both had six pawns and the position appeared to be apparently drawn. However, after a one-day resumption of an adjournment Fisher forced his opponent to resign after 11 moves had been made. Larry Evans of Las Vegas, captured a clear second place with a score of 7V4-3V2 get my breath.

My eyes were burning. I had to stop. I was The emergency, broadcast walked into the sacristy and by all available means to the 1 set fire to priestly vestments valued at $2,500. just to collapse when they cme and got me and Choice group of our finer I suits, handsomely tailored in imported domestic fabrics. I 2FOR I72 another fellow on a tractor Then he stood by calmly while the Rev.

Manuel Avila, anc! took us to the dis ptnsary." alerted by Boy Scouts meet Walter Oaks, 60. of Long Beach, a steward on the ing in the church hall, quenched the fires with a hose. Grant, "heard the captain holler to go ashore." "I was below," he recalled. public and creating the No Man's Land zone, was practically over in two hours. The immediate vicinity, of the now emptied gas cylinder still was "hot," however, well into the afternoon.

During the danger period, all roads into the depot were blocked off. So were some of the streets on the other side of Nimitz Freeway. But, because of their height and location, neither the Bay Bridge and its approaches or Nimitz Freeway were Police arrested William R. i 1 i ii Minor, 20, for investigation Top-class Stein Bloch suits in imported British Italian fabrics. Outstanding values.

of arson. "I ran topside and tried to get down the gangplank but Minor, released in Novem the gas was too close then ber from a state hospital in We ran toward the bow of 2FOR 2I2 Columbus, Ohio, said he is a Baptist. BOBBY FISCHER A national record He offered no explanation for the act, police said. Since No charge for alterations on men's clothing he arrived in Oakland on the ship and waited 'til the firemen put an aerial ladder to us. "I got a good dose of it.

I was under oxygen about two hours at the dispensary. My chest is still sore from all the coughing." 300 MEN As some 300 seamen and stevedores hotfooted toward clear air, the oily gas smeared Wednesday, Minor said he hid at night inside the church confessional box. lIachinists End Airline Disputes WASHINGTON (AP) which included the defeat of Dr. Donald Byrne of State College, in the final round. Twelve of the highest rated players in the United States compete annually in this 100-year-old event, which offers 6,000 in prizes and is co-sponsored by the American Chess Foundation and the U.

S. Chess Federation. ft Monsignor John V. Silva, Also, on avings Earthquake in Cuba MIAMI (Fla.) (AP)-An earth tremor was felt yesterday in Santiago de Cuba and surrounding areas, Havana Radio reported. There was no report of damages or casualties.

who resides in the rectory of the modernistic, year-old SPORTCOATS Now $31 4I $51 The International Association of Machinists announced yesterday settlement of the last of seven disputes with major church, expressed compas sion for Minor and sorrow at across port waters to con about other ships the transport Mitchell, the oceano- the damages. airlines. Union president Al Hayes Sundav services will be graphic research vessel Davis -pundjhe corner Igrtj and four tugs. held at the usual times, he said negotiators for the union From these craft alone, 68 and Northwest Air Lines said. men were checked into the reached agreement after an Hollywood's RESORT HOTEL The altar, a 12 by 3-foot all-night bargaining session.

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