The Times Standard from Eureka, California • Page 9

TOE TIMES-STANDARD Sat, Jan. 13. 1968-Page 9 Approval of Air West Merger Expected Within Three Weeks Stuff Heroes Are Made Of Our Timei-Stondard correspondent, Marilyn Harrell, ran this story down for us. It demonstrates there are ttill a lot of good neighbors in the world. 'Chivalry is not so says Miss Betty Grigg, sales consultant for a San Francisco firm.

She discovered this while traveling Highway 299 between Redding and Eureka. during one of bur recent storms. of heavy rain, there were numerous rock slides on the highway. At one place. Miss Grigg was not able to avoid some rocks and she ran over what she thought was a 'small The jock turned out to be much larger than she realized.

"Miss Grigg stopped at one of the service stations in Willow Creek to have her chains removed. Then, she drove on to Eureka, not realizing anything was wrong. However, Carlos DeRossett, station owner, noticed a large puddle of oil on the driveway where Miss Grigg car had been sitting. He gave chase and was finally able to slop her near the top of Berry Summit He told her of the oil loss. Then, DeRossett traded vehicles with Miss Grigg and coasted her car back to Willow Creek for "His attention to duty, and his courtesy, averted the loss of an engine.

He is to be commended," Correspondent Harrell writes. Hedmood Country shouts a loud and lusty "Amen!" Still ArnOnlilp. Under the heading of "unfinished business," is Strong's Station. I received a letter in the mail from Vernor Schenck, public relations, Georgia-Pacific Corporation, which explains a point or two: "In the December 26th edition I spotted a paragraph in Redirood Country referring to Strong's Station and our offer to give it to the historical society. For your own information we offered to deed it to the society with sufficient space around it for parking, etc.

Though the files have since been discarded, I believe we would have included the log-cabin across the highway, too. A long time went by before we had any response and then the society said they would accept the place but first they wanted certain things done to it. Our estimate of the things they wanted done ran up to about $10,000. We thought this was a little demanding since we were already giving them structures and land free and clear, but we suggested maybe the improvements could be handled as a community project with schools, Scouts, and so on, participating. So far as I know we never had a response to this.

There was a later go-round on this and I presume that is where my letter quoted in your column, came in. I cannot recall the particulars on this, but quite a length of time was in-: volved between the time of the offer and the time we finally withdrew it. "Were someone to acquire the Station, I am sure its restoration would have to be a labor of love and would take considerable time and material. --Thank you, Mr. Schenck.

Someone interested? It Is now or never! Post Office at 'Scribner' Ralph C. Frost, 3517 Street, Eureka, writes, concerning "About the old post offices, there is one that I dont know if you mentioned. It is 'Scnbner at Upper Elk River, later changed to Falk. When I was a boy out there about 1892, a widow lady. Mrs.

Leila Scnbner had the post office named after her. Her husband, a logger, wasikilled in the woods, there. She was a very nice, well-liked woman. She was my Sunday school teacher. "Mrs.

Scribner had two sons, Fred and Scth, schoolmates of mine. I think that they later on went to For- On the same subject, Jerry DeHaven, 726 Crcighton St, Eureka, writes: "In regard to your column on early day'post offices: In my book, The Western Railroader, I find1 thb. the post office at 'Scribner', and I quote: "In 1888 Mrs. Le la Kl. Scribner established a'post office just north of Falk, which became Scribner and handled all the mail for Falk.

Later she lost the postal franchise to the company store and the town of 'Scribner' was no more. Post Office at 'Cans' From Savina Barlow of Orick is this piece of pertaining to the post office al 'Gans, I "Following is information about an old post office location Gans on the Bald Hills road. "Excerpts from a clipping of an Interview with Warren Hancorne, pioneer mailman on the Klamath River by the ArcSaVnton in 1951, stated 'a small stopover post office with William Slggsbee as postmaster, was known as Gans Post Office! 5 It was located between Sherman Lyons' ranch and the Hancorne road. "Hancorne's mail route of 26 miles was made twice a week, to bring the few letters and many items of community news to tie settlers along the trail, torn Orick to what was then known as Klamath post office, located at Johnson's. He carried mail for ten years over the route in the 1900's.

Sometimes there was two feet of snow in the winter months. Hancorne was the son of Thomas Hancorne, pioneer homesteader, who owned a acreranch. 25 miles northeast of Orick. He took up a claim in 1861. A i-randson, Henry Hancorne, now manages the property.

"Gans Prairie as the prairie is still referred to today, was undoubtedly named after an early homesteader. It located six miles up the Bald Hills Road from 101. It is part of the Arcata Redwood Company property. SfiH in Operation Mrs. Lela Bugbce tell me the post office at Sawyers Bar is still very much in existence.

In a list of "ghost Sawyers was included. She says the post office burned out twice, but If now In temporary location, complete with boxes and service. Story for Today A hip character had'just made new batch bf LSD when he'hMrd the sound of footsteps on the stairway and realized that his pad was about to be raided. stashed the LSD in the case of the cuckoo clock. The raid- Ing officers made a complete examination of the apart- mint, but failed to find the well-concealed LSD.

Shortly after they left, the doors of the clock swung open and the "Hey, baby, anyone know what time St Is?" 1 VFW SCORES of ores teOati join.il family sad wiry fibres- rjrs held 5t A. on honor guard ment officers yesterday ot Arcoto when last respects wire paid composed of the different police departments escorted his re- to California Highway Patrol officer Kenneth Marshall who mains to Greenwood Cemetery in Arcoto. All enforcement and was killed instantly in crash Tuesday evening. The services several fire agencies were represented. Last Rites Arco's Miller Named For Arcatan pj ew 0 Scout Head Set Monday Funeral services for a native of Humboldt County will be held Monday at Paul's Funeral Chapel in Arcata at 1:30 p.m.

and interment will follow at Greenwood Cemetery. ReT. Andrew Montgomery will officiate at last rites for" Hazel Lucille Yerminl who was born on Nor. IS, 1S99 in Loleta and was the daughter cf the late Joseph and Henrietta Moranda of the Arcata and Loleta She was a bookkeeper for Dairies, formerly known as Golden State Creameries, and was for several years a volunteer worker for the Humboldt County Tuberculosis Association. She was a graduate of Arcata High School and of the Craddock Business College of Eureka.

She had been a member of the Arcata Business and Professional Women's Club, the Humboldt County Pioneers' Society and bad been a past Noble Grand of the Empress Rebec- cab Lodge of Arcata. Antarctica's emperor penguins reverse courtship cus- tsns, te fCTslc: tile the initiative and the males incubate the eggs. New president of the Redwood area council. Boy Scouts of America, is Byron B. Miller, vice president and general manager of the Arcata Redwood Co.

He was elected at the council annual meeting Friday night to Arcata to succeed Dr. Kenneth Mooslin. Arcata. The Installa- lion will take place Saturday night, Jan. It, at the council's annual Scouter Recognition dinner at the Eureka Inn.

MiUer has.had long Interest in the Boy Scout movement and in a former unit leader. He lives at Route 1, Box 123 Bayside. Three new vice presidents of the scout council are William H. Detlefsen, Eureka; Judge Frank S. Petersen, Crescent City, and Dr.

Eugene Portugal, Eureka, in that order. Riggs R. Johnston, Eureka, was elected scout commisioner. Orville H. Marccllus, Eureka, was- reelected treasurer.

Dr. Mooslin reported "boy membership" in the. Del Norte and Humboldt County Council has gaiacd 3.4 percent during the past year. On December 31, 1966, council membership was 3,109. A year later the figure was a net gain' of HI.

Dr. Mooslin pointed out, in his annual report, the Boy Scouts of America is in its 57th year of operation and serves nearly 4,400,000 boys. Eleven Redwood area council boys achieved the top rank of Eagle during 1967. Dr. Mooslin said the councli's 1957 camping program wac nut- than MO boys attended the Camp 1-Yee-Que sum- Postal Service Still Bargain at 6 Cents BROOK1NGS, Ore.

"Postal service still a bargain," that's wtat Postmaster Ettinger said this week about the six- cent stamp and he recounted some interesting facts and figures from postal history to back up his claim. Even though the five cent letter rate has suffered the same fate as the nickel cigar, first class postage chea er today than it was in many bygone eras when a few pennies meant much more. In 1817 for example a single sheet letter cost sii cents for delivery up to thirty miles. More sheets and more muei cost more money he added. A letter going 400 miles cost IS cents per sheet.

In those days the recipient had to pay (he postage, not the sender. II the letter was actually delivered to'the recipient rather than picked up at the post office 'there was an eitra charge that was kept by Ibe carrier. It was not until IIS that the sender was required to pay in idvanrt for mail, he added. I Uniform rates regardless of distance and- free city delivery were written Into the postal law books In 1C63. When distance was dropped as a factor in computing rates, so was the practice of charging per sheet Basic unit for letter postage.

became a half ounce in 1863. The basic unit of one ounce that still prevails today went into effect in IBS. Postmaster Ettinger said the higher postal rates mean that a greater share of the cost of running the postal service will be bome by the users of the mails rather than the taxpayers. "Certainly its only fair that the people who use the postal service pay the lion's share of its operating cost" We are returning to the postal charged when New York was called New Amsterdam and was a Dutch colony. Then the postage rate there was Three stivers of wampum the equivalent of about six Postmaster Ettinger concluded.

BRYOX B. MILLER mer session on Eel River. New canoes, new rifles, new archery equipment and new program equipment were added. The 1968 council board of directors, elected Friday night, includes: Eureka Dr. Thomas B.

Phillip H. Dohn, Kenneth F. Phillip H. John, Kenneth F. Laudenschlager, Robert E.

Lew- Is, C. S. Morris Victor C. Novarino, Robert L. Spoo, Philip J.

Sarboe, Ray A. Talvola, Aubrey B. Upward, the Rev. Fred W. Wechsel, Dr.

Roy Wittwer and Pat Patton. Arcata Antone M. Borges Dr. Don W. Karshner, Dr.

Kenneth E. Mooslin, George Delbert Taylor, Jack L. Taylor and Wise. Scotia Edward M. Carpenter, Harold E.

Neville and Orval Overboil. Samoa H. P. Hornish. Crescent City J.

R. Hulbert, Robert W. King. Raefield A. Me- Henry.

Fields Landing ---John T. Kinder. Fortuna Ben A. McWhorter and Reidar Wisting. McKinleyvUle Jack Milton.

Garberville--Monroe T. Tobin. Carpenter, Karshner and Wis- ting were elected representatives to the National Council, Boy Scouts of America. Raynor Burke, chairman of the recoognition dinner committee, announced Dr. Portugal will be master of ceremonies and Dr.

Mayer, Eureka, will be the principal speaker. Silver Beaver awards and other honors will be announced. L.A. 'Hippies' Protest War LOS ANGELES (AP) A group of about 75 young people --many of them bearded and in hippie garb-- paraded outside the federal building Friday to protest the war In Vietnam and the draft The demonstrators distribute pamphlets saying, "Hell no, nobody goes." Passenger Facilities To Be Improved At McKinleyvffle Field Final Washington approval ot the Air West merger eai be expected within three weAs, the Transportation and Commiuuralions Committee of the Enreka Chamber ef Commerce leaned Friday. Symphony Walkout Is Settled SAN FRAC1SCO (AP) A seven-week strike by the Musicians Union against the San Francisco Symphony Association was settled Friday.

Mayor Joseph Alioto announced the settlement, subject to ratification by the musicians. If ratified, the tint concert ot the: new'season be Jan. 17 and would feature "Orfeo ed Eurediceia." Alioto said he would not announce details until ratification. However, from other sources it was learned that the agreement had been reached on a salary scale of $220 a week for a 35-week season and $235 a week for the season starting in 1969. It was understood that agreement had been reached on the major Issue in dispute the power of hiring and firing musicians by setting up a point system.

This, the first of its kind ever reached In the United States, would give a panel from the Musicians Union the right to sit hi on auditions for replacements In the symphony orchestra. The panel would have the right of voting up to 100 points on the attributes of each musician auditioned. Joseph Krips, director and conductor, would have the right of ISO points. First auditions would be given to members of the San Francisco Musicians Union. no selection was made, second auditions would take in other musicians in the area.

The neit step would be auditions for musicians from outside the region. Drug Blamed For Death Of Azusa Youth NEWPORT BEACH (AP)- A drug called "speed" was blamed Friday for the death of a youth who had been booked on suspicion of posessing marijuana. The coroner's office said Steven Clyde BroIIier, 19, of Azusa apparently popped a packet of the drug Into his mouth as be was being booked. Police said he earlier had tried to swallow a marijuana cigarette. BroIIier and a friend were arrested last Wednesday alter, police said, they walked- away quickly when a patrol car ap- prucfaed.

Officers tackled them after they sUrttd running. BroIIier was booked' police said, after an officer extracted from his mouth a marijuana'cigarette he ager booked on suspicion el being Intoxicated. George Calvin, assistant to tie president of Pacific Air Unes, made the report PAL, West Coast and Bonanza an merging to form Air fourth largest domestic airline to geographical area. Alter Washington approval, EO to 90 days will be required to "fit the pieces together," Calvin said. Also on the chamber program were Guy Kulstad, Humboldt County director of i works; Floyd Strickland, of Bay Cable Television; and Wayne Luck, assistant district freight and passenger agent of Northwestern Pa- CUK! Kdlll 1MU.

Don Falk served as chairman. Airport Work Calvin and Kulstad described work being done to improve passenger facilities at the county airport at McKinleyville, the PAL terminal. A storeroom at the south of the building is being converted for passenger use, and will be a holding area for the jet flights. The room will be ready in three to four weeks, Kulstad said. More parking space is also available, inside the gate area of the field.

Kulstad and Calvin credited Aviation Director Dave Zebo with an outstanding job in upgrading the airport system. Major Improvement at the terminal will probably hare to wait for a revenue bond issue, Kulstad added. Budd Car Rates Railroad agent Luck discussed the NWP request to increase Budd car rates. The increase of 16-hundredths of a cent per mile, will boost the fare from Eureka to Willils by 3 cents, and will help NWP reduce its Feed Tonight At Crescent CRESCENT an A bountiful crab and spaghetti feed, with all a person can eat for $2, will be sponsored Saturday by the Latter Day Saints Church at Crescent City. The serving will begin at 4 p.m., and is open to the public.

The fare for a child will be a family of sii can enjoy the event for $7.50. Funds raised from the event will be for IDS activities in Crescent City. operating loss on I committee i chamber board of directors that it support the increase, based on overall support for NWP service. Strickland talked of bringing -big town TV" to Eureka via the cable system. It will carry seven stations: four from San Francisco, the two Eureka stations.

Redwood Empire Educational TV, a weather-FM music station and possibly other FM- circuits. Gang Killings Being Carried Out by Boys CHICAGO (AP) -A prosecutor said Friday Investigators have uncovered evidence indicating that young boys are being used by a South Side gang of terrorists to carry out gang executions. Robert M. Karton, assistant state's attorney of Cook County (Chicago), said two youths, one 14, the other 1C, have been charged with murder in two separate killings. Both are members of the Blackstone Rangers, a Negro gang, Karton said.

The prosecutor said the 14- year-old related he was rewarded with (6 cash after a shooting spree Sept. 12 In which one man was killed and two others wounded. The IS-year-old related after his arrest, Karton said, that he was given ISO worth of clothing by gang leaders before he and five other gang members departed on a mission that resulted in the slaying of Glenroy Stansberry, 13. on Oct. 20.

The 14-year-old has been charged with murdering Leo McClure, 33. Two adult members of the Blackstone Rangers also have been charged with murder in the McClure slaying. The prosecutor said gang leaders apparently assigned younger members to carry out violence in the i if captured, their chances of being convicted would be less than that of older members. Economy Sag Offset By Business Activity BKOOKIXGS, Ore. South coast area's seasonally declining economy was partially offset by better than average business activity in December, according to Edward J.

Konka, manager of the Department of Employment, Coos Bay. The number of claims for unemployment insurance benefits although edging upward are still below the level of a year ago, he added. Retail trade employment and business activity surged ahead during holidays. Employment opportunities will be somewhat limited during the neit few months, until preparations for the normal spring upturn in sales begin to take place. Service establishments had a few soft spots, but generally the feeling was that overall business wasn't too bad.

Additional employees were used for some of the larger fMic functions, however staffing remained at normal seasonal levels, Konka said. Seafood Industry was of a sporadic nature in December due mostly to bad weather con. dition. Most of the processors were accepting fresh crab on a limited basis until future prices and market conditions become stabilised, he' added. "Work in the woods suffered an off month due to snow conditions in the higher elevations and because of temporary closures for the holidays.

Pulp market was weak and as a result some temporary layoffs were in effect about the middle of the month. Only necessary replacement hiring is planned for the immediate future In the mills and the woods," Konka continued. Construction work kept the carpenters and electricians fairly busy, however the demand for laborers Most of the months activity was In finish work at the new chip facility In the Dunes area and continued work on the low-cost bousing project. In Curry County it expected the Elk River fish hatchery project will Leep a good number of workers busy after the winning bid is accepted near the end of January. Real estate sales continued to Increase In at least one section of the south coast area.

Reports on new car sales Indicate fair to good for thlt lime of year, Konka concluded..