The San Bernardino County Sun from San Bernardino, California • Page 13

FOUR KILLED IN HIGHWAY CRASH CITY fit San Bernardino Gets FM Preview City to Abandon 13 Aug. 14, 1947 rF; RIN AND BEAR IT By Lichty 3 Speeding Car Hits Dump Truck Near Needles Victims Returning From Vacation Trip; Girl, 14, Survives Four members of a party of cen Former Resident Dies While on Vacation Tour Stricken ill while en route to his home in San Francisco from a vacation trip to Mexico City and Guatemala, Dr. Compton B. Millarr, 43, a dentist formerly of Rialto and San Bernardino, died Tuesday night in Bakers-field. Dr.

Millarr, a house guest of his sister last week, Mrs. R. R. Ryan of Rialto, passed away in a Bakersfield hospital. Doctors attributed his death to menin- gitis.

A graduate of San Bernardino high school in 1922, he attended Hi Si i "H-i Yin fX ff WiHx Amusement Tax, Retain $175,000 Agreement Closing Litigation Reached By Theaters, City Effective within the next few days, San Bernardino theatergoers will be relieved of payment of the three-cent municipal amusement tax, Mayor James E. Cunningham disclosed yesterday upon the culmination of long litigation involving the special levy. Mayor Cunningham announced that the city council and himself have successfully negotiated with the theaters an agreement which will take the three-cent theater tax burden off the public but will permit the municipal government to retain approximately already collected for its postwar construction fund. PACT SATISFACTORY The agreement is "highly satisfactory," Mayor Cunningham said, in that it accomplishes the city's aims and will put the theaters on the same taxing basis as other merchants are on. In the future, he added, San Bernardino theatergoers will not pay three cents city tax for each admission but the theaters will pay business licenses based on gross A preview demonstration of Arrowhead Springs hotel this week.

of The Sun's new station; J. Clifford of General Electrio. But two weeks vacation is hardly enough time to get engaged if a girl's going to act like a lady at all!" receipts the same as retail stores. A silver strike, described by rein addition, the theaters will col-'ports coming out of the district as Crowd of Over 5,000 Applauds as Light Opera Given in Bowl Series By DICK WERLICH I General director of the produc-Gilbert and Sullivan's rollicking tion was Ralph Bloem, who was "Pirates of Penzance" came to life introduced during the intermission aeain last nicht at Perris Hill period. Host for the evening, the FM PREVIEW GIVEN AUDIENCE OF 1 00 AT ARROWHEAD SPRINGS Valley's Two Stations Cooperate in Offering Program to Dealer Groups Frequency Modulation, radio's Following the movie, Jack My- lect the city's special one-half of per cent sales tax.

Enacted by municipal ordinance, the three-cent amusement tax became effective Dec. 7, 1941, under protest by the theaters. Subsequently a referendum upholding the levy was sustained by a vote of the people. KNAPP FILES CONTEST Donald W. Knapp, a former San Bernardino theater operator, carried the issue to court, however, and Superior Judge Charles C.

Haines of San Diego, sitting in San Bernardino county superior court, declare the measure invalid. The city appealed to the reportedly running as high as the college of dentistry at the University of California. Upon receiving his diploma he opened his practice in San Francisco where he had since remained. Survivors are his wife, Henrietta; a sister, Ryan, a brother, Clyde S. of Tulsa, four nieces, Mrs.

John Ferre and -Mrs. Charles Kircher of San Bernardino, Mrs. Harry Clark and Mrs. Ernest Walker of North Hollywood; and three nephews, Lloyd Millarr of North Hollywood, Harold and Orville Millar of Tulsa. Silver Strike on Desert Reported l.one of the richest in the historv of mining in the Mojave desert, has been made in a low range of rocky, barren hills roughly 30 miles north and west of Baker, according to word received in San Bernardino yesterday.

The strike was made by Vern Smith, a miner, and an associate, a Mr. Long of the Los Angeles district, who now have a crew of 18 men at work building a 10-mile road from the Death Valley highway to the site of the reported strike. Unverified reports said the sil ver ore is immensly rich, some of ana a ton. Assays reports have not been released. site is near the cross-roads settlement of Renoville on the road between Baker and Shoshone, an area over which prospectors have sought rich ore for years.

Reports from the Baker area 'fai? Vha' Smi and Propose iu maim! linn io nanaie tne ricn jsilver ore. FOR SALE New Vorradofan Pedestal Circulator Used Only 2 Weeks Special Price $65.00 Call 209-56 The Office of DR. EUGENE LAISNK Optometrist DR. ROSS HOLT Optometrist Room 202. Professional Will Be Closed for Vacation, August 18 Through Sept.

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20 Yrs. Experience Wishes to Purchase Established Practice in San Bernardino, Redlands, Riverside, Ontario or Other Vicinity. Write Sun Box 610 CONSTRUCTION PURCHASE REFINANCE tral California residents returning from a trip to Arkansas were killed Tuesday night when their speed ing automobile crashed into the rear of a heavily-loaded dump truck on U. S. highway 66, 17 miles west of Needles.

Coroner R. E. Williams identified the dead as Hugh Hendricks, 36; the latter's wife, Agnes Pauline, also 36; Second Morgan, 34, and Morgan's wife, Mattie Grace, 25. All four were residents of Corcoran, California. Only passenger in Hendricks' car to survive was 112 Killer! In Countv Traffic Accidents his 14-year-old Since Jan.

1. daughter, Julia, 78 Sam. Dat. it physicians at Last Year the Santa Fe hospital in Needles described her condition as critical. She suffered a brain injury and basal skull fracture.

DRIVER DIES INSTANTLY Both the car driver, Hendricks, and his wife were instantly killed. Mrs. Morgan died less than an hour later at the Needles hospital, while Morgan succumbed early yesterday. Deputy Coroner Robert Lorimer and Highway Patrolman Alexen-der Kovan of Needles reported that the truck driver, Percey Stauding- er, Newberry rancher, escaped uninjured. They said the Hendricks and Morgans were returning from a vacation trip to East Arkansas when the tragedy occurred.

70-MILE SPEED Both the car and dump truck, which was loaded with mining machinery, were westbound on highway 66. Hendricks' car, speed of which was estimated by a bus driver at approximately 70 miles an hour, crashed into the rear end of the truck which was traveling about 10 miles per hour, according to the investigating officers. The impact forced the truck ahead for a distance of 60 feet. The officers said there was no evidence that Hendricks' had applied the brakes on his car before the collision. Bodies of the victims were removed to O'Donnell's mortuary in Needles, where an inquest will be held at 7 p.m.

Friday. 52 Fires Reported in Forests This Season Although there have been six more fires, the acreage burned so far this year is less than half of that burned in 1946, Walter Puhn, fire control officer for the U. S. forest service, stated yesterday. Despite 11 lightning blazes last week the fires for the year total only 38 man-caused and 14 lightning, burning 361 acres.

Last year for the same period, there were 24 man-caused and 22 lightning fires, laying bare 847 acres. presented the 'Pirates of Penzance' greatest advance since the vacuum tube replaced the crystal set, was demonstrated to more than 100 ra- dio dealers and service men at a special demonstration at Arrow- head Springs hotel. Arranged by the staff of KBMT, The Sun FM station, and KFXM-FM, opearated by the Lee Brothers Broadcasting the demonstration dramatically proved the wide range, static-free reception, and freedom from inter ference of the new broadcasting medium. Some of the top men in the field of Frequency Moducation radio, experts from the General Electric Supply amazed their audience with a demonstration of FM's potentialities. The dealers, distributors, manufacturers' representatives, all veterans in the field of radio, plainly had never heard anything approaching the fidelity, realism, and range of tone made possible through the revolutionary FM technique.

G.E. SHOWS PICTURE Following a dinner in the Arrowhead Spring hotel main dining room, the guests were assembled in the hotel Little theater for showing of a General Electric film explaining the new system of broadcasting. The picture, "Naturally It's FM," traced radio's development from the earliest days to the present-day development of Frequency Modulation. Graphically demon strated was the principal differ ence between AM, which we now know as the normal method of broadcasting, and FM. AM, or amplitude modulation, broadcasting, sends out a broadcast wave that varies in height as the sound wave impelled into the microphone vary.

It is subject to interference from electrical motors, streetcars, florescent lighting, and any other disturbing element in the vicinity. In addition to this, the AM receiving set will not discriminate between the signals of broadcasting stations using the same wave length. Also, departure in radio, was given at the In charge: Don Goodcell, manager Broadcasting and Jack Meyers U.S. to Deepen River Channel Contract Awarded for Dredge on Colorado The bureau of reclamation yesterday moved to remove the flood threat at Needles by awarding an $871,000 contract to the Pacific Coast Engineering Co. of Alameda for a dredge, pipe and barges to be used in lowering the Colorado river channel between Topock and Needles.

The action follows lengthy work in Washington by Kent Fuller, who represented the City of Needles and by Congressman Harry It. Sheppard. Since erection of Hoover and Parker dams the Colorado current has slowed, causing the river bed to rise above the north side of Needles. Seepage has rendered some parts of the city uninhabitable. Ture Alfalfa Honey 20c lb.

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236 Street Bookkeeping Service Tax Counsellor Audits Systems Installed and Maintained In Your Office or Ours Carroll's Bookkeeping Service Sun Box 625 NOTICE! LORD'S DRY CLEANERS Closed for Vacation Monday, August 18th to Monday, Sept. 1st, Inc. Frequency Modulation, the new Here, left to right, are the men and E. W. Lee of Lee Brothers ers, General Electric expert on FM, gave a demonstration of the difference in the two broadcasting methods.

Using two small trans- mitters located on the stage of the Little theater, he switched from AM to FM, giving his audience a chance to appreciate the superior ity of FM. Tuning the receiver to a program of recorded music, he produced the usual roaring buzz by starting an electric razor on stage. Switching to the FM transmitter, Mr. Myers completely eliminated the static. He did the same with interference from an old-type X-ray machine, a small electric motor and a light bulb.

To give the audience a sample of an actual, live FM broadcast,) the production staffs of KBMTj and KFXM-FM cooperated with a Frequency Modulation program broadcast from San Bernardino. I The music of the Paul Nelson quartet, jdance group, was heard followed by the vocal rrndition of "Old Man River" and an amusing sound effect sequence. Frequent comments of "Just like being in the room with the orchestra," and "marvelous tone quality" were heard as the bell-like, full-range tones of FM issued from the speaker. Instrumental in producing the program, in addition to Mr. Myers, were Clifford and Gene Lee of Lee Brothers Broadcasting Co.

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623-07 district court of appeal and the case is still pending. Three other concern, thp Pall- fornia San Bernardino Theater! Fox San Bernardino Theater Corp. and Warner then filed separate actions asking for return of the money already collected and seeking an injunction which (Continued on Page 20, Column 1) Tre-School Bazaar Children's Clothing by Women's Service Guild of Gardens Community Church at SAGE'S MARKET FRIDAY, AUGUST 15 HOUSE FOR SALE 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, double garage, wasli room, sprinkling system. 310 17th St. Ph.

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941 Street sixth program in the thirteenth season at Perris Hill bowl, was the Argonaut club. President Charles Mapes spoke briefly during the intermission, urging all to support the campaign for membership buttons in the Covered Wagon Days celebration. Members of the Argonaut club acted as ushers and passed the collection plate during intermission, MEMBERS OF CAST ance was: Complete cast for the perform Major General Stanley, Everton Stidham: Pirate King, William Al lon; Samuel (King's Lt), John Sawyer; Frederic, Carl Lansing; Sergeant of Police, Perry Visser. Daughters of Major General Stanley: Mabel, Marilyn Harmon; Edith, Norma Murphee; Kate, Jane Stewart, Isabel, Pat Regan; Ruth, Alice Perry. Major General's Wards: Guy-neth Putney, Pat Williams, Norma DuBose, Pat Regan, Jackie Fun-derburg, Cornell Stacy, Marcella Manning, Norma Murphree, Marl lyn Harmon, Therese Lyons, Anna May Lyons, Beverley Powers and Vivienne Carroll.

Chorus of Pirates: Raymon Repp, William Allen, Ralph Con-treras, Carl Lansing, John Oliver, John Sawyer, John Bloem, Byron Allen Jr. Chorus of Police: Jim Dugan, Teddy Howard, Jerry Howard, Perry Visser, George Scott and Paul Bloem. Here are some of the cast which bowl as the San Bernardino Civic Opera association presented the Ray comic operetta before an overflow crowd of more than 5,000. A cast, headed by Everton Stidham, who scored a personal triumph as Major General Stanley, captured the zany, carefree spirit of the piece admirably. Mr.

Stidham displayed a voice of fine tone and power, and had by far the most presence of any of the company. Carl Lansing, playing the romantic lead of Frederic, was given ample opportunity to use his pleasing vocal style. Marilyn Harmon, in addition to being very pleasant to the eye, delighted the audience with her clear, crisp interpretation of the difficult role of Mabel, ingenue lead. ARGONAUTS SPONSOR NIGHT William Allen, as the pirate king, was sufficiently bold and blustering, and Alice Perry, as Ruth, the faded flower of 47, was consistently in character. As the bumbling, comic Sergeant of Police, Perry Visscr was a decided hit with his audience, especially during the famous "When a Felon's Not Engaged in His Eploy-ment" solo.

The vigorous and exacting conducting of James Guthrie, musical director, must have been a great help to the cast, as they traversed the intricate, rhythmic Sullivan score with no apparent slips in timing. FROM 'PIRATE' CAST at the Perris Hill bowl last nignt. Misses Marilyn Harmon and Jane 8wyr, Mrs. Alic Perry and Dr. when the set is Dickine ud a p.m.

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Between two signals on the same wave length, it will pick up only the stronger. The picture continued to show the tremendous increase in tonal range obtained by FM over the best AM sets. The human ear, the movie said, can hear sound waves vibrating between 40 times per second and 15,000. These variations are called the cycles of the sound. The best AM received can only broadcast up to 5,000 cycles, whereas a violin can project tones up to 13,500 cycles.

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