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SAN BERNARDINO SUN-TELEGRAM au. ia. 1551 Railroad News 16 Machinist Alfred Bawcombe Winds Up 47-Year Career By RALPH SMITH Last week wound up the 47-year career with the Santa Fe of Alfred Bawcombe, machinist in the San Bernardino round displaced L. S. Reynolds from relief schedule No.

10. LOCOMOTIVE DEPARTMENT On the vacation list are machinists V. Vance, H. R. Brown, F.

G. Mortimer, H. A. Linfesty, G. C.

Post, H. D. Alexander and H. W. Johnson; electricians B.

T. Randall, H. Hendricks and G. Bowen; G. Goffa, boilermaker; E.

COMMUNITY CHEST DRIVE LEAD.ERS Here is most of the group heading the Santa shops division of the San Bernardino Community Chest fund drive, which got under way Friday. Standing left to right, are H. V. Gill, superintendent of shops; A. Orrell, sheetmetal craft tive; B.

W. Souther, sheetmetal worker; W. K. Brown, machinist; W. Webster, blacksmith; C.

P. Collier, machinist; C. W. Beamer, roundhouse machinist; C. S.

Roberts, machinist; J. Lee, blacksmith representative; C. P. Preston, purchasing and stores department clerk; R. R.

Frame, sheetmetal worker; T. R. Neill, laborers' representative; and W. F. Hambly, machinist.

In front are O. O. Murphy, machinist; L. R. Huff, roundhouse electrician; E.

C. Youag, electricians' representative; A. M. machinists' representative; R. H.

Johnson, blacksmiths' representative; 3. Noriega, laborer foreman; H. W. Taylor, sheetmetal worker; and W. R.

Creswell, carmens' representative. On the Community Chest committee but not pictured are P. L. Long, at the preoooler plant; R. W.

Geib, shop clerk; D. B. Reynolds, machinist, and J. O'Brien, machinist. FWSfWT9 SS-fl REPORT CF TH JUMP nnaoino era schools Some Vineyards Showing Damage More Leaf Hoppers Can Be Expected Some vineyards are 'Showingf leaf damage caused by the second brood of grape leafhoppers, Farm, Adviser Chester L.

Hemstreet re-' ported yesterday, attributing the condition to improper timing of-the first treatment or lack of an control measure. Nymphs now appearing hatched? from eggs laid on grape leaves, this year, he said. Vineyards which now have hoppers, reported the farm adviser, can expect to have two more broods this year unless control measures are takerf at this time. Leafhopper nymphs are so small they are difficult to see, he said Hamstreet suggested that vine yardists observing leaf damaga can call Harold Anderson, agri cultural inspector in Cucamonga or the farm adviser's office for aid if they are not sure the damage i from hoppers. 1 1 Autos, Trucks Burn SAN RAFAEL, Aug.

11 UP) Fourteen new Nash automobiles, three used trucks and some heat house since 1926. The. popular machinist, who was born in England 65 years ago and served his apprenticeship in the Santa Fe shops at Fort Madison, Iowa, locked up his tool kit on Aug. 3. Fellow workers in the roundhouse presented Bawcombe with a leather traveling bag and a dressing set, which he plans to use when he and Mrs.

Bawcombe take off later in the year on a va cation trip through the east. Bawcombe completed his apprenticeship in 1911 and went to Chicago that year as a machinist. He was transferred to San Ber nardino in 1926. The veteran mechanic, who held the top senior ity spot in the San Bernardino roundhouse, started on his forty-eighth year with the Santa Fe on July 11. Mr.

and Mrs. Bawcombe have their home at 2932 street. ROUNDHOUSE Machinist Charles C. Hockett is undergoing his annual summer training as a California National Guard mem ber at Camp San Luis Obispo, Walter J. Goodwin, roundhouse clerk, has returned from two weeks vacation.

Transferred from the roundhouse to the locomotive shops were Joe G. Martinez blacksmith helper; and Frank Garcia Jr. and Arthur C. Aguilar, laborers. Leonard A.

Broderick, machinist, has left for a vacation in the east, with plans to visit relatives in Kentucky and elsewhere. Machinist Clegg K. Hosea has left on his annual vacation in the salmon fishing country of the Pacific northwest TIMEKEEPING BUREAU Milo W. Tabor, timekeeper in the mechanical department timekeeping bureau, Mrs. Tabor, and daugh ters, Elaine and Pat, will be on vacation the coming week at vari ous beach resorts.

CAR DEPARTMENT William F. Reeves, freight car repairman, is ill in the Santa Fe hospital at Lot Angeles. On the vacation list are G. B. Hamil, coach shop foreman; W.

S. Pvichey and B. F. Maltsberger, pas senger car repairmen; V. G.

War rick, passenger car welder; Carl Echelberry, A. M. Howell, D. J. Eck, John Maltsberger, Edd Burnett and S.

M. Valdez, freight car repairmen; J. W. Slater, sheet-metal worker; W. T.

Newman, wood mill mechanic; E. W. Pritch-ett, carman apprentice, and J. L. McClure.

freieht car welder. freight OFFICE w. J. os- ton of San Diego was senior bid- der for midnight yard clerk In the A yard. Bill Crawford, Bill Garner and Ed Fitzpatrick will be among those going to Los Angeles county for the opening of the deer season.

New fluorescent lights are being installed in the agent's office. General clerk Mamie Weesaw has gone to the Santa Fe hospital in Los Angeles fora checkup. J. B. Mealey, general yardmas-ter, is taking a few days off.

F. J. Kline, assistant yardmaster, also is on vacation. A. J.

Morgan, agent, is taking a week of his vacation. E. Weyath, red cap, and C. E. Chase, crew clerk, are leaving on their vacations.

Mrs. L. L. Young has bid in crew clerk position No. 4851a.

L. H. Johnson, from Perris, has a school of 750 as additions are made to it. The third new school will be a new junior high school in the Mus-coy area at Blake street between Macy and State streets. It will house 350 students when completed and can be expanded to care for 550 students.

The fourth new school will be built on a site near Lake Arrowhead for students of the seventh, eighth and ninth and tenth grades. This site, donated to the high school district by the Lake Arrowhead elementary district, is adjacent to the new elementary school west of the community of Lake Arrowhead and on the Rim of the Word drive. ADDITIONS PROJECTED Additions to existing schools are also important parts of the program. Replacement of the old shop building at the present San Bernardino High school and additions of shops, shower and locker buildings and a new gymnasium are planned. Substantial additions to Arrow-view, Richardson, and Highland Junior High schools complete the program.

As the new structures rise and are placed in use for the education of San Bernardino students, this community can be extremely proud of its achievement in providing the coming generation with educational opportunities second to none in this country. Man Denies Guilt Thomas John Marshall, accused of manslaughter in the Jan. 23 traffic death of Lillie Perry, entered a plea of not guilty. Superior Judge Archie D. Mitchell set the case down for trial Nov.

19. FOREST FIRE 'COMMANDOS' Highly-Trained 'Hot Shot' Crews Protect Forest Area HOT SHOT CREW Slicing through brush to cut a firs Una with all the precision and teamwork of a Notre Dame backfield, members of the San Bernardino National forest's "hot shot crew" of firefighters demonstrate their system near the Del Rosa headquarters. Below, Gordon Bosteder, foreman, displays hand tools vital to the crew of its hard-hitting ao- tion to halt fires before they cnraari IInHf thp r.antppn and I I 4h 4aaI to right, are a common DrusnnooK, double-bitted ax, a Pulaski (com- bination ax and grub hoe, essen- -tial for digging out smouldering roots), a McLoed (large comuina- tion noe ana ranej, ana a common shovel. Civil Service Exams Called Applications Sought For County Positions Civil service examinations for two county posts were announced yesterday by Sam R. Wyland, county personnel director.

Applications for a clerk IV position must be received by 5 p.m. Aug. 17. The job, which is open in Ted R. Carpenter's recorder's office, has a salary range of S232 to S296.

Applications for a stenographer IV position in the board of supervisors office must be received by 5 p.m. Aug. 24. It pays $232 to 5296. Reunico Held for Sons in Service A family reunion is being held by Mr.

and Mrs. James G. Pur-j cell, 1367 Belle street, whose two; gong are home from Korean combat service with the Navy. James A. Purcell, who is a fire control technician third class, served aboard the destroyer U.S.S.

James E. Kyes in Korean waters but is now assigned to help re-commission, the destroyer U. S. McCord at San Diego Naval base. Michael C.

Purcell, the other son, was discharged Friday at Treasure Island Naval base. Hej was a quartermaster third class and served aboard the destroyer U.S.S. Agerholm, He was released from this assignment in the China! leas and went aboard the U.S.N.S. General Morton for transportation' to San Francisco for his discharge. $347,000 Damages Asked of Power Firm LOS ANGELES, Aug.

11 TPi A S347.000 damage suit was filed today against Southern California Edison Co. by Henry Flores, who claimed he was disabled for life from a shock he received from improperly insulated lines. Flores said he came in contact with the power lines Aug. 21, 1950, wh'jn he was employed by the city of Beverly Hills to trim trees on Charleville boulevard. is off end the ier, i i ing equipment were destroyed in a-tf warehouse fire here.

Damage wakj estimated by Fire Chief C. M' Johansen at $70,000. 1 C. Brown, carpenter, and M. Nun ez, blacksmith.

SUPERINTENDENT'S OFFICE Louis Weber, from the division engineer's office, was senior bidder to the position of steno clerk to the chief clerk. V. S. Vandeman, bill and voucher clerk, and Mrs. Vandeman have returned from a Rocky Mountain area motor trip which included Mesa Verde, Grand Teton, Yellowstone, Bryce and Zion National parks, a visit to their former home city of Prescott, and to Colorado where they were married 40 years ago.

The Vandemans also visited his brother and family at Colorado Springs. The trip covered approximately 4,000 miles. E. E. Corwin, signal clerk, will begin his vacation Monday, with Helen Sullivan, stenographer, holding down his place during the two-week period.

Don Fromm, assistant timekeeper, will be away on vacation for two weeks, with Willis Smith taking the relief job. Jack Gray has been assigned as office boy in the superintendent's office. CARLOADINGS Santa Fe carloadings for week ending Aug. 4, were 22,949, compared with for same week in 1950. Cars received from connections totaled 10,103, compared with 248 for same week in 1950.

Total cars moved were 33,052 compared with 37,089 for same week in 1950. Santa Fe handled a total of 317 cars in preceding week of this year. Kaiser Foremen To Hold Annual Picnic Tomorrow Kaiser Steel mill's 500 foremen will hold their annual "get-acquainted" picnic at 6 p.m. tomorrow at Arrowhead Springs hotel, in the form of a buffet supper around the swimming pool "The men work hard on the job and seldom get to know each oth er," Earl E. Reynolds, director of public relations for Kaiser, said.

"This informal party gives them a chance to meet each other in a relaxed atmosphere." An accordionist will entertain during the evening. The men will start the evening by going swimming. Baby Little Hurt as Auto Runs Over Him SAN FERNANDO, Aug. 11 UP) Walter David Mellinger is pretty sturdy for a 15-month-old baby. His mother, Mrs.

Frank Mellinger said today the boy suffered only minor bruises when run over by a car. The rear wheel passed over the full length of his body, she said. "He didn't even cry much," said Mrs. Mellinger. Persons who have already submitted their applications were advised to consult Pennington before writing letters of inquiry or complaint about a delay in receipt of their payments.

Pennington can assist them in preparing a follow-up letter if there is reason to believe a letter will help matters. In some cases, he pointed out, a letter at this time would only delay the check further. Application forms and further information are available at 240 Third street, San Bernardino; 237 South Euclid avenue, Ontario, and Veterans Center, city hall, Red-lands. GOING St. Mark 12:25 "For when they shall rise from the dead, they neither marry, nor are given in marriage." Death is the doorway through which we pass from one existence 1o another.

Death is not the end but the beginning of an everlasting existence either in Glory or in eternal banishment from God. Responsibility for the construc tion of any major addition to a school system is a large one. For a community the size of San Bernardino, a $3,850,000 system is a large one. The unusual circumstances of rapid growth and increasing birth rate have combined to make such a program necessary. To further complicate the problem for the board of education, the outbreak of the Korean war was most unfortunate.

Building costs had begun to level off in 1950 only to skyrocket after the Korean incident began. The board of education, feeling a heavy responsibility to the people of this' community, has obtained the best architects and engineers available to execute the plans for these new structures. It has been a time-consuming job to plan buildings which will not only be structurally sound, but which will reflect the best design possible for the educational program to be carred on within them. Both of these primary goals have been achieved at the lowest cost commensurate with good building design. The first bids to be received were much higher than the consulting architects and engineers had predicted, and it has been necessary to redesign and simplify the structure to make possible lower prices.

OVERALL PLANNING In a project of this size it was deemed highly advisable to plan the whole program before beginning construction of any single building. Standardization of room size and cross section was achieved. Special subject rooms, including art, music, science, cooking, sewing, agriculture, and many industrial education shops, were standardized in size and design. Many corners were cut in the process of planning. The very finest kind of space for each subject to be taught was achieved through the help of the instructors from each part of the school system.

Local firms of architects were selected to make the working drawings from the preliminary plans. These local firms have contributed the best knowledge and skill available to achieve for the San Bernardino schools the very finest in architecture and design. BUILDINGS PLANNED The major plant to be constructed is the new senior high school on the site near Perris Hill park. This school is to house 1,260 students and offer a complete high school program in every detail. It is expected that with additions as lime goes on, this school will have a top enrollment in a few years of approximately 2,000 students.

Additions, provided for in the present planning, can be made as enrollments demand. A new junior high school building will be placed on the site at Muscott and Base Line. This will house 550 students when completed, and will provide all of the facilities needed for an outstanding junior high school program of studies. This building will grow to HOME1 Do not fear death but be prepared 'in every way when the 'door' is opened for you to pass through. Even now you may be nearer the 'door' than you think.

Why not be sure your last requests will be carried out in detail by competent reliable and responsible morticians. In our files are many such requests. For Southern California forests' touchy "flash type" cover of brush, grass and scrub trees there just one good answer to forest fires speed. Providing the vital speedy action this year, as for six years past, is the San Bernardino National forest's compact, highly- trained "hot shot" crew, a total force of 46 selected men who stand guard ready to roll instantly on a fire call and nip the flames before they spread. How fire can spread when it gets away was shown tragically three weeks ago, when a spark apparently from a carelessly tossed match or cigarette stub set a blaze that blackened nearly 3,000 acres north of Lake Arrow head, i One that didn't get away could have been worse than that.

A west- fire just a day before the Lake Arrowhead blaze broke outi was chopped off at the start by hard-hitting hot shot team, said David M. Tucker, fire control officer for the San Bernardino National forest. "It could have been a acre fire," Tucker said, "and we could have had two major fires i going at the same time." SPECIAL TRAINING The "hot shot crew," said starts with a highly skilled firefighting foreman, Gordon Bos- jteder, and two assistant Frank Gaddy and John Lively, who train their active young crew- imen in suppression of the various types of fires to which southwest forests are susceptible grass, brush and timber. The attorney general was not a. member of the President's cabinet-until 1814.

KNOW THE TRUTH Church congregation! should not drink wfno tor th lacramcnt of Iht LORD'S SUPPER: All SHOULD CAT unlaivtnad BREAD and DRINK WATER. BIBLE PROOF by MAIL. SEND 230 silver coin to envrr PRINTING: and MAILING EXPENSE. William Hendenon Poit Office Box 2097 Loa Angelel 3, California Bernardino Phone 4-4172 ALL STEEL IB IE JDS Twin Size FULL PANEL WEDNESDAY AT WAR INTERNEES MAY APPLY FOR PAYMENTS There are 33 crewmen, recruited largely from those who have fought fires in past years, young men 18 years and a little older. With the two assistant foremen and two straw bosses, the crews can be broken up into small units when they reach a fire.

Two cooks and two "flunkeys" round out the total of 46. Housed at the Del Rosa ranger station, the "hot shot" crews are ready to roll the instant a fire occurs. Fire fighting tools are kept ready and the groups load themselves into two stake-body trucks and unload as a team on the fire scene. BUILD FIRE LINES With skill acquired in training, Tucker said, these crews can build fire lines in the roughest country far more rapidly than any other source of man power available. He puts the firefighting value of 40 such men with overhead of three bosses as the equal on a fire to 200 untrained men with a 10-man overhead.

Since these are young and energetic men, the fire control officer added, they are not kept just sitting around at Del Rosa waiting for fires. When the forests are quiet, they build trails, maintain roads and telephone lines, work on hazard reduction, and install pipelines for new water systems and develop springs for use in forest protection. The work is planned ahead, so the men go right to the place it is needed and go to work each morning. In touch constantly by radio with the central dispatcher at Del Rosa, they can be sent I from the job to a fire as quickly as from their barracks. IUSE HAND TOOLS "Hot shot" crewmen are pri marily a brushhook, ax and shovel outfit, who can take off into near-vertical country to clear a fiie break.

Some specially-de- i signed tools a McLoed scraping tool, like a huge combination hoe and rake, and a Pulaski, a com- I bination ax and grubhoe, make it 'possible quickly to scrape a clean jire break to the needed width, in-I eluding the roots, which can hold a lingering fire. I The San Bernardino National I forest's hot shot crewmen, avail-I able at all times during the criti-: cal fire season, also have been 1 rushed to the aid of other national forests in California and even I have been flown out to fires in Oregon, Washington and New Mexico. Confucious, the Chinese social philosopher, was born in 550 B.C. 1 He taught: "Do not do to others what you do not wish done to you." ay 633 Third Street San Mi DIHTHDAY SALE Former prisoners of war or civilian internees of World war II, or their surviving next of kin, now have a new chance to apply for payments under the war claims act of 1948, according to John G. Pennington, director of veterans services for San Bernardino county.

The original deadline for filing applications was March 1 of this year. Congress recently extended the time to March 31, 1952, because it was informed that a sub stantial number of persons had failed to apply before the original closing date. Under the war claims act, former Axis prisoners or their sur viving next of kin may be eligible for payments amounting to $1 a day for each day they were in enemy hands and received substandard diet. The payments are made out of funds received from the sale of enemy assets. CONFIDENCE 1 MATICH BROTHERS GENERAL CONTRACTORS VALLEY and WILLOW Colfon, California ASPHALT PAVING TRUCK CRANE SERVICE EQUIPMENT RENTALS EXCAVATING GRADING For Your Convenience Classified Advertising Can Be Placed at The SUN 4th and Streets for RIVERSIDE PRESS in Combination with RIVERSIDE ENTERPRISE SAJNTA ANA REGISTER SUN-TELEGRAM Classified Dept.

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