The San Bernardino County Sun from San Bernardino, California • Page 17

Nov. 9, 1966 THE SUN B-5 Fontana Held on Schoolboy, 14, Arson Charge By MARY COLLINS Sun-Telegram Staff Writer George Fall, 14, 9288 Maple yesterday was taken into custody on a charge of arson in connection with the $100,000 fire at Fontana's Jurupa Hills Elementary School Oct. 30. The cafeteria auditorium was completely destroyed by the blaze. Officer Donald Bell of the Fontana Police Department, detective John G.

Powell, Fontana Sheriffs substation, and Board Meeting Today SkL iSiii' Mm HWHiWI i I IK- Mm .1 is mm mf I JnM Wk 1 II -Ifm mmw mt Wm mm MM Over-Age Schools Topic The San Bernardino City Board of Education today will resume discussion of a report presented last week on how to bring some overage school buildings up to safety standards required by the state. The report, compiled by structural, mechanical and electrical engineers, indicates how school buildings constructed before 1933 fall short of Field Act standards. School districts must meet Field Act standards before they can participate in the state school building loan program, and the board hopes to have San Bernardino take part in the program. The report said it would take about million to replace all school units that do not meet Field Act specifications. 3 Escape Injury William L.

Rauh left), manager of Holiday Inn, 66fi Fairway Drive, San Bernardino, is a good neighbor as well as a diplomat. To pay equal tribute to ly after midnight by several nearby residents, had smoldered for some time before it sprang into a blaze which totally destroyed the cafetorium, according to reports. John E. Price, superintendent of the Fontana Unified School District, said that 1.474 books stored in the facility were destroyed, along with the gutted interior. Price said at the time that he favored "the harshest possible action" to deter vandalism.

The school district had been the object of a number of cases of malicious mischief and possible burglaries. Alder Junior High was hit once, Palmetto three times in earlier weeks. On one weekend recently the Palmetto school was wrecked. Two juveniles were later apprehended for the Palmetto incidents. At the time of the Jurupa Hills school fire, it was believed that the blaze was started in the stage area.

The cafeteria area, as well as the stage and rear areas of the auditorium were ruined. Regular cafeteria service has been curtailed at the school. Children are taking sack lunches to school and are being provided milk. A bungalow which was to have been used as a library before the books were destroyed is being used as a temporary eating place for the children. Airport Plans Evaluated (Continued from City Pagei Priebe, financial consultant, explained the plan for tax increment financing of the project.

Rhine himself is involved in a similar plan for development of the Morrow Airpark at Colton. A cooperative Redlands-Airport agreement for the entire airport and industrial park development estimated to cost $30 million, would eventually result in a profit of $12 million, he said. Under the California Redevelopment Law, the current tax base would be frozen, and taxes from developed industrial land would pay for bonds. All realtors would have the opportunity to list the land involved for resale, he explained. Plans for the development involve acres bridging the cities of San Bernardino and Redlands.

The airport itself is planned on 370 of those acres. The estimated total cost of the $30 does not include available matching funds of 53.95 per cent from the FAA, state matching funds of 25 per cent and Economic Development Administration funds of up to 50 per cent. Hunters Find Missing Doctors, Plane Crash Train Smashes Truck Overturned on Tracks detective Henry Mizysak of the San Bernardino Sheriff's arson and burglary squad, announced the arrest yesterday after eight days of sifting evidence and searching out clues. The youth, attending class at Alder Junior High School, was called into the principal's office and made a statement about the fire at the school which he had once attended, according to a joint police and sheriff's report. The fire, which was discovered short- The Field Act was enacted after the destructive Long Beach earthquake to assure that schools subsequently built would meet more rigid safety standards.

The board also will consider enactment of regulations on speaking at board meetings. The board had instructed Supt. of Schools F. Eugene Mueller to find out how other boards regulate speakers at board meetings. Consideration of regulations for speakers was sparked by recent stormy board meetings at which spokesmen for the Community League of Mothers were repeatedly gaveled down by president Roy E.

Chapman, who termed them out of order. The board will meet at 7:30 p.m. in the administration building, 799 St. along the tracks to signal the engineer, who could not stop in time. Brown said he was driving west on Devore Road near the intersection with Cajon Pass, when the truck slid while he was rounding a curve in the road and turned over on the southbound railroad tracks.

California Highway Patrolman G. Tell-yer said he issued Brown a summons for driving at an unsafe speed. Tellyer said the speed limit on the curve is 15 miles-an-hour on dry pave- "certainly less than that on wet pavement," he added. Tellyer said Brown suffered the only injuries, a small cut on his head and bruised leg. New Manpower Control Saves County $11,466 The county's new manpower control system has saved at least $11,466 in the past two months.

Administrative Officer Robert A. Covington said. The system calls for county supervisors and the administrative office to review departmental requests for filling of newly created or vacant positions. Supervisors have approved all 97 requests by 16 department heads which have come before them, Covington said. But requests for about a dozen employes were turned down or withdrawn at the administrative office level, Covington added.

Covington said the $11,466 represents the savings through delays in hiring as a result of the new system. The figure does not include savings for those employes turned down by the administrative office. A hidden saving, Covington said, is for salaries of employes never requested because of the tighter control system. are easily affected by smog. They have almost disappeared from the Inland Empire, said Raymond M.

Schneider, county agricultural commissioner. Smog burns alfalfa and may cause damage to melons. Schneider said. With taxes, high water costs and keen competition, smog damage helps to crowd out the marginal grower, Schneider said. "There's no question about it." Horace Hinckley said.

"Smog has eliminated the marginal groves." Hinckley said he has records on his groves from 1913 on. He said he has done everything the agricultural department recommends, but the trees don't produce like they used to. Most experts say trying to estimate the dollar damage of smog to agriculture is just shooting in the dark. A few months ago. however.

Dr. Ellis Darley, plant pathologist at the UCR Air Pollution Research Center, touched on the subject while before the Assembly Transportation Committee. He estimated smog damaged to state agriculture at $8 million a year. i i (Next: Smog and petunias By joe McCarthy Sun-Telegram Staff Writer Three Apple Valley men escaped injury after the pick up truck they were in skidded on wet pavement, overturned on the Santa Fe Railway tracks and was demolished by a Union Pacific Railroad train. The three men were able to free themselves from the overturned truck only minutes before it was smashed by the train Monday.

The owner of the truck, Michael Thomas Brown, said he saw the train and ran Rialto Man's Death Blamed On Slick Road A rain slick highway was blamed for the death of Kenneth D. Heater, 51, 176 W. Oakdale Rialto, in a one-car crash on the Redlands Freeway just east of Ford Street. Heater died approximately eight hours after the crash, but not before he told the California Highway Patrol he was pull- 263 22 1 SB. County Traffic Death Since Jan.

1 Traffic Death Same Date Last Year ing off the freeway onto the shoulder when his car went out of control on the wet pavement in the westbound lane yesterday. The car tore out 40 feet of freeway guard rail, according to Jay Davis, highway patrolman. The accident occurred at 11:35 a.m. and Heater was taken to Redlands Community Hospital where he died at 7:10 p.m.. "according to A.

F. Paine, deputy coroner. Heater's bodv was taken to Grove Colonial Mortuary in Rialto. He is survived bv his wife, Vern L. Heater.

Sun-Tlegnrn photo Mayor Pascual S. Oliva (center) and San Bernardino Mayor Al C. Ballard. The inn is currently being expanded and revamped. Rainiall Table RAINFALL SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY Figures from 6 p.m.

to 6 p.m. Last Seas. Seas. 24 To To Hours Storm Date Date San Bernardino .42 1 54 2.10 .70 Del Rosa 80 1.91 2.39 .03 Colton 32 1.00 1.54 .63 Redlands .75 1.55 1.51 Yucaipa 1.11 2.59 1.37 Rialto 16 1.81 3.02 .45 Fontana 1 70 3.00 .49 Big Bear .95 Lake Arrowhead 1.47 2.99 4.05 1.86 Crestline 1.05 3.05 3 83 1 98 EUwanda 14 2.16 2 91 .85 Ontario 2.01 2.19 .35 Upland 1.74 2.08 .40 Chino 1 89 2 18 1.16 Mt. Baldy 3.89 4.14 1.34 San Antonio Dam 2.27 2.54 .61 Devore 01 2.34 3.01 4.00 Blue Jay 1.40 3.40 4.37 1.98 RIVERSIDE COUNTY Figures from fi p.m.

to 6 p.m. Riverside 30 .84 1.28 1.14 Rubidoux .58 1 02 1 02 Norco 11 .88 1.17 .70 Corona 10 94 1.20 .53 Highgrove 51 .91 1.47 180 Sunnymead .18 .67 1.12 .97 Perris 29 .95 1.39 .79 Sun City 21 1 39 1.02 38 Elsinore 21 1.11 1.37 .41 Temecula 18 121 211 .61 Hemet 25 .87 1 35 .83 San Jacinto 30 81 1.26 1.49 Idvllwild 93 1.53 3.34 2.49 Calimesa 44 1 08 1.92 1.45 Cherrv Vallev .71 1.44 2.26 3.15 Beaumont 50 1 20 1 70 1 86 Palm Springs .55 .72 1.41 .15 Indio 20 28 1 19 41 Blythe 53 .58 1 76 .15 Findings Point To White Male As Coed Slaver A preliminary pathologist's report indicates that the slayer of Cheri Jo Bates, 18-year-old Riverside City College coed, was a white male, according to Riverside police. Capt. Irvin Cross, head of the detective division, said "Preliminary analysis of the scrapings from beneath the fingernails of the dead girl tends to show the murderer is a white male." In the report from Dr. F.

Rene Modg-lin, county pathologist, the scrapings are described merely as "debris. They are believed to consist of human skin and hair Cross said that the clothing worn by the girl at the time of her death and the scrapings are being sent for intensive analysis to the California Criminal Identification and Investigation Bureau at Sacramento. The body of the blonde coed was found Oct. 31 on campus on a driveway between two buildings. About 100 yards away was her compact car.

which had been disabled bv yanking a coil loose. Inland Tour Planned for of Inland Center merchants will be hosts for the third general membership meeting of the San Bernardino Chamber of Commerce. All chamber members have been invited to meet at 8 30 a.m. Tuesday. Nov.

29. at the main mall entrance on Colton Avenue, San Bernardino, for coffee and doughnut. Representatives of Homart Development developer of the center and mall landlord, will take the visitors on a tour of the center. Reservations may be made at the chamber offices. Good Neighbors Colton and San Bernardino, on whose boundaries his inn borders, Raub recently named a meeting; room for each city.

Making it official are Colton fore it pancaked into buck brush eight to 10 feet tall. "They said their navigation was off and they believed they were over the mountains and into the San Bernardino Valley when the started to descend," said Capt. Harry Hoekstra of the Sheriff's Office Victorville substation. Kenneth Eugene Hicks of 9073 Tippecanoe San Bernardino; his brother-in-law Vernon Givens of 24549 Court San Bernardino; and his father-in-law James Givens of Phelan first spotted the downed plane about 9 a.m. yesterday.

"They were very glad to see us and glad to be alive," Hicks said. The deer hunters were walking in to rescue the flyers when the plane wreckage was spotted by a light plane piloted by a friend, who asked that his name not be used. "The doctors signaled the plane with a flare as it circled twice, but we weren't sure it had seen them so we started walking out of rugged country with them when an Air Force helicopter Hicks said. The helicopter from George Air Force Base, piloted by Capt. Donald Bordeaux, Hew the doctors to Hesperia Airport here I hey had a hot meal before flying home with the friend.

"A survival kit kept the doctors going until help reached them," Hoekstra said. "Staving with the plane was the smartest thing they could do." Hicks reported the two "had a couple of bad nights" and stayed inside the plane to escape the pouring rain. Hoekstra said the plane was not badly wrecked, but was down in very rough, inaccessible country and would probably have to be airlifted out by helicopter. "A salvage crew was up there yesterday taking the instruments out." Hoekstra said. When they landed at Hesperia Airport their first words were.

"We're glad we re still alive," he reported. The single engine Cessna had full instruments and Dr. Rothschild is instrument qualified, according to Capt. A. D.

Smith of the Civil Air Patrol command post at Pomona, who directed the air search for the missing plane. "We do have something to talk about after our hunting trip, but it would have been ice if we could have talked about the deer we got. too," Hicks said. Car Hips. Man Killed, Three Others Injured A Twentynine Palms man was killed and three passengers injured when his car flipped over Monday night on a rain-slicked road near Desert Hot Springs in Riverside County.

Charles Lee Deakins, 48, had slammed on his car brakes to avoid an earlier accident on Indian Avenue when his car went out of control, rolled over and crushed him. the California Highway Patrol reported. The injured were treated at Desert Hospital in Palm Springs. By QUENTIN FOLEY Sun-Telegram Staff Writer Three hunters failed to bag a deer yesttrday while combing the San Bernardino mountains near Cedar Springs, but they did find two Long Beach doctors and their crashed airplane. After shivering for two nights on the back side of Claghorn mountain, Dr.

Phillip D. Rothschild, 31, and Dr. Robert F. Gosin, 41, are home safe today with no injuries more severe than a black eye and a cut finger. They had left for home from Las Vegas at 2:45 p.m.

Sunday and by 4:35 had cr'ished after running into bad weather. "With their luck they should have stayed in Las Vegas. They'd be millionaires by now." said one of the rescue party who noticed the plane throttle had been bent U-shape in a last second effort to pull the plane up be- tute in San Bernardino. Funds 1o carry on work are provided bv United Community Services. olic Social Services can help They will smile back.

With the support of everyone in the community through "fair share" giving, family counseling services will be available for this child, and others in the coming year. Helping the individual to smile again is part of the philosophy of the UCS. Family counseling, counseling to unmarried parents, children with behavior problems and foster families are just a few of the aids offered by UCS. Catholic Social Services is one of 54 agencies supported through United Community Services, sharing social welfare responsibility with other public and private health, education and welfare agencies in the UCS community. One gift works many wonders says the UCS campaign slogan "One fair share." says CSS, "can patch many mirrors." Smog Damages Citrus FUN TIME Troubled youngsters get special attention at Catholic Social Services insti Children Find Somebody To Smile Back at Them (Continued from City Page) ficult to put your finger on something.

"The big boom in planting was in the 20s and the early 30s. These trees are over the hump." Thss may be part of the reason for the small crops citrus growers complain about. Dr. Taylor acknowledged. What the life cycle of an orange tree? You can't say.

A few trees belonging to Stewart Hinckley of Redlands are about 100 years old." But surveys shows trees reach peak production in about 30 to 35 years, Dr. Taylor said. "Generally speaking, since about 1950 there's been a decline in citrus," Dr. Taylor said. "The problem started in Whittieer, spread east, and has gradually come to the East Highlands area.

Smog built up in the same manner, he said. Putting the decline of citrus and the smog buildup together results only in circumstantial evidence, he said. Ozone also is blamed for a grape disease. It causes leaves to drop too soon. This reduces the plant's capacif and exposes the fruit to sun burn.

Ul II. Leaf' crops like lettuce and spinach Bv RAE RECTOR UCS Staff To most children, the world is a mirror. Smile and it smiles back. But for some, there is little to smile about and the child soon forgets what happiness really is. Too many home problems have changed a carefree life to an emotional nightmare.

There may be little to blame for the disappearance of joy or there may be the weight of innumerable crises preying upon the small child's mind and heart To him, the mirror is broken. There is no one to smile back. Helping this child solve his problems, and helping his parents to understand and recognize their mutual problems will help to put the pieces back in place United Communitv Services and Cath.