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rrrr TTTTT rTrr vjij FACT FINDER vr-Stt'- fii'-sf" r- rgf'''jrr 1 'S- 1-v I 1 i-j' if vv -i 7 1 THE ACTION CXXUMN byHnvaidMler Monday" May 6 1974 Page B1 i I I -y -F ACCIDENT Two yean ago I was badly injured in an automobile accident The owner was at fault and had insurance but I was never contacted by his insurance company nor did I ever receive even reimbursement for hospital bills that totaled more than $2000 After I got out of the hospital I contacted the driver He had collected insurance for a new car and told me there was nothing I could do I was then inducted into the Army Ilow can I find out what coverage he had and what his responsibilities are to me I need to know where to ST Dinu-! ba I begin you need a but you may be too late Ordinarily any lawsuit must be filed within a year of the date of the accident But an attorney may know some way around this due to the fact you were drafted into the service If you know a lawyer in your ome town the Fresno County Bar Association can put you in touch with one who will advise you But don't wait another day rr BEADY TO I am going into my 61st year I want to know when and where I will apply for my Social Security when I become GN Firebaugh three months before you become 62 at the Social Security office in the Federal Building 1130 0 St Fresno Take with you your birth certificate or baptismal certificate or other proof of age along with a copy of your last W-2 (withholding tax) form The SS people will take it from there You do know don't you that you will get only 80 per cent of the benefits you would get by waiting until you are 65 to retire Bee Photos Roy Walker strolls along old road bed in search of El Prado i fm El Prado Rail Center Is Ghost Of Past VANISHING VITAMINS Some months ago I placed an order with Nutrition Headquarters a vitamin company in Catbondale 111 totaling $2392 1 saw their ad in your Parade magazine I know they got the money because 1 got back my canceled check I wrote but got no answer I would appreciate any help IH Sanger 1 By Gene Rose Somewhere about 10 miles northeast of Fresno where the flat valley grass lands give way to the rolling foothills lies the indistinguishable remains of El Prado through the foothills and on to the high country It starts at El Prado but there are a dozen other forgotten landmarks He points to Dry Creek West Portal Ler-ona Feeney Dawn High Bluffs Carlson and other sidings along the old grade took most of the day for the company says they got a tremendous response to the ad and are running behind in filling orders Also they quickly ran out of certain items and being unable to get more are sending out partial orders along with partial refunds Yours Mrs is one of those The Customer Service man there said he would order Walker explains train got to Abuerry fairly fast then the hard climb started There was Auberry and Auberry but we changed engines there: It was too steep above and crooked for the rod type of engines so we used Shays or Climaxes one pushing and the other pulling The curves were so sharp you could hear the wheels squealing long before you could see or hear anything else" At Jose Basin he looks for traces of the old mill unsuccessfully At Mill Creek Walker spots the shattered remains of the old water tower which cooled the hot engines At Stevenson Creek he remember the box lunches especially the homemade apple pie from the little orchard which still grows there Walker still marvels at many aspects of the railroad and the networks of dams which lace the area built that railroad in 157 he boasts working 12 hours a day seven days a week they pushed the line 56 miles up the mountain There were 1100 curves in it' and some where so sharp the corners of the cars were crushed against one another when they went around Walker says they were special times and special people And are there any regrets? do it all over again if I had the chance" he grins Big Creek who is now retired in Fres-' no Walker is something of a long-time youngster but still a veteran of the valley and mountain area and a good source of local history His parents settled here in 1898 after a move -from Nebraska when Walker was a lad of 10 He remembers many aspects of early Fresno He can recall when Divisadero was Slyvia Street and the northern city limit the old Belmont School the Polasky Railroad and the clear Fresno sky whereby you could see all the way to the crest of the Sierra But most of all the good old days of the SJ For Walker the railroad is more than memories part of his life and today those memories are as sharp as Walker's mind and body know if those old times were so good or not" Walker reminisces were rough and tough most of the Walker went to work for the railroad in 1912 and stayed around after the 1933 closing to manage the parent company's business in canyon i i community A return to the old roadbed recalls i many memories for the veteran rail-roader Most of the tangible reminders are gone Despite the brush and overgrowth he can still point to the fading line as it winds its way PILLS AND Several Veeks ago my son attended a rock concert at the Convention Center He was stopped on entry by a police officer a precautionary measure to prevent drugs or liquor from being carried in He was asked to show the contents of his pockets and he showed a bottle of Rose Hips tablets he had purchased at the drugstore and was taking for his cold (Rose hips contain large amounts of Vitamin C) He explained what they were but the officer confiscated them anyway I wrote the police department asking for the return of the tablets but received no reply The cost was only $188 but I think they should be WW Coarsegold You won't find El Prado on your' Fresno County map but during the early part of the century -El Prado was the valley terminus for the Joaquin and Eastern Railroad sometimes known as the railroad which Southern California Nothing remains of the El Prado depot or the SJ today The busy station which-once catered to thousands of passengers and tons of freight is no more Over 30 years ago with the completion in the Sierra of much of the vast hyro electric network of the Southern California Edison Co the 56 mile short line to Big Creek was eliminated The employes and the equipment faded away The rails eventually became part of the infamous pie World War II scrap metal sale to Japan During the period of 1912 to 1933 the Sierra railroad maintained somet-ing of a daily schedule fron El Prado to Big Creek or Cascada as it was called in that period And one of the remaining railroaders of that scene is 90-year-old Roy cWalker the former station master at Chief James Packard agrees With you and lather than scrabble through all the confiscated junk over the past several weeks sent out and got a new bottle-Your son may pick it up in the Administrative Services' department on the second floor of the Police Building -next time he is in Fresno or you can telephone and Pack- aid will mail it to you He did not see your letter and he apologizes He also thinks if the officer had taken' a little r' bit more time he could have recognized them as cold pills and not forbidden drugs and thus not have confiscated them But police officers understandably prefer not to -take chances Roy Walker former station master Ettner Fights Unknown Tag In Mathias Race JIMINY I live in Coalinga and in the sum-' mer the crickets swarm into town In spite of spraying and tightening windows doors etc they get into the house regardless The street lights seem to attract them at night but the city manager explained the lights be turned off because of safety and vandalism Shouldn't the city or state spray to get rid of these pests to keep them out of our homes? I think they are a health hazard Can anybody help with this HC Coalinga him one of only four members of the California congressional delegation to rack up a 100 per cent failing score in the eyes of the association The measures dealt with vocational rehabilitation By Eli Setenrich Bn PsIHIci Writer See them separately and there is a resemblance between tall youthful ruggedly handsome Bob Mathias and tall youthful ruggedly handsome Richard Ettner But in terms of political assets that is where the similarity ends The whole world knows the name Ma-thias the former Oly mpic dccathalon champion Ett-ner is hardly a household name in his own North Fresno neighborhood Still says the 36-year-old civil engineer as he campaigns for the Republican fairs at the end of the month is Secretary- of Agriculture Earl Butz One of Mathias' principal campaign reminders is that he is the third ranking Republican on the House Agriculture Committee and the ranking GOP member on its cotton subcommittee positions not taken lightly in the world's richest farm 7000 more than in Tulare and Kings Counties combined And by the June primary election Ettner who is campaigning door-to-door and throughout the district -in his borrowed red 1930 Model pickup predicts he will have personally contacted 10000 of them His message basically is that Congress has become unresponsive and that the principles of engineering can effectively be applied to governmental problems See Ettner Page Bll 51 area crickets considered such a health hazard that the state Department of Health would move in with a massive spraying campaign true cricket invasions on the edges not only of Coalinga but all Valley cities have been growing mainly because the outlying areas are no longer sprayed with DDT the most effective way to keep the insects in check City Manager Glenn Marcussen says the city of Coalinga does turn off the lights if the invasion really gets overwhelming Meanwhile since DDT is banned spraying with chlordane will help (Campaign crime you wait until the evidence is he says But he favors going ahead with the impeachment process so can get it all cleaned Compared with Mathias' 4 well-heeled campaign Ett- ner's is a pauper's effort low on funds and money for television and Also against him is advantage of incumbency though anchored in Washington with his day-to-day' legislative affairs the 43-year-old congressman keeps in almost constant touch with voters through a scries of press statements issued out of his office In addition Mathias can draw on heavyweight help in his campaign Already-booked to appear in Fresno in his behalf is fellow GOP Rep Thomas Railsback a member of the House Judiciary Committee And scheduled to appear at a round of Mathias af i Ettner who thinks of himself as being slightly to the right of moderate urges a re-evaluation of the seniority system in Congress believes the drug traffic is the main reason JOB HUNTER Can you tell me where to look for a summer job? I am 17 and will be a senior in high school next year I have inquired around without success and thought you might give me some leads I really know where to JM Fresno But incumbency has some disadvantages too and Ettner is quick to pounce on them pointing to the naming of Mathias by Environmental Action a lobbyist group to its list for his environmental voting More recently Ettner points out his opponent was the recipient of a failing grade from the California Teachers Association for his opposition to Tiie CTA had Mathias voting on all five of its selected bills making nomination against the four-term congressman: for name recognition I think even going into What makes it even Ettner theorizes is that Ma- thias is running for re-election in a completely new district which for the first time takes in a big share of Fresno County voters As of the January registration count the reappor- tioned 17th Congressional District had 38000 Fresno County Republicans about for the rise in crime thinks the environment should be preserved and is not sure where he stands on the problems of the President Like Mathias he wants the evidence anyone else is accused of a Richard Ettner There are the obvious agencies of course like the state Employment Development Department and the Concentrated Employment Program The federal government is making some funds available for summer jobs but they are mostly for the so-caUed disadvantaged and apparently you are not in that category Really the time to start hunting for a summer job is in midwinter The government has just put out a six-page pamphlet on the subject giving tips on where when and how to The pamphlet is free and certainly seems helpful Write for You Want a Summer Job?" to Consumer Information Pueblo Colo 81009 It could at least give you a head start for next year and might help now Sorry we be of more help Rep- Bob Mathias 'Super High School' Proposal Is Key To Edison Plan required number of students to attend Edison But Asadoorian said he feels the programs will draw many students He said the district would like to see 200 stu-See Edison Page Bll minority students will attend Edison Richard Asadoorian a district teacher on special assignment is part of the information teams He said the district must do a selling to get the dollars in federal funds Information teams comprised of Edison counselors and faculty and district personnel are contacting some 12000 ninth- 10th- and llth-grade students in the district with hopes 400 non- during their senior year The US Department of Health Education and Welfare has found that Edison is illegally segregated and has ordered the district to desegregate the school or face the loss of millions of Beginning next fall Edison will offer dasses and programs which will not be available at any other Fresno high school and Edison students also will have the opportunity to earn up to 15 units of college -credit By Jim Boren The Fresno Unified School District has embarked on a campaign to voluntarily desegregate Edison High School by turning it into a high HOW TO USE THE FACT FINDER Got a praWm? 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