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mmm mm mrnmrnm 1 kl THE DESERT SUN Wednesday August 16 1972 'V 4 Fire Danger High In State News Roundup mm Democrat In Charge SACRAMENTO (UPI) -State officials wary of drought conditions that could spark a repeat of the ravaging 1970 forest fires warn the worst part of the dry season is yet to come fire danger will get worse as the winds pick up and the vegetation becomes said James Stearns director of the state Department of Conservation Stearns said in an interview Tuesday that California was experiencing of the most extreme fire years for many years largely due to the lack of rainfall up and down the SACRAMENTO (UPI) For the first time in four years the reins of California state government next week will be in the hands of a Democrat Senate leader James Mills of San Diego Gov Ronald Reagan and Lieutenant Governor Ed Rein-ecke will be attending the Republican National Convention in Miami Beach so Mills will become the acting chief executive in their absense The last time a Democrat temporarily occupied the office suite in the state Capitol occurred in 1968 when Hugh Burns was the Senate president pro tern His brief tenure was somewhat tumultuous For example Bums vetoed with blessing a Democratic-sponsored bill to prohibit the state from deducting Social Security increases from the welfare checks of elderly recipients That angered Assembly Democrats Then Bums invoked an obscure provision of the state constitution and ordered the squabbling legislature adjourned The Senate happily complied with the unprecedented order but the Assembly under Speaker Jess Unruh refused to go along and met for another two days even after Republicans walked out on Unruh No such unorthodox goings-on are contemplated this time around If needed Hastings said the state has a total firefighting force of about 24000 men which includes conservation camp crews county and youth authority inmates and Ecology Corps personnel Hastings said the state also contracts 21 air tankers on 12 fire bases and also shares six more tankers with the US Forest Service The 350-man Ecology Corps was originally made up of conscientious objectors but now includes other volunteers Stearns called the corps the of the firefighting line Stearns said the No 1 cause of forest fires is playing with and listed other causes as arson and carelessness In Shasta County arson charges were filed Tuesday against a 12-year-old boy suspected of starting a forest fire that destroyed 1700 acres of timber and brush over the weekend causing 395000 in damages The boy is suspected of playing with matches and starting the blaze which at one time threatened the historic mining community of Shasta near Redding Firemen Save Town as it appears in this picture He's standing in a trench and taking a refreshing swig of a soft drink for tha outdoor version of a coffee break (UPI Telephoto) UP TO NECK When Leo LoMontogno says up to his neck in work he really means it Head of a crew replacing a gas main in Chicago Leo isn't actually buried (Humidity pm 14 per cent) Knees PORTOLA (UPI) Firefighters working in a week-long battle against a stubborn blaze burning in two national forests used 14 bulldozers early today to carve out a line around flames that already have destroyed 2100 acres of timber and brush The fire which was whipped over lines early this week alter being controlled last Saturday inched dangerously close Tuesday to this historic frontier community But crews halted the flames about 25 miles from the community and US Forest Service officials said the town and its 1800 residents were in no danger A spokesman for the forest service said firefighters had a around about 80 per cent of the but he had no estimate on containment The fire one of 10 blazes ignited Aug 8 by lightning in the Tahoe National Forest burned some 870 acres before being controlled On Monday winds up to 40 miles per hour caused flames to jump over the established lines and move into the Plumas National Forest The firefighting crew was beefed up quickly to about 900 men including teams from Nevada and Idaho but the new outbreak consumed 1250 acres of mostly pine and fir trees The forest service estimated that 22 million board feet of timber valued at $13 million had been destroyed by the fire Tram Top 65 Indio 166 North Shore 97 La Quinta 99 Bermuda Dunes Ill Palm Desert Ill Thousand Palms 193 Desert Hot Springs 63 Temperatures and precipitation for the 24 hour period ending at 4am High Low Pep 34 72 67 63 76 66 The fire season begins in early May and continues until the fall rains come in mid-November sometimes lingering longer in Southern California Already this season forest fires have burned through 36000 acres than double the amount at this same time last year caused more than $2 million in damages These figures do not include fires in the national forests John Hastings deputy state forester in charge of fire control said the current dry timber and brush conditions are worse than in when 10 persons died in blazes that burned 580000 thousand acres and caused 3233 million in damages in only a 13-day period happens will depend on the Hastings said Hastings said wind is the major factor in terms of the spread and difficulty of controlling a forest fire If a rash of fires break out in the fall and the wind whips them out of control Hastings said might have But state officials are gearing up to face a tense dry fall before the rains reduce some of the pressure beefed up our air attack program through additional helicopters and larger air Stearns said He also said the department has stepped up its fire prevention program and made extra manpower available for the remainder of the season Hastings said the best way to prepare for the fall is to "get all your resources under control and make sure everyone is ready" SERVICES AT WMk ion FUNERAL DIRECTORS 666 VEUA ROAD PALM SPRINGS PHONE 327-1257 DALEY WILLIAM HENRY SR Servicn Finding first of ments" said many such punish-an army spokesman Residents of the Glen Road housing projects in Catholic Andersonstown who heard two shots shortly after midnight found a red-haired young man lying in the street He had bullet wounds in both knees Although the Provisonals frequently have used that form of punishment in the past it was the first such incident since the Army moved in to occupy Roman Catholic strongholds in Belfast and Londonderry two weeks ago in Since that time violence has dropped to half its previous level and discoveries of arms and explosives have more than doubled army spokesmen said Members of the Provisionals have said they suspect the smaller Official wing of the IRA which is still observing a cease-fire of making a deal with security forces by giving information on the Provisionals return for immunity for themselves The Provisionals have pointed out that all the leaders of the Official wing who were detained at Long Kesh Internment Camp have now been released Police sources said Tuesday they believe a gang of 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KPLM-TV (UHF channel 42) here Cine-Prime will enlarge the station to more than double its present operating facilities according to Robert Leonard president of Pacific Media Expanded quarters in Smoke Tree Shopping Center are expected to be ready in time for start of the fall season he said George Whitney Jr president of Cine-Prime has been named president and chief operating officer of KPLM replacing Leonard Cine-Prime is engaged primarily in acquisition and production of television cassettes and teaching series for cassettes Whitney brings to KPLM many years of experience as a radio and television executive in Los Angeles San Francisco and New York He was associated with RKO in San Francisco for six years and with the CBS television network in Los Angeles Chicago and New York for five years He is a third generation Californian and attended Los Angeles High School and Loyola University Whitney he wife Barbara and their two children plan to move to the desert soon He begins duties as KPLM president September 1 James Hawthorne continues as vice-president and manager BAKERSFIELD Calif (UPI) The son of a wealthy rancher says he cannot remember a thing about the week he was missing and feared a kidnap victim John Kazanjian 33 walked into the police station Tuesday and told investigators he Authorities throughout the state including the FBI had been alerted when he disappeared from a field where he was irrigating crops Aug 8 The day after he disappeared his wife received a note which said: have your husband We will contact you as to what we want Police said there was no other communication after the note Kazanjian said he thought he picked fruit in the Porterville Calif area last Wednesday The only clues in the disappearance were a 100-yard trail of footprints ending in dense foliage near a pickup truck Kazanjian had been driving His father John Kazanjian was a star football player at Stanford University during his collegiate days The Tulare County Sheriffs office said it was Kazanjian was not a kidnap victim A spokesman added the results of the investigation would be turned over to the district attorney's office Bike Path Idea Aids McCloskey MIAMI BEACH (UPI) The news is that Rep Paul McCloskey has come up with an idea that other Republicans like Bicycle paths The California congressman has not been Mr Popular in Republican circles since he challenged President Nixon in the primaries But he got a glimmer of friendly response Tuesday with a proposal that the GOP platform call for a national system of bike paths and hiking trails The rest of his suggestions to the party's platform writers preparing a campaign document to be approved at next Republican National Convention got a reception ranging from icily polite to hotly hostile For example: said the GOP faced defeat in November if it name all of its campaign contributors and tell everything it knew about the recent breakin at Democratic headquarters in Washington In response to that he was asked whether he intended to support Nixon for re-election called for an end to US bombing of North Vietnam which he said was harming dikes and endangering American prisoners of war The reaction was a rhetorical question whether he regarded his failure in the primaries against Nixon as an indication that the voters supported his policies or the President's McCloskey's reply to whether he would support Nixon depended upon the action on further bombing As for his primary showing McCloskey said he considered his 20 per cent share of the New Hampshire GOP vote to be significant and that he did not have money to campaign elsewhere Although McCloskey hardly excited platform writers with his proposals on campaign funds and the bugging" party officials did bend to give him a forum Obituaries Leiber Funeral services will be held at 3 pm Thursday at Palm Springs Mortuary Chapel for Hettie Leiber 18 Tiki Drive who died Sunday morning at home following a brief illness A native of Missouri Mrs Leiber had been a resident of Palm Springs for two years and of California for 37 years She had been employed at Twentieth Century Fox Studios for 30 years Survivors are two sisters Grace Gene Merrick of Palm Springs and Elsie Guenther of Missouri The Rev Don Allis will officiate at the services Burial wiU be in Valhalla's Hillcrest Abbey in St Louis Mo EiRRODUCTS $5000 Thrown Away The Hotter it gets THE MORE YOU SAVE! WATERLOO Iowa (UPI) A man who discovered a torn 350 bill in his garage believes his wife shredded $5000 of their life savings and threw the money away If the story is substantiated sheriff deputies believe the mystery of torn money scattered along the roadside will be solved The man identified only as being from Evansdale appeared with the torn bill Tuesday and told deputies his wife apparently ripped up $5000 and tossed it into a roadside ditch near Gilbertsville about 10 miles from the couple's home IP WITH THIS AD GOOD EVERY DAY OF THE WEEK 5 pm pm FOR EVERY DEGREE ABOVE 1 AT TIME OF PURCHASE! rqv PRIME RIB -English Cut or CHATEAU BRIAND Style Steak This is the best hot weather sale you will ever attend No matter how hot our official thermometer reads you get a 1 discount for every degree above lOO9 You will receive your discount on every thing you buy (except fair traded items) Now and until Thursday August 24 Closed Sat Sun We don't monkey around! 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