Stockton Evening and Sunday Record from Stockton, California • 23

FIRST EDITION 22 Stockton (Calif.) Record Friday, February 1 3, 1 953 t- Central Call iff oral a Two More Drown in Wind-Tossed Mews' of If 1RECALL MOVE INI MODESTO OVER FIRST DIST. CHIEF MODESTO, Feb. 13 Hotunder their! collective collars they cannot dismiss directly the chief of the Industrial Fire District, a citizens committee has announced it will seek the scalps The board of trustees voted I of two of three district directors ismIou nrlt SLV Turlock Teachers Get Pay Boost TURLOCK, Feb. 13 Teachers Turlock High School will get a increase next. year.

to CHINCHILLAS. FINE PETS The home of Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Coffey in San Andreas has become the mecca for not only all the 1 youngsters of the community, but-the elders as well, and its all because the Cbffeys have started rearing chinchillas. Here one of the small, offspring nuzzles its mother while "papa, on the looks up inquiringly at Mrs.

Coffey. in a recall election. On the recall griddle are Dr. Earle D. Van Valin and -Ernest Bewley.

They apparently have not seen eye to eye with complainants who allege Fire Chief Stone should be dismissed for alleged misconduct unbecoming a public officer. A third commissioner R. H. Watson while not agreeing all the way with the committees allegations, is not involved in the proposed recall. During a meeting last Wednesday Watson asked for but was refused Stones resignation from the chief's post.

The recall is necessary because of a legal technicality. The. commissioners appoint the chief who is responsible to them alone. However, the commissioner! are elected and they are answerable to the. districts voters.

The committees move to seek the commissioners recall came after a two-hour session this week. A committee resolution based the move on failure of the commissioners to carry out their responsibilities to the district by (1) "refusing to hear moral complaints by women of the district against Chief Stone, (2) displ'ing poor judgment in the general discharge of their office. The motion was introduced by Assistant Fire Chief Alex Alexander. The groups counsel, a San Francisco law firm, will draw the motion up in petition form, which will be presented to the voters. Next.

the signatures of 25 per cent of the voters in the last election must be obtained. This amounts to approximately 750 persons. The committee then will put up as candidates for the offices men who will demand Stones resignation, a spokesman said. Hopeton Grange in Meeting Changes SNELLING, Feb. 13 Hopeton Grange will conduct its business meetings on the first Monday of each month in the future, and will continue to hold social meetings on the fourth Tuesday.

The change was voted recently by the PLANE EXCURSIONS FROM BAY AREA TO TUOLUMNE PLANNED Winter, Summer 'Package Plan to Be Tried by Resort Owners, East Bay Plane Company LONG BARN, Feb. 13 Winter and summer' visitors to the Central Sierra of Tuolumne County will journey to play areas by plane for fun in the snow or camping in the woods, according to plans formulated last night during a meeting in te Long Barn Lodge. A tentative "package agree-' ment for excursions by air' from the Bay Area initially to Columbia Airport and the -resorts of Sonora Pass Vacationland, was ap- rred after a four-hour discussion resort -owners and executives of the Transocean Airlines, Oakland. Under- the present agreement, visitors may start arriving by small planes within the month to spend a mid-week vacation in the snow. 23 AIRCRAFT READY Airline executives Robert Stanley and Emmet Fall said they had a fleet' of '23 light aircraft which can be used at once to -transport skiers from the Bay Area to the airport at Columbia where resort owners will furnish transportation to the lodges and to Dodge Ridge ski The airplanes which will be used for the service will be in flight one hour from the Oakland Airport to Columbia with from two to 14 passengers.

Under the "package plan designed by the airline and directors of Vacationland, total cost for all transportation, food, rooms, and fun would be $59.50 per person for. four days. This total cost will allow each skier, hunter, or tourist to fly both ways from Oakland during slack mid-week periods. Arrangements at present would have visitors arriving Tuesday morning for at least a half day in the snow, and leave Columbia Airport for the return at 3:30 p. m.

Thursday. This plan will be effetced at first to see how. visitors will approve" such a mid-week arrangement. If this is successful, split days and week-end excursions will be attempted with guests arriving from everywhere in the United States by air in the San Francisco area for the short flight in a lighter plane to Columbia. Eric Johnson, Vacationland publicity director, pointed out the package is designed to attract persons not coming here at present.

"We will reach into the middle and higher income brackets where persons have only a short time for a vacation and want to avoid hours c.i the road in heavy traffic," said Johnson. Leading the discussion of the plan were Oscar Oswald, Pinecrest, and president of Vacationland; Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Sylva of Sonora Charles Riker, Long Bam and Pinecrest; Rex Nelson, Columbia; Mrs. Irene Austin, near Long Bam; Earl Purdy, Dodge Ridge, and Mr.

and Mrs. Hank Hamilton, Long Bam. DETAIL PLAN DUE Oswald said detailed plans for: the flights would be announced; after this week-end when members of the organization have been informed. The resort owners will transport visitors from the airport to lodges by private vehicles. In other business approved by the directors, named a three-man committee to study the organization constitution and bylaws.

This committee, Purdy, Hamilton, and Riker, will report at the next general membership meeting. The scheduled election of 1953 officers was- postponed by the directors until another meeting of the board next week. LIVINGSTON, Feb. 13 Glenn Brown, 17, son of Mf. and Mrs.

Marion Brown of Stevinson, died in West Side Hospital early today after suffering a gunshot wound in his head. Investigators termed the shooting as an accident. They said the youth, who has: been working near -Chico with the State. Division of Forestry, had! with! in pay Tuesday night increase the starting salary $200 year to $3400. A corresponding boost was made in the maximum salary from $4400 to $4600.

When added to the regular annual $100 increase, this means that all teachers, except the 17 now at top pay, -who return next year, will get a a year increase. The teachers now in the top bracket will get only the $200 increase. The jump in the minimum salary brought Turlock up to the general level of other schools in the area who already were paying the $3400 starting salary. The maximum at Turlock. still is below a number of local high schools.

The trustees also voted a major change in. policy. Starting next year no contract will be offered to any teacher after he reaches 65. Only one teacher will be affected next year; She was consulted and said she would offer no objection. Principal John II.

Pitman estimated that the current expense budget next year would be to $355,000. He estimated that income for the same period would be between $355,000 and $388,000. This would mean that the school could operate, on the regular 75-cent per hundred tax. The special tax, also 75 cents a hundred, could be devoted entirely to the building program. Last year when the voters approved a five-year extension of the special building fund tax, they also approved that 25 cents of the tax could be used for current expenses.

Washington Meetings for Merced Lawyer MERCED, Feb. 13 Attorney Gordon Winton Jr. will leave this week-end for Washington, where he will attend a meeting of the five-man national security committee of the Veterans of Foreign Wars. Winton, who is state senior vicecommander for the VFW, is one of two West Coast men who are on the committee. Attorney Gen- J1 ton is the other western repre sentative.

While in the national capital, Winton also will represent the Merced City School District at a hearing before a Congressional committee headed by Representative Carl Hinshaw on the continuance of Federal assistance to school districts with special national defense-caused attendance problems. The local district received some such assistance last year because children of Castle Air Force Base families attend. Merced schools. Winton is a member of the local school board. Transferred ANGELS CAMP.

Feb. 13-The Rev. L. D. Granger, part-time chaplain at the Fricot Ranch School for Boys, has been assigned as full-time chaplain to the Fred C.

Nellis School for Boys at Whittier, it was announced today. The Rev. Mr. Granger will assume new duties March 1. His family will remain here until the close of the school semester.

Prior to 'taking a position at the Fricot Ranch School, he served as pastor of the Angels Union Congregational Church and the Murphys First Congregational Church. McClatchy Radio Battles Modesto Station in Fight for TV Station WASHINGTON, Feb. 13 ZAP) Operations of Radio Station KMOD of Modesto were explored today in connection with the application of Sacramento Telecasters. for a television station in Sacramento. Clair Stout, counsel for Me- Stout, Delta Waters Father, Son Die, Youth Rescued BETHEL ISLA'ND, Feb.

13-The weeks Delta drowning toll, went to six yesterday as an East Bay father and son died in the wind-swept waters. They were Harold H. Knowlton of Berkeley, an officer of a San Francisco and his 16-year-old son, Scott. The two drowned yesterday after their light metal fishing skiff was overturned by a heavy ware, raised by a brisk wind, in Franks Tract. 1 A third person in the boat was rescued.

He was James Notify, 17, also of Berkeley. Notley said the boat was overturned by the big wave just as he was lifting the anchor. He was able to stay afloat because his life jacket inflated. He said similar jackets worn by the Knowltons did not inflate. Tragically, both victims slipped their holds on the overturned boat just.

minutes before Keith Daley, an employe of a nearby fishing resort, appeared at the overturned boats side. Investigators said Daley was out warning small boat crews to get to safety because' of the rising wind. The three had launched their small 11-foot private boat early yesterday, observers said. Local fishing harbor operators said the small boat was very light and apparently was easily tossed by the wave. They pointed out their rental boats are about 16 feet in length and of wider construction.

Search was continued today for the bodies of the father and son. Also still being sought is the body of Floyd Johnson, 36, Oakland. who drowned Sunday. Three other bodies of Sunday drowning victims already have been recovered. These were: Howard Johnson, 39, brother of Floyd; Howard Johnson, no relation to the brothers, and Maurice Baptiste, '30, Alameda Naval Air Station employe.

Slab of Bacon Is Clue in Burglary MODESTO, Feb. 13 Stanislaus County Sheriff's Inspectors Leslie Ganibin and Ferguson Buster put two half-slabs of bacon together this week and came up with the arrest of three men and two teenagers for burglary of a grocery store. In jail are Marvin Teeples, 20, of 703 Eureka Tony Gayle, 26, of 712 Hatch Road, and Richard A. Coffee, 19, Rt. 4.

Box 259. Being held in the County Detention Home are two juveniles, 16 and 17 years old. The inspectors said the five have admitted entering of the grocery store of Hershel Brower, 1802 Spokane St. Stolen in the burglary was 50 pounds of meat. The inspectors, called to the burglary scene, acted on a hunch and started a routine check on all suspects questioned in similar crimes in the same area in the past The hunch led to Teeples.

Inspectors found a half-slab of bacon in his car. Teeples, the officers said, was very vague when explaining the presence of the bacon. Tracing their steps back to the grocery, the investigators learned the other half had been sold to one of Brower's ipany customers. Painstaking legwork by the officers finally led to the purchaser. The -two halves fitted perfectly and colorings and inspection stamps matched perfectly.

Confronted with this evidence, Teeples broke down and confessed and named the other four. Holstein Breeders Meet in Modesto MODESTO, Feb. 13 Th California Holstein Breeders Association will meet in the Hotel Covell tomorrow and the Stanislaus County division of the association will ask that creameries be urged to adopt a more equitable price program for grade milk. This refers to the. adoption of the so-called "hundredweight plan adopted by the country group this week.

The system, already used by producers of grade A milk, provides a sliding scale of payments for milk testing over 3 or under 3.8 per cent butterfat. Most grade milk is bought on a pounds of butterfat basis at the present time. The Milk Producers Association of Central California Is the only creamery which uses the hundredweight plan for grade milk. However, producers are divided over adoption of the plan. Those producing milk which tests out more than 4 per cent butterfat say they lose money under the new system.

Wareham Seaman, Stockton tax authority, will be the banquet speaker Saturday night. The committee sessions will he held at-10 a. m. and the meeting officially will, open at a 1 p. m.

luncheon. Turlock Over Top in March of Dimes TURLOCK, Feb. 13 James Mello, chairman of the March of Dimes' drive in Turlock, was 'jubilant today as he announced that, the campaign had passed the $6000 mark. He said collections so far total $6299.27, with a considerable number of miniature iron lungs still to be collected from business houses In town, The of Dimes sets no specific goal but unofficially the campaigners- in were shooting for A Arch Masons Seat, New Leaders SUITER CREEK, Feb. 13 Three Mother Lade chapters of the Royal Arch Masons held a joint! installation in the Amador County i Ail High.

School, following a turkey dinner prepared for the group by the Amapola, Parlor No. 80, NDGW. The three chapters included this citys Sutter Chapter-No. 11, Calaveras Chapter No. 83 of Calaveras County, and St.

James Chapter No. 16 of Eldorado County. Charles F. Knipe was installing officer. Carl R.

Moore was master of ceremonies. B. Wanzer was' chaplain, Mrs. Winklebleck, vocalist; Charles G. Hulse, accompanist.

and Dale Colson, pianist. Sutter Creek officers installed included Myron Questo, high rriest; Ray O'Reilly, king; Richard Lynch, scribe; Charles E. Richards, treasurer; Edward T. Wise, secretary; Horace of host; Swen Peterson, principal sojourner; John B. Allyn, Royal Arch captain; Russell Evitt, master third veil; Shelton Farthing, master second veil; John DAgos-tini, master first veil, and Vincent Pugmire, sentinel.

Calaveras installations included Joseph E. Hertzig, high priest; Carol O. Persall, king; Edward H. Knapp, scribe; George A. Stewart, treasurer; Hebert L.

Pfeiffer, secretary, Lionel Langley, captain of host; Earl F. Winkler, principal sojourner; Ernest Solomon, Royal Arch captain; Richard Herbert, master third veil Stanley Lombardi. master of second veil Charles Balster, master of first veil, and Frank Meyer, sentinel. St. James Chapter installations included Forest Colson, high priest; Arch F.

Somers, king; Herbert Cantrell, scribe; M. Kelly, treasurer; H. Bentley Wells, secretary; Ernest L. Scheiber, captain of host; William Reddin, principal sojourner; James Sufferin, Royal Arch captain; Paul Ransom, master of third veil; Jack Johnson, master of second veil; Jack Lowe, master of first veil, and Louis Reeg, sentinel. i Four Galt Students Gain Bank Awards GALT, Feb.

13 Bank of America achievement awards for outstanding citizenship and scholarship have been made to four Galt Union High School students, Wendell Forney, The quartet were chosen by the faculty and school administrators. They are Bob Adam, son of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Adam, whose field of study is science and mathematics: John Nicholson, son of Mr. and Mrs.

J. H. Nicholson, fine arts: Alice Mae Engel, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Irvin C.

Engel, liberal arts; and Rita Loll, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Carl P. Loll, vocational arts. Miss Loll was also named to receive the Achievement Award Trophy Cup.

Natural Gas Well Out of Control In MercecJ MERCED, Feb. 13 Oil well troubleshooters were 1 attempting today to control a wild natural gas well that blew out of control late last night, shooting gas and sand several hundred feet into the air. Merced County fire crews were standing by in case the gas ignited in the Tidewater-Chowchilla Gas Company field 17 miles southwest of here. Officials said trouble-shooting oil crews from Coalings expect to cap the well today. TRIAL POSTPONED Mrs.

Emily Clark, charged with murder in the fatal shooting of her husband last October 18, is scheduled to go on trial in Amador County Superior Court, Jackson, on February 24. The trial was to start Monday, but was delayed by the court. Mrs. Clark has protested her innocence, claiming the gun discharged accidently. Mrs.

Clark has been in hospital since October 20. Visiting Nurse to Aid Modestans MODESTO, Feb. 13 The Visiting Nurse Association, a project of the health committee of the Modesto Council of Social Agencies, is being The association will provide a visiting nurse service for those ailing persons not needing hospitalization or round-the-clock nursing. The project, under the direction of Mark Landquist, city health officer, is nearing completion. The VNA hopes to employ a.

registered public health nurse to make the calls. Rates will be $3 per visit. The nurse will work under the direction of family physicians. She also will help new mothers when requested. The purpose of the group is to help hospitals and physicians by caring for the sick in their homes as much as possible.

The association is an agency of the Community Chest, but is not a welfare service. Rather, it is a general nursing service for private patients as well as those receiving federal or state aid, as well as for hospital out-patients. President of the organization is Anna Lindblom of the Modesto State Hospital staff. She heads the nurses vocational training program there, and formerly was chief nurse at the institution. The next VNA meeting will be held February 25, at which time committees will be appointed and organization completed.

Liviliaston Scouts Take Display Awards MERCED, Feb. 13 Livingston units captured two of the top three awards'vin the annual Window Display Contest sponsored by Ihe Merced Kiwanis Club in con junction with the National Boy Scout Week observance. In Scout division competition. Troop No. 126 sponsored by the Livingston American Legion Post No.

728 won first place. Top Cub honors went to Pack No. 126-C sponsored by the Livingston Elementary School Parent-Teacher Association. Post No. Ill, backed by the Merced Fish and Game Club, won first pldce in the Explorer division.

Kiwanfe Club officers will present trophies to winning units at their next regular meeting. a Valentine party during a mret- fing this week in the home of Mr. and Mrs: Ted Beetchel. week. A group of the Future Business Leaders of America class of the Amador County High School in Sutter Creek motored to Sacramento, recently.

Frank Kane, advisor of the group, accompanied them on the tour. The Rich Plan, a frozen food system, will open a store tomorrow in lone. Rubyen Cox Jr. will manage the new venture. Ralph Beatie is the new president of the Amador County Gau-chos.

Ben Brown was elected vice-president and Mrs. Archie Fancher secretary in voting conducted in lone last, week-end. The group plans to resume horseback rides soon and is planning renovation of its arena at the local picnic grounds. The Amador 4H-Club of lone will sponsor a card party at 8 p. March 13, in lone Elementary School.

The Amador District Boy Scouts of America Council is now headed by Warren Carlton of Pine Grove as chairman. Dick Spencer of Sutter Creek was re-elected district commissioner. Carlton has announced the following appointments: Ted Campbell of lone, ad-vancement; Lcs Johnson of lone, leadership training; John Towsldy of Jackson, organization and extension; Bob Barnes of Sutter Creek, finance; Ed Bailey of and safety. membership. Committee appointments were announced by Donald Stout, Grange master.

They include: Frank Silva. George Allen, Man- uel Soares county govern- ment; Francis Webber, Madeleine! Venza, Henry Thomsen, legisla tive; Alice Fagundes, Edith Ballard, Gertrude Fagundes, resolutions; Manuel Fagundes, Manuel Lemas, Francis Webber, dairy. Mary F. Souza, community service; Hortense Soares, credit union; Albert Souza, G. B.

O. representative; August Stcinway, Art Caton, Henry Thomsen, marketing. Tony Pereira. Earl Souza Frank Silva, public utilities; Rose Dutra, Sylvia Andrews, Alice Fagundes, membership; Dorothy Chaves, juvenile matron; Mabel Gasper, Madeleine Venza, Hortense Souza, Mary F. Souza, Louise Silva, juvenile committee; Louise Silva, property; Medcleinc Venza.

insurance agent and Grange paper correspondent; Manuel Fagundes, business agent. Visitors present included Mr. and Mrs. Edd Kling. relatives in Sutter Creek one day the fore part of this week.

News Briefs From Amador County Clatchey Broadcasting said he proposes to Show in cross-examin-aation of John Schacht that the Modesto station' has failed substantially to meet the promises made to the Communications Cbm-mission at the time it applied for a license. Schacht is general manager of the Modesto radio and is to be general manager of the proposed television station of Sacramento Telecasters, which is competing with McClatchey for a TV station license in Sacramento. Schacht said the Modesto station had altered its program structure to meet the needs of the community, in some instances com--bining several of its original program-proposals 'into one-or two programs covering a variety of subjects. He said he believes the station is meeting the general needs of the community to a greater degree than -was represented in its knowledge a commercial crank, a been re- Plan -Feb. 13 of the studied a grape wine producers of -a for the yesterday and will several recommendations.

the which growers making of is headed Etiwanda. J. E. Fresno, Man four-room unincorporated community yesterday owner Company, Bauer. motorists on the notified his without was on summoned, gone arrived.

believed firemen i or Bret during president last are Miss vice-president; treasurer, seer on the Company, and Mrs. executive Marchetti's Mrs. Louis Walkmeister of Sut- ter Creek left Tuesday for Glen- Miss Patty Willis, daughter of dale to spend a vacation with rela- Mr. and Mrs. Scott Willis of Sut-tives.

ter Creek is convalescing in the IPlacerville Sanitarium following The Am ador Chapter of Uean operation for appendicitis. She Molay Boys will hold a regular js expected to return home this Mr. and Mrs. Edward Richardson of Sutter Creek have returned from San Francisco where they attended the jewelry show of the Wester Merchandise Exhibit. They selected a new line of jewelry and gifts for their stores located in' Sutter Creek and Jackson.

Vem C. McMasterir, State Department of Motor Vehicles representative Amador County, states he registered 4321 vehicles for 1953. Last year 4351 were registered but McMasters added he did not feel the county as a -whole had a decrease because i of the Utah Construction Co. projects operations shutting down. fused free time on KM0D.

i been hunting- jackrabbits three other youths. On the return car trip home, the a. highpowered .22 caliber rifle, was accidentally discharged. The bullet struck Brown on the back of the head' He died several hours later. Besides his parents, 11 brothers and sisters, also survive.

Car Somersaults, Misses CHP Office MERCED, Feb. 13 An automobile yesterday narrowly missed crashing into the local California Highway Patrol office building on Highway 99 jufct inside the south city limits of Merced. Police said the car was northbound on the divided highway when Mrs. Ines Warburton, 72. Long Beach, the driver, "blacked out.

The vehicle struck the highway dividing strip, careened across the south bound- lanes of traffic, plunged off the highway, and finally came to rest against a clump of trees, only a few feet from the highway patrol building. The car made two complete somersaults and was badly damaged. Mrs; Warburton and her passenger, Henry B. Manns, 70, Long Beach, were taken to a local hospital with injuries. The woman received a possible concussion, severe shock, and facial bruises.

The man suffered a broken arm and possible internal Investigating officers said the vehicle traveled more than 400 feet after going out of control before it finally came to a stop on its Mrs. Louise Fisk JAMESTOWN, Feb. 13 Word of the death of Mrs. Louise Fisk, a native of Jamestown, in Chow-chilla January 25 has been received by friends here. Funeral services were held January 27.

Mrs. Fisk was born in Jamestown JuV 7,. 1690. She died in her home. Interment was in the Chowchilla District Cemetery.

In addition to her husband, William Jt. Fisk, she is survived by a son, Otis Fisk of San Francisco; two daughters, Mrs. Agnes Moore of Sacramento and Mrs. Evelyn Muggett of Los Banos; her mother, Mrs. P.

Loney of Jamestown; three brothers. Clarence and Charlie Loney of Jamestown and Joe Loney-of San -Jose, and a sister, Mrs. Belle Schwoerer of Vailed to. application. He said he never to his had anyone other than advertiser, a Communist or a criminal, New Wine Grape SAN FRANCISCO.

(UP) A spedal committee Wine Institute today proposal which would aid growers and' California in the production higher standard product State. The committee met to study the proposal meet intermittently for months before making final Under a voluntary program, plan would recommend grapes should be used by and producers in the various wines. The fivenan committee by John B. Ellena, Also on the committee are Devine, Lodi; Joseph Franzia Ripon; Kenneth Knapp, 1 and E.P. Seghesio, Cloverdale.

Home Burns as Eats Breakfast HOPETON, Feb. 13 A frame house-in this Merced County burned to the ground morning. County firemen said the was thf San Joaquin Mining and the tenant Joe They said that passing first noticed thec blaze roof of the house and Bauer, who'-was- preparing breakfast in-the kitchen being aware the house fire. County firemen were but the house was too far to be saved when they A faulty stove pipe is to have caused the blaze, said. Heads Employes MURPHYS, Feb.

13 Marchetti will head the Harte Employes Association 1953. Marchetti was named as at the annual election Other officers elected Jessie Spensley, Miss Bertha Burrows, and James Smith, recording retary. Named, to serve executive board are Clarence Miss Mary Morris Clarence Monte Verda. A meeting of- the board will be held in home Tuesday night. Milk Producers to Meet Tomorrow MODESTO, Feb.

13 California Holstein-F i i a Association members will be asked to take action on milk pricing problems when they -hold their annual convention in Modesto this week-end. The Stanislaus County association this week passed a resolution asking the state group to take action on manufacturing milk pricing methods. The local group wants the state organization to take positive action to bring about a more equit able basis for pricing grade milk in California. The convention headquarters will be in the Hotel Covell with sessions getting under way tomorrow morning. During the Stanislaus meeting this week it was announced that 26 registered bulls have been selected for the annual spring sale to be held March 7 on the Stanislaus district' fairgrounds in 'Turlock.

Leo Hedegard, present director of the state organization, an-announced that he is resigning after six years of service, part of it as state president. The Stanislaus County members nominated Allen Johnson of Turlock to take his place. Sonora Rotary SONORA, Feb. 13 Jack Rucker of Sonora became the 1953 president of the Sonora Rotary Club during balloting of the board of directors Tuesday night, it was announced today. Rucker, a hospital technician, succeeds.

F. Edmund OConnell, Sonora attorney. Other officers selected by the board included OConnell, vice-president; Urban Halliday, secretary-treasurer, and Leonard Ruoff, sergeant-at-arms. SNELLING FIRE DEPT. SNELLING, Feb.

13 The first meeting of the Snelling Volunteer Firemen under their 1953 officers was held Monday evening at the Snelling Firehouse with Chief Donald Stout presiding. Two new members were voted into the unit and one member who had been on the Inactive list due to his doctors orders was reinstated. New members are Francis Webber and Cyril Briggs. Reinstated to active list was Evan Estep. Pursuant.

to notice to bidders, published by the Post Office Department during November, 1952, two proposals have been offered by at the Umver-local neonle to furnish nuarters for California. local people to furnish quarters for They also accompanied the latter's daughter, Carol and Miss Pat Kerns to Berkeley where they meeting at 7:30 p. m. Monday in the Masonic Ilall in Sutter Creek. All Masons and.DcMolays are invited to attend, Mr.

and Mrs. Roy Harmon of Sutter Creek have returned from a visit in Los Angeles and vicinity. 1 Mrs! Stanley Hogg of Jackson accompanied Mrs. Carl Trelease to the Bay Area one day this week. Miss Janice Casagrande has returned to Belmont to resume her studies after spending a vacation with her parents and other relatives in Sutter Creek.

Stanley Cuneo has returned to Sutter Creek from a business trip to Merced. Mr. and Mrs. Brannam and daughter, Cindy of Sutter Creek motored to West Point one day' recently to visit with Mrs. Bran-nams uncle and aunt, Mr.

and Mrs. Glenn Stewart and Gcmma Institute, Young Ladies Institute, of Sutter Creek met this week and enjoyed a social afterwards. The decoration and games were in the St. Valentine motif. Delicious sandwiches, cookies and coffee were served by a committee composed of Helen Oneto, Marie Oneto, Julia Casagrande and Christina De Paoli.

the Jackson Post Office on a lease-rental basis. The owner of the present quarters, Andrea Piccardo and John Petkovich have submitted proposals to erect a new building on the east side of Sutter Street. A decision is expected from the Post Office Department in Washington, D. in about 60 days. The following local girls have been installed as officers of the Sutter Creek Chapter of the Future Homemakers of America: Sandra Strohm, retiring president; Louise Hal, advisor; Mmes.

Ethel Gorsbacker, Maud Stewart and Elaine Lasich; Miss Janie Wiser, president; Joanne Wingfield, vice-president; Christina Aprica, secretary; Leila Jane Glandon, treasurer; Maureen Lairigan, historian; Viola Cook, parliamentarian: Doris Larsh, reporter; Luella Harlan, publicity; Patsy Pillsbury, song leader. Mr. and Mrs. Si Becht 1 and daughter of Sonora visited with Mrs. Gerry Triden, sponsor the Ta-Wan-Ka Group of Camp 'Dick Elvarado of Jackson, health Creek, camping and activities; Fire Girls was a guest of honor at.