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Rubbish Causedtalifornia Fire Half Under Control
Chicago Blaze
CHICAGO (,-1 1 )—A top investigator Wednesday night,
concluded that Chicago's disastrous school fire sprang from
a smoldering pile of rubbish in the basement.
Sgt. Drew Brown, head of the police arson squad, re-;
ported his findings after an in
Children's
Accidents
On Decline
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn (h--An
insurance executive says he firm
ly believes that a c"ncerted drive
by doctors against the No. 1 killer
of children—accidents-13 begin
ning to pay off.
Dr. George W. Wheatley, vice
president of the Metropolitan Life
Insurance Co, said the accident
death rate among children 1-14
years old has declined 17.3 per
cent in less than a decade.
The greatest drop was in deaths
from burning and poisoning in
the 1-4 years age group. In these
area,;. doctors have fought hard
for legislation banning the use
of inflammable materials in
clothing and limiting the amount
of poisonous lead in paint on ar
ticles children might chew,
Dr. Wheatley said education of
parents in accident prevention is
one of the major tasks ahead.
"All physicians who care for
children have a tremendous re
sponqibility to alert parents to
specific accident hazards at var
ious stages of child growth and
development," he told the doctors.
Satellites of Future
Will Carry Animals
WASHINGTON (!Pt -- The
first of a dozen or more earth
satellites will be fired from
California's coast in the near
future. Some of them will
carry mice and perhaps a
monkey.
The satellites will be aimed at
orbits to take them around the
poles of the earth. The hope is
to fire perhaps one a month.
The Advanced Research Pro
jects Agency of the Defense
Depart meet Wednesday an
nounced details of the project,
to which it has given the
name "Discoverer."
The purpose is to develop sys
tems and techniques for eventual
use when man ventures to travel
in space
Initial launching attempts by
the Air Force from the new Van
denberg base in California will
utilize 1300-pound vehicles. They
will be powered by a Thor inter
mediate - range ballistics missile
and a second-stage liquid-fuel en
gine.
From these initial attempts it
is expected that bigger efforts
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ensive inspection of the school: But, with winds expected to
where 87 children a"ci three nuns'conttnue Wednesday night, fire
perished Monday. . men declined to predict when
But he did not say how the fire complete control is likely.
originated in the rubbish.
Sgt. Brown, who made an inch-1 The big blaze had blackened
by-inch study of source of the more than 17,000 acres of brush,
flames in the northeast corner of overrunning with explosive
home and es mil of
Our Lady of the Angels school,' swiftness
detailed his findings this way: i
The smoldering was in a pileri • i • • a
of rubbish at the foot of a wooden pen'/serious/ Discrimination
stairwell. This generated heat.;
The heat accumulated until it •
broke a basement window four !a •
imed in State Housing
feet above the rubbish pile. ,
Air blew in through the brok-:
en window, fanned the smolder-1 HARRISBURG (,P)—A special citizens' committee ap
ing trash and flames quickly shot:
pointed by Gov. Georg e M. Leader said Wednesday it found
up the unenclosed stairwell to the
second top floor, where the fa- "overwhelming confirmation of serious discrimination" in
talities occurred.
Sgt Brown pinpointed the place housing in Pennsylvania.
of origin by the heavy charring Dr. Clarence C. Walton, chairman of Gov. Leader's Conl
in that area. .
mittee on Housing DiArirnination,,
Investigators have said old -, said the confirmatioris were re-IA. Conner Jr., executive secretary
amination books and newspapers
ceived in cases cited by witness-I of the Chester Housing Authority,
had been stacked at the foot of
the staircase. ,es at public hearings held duringisaid the biggest problem facing
the last two days. I that Delaware County community
An appeal for blood for children, - 1-
und e r treatment in hospitals "The witnessses have also giv-, is providing adequate housing for
touched off a rush of donors. len us important insights and con-Negroes.
Gifts of money to help
f am ili ei crete examples concerning thisl "Under present conditions," he
of the injured and the dead poured
kind of discrimination," Walton:said, "it must be recognized that
in at a rate of more than s2.,ooolsaid in a statement, adding: ;Chester will one day be a city
an hour. The fund has passed the "But they have al the same ; entirely populated by Negroes."
$60.000 mark just 24 hours after' time given our committee well He told the committee that an
it was established. l thought-out recommendations • all-Negro community would be
Still in hospitals were '72
pa „! for combating and eventually :"socially and economically uncle
tients who were burned or in-1 overcoming this discrimination. ; sirable.”
Jured in other way, and 14 were "The conviction that the state!
on the critical list. Those with se-!must initiate action to overcome:
ere burns confronted doctors: these conditions, including pos-,
v
Bible education and
,legislation,'
with the difficult double task of
preserving life whi 1 e healing
: E
was almost unanimous on the part,
!seared bodies. i sess io thos ns " e who appeared during our
will evolve, using Atlas inter
continental ballistic missiles
and multi-ton satellite vehicles.
The Air Force will attempt to
bring the mice and monkeys back
from their journeys into space
instead of leaving the satellites
to disintegrate when they des
cend into the air friction of the
atmosphere.
For this. recoverable capsules
will be used. They will be
ejected from the .satellites by
devices about which ARPA sci
entists do not care to talk now.
Russia's known successes in put;
ting huge satellites into orbit and
recent unofficial speculation that
the Soviets may have sent up a'
moon probe rocket into ()uteri
space is spurring the new Ameri
can effort.
Roy Johnson. director of AR
PA, told newsmen the fre
quency of launching attempts
may be as high as one a month,
with about a dozen firing , : now
contemplated for Discoverer.
But Johnson quickly added this
did not guarantee a dozen satel
lites would be spinning around
the earth, over the North and
South poles, by the end of next
year.
MALIBU BEACH, Calif. (EP)
—A brush fire in this resort,
area that has destroyed an
estimated 29 homes and routed
hundreds of families in 24
hours is claimed 50 per cent
'under control.
The committee was estab
lished to study the problem and
recommend such legislation and
other remedial action which it
feels will ease and eventually
erase the problem.
Ronald M. Sawyer, housing con
sultant for the United Steel Work
ers of America, told the commit
tee that discrimination in housing!
in Pennsylvania is "the rule and:
not the exception."
"This condition has served to
perpetuate a veritable night
mare of exploitation and ghetto
itation for those effected." he
said. He pointed to Negroes as
those suffering most by discrim
ination.
In earlier testimony, Lawrence!
The ri EN N STATE
LAYERS
OPENS TONIGHT
Through Saturday, Dec. 6
at SCHWAB
"A
CLEARING
IN THE
WOODS"
an excursion into the unusual
by Arthur Laurents
ranch-dotted hills behind this
resort area. There were more
than 1500 men fighting the fir•
along a 42-mile perimeter.
Much of the fire was burning
over the same ground covered by
blaze that charred 42,000 acres
and ruined 99 homes two years
ago.
Officials, noting the unfavor
able forecast of continued
winds, high temperatures and
low humidity, said the new fire
could be us bad.
The fire broke out Tuesday—
!arson is suspected—and lashed by
Ihot desert winds up to 60 m.p.h.
; raced quickly from the inland
All the best people eat here!
Skip the dessert
Or else—by jiminy
You'll never make it
Down the chimney.
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1458
slopes of the Santa Monica Moun
tains to the sea.
It cut a swath of ruin roughly
five miles long and eight miles
wide. charring ranchlands and
roaring down half a dozen can
yons lined with homes.
Flames reached brush only a
quarter of a mile from the famed
Malibu film colony, a strip of sea
side homes where film figures
dwell. But a massed array of f se
men and pumper trucks checked
the blaze at the coast highway
before it could do damage.
Two hot spots occupied their
attention: Malibu Canyon, back
of the film colony, and Zuma Can
yon, eight miles west. Both are
heavily populated.
Army Will Test
Space Radio'
WASHINGTON (W) —The Ar
my's imminentry at reaching the
vicinity of the moon will test a
new space communications sys
tem deemed capable of keeping
radio contact at distances up to
400,000 miles.
And by 1962, project scientists
say, the system should be able to
capture space signals from as far
as four billion miles away.
Informed sources said Wednes
day the new system will make
use of an 85-foot diameter an
tenna in the Mojave Desert in
Southern California.
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