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Show Embattled Pumper of 1917 Vintage Does Self Proud; Fights Fire Beside New Ladder Truck hf DOROTHY O. REA1 No lives were lost 'in the An- derson - Lumber Co. lire that stalked into town, unannounced, in Saturday's smallest .hours. A few lives were probably saved;, lives of deer, that is. "T tr 'For instance, there's the case of the ' laddie who . ws still mucking i through flame, " water, and smoke late Saturday and wearing a ' red i hunter's cap. Seems Kay Dickson, brother of Chief Lloyd Dickson, left his fc home, in Orem around 3 a.m. ' Saturday heading toward Provo p pick , up Lloyd for the deer .hunt. The flaming skies attracted attract-ed him as he neared town and he went straight to the fire, taking his place beside the firemen, for m ihe duration of the blaze. ? - 4 ' Four ; firemen . missed the blffestiwsfrnment In many a year by leaving Friday for the hunt The remaining IS . - Tire' laddies were working . v'lonr hours, dashing away enly long' enontji for dry ' clothing and food. ; v Provo's fire equipment really got a workout ve threw everything , we had into action," one fireman said. The new lad- !' der truck, pride and joy of the fire department, got Us first real test' Without it, firemen opined, &hey couldn't have saved neighboring neigh-boring buildings. of the truck . apparently that insulation was doing its work . . the tires, were still intact, in the ruins. Saturday. A nearby equipment shed owned by D4RGW was saved ' but damaged. Contents, some of which were owned by Western Union, were ' saved. Perry Killpack had his deer hunt 'plans knocked in a cocked Park Blasts State Game Management OREM The Orem Junior Chamber of Commerce at a meeting meet-ing this week heard Roy E. Park, local sportsman and leader of county wild life federations, tell of deplorable conditions which have resulted in the depleted deer herds an Utah ranges, especially in this vicinity. k; . Mr. Park" stated that during the past week he had ridden the range lands on Timpanogos and " had seen only two deer, and that 200 permits had been issued for this region. He rapped the state big game : board and state fish and igame, commission for . asserted (mismanagement of the - program . ' 1 . . ' 1 ' ... . permitting the doe kill. A petition Fiffhtina side by side with the . Kri- .nBtra snnnn I'.j: .u. ,ui., ... old pump truck of 1917 vintage The old truck did itself proud. 'too. Although water squirted in 11 . directions from its battered hose connections, it . did manage to deliver a sizeable stream to the blaze. And at a fire like, that, fltvery little bit , counts. "Kids were enjoying the ex-LVeltement ex-LVeltement Saturday, which re- minded them of the Fourth of . July. Glass bricks had been attired In the aonthweat ' sec- I Men of the building. . When-. ever a stream of water came In contact with one of these Y bricks sharp explosion re- ... suited. -; One thing for' sure, it was a good grade of insulation sold by ihe company," Fire - blackened ijrolls were in the midst rof .'the seething mess, intact One of the trucks pulled into the 'building .Friday at 6 p.m. loaded with bags f sand-like insulation. The fire burned the bags and the insulation insula-tion spilled down over the tires Salt Lolie Stoclt Exchange Closing quotations from the direct wire of Ken-Lo Corporation, Cor-poration, 265 W. lat N. Big Hill Bullion ... Cardiff .....,,. Chief , Con. Clayton Silver . . Colb. Rexall Combined Metals Cres. Eagle Oil . . East Standard . . . East Utah Eureka Bullion . Eureka Lilly Con. Great Western . . Horn Silver ...... Indian Queen,... Madison Mines , . Miller Hill Mt States Der. . . New Park ...... North Lilly ..... No. Standard ... Ohio' Copper .... Park City Con. .. Royston Coat . . Silver King CoaL Silver Shield,. . Tar -Baby .v.... Tin tic Lead , . . . Tintic Standard . West Toledo ... - Bid ' . .OflVi .04 .20 .90 .30 .21 " .19 .06 ;.04 .12 .05 ' .10 - .04 .10 01 .10 .03 .06 . 1J7 .14 .02 Jl -.29 .04 3.00 .02 V r.04 - .lt) .65 .04 Asked , .08 .05 y4 .22 . 1.10 .35 .24 .28 .07- .05 .13 .07 .11 .07 .12 , .01 .12 .04 .07 1.40 .16 .03 .12 . .31 .05 3.50 .02 .05 .11 - .70 .05 TODAY'S SALES Little May, 2000 at 1 Vi . Mammoth, 100 at 30; 100 at 31. North Lilly, 200 at 14. Ohio Copper, 1000 at 11. Silver King West, 700 at 46. Silver Shield, 3000 at 2, 500 at .02. Silver Standard, 1000 at IVt. Magnolia Lead, 2000 at 5. dents has been presented to Gov ernor J. Bracken Lee requesting the removal of heads of the fish and game commission, and as yet no action has been taken, he said, while eight- applications have been placed for the posts. r Weston Kof f ord, first vice-president vice-president of the Jaycees was in charge of the meeting held at the Silver Star cafe. Harry Lawton entertained the group with western west-ern songs, playing his, own accompaniment During the business session which followed, an invitation' was to participate with them in their project of sponsoring the "knot hole" at BYU games. The Orem group plans to furnish transportation transporta-tion for Orem youngsters who desire de-sire to attend the next two games to be played on the BYU field. Lee .McKenna, Lynn Miner and Dick Brewer were named as a committee to complete plans for the project. The completion of the house numbering and city directory project was voted as the number one item on tne coming years program. The committee for the completion of the project will be composed of Howard Hall, chair man, Henry Campbell, Max Ped-ersen, Ped-ersen, Western Kofford, and Ted Sorenson. ' Dixon . Larsen was appointed chairman on arrangements for a Halloween party to entertain the ladies auxiliary. hat by the fire. His son Wayne was astir early, in preparation for the hunt, when he saw the fire. He woke Perry, who dashed to the offices in time to open gates and doors for the firemen. Frank Killpack joined ' his brother in helping to move records and in voices out of the danger zone. Both men are employes of the company. Mrs. Perry Killpack routed Manager J. M. Fulkerson out of bed with a telephone message of the fire. Eara Stevens, who lives across the street from Andersen's, Ander-sen's, retired early Friday night In anticipation ; of the hunt Along toward 4 a.m. he remarked to his wife. "Must not be so cold tonight seems a lot wanner than when I came to bed better open a window." When he opened : said window, the stream of heat and light accounted ac-counted in short order for the rising temperatures. Then there's the .story of the Daily . Herald .photographer who bucked the smoke, water and flames to get action shots about 4 a.m. Dragging his weary body home for a little, sleep an hour later, - he ; had just started to snooze when another Daily Herald Her-ald employe, thirikingXo be help ful, routed him out of bed with "Did you know AndersonLum-ber AndersonLum-ber Co. is on fire?" X The photographer, incidental;. ly, .wishes to thank Mrs. Rayola Van Wagenen. 255 W, 3rd S., for the telephone tip she gave him in the early stages of the fire. Nine lines of hose were snaked into the emergency area . . . most of it new. At one - time during the night, water was pumped from the old Millrace, the stream that lent its force in 1917 to fight the other great fire in Provo's history, that of the old woolen mills. r PROVO BLAZE STILL SMOLDERS This picture of the disastrous Anderson Lumber company blaze was taken about 9 a. m. Saturday, more than -six hours after it started and long after firemen fire-men had the fire under control.. It still sent a thick haze ofSmoke over several blocks of the surrounding sur-rounding area and smoldered heavily throughout much of 4he day. Sub-Station Increases Power Capacity SPANISH FORK-A modern power sub-station of the out-door type with all-steel construction was hooked up this week to supplement sup-plement the present electrical plant according to W. P. Shippee, city electrician. The new station has a 1500 kilowatt capacity which more than doubles the present station which has U' 600 k.w. capacity. making the total of 2100 k.w. now available for power use in Span ish Fork. This new station has been need ed here for some time, according to Mr. Shippee, who said the old system was over-loaded at times to the danger point With the new equipment, the double station should service a population of approximately 8000 to 10.000 com pared to the present population of approximately 3500. SUNDAY HERALD ' 0 Sunday; October 23, 1949- Got Your Tax Notice Yet? Utah county tax rotices for ; 1949 were all mailed Saturday ' and If anyone has not re celved his notice by the first part of this week, he should contact the county treasurer to determine the cause of .the' delay. The mailing of 40,000 no tices started the first of last week and a good flow of pay ments have been coming into ' the treasurer's office since the notices were sent out accord v ing to County Treasurer Mau-' rce Bird. PET SUMMONS HELP WORCESTER, , Mass. (U.f9 Three-year-old Louis J. Bedard' owes his life to his pet pooch Bootsie. When Louis tumbled into water over hit head in a swim ming pool, it was Bootsie that barked until two men came end fished his young master out r . Mishap s Fatal To2Utahns By UNITED PRESS Two Utahns are dead today as the result of traffic accidents. Salt JLake City truck driver. Merlin O. McKenna, 41, was found dead of ' carbon asphyxiation in the cab of his parked vehicle near Tremonton, Utah, yesterday. - Little ten year old Thomas Lee Craig, son of Mr. and Mrs. Clar ence Craig, Price, Utah, died yesterday yes-terday of injuries received when be was struck by an automobile near his home last Wednesday. Investigating of if cers reported that McKenna was found dead in his cab. The ignition key was on, but the motor was not running. run-ning. The gas tanks registered empty. Thomas Craig received fatal injuries in-juries when he was struck by. a car while crossing the street near his home. He had just stepped from a school bus when the ac cident occurred. The driver of the automobile was cited . for having faulty, brakes. . . TEARS BACKFIRE LANCASTER, O. 0J.R) Patrons Pat-rons at a local grill had good reason for weeping in; their beer. Police arrived to arrest Perry D. Yencer, 65, of Basil, for discharging discharg-ing a vest pocket tear-gas gun at a fan. which blew the gas clouds to the bar. VQTE FOR VIVIAN Y. HARRISON V For City Commissioner ,v.'i ; '. '; Labor's Joint Political and M T.i1ativ fVtmmltt gests that you assist us. in keeping our city, state and nation from from any type of totalitarianism. Vivian W. Harrison is not pledged to any subversive group, creed or sect in the matter of politics. VIVIAN W. HARRISON t " i - - f " ' .- See and hear Vivian W. Harrison at the Odd Fellows Hall 8 p. m. Monday. Pd. Political Adv. by Labor's Joint Political and Legislative League of Utah County. i Provo Building Pace Declines In addition to delaying the harvest of fall crops, the sudden cold blast and snow storm appar ently caused a temporary halt in the building busines in Provo. Both the number of permits issued is-sued and the valuation dropped sharply this past week in comparison com-parison with previous weekly reports. re-ports. ' x A valuation of $7800 was listed for the fourxpermits issued during dur-ing the week. Included in the construction con-struction permits was one home. These figures show a definite decline de-cline from the $17,200 listed the previous week and the $26,000 which was reported a week earlier. The permits were issued to: Utah Man Injured In Idaho Crash IDAHO FALLS, Oct. 22 U.E One Utah man and a Hanford, Cat., couple were in. the Idaho Falls LDS hospital with injuries sustained in a two-car accident on the Idaho-Montana highway four miles south of Roberts. Clyde A. Walker, 42, Salt Lake City vacuum cleaner salesman, was taken to the hospital late Friday with serious injuries. Mrs. Hannah - Overland, 62, . suffered multiple cuts, bruises and shock. Her husband, B. A. Overland, 60, was less seriously injured. IDAHO GIRL CONTRACTS POLIO BOISE, Oct. 22 (U.R) A six-year-old Pocatello girl was the only new polio victim reported today. Her case raised the epidemic epi-demic total in the state to 428 for the year and 54 for the month of October. Ralph G. Moore, 761 N. Harvard ave., garage, $500; Robert E. Davis, 333 W. 4th S., home, $6000; Mrs. Elmer Taylor, 1045 E.. 4th S., garage, $500; Ivon J. Peay,982 W. 6th S., barn, $800. DR. A. 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