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Show Search Broadening For 'Unknown Hero' The originator of the white safety line may be found soon, judging by the scores of letters which are coming into the Salt Lake district office of the B. F. Goodrich Rubber company. Goodrich officials are aiding the Fresno county chamber of commerce in locating this unknown hero who holds the undisputed record of having hav-ing saved more lives than any other human. The quest for this unknown life-saver was begun two months ago by the Fresno business organization. It was believed early success would reward this effort. Instead, as the investigation continued, many claimants claim-ants put in an appearance. To expedite ex-pedite their work, Fresno officials sought the help of the Goodrich organization or-ganization and W. C. Bromley, Salt Lake district Goodrich manager, put his staff to work and asked for additional addi-tional support from his Goodrich chiefs in Akron. Bromley invited The News to help him with the result that his office is receiving many letters daily, giving giv-ing facts which may clear up the clouded title. Mrs. A. J. Gannon of 2340 Le Conte, Berkeley, Calif., wrote, saying her husband, while street commissioner in Medford, Mass., painted white lines on the Medford highways as far back as 1909. H. J. Nelson of Santa Cruz, Calif., wrote in his contention that Road Foreman Martensen, with headquarters headquar-ters at Glenwood, first suggested the white safety line a number of years ago at a meeting of state highway employees in San Francisco. Clyde T. Eldridge, an engineer with offices in the Mills building, San Francisco, presented data to the Goodrich office, 'indicating that he too has some right to the title of first white line proposer. Gerald H. Thomas, manager and director of the Fresno County chamber cham-ber of commerce, has advised Bromley Brom-ley that his office files now contain the claims of more than fifty individuals indivi-duals who had a part in protecting lives through early use of the white line. |