Disastrous Brush
Fire Ends as
Weather Changes
MALIBU, Calif., Wl—A cool,
moist blanket of fog drifted in
early today across the fire-seared
Sama Monica Mountains, where
three disastrous fires glowed only
as embers.
Fire officials last night declared
the blazes “under control.” Equip
ment—massed from local agen
cies and from half of California’s
58 counties—rumbled homeward
during the night.
Only scattered embers re
mained within the perimeters of
the fire here, the one centered a
dozen miles north at Zuma Beach,
and a third over the crest of the
mountains, adjoining the Zuma
fire, in the Lake Sherwood area.
Between them they burned over
60 square miles. Sixty-seven
homes were destroyed. One man
was killed and two firefighters
seriously injured.
Several other fires broke out
but were quickly conquered. Tne
biggest o£ these was the 840-acre
blaze, also controlled last night,
which flared up near an oil field
in Piru Canyon.
As fog replaced the dry, gusty
winds that fanned flames for four
days, hundreds of persons who
fled from the fire returned to the
scorched area. Some found only
a chimney standing.
There was Mrs. Jean Robinson,
widowed 56-year-old former op
era singer, watering from a gar
den hose the hot ashes of her $30,
000 home. She had saved only
her dog Tim.
“It’s almost too much to bear,”
she cried.
Richard Emery, Oldest
Pioneer Home Resident,
Dies at Age 96
Richard Emery, 96, the oldest
resident of the Pioneers’ Home at
Sitka, died last week.
Born in Flint City, Mich., in
May 1860, he came to Alaska on
a sailing vessel in 1886, landing
at Juneau.
He later went to Nome and
mined and prospected from Nome
to Fairbanks up and down the
Yukon. He then went to Yakutat
and to Southeast Alaska.
At the age of 90 he operated a
trolling boat out of Meyers Chuck.
He entered the Pioneers’ Home
in May 1952.
Emery is survived by a sister,
Mrs. Elsie Whitley, of Haw
thorne, N.J.
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NEW YEAR
May you have a full
measure of real hap
piness and prosperity
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President Spikes Reports
Summerfield Will Resign
AUGUSTA, Ga., Iff*—President
! Eisenhower Saturday spiked re
ports that Postmaster General
Summerfield was planning to re
sign from the Cabinet.
Eisenhower did so with an an
nouncement here,«where he was
getting in a weekend of golf, that
he will nominate Summerfield for
a new term when Congress recon
venes this week.
Summerfield is convalescing in
Florida from a recent throat op
eration. There have been reports
he intended to retire as postmas
ter general, and that he would be
succeeded by Leonard W. Hall,
chairman of the Republican Na
tional Committee.
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