Path: bloom-picayune.mit.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!americast.com!americast.com!americast-post Newsgroups: americast.twt.news From: americast-post@AmeriCast.Com Organization: American Cybercasting Approved: americast-post@AmeriCast.com Subject: Headline Article Date: Wed, 4 Nov 92 16:16:30 EST Message-ID: \SE A;NATION;AMERICAN SCENE;WEST \BY FROM WIRE DISPATCHES AND STAFF REPORTS S=NEW STORY Woman dies 2 days after declared dead SEATTLE - A woman who was found alive at a funeral home after she was mistakenly declared to be dead two days ago died yesterday at a hospital, a nursing supervisor said. Roberta Jones, 68, of Seattle died at 5:20 a.m., said the Harborview Medical Center supervisor, who declined to give her name or the cause of death. Miss Jones suffered from colon cancer, a hospital official said earlier. She was erroneously declared dead Sunday, when a fire department medic summoned by a worried out-of-town relative found her lying on the floor of her apartment with a body temperature of 90 degrees and no apparent pulse. A funeral home employee noticed what he thought was faint breathing as he began unloading Miss Jones' sheet-covered body from a stretcher to the mortuary Sunday. Medic units were called, confirmed she was still alive and rushed her to Harborview. Hospital spokesman Larry Zalin said she was treated for hypothermia, or low body temperature, apparently brought on by her illness. S=NEW STORY Black woman appointed top editor of Tribune OAKLAND, Calif. - Pearl Stewart has been named editor of the Oakland Tribune, the first black woman to hold such a post on a major U.S. daily. Miss Stewart, 41, was appointed by David Burgin, editor in chief of the Alameda Newspaper Group, which last month bought the Tribune from Publisher Robert Maynard and his wife. It was the only major black-owned daily in the nation. Miss Stewart, whose appointment was announced Monday, was a reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle for 11 years. Before that, she was features editor of the Tribune for two years. The 118-year-old Tribune has a circulation of 121,000. The Alameda group publishes four other area dailies. S=NEW STORY Arson investigator jailed for setting fires FRESNO, Calif. - An arson investigator drew 30 years in prison for setting fires similar to ones he later described in a novel. John Leonard Orr, a 43-year-old former fire captain in Glendale, received the maximum Monday for setting three fires at stores as he returned to Southern California from an arson investigators' conference in Fresno in 1987. The jury acquitted him of two fires set in Fresno during the conference. In "Point of Origin" in 1990, Orr wrote about an arson investigator attending a conference who sets fires in Fresno, Bakersfield and Tulare. The sites and many of the novel's details recalled the real fires. Authorities have given no motive. S=NEW STORY Southern California getting new area code LOS ANGELES - Phone-crazy Southern California is getting its seventh area code this month. It's the region's second new area code in as many years. The 909 area code, which takes effect Nov. 14, covers the eastern end of the metropolitan area, including the cities of Riverside, San Bernardino and Pomona. That area had shared the 714 area code with Orange County. A year ago, the coastal suburbs of Los Angeles were given the area code 310. Southern California's other area codes are 213, 619, 805 and 818. This article is copyright 1992 The Washington Times. Redistribution to other sites is not permitted except by arrangement with American Cybercasting Corporation. For more information, send-email to usa@AmeriCast.COM