Argus Head, Wife Die In House Fire

Argus Head,
Wife Die In
House Fire

Mr. And Mrs. Porter
Perish At Clark Lake;

Cause Not Determined

G. Stanley Porter, 63. boars:

chairman of Argus, Inc.. and his.
wife were burned to death late I
Saturday night in a fire thai rip-
stroyed their summer horm
dark T^ke, southeast of Jack;-'.);.

Porter, a Jackson industrialist •
was named head of the board k'i
directors at .Ars;us in a who^espi
shift in t^fi, management at th.'
Ann Arborf^mera firm in, June.

He previously '•"""^ '•won a director,
for 12 yearsr I
. Origin - of, ^'tht jm.e is still ? '
mystery, accc^Sng to rielediv
from the state IWice fire marshal'.-
division. \r
Discoverec( By Fishermen

Three men who were out fish
ing on the lake first saw the fire
about midnight. They were James \
Filer of Brooklyn, Mich.; Merle i
Schroeder of Columbus, 0.; and'
Loren Younkman of Toledo. '

Beaching their boats, they ra'
io the flaming two-story home anii
kicked in the lockr Theyj
found Porter lyili,. nstairs]
dead. State police said he had been
burned about the face and arms
and apparently died of suffer-*—

Firemen from three tov,
arrived too late to save the hom'
Searching parties later found Mi
Porter's body in the ruins of n
bedroom.

officers conjectured that Porter!
; have partly awakened during ;

the fire and in a dazed con-1
dition stumbled toward the door
of the house, before he collapsed.

The Porters' maid, Mrs. Sadie
Rahaney, was sleeping in her near-
by garage apartment at the ' •; '
of the fire.