U S raids strike North Vietnam amid Saigon battle update
U S bomber and fighter attacks hit supply depots near Thanh Hoa and other military targets 80 miles south of Hanoi as North Vietnamese forces press the An Loc defense 60 miles north of Saigon. An Air Force F4 Phantom was shot down near Thanh Hoa with crew rescued. Military action also centers on Dau Tieng and surrounding outposts as civilians flee toward the south.
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George Esper
Saigon
U. S
North Vietnam
Hanoi
An Loc
Thanh Hoa
Gulf of Tonkin
Haiphong
South Vietnam
Demilitarized Zone
Air
Navy
United States
Works Director To Retire Next Week
Redding man Jim Blazer named Red Bluff public works director to assume duties May 15 succeeding Leo Dobbins who retires June 30. Dobbins served 10 years as maintenance man to foreman and plans extensive travel with wife Gladys. Blazer, a Navy veteran, has Red Bluff roots and later worked in city street and parks departments before moving to Redding in 1968.
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Jim Blazer
Redding
Red Bluff
Leo Dobbins
Public Works
Harlan Warwick
Blazer
Dobbins
Gladys
Street Department
Parks Department
Medi Cal nursing home rates rise to 15.60 a day
Medi Cal chief Earl Brian says maximum nursing home rates increase retroactively from January 1 affecting about 60 000 patients in 1200 facilities with a total cost of 19 million dollars after 15 months of hearings.
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Sacramento
Medi-Cal
Medi- Cal
Earl Brian
Brian
Department of Health Care Services
Living Cost Rise Eases In March and Earnings Rise
The Consumer Price Index climbed two tenths of a percent in March, easing from February and showing slower grocery inflation. Workers saw the largest March earnings gain in seven years, with living costs roughly unchanged on a seasonally adjusted basis. The index stood at 124.0, about 12.40 per ten dollars of 1967 costs.
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Washington
Nixon
Humphrey Attacks Shapp Campaign in Pennsylvania Primary
Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey portrays Gov. Milton J. Shapp’s drive for Sen. Edmund S. Muskie as a flashpoint as Pennsylvania Democratic primary campaigning enters the final weekend.
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Hubert H. Humphrey
Milton J. Shapp
Edmund S. Muskie
Pennsylvania
Apollo 16 Astronauts Begin Mountain Moon Walks
John W. Young and Charles M. Duke Jr. stepped onto the lunar surface to begin exploring the mountains of the Moon. They planned three EVAs to set up a nuclear science station and examine craters Spook and Flag, with a shortened final plan and a splashdown expected Thursday.
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Howard Benedict
Orion
Duke
Young
Spook
Flag
Mission Control
Casper
Lunar
Earth
Pacific
Tony England
Corning High Marching Band To Lead Bonanza Day Parade
Corning Union High School's marching band is slated to lead the Bonanza Day parade in Corning tomorrow at 10 a.m. The Tehama County band joins the procession forming at 9 30 a.m. on Edith Avenue. The event features booths, rides, games, a greased pig contest, and a late night concert at Veterans Memorial Hall.
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Corning High
Corning
Corning Union High School
Tehama
Edith Avenue
Solano Street
Ernie Hubbard
Bonanza Days
Assembly of God
Vienna Woman Enthusiastic About Round-Up
A Vienna woman enjoyed her first rodeo at Red Bluff last weekend and praised the program as better than she expected. Her husband Mark G. Steidlmayer, an attorney from Yuba City, wrote the rodeo directors expressing high praise and hope to return for the 1973 event.
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Vienna
Yuba
Mark G. Steidlmayer
Red Bluff
Austria
Public Schools Week Events Set Across Tehama County
Public Schools Week runs April 24 to 28 with open houses visits and programs organized across Tehama County. The schedule lists Antelope Berrendos Bend West Street Olive View Elkins Evergreen Flournoy Gerber Kirkwood Lassen View Los Molinos Los Molinos High Tehama Vina Manton and other locations with times and activities announced by County Schools Superintendent Lou Bosetti. The events are sponsored by the Masonic Lodge of California to recognize public education.
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Masonic Lodge of California
Tehama County
Lou Bosetti
Antelope
Berrendos
Bend
West Street
Soldier Who Hid In Guam's Jungles Returns Home
Tokyo reports Shoichi Yokoi the 58 year old former Japanese Army sergeant who hid in Guam's jungles for 26 years before surrendering mingled with countrymen in the streets. He visited the Imperial Palace and had his hair trimmed after returning from Guam in February. He stood at attention and bowed to report his return home.
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Tokyo
Shoichi Yokoi
Guam
Japan
Yokoi
Imperial Palace
Tehama County Denies Development Zoning and Rock Plant Permits
Tehama County planners denied Barbara Shafer's planned development zone for insufficient detail near Red Bluff. They also denied Al-Bon Co.'s rock crushing permit near Dibble Creek while approving an Al-Bon gravel operation in Richfield. The board granted mobile home permits to Leslie Thew, Wesley Williams, and Frank DuClair, a mobile home park permit to John L. Rew, and revised Wild Horse Mesa development plans.
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Tehama County
Barbara Shafer
Al-Bon Co
Al-Bon
Richfield
Commission
Leslie Thew
Wesley Williams
Frank DuClair
John L. Rew
Wild Horse Mesa
Tuttle To Appear In Superior Court On Murder Charges
CORNING David Arthur Tuttle 24 faces murder charges for the April 13 Hale and Parks killings. He is ordered to appear May 1 in Tehama County Superior Court after a preliminary hearing. Ed Allen, Red Bluff attorney, represented him and may be appointed for the high court defense.
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Tuttle
Superior
Corning
David Arthur Tuttle
Tehamas County Superior Court
Clara Jean Hale
Floyd Edward Parks
Hale
Richard Hultgren
Corning Judicial District
High Court
Yestery
Ed Allen
Red Bluff
Weather forecast and river readings for Red Bluff area
Increasing cloudiness today with light southerly winds 0 to 5 mph and a chance of rain from Redding north. Partly cloudy tomorrow and clearing Sunday with highs near 70 and a 10 percent precipitation chance Friday. Temperatures show high yesterday 73 and low 44. River gauges list Lake Red Bluff 14.7, Tehama Bridge 202.9, Woodson Bridge 168.5, Bend Bridge 208 feet above sea level. Sunset 6:53 p.m. rises 5:31 a.m. PST.
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Lake Red Bluff
Tehama Bridge
Woodson Bridge
Bend Bridge
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