Ukiah Solid Wastes dump faces health risk and fire damage
City manager Lyell Cash reports executive session on the Ukiah Solid Wastes franchise as a January fire at the Vichy dump highlights serious conditions. Health officials call the site atrocious and may issue a written finding on health hazards while bidders question a 25 percent gross revenue share.
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Ukiah Solid Wastes
Lyell Cash
Vichy
Cash
Robert Holtzer
Dave Long
Journal
Holtzer
Council
Reservists to be Recognized by Board at Courthouse
Supervisors will pause for lunch tomorrow to honor the newly formed reserve deputy program on the State Street courthouse lawn. Sheriff Reno Bartolomie unveils a green and white van funded by the California Council of Criminal Justice, assigned to the reservists. About 30 members are enrolled, needing three Saturdays of classroom and field instruction monthly and eight hours of duty with deputies. Lectures will include judges the district attorney and other law enforcement officials.
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State Street
Reno Bartolomie
California Council of Criminal Justice
Fire calls report multiple incidents with limited damage
Sunday at 2 31 p m fire at Fred Schmidt Phillips 66 Service Station in the lube room with no damage. Saturday at 1 06 p m fire at City dump on Vichy Springs Road still burning. Friday at 12 85 on the call to 600 Mill Creek Road near Peterson Lane fire at Mary Rossetti Judy Skilling Arthur Hibert and Pat Priolo Vinson property major damage 12 07 p m grease fire at 526 S Oak with no damage.
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Fred Schmidt
Phillips 66
Vichy Springs Road
Mill Creek Road
Catherine Svendsen Crowned Miss Mendocino County 1972
Willits senior Catherine Louise Svendsen won Miss Mendocino County 1972 at the Fairgrounds, to compete in Miss California in June. First runner up Billie Underhill. second runner up Sarah Lynn Churchill. Svendsen, 18, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Egon Svendsen, performs a humorous monologue for talent and is sponsored by the Lake Mendocino Lions Club.
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Mendocino County
Catherine Louise Svendsen
Willits
Sonoma County
Rhonda Severy
Miss Svendsen
Santa Cruz
Willits High
Journal
Graham
Catherine Louise ‘Svendsen
Fairgrounds
Reverend Jones
Kathy
Atlantic City
Billie Underhill
Sarah Lynn Churchill
Potter Valley
Bobby Lou Woodward
Redwood Valley
Patricia Ann Sentency
Ukiah
Dolly Mae Felton
Dana Lee DuBose
Tonni Marie Woodward
Svendsen
Gene Moretton
Napa County
Ukiahi
Lake Mendocino Lions Club
Northwestern California Weather Fair and Cool Through Tuesday
Fair and cool conditions prevail through Tuesday in Northwestern California. Strong gusty winds along the coast bring small craft warnings. Ukiah reports a high of 62 and a low of 38 with daily details for April 16 across 1971 and 1972.
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California
Ukiah
Nuclear suit amendment names county officials in PG E campaign case
Citizens for Clean Energy adds county auditor R K Shore and Treasurer Sam Ray Jr as defendants in an amended suit charging illegal funds use. The original suit filed Feb. 25 alleges $2,000 from the chamber funded an advertising push for PG and E’s Point Arena plant, with county bed tax funds misused to promote private gain. The board signed a $42,475 contract to advertise county resources. plaintiffs say funds came from bed tax and that the campaign enriched PG and E.
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Citizens For Clean Energy
R.K. Shore
Sam Ray Jr
Mendocino Environmental Group
County Chamber of Commerce
Pacific Gas and Electric Company
Point Arena
Citizens Learning
CFCE
Pg&e
CLEAN
Board of Supervisors
Chamber
The
South Mendocino Coast Chamber
Blackout in Ukiah Leaves Officials Still in Dark
Ukiah residents endured a 14 hour blackout with power restoration aided by a mobile unit from San Jose and a Fresno backup. PG E officials, including Bud Randall, report GE inspectors examining two 25 000 kva transformers that burned in sequence, with a permanent transformer placed in service at 12 25 a m. No sabotage suspected.
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Ukiah
Pacific Gas and Electric
General Electric
San Jose
Fresno
Randall
Santa Rosa youth injured when cycle flips on hillside run
David Groninger 16 of Santa Rosa sustained head facial and arm injuries after his motorcycle flipped on a downhill private property run north of Mill Creek Road two miles east of River Road. He was taken to Ukiah General Hospital. No other injuries reported. Bobby McGilvray Fort Bragg rolled over trailer on Highway 101 near Willits grade, no injuries.
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David Groninger
Santa Rosa
Ukiah General Hospital
Mill Creek Road
River Road
Highway Patrol
Bobby McGilvray
Fort Bragg
McGilvray
Willits Grade
Lakeport Woman Shot During Family Argument
Lakeport sheriff deputies planned further questioning of Orville H. Brandow after he allegedly shot his wife Ellen Brandow in a private dispute. Ellen Brandow, 43, is hospitalized in fair condition at Lakeside Community Hospital in Lakeport with a stomach wound from a .25 caliber pistol. Orville Brandow, 60, of Lucerne, is jailed and being held for questioning, arrested at his home Friday.
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Lakeport
Lucerne
Lakeside Community Hospital
Ellen Brandow
Lake County
Orville H. Brandow
Key meeting on proposal to form Mendocino Lake Community College district
A Mendocino County meeting is scheduled at 7 30 PM in Redwood Valley to discuss forming a community college district comprising all or parts of Mendocino and Lake counties. School board members and other interested parties will review potential boundaries, costs, and impacts for a proposed new district.
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Lake and Mendocino County
Redwood Valley
Mendocino
Lake County
Mendocino County
Community College
Assembly considers sale of Mendocino State Hospital facility
Assemblyman Frank Belotti filed AB 1611 to authorize the state General Services Director to sell or lease Mendocino State Hospital to Mendocino County. Supervisor Al Barbero said amendments will describe the property and uses. Barbero expects swift passage with Reagan administration support. hearing before Government Administration Committee set for May 15.
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al ‘Barbero
Frank Belotti
General Services
Mendocino County
Mendocino State Hospital
Barbero
Sacramento
DeWitt State Hospital
Placer County
Belotti
Government Administration Committee
Reagan
Jim Hall
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