Highway Commission to Inspect Northern California Roads
A planned June inspection tour of northern California highways will be led by Highway Commissioner F Walter Sandelin with engineers from the California Highway Commission. The May 3 6 visit includes Del Norte Humboldt Mendocino and Lake counties with sessions in Eureka Crescent City Scotia Fort Bragg and Lakeport.
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Redwood Empire Association
California Highway Commission
California
E. E. Safford
Supervisors
Redwood Highway Association
Humboldt County
Ervin Hadley
Eureka
REA
Empire Highways
F. Walter Sandelin
T. Fred Bagshaw
Public Works
Alan S. Hart
del Norte
Humboldt
Mendocino
Lake
Rotary Club
Crescent City
Chamber of Commerce
Scotia Kiwanis Club
Scotia
Fort Bragg
Lakeport
Fort Bragg Boy Stabbed and Court for 3 Boys
In Fort Bragg a teenage boy was hospitalized after a stabbing in the front yard during a joint birthday party. Billy Robertson was stabbed in the left side and back. Dennis Harbour was fighting with him when the knife struck. Robertson was treated at Redwood Coast Hospital and listed in good condition. Police Chief Owen Hablutzer said all three youths face a complaint for disturbing the peace as a result of the late night fight.
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Fort Bragg
Billy Robertson
Gail Hayter
Judy Hayter
Jean Celevi
Owen Hablutzer
Robertson
Hayter
Dennis Harbour
Redwood Coast
Joseph Henko
Sapeaes Bee
Democrats Dinner Tonight for Congressional Candidate Kortum
Democrats from Ukiah and Willits plan a dinner tonight at the House of Garner to honor Max Kortum, Democratic candidate for congress. Kortum is expected to outline principal planks of the Democratic platform.
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Ukiah
Willits
Wll
House of
Garner
Max Kortum
Congress
Kortum
Bids Called for 18 California Highway Projects
The Division of Highways authorized to call for bids on 18 road projects with a total budget of 11.5 million dollars. Northern counties include Mendocino, Marin, Lassen, Modoc, Placer, Nevada, Butte, Yuba, and Colusa. Projects cover culvert and roadbed work on Red Mountain Creek, a bridge at Coyote Creek near Sausalito, surfacing lengths on Route 988 and US 40, and seal coating and grading on multiple routes. Contract awards attributed to W. HH. O’ifa ir Co. and others, with specific mileages and costs listed.
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Sacramento
Division of Highways
California
Mendocino
Red Mountain Creek
Garberville
U. S. 101
Marin
Coyote Creek
Sausalito
Lassen and
Modoc
Betwen Mayden Hill Road
U. S. 299
Placer
Nevada
Butte
Frank B. Durkee
Yuba County
Stanfield Hill
W. HH. O'ifair Co
Colusa
Liberty Lumber Mill Destroyed by San Carlos Fire
A fire at the Liberty Lumber Co. in San Carlos destroyed the Liberty Mill and lumber facilities. Estimated damage reached $100,000 as about 50 firefighters fought for over two hours to control the blaze threatening the surrounding light industrial area.
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Liberty Lumber
San Carlos
Tup
Liberty Mill and Lumber Co
Weather in Northern California and Bay Area
Occasional light rain and showers across the Bay Area with cooler temperatures. Highs reach 59 to 63 and lows 48 to 54 as southerly winds 12 to 25 mph shift to fair conditions through Friday and into the weekend.
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San Francisco Bay Region
San Francisco
Oakland
San Mateo
San Rafael
California
Masonite Corp
Ukiah
Polio aid from candy maker and oddball tales
New York reports Fanny Farmer donated one million lollipops to the National Foundation on Infantile Paralysis for mass inoculation. Chicago notes a dance studio shut for illegal taxi dancing after a detective was told teaching rhumba was not offered. Massachusetts man parachuted from a plane and landed in a tree. Fort Worth: ex convict leads officers to hidden loot under a bridge, revealing missing food theft. Brisbane: boy finds a live hand grenade dumped near his home. police handle the device.
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Fanny Farmer
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Chicago
Timothy O'Connor
Fort Worth
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Alley Oop in the comic section delight
Pulley Oop mythical cave man travels through history with action and laughs for entertainment. Alley Oop appears in the comic section for readers to enjoy.
New Drive Opens On Fortress Near Dien Bien Phu
The Ho Chi Minh forces opened a new assault on Isabella Fortress guarding Dien Bien Phu from the south with heavy artillery. French planes including 25 Corsair fighters arrived from the United States to attack rebel supply routes as Paul Holden, a Civil Air Transport pilot, was wounded during a supply drop. Fighting intensified as attacks neared the northwestern fortress flank while defenders buried recent casualties near Brigadier General de Castries’s command post.
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Indo-China
Isabella
Dien Bien Phu
United States
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Greenleaf
Kan
Smal
Christian de Castries
NLRB Dismisses Lumber Petition in Arcata
The National Labor Relations Board dismissed petitions by James J. Kane and Richard D. Gillespie seeking a bargaining election at Humboldt Lumber Handlers Inc. and Wes-Cal Manufacturing Co. The workers claimed an existing contract with AFL Lumber and Sawmill Workers Union Local 2799 was illegal due to a union security clause. The NLRB ruled the clause legal.
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LLP
National Labor Relations Board
Humboldt Lumber Handlers Inc
Wes-Cal Manufacturing Company
Arcata
James J. Kane
Richard D. Gillespie
AFL Lumber and Sawmill Workers Union
NLRB
Radford Rushes to Capitol for Indo China Talks
Adm Arthur W. Radford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, flew from Europe to Washington for emergency talks with President Eisenhower and officials on a possible new US role in Indo China. French appeals for air intervention at Dien Bien Phu heighten urgency as Eisenhower warns of a decision time with long implications.
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United States
Indo-China
Dien Bien Phu
Radford
Defense
National Security Council
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Fall Near France Urges Priority At Geneva Talks
Geneva dispatch reports France pressing to place Indo China crisis ahead of Korea at the Geneva Conference. France, with the United States and Britain, considers hastily arranged China talks a possible path to a ceasefire or settlement as Indo China worsens. Indications point to movement toward a wartime settlement on the peninsula if talks proceed.
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Joseph W. Grigg
Geneva
France
Indo- China
Korea
United States
Britain
Red China
Russia
McCarthy Attacks Army Over Doctored Photo Claim
Witness Raymond Lahr reports that Roy M. Cohn testified before Senate investigators he gave a photo of Army Secretary Robert Stevens and Pvt. G David Schine without telling of a third person cut out. Cohn said he learned later the change was made by McCarthy staff who thought the third man, an Army Colonel, had no relevance. The controversy over the doctored photo sparked the loudest uproar yet in the hearings.
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Raymond Lahr
Herbert Foster Washington
Rov. M. Cohn
Senate
Army
Robert T. Stevens
Pvt
G. David Schine
Cohn
McGuire Field
Fort Dix
N.J
Senate Permanent
Stevens
LATE FLASHES Hints Of Fires and Politics In One Brief Roundup
A hotel room fire in Santa Rosa claims Henry C. Reynolds 46 of Ukiah by suffocation after a cigarette start. Churchill says Britain won’t send troops to Indo China before Geneva. Eisenhower farm bill test ends with defeat of high price supports. Radford returns for talks and backs French hold in Indo China. MecLain’s aid increase proposal makes November ballot. Cal Lemmon and Richard Chambers confirmed to Ninth Circuit appeals. Baseball scores and rain delays across leagues with postponements and night games.
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Santa Rosa
Henry C. Reynolds
Uktah
Stanley Lance
Reynolds
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