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Newspaper
Ukiah Daily Journal
Location
Ukiah, California, United States of America
Date
Aug 03, 1966
Page
2
Unclear readable text shows a ceremony or contest where awards are given tonight. Mentions a district or group, with references to racine and canines. Details are fragmented but indicate competition and potential prize in canine obedience or related class. Entities are uncertain due to OCR errors.
The June 7 California primary produced a record total of 5,079,911 ballots with 2,570,396 Democrats and 2,186,057 Republicans voting in the governorship. Edmund G. Brown won the Democratic nomination over Los Angeles Mayor Samuel W. Yorty, while Ronald Reagan defeated George Christopher for the Republican nomination. Reagan led with 1,417,000 votes to Christopher’s 741,940. Rafferty led the statewide tally with 2,925,401 votes. Willard Harper, Ashley Simms, and Charlotte Motter followed. The school bond issue passed 2,531,222 to 1,642,422. Voter percentages hit 64.7 percent, a record-low compared with earlier peaks. Alpine and Amador counties posted the highest rates.
In Sacramento a gunman holding a woman and her children wounded two policemen before he was fatally shot on the north side. The hostage, identified as Mrs Debbs, had sent a child to fetch police. Odell Jackson, 30, held the family overnight and fired on officers before being killed by arriving patrolmen.
The Defense Department announced that two of six US Air Force reconnaissance squadrons in France will return home while three move to British bases and one is disbanded. Each squadron has about 730 personnel and 16 aircraft. Relocations to Mountain Home Idaho Shaw South Carolina and British bases Upper Heyford Alconbury begin this month and should finish by October.
A mathematics professor using a computer designed a bingo card to limit winners and raise prizes at a Stoke on Trent bingo hall. The new cards were test launched Tuesday night and 60 players won at once, each collecting two cents.
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