NWP Tunnel At Laughlin Destroyed
A tunnel fire damaged the 180 foot Laughlin tunnel in Redwood Valley after a Willits bound NWP train. Forestry crews fought the blaze, which destroyed timber shoring and started a two acre grass fire. Fire under control by 4:49 pm. freight service to resume after daylighting and track repairs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State Division of Forestry
Northwestern Pacific
Laughlin
Redwood Valley
Laytonville
Howard Forest
D. C
Kilbourne
Egyptian Student Seriously Hurt In Accident
Mohammed Farid a 24 year old UC Davis student from Cairo was thrown from a motor scooter on the Hopland Experimental Station road near Eastside Road Hopland. He suffered crushing injuries and required a blood transfusion from the Sonoma County Blood Bank. His condition was listed as fair.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
University of California At Davis
Cairo
Egypt
Hopland University of California Experimental Station
Highway Patrol
Mohammed Farid
Sonoma County
Farid
Eastside Road
Hopland
Willits Burglar Nabbed In Act At Quadric’s Store
Willits police halted a late night safecracking at Quadric's Store on Main Street. Officer Casper Kroh nabbed 37 year old Jack Delbert Carner of Kern City after an accomplice fled, leaving a pried back door hasp and shattered front glass. Carner offered no statement. the accomplice remains unidentified and Carner was jailed on burglary charges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Willits
Quadric
Main Street
Casper Kroh
Kron
Jack Delbert Carner
Kermin
Fresno
Roy
Kroh
Carner
Major vehicle fire and rescue calls in Ukiah area
At 5 55 p m a vehicle owned by Jack Van Deventer on Perkins and State St suffered major engine damage. An ambulance was sent at 7 56 p m to 620 Walnut to assist Judy Smith at General Hospital Ukiah. At 10 25 p m a fire call to No State Street involved a hot wired T Bird owned by Kayrene Thies Ukiah.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Perkins
State St
Jack van Deventer
Walnut
Judy Smith
Ukiah
General Hospital
No. State Street
Kayrene Thies
Three Great Danes kill five year old girl
A 5 year old girl was killed and her playmate severely injured in a savage attack by three 150 pound Great Danes near Washington Maryland. Two dogs were captured near the site and the third was found under a house. The animals are in a county shelter for observation. Sharon Sparks and James Barney are the deceased and injured children. The dogs escaped from a kennel Tuesday night and the owner searched unsuccessfully. Sharon went out to play mid morning and did not return for lunch.
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Washington
UPI
Prince Georges County
Sharon K. Sparks
Earns Sparks
James
Army
High Barney
Pecidanet Md
Barney
Ang
Sharon
Temperatures and rainfall report for August 1966
A brief weather/readings note shows high 108.37 and noon today 98 with rainfall 0.00. Observations dated August 1965 list 7 04 58 and today 58, last year 0.02 with Fire Department Observer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lah Wen
Ukiah City Council Sets 1966 67 Budget Proposal
Ukiah City Council discussed a proposed 1966 67 budget of 2 621 613 dollars and plans additional budget sessions. They approved bids for 111 new parking meters for a second downtown lot and authorized widening East Perkins Street. A variance by Jack C Hamson to build a tall block wall and wire mesh fence was to be drawn up.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ukiah
East Perkins Street
Jack C. Hamson
Highland Court
Steel Hike Could Increase Car Cost
DETROIT reports that if major steel firms raise sheet steel prices by 2 to 3 per ton, car costs could rise by 2 to 3 dollars per vehicle. The industry says the rise may total 16.2 to 24.3 million dollars, with the consumer bearing the added cost.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit
UPI
Lost platoon epic stand in Ia Drang Valley firefight
In Vietnam, a 26 man Alpha Company platoon of the 2nd Battalion 7th Cavalry faced a ferocious assault in the Ia Drang Valley. Nine survived by feigning death as U.S. forces reported heavy casualties and a fierce air war with B52 bombers hitting targets near the DMZ. The operation Paul Revere saw 4,539 American combat deaths for the week ending July 30 with allied losses mounting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph L. Galoway
Saigon
UPI
U.S
1St Air Cavalry
Ia Drang River
Hanoi
25Th
Demilitarized Zone
Dmz
Viet Nam
South
7Th Cavalry
1St Air Cavalry Division
Ia Drang Valley
Paul Revere
Panhandle
North Viet Nam
Guam
North
Australia
South Korea
New Zealand
Steel firms raise sheet prices by three dollars a ton
U S Steel and five other major producers increased steel sheet prices by 3 per ton effective Aug 10, a move expected to lift industry revenue by about 87 million dollars annually. The rise prompted possible higher costs for autos and appliances, with price justification tied to a three-year USW contract and higher labor costs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
L. B. Worthington
U.S. Steel
Johnson
Gardner Ackley
President's Council, of Economic Advisers
Worthington
United Steelworkers of American
USW
National Steel
Pittsburgh Steel
Inland Steel Co
Chicago
Jones & Laughlin ‘Steel Corp
Armco Steel Co
Johnson Blasts Steel Firms Over Price Increase
President Johnsons top economic adviser denounced the steel industry as irresponsible after U S Steel and others boosted sheet steel by 3 per ton without White House consultation Gaunder Ackley urged firms to heed the governments view and warned against flouting public interest in cost price stability during a critical time
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
UPI
Johnson
White House
U.S. Steel Corp
Inland Steel
Gaunder Ackley
Council of
Heatwave grips August as deer hunting opens
August brings three straight days of 103 degree highs with 102 the Aug 2 reading. Fire departments warn of extreme tinder dry conditions as deer hunters gear up for the early coastal season starting Saturday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ukiah Fire Department
Division of Forestry
Department of Fish and Game
School Budget Now Official Ukiah Unified Trustees Approve 1966 67 Budget
Ukiah Unified trustees approved the final district budget totaling 3 396 956 for 1966 67 including bond retirement and other expenses, about 5 000 under last year. The board also authorized leasing 77 typewriters and discussed a proposed 89 cent basic tax rate increase as citizens watched. The next board meeting is scheduled for Monday, August 22after no session on August 8.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ukiah Unified
Mendo Lake
Northwestern California Weather Outlook
Coastal overcast persists through Friday with fair inland conditions and temperatures near record highs. Ukiah reports 10059 winds from the northwest at 10 to 20 knots, locally stronger near headlands along the coast.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
California
Draft Call Highest Since Korea Draft Call Highest Since Korea
The Defense Department announced an October draft call of 46 200 men the highest for any month since the Korean War with September quota raised to 37 000 and May 1953 53 000 near war’s end cited as a prior peak All draftees to be inducted into the Army The previous Viet Nam War high calls were 40 600 in May and 40 200 in December
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North
Viet Nam
South
Washington
UPI
Defense Department
Pentagon
Northern California crime wave claims a dozen lives
A wave of violence across Northern California has left at least 12 dead, including 15 year old Susan Box who was found shot in Pinole with friend Carrie Collison wounded. Other victims include a Milpitas mother who killed her family, a San Francisco jazz promoter, an Oakland widow, and a teen beaten in Orinda. Police hunted the attackers as hospitals treated the wounded and investigators pursued scant leads in multiple cities.
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San Francisco
UPI
California
Pinole
East Bay
Susan Box
Carrie Collison
Brookside Hospital
San Pablo
Collison
Parkmerced
Sacramento
Milpitas
Oakland
Orinda
Miss Box
Miss Collison
Brenton’ Messer
el Sobrante
Odell Jackson
Dorothy Dobbs
Debbs
A.grocery
Janette Ewart
Husand
Kent
Eric
Edith Christie
Merle M. Mosher
Charles Sullivan
West
Barrister Lesley Appleby Told to Quit Modeling Job
London sources report 23 year old barrister Lesley Appleby ordered to stop her modeling and advertising work deemed improper conduct by the barristers’ Superiore. The directive targets her public activities as an attorney’s sporttime and modeling.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
OWT Fee London
UPI
Lesley Appleby
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Deerwood Park
Ralph Buxton
Charles Bell
James Busch
Gino Stefani
Lynch
NWP
Robert Winslow
Haltrish
K. Hunter
Nty
Council
Pittsburgh
By John Pierson
Charles J. Whitman
Austin
Tex
Korea
Calif
Denise
Randy
Euart
Magda
Pesko
Thomas
Christopher
San Francisco General Hospital
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