Ukiah Pear Packing Plant Destroyed by 200000 Fire
A large blaze destroyed the Ukiah Fruit Growers packing plant on Talmage Road around 5 30 p m tearing the 102 by 195 foot shed to rubble The loss is estimated near 200 000 with insurance adjusters due Today and the plant readied to handle the pear crop this season leaving the facility and packing materials ruined.
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Ukiah Fruit Growers Inc
Talmage Road
TSS
Ernest Pauli
Pauli
al ‘Bechtel
Ukiah Fruit Growers
Thomas Shed to Handle Fruit Growers Pears
Ukiah Fruit Growers Inc led by Ernest R Pauli plans to process the pear crop as shipments arrive from 29 member farms in Ukiah Potter and Redwood valleys. A fire destroyed the cooperative packing bed causing about 200000 dollars in losses and delaying harvest slated to reach half a million dollars.
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Egnnest R. Pauli
Ukiah Fruit Growers, Inc
Ukiah
Potter
Redwood Valleys
Paull
Alex. Thomas Co
Thomas Shed
Lee
Fire Crews Respond to Ukiah Plant and Local Truck Blaze
Fire calls Sunday report smoldering packing material at Ukiah Fruit Growers plant on Talmage road near railroad tracks at 11:35 AM and a blaze in a Dora and Mill streets pickup truck from L L Construction Company at 3:45 PM.
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Ukiah
Talmage Road
L. L. Construction Company
Dora
Mill
Deer hunting yields disappointing numbers in Lake Mendocino counties
Reports on the opening season show deer kills near average in total but small in size. Lake and Mendocino counties record few large deer. 36 tags in Lakeport and 41 at Cow Mountains indicate mostly small carcasses. An accident on Hull Mountain injured Ronald and Ruth Douglas, with ambulance transport to Ukiah General Hospital and later Oak Knoll Naval Hospital.
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Ruth
Douglas
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Ukiah General Hospital
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California sales tax receipts rise amid activity surge
The state board of equalization reports a substantial increase in California business activity in the last quarter, despite slower auto sales. Taxable sales totaled 4,397,528,000, up 12.7 percent from 1955’s first-quarter level, with Mendocino County at 1,714,000 and total sales taxes for nine months reaching 420,337,506. The board projects 575,000,000 for 1955-56.
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State Board of Equalization Reports
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Mendocino County
Supervisors and Ukiah Council Set Evening Meeting on Sewer Project
Mendocino County Board of Supervisors will meet Ukiah City Council at 7:30 p.m. in the Court House to discuss a costly sewer plant and lateral construction in the Ukiah sanitation district. Estimates rise from 1,000,200 to about 1,555,400, with an 18 percent increase from material costs and sight changes. The city sees no bond issue rise, but the county may need another bond issue due to lack of sewer assessment reserves.
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Mendocino
Ukiah
County Delegates Attend State GOP Convention
Mendocino county Republican Central Committee members traveled to Sacramento to attend the state GOP convention. The group unanimously backed Ike Nixon’s ticket at the national convention in San Francisco this month. Walter Sandelin carried State Senator James Busch's proxy. Busch is in New York. Delegates from Willits included Blanche Iles and Barbara Hamilton, with C. N. McKelvey of Fort Brage also among the delegates.
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Ike Nixon Hoket
San Francisco
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James Busch
Busch
New York
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Frank Belotti
Blanche Iles
Willits
Barbara Hamilton
C. N. McKelvey
Fort Brage
Britain Sends Carrier as Sixth Fleet Maneuvers Grow
In a tense Eastern Mediterranean flare up Britain dispatches the 22,000 ton carrier Bulwark with Seahawk jets as U S Sixth Fleet ships including the carrier Randolph depart Naples for routine exercises. Syria pledges armed forces to back Egypt amid Suez crisis and a Muslim leader warns of a holy war against the West if Egypt is attacked.
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Rome
Colt League Team Inches Toward Tourney With Donations
The Ukiah Colt League All-Star junior baseball team nears the Western Regional post-season in San Bernardino as donations reach 503.50 dollars. The Ukiah Daily Journal sponsors the drive aiming for 760 to cover a chartered bus meals entry fees and other trip costs with people giving mainly 1 to 20 dollar bills and larger gifts from Stanley Watson and the Ukiah Chamber of Commerce.
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Ukiah Daily Journal
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Ukiah Chamber of Commerce
Missing hunter sought after vanishing near Black Butte
A posse of 60 volunteers organized by state game wardens and the Mendocino County Sheriff's Air Squadron search the Black Butte country east of Covelo for Jerry Mentink a 20 year old from Davis missing since Saturday afternoon He left camp to retrieve his gun and did not return prompting concerns that he may be lost or roaming the mountains deputies and air support comb the rough terrain after a sighting of a man running yelling and firing a rifle was reported but could not be verified by other hunters Father Victor Mentink a Sacramento resident notified Sheriff Bartolomie by phone Sunthe search continues with intensified effort
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Covelo
Mendocino County
Jerry Mentink
Davis
Mentink
Covélo
Ukiah
Bartolomie
Victor Mentink
Sacramento
Hearing on UHS Budget Tomorrow
A public hearing on the Ukiah Union High School district budget will be held tomorrow night at 8 o clock in the district library. Parents and citizens may question or protest the proposed 643 578 budget submitted by Superintendent W A Chessall, with funds allocated for new buildings under a recently passed bond issue.
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Board of Trustees
W. A. Chessall
California Republicans back Nixon for Eisenhower ticket
The California State Central Committee unanimously approved a resolution praising Eisenhower and Nixon and urging renomination. Delegates urged all 70 California delegates to back Ike and Nixon at the National Convention, with Gov Goodwin J Knight the only major holdout among Stassen supporters. Knight praised Herter and said he would support the nominee chosen by the President and Convention.
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Harold E. Stassen
Dump Nixon
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Weather forecast for Northwestern California and Napa region
Northwestern California ends the period with fall like conditions through Tuesday. Early coastal fog gives way to warmer inland today. Highs near 88 to 92 degrees and lows around 50 to 53. Northerly winds 12 to 25 mph near the coast.
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