Aerial Tankers Aid Fight On Mendocino County Fires
Division of Forestry reports 85 fires in Mendocino County from a thunderstorm, with 735 firefighters, 25 trucks, 3 bulldozers, 15 other vehicles, seven air tankers and three patrol planes deployed. About 225 acres burned by 10 a.m. today, mostly snags and brush. Fire began Wednesday night in central and coastal areas and stretched from Ukiah to Lagontville Covelo.
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Grape Growers Meet to Set Pickers’ Pay and Dates
North Coast Grape Growers Association members plan meetings to discuss marketing the 1968 crop and establishing picker pay. Sessions are set for Monday at Calpella school, Tuesday in Santa Rosa, and Wednesday in Rutherford. Ed Bernard presides at Calpella. Barra, Bu ten, and King hold officer roles. Picking in Ukiah and nearby areas starts Aug 20 and ends Oct 15. Prices touted include 110 dollars per ton for Garignanes. Continued notes on crop conditions and shipments follow.
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Sonoma County Farm Bureau
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Napa County
Rutherford Grange Hall
Rutherford
Ed Bernard
Napa
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Charles Barra
Redwood Valley
Ernest Buten
Malcolm King
Largo
Mendocino County
Ukiah
Talmage
Hopland
Barra
California
Democrats Seek Unity After Polls Row in California
Sacramento reports state Democratic leaders focus on convention work to unite the party after Assemblyman Bill Green accused leadership of underrepresenting minorities in endorsing 12 top posts. Unruh and Willie Brown countered that Negroes and Mexican Americans did receive support for key positions, while Green calls for a minority caucus to nominate rival candidates. The day’s agenda includes platform work and civil rights planks hearing as Kennedy McCarthy Hum- phrey supporters endorsed the 12 candidates pledged to harmony.
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Roger Boas
San Francisco
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Carmen Warshaw
Los Angeles
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Ann Alanson
Unruh
Kennedy
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Ukiah Wranglers Gymkhana Highlight at Fair
Horse lovers welcome a trophy horse show and gymkhana sponsored by the Ukiah Wranglers at the Redwood Empire Fair. The horse show begins 9 30 am in front of Era scand and gymkhana follows lunch. Entries close August 13 at the Fairgrounds office. first place trophies and ribbons for top five.
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Ukiah Wranglers
Redwood Empire
Ukiahi Cyclists Injured On Burke Hill
Two Ukiah youths Mark Ford 14 and Raymond Dink Farmer 15 sustained minor injuries when Ford lost control on Burke Hill Drive. An Ohio family, Wilma Lynn 47 and Gloria Lynn 14, suffered lacerations and bruises after a rear end collision with a plywood truck. Janna Lynn 6 escaped injury. All were treated at Hilltop Community Hospital and County Hospital by Ukiah Fire Department ambulance.
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Ukiah
Young Ford
Burke Hill Drive
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Ford
Wilma Lynn
Columbus
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Janna
Lake Mendocino
Weather Summary for Northwestern California
Northwestern California will see fair weather through Saturday with overcast mornings and nights along the coast. Afternoon thunder is possible in the north with little temperature change. Ukiah is forecast at 95 and 55 for high and low respectively.
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Top Attorneys In Court for Women Suspects
Five young women were brought to court after a Navarro sheriff raid on a home facing three felony drug counts. Each defendant has court appointed counsel. separate trials were sought for Brunner and Glutz with pleas of not guilty. A sixth defendant, Bomse of New York, pled guilty to possession of dangerous drugs and awaits sentencing. Linder was released for surgery and others remain in jail.
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Leo Cook
Cathran Patricia Smith
Jack Golden
Ellabeth Linder
Tim O'Brien
Wayne Burke
Richard Petersen
Miss Brunner
Miss Glutz
Robert M. Bomse
New York
Miss Linder
Napa Official Files Suit For $40 000
Napa County Probation Officer Leonard Fadeeff sues the Grand Parlor of the Native Sons of the Golden West in San Francisco Superior Court for 40,000 claiming a second base slide caused an injury during a Sept. 2 baseball game at Bret Harte School in Hayward. He seeks medical expenses and lost earnings alongside the demanded amount.
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UPI
Napa County
Leonard S. Fadeeff
Fadeeff
David Kelly
Native Sons of the Golden West
Native Sons
Bret Harte School
Hayward
Second Base
British Viscount crash kills 48 tourists in Germany
A Viscount turboprop carrying 44 passengers and four crew from London to Innsbruck crashed on an Autobahn near Langenbruck Bavaria. Forty eight aboard perished as flames spread, witnesses report the plane dropped like a stone and exploded into fiery wreckage. Police and emergency crews found bodies scattered amid burning fuel and smoke.
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Pfaffenhofen
Germany
UPI
British Eagle Airlines
London
Innsbruck
Langenbruck
Frankfurt Airport
Drunk Drivers Face Suspension Upheld by Appeals Court
SAN FRANCISCO The District of Appeals Thursday upheld the law allowing suspension of a driver's license when chemical sobriety tests are refused. A Marin County court had ruled for restoration for Arthur Curtis Bush claiming incapacity from intoxication. The appellate court rejected this view, saying it would create absurd consequences by tying suspension to intoxication level.
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UPS
District’ Cart of Appeal
Marin
Arthur ‘Curtis Bush
Bush
Nixon to brief on Vietnam talks at LBJ Ranch
Nixon announced he will fly to the LBJ Ranch Saturday to be briefed by President Johnson on progress in Paris. Agnew will join, with Cyrus Vance and Dean Rusk invited. Humphrey tours the ranch but is not expected to meet Nixon. Nixon ruled out a Russia trip before after the elections, saying time limits prevent it.
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Agnew
Hubert H. Humphrey
Michigan
George Romney
Nixon Acceptance Speech Highlights
Nixon pledges new leadership to end the Vietnam War honorably and curb crime while boosting American wealth and private enterprise. He calls for reappraisal of foreign aid, a new internationalism, and a firm stance against communism, urging unity after a divisive primary and stressing the need to restore respect for U S institutions and law. The address emphasizes tax policies to create jobs, reduce welfare reliance, and invest in housing and opportunity.
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America
Agnew Veeps Nomination Dismays Baltimore Negro Leaders
UPI reports Baltimore Negro leaders react with dismay to Spiro T. Agnew's vice presidential nomination. They recall his civil order measures, including National Guard deployments after riots, and his clashes with black leaders. Agnew defends his stance and urges leaders to repudiate all racism.
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UPI
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Agnew
Martin, Luther King Jr
Stokely Carmichael
Rap Brown
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