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Newspaper
Ukiah Daily Journal
Location
Ukiah, California, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1971
Page
3
HEW reports 16,000 fewer welfare recipients in May reducing total from 10,228,000 to 10,212,000 due to state benefit cuts in 19 states and Puerto Rico. Official says state legislatures are not approving funds for welfare. Last monthly drop was June 1968.
In Boise Idaho UPI reports First National Bank of Idaho supervised by Jerry Wickham pieced together 7052 checks worth 843000 after a janitor shredded them. Ninety seven point four percent taped, all accounted for within two weeks with 150 rolls of tape and 102 workers. Bank president Ralph Comstock Jr calls it unbelievable.
A $250,000 personal injury lawsuit was filed in Superior Court over a June 24 1971 two truck collision on Highway 401 in Mendocino County. Plaintiff Cornelius Hofland alleges Donald L. Shehorn Casella Trucking and ten does drove a 1970 Peterbilt caring negligently into Hofland’s truck, causing injuries, shock and nervous system damage. Damages sought include general damages wages vehicle and medical costs.
Broadcast history credits Station KDKA Pittsburgh with starting broadcasting on November 2 1920 when it aired the Harding Cox election returns.
The Tuberculosis and Respiratory Disease Association of the Redwood Empire sponsors a mobile chest X-ray service in Mendocino and Lake Counties. The unit visits Yokoyo Shopping Center in Ukiah on Sept 17 and 18 with two shifts daily, plus other area stops Sept 13–14 Fort Bragg, Sept 15–16 Willits, Sept 20 Lakeport, and Sept 21 Clearlake Highlands. A $1 charge applies.
Miki Howard longtime Ukiah softball and basketball organizer was approved by the city council to fill the unexpired term of Carl Daubeneck. She will serve until June 1972 or until a successor is appointed, as the replacement for Daubeneck who resigned due to business pressures.
The California Voting Machines Commission approved plans from 25 counties to form election observer committees with news media and party representatives to oversee computer vote counting. Secretary of State Edmund G Brown Jr noted that 23 of 28 counties using computers submitted plans, with Ventura Napa and Humboldt as exceptions. He cited secrecy in some counties and cited Berkeley as an example where the press and public were barred from the computer room. Parking meters to be installed in Paris near the Madeleine church mark pay zones.
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