Missing flyer case sparks belief of sea crash in Humboldt
Briefcase found washed ashore at Humboldt Bay identified as Ernest Winkler 43 architect of San Anselmo. He piloted a Cessna 170 with two colleagues when it left Eureka in fog toward the coast. Air search halted after false wreck reports. latest clues include a landing light and the briefcase.
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Eureka
Humboldt County
Humboldt Bay
Ernest Winkler
San Anselmo
Winkler
Ukiah
Mendocino County
Clarence Fong
Berkeley
Harold Farquar
Pleasant Hills
Willits
Fort Bragg
Ding Light
Edward Dixon
Hamilton
Air
Reno Bartolomio
Aborigine Lumber Company
Humboldt Community Hospital
Opns Club benefit ball at Anton Stadium in Ukiah
Community notices warn of a benefit ball game next Saturday night at Anton Stadium hosted by the Opns Club with local merchants and Lucky Lagers. Readers are reminded September 13 as the voter purge deadline for those missing the last general election, urging continued participation amid social unrest and landmark naming disputes in Butte.
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Opns
Anton Stadium
Ukiah Merchants
Lucky Lagers
Young Man of Year Contest Closes Tonight in Ukiah
The Ukiah Junior Chamber of Commerce sets a midnight deadline for entries in the second annual Young Man of the Year contest. Nominees must be Ukiah area men aged 21 to 36 who have contributed to the community. Nominations include candidate name address and reasons for selection.
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Chamber of Commerce
Stuart Draut
Ukiah
Lockwood Drive
Carroll Ornham
Ukiah 12Th District
George Wildberger
Bank of America Suit Accuses Ukiah Officer of Libel
In San Francisco a suit claims Ukiah Bank of America branch manager W N Smith libeled Mrs Thelma Wilson after refusing a loan. The head office was informed in a letter dated October 18 1955. Mrs Wilson alleges references to her past life were made. Mr Smith could not comment. Eight airmen bailed from an Air Force Stratotanker near Fire Islands Alaska. one rescued, seven missing.
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San Francisco
Bank of Nena
Thelma
Wilson
Ukiah
Anchorage
Alaska
Fire Islands
Here
Picnic landslide in Pacific Palisades buries four women
Four picnickers were carried down a 150 foot cliff at Pacific Palisades as a landslide sprayed earth and trees onto the coast highway. Two women suffered spinal fractures, the others were treated for shock and released.
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Santa Monica
Calif
Pacific Palisades
Pacific Ocean
Mamoth
Eugenie Baughman
Eugene Baughman
Maude Hankerson
Lucille Glenn
Los Angeles
Glenn
Hankerson
Ukiah City Named Site for 1958 Lumber Conference
Emanuel Fritz of the Redwood Region Logging Conference informs Ukiah Mendocino County chambers of commerce that Ukiah has officially been chosen as the site for the 1958 meeting. The invitation to host was presented to the ARALC board of directors in Eureka earlier this month.
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Emanuel Fritz
Redwood Region
Ukiah-Mendocino County
Chambers of Commerce
Ukiah
Aralc Board of Directors
Eureka
Safeway Groundbreaking Set for Ukiah
Construction for a $188 900 Safeway Stores building will start Wednesday morning August 29 at 11 oclock on the former South State street baseball park site. John J. OConnell Safeway district manager leads the ceremony with Ukiah officials Mayor Donald Bones and Claude Falconer chamber president and Rothschild Raffin Welrick contractor representative among attendees.
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Safeway Stores
Baseball Park
South State Street
Safeway Company
John J. O'Connell
Santa Rosa
Safeway
Donald Bones
City of
Ukiah
Claude
Claude Falconer
Ukiah Chamber of Commerce
Rothschild, Raffin & Welrick
San Francisco
Egypt Delays Reply on Suez Proposal by 24 Hours
London reports Egypt delaying its reply to the five nation Suez proposal for 24 hours. Nasser is expected to deliver a qualified acceptance via Cairo, amid grave tensions and Soviet accusations of an impending Western ultimatum.
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Egypt
Suez
London
Suez Canal
R. G. Menzies
Australia
Gamal Abdel Nasser
Cairo
Nasser
Menzies
18 Nations
John Foster Dulles
al Goumbhourla
al Akhbar Baid
U. S
Sami Abdel Fatou
U.S
Lou Henderson
Ethiopia
Iran
Sweden
Britain
France
Moscow Radio
Pravda
Suez Canal Company
Paris
Canal
Middle East
Governor Knight Called Upon in Pine Mill Fight
In Oroville California Luther Sizemore international representative of the Carpenters union asks Governor Knight to urge Georgia Pacific to settle the Feather River pine mills dispute. He warns of potential injuries as picket lines spread and notes three recent incidents linked to the labor conflict. Georgia Pacific denies a strike and says workers rejected the union in 1954.
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Oroville
Calif
Luther A. Sizemore
Brotherhood of Carpenters
Goodwin J. Knight
Feather River Pine Mills
Sizemore
Oroville Mills
Knight
Georgia-Pacific Corp
W. W. Gamble
Georgia-Pacific Lumber
Georgia
Georgia Pacific
Sacramento
Willits Portland autos wreck near Edgewood Motel
Vehicles driven by William England of Willits and Clara Denton of Portland collided south of Willits at Edgewood Motel. The Portland car turned left while England followed too close, badly damaging the Denton Pontiac. Maxie and Alice Wilson of Willits were hospitalized under Dr. Raymond Babcock. Fire department stood by due to spilled gasoline.
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William England
Willits
Clara Denton
Portland
Oregon
Edgewood
England
Maxie
Alice Wilson
Raymond Babcock
Willita
Vas
Cyprus Mourns After British Charge Against Makarios
Nicosia reports official British accusations that exiled Archbishop Makarios personally directed Eoka terrorism. The move shatters Cypriot hopes for peace as the Eoka truce proclaimed August 16 appears to collapse.
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Nicosia
Cyprus
Makarios
Eoka
Rachel to Speak at Mendocino GOP Dinner
The Mendocino County Republican Central Committee hosts a dinner at Purdy Hall on the District Fair grounds in Ukiah starting 7 o clock. U S Senator Thomas Kuchel Congressman Hubert Scudder State Senator James Busch and Assemblyman Frank Belott will speak on national and state issues with a possible appearance by Howard Pyle. Tickets are on sale countywide with committee members selling them.
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Thes
Mendocino
Ukiah
Mendocino County
Republican Central Committee
Purdy Hall
U.S
Thomas H. Kuchel
Anaheim
Hubert B. Scudder
Sebastopol
James E. Busch
Democrats For Eisenhower
The
Independent Voters
Central Committee
Inside Story of Truman Stevenson Meeting Revealed
London Evening News prints an authentic account of Adlai Stevenson and Harry S. Truman’s private Chicago nomination meeting. The brief hotel suite exchange shows Truman asking to help and Stevenson saying no grudge remains, then Stevenson departing.
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London Evening News
London
London, Evening News
Today
Adlai E. Stevenson
Truman
Stevenson
Chicago
Evening News
Bess
Fort Bragg Prepares for Paul Bunyan Celebration
Fort Bragg readies a three day Paul Bunyan festival from September 1 to 3 with Chet Shandel as Bunyan and a parade. British Columbia and western states send daredevil lumberjack events as preliminaries occur September 2 followed by finals.
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Fort Bragg
Paul Bunyan
Big Chet Shandel
Redwood Empire
Idaho
Washington
Oregon
California
Luitucy
Bey
Belle of the Redwoods
Shandel
Shanks
Nan Yvemen
Granta Pass
Biwuks
Turner's Sudden Resignation Triggers Ukiah City Council Session
Ukiah City Council schedules an extra session after Turner's abrupt resignation as city clerk and finance officer. City Manager Lyell Cash and Mayor Don Bones convene at city hall to discuss filling Turner's four year term and possible salary changes amid the abrupt departure.
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Jim Turner
Ukiah
Civil Service Board
Turner
Lyell C. Cash
Cash
Don Bones
Rones
City-Cpener
Lyell Cash
Elizabeth Johnson Named to Democratic Committee
Tom Bair the Humboldt county rancher and Democratic nominee for assembly announces appointments to the state central committee. He names Elizabeth Johnson Ukiah Hallie Davis Crescent City and Roger Kent, a prominent attorney and nationally known Democrat, with discretion to appoint one man and two women.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elizabeth Johnson
Tom Bair
Humboldt
del Nort
Mendocino
State Central Committee
Sacramento
California
Bair
Ukiah
Hallie Davis
Crescent City
Roger Kent
Brush and timber fire on Little Dorsey Peak grows near Willits
A brush and timber fire started at noon Sunday on Little Dorsey Peak five miles east of Willits was active this morning. It has burned over 200 acres with 125 firefighters on the line including 35 from High Rock and 60 from Parlin Forks, the San Quentin honor camp.
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Little Dorsey
Willits
High Rock
Parlin Forks
San Quentin
Fireside Subdivision Under Construction Near Talmage Road
Work has begun on the Fireside Subdivision along Sanford Lane near Talmage Road. Preliminary grading is done and homes, mostly single family, three bedrooms two baths, priced around 14250 with G T loans, totaling 14 houses. Land bought from Al Foster via J L Lindsey. builder Don Thornton recently finished Fireside on Boonville Road.
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Sanford Lane
Talmage Road
G. T
al. Foster
J. L. Lindsey
Howard Burt
Walter Lehn
Don Thornton
Boonville Road
South Highway
MSH Farm Shifts To Four Alfalfa Cuttings This Year
Mendocino State Hospital farm reports solid progress with four alfalfa cuttings replacing five and a second cutting yield of 125 tons. Irrigation runs 16 hours daily to boost growth, barley exceeds 43 tons stored at Bartlett barn, and wheat harvest is finished. The dairy delivers about 425 gallons daily from 87 cows with 16 dry, while tomatoes are irrigated and land prepared for planting.
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Mendocino State Hospital
Mendocino Naida Star
Bartlett Barn
Washington
Clark Ranch
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HM. Ivey
Butte
Five N' Dime
Beryl Rawles
Boonville
Bank America
Bobby Sullivan
Jim Lortls
Sullivan
Mrs. Glenn
Logging Conference
Mr. O'Connell
Mania Cafe
Alro
Pine Mill
Sen
Rachel
Ctty
Hospital
Little Dorsey Peak
MSH Farm
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