Record-Setting 1976 Redwood Empire Junior Livestock Auction
At Ukiah Fairgrounds the Redwood Empire Fair posted new records as 158 beef, swine, and lambs sold for 57,806.05 dollars. Grand champion steer and lamb honors went to Potter Valley 4-H and Willits 4-H respectively, with top purchases by Jim Duarte and Joe Mayfield. Multiple awards and rate-of-gain winners were announced at Sunday’s breakfast with Rod Shippey presenting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Danny Hildebrand
Potter Valley
Redwood Empire Fair
Jim Duarte
Ukiah Fairgrounds
FFA
Black Barth Room
Ukiah
John Narved
Willits
Joe Mayfield
Mendo Mill and Lumber
Clarissa Woodward
Mary Kaye
South Ukiah Rotary Club
FPA
Jeff Ellis
Covelo
Rod Shippey
Michelle Rodrigues
John Hildebrand
Tricia Guntly
Leo Kaye
Keh Foster
Lynn Guntly
Candace Stuts
Americans slain in Tehran ambush by Islamic Marxist guerrillas
In Tehran three American civilians died when gunmen blocked their car and sprayed it with bullets. Victims were William Cottrell, Robert Krongard, and Donald Smith, all linked to Rockwell International and an Iranian Air Force project. A red Volkswagen and a Paykan sedan were noted as the getaway car details. The ambush marks a rare attack on American civilians in Iran.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tehran
Iran
UPI
William Cottrell
Robert Krongard
Donald Smith
Air Force
Rockwell International
Cottrell
Los Gatos
Calif
Krongard
Sunnyvale
U.S. Air Force
Willits council approves five cent tax increase
Willits City Council met in a shortened session with Mayor Porro and City Attorney Nazarek absent. The budget for the new fiscal year was approved, including a $6,000 line for police vehicles but a bid process must now be used for the Woodruff Chevrolet lease. A five cent tax rate hike to 1.97 was adopted, and bids were authorized for the Valley Street bridge project and softball diamond lighting. Diane Mann resigned from the Recreation Commission. In Hanford Washington a chemical explosion contaminated 8 to 10 people with radioactive material at the Hanford plant.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Willits
Frank Porro
Vern Nazarek
Woodruff
Chevrolet
Jerry Shea
Doug Flautt
Howard Bashford
Valley Street
Flautt
Shea
Richland, Wash
UPI
Hanford Atomic Reservation
Hanford Environmental Health Foundation
Potter Valley Man Killed In Offroad Vehicle Crash
A 70 year old Potter Valley man, Chester Earl Pickle, died Sunday at 5 20 p m after being thrown from his westbound vehicle on a steep dirt road near Guntley Ranch east of East Potter Valley Road California Highway Patrol reports say the car skidded down the mountain rolled over and burst into flames his body burned near the wreckage services are pending at Eversole Mortuary in Ukiah
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Potter Valley
Ain
Guntley Ranch
East Potter Valley Road
California Highway Patrol
Chester Earl Pickle
Pickle
Eversole Mortuary
Ukiah
Northwestern California Weather Outlook
Fair through Tuesday with coastal fog and low clouds, clearing locally in the afternoons. A cooler day in coastal valleys with coastal highs around 60s and inland highs near 90s. Fort Bragg 53 60 Ukiah 54 93.
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California
Fort Bragg
Ukiah
Milpitas Man Dies in Lake County Collision
A crash on Highway 29 south of Grange Road killed Milpitas resident Albert Temple Hall, 43, when his camper and pickup were sideswiped by a Vallejo driver, James Ray White, 29. Three Hall passengers were injured and Hall died hours after hospitalization. White crossed the centerline. all survivors treated at Redbud Hospital. A separate Ukiah General Hospital death followed a Lakeport Boulevard crash involving Herbert Davenport Butler, 38, who died after his car hit a pole and caused a power line collapse.
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Lake County
Grange Road
Middletown
Albert Temple Hall
Milpitas
James Ray White
Vallejo
Hall
Mark Hall
Albert Hall
Nardo Navarro Felipe
Seaside
Redbud Hospital
Lakeport
Ukiah General Hospital
Lakeport Boulevard
California
Highway Patrol
Herbert Davenport Butler
Potter Valley trustee race hinges on Ukiah district split vote
Fifteen hopefuls compete in a hotly contested Potter Valley trustee race with the Nov 2 vote deciding if the area secedes from the Ukiah Unified district. Filing closed with 13 candidates. a split village shows potential for fourth or fifth place to gain seats. If reunification passes and Thornton is seated, the incumbent would resign from the Unified board, delaying a new board until March.
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Potter Valley
Ukiah Unified
Marion Day
Sam Todd
Potter Valley Irrigation District
Ernie Pauli
Soil Conservation Service
Harry Minnich
Pg&e Employe
Don Todd
Fancher
Charmaine. Siciliani
Pat . Brown
Larry Thornton
Ukiah Unified District Board of Education
Raneau
Potter Vailey
William Chappel
Guiness McFa Ot
Mary Jo Hunter
Henry Beck
Nancy March
Ray Brown
Helen Blundell
State Board of Education
County Board of Education
Ukiah
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Hildebrand
Journal
Raymond
Debra Ellis
Parnum Paving
Charlotte Stott
Willits Ffa
Willits Safeway
Tom Bowles
Steve Dorffman
Cotati
Rodrigues
Becky Jo. Cox
Poullette
Debbie Ellis
Covelo Ffa
Keith Thornton
H. Angus
Luke Thompson
Bobby Hurt
Little Lake
Julie Silva
Redwood Empire
The
D.A. Eye
Joseph Canzoner
SEARS
Winter Catalog
Marxist Guerrillas
Soviet Union
Anaheim
State Department
Washington
By David Gridley
John Snyder
Bulletin
Hi ‘Lo
J. C. Penney Co
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