State Fair Counties Exhibit Showcases Mendocino Lumberjack
California State Fair opens with 50 county displays. Mendocino County debuts a large log carved by a lumberjack, created by Fred Nettles of Contra Costa. The Counties building features turquoise paint and decorative boxes of artificial flowers. Exhibits compete for 62 500 in premiums judged on value originality and execution.
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Sacramento — Counties
Golden State
Mendocino County
Fred Nettles
Contra Costa County
Camnties
Woman Injured In Ukiah Freeway Link Accident
Mrs. Rose Mary Stephenson 58 of Ukiah sustained minor injuries when her husband’s car was rear ended near a traffic flagman at the new south Ukiah freeway link. Perry Stephenson 61, also of Ukiah, drove the other vehicle. Patrick O'Hara 42 of Petaluma was the striking driver. O'Hara’s car rolled forward after stopping, injuring no one else. The Stephenson couple planned to see their own doctor.
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Rose Mary Stephenson
Ukiah
South Ukiah
Stephenson
Perry Stephenson
Patrick O'Hara
Petaluma
O'Hara
Draft slate to call married men 19 to 26 after single pool
Se lective Service Director Lewis B. Hershey said draft boards will tighten deferments for students and those with families. Once single 19 to 26 year olds are exhausted, married men in the same age group will be drafted, possibly after next January. He urged strict home obligations for newlyweds and warned students to expect work requirements. Continued on Page 5.
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San Francisco
UPI
Selective Service
Lewis B. Hershey
Hershey
Johnson
NWP Workmen Rush to Fortify Rail Line for Winter
The North Western Pacific Railroad races to complete emergency repairs after last winter’s floods. Charles E. Neal oversees 150 workers from NWP and Morrison Knudsen, rebuilding culverts and ballast to safeguard the line. Freight runs at night. day work blocks passenger service. Neal warns storms could halt operations again if protection is not completed. The project avoids passenger flow and faces a $3 million bank protection bill for Eel River cliffs, to be borne by the railroad.
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Northwestern Pacific
Charles E. Neal
NWP
Morrison-Knudsen Company
Neal
Redwood Empire
Eel River
Weather Forecast for Northwestern California
Northwestern California remains fair with coastal overcast through Wednesday. Highs near 88 in Ukiah and 76 in Santa Rosa with 5 to 15 knot variable coastal winds.
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California
Ukiah
Santa Rosa
Talks resume as Johnson urges nonstop steel talks Eight Day strike deadline looms
Washington UPI Eight days after President Johnson urged work around the clock steel negotiators resumed talks with United Steelworkers and industry leaders near the White House. Moyers said the aim is a fair just and non inflationary settlement before the midnight deadline while lawmakers warn of economic and military impact if a strike occurs. The Taft Hartley law could extend the lull to eighty days but no decision on invoking that power was announced.
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Merriman Smith Washington
UPI
Johnson
Teday
Wep. U
United Steelworkers Union
Steel Industry
White House
Bill D. Moyers
Moyers
Viet Nam
Labor
W. Willard Wirtz
Commerce
John T. Connor
Wwhite House
Cormack
McCormack
Twin B52 Raid and Saigon Grenade Attack
Viet Cong lobs a grenade into a U.S. military housing compound in Saigon causing light American casualties. Earlier, U.S. B52 bombers from Guam carried out a dual raid targeting Viet Cong strongholds in two distant South Vietnam sites.
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Saigon
UPI
U.S
U.S. Strategic Air Force
Guam
South
Viet Nam
American Assistance Command
Avalanche Claims 99 at Swiss Mattmark Dam
Rescue teams halted as pilot Hermann Geiger dropped explosives to loosen ice from the Allalin Glacier. The 500,000 ton avalanche near Mattmark Dam killed or left missing 99 workers, with 6 bodies recovered and 40 tourists spared after a bus was crushed. Officials cited 59 Italians, 27 Swiss, and other nationalities among the dead or missing amid multination casualties.
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Mattmark Dam
Switzerland
Strahlhorn
Elektro-Watt Co
Mattmark
Alexandre Verrey
Strahthorn
Ukiah Lions Pop Warner season tickets on sale now
Bargain priced season books for Ukiah Lions Pop Warner five home games go on sale through local agencies and Lions Club members. Tickets at four dollars cover games against Fort Brage Sebastopol Bobcats Petaluma Chix St Vincent's Eagles Willits Lions and Sonoma in a Sunday schedule with one Saturday trip to Sonoma and away games at Santa Rosa Fort Bragg Cloverdale.
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Ukiah Lions
Pop Warner
Lions Club
Eddie Sievens
Redwood
Empire
Ukiah Banks
Sporting Goods
Stevens
Galvins
Fort Brace
Sebastopol
Bobcats
Petaluma
Chix
St. Vincent's Boys’ School Eagles
Willits Lions
Ukiah
Sonoma
Santa Rosa Panthers
Santa Rosa
Fort Bragg
Cloverdale
California Supreme Court weighs reapportionment path
The California Supreme Court on Monday took under submission whether to order legislative reapportionment and what method to use. If approved, Brown could be urged to call a special session in October or appoint a master to redraw districts or assign the task to the long‑silent 1926 Reapportionment Commission. The seven justices chaired by Chief Justice Traynor heard three hours of testimony with no decision timeline given.
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San Francisco
UPI
California Supreme Court
Edmund G. Brown
California Reapportionment Commission
Roger J. Traynor
Stanford M. Gruskin
Brown
Herman F. Selvin
Weather Summary From August 1964 to August 1965
The report records high and low temperatures for August 1964 and August 1965, noting 80 and 92 as highs and 54 and 30 as lows. It lists noon and today readings, with a today low of 51 and rainfall of 0.59 inches. Last year’s rainfall was 0.14 inches. The item appears as a weather observation note from the observer.
Gemini Heroes Relive Historic Feat at Cape Kennedy
Gemini pilots Gordon Cooper and Charles Conrad rested after splashdown and began medical tests at Cape Kennedy. The Gemini 5 craft, which flew a 190 hour 56 minute orbit, was moved for detailed engineering study as global attention focused on the mission and as nations compare space records.
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Cape Kennedy
UPI
Gordon Cooper
Charles Conrad
America
Moonport
Cape
Cooper
Conrad
Russia
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