Coyote Dam Start Planned For Next Year
Richard Bartle outlined the Mendocino County flood control bond plan at a Maple Cafe breakfast. The $650 000 county share bonds for 35 years would tax property owners about 0.12 per 100 of assessed value initially and about 20 for the next two years, with bonds likely sold near 4 4 percent. Start of land acquisition and dam construction is slated after the new year, with water impounded in winter 1956 and the dam half completed by then.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mendocino County
Claude Falconer
Uktah Chamber of Commerce
Bartle
Bob Moir
North Coast Council
The
State Chamber of Commerce
Coyote Valley
Sonoma County
Spotlight column rambles through city notes and returns
The column mulls on a double themed attack and marks the Daily Journal Sports Desk return of Larry Lavelle from Sacramento after military service. It lampoons parking tickets, city officials and private lots as merchants hire guards for customer parking while urging readers to renew subscriptions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Daily Journal
Larry Lavelle
Sacramento
Washington, D C
Larry
Armed Services
Firm Protests NWP Change In Schedules
San Francisco. Dean Whitter head of a national investment securities firm objected to the proposed removal of Northwestern Pacific Railroad passenger service between Eureka and San Rafael. He testified a survey among canyon residents showed universal objection due to medical access concerns and dangerous winter roads. J D Herrell supported the hearing with freight train remarks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
Dean Whitter
Northwestern Pacific Railroad
Eureka
San Rafael
Witter
Eel River Canyon
Public Utilities Commission
Canyon
NWP
J. D. Herrell
Herrell
120 MPH Race on Highway 101 Ends With Fines
Teens David Irmer and Ernest Endlich raced side by side on Highway 101 south of Ukiah. Judge Fred Goss fined Irmer $195 and suspended his license for 30 days. Endlich posted $500 bond and faced December 15 court. Both teens jailed overnight by Highway Patrol Officer Floyd Feese after speeds reached 120 mph.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Highway 101
Ukiah
Fred Goss
Judicial District Court
Liberty
Highway Patrol
Floyd Feese
David Carl Irmer
Ukiah High School
Orchard
Ernest Arthur Endlich
Gravenstein Highway South
Sebastopol
Endlich
Feese
Largo Hill
Uktah
Thunderbird
Eisenhower Addresses Merged AFL-CIO on Democracy and Unity
President Eisenhower urged the newly merged AFL-CIO to bolster democracy while protecting minority rights within the union. He spoke by telephone from Gettysburg, praising labor’s role in welfare and global freedom and stressing that union members are American citizens first. The merger created the largest organized labor group in the free world, with George Meany and Walter Reuther guiding the event.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Afl-Cio
Eisenhower
Opportunity
White House
Gettysburg
Hun
Republic
Tist Regimental
George Meany
AFL
Walter Reuther
CIO
Free World
Meany
Reuther
Meana
Juror Removed Over Office Connection to Abbott Brother
An Alameda Superior Court judge excused juror August Rettig Jr after discovering he shares an office with Mark Abbott, Burton Abbott's brother. The replacement is Esmond Harrison as the trial progresses, with defense arguing prejudice while the judge calls the move to protect Rettig from embarrassment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Press
Oakland
August Rettig Jr
Burton W. Abbott
Abbott
Mark Abbott
Charles Wade Snook
Rettig
Stanley Whitney
Harold Howe
Snook
Esmond T. Harrison
Alameda
Two Local Youths Involved in Triple Charge
Abel Young and Victor Sharrock of Ukiah were arrested after a car driven by Young with Sharrock as passenger hit three vehicles on South School street. Police plan charges of car theft drunk driving and being drunk around an automobile with arraignment possible this afternoon.
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Clarence Lynch
West Clay Street
State
Mil Streets
South School Street
Lindbergh
Scotto
Abel Young
Victor Sharrock
Ukiah
Young
Sharrock
Smith
Burglar Takes Nylon Hose From Three A Market
A burglar forced open a door at the North State Street Three A Market Sunday night and took about $80 worth of nylon hose. Police say the entry was planned from inside the door bolts and only minor damage to the door was found.
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North State Street
Book
Denham Becomes First Reserve Act Enlistee in Ukiah Area
Donald Denham 18 of Coyote Valley joins Company K 362nd Infantry as first local Reserve Act enlistee. Six months active duty at Fort Ord, then seven and a half years in local reserves with weekly meetings. Not draft eligible. Contact Lt James Chess for others.
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Donald Denham
362Nd Infantry
Ukiah
Armed Services
Daniel Denham
Coyote Valley
Fort Ord
James Chess
South State Street
East German barge permits end for West Berlin by year end
East Berlin said West German barges will lose permits to supply West Berlin by December 31. The Neues Deutschland newspaper said truck and barge access will be blocked unless Bonn negotiates with East Germany. Authorities consider requiring Soviet zone vehicle insurance on highways and possibly banning Western trucks.
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Berlin
West Berlin
Reds
Communist Party
Neues Deutschland
Bonn
Finance Ministry
New Trial in Forgery Case Opens in Superior Court
Tony Diaz a 28 year old farm laborer faced a new forgery trial in superior court before Judge Hale Mc Cowen after the prior trial ended in a deadlock. District Attorney Meric P Orchard said Diaz forged two checks for 48 50 each with his name as payee on one and others writing the second. He claimed two other men Babe Cordova and Joe Perez plus two unnamed signers encouraged him to cash the checks at Covelo grocery and mercantile store keeping 18 for himself while returning the rest to his accomplices. The defense cited language barriers and lack of schooling in Mexico and the U S as contributing factors. The first trial was held last Wednesday and Thursday.
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Tony Diaz
Hale McCowen
Diaz
Sonoma County
Meric P. Orchard
Orchard
Ding
Babe Cordova
Joe Perez
Mexico
United States
Hiro
Covelo
Driver Killed In Car Plunge From Highway
Chalmer Lee Love a 32 year old resident near Willows was killed in a high speed single car crash on Highway 101 three miles north of Laytonville. The car left a curve and plunged into Mile Creek with the body recovered in two feet of water. The 1956 Chevrolet sedan registered to Donald Box Fort Seward was driven by Love who had been with Gene Minkel before the crash. The body was taken to Anker Mortuary Willits and later to Willows for burial via Sweet Mortuary.
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Chalmer Lee Love
Willows
Highway 101
Laytonville
Mile Creek
Love
Donald Box
Fort Seward
Gene Minkel
Anker Mortuary
Willits
Sweet Mortuary
Mendocino County Population Grows to 55100
California’s updated county estimates by the state finance department show Mendocino County up 34.9 percent to 55,100 residents. The state total reaches 13,035,000 with a 23.1 percent rise since 1950. Eight counties remain below their 1950 census counts.
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Sacramento
CNS
California
State Department of Finance
Mendocino
Amador
Calaveras
Like
Lassen
Mariposa
Nevada
Plumas and
Tulare
Eden to Visit Eisenhower
The White House announced that British Prime Minister Anthony Eden will arrive in Washington on January 30 for talks with President Eisenhower. Diplomats expect discussions to focus on Western strategy in the new cold war climate after the Geneva Four Foreign Ministers Conference failure.
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Gettysburg
White House
Anthony Eden
Washinton
Eisenhower
Washington
Geneva
Ukiah Kiwanis to Hear Ann McFarling Speaker
Ann McFarling daughter of Mr and Mrs C C McFarling River road will be guest speaker at the Ukiah Kiwanis meeting tomorrow at 7 p.m. in the Maple Cafe. She toured abroad and attended United Nations last summer on an award sponsored by the Rebekah Lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.
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Ann McLarling
Ann McFarling
3.C. McFarling
River Road
Ukiah’ Kiwanis
United Nations
Rebekah Lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows
God Meets Tomorrow in Ukiah Ground Observer Corps Meet
Ukiah chapter of the Ground Observer Corps will hold a meeting tomorrow at 8 p.m. in the Palace Hotel to discuss operations and local civil defense readiness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
GOD
Ukiah
Ground Observer Corps
Palace Hotel
Better Vision Safer Driving Essay and Poster Winners
Winners named in the Safer Driving by Better Vision contest sponsored by the Vision Conservation Institute of California. Ukiah Union High School students dominated essays with Kenneth Wieg 15 first, Phyllis Rawles 15 second, and Don Snyder 16 third under Tom Wescoat. Poster prizes went to Donald Mack 15 first and Darlene Stymans 16 second.
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Better Vision
Vision Conservation Institute of California
Ukiah Union High School
Tom Wescoat
Kenneth Wieg
John and
Ardell Richardson
Old River Road
Young Wiegand
Phyllis Rawles
John
Myrtle Rawles
Standley Street
Phyllis
G. A. A. ‘Club
Don Snyder
Gilbert
Elsie Snyder
Culvert Court. Ie
Donald Mack
Donald
Chester
Betty Mack
Rt. 1
Ukiah
Darlene Stymans
Walter
Gladys Stymans
Rosemary June
Pleasant Hill
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Coyote
H. M. Ivey
Calpella
John Frinz
Douglas Rendes
Lewis White Post
American Legion
Native Daughters of the Golden West
Journal
Barkley
Law
Judge
Large Hill
Burke Hill
Praffie
Palm Springs
Las Vegas
Boonville Road
Irmer
John Sutherland
Union Lumber Company
Art Bragg
Doormal
Sutherland
Halcomh
Stephanie Bryan
Dist
Atty
J. Frank Coakley
Asst
Folger Emerson
August Rettig
Alameda Naval Air Station
Mr. Rettig
Burton Abbott
Coakley
First Reserve Act
Don Denham
Eden
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