Snow Closes Some Ukiah Area Schools After Night Storm
Ukiah and central county residents woke to a snowy morning with one and a half inches in the city and over a foot in Round Valley. School buses faced icy roads. Ukiah Unified district buses lacked chains, closing Redwood Valley schools and delaying Potter Valley high grades. Roads including Ukiah Boonville and Highway 20 saw hazards while utilities reported minimal outages.
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Ukiah
Central County
Redwood Valley
Potter Valley
Ikiah Fire Department
Round Valley
Ukiah-Boonville
Highway 101
Regina Heights
Hopland Elementary
Bud Randall
Pacific Gas & Electric Co
Randall
Ed Bean
Pacific Telephone
Herb Wentworth
Cobb Mountain
Ukiah council moves on firehouse doors and bids
Ukiah city council on Wednesday night approved plans to replace six aging firehouse doors and set bid openings for Dec 26 and Jan 9 1973 for electrical system telemetry equipment and emergency radio gear. The meeting also noted Cox Motors as low bidder for four police cars and scheduled hearings on a Nazarene church sanctuary addition and a Mary Cox apartment zone change.
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Ukiah
Wilsey and Ham
Jack Simpson
Ralph Buxton
Wisley and
Ham
Swayne
Cox Motors
Ukiah Presbyterian Church
Lyell Cash
Luce Avenue
Dora Streets
Church of the Nazarene
Mary Cox
Weather outlook for Northwestern California clears Friday
Northwestern California weather clears tonight with patchy fog tonight and Friday morning. Fort Bragg lows 30 highs 48 Ukiah lows 24 highs 45.
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California
Fort Bragg
Ukiah
Apollo 17 mission sails to moon after launch delay
Space Center Houston reports Apollo 17 astronauts Cernan Evans and Schmitt launched aboard a Saturn 5 rocket despite a late start from an electronic circuit failure. They aim to land Monday in a mountain rimmed valley with three days of exploration ahead.
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Houston
APD
America
Cape Kennedy
Cape
Alabama
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Moon
Eugene A. Cernan
Ronald E. Evans
Harrison H
Jack’’ Schmitt
Cernan
Schmitt
Lunar
Mission Control
Space
Misson Control
Truman Rallies Slightly As Health Remains Critical
Former President Harry S Truman, 88, showed a small improvement today after a weakened heart and labored breathing. Doctors warned his condition remained critical, but his daughter expressed strong hope he will recover.
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Kansas City
UPI
Harry S Truman
Truman
Research Hospital
John Dreves
Mendocino County native named to high post
Claude Brinegar, 45, a Mendocino County born executive, was named by President Nixon as the new transportation secretary. He is a former Union Oil senior vice president in Los Angeles, educated at Mission High San Francisco, Stanford PhD in economics, and has three children. The nomination was announced by White House press secretary Ronald Ziegler.
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Claude Brinegar
Union Oil Co
Los Angeles
Rockport
Fort Bragg
Ukiah
Lyle Brinegar
Santa Rosa
Newell Rawles
Claude
Modoc County
Brinegar
Mission High
San Francisco
Korea
Army Air Corps
Stanford University
Union Oil
Healdsburg
Rolling Hills
Trucker Losses Two Rigs In Calamitous Bay Area Crashes
Ukiah owner Landis Morgan suffers double loss as his Kenworth tractor trailer and a Peterbilt with two chip loads crash on Highway 101 near Garberville and a later Route 253 grade plunge. Also killed near Fort Bragg, two Safeway tracks crash on icy roads north of Willits, and 18 year old Wayne Boyd injured south of the Moore Street bridge.
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Ukiah
Garberville
Kenworth
Highway 101
Charles Grivette
Boonville
Wayne Robey
Robey
CHP
Fort Bragg
Highway 20
Highway 1
Jarvis Bronson
Bert Todd Jr
Santa Rosa
Safeway
Willits
N. State Street
101 Auto Dismantlers
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Jerry
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Mendo County
Wallace Graham
Independence
van Nuys
Community Hospital
Moore Street Bridge
Wayne Boyd
Boyd
School Way
Hand's Tree Farm
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