Ukiah residents shine in Journal Home Decoration Contest
Three Girl Scouts and three Boy Scouts judged the Daily Journal Home Decoration Contest touring Ukiah on Tuesday night. First prize 25 dollars awarded to Mr. and Mrs. Lewis for a Santa Claus and Nativity display. Second prize 15 dollars went to Mr. and Mrs. Clifton L. Brown for a Santa at the North Pole scene. Third prize awarded to AG Tos piden Migesta nte Toye dad for rooftop Santa and reindeer display.
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Lewis Bartolome
Redwood Highway South
Ukiah Daily Journal
Daily Journal
Ukiah
Lewis. Bartolomei
South Highway
Clifton L. Brown
Mendocina
Santa Claus
North Pole
Santa‘Claus
Santa
James Wiemeyer
Louise Hornung
Cathy Gordon
Karen Hiting
Elting
Journal
Frank Jacinto
Boy Scouts
Girl Scouts
W. Edward Caton
Irvington Drive
Lloyd Hamlin
Walnut
Byron Matthews
Talmage Rd
Landis Morgan
Flu Epidemic Delays Ukiah Journal Home Deliveries
Ukiah faces a flu epidemic with school absenteeism rising to twenty percent and six of the Daily Journal’s twenty five carriers sidelined. Parents are filling in routes and circulation manager Keith Ornham is covering. delays are possible until the illness subsides.
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Ukiah
Daily Journal
Keith Ornham
Journal
City hearing on animal ban faces owners' protests
Montgomery officials will hear a proposal next week to ban animals and fowl from city limits drawing protest from owners of monkeys horses quail sheep and rabbits though hog owners have not objected to a ban against hogs.
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Montgomery
Ala
UPI
Time’s Running Out For Late Shoppers
Santa’s helpers rush last minute shoppers in Ukiah as stores stay open tonight and tomorrow until 9. Saturday closes at the usual hour to let workers join holiday celebrations, with clearing skies and renewed buying driving crowds.
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Jolly Gentleman’s Helpers
Uxiah's
Telephone Chain Planned to Curb Bad Checks
The Cham ber of Commerce Retail Division adopts a telephone chain to curb bad checks. About 60 members in 15 minutes are notified via phone when a bad check is reported. Police inform the Chamber, which warns roughly ten stores, triggering a further five-store alert. Jack Baskerville leads use for meetings and local events.
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Chamber of Commerce
Jack Baskerville
Merchants Division
Dry Creek Dam Project Authorized
The U S Army Engineers recommend building a 277 000 acre foot dam called Warm Springs Dam and Lake Sonoma in Sonoma County for flood control water supply and recreation. The project costs 42 400 000 with 14 320 000 repayable by local interests and includes 2000 acres for a game management area. It aims to reduce floods on Dry Creek and the Russian River and to provide 90 000 acre feet of water annually through 2005. Public review will go to the Board of Engineers for Rivers and Harbors in Washington with written comments invited.
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U.S. Army Engineers
Dry Creek
Sonoma County
Warm Springs
Lake Sonoma
Mendocino
Cloverdale
Asti
Army
Army Engineers
Russian River
Healdsburg
Sonoma
Marin
Coyote Dam
Board of Engineers For Rivers and Harbors
Washington, D.C
Board
Weather data from Ukiah Fire Department observer
December 1961 temperatures show high 57 and low 42 on the 20th. December 1960 records include high 64 and low 36. Today's noon temperature is 53 with a low of 43. Rainfall 12.30 inches versus last year 14.62 inches.
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Ukiah Fire Department
Santa Claus thanks Ukiah children for letters and gifts
The Daily Journal reports Santa’s thanks as Christmas nears and urges last letters to ensure all Ukiah kids receive toys. Readers share requests including trucks trains watches dolls beds dishes leotards and play sets from Santa and his helpers before Christmas Day.
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Ukiah
Santa Claus
Daily Journal
Daily Jounal
Santa
Guerrilla Warfare In Cuba Intensifies Across Fronts
Anti Castro guerrillas fight on three fronts in Cuba as Maj Eloy Gutierrez Menoyo reports rebels active in Las Villas and Or gan Mountains while Raul Castro mass mobilizes 25 000 militiamen in the Bana o Sancti Spiritus region. Rebels use Czech tommy guns and U S rifles captured from Castro forces.
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UPI
Cuba
Eloy Gutierrez Menoyo
Castro
Second National Escambray Front
Las Villas
Raul Castro
Fidel Castro
Banao-Sancti Spiritus
Menoyo
Fulgencio Batista
Organ Mountains
Pinar del Rio
Crystal Mountains
Castal
Leaders map 1962 Anglo American strategy amid Cold War
In Hamilton Kennedy and Macmillan plan strategy for Berlin and possible Khrushchev meeting. In Washington foreign aid and UN funds face opposition over Congo fighting and Goa invasion. Hoover criticizes U.S. support for Katanga. UN General Assembly censures Soviet Union and China over Hungary Tibet. Nehru to oversee Portuguese enclaves in India. Kennedy sr serious. Colombia quake death toll rises to 24 as relief brigades rush in.
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Bermuda
UPD
Kennedy
Harold Macmillan
Berlin
Nikita Khrushchev
Washington
UPI
U.S
United Nations
Congo
India
Goa
Robbery and Burglary Sentences For Hoagiin and Hanson
David Hansen and George Hoag lin were each sentenced to one year in the county jail after appearing before Superior Court Judge Wayne Burke. They faced theft and burglary charges for entering Brownie’s Market on December 3 and for unlawfully taking a car owned by Donald L. Tracy on the same date.
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David Hansen
George Hoaglin
Superior Court
Wayne Burke
Brownie
Donald L. Tracy
Ukiah council nears decision on PG and E utilities option
Ukiah City Council debated buying PG and E utilities within city limits or leasing to PG&E for 15 years at a guaranteed income. A week’s delay was set to study figures on ownership versus lease and potential annexation handling.
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Ukiah
Pg&e
Pg&E’s
Roy Wagner
Hep - T
Ralph Buxton
Eric Banker
Wagner
Buxton
Lyell Cash
Brazilian Admits Setting Fire That Killed 307
Brazilian arsonist Adilson Alves confessed to starting the Ni teroi circus fire blamed for 307 deaths. Police say an alleged accomplice, Walter Rosa, helped spread the blaze while a guard cordon kept mourners away. The incident followed a reported beating of Alves by a circus employee named Maciel Felizando.
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Rio DE Janeiro
UPI
Niteroi
Teodoro Gouveia de Abreu
Adilson MM. Alves
Alvesa
Gouveia
Alves
Walter Rosa
Rosa
Maciel Felizando
Six Month Sentence for Manslaughter
Hazel N. Mitchell of Laytonville received six months in county jail after pleading guilty to involuntary manslaughter in the death of 84 year old Samuel Henry Wages. Wages, cared for by Mitchell, was pulled from his bed allegedly causing a broken hip and left on the floor all night. He died after being taken to a local hospital in a semi conscious state.
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Hazel N. Mitchell
Laytonville
Superior
Wayne Burke
Mitchell
Samuel Henry Wages
Wages
Northwestern California Weather Outlook Through Friday
Cloudy through Friday with a chance of rain north of Eureka. Local morning valley fog and colder tonight. Ukiah 58 38, Santa Rosa 60 34, Napa 56 28. Coastal winds northwest 10 to 20 knots today.
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California
Eureka
Ukiah
Santa Rosa
Napa
Katanga Leader Accepts Central Congo Unity Terms
Katanga President Moise Tshombe agreed to end secession and accept Central Congo authority in an eight point deal signed at Kitona. Talks with Premier Cyrille Adoula lasted 17 hours under U N and U S mediation, with Tshombe signaling among conditions before parliament.
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Leopoldville
the Congo
UPI
Katanga
Moise Tshombe
Congo
Joseph Heo
Tshombe
United Nations
Kitona
Cyrille Adoula
United States
Joseph Kasavubi
U.N
Unity of the Congo
Ndola
Northern Rhodesia
Ellisabethville
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