Christmas lighting display wins Journal prize in Ukiah
Five Ukiah judges awarded the Al Fraga residence at 424 Oak Park avenue first prize in the Journal’s outdoor lighting contest. John Holling home at Grove and Bush streets took second, and Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Lindbergh at 200 Calvert court took third. Prizes were $25, $15, and $10 respectively. The Fraga display featured a white star, an angel over the roof, two camels in blue-lit panels, and the phrase Peace on Earth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
al Fraga
Oak Park Avenue
John Holling
Grove and
Bush Streets
Suit Filed Against Crofoot Lumber for Breach of Contract
The Henshaw Investment Company of San Francisco sues Crofoot Lumber Inc and Western Title Insurance in superior court seeking $25,000 liquidated damages from a failed Eden Valley ranch purchase. The contract fixed at 650000 for the 26,000 acre property. a $26,000 deposit was to be paid to Henshaw if the sale failed. The company claims the title is clouded and asks the court to clear it.
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Crofoot Lumber
Crofoot Lumber, Inc
Eden Valley Ranch
Henshaw Investment Company of
San Francisco
Superior Court
Western Title Insurance and Guaranty Company
Crofoot-Lumber Inc
Western Title Insurance Company
Crofoot
Henshaw Investment Company
Office of
the County Recorder
Yule Mail Tops All Previous Record at Ukiah
Ukiah post office dispatched 42500 Christmas letters on peak day, beating 1953 by about 5000 and signaling the busiest year on record. Overall Christmas mail volume rose about 15 percent with total receipts the largest ever, while staff, including 10 extra workers during the 10 day rush, maintained efficiency.
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Ukiah
Ted Hinds
Hinds
Ukiali
Mrs Lulu Holtz Dies. Ukiah Resident 77
Services are pending at Zimmerman Mortuary for Mrs Lulu Holtz who died this morning at Ukiah General Hospital at age 77. She was a longtime resident of the community and mother of Everett Cox of Ukiah.
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Zimmerman ‘Mortuary
Lulu ‘Holtz
Ukiah General Hospital
Long
Everett Cox
Ukiah
Northwestern California Weather Update
Vari able cloudiness today tonight and Friday with light rain on the north coast today and a few showers probable from Ukiah northward tonight and Friday. Temperatures remain steady with Ukiah 58 42 Santa Rosa 47 36 Napa 47 35. Southerly winds 10 20 mph near the coast and 20 30 mph above Cape Mendocino Fort Bragg area. Partly cloudy today with a little rain tonight and Friday.
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California
Ukiah
Santa Rosa
Napa
Cape Mendocino
Fort Bragg
County Supervisors Set Date To Discuss Coyote Valley Dam
Mendocino board will discuss the dam and local participation at the January 10 meeting. Sonoma supervisors postponed action on a $5.65 million general obligation bond to cover non federal share. A March 1 deadline looms as hearings begin on a federal appropriation, with locals wary of approval without guaranteed non federal funds.
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Mendocino
Paul Poulns
Coyote Valley
Highway 20
Hopland
Redwood Valley
Pottiss
Mendocino County
Sonoma County
Board of Supervisors
Congress
U. S. Army Corps of Engineers
Ukiah
W. M. Moir
California State Chamber of Commercce
Phil Trine Home For Christmas With Family
Phil Trine visits home at 28 Talmage road from Oakland Veterans Hospital for Christmas week after five and a half months of hospital therapy for war injuries. He arrives last Sunday and returns next Monday, using new braces and crutches. Six King children will join him with his wife Grace Trine and Mrs. King.
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Mark King
Talmage Road
Phil Trine
Oakland Veterans Hospital
Trine
Mark King Jr
King
Renee
Bradford
Christine
Matthew
Ruth
Diane
Grace Trine
Phil
Mrs. King
Eastern Airliner Crashes Killing 10 GI Passengers
Federal investigators probed why a chartered DC3 carrying 23 servicemen home for Christmas ran out of fuel and plunged into the Monongahela River near Dravosburg Pa ten men died. Nineteen survivors were rescued with cuts and exposure, as searchers recovered the wreckage and began a formal CAB inquiry.
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Dravosburg
Monongahela River
Names Of Men Lost In Plane Crash Released
Dravesburg Pa report lists nine soldiers and crewman missing after the crash. Pilot Harold A Poe of Seattle and aircrewmen Pfe Harry D Moss are named alongside Cpl Robert F Wilder and seven other soldiers. Survivors confined to McKeesport hospital include Cpl Robert Norgren Frank Kusumi and others with full details of addresses and ages shown. The report indicates continued coverage on Page 6.
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McKeesport
Harold Poe
Civil Aeronautics Board
Dravosburg, Pa
Dravesburg
Pfe
Harry D. Moss
Robert F. Wilder
Lester W. Donahue
Elmer A, Diercks
Carl O. Thim
Joseph Selvaggio
Joseph R. Harkema
Donald T. Seitzinger
Bob D. Whipple
Mee- Keesport
Robert Norgren
Kenwood
Pueblo
Frank Kusumi
Hillcrest
Los Angeles
Robert P. Walker
Seattle Wash
Philip F. Wheeler
Star Rt
Rifle
Idaho
Duwain D. Crow
Maple
Kellogg
Robert Gill
Granville
Charles L. Lutoe
European case tied to misuse of office arrests
In Bern eleven people were arrested in a case described as misuse of office in favor of a foreign power involving economic espionage and fraud. In Ecuador, Army troops seized the Ministry of Communications while President Velasco Ibarra flew to Guayaquil. In San Francisco, Norman Red Strader was named head coach of the Forty Niners, former St Mary’s coach and ex-Yanks leader.
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Bern
Switzerland
Quito
Ecuador
Ministry of Communications
Jose Maria Velasco Ibarra
Guayaquil
San Francisco
Norman Red Strader
St. Mary'f
New York Yanks
San Francisco Forty Niners
Pilot vanishes after Monongahela River plane crash
DRAVOSBURG Pa UP a DC 3 transport carrying five civilian crew members ditched in the Monongahela River. Pilot Harold Poe reached shore then reentered icy waters to help others, disappeared in the darkness as survivors described his heroism. Co pilot Robert P Walker said he swam to shore and tried to rescue more victims before the craft sank.
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Dravosburg
Harold Poe
Monongahela
Robert P. Walker
Seattle
Poe
Walker
Stephen Barna
French Deputies Move to Block German Rearmament
Paris opponents of German rearmament sought to derail the Western European Union by proposing France and Germany delay ratification until Pacts are read as one. Premier Mendes France planned three confidence votes but backed down for an all night effort to secure unity. He met with Radical Socialist deputies and non Communist leaders to present a united front.
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Paris
European Union
European Defense Community
National Assembly
France
Germany
Pierre Mendes-France
Assembly
Radical Socialist Party
Mendes-France
London
Oakes Named New Head of Mendocino Polio Unit
John L. Oakes of Redwood Valley elected by unanimous vote to succeed Arthur Schilder as chairman of the Mendocino County Chapter of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis at yesterday’s chapter board meeting in Ukiah court house. Oakes, nine years in the area, is county school welfare and attendance supervisor, married with two daughters. County polio cases totaled 34 in 1954, the most in any year, versus 23 in 1953 and 17 in 1952, with three-in-34 being visitors.
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Arthur Schilder
Ukiah
Mendocino County
National Foundation For Infantile Paralysis
Court House
John L. Oakes
Redwood Valley
Schilder
Oakes
Leslie
Elizabeth
Margaret Bernard
County Health Department
Mendo
Cino County
Bernard
Electrical short prompts fire call at Calvert Court home
An electrical short in the city meter at 150 Calvert Court, Harley Bransoh residence, drew the fire department at 9 am today. Chief Albert Bechtel said the meter was damaged but the house remained undamaged.
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Harley £. Bransoh
Calvert Court
Albert Bechtel
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Fa Nile
Oak ‘Park Avenue
Grove Street
A. Lindbergh
Ukiah Records
Lulu Holtz
State and
Standley Streets
Newark
West Coast
Europe
Pittsburgh
Alegheny County Airport Centre
Harold A. Poe
Seattle, Wash
John Oakes
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