New Year Resolutions and Local Community Notes
A year’s end wrap with random musings on unfinished tasks and resolutions, plus notes from Sonoma and Mendocino communities. Highlights include Vinson Brown’s piece on reviving Indian basketry, discussions of wilderness preservation like Maine’s Allagash Waterway, a burglar alarm news tease, and upcoming events from A&T Studio Mendocino and Rhododendron Festival plans. Also mentions a potential Paul Butterfield Blues Band show in Ukiah and a light show from a high school Christmas Ball.
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Sonoma County
Vinson Brown
California
Maine
Fort Bragg
la Fillmore
Paul Butterfield
Ukiah
Young Love
Ada Belle Chase Rites Friday in Lower Lake
Funeral services for Ada Belle Chase 82 of Ukiah will be held Friday at 11 a.m. at Jones & Lewis Chapel in Lower Lake. She died Tuesday in a Ukiah hospital. Interment in Lower Lake cemetery. Survived by son Ernest L. McKinley and daughters Lola Smith Myrtle Delaney eight grandchildren 16 great grandchildren and two great great grandchildren.
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Jones & Lewis
Lower Lake
Ukiah
Ada Belle Chase
Missouri
Chase
Ernest L. McKinley
Lola Smith
Myrtle Delaney
Spinster Term Used for Unmarried Girls in Early Times
The word spinster, meaning one who spins, was applied in early days to unmarried girls who were expected to spend their spare time spinning.
Asset investment in students drives district philosophy
Ukiah Unified School District editorial argues that education is an investment in students, not a profit. It stresses funding quality teachers, equipment, facilities, and competitive salaries as essential, and urges community investment to develop the student asset to meet minimal education standards. It also outlines remedial reading program criteria, screening steps, and council oversight with federal funding implications.
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Reading Council
Secretaries and oath timing sparks unusual inauguration
Secretary Bert Clinkston said he explained the oath document to a governor elect staff member and proceeded with the 12:01 a.m. oath. Reagan’s early start defies all previous daylight inaugurations, with questions about briefing and timing lingering after the formal ceremony.
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Bert Clinkston
Reagan
Monhay
Clinkston
Clirkston
County Men In Service Promote Local Soldiers
San Diego recruit Private Lindon K Toney son of Mr and Mrs Robert J Toney Red wood Valley completed eight weeks of Marine recruit training then moves to three weeks of combat instruction before first assignment. Other locals include Second Lieutenant McMahan of Redwood Valley with Air Force officer training and pilot assignment, Private Danny J Saylor at Ft Ord completing a light vehicle driver course, and Private Michael W Fontaine of Laytonville joining the Green Berets after Special Forces training at Ft Bragg.
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San Diego
Lindon K. Toney
Robert J.toney
Redwood Valley
FT. Ord
Army
Danny J. Saylor
Wiliam H. Gullett
Elm, Ukiah
Michael Fontaine
FT. Bragg
N. C
Michael W. Fontaine
Frank J. Fontaine
Laytonville
Green Berets
John F. Kennedy Center For Special Warfare
Pvt
Fontaine
Ft. Benning
Leggett Valley High School
Santa Rosa Junior College
Seaman Apprentice Lopez to Attend Transfer of USS Burton Island
Ray A. Lopez son of Mrs Mary Mitchell of Ukiah will witness the decommissioning of the icebreaker USS Burton Island and its transfer from the Navy to the Coast Guard. The ceremony at the U S Naval Supply Depot Seattle will mark Burton Island as the Navy's last icebreaker and crewmembers will receive engraved cigarette lighters.
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Ray A. Lopez
Mary K. Mitchell
Beacon Way
Ukiah
Burton Island
Navy
Coast Guard
U. S. Naval Supply Depot
Seattle
Haley graduates from aviation fire control course in Memphis
Lee P. Haley USN Aviation Fire Control Technician completed a 12 week Bomb Director Course at the Naval Air Technical Training Center in Memphis. The program covered fundamentals of aviation fire control optics ballistics airborne radar and synchronized control systems. He previously completed two week Aviation Familiarization and 19 week Aviation Electronics Fundamentals courses in Memphis.
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Lee P. Haley
Memphis
Tenn
Usn
Chris Haley
Ukiah
Naval Air Technical Training Center
Marine Private James L Smart Graduates From Recruit Training
Marine Private James L. Smart, son of Mr and Mrs James L Smart Jr of 111 Thompson Avenue Ukiah, completed eight weeks of recruit training at the Marine Corps Recruit Depot. He then finished three weeks of individual combat training and, after home leave, will report to his first Marine Corps assignment. The program emphasized rigid physical techniques at sea and in close order drill.
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Marine Corps Recruit Depot
Marine Corps
James L. Smart
James L. Smart Jr
Thompson Avenue
Ukiah
PFC Estle Betts in Korea Air Defense Practice
YUCH ON II Korea Private First Class Estle F Betts 22 son of Mrs Esther R Betts Covelo recently participated in a week long annual service practice in Korea Betts a member of Battery D of the 5th Artillery s 7th Battalion performs extensive systems checks and fires missiles he helped assemble The practice caps a year of training proving the units capability to destroy low and medium altitude aircraft Betts attended Round Valley high school.
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Yuch ON II
Korea
Radio man Hursky graduates submarine school in ROTON
ROTON Conn Radioman Seaman Ronnie J Hursky USN son of Mr and Mrs Ladd ST Hursky of 200 Irvington Drive Ukiah graduates Basic Enlisted Submarine School Class ceremony held in Dealey Center Theatre Commander J P Shelton addressed and introduced by Commander Edward L Frame FT Leonard Wood Mo Army Pvt Robert G Smith 20 son of Mr and Mrs George F Smith of 431 Pomolita Drive Ukiah completes combat engineer training at Ft Leonard Wood Eight weeks cover tactics weapons road and bridge building camouflage and demolitions
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Roton
Conn
Ronnie J. Hursky
USN
Ladd ST. Hursky
Irvington Drive
Ukiah
Dealey Center
J. P. Shelton
U. S. Navy
Submarine Division Twenty - One
Edward L. Frame
Ft, Leonard Wood
Robert G. Smith
George F. Smith
Pomolita Drive
Ft. Leonard Wood
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Vicks
A&t
Mendocino
State Hospital
Space Aid
Honeywell
Aeronautical
Minneapolis
Don Halverson
Ukiah Unified School District
Lackland Afb
Tex
Lt. McMahan
OTS
Webb Afb
Ukiah High School
University of California At Davis
Alpha Gamma Rho
Danny Saylor
Hersey
Meevick
Fort Lewis
Wash
Fort Rucker, Ala
Lindon Toney
Dennis McMahan
Mark Hersey
James Smart
Estle Betts
Ronnie Hursky
Robert Smith
Journal
Cash
Daily Journal
DIAL
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