Mendocino County Storm Disaster Status Confirmed
County administrator Ed Hall announces Mendocino County’s storm damage qualifies as a disaster area after Nixon’s office acknowledged the application. Total losses to roads and bridges exceed $2 million, enabling possible emergency funding through the Office of Emergency Planning with a March 1 application deadline.
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Ed Hall
Mendocino County
Nixon
Hall
California Disaster Office
Region 1
San Francisco
Board of Supervisors
State Office of Emergency Planning
OEP
Nokomis teacher bound over on morals count
Kenneth L. Strong a 36 year old Nokomis elementary school teacher was bound over to Superior Court after a Thursday preliminary hearing on a contributing to the delinquency of a 10 year old girl charge He was ordered to appear Feb 20 at 9 30 a m before Superior Judge Wayne Burke The courtroom was cleared except essential participants and the girl testified for over an hour The Ukiah officer who arrested Strong Deputy District Attorney Ed Krug prosecutes the case
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Kenneth L. Strong
Nokomis
Hale McCowen Jr
Strong
Wayne Burke
Merle Orchard
McGowen
Sgterry Ransom
Ukiah Police
Ed Krug
Fresh offshore oil leak renews Santa Barbara coast concerns
Workmen fight a new eight mile slick off the California coast eight miles from Santa Barbara. Estimates of flow range from 2100 to 120 gallons daily as unions and Union Oil officials differ. Crews place a large drum to collect oil and use booms to skim the surface while straw and chemicals absorb residue on beaches.
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Santa Barbara
Calif
UPI
California
Oil Co
Pacific
Coast Guard
Spoksman
Union Oil
Paul de Face
Federal Air and Water Pollution Control Administration
Fred L. Hartley
Better Berkeley plan on hippie volunteers draws fire from peace officers
Mendocino and Ukiah lawmen reject a Better Berkeley Council idea to recruit hippies as reserve police. Sheriff Rene H. Bartolomie and Police Chief Donn D. Saulsbury call the proposal inappropriate, noting no volunteers exist among about 5 000 hippies and stressing traditional law enforcement duties.
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Better Berkeley Council
Menerin County
Berkeley
al Silbowitz
Ukiah
Donn D. Saulsbury
Silbowitz
Saulsbury
Mendocino
Rene H. Bartolomie
Reno Bartolomie
Walter Webb
Commission On Peace
Bob Richardson
Webb
Long Beach City College
SRJC
Ukiah Police
Donn Saulsbury
Dick Borecky
Larry Maxson
Weather washes out Cupid as storm spans nation
United Press reports Valentine weather disrupts travel from Midwest to Rockies and South. Heavy snow and rain hit Nebraska, Iowa, Missouri, Colorado, New Mexico, and Texas, with New York facing snow removal woes and looming garbage pileups. Temperatures ranged from 12 below zero in Hibbing to 72 in Brownsville and McAllen.
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United Press
Midwest
California
New York City
Nebraska
Iowa
Missouri
Colorado
New Mexico
Kansas
Grand Island
Neb
Texas
Alice
Tex
del Rio
Wichita Falls
Pomona
Rocky Mountains
Great Lakes Region
Appalachians
Hibbing
Minn
Brownsville
McAllen
New chairman named for Indian affairs
Sacramento reports Governor Reagan appointed Sen. John L. Harmer to chair the state Advisory Commission on Indian Affairs. Harmer succeeds Sen. William E. Coombs who resigned. Harmer, a Glendale Republican and foster parent of a CEe girl, will serve at Reagan's pleasure with expenses only.
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Sacramento
UPI
Ronald Reagan
John L. Harmer
Glendale
State Advisory Commission
William E. Coombs
R-Ritaltio
Harmer
Reagan
Kennedy slaying defense claims killer in trance and intoxicated
Defense argues Sirhan Sirhan acted under a trance with no voluntary control when he fatally shot Senator Robert F. Kennedy. Emile Zola Berman traces Sirhan's life from Palestine to the United States, describing war horrors that allegedly shaped a sick obsessed mind and lack of premeditation.
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JACK_V. FOX
Los Angeles
UPI
Sirhan B. Sirhan
Sen
Robert F. Kennedy
Emile Zola Berman
California
Berman
Sirhan
Palestine
Kennedy
New York
Senator Kennedy
Jerusalem
United States
Oregon
Israel
Wildest outburst at U of C campus sparks arrests
About 150 police and deputies swept Sproul Plaza as 1,000 militants chanted and threw objects during a three dozen arrests in Berkeley. Strikers criticized Gov Reagan and Chancellor Heyns. some speakers urged white and Third World student solidarity amid noontime rally.
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IRA Rifkin Berkeley
UPI
University of California
Alameda County
Sproul Plaza
Sather Gate
San Francisco State
Sproul Hall
Strake
Ronald Reagan
Roger Heyns
Washington
Reagan
Heyns
Berke
Scott B
School of Ethnic Studies
Lather Gate
JFK Assassination Trial Scene Highlights Zapruder Film
In New Orleans UPI reports the courtroom drama as Clay Shaw, charged with conspiring to murder JFK, watches Zapruder’s color film reveal the fatal shot frontward. Witnesses challenge the Warren Report while Oswald links and timing surface in testimony.
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H. D. Quigg
New Orleans
UPI
John F. Kennedy
Clay L. Shaw
Abraham Zapruder
Edward. A. Hageerty
Warren Commission
Zapruder
Shaw
Robert H. West
Dealey, Plaza
Warren
West
Dallas
FBI
Jim Garrison
Che
New storm heads for weekend in Northern California
A new storm moves toward rain soaked Northern California with heavy rain and snow possible over the weekend. Snow begins in mountains while rain starts in San Francisco. Gale warnings issued north of Santa Cruz as winds surge beyond 100 knots. Storm expected to affect the region for at least 72 hours.
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San Francisco
California
Weather Bureau
Pacific
Crescent City
Santa Cruz
Th Weather Bureau
Northwestern California Weather: Rain, Showers, and Snow
Rain today with heavy periods and showers tonight. Showers diminish Saturday with cooler conditions. Snow above 3000 feet in northern mountains. Ukiah highs 53 and lows 40. Gale warnings persist north of Pt. Arena.
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California
Pt. Arena
Temperatures and Rainfall Ledger for February Readings
Temperature highs and lows listed for February 1969 with a noon today reading and rainfall total. An accompanying February 1968 reference shows high and low values and last year rainfall, attributed to the Department Observer.
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Ueenathe
Unfair picks up picket line at Troc Theater
The Philadelphia AFL-CIO Council began picketing the Troc Theater, one of the few burlesque houses in the nation, for replacing live musicians with canned music to accompany exotic dancers.
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Bumps & Grinds
Philadelphia
UPI
Philadelphia Afl-Cio Council
Troc Theater
Berlin Crisis Deepens As East Demands Election Halt
Berlin faced new East West tension after the Soviet Union urged West Germany to cancel a West Berlin presidential vote. West German officials rejected the demand and warned of possible harassment of the city’s air and land routes. Vito Genovese, a leading Mafia figure in the United States, died in a federal prison at age 71.
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Berlin
UPI
Soviet Union
West Germany
West Berlin
MAFIA
Washington
Vito Genovese
United States
Klan Leader Surrenders for Refusing to Show Records
Robert M. Shelton imperial wizard of the Ku Klux Klan surrendered to federal marshals to begin a one year prison term for defying a congressional committee by refusing to produce records of his organization.
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Birmingham
Ala
UPI
Robert M. Shelton
Congressional
Peruvian Navy Seizes U S Tuna Boat Off Peru Coast
Four sister boats accompany the seized vessel after gunfire by Peruvian naval ships about 20 miles offshore. The incident occurred near Peru and was reported to Washington by UPI. Estados Unidos vessel details remain unclear.
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Washington
UPI
Peru
Strike ends at San Jose State College after 37 day walkout
After 13 hours of tense talks, the American Federation of Teachers at San Jose State College voted two to one to end their 37 day strike. Hospital workers and faculty celebrations followed the agreement, marking closure of the long labor dispute in San Jose California.
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San Jose
Calif
UPI
American Federation of Teachers
San Jose State College
Anti government riots erupt in Karachi with large protests
In Karachi hundreds of thousands wear black as protests erupt against President McKenna amid a wild antigovernment outburst. Rioters clash with police, set tires ablaze, and chant slogans across the city.
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Pakistan
Karachi
UPI
McKenna Pialign
Five Admirals Pursue Capture of Unidentified Vessel
In Pueblo Coronado California reports note five admirals directing efforts to compel the capture of an unidentified vessel. The target is said to be linked to a sister ship currently en route to Virginia aboard a Navy intelligence designation.
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Pueblo
Coronado
Calif
Virginia
Navy
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