Spotlight on Local Happenings and Community News
A collage of notes from Yucca Flat weather to local politics and celebrity gossip. Election pitchmen target homeowners while a radio Rita Hayworth birth rumor stirs Mendocino County pride. Jules Voerge showcases a San Francisco boat show display, and car ad chatter hints at garage remodeling trends.
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Boonville
Rita Hayworth
Dick Haymes
Argentina
Anderson Valley
Rita
Mendocino County
Lake County
Voerge
Jules Voerge
San Francisco
Jules
Infant dies in collision en route home from hospital
Mr and Mrs Robert S Harder of Gualala recover from injuries after a Saturday morning highway crash two miles north of Albion. Their five day old daughter Jennie died and 10 year old Judy Harder was injured. Speedy Transport of Stockton truck crossing the road caused the fatal impact. Driver Ira R Goodale Jr cited for wrong side of road and excessive speed.
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Robert S. Harder
Gualala
Jennie
Redwood Coast Hospital
Fort Bragg
Harder
Albion
Ort Bragg
Judy
Ape
Highway Patrol
Speedy Transport Company of
Stockton
Ira R. Goodale, Jr
Goodale
Weather update for Northwestern California and Fort Bragg
Increasing cloudiness today with rain spreading southward tonight and Tuesday. Temperatures forecast highs and lows around Ukiah 50-35, Santa Rosa 54-34, Napa 53-34. Small craft warnings issued north to Fort Bragg for southerly winds 20-35 mph.
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California
Santa Rosa
Ukiah
Napa
Fort Bragg
State Calls Bids On Road Jobs In California
SACRAMENTO The Division of Highways will advertise bids on road projects in Mendocino and Humbokit Counties. Mendocino plans a 69 foot reinforced concrete slab bridge over Little River on State Sign Route 1 near Van Damme State Park with 55 000 budgeted. Humbokit plans structures and approaches between 8 mile and 2 1/2 miles north of Ar cala on U S 101 and U S 299 with 448 000 budgeted and a 155 foot reinforced concrete slab included.
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Sacramento
Division of Highways
Mendocino County
Little River
van Damme State Park
Humbokit County
Arcala
U. S. 101
U. S. 299
Flames Grow Through Oak Knoll Home. Woman Escapes
Mrs Otis Snow of 3 Oak Knoll Road narrowly escaped serious burns when flames gutted the master's bedroom at 8 40 a m today causing heavy smoke and $2000 to $3000 in damage to the house Fire Chief Albert Bechtel said the fire started near the bed and the room and contents were ruined Mrs Snow was treated for singed hair and face and her 5 year old son escaped injury The Ukiah Fire Department was also called to an earlier morning blaze at 2 19 a m when a gas water heater at the W A Keele home 410 Cypress Street flared igniting a wall behind it and the bathroom walls were damaged
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Otis Snow
Oak Knoll Road
Albert Bechtel
Wallis
Chinese Artillery Rings Quemoy Island Around All Sides
Military sources report Soviet built artillery ring Quemoy Island to encircle the frontline outpost. The weaponry can reach every corner of the island with devastating fire for the first time amid heightened tensions between Formosa and Beijing.
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Taipei
Formosa
Quemoy Island
Dien Bien Phu
Canadian Music Award Winner To Play For Community Concert
Ray Dudley, a Canadian pianist and 1954-55 award winner, will perform in the Ukiah Community Association closing concert. The program features Bach Hess, Mendelssohn, Chopin, Faure, Ravel, Liszt, and Schumann works. Admission is by membership card. renewals sought for 1955-56 after the workers' dinner March 7.
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Ukiah Community Association
Ray Dudley
Mr. Dudley
Bach-Hess
Haydn II
Mendelssohn
Chopin
Faure
Ravel
Schumann
St. Francis
Liszt
Dudley
Association
Calpella residents protest closing of Moore Street bridge
About 45 Calpella residents met to protest the Moore Street bridge closure by Mendocino County. A joint bridge and citizens committee seeks input for the March 2 county hearing at the courthouse and plans to hire Kasch and Cook to represent Calpella in the fight.
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Calpella
Moore Street
Supervisors
Mendocino County
Frank Carpenter
Victor Testa
J. I. Williams
Ben McClintock
Woodie White
Charles Rover
Ukiah
Citizens’ Committee
Bridge Committee
Kasch
Cook
House Committee Probes Into Electrical Trade
The House Un-American Activities Committee summoned two United Electrical Workers officials for questioning at its first year public hearing. John T. Gojack and Julia Jacobs were listed to testify at 10 a.m. EST. The UE, now independent, split from CIO in 1949 over alleged Communist influence. Walter noted Magnavox plant bargaining races in Fort Wayne show UE strength, while Whirlpool in St Joseph has no defense contracts. David Mates was a listed witness but unlocatable for subpoena.
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Washington
House Un-American Activities Committee
United Electrical Workers Today
John T. Gojack
Julia Jacobs
St. Joseph
Mich
CIO
Communist Party
Francis E. Walter
Dpa
Gojack
AFL
Fort Wayne
Ind
Magnavox Corp
Walter
Magnavox
Whirlpool Manufacturing Co
Whirlpool
David Mates
Judge Dismisses Gualala Suit At Morning Session
A $2,000,000 suit against Gualala Redwoods and Alvin M. Boldt was dismissed for failure to state a cause of action. The Empire Redwood contract involved 26,000 acres near Gualala Mendocino County. Attorneys planned to restate the case this afternoon after a brief recess.
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Gualala Redwoods
Alvin M. Boldt
Superior Court
Hale McCowan
McCowan
Empire Redwood Company
Gualala
Mendocino County
Empire Redwood
Vice Chancellor Quits Over Paris Arms Treaty Split
In Bonn Franz Bluecher offered his resignation to Chancellor Adenauer amid a cabinet split over the Paris arms treaties. The Bundestag approved the pact by large margins, risking Germany’s planned 12 division army and widening rift within Adenauer’s four party coalition over the Saar accord. FDP tensions rise as Dehler accuses Adenauer of lying on Saar.
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Bonn
Germany
Franz Bluecher
Konrad Adenauer
Paris
Bluecher
Bundestag
National
France
Saar
Adenauer
Free Democrats
FDP
Thomas Dehler
NATO
WEU
Dulles Aims to Strengthen Viet Nam Defenses in Asia Tour
Secretary of State John Foster Dulles arrived in Saigon to bolster South Viet Nam's defenses against the Viet Minh and discuss expanded U S military aid with Ngo Dinh Diem. He also met Burmese Premier U Nu after talks in Rangoon and Lao leaders, amid SEATO context.
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Saigon
Indochina
John Foster Dulles
South Viet Nam
Southeast Asia
Dulles
Phnom Penh
Neigboring
Cambodia
Norodom Sihanouk
Dinh Diem
Free
Viet Nam
Diem
China
Bangkok
Thailand
Ngo Dinh Diem
United States
U Nu
Rangood
Vientiane
U.S
Burma
Seato
County Benefits From Greyhound Bus Licensing
Pacific Greyhound Lines assigns a proportional number of buses to Mendocino county for 1955 licensing in California. The apportionment follows years of practice and counties receive a share of state registration fees weight fees and fuel taxes.
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Pacific Greyhound Lines
Mendocino County
California
Japan Confirms Alliance With U S A After Victory
Japan's Sunday general election returns show the Democratic Party winning a working majority and forming a one party cabinet led by Prime Minister Ichiro Hatoyama. Final tallies place Democrats 186 seats, Liberals 11, Left Socialists 89, Right Socialists 67, Labor Farmers four, Communists two, others six. The result preserves a pro West anti-Communist alignment and blocks a move to amend the MacArthur constitution.
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Tokyo
Japan
United States
Ichiro Hatoyama
Democratic Party
Red China
Russia
Liberal Party
Shigeru Yoshida
House of Representatives
Massed Choirs Concert Planned in Ukiah Next Week
Five of Ukiah churches rehearse for a massed concert to be held Tuesday March 8 at Ukiah Union High School auditorium. Dr. William W. Norton directs the project, illness prevents his attendance. Arthur Holton of Stockton leads as guest conductor. Choirs from Baptist Christian Methodist and Presbyterian churches perform under Ukiah’s Ministerial Association.
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William W. Norton
Church and Community Music
College of the Pacific
Lowell W. Berry
California
Stockton Chorale
Jeader
Stockton
Ukiah
Ministerial Association
Arthur H. Wallace
AEC Announces Possible Atomic Detonation Tomorrow
The Atomic Energy Commission said at a weather briefing that current conditions may permit an atomic device detonation tomorrow at 6 35 a m Pacific. It then stated the granddaddy shot scheduled to open the test series will not be fired.
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Las Vegas
Atomic Energy Commission
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Willits
Aud Baechtel Creek
Journal
Barkley
Yucca
Coyote Dam
H. M. Ivey
Marianna
West Perkins
Indianapolis
Quemoy
Columbia Artists
Canada
House
Peiping
Hong Kong
New York
Adele Austin Rickett
Yonkers
N. Y
Malcolm Bersohn
Rickett
Greyhound Bus Licensing
U.S.A
Ukiah Union High School
Treasury
George M. Humphrey
Moscow Radio Tonight
Soviet Union
Anastas Mikoyan
Snaburov
Ervukhin
Mikoy
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