Potter Valley South American trip memoirs and local notices
Margie Van Beek recounts a summer journey visiting missionaries across Lima Yarinacocha Quito and the Ecuadorian jungle with hikes in Colombia Panama and Guatemala. The piece notes a homecoming Aug 19 and praises South America while mixed local items cover PTA plans a clinic schedule and Garden Club meetings with community updates.
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Potter Valley
Margie van Beek
Los Angeles
Lima
Yarinacocha
Wycliffe Bible Translators
Pase
Quito
Ecuador
Colombia
Panama
Guatemala
Panama Canal
Panama City
U. S
South ‘America
Installation Of Granges Conducted
The Ukiah and Laytonville Granges along with Ukiah Junior Grange held a joint installation Friday in Ukiah Grange hall. Chester Deaver master of California State Granges installed officers assisted by Arthur Burke as Installing Master and other staff. 56 members attended with guests from Lake and Sonoma counties as hall decor and refreshments reflected Grange colors blue and gold.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chester Deaver
Sacramento
California State Granges
Ukiah
Laytonville
Ukiah Grange Hall
Deaver
Arthur Burke
Evelyn Koch
Virginia Shields
Mina Thompson
Delphine Burke
Alice Trimble
Christine Moore
Melva Buhlman
Audrey Tuttle
Effie Clark
Lake
Sonoma
Grange
Erwin
Ukiah Grange
Ernest Shields
Burns + Harper
Alice“ Trimble
Albert Eldrick
Jim Stutsman
Minnie Alexander
Jewel Eberhard
Florence Owens
Ceres
Pomona
Plara
Helen Lucky
Elvetta Baylie
Margaret Burgess
Harold Stoddard
Ruth Stutsman
Paul Hill
Honora Cloutier
Patricia Stephens
Junior Grange
Jim and
New Navy Gunboat Flies over Waves
Seattle report on the Tucumcari a 71 foot waterjet propelled hydrofoil built for the Navy blending jet flight concepts with marine design. Boeing led development under a 4 million Navy contract highlighting 24000 pounds thrust and a waterjet system replacing conventional propulsion.
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Seattle
Wash
UPI
U. S. Navy
Bne Filss
Missardahl
Lake Washington
Boeing .Co
Cally
Tucumcari
New Mexico
Borg-Warner
Byron Jackson
U.S
Boeing
Gene R. Myers
Navy
Myers
Grim Reapers Members Charged in Double Slayings
Two Santa Rosa area Grim Reapers members Kenneth Preston and Johnny Sommerhalder were charged with the murder of Curtis and Shirley Ackley after a gunfire exchange with deputies at a cabin south of Santa Rosa. Ronald Long and Thomas Caswell were also detained. Caswell faces assault charges and Long faces prior trial for a knife attack. The Ackleys were killed during a ransack of their trailer on a remote road north of San Rafael.
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San Rafael
UPI
Santa Rosa
Grim Reapers
Marin County
Santa‘ Rosa
Kenneth Allen Preston
Johnny Lee Sommerhalder
Rohnert Park
Ronald Edward Long
Thomas L. Caswell
Preston
Sommerhalder
Curtis O. .Ackley
Shirley
San, Rafael
Ackleys
Glars
Ackley
Sheriff's
Caswell
Sonoma County
Long
New Books at the Library Highlights
A list of recent releases featuring Frieda Winter A-18 by Thomas Taylor, North Vietnam intrigue, Ain’t You Got a Right to the Tree of Life by Guy Caraway, and several other titles. Notable works include An Antique Man by M. J. eer and I Want a Black Doll by Frank Hercules with themes of race, love, and social issues.
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Thomas Taylor
North Vietnam
Guy Caraway
Johns Island
South Carolina
M. J.eer
John Robinson
Woolwich
Frank Hercules
Elisabeth Kyle
Ann
Lorimer
V. S. Harvey
Dean Witter offers Ukiah investors market data line
Wes Craig of Dean Witter Santa Rosa announces a dedicated Ukiah service to provide current stock quotations and investment information via phone at 462-1988. The line operates 6:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. daily, linking Ukiah callers to the Santa Rosa office during the San Francisco strike.
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Wes Craig
Santa Rosa
Dean ‘Witter & Co
West Coast
N._Y. Stock Exchange
San Francisco
Ukiah
Dean Witter
Gibraltar Feud Deepens As Spain Protests Harassment
Spain delivers two notes to the British embassy in Madrid accusing harassment of Spanish ships near Gibraltar and air space violations by British planes. The report also mentions locals Virginia Dycus and the Thorntons visiting Kentucky and Tennessee with snow on the trip, and Mr. and Mrs. Marston Gillette visiting Esparte with Irene Stotts and Rance Nichols families.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Madrid
UPL
Gibraltar
Virginia Dycus
Mrs. Thornton
Chuck Dycus
Junior Dycus
Thorntons
Kentucky
Tennessee
Marston Gillette
Mr. Gillette
Esparte
Also Mentioned on This Page
Grace Hopper
Anne Girard
Zoe Meyer
Helen Troxell
PTA
Edward Quass
John Sousa
MSH
Tom Hopper
Atascadero
Walter Gibbins
Progress Club
Josie Norman
Betty Elmer
Dorris Thornton
Shirley Andersen
Thailand
Ruth Poland
Phyllis Page
Margaret Egli
Ruth Eell
Dorothy Smalley
Lucia Pedlina
Clara Clark
Hazel Woolley
Elaine Hughes
Marquette Terk
Dorothy Weatherman
Judy Elmer
Nancy Coddington
Sandy Knight
Leilani Ferrerra
Flo Callander
Esther Smith
Ida Hrbacek
Ann Hrbacek
Concord
Edna Ricards
Garden Club
Ruth Egli
Geneva Christofferson
Theo Vincent
Delicia Nystrom
Meeiing
Methodist Church
Mable Whitcomb
Martha Brimmer
Elsie Farnsworth
Agnes Minahan
Gertrude Murphy
Olive Nichols
Elva Pickle
Citizen Committee
Ray Brown
Nancy March
Dos Rios
Larry Thornton
St. Louis
Norma.Coch
Thornton
By Eldon Barrett
Meredith
Buzz
Harlowe
Oldens
Frieda Winter
North State St
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