Willits Will Remodel Commercial Street and Airport Runway
Willits city plans a $50,000 street overhaul for Commercial Street with surveying begun by contract engineer Howard Bashford. bid readiness targeted for mid August. A slurry seal project on the airport runway, budget details and area reductions to lower cost are under review. Planning consultant Jim Campbell starts base mapping for a city wide general plan to unlock state and federal grants, including seismic and land use studies, while architects deem the Purity building feasible for a community center.
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Willits
Lyell Cash
Howard Bashford
Ukiah
Clark Post and Associates
Valley Slurry Seal
Sacramento
Cash
Jim Campbell
Campbell
Mendocino County
Purity
Mild 3.6 Quake Shakes Mendocino County Towns
A 3.6 magnitude quake at 6 48 a m rattled windows and shelves from the southern Mendocino County line to Laytonville Redwood Valley and Potter Valley felt the temblor which was centered 10 miles southeast of Ukiah No damage reported and aftershocks not recorded Seismologists from Caltech Berkeley called it mild Local ranchers and residents felt the shake but coastal areas were unaffected.
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Mendocino County
California Institute of Technology At
Berkeley
Ukiah
Laytonville
Redwood Valley
Potter Valley
Georgia Pacific outlines plan to grow timber and modernize mills
Georgia Pacific chairman R. B. Pamplin told about 100 community leaders at a Noyo River Inn luncheon that the company will harvest timber on a sustained yield, expand local mills, and add a small mill for small logs. He described shifting to second growth within 3 to 4 years, modernizing facilities, and maintaining or growing jobs while boosting rail transport and export to Japan. The plan includes a Fort Bragg stacker upgrade, Ukiah dust control equipment, and a $3,000–$4,000 high school scholarship program for local students.
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Georgia Pacific
Noyo River Inn
R. B. Pamplin
Union Lumber
Boise- Cascade
Pamplin
Japan
G-P
Boise-Cascade
Fort Bragg
Ukiah Particleboard
Ukiah
Louisiana-Pacific
Mendocino
Ehrlichman Defends Nixon On Watergate Testimony
Ehrlichman, Nixon’s former White House aide, testifies Nixon sought but failed to obtain a full factual Watergate account. He blames John W. Dean III for concealing facts and says Dean told falsehoods to the Senate panel.
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Washington
UPI
John D. Ehrlichman
Nixon
Ehrlichman
Seattle
White House
John W. Dean III
Senate
Watergate Committee
Samuel Cash
E. Howard Hunt
G. Gordon Liddy
Daniel Elisberg
Pentagon
Archibald Cox
Watergate
Thomas Jefferson
Aaron Burr
Gerald Warren
Dean
Masonite workers reject three year contract by one vote
Masonite employees voted 100 to 99 to reject management's three year contract offer. Of 285 eligible, 199 cast ballots at two Fairgrounds meetings. Union Local 980 may resume negotiations with Masonite. current pact expired July 20 and a 10 day cooling off period followed.
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Masonite
Teamsters Union
Fairgrounds
Charlie Green
Journal
Willits man identified after shallow grave found near Willits
Mendocino County sheriff identifies 23 year old Manuel Michael Vlahos of Texas as the dead man found in a shallow grave northeast of Willits last Friday. Andrea Evangeline Hernandez, 30, is charged with murder and to be arraigned in Ukiah today. Autopsy pending. cause believed gunshot. Hernandez has a one year old daughter Maggie in protective custody.
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Willits
Mendocino County
Reno Bartolomie
Manuel Michael Vlahos
Texas
Virginia
Andrea Evangeline Hernandez
Ukiah Justice Court
Bartolomie
Zimmerman Mortuary
Ukiah
Mounties capture Keller in Canada in Lopez stabbing case
Leonard Lloyd Keller, a 46 year old Comptche man, was arrested by the Canadian Mounted Police in Kamloops, British Columbia, on a provisional charge of illegal entry. Extradition papers and U.S. charges including kidnapping with bodily harm, attempted murder, armed robbery, and sexual perversion are being pursued over the June 19 stabbing of Patricia Lopez near Navarro.
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Comptche
Bolinas
Navarro
Canadian Mounted Police
Leonard Lloyd Keller
Kamloops
Vancouver
B.C
Canada
Reno Bartolomie
Keller
Patricia Lopez
Highway 128
Mountain View
Elk
Greenwood Ridge Road
Klee appeals six month tax case to Ninth Circuit
Oscar H. Klee, longtime foe of the IRS, filed an appeal of his misdemeanor conviction to the Ninth Circuit. He was sentenced to six months in jail for failing to file personal tax returns for 1966 to 1968. He was released on his own recognizance pending appeal and plans to study law while the case proceeds.
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Oscar H. Klee
Internal Revenue Service
Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals
Klee
Albert Wollenberg
Wollenberg
IRS
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Mendocino College
Richmond
Peter DeVries
Fae
Mary Graves
Lake Mendocino Drive
State Street
Sheriff's Office
Hugh Oswald
Talmage
Hopland
East Road
John Poor
Cox
Sam J. Ervin Jr
Dn.c
Warren
Erlichman
Pension Fund
Masonite Pension Fund
Mounties and Keller
Supreme Court
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