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Newspaper
Ukiah Daily Journal
Location
Ukiah, California, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1954
Page
6
Ukiah Daily Journal lists publisher B A Cober and managing editor D L Zylstra with city editor H M Ivey. It is published daily except weekends and holidays from 164 E B Standley St Ukiah California. Subscription rates include one year nine dollars and six months five dollars with per copy seven and a half cents.
Boonville pupils visit the Clarence Hulbert ranch at Philo for a morning tour. Second graders from Boonville and Cow Creek, guided by their teachers, viewed farm animals, gardens, and were treated to a picnic at Hendy Grove. A rainy return preceded by a cheerful day.
Hopland High students gathered in the auditorium on June 4 for Awards Night. The Bank of America Achievement Awards went to Pat Hetzel Robert Lee and Edna Ladelle in scroll form. Lions Club trophy honors Pat Hetzel. Legion auxiliary awards to Pat Hetzel and Donna Norfolk. California Scholarship Federation honors included torches lamps and life memberships for several students. Freshman Scholastic Award went to Earl LaDelle and Don Goodman. Journalism awards to Lois Feliz Shirley Rosetti and Edna La Delle. In athletics, varsity letters and intramural medals were distributed with Don Simmons and Robert Lee sharing outstanding athlete honors. Valedictory and salutatory honors were awarded to Pat Hetzel and Robert Lee. Principal Robert Malone received a desk fountain pen set.
President Syngman Rhee told the National Assembly that South Korea should prepare to march north to unify the country. He did not specify details, but has repeatedly threatened to reopen the Korean War if negotiations with the Reds fail. He received a standing ovation on opening day as allies supportive of Rhee were elected to key chairmanship posts.
Elmer Pennell, a long time hired man, stays through winter and is later found shot near Kemp's Creek. A mysterious woman in a red hat visits seeking him after he leaves town with a roan team. The sheriff investigates but the woman is never found and Pennell never returns to work.
California lawmakers plan new legislation in 1955 to regulate charity day money from horse tracks. The move follows assembly subcommittee probes led by Ralph Brown into past charity fund distributions and a Bay Meadows charity board appointment sparked by attorney general findings.
Two brothers near Point Reyes shot and killed a 120 pound mountain lion less than 30 miles from downtown San Francisco. Robert Gallagher, 42, fired a .30 caliber rifle after hounds owned by William Gallagher, 32, treed the animal. It may be Marin County’s first lion kill in two decades. The older man spotted the lion crossing the road at about 2:30 a.m. and alerted his brother, who joined with the hounds to pursue.
Felix Bloch of Stanford University, Nobel laureate in 1952 for methods to measure atomic magnetic properties, will lead a new non military European Nuclear Research Center in Geneva. He will take a two year leave of absence, announced by President Wallace Sterling.
SACRAMENTO (LLP) Director Frank B. Durkee awarded a $503,134 contract to John Burman and Sons of Eureka for constructing a concrete arch culvert on U. S. 101 at Red Mountain Mendocino County and surfacing 8 miles of roadway.
Recipes for breakfast treats double as late night snacks including sweetened strawberries with cinnamon on French toast and coconut flavored pancakes with pork sausage. A note recalls Noonday Rock off San Francisco, a submerged peak named for the clipper Noonday after sinking in 1863.
Representative Robert L. Condon, barred from an atomic test in Nevada a year ago on security grounds, claims victory in his bid for renomination as the Democratic candidate for California's sixth district. Early results show he will easily win the Democratic nomination despite cross-filed challenges from Republican John Baldwin and Democrat Al Day. He vows a vigorous campaign and confidence in being reelected in November.
In Richmond, 15 of 17 Dixie governors and Virginia Governor Stanley convened to consider the post Supreme Court ruling on school segregation. The talks were informal with two camps forming: those ready to comply and others seeking legal ways to sidestep the decision. Participants included Byrnes, White, Talmadge, Umstead, Marland, Kennon, Person and Johns among others.
Paris premier Joseph Laniel moved to seek a formal confidence vote on his Indochina policy, risking ouster as Geneva talks proceed. The National Assembly faced a Saturday morning ballot after a 224 to 269 rejection of a milder motion, signaling likely fall of Laniel’s 11 month old government.
The International Longshoremen and Warehousemen's Union Legal Defense and to day sent a protest to Attorney General Herbert Brownell against what they call the continued persecution of union president Harry Bridges. The government revived its civil suit accusing Bridges, 53, the Australian-born leader, of falsely swearing he had never been a Communist when he applied for citizenship in 1945.
George M. Wildberger a photog raphers mate third class with WSN and son of Mr and Mrs Robert J Moore of 753 North Quak Street Ukiah received the Gold Conduct Medal while serving with Composite Squadron GL at the U S Naval Air Station Miramar San Diego He entered the Navy in January 1953 and trained at the U S Naval Training Center San Diego
United Press reports five-star French Gen Paul Ely now leads the French Union forces in Indochina. His ability to whip the army into shape and oppose Communist rebels could reshape Southeast Asia, influencing debates on U S intervention and the Southeast Asia security pact being negotiated.
In Bogota armed troops and police patrolled streets from midnight to dawn to enforce security orders after Communist linked clashes over two days left 12 students, 2 soldiers, and 1 woman dead and more than 20 wounded. Restrictions include curfew, ban on public meetings, and closure of entertainment venues. A student memorial gathering sparked the initial deadly clash two days earlier.
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