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Newspaper
Ukiah Daily Journal
Location
Ukiah, California, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1968
Page
5
Mendocino supervisors weigh how to fund a long term capital improvements program with major needs in juvenile, public health and mental health, welfare, probation, and jail facilities. They seek public input via a possible November ballot referendum on bond issues or lease purchases as the way to proceed.
In a test count, 42 Ukiah residents favor a total recall of the Ukiah Unified school district board of education, 44 prefer a partial recall and six oppose any recall. An advertisement from The Combined Citizens' Committee urges action and notes ballots may be mailed to Box 201, Ukiah.
Sonoma County sheriff deputies press to locate Tim Dugan a 17 year old Ukiah High junior identified as the last companion of Doug Lewis 17 also a Ukiah junior who was critically injured when a car ran over him while he lay on a rural road 15 miles west of Santa Rosa The injured youth son of Mr and Mrs Bill Lewis was transported to Community Hospital Santa Rosa then Marin General for head injury treatment His condition described as fair The driver said he ran over what he believed to be a bundle of rags A Fort Ross store owner reported a boy matching Doug’s description bought two bottles of soda water Friday afternoon
The Board of Engineers for Rivers and Harbors endorsed early construction of the Dos Rios Dam on California's Middle Fork Il River. The $398 million project now goes to Army engineers chief for review before state and federal agencies comment. A second item reports South Africa's Groote Schuur hospital noting a relapse in the world’s longest surviving heart transplant patient due to a liver issue and fluid around the heart.
Scotland Yard pursued London contacts of the man accused in Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. s death. The search focused on people who may have helped the 40 year old escaped convict with money before his rest at London International Airport Saturday.
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Norfolk based Lt Cmdr Charles H. Garrison Jr said the missing nuclear submarine Scorpion received two changes in orders shortly before her disappearance. The highly classified directive preceded the loss of the vessel and its 99 crewmen, an open court of inquiry heard.
The House Judiciary Committee narrowly failed to approve President Johnson's gun control bill by a 16 to 16 tie. Chairman Emanuel Celler predicted the panel would reverse itself next week, keeping the proposal to ban interstate sales of rifles shotguns and ammunition unresolved.
Cyril Hill longtime Ukiah Rexall Drug Store manager has resigned to become secretary manager for Redwood Empire Fair 12th District Agricultural Association. He succeeds Jim Tocher. Hill, elected to Ukiah city council last April, has chaired Ukiah Fiestsas and leads Forward Ukiah. He is active in Kiwanis and the Chamber of Commerce. Married to Valerie, they live at 298 Warren Drive with three children Christopher 10 Sarah Jane 5 and Wendy 2.
Folk singer Jimmie Rodgers, 34, who suffered near fatal head injuries last December, will undergo a third brain operation next Monday. A spokesman said he will enter St Vincent's Hospital Friday to prepare, with doctors inserting a plate in his skull.
Fire department log notes multiple grass fires with no damage on several streets including 791 Vichy Pail Drive and Beacon Lane. Also recorded a false alarm at N Bush and Henry Streets and additional grass fires at N State Yokayo Ranch Road and Helen Street.
City council meeting Wednesday at 8 p.m. will consider appointing a successor to Hal Irish the city attorney who resigned to practice law in Mendocino and replacing Pete Mastenbroek the city treasurer who resigned to join Marlite in Modesto A special election would be required if no appointment is made Mastenbroek a Masonite executive is slated to leave July 1 Trish resignation to May 15 will be hobbled by commuting until a replacement is found The council will also review a Local Agency Formation Commission action on excluding Deep Valley Shopping Center from a south Ukiah annexation and discuss nine hole additions to Ukiah golf course the cigarette tax formula and airport runway striping and lighting bids He and his wife Aimee have two children Peter Jean-Paul 14 and Kim Alice 10.
Bruce Sprinkle, a hospital maintenance man and union leader, was fired for political picketing at the courthouse on June 3. He will have an appeal heard by the County Civil Service Commission on Friday, June 21 at 10 a.m. in the Grand Jury room. The commission will also review a supervisor proposal to remove the personnel director from civil service, and examine whether written exams apply to certain positions and an overtime proposal. Sprinkle requested and was granted a hearing on his discharge by Hospital Administrator Gerry Leavitt, who suspended two other hospital employees for five days for picketing with 13 colleagues in front of the courthouse.
Viet Cong rockets blasted downtown Saigon during a 10 minute attack, killing 19 civilians and wounding 116 others. The barrage struck near the presidential palace and U.S. Embassy, hitting shops, offices, a doctor’s clinic, homes, and a bread vendor, marking the deadliest toll yet.
Mendoseta the Ukiah Unified School District professional teachers association through attorney Tim OBrien seeks an immediate review of board procedures on teachers salaries. The walkout involved 48 of 60 high school teachers on the final day of school while seniors attended a picnic.
New Delhi says Red China provided guerrilla training to Naga tribesmen fueling a northeastern uprising that has cost Indian and Naga lives and pushed troops toward a deadly clash line in the hills.
Fair inland with generally clear skies through Wednesday. Clouds in extreme north with possible afternoon showers in mountains, and coastal valleys overcast at night and morning. Cooler inland. Highs around 74 to 50s overnight. Ukiah forecasts noted.
Four convicts seized twenty one hostages and barricaded themselves in the Atlanta Federal Prison administration building. No injuries reported. one ill hostage released. The inmates, claiming requests to see William B. Williams of the Atlanta Journal, initially planned an escape but now demand changes to the roe system. Guards and police kept bystanders away as tensions rose, but no shots were fired.
Authorities report 59 threats against Sirhan B Sirhan over five days as jail security tightens around the Kennedy assassin. Calls included bomb threats to breach his heavily guarded cell, with a peak of 29 threats last Saturday after arraignment. The sheriff's department spurned a news blackout, while sources noted demands to turn him over to authorities amid a court order restricting publicity. Sirhan remains silent, housed in the central jail hospital ward, supported by public defender Wilbur Littlefield as he seeks private counsel via the ACLU. District Attorney Younger declined to discuss the case further.
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