Willits Adopts Four Day 10 Hour Work Week For Crews
Willits city council granted a 10 hour day four day work week proposed by Herbert Posey head of Public Works. The plan aims to finish jobs without overnight repairs and improve public safety. The meeting also addressed quit claim deed for dampgrounds easement revocation detour plans for Main Street widening and Fourth of July parade route. A federal grant to upgrade the Willits Police radio system was urged to join a statewide network including Fort Bragg.
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Willits
Herbert Posey
Public Works Department
Posey
Wilson Page
Old City Dampgrounds
Page
Russell Frost
Bill Chambers
California Department of Justice
Chambers
Fort Bragg
Ukiah Seniors Seek Better Recreation Facilities and Center
Ukiah area seniors press for expanded recreation with a proposed senior center, enhanced meals and transportation, and broader city school recreation cooperation. The Ukiah recreation and parks commission will review the plan in special session at 7:30 p.m. plus discussion of Little League playoff use of Anton Stadium and new facility rental fees.
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Ukiah Recreation and Parks Commission
Ukiah
South Ukiah Little League
Anton Stadium
Pony-Colt
North Ukiah Jayceé
S. Recreation Commission
Antoh
Northwestern California Weather Outlook through Wednesday
Inland and coastal areas stay mostly overcast and cooler. Coastal valleys see slight clearing to the south while Ukiah records a high around 93 and a low near 50 tonight.
PG&E Expands 18-Mile Natural Gas Line Northward
Pacific Gas and Electric crews have begun an 18 mile transmission main to Willits and Redwood Valley ahead of winter. About 30 workers near Calpella install 97 000 feet of 8 inch line and 92 000 feet of smaller mains on a 1.7 million project. The work will lower propane energy costs by about 50 percent and follows CPUC approval to extend the Cloverdale Ukiah gas system.
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G&e
Redwood Valley
Pacific Gas and Electric Company
General
Willits
George Foreman
Pg&e
Calpella
Cloverdale
Ukiah
California Public Utilities Commission
First Mendocino Rodeo Queen contestant named
Kathy Lou Lucchetti of Hopland is the first Mendocino County girl to enter the 1972 Redwood Empire Fair Rodeo Queen contest. She aims for the twelve contenders in the Aug 16 event, judged on horsemanship appearance and personality. Deadline Aug 1, applications from local sources.
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Kathy Lou Lucchetti
Hopland
Mendocino County
Redwood Empire
Pee
Lucchetti
Tina
Marie
Kathy
Ukiah Farm Supply
Fairgrounds
Provisional IRA offers one week ceasefire if Whitlam to meet
The Provisional Wing of the IRA in Belfast issued a statement via the Londonderry command offering a seven day truce if Secretary of State Whitlam agrees to meet to discuss their peace plan. The note invites Whitlam to the Free Derry area held by the IRA, labeling it forbidden. Fire calls listed include Helen Aho residence in Benicia and a residential resuscitation transport to Hillside Community Hospital, plus a fire in Milo Freeborn’s auto in Benicia damaging wiring.
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Belfast
UPI
Irish Republican Army
IRA
William Whitlaw
Londonderry
Provisionals
Whitelaw
Free Derry
Helen Aho
Helen
Nomi Takao
Hillside Commuunity Hospital
Nixon Sends Nuclear Arms Limits to Congress for Ratification
President Nixon sent to Congress for approval the U S Soviet arms limitation accords and related ABM documents. He stressed these pacts mark a first step in curbing the arms race while affirming U S defense supremacy. Details include unilateral and agreed interpretations and caps of two ABM systems with 100 launchers per site.
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Washington
UPI
Nixon
Congress
United State
Soviet Union
Senate
Moscow
U.S
United States
NATO
Henry AL Kissinger
House
Rapid City flood disaster prompts cash aid appeal
In Rapid City South Dakota officials appeal for cash donations to aid homeless and destitute flood victims. Death toll reaches 202 with 42 unidentified. search and rescue teams using dog units continue as curfews and looting controls are enforced. Ground searches extend to surrounding lands and Custer State Park while relief supplies overwhelm storage facilities.
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Rapid City
S.D
UPI
South Dakota
Ron Stevenson
Pennington County
Stevenson
Black Hills
Bill Trankle
Civil Defense
Rapid ‘City
National
Don Barnette
Custer State Park
National Guard
Mountain Canyon
Senate panel approves tax rise to fund Social Security benefits
The Senate Finance Committee advanced a bill lifting Social Security taxes to up to 113.40 more next year for 96 million workers while approving a 10 percent boost in benefits retroactive to June 1 for most beneficiaries. The increase affects those earning over nine thousand dollars with higher caps for top earners. Employers face a matching tax rise.
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Washington
UPI
Senate Finance Committee
Israeli jets down MiGs in first air battle since cease fire
Israeli and Egyptian air forces clashed off the Sinai peninsula in the Mediterranean. Two Egyptian MiG21s were shot down while Israeli planes returned safely. The battle marked the first air engagement in 22 months and left Egypt with 114 aircraft downed since 1967.
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Tel Aviv
API
Israel
Egypt
Mediterranean Sea
Sinai Peninsula
Middle East
Suez Canal
Crippled DC10 Lands Safely at Detroit Airport
American Airlines pilot Bryce E. McCormick skillfully landed the crippled DC10 carrying 67 aboard at Detroit Metropolitan after a decompression explosion damaged the aircraft. Ten people, including two flight attendants, were taken to Wayne County General Hospital for minor injuries after an emergency evacuation.
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Detroit
UPS
American Airlines
Wayne’ County General Hospital
Ontario
Sonnel
Bryce E. McCormick
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