Strikes Hit 12 Mills Across Humboldt to Crescent City
About 3000 workers in the Redwood District Council of the AFL Lumber and Sawmill Workers Union walk off in 12 Northern California mills including Arcata Eureka and Crescent City. The walkout aims for an average 12 14 cent hourly raise as a broader regional dispute could threaten logging camps and box wood firms across California Oregon Washington and neighboring states. A Ham mond Lumber Co in Eureka avoids a strike by offering 71 2 cent health and welfare benefits to 1100 workers.
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California
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Simpson Logging
Klamath
California Barrel
Arcata
Arcata Plywood
Dolly Varden
Oregon
Washington
Idaho
Montana
Nevada
City Council to Consider Bids and Ordinances
City Council will open bids for water mains in Mendocino Gardens and a cement bridge on Barnes street. They will discuss two ordinances: a proposed private patrol and a regulation of public auctions in city limits. An annual audit and city legal printing are also on the agenda.
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Mendocino Gardens
Barnes Street
City ends yard clippings pickup by residents
Charles Keene, city business manager, announced today that the city will no longer collect grass cuttings, shrubbery, or similar debris left in gutters and parking areas. Homeowners must dispose of such waste themselves or arrange with the local garbage collector if they lack transport.
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Charles Keene
Keene
Churchill Talks to Bolster British US Accord
President Eisenhower said his Washington meeting with Winston Churchill and Anthony Eden aims to dispel a theory of rifts between Britain and the United States. He noted the June 25 talks, urged by Churchill, could curb enemies who exploit division and potentially hasten a broader defense pact to counter Communist expansion in Southeast Asia.
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Eisenhower
Winston Churchill
Great Britain
United States
Churchill
Anthony Eden
Britain
Potomac River
Southeast Asia
White House
Minis
Proposed remedy pupils face permanent double session
Ukiah schools may implement permanent double sessions if the July 8 bond for 151000 toward a new Southside school fails. Superintendent Jack Simpson said current first and second grade classes already run in two shifts and higher grades would follow. He noted space needs and plans for a 12 classroom structure on Helen and Washington streets with state loan approval. Ernest Winkler of San Francisco designed the project.
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Department of Education
Ernest Winkler
San Francisco
Helen
Washington Streets
Journal Engraving
Ukiah
Jack Simpson
Simpson
Northside
Presbyterian Church
Helen and
Farm Bureau Tries to Cut County Fair Displays
The Mendocino County Board of Supervisors weigh a 5000 dollar request for a Los Angeles Pomona fair booth and 2000 dollars for a Sacramento State Fair booth with a June 21 decision. County chamber officials say the exhibit will draw tourists. a typical visitor spends 17 dollars daily and 300 of two million fair attendees could visit the county. The plan features a slide show of Mendocino’s recreational and economic assets and a redwood tree motif for Pomona.
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Board of Supervisors
County Chamber of Commerce
Los Angeles
McCorkle
Los Angeles County
Chamber
Don Clever
Sacramento
Fair Weather Ahead in Northwestern California
United Press reports fair today through Thursday with coastal morning fog patches. Inland areas warm Thursday. highs and lows include Ukiah 78 to 47 Santa Rosa 80 to 46 Napa 70 to 47 Fort Bragg area sees little change with northwest winds 15 to 20 mph near coast and gentle winds Thursday.
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Ukiah
Santa Rosa
Napa
Fort Bragg
Firemen Rescue Boy Trapped in Icebox
Two year old Douglas McKinney became trapped in a refrigerator at his Berkeley home for ten minutes after he climbed inside while his sister Dellena aged four closed the door. Firemen freed him after ten minutes with a broken handle, and he suffered no ill effects.
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Berkeley
Douglas McKinney
Dellena
Bodies of Plane Crash Victims Found on Island
Twelve bodies have been recovered from a PBM amphibian that crashed on Yaku-Shima island south of Kyushu. The aircraft carried 17 aboard, mostly Marines from California and sailors from Pennsylvania en route to the Philippines. Seven bodies identified. names withheld until next of kin notified.
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Philippines
Journalist Donald J Sterling Dies in Portland Hospital
PORTLAND UP Donald Jus tus Sterling aged 67 former president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors and longtime managing editor of the Oregon Journal died yesterday in a Portland hospital. He had been hospitalized since June 12 after a series of heart attacks.
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Donald Justus Sterling
The
American Society of Newspaper Editors
Oregon Journal
Sterling
United States Watches Guatemala Disturbing Developments
The United States, led by Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, described Guatemala's recent actions as disturbing, with suspensions of constitutional rights and arrests of anti-Communists. Washington seeks cooperation with American allies to block Communist arms shipments while Guatemalan exiles hint at potential resignations if safety is guaranteed. U.S. efforts include naval shadowing of ships carrying arms and ongoing pressure on international partners.
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Eisenhower
Guatemala
United States
U.S
John Foster Dulles
Mexico City
Jacobo Arbenz
Arbenz
National Army
Dulles
Alfhem
U.S. Navy
Ukiah Valley Sanitary District Survey Advances
County Board of Supervisors directed surveyor Kempe Richardson to map the proposed Ukiah Valley Sanitary District using boundaries drawn by Clyde Kennedy’s firm. Officials instructed preliminary boundary work and tentative mapping by Cecil Geraghty and Edward Wells, with continued hearing set for July 1. Exclusions include Masonite and the Talmage area, and the northern boundary will follow Masonite road’s south side.
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Ukiah Valley Sanitary District
County Board of Supervisors
Kempe Richardson
Paul Poulos
Clyde C. Kennedy
San Francisco
Cecil J. Geraghty
Edward Wells
Talmage
Eisenhower defers 1956 run as GOP faces 1954 election
President Eisenhower said he has not begun considering a 1956 reelection bid and dismissed Adams’ view of retirement if Republicans lose control this fall. He spoke at a weekly news conference amid questions on Guatemala, Korea talks, and domestic issues. He plans to brief congressional leaders with Smith on Korea peace efforts after Geneva.
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Eisenhower
Sherman Adams
Adams
Pennsylvania
Congress
White House
Mr. Eisenhower
Guatemala
United States
Walter Bedell Smith
Geneva
Smith
Nine Million Dollar Flood Control Recs Approved
Reclamation Board approves recommendations totaling nine million dollars for levees dams and flood control work in northern California sending them to the Water Resources Board for approval and then to Congress for potential funding. Also Eisenhower denies implying support for full 100 percent farm price parity at his news conference amid Democratic charges.
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Reclamation Board
California
Water Resources Board
Congress
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