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Newspaper
Ukiah Daily Journal
Location
Ukiah, California, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1957
Page
4
Dr W W Westmorland of the public health department will speak at Mendocino State Hospital on Wednesday about fluoridation. The session aims to explain current scientific findings and provide information to help the public vote intelligently on the issue.
The article traces Codding a former apprentice plumber who ascended from minimal cash to a $10,000,000 fortune through postwar housing and construction ventures. It notes his ownership of an office building, market properties, cabinet shops, a shopping center, and substantial stock holdings, including 49 per ...
A fragmented Spotlight transcript mentions a fund for the blind a proposed law to curb TV features mocking servicemembers a $1500 fee for a rescue a mistaken name for Benny Hooper in Maporville and notes on Chessman Benedict Arnold and United Nations Korea arms concerns.
The text notes a financier held stock in Frontier Bank of Covelo and Redwood Empire Title Company and built Montgomery Village in Santa Rosa. He also conceived a shopping center project in Ukiah near Safeway, which has since been abandoned.
Willie Wilson a 29 year old fish and game regulation violator serving a county jail sentence escaped Friday from the county hospital work detail and was captured at gunpoint in Sebastopol by Sebastopol police hours later. He had liquor then visited his family and took the family car before being run down. He was belligerent but did not attempt to escape again as officers drew their guns. An all points bulletin had alerted police across the Redwood Empire and he was chased down in a few hours.
Ukiah will host its annual Jaycees meeting at the Palace Hotel Wednesday night. Incoming president Ed Groves of the Palace Hotel Sport and Hobby Shop will be installed. State Senator James Busch and Jaycees state and district officers will attend as dignitaries.
Mrs. Elsa Viola Hollifield died after a Saturday highway crash four miles north of Hopland on the Redwood highway. Her Dodge went over an embankment. she died at Ukiah General Hospital at 4 pm. Survived by husband H W Hollifield and ten children. funeral Tuesday at Lover’s Mortuary with burial in Santa Rosa Chapel of the Chimes.
A new medical chief with experience at a Kentucky miners hospital and Fort Ord takes charge in Ukiah after a period of physician shortages in Mendocino Siskiyou and Butte counties. Dr Haberer remains as head, with salary raised to 15000 while an assistant is sought.
Mary Helen Krulets 41 a longtime Ukiah resident died Friday June 21 burial to be sent to Lewisburg West Virginia Funeral services by Zimmerrman Mortuary were held Sunday June 23 Rev Leonard Brown officiating Survived by husband Raymond Krulets father N W Kerus Morris PA brother John Serus Centerville PA and three sisters Josephine Carlton Reading PA Carrie Wiseman East Beckley WV Elizabeth Hager Lewisburg WV
The United Press operates six wire systems delivering day and night news to United States clients across channels including wires radio teletypesetter and financial services.
Ron Tillery a 22 year old Ukiah millworker was wounded in an apparent self inflicted 22 caliber gunshot during a Sunday dispute with his wife Leslie at his in laws home in Comptche. He is in fair condition at Fort Bragg Community Hospital and recovering after surgery. Tillery says the shooting was an accident according to Fort Bragg deputy Leo Ugrin.
The article describes a massive nuclear test near Las Vegas with a 700 foot balloon platform, a fireball roughly 30 000 tons of TNT, and a mushroom cloud. Nearly 1000 military observers watched from trenches as field fortifications and armor tests were noted. The cloud moved toward Utah, staying aloft and not touching the ground, with talc-like dust pulled into the plume.
The state announces a total Mendocino County gas tax apportionment of 55581.59 for street work and engineering for the fiscal year ending June 30 1957. Fort Bragg Point Arena Ukiah Willits receive varied amounts from 1000 to 20600 plus population based shares.
SGT Mark Turnell of Ukiah earned recognition among ten-day All-Army marksmen at Fort Benning Georgia. The competition drew soldiers from the U S and overseas with rifles and pistols in staged matches testing precision and skill.
Three top nuclear scientists told President Eisenhower that a nuclear weapon almost free of radioactive fallout can be produced. The scientists from UC Radiation Laboratory along with Atomic Energy Commission Chairman Lewis Strauss said progress is substantial but declined to state if production is underway or whether future testing is needed. They reported to Eisenhower after a 40 minute White House briefing and noted that fallout dangers from past tests are negligible compared with natural solar exposure.
In Heidelberg Germany Army Lt E J Gutwald of Aiken South Carolina asks for help tracing the owner of a dog that arrived with his own tag missing and a collar reading Capt J R Gentry. The dog was shipped to Gutwald by mistake while he awaited his pet.
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