Ukiah crossing dispute slows subdivision overpass plan
Ukiah residents and developers clash with NWP and PUC over a proposed Marlene Street overcrossing to connect Cherry Street area with Waugh Lane. The dispute pauses subdivision work pending hearing dates, while other local projects proceed and a 2500 foot track addition is debated for harvest traffic.
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NWP
Cherry Street
Marlene Street
Public Utilities Commission
Lorraine Street
Fouts
Smith
Marlene
Waugh Lane
Ukiah
PUC
San Francisco
Southern Pacific Company
Southern Pacific Railroad
Jericho
California highway safety program gains momentum in 1968 plan
The Sacramento report notes reduced motor vehicle accidents but ongoing highway dangers. Over the next 12 months the Department of Public Works will spend more than 24 million dollars on high risk highway segments, aiming to save about 200 lives annually and avert 3,900 accidents. Fatality rates declined from 4.79 in 1965 to 4.05 in 1968 as mileage rose, with safety funding increasing from 6.7 million to 22 million by 1968.
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Department of Public Works
California
Department of Public. Works
Hugh Nelson opens Gulf service station in Ukiah
Ukiah’s new Gulf Service Station at 596 East Perkins Street is run by Hugh Nelson who recently took over the site from last Friday. He plans to move with his wife Mabel and their three sons to Ukiah, after years managing a Mobile station in Cloverdale and working seven years with Gulf Oil including two in Ukiah. The station offers tires, batteries, accessories, chemicals, travel maps, and travel trailer waste disposal facilities and is billed as the town’s cleanest and newest. Nelson’s family is listed with three children aged 15, 5, and 2, and he previously held a bulk dealer role with Gulf Oil.
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Nelson
Cloverdale
Ukiah
Mabel
Tom
Wayne
Hugh
Gulf Oil
Federal grant funds to aid Mendocino County job training
A $300000 U S department of labor grant will be administered statewide by the West Coast Building Materials Dealers Association of Sacramento under Steven J Compoginis C I T administrator With focus on areas not served by other on the job training programs Mendocino County will gain 25 to 50 trainee slots in the building materials trade With subsidies covering up to 50 percent of wages for up to 44 weeks the average subsidy estimated at about $1000 per trainee CAC officials met with Compoginis in Ukiah to plan collaboration placing untrained or disadvantaged locals in roles from clerks and yard hands to brick kiln operators Claude Rowden of Ukiah was named CAC job developer for Mendocino County to recruit applicants and develop slots
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MCCA
Ukiah Office
U.S. Department of Labor
California
West Coast
Building Materials Dealers Association of
Sacramento
Steven J. Compoginis
C.I.T
Mendocino County
Compoginis
CAC
Ukiah
Claude Rowden
Compaginis
Thunderstorm Warning Batter Houghton Lake Office
A severe thunderstorm struck near Houghton Lake Michigan as the Weather Bureau office reported warnings. Lightning set a teletype on fire while another bolt hit a wind tower. Gusts neared 50 mph and about one half inch of rain fell in ten minutes.
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Houghton Lake
Mich
UPI
Weather Bureau
Michigan
Navigator Pedro Nino on Columbus's first voyage in 1492
Pedro Alonzo Nino, a navigator aboard the Nino, one of Columbus's three ships, sailed with him on the first voyage to the New World in 1492.
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Pedro Alonzo Nino
Christopher Columbus
New World
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Gene Christensen
Ras
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Sam Parnum
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Nancy Gibbs
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Viola N. Richa Merk
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Hansen's UK
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Chhulaw 2
Mrs. Ott
Ukiah Furniture Company
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Wabash Ave
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