Gemini flight faces go decision amid weather delays
The United States weighs a go for its first two man Gemini flight from Cape Kennedy with John W. Young and Virgil I Grissom awaiting an official green light from Christopher Kraft jr The mission faces a seven hour countdown start at 2 am EST Tuesday as bad weather threatens readiness and a Russian cosmonaut duo recently led by Leoniov and Belyayev upstages in the space race
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Alvin B. Webb JR
Cape Kennedy
UPI
America
John W.W. Young
Virgil I. Grissom
Christopher C Kraft, Jr
Alexei Leénov
Pavel Belyayev
Weather forecast panel notes uncertainty in cloud cover
A weather briefing reports earlier gloom at 2000 feet may ease, with optimism from an agency spokesman. At 8000 feet clouds linger and delay is likely. Forecasters expect improving conditions through Sunday though surprises remain possible.
King Crab Returns to Northern California Waters
SURERA California reports a bumper start for Humboldt crabs with about 2.3 million pounds sold in the first three months at Eureka Trinidad and Crescent City ports. About 120 commercial boats fish from Fort Bragg to Crescent City. Projections exceed 4 million pounds for the season, though still below 1958 and 1959 records. Experts cite seismic explosions, crab movement, and cyclical yields as factors while noting the breeding season doubles egg numbers and the industry hopes to rebound.Has no trailing line.
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Surera
Calif
Sherinen
California
Fort Bragg
Crescent City
Eureka
Trinidad
Two Men Missing On Fishing Boat
HUREKA UP I reports Coast Guard search in the Pacific for a 34 foot fishing vessel missing on a trip from Bay Oregon to Eureka California. Coast Guard planes searched for a second day as crews hoped to locate the two men, Gerald Beach and Ray Edwards, aboard the boat scheduled to arrive Saturday night.
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Hureka
UPI
Coast Guard
Pacific Choat
Bay
Ore
Eureka
Talifornia
St Guard
Oregon
Gerald Beach
Ray Ediwards
Willows in Short Supply by Mabel Renfro and Glenn Erickson
The Journal reports on endangered Pomo willow basket weaving in Mendocino Sonoma and Lake Counties. Three senior weavers Elsie Allen Annie Lake and Mary Rivas faced threats from a man with a shotgun while gathering scarce white willow and redbud near Cloverdale on East Road. The piece details encroaching development oil war restrictions and floods reducing willow sources, and the women’s hope for new supply leads.
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Elsie Allen
Cloverdale
Shotgun Point
Allen
Annie Burke
Journal
Erickson
Mabel Renfro
Glenn Erickson
Mendocino
Sonoma
Lake Counties
A. Shotgun
East Road
Russian River
Docino
Lake
Sacramento
Sound of Music offered at Ukiah High April 23
Ukiah High School rehearsals intensify for The Sound of Music directed by Leslie Johnson. The April 23 performances in the school auditorium feature Kim Hemsinger Sherri Davis Merideth Reishman April Hunter Michelle Reisinger Hans Peter Strubrechter Sharon Hall Terry McRae Joe Killen Linda Dowell Ken Bernard Terry Ashford Barbara Bevins Lynda Rankin Veda Cassells Ron Beavers Al Knox Cathy Blank Pat McCarty Shirley Howe with tickets 150 for adults 75 for students available through students and at the door.
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Sound of Music
Kim Hempsmger
Sherri Davis
Merideth Reishman
April Hunter
Michelle Reisinger
Hans Peter Strubreiter
Pat McCarty
Shirley. Howe
Ankle Injury Nets Award of 12753 in Ukiah Trial
A jury awarded Chaim Teichman 12753 for an ankle injury suffered Feb 1 1960 as a guest at the Redwood Motel Ukiah. Defendant was motel owner George O Hara. The case had sought 75000 and the verdict was delivered to Judge Robert Winslow.
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Chaim Teichman
Los Angeles
Tel Aviv
Israel
Redwood
Ukiah
George O’hara
Robert Winslow
Marty Weitzel
Teichman
Jacob Goldberg
Harry Perelman
Tom Ivers
Donn Weaver
Parker Wilkinson
Frank Wesley
Ronald Ruda
San Francisco
Conrad Cox
Dallas Schirmer
Civil rights marchers reach Jefferson Davis Highway toward Montgomery
ENROUTE FROM SELMA TO MONTGOMERY Alabama UPI reports civil rights demonstrators, under Army stand-by, marching along the Jefferson Davis Highway in the historic Selma to Montgomery route as planes sweep overhead.
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Selma
Montgomery
Ala
UPI
U.S
Casady Leads California Democratic Council With Civil Rights March
Casady, 56, elected on the second ballot to lead the California Democratic Council at its 13th annual convention, pledges a civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery Alabama. He condemns Assembly Speaker Jesse Unruh as heading a paper tiger wing, but says the council will not breach the split with Unruh.
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Yon Ae
Ariel
Casady
Feaders
California Democratic Council
CDC
Alabama
Assembly
Jesse M. Unruh
Tiger’ Wing
Democratic Party
el Cajon
Selma
Montgomery
Ala
Council
Unruh
California
Big Daddy
Two Injury Crashes Near Hopland On 101 Reported
Two injury accidents were reported to the Highway Patrol over the weekend near Hopland on Highway 101. Charles Knight, 40, of Cloverdale, ran off the right side at 1 a.m. and overturned, slightly injuring himself. George Sharpe, 60, of Santa Rosa, swerved to the shoulder at 10:40 p.m. to avoid a head on, lost control, and ended in a ditch, with minor injuries. Both drivers treated by their own physicians.
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Highway Patrol
Hopland
Highway 101
Charles Knight
Cloverdale
George Sharpe
Santa Rosa
Sharpe
Ukiah Pianist Leslie Isle Wins Etude Scholarship
Ukiah teen Leslie Isle, 15, wins $200 first prize in piano at the Etude Music Contest in Santa Rosa. She is joint representative with Kathy Cheetham of Lake and Mendocino Counties in preliminaries, both students of Siegfried Schultze.
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Leslie Isle
Ukiah
Santa Rosa
Leslie
Ray W. Isle
Mendocino
Lake
Kathy Cheetham
Pomolita
Lake and Mendocino
Siegfried Schultze
Kathy
National Federation of Piano Teachers
S. California
She
John. Cheetham
Jerry Sedenko
Catherine Morrison
Linda Cheetham
Audrey Gerber
Julie Smith
Candice English
Covelo
Ranger's Course Change Delayed Until Tuesday
In Pasadena with NASA scientists at JPL delaying the Ranger spacecraft mid course maneuver for 24 hours to about 6:00 am PST Tuesday. The delay comes as the probe remains on a near bullseye track toward the moon after predawn telemetry review.
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Pasadena
Calif
UPI
America
California Institute of Technology
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
JPL
Mercury Hits 82 In Ukiah Sunday
The thermometer reached 82 degrees in Ukiah on Sunday, marking a first day of spring high. The day followed a 80 degree peak recorded Saturday by the Ukiah Fire Department weather bureau.
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Ukiah
Know Your Candidates Clara Butow
Audrey Murray profiles Clara Butow one of three women running for the new school board. A Navy wife, she cites global schooling experience and aims to stabilize education as a board member. The interview takes place in her remodeled Redwood Valley ranch home amid geese.
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Audrey Murray
Ernest Butow
Clara
Baton
Navy
Redwood Valley
Calpella
Butow A Birni
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Ukiah High
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Leslie Johnson
Trapp Family
Austin
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Etude
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Ranger
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