23 Mar 1971
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Newspaper
Ukiah Daily Journal
Location
Ukiah, California, United States of America
Date
Mar 23, 1971
Page
1
A new alliance led by Sierra Club and Friends of the Earth targets the highway lobby. They fault federal funding through the Federal Highway Trust Fund and push for a balanced system with urban and interurban mass transit.
A Los Angeles judges panel proposes abolishing civil juries as part of a 39 point reform plan, sparking debate on core rights. Critics note personal injury cases are a small share of court time, urging streamlined juries, smaller juries, and better incentives to settle, while preserving the right to a jury trial.
Harold E Curtis and Barbara B Curtis challenge the Ukiah Daily Journal editorial stance on the My Ranch decision appeals. They allege a full page favorable to My Ranch preceded the commission meeting and accuse the paper of promotional real estate advertising influencing readers.
Ten years ago page one note recounts a bat perched in the Mary Roberts Rinehart mystery rehearsal at the high school auditorium. Visiting officials will be handled by Superior Judge Lilburn E. Gibson. Ukiah city water gift for turf at Bengal High School is denied as illegal. High school trustees report 90 percent local support for turf, rural vote against it due to tax. Park appraisal sought. county and groups to fund half, state half for possible state park status.
California Lt Gov Goodwin J. Knight will head a listed group of visitors from the Redwood Empire for the dedication ceremonies of Mendocino County’s new million dollar courthouse in Ukiah on April 7. Knight accepted an invitation to speak as guest speaker for the event. Introduction of speakers and details follow.
Mendocino County park commission moved the state park conversion forward by presenting a report to the board of supervisors. It states the Montgomery Redwood grove can be purchased for 60 100 dollars and outlines options for the grove.
The last meeting of the Coyote Valley farm center featured farm advisor Myszuka outlining a major irrigation initiative. Attendees stressed an urgent push to secure abundant water for all valley crops, noting the area already yields high quality vegetables and berries with limited facilities.
Collier outlines a Senate bill to place a $2.5 billion water bond on the 1972 ballot to clean waterways and fund sewage facilities. The plan covers planning, operation, research, development, construction, and maintenance, with the speaker noting the sizable yet necessary investment.
A national magazine survey based on data from the U S Interior Health Education and Welfare Bureau of the Budget and other sources estimates a total cleanup bill of 71 billion with 54 billion for water cleanup and 30 billion for sewer systems and new development California faces rapid growth with 20 million residents and a projected 30 million by 1989 pollution in San Francisco Bay Eel River and Lake Tahoe noted plus 31 trillion gallons of industrial waste and 14 trillion gallons from overloaded sewage plants The writer proposes a 2 5 billion plan with 10 of 25 million federal matching funds and combines it with Muskie s 25 billion proposal.
California faces a welfare surge with 2.086 million on relief and AFDC alone counting 1.566 million recipients, mostly children. The 1927 Welfare Department and residency rulings boosted the load, while debates rage over whether aid is too liberal or too restrained. An average AFDC family receives about 188 dollars monthly plus 43 in other income, and an unemployed family about 217 dollars.
A list of new library titles spans history and fiction. The Panic Broadcast recounts the Halloween 1938 Orson Welles Mars invasion panic. A Spy is Forever follows espionage intrigue with Lt. Col. Layton at center. War Games offers practical taxidermy and battlecraft guidance. The Saving Grace of Wit anchors a novel about a civilian soldier amid a troubled decade.
A Navy Reserve voyage to Europe was used to curry favor with President Nixon as Cmdr Edward Nixon joined Capt Reginand Armistead and Capt Thomas Ford in the Mediterranean. Armistead, not promoted, drew the trip to review reserve air training. Ford dismissed any influence on the president. An anonymous letter praised Armistead’s qualifications for admiral.
The House stationery shop offers bargain three by five cards at wholesale cost to employees. Congressmen Schmitz and Ichord offices bought cards for the American Security Council, opposing Birchers, with the practice now ended. Fitzgerald, an Air Force management expert, was fired for honesty and claims key documents were removed from his Civil Service Commission appeal file.
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