Mendocino DA win upheld by high court ruling
A youth charged in a 1966 hit and run case sees the Mendocino County district attorney prevail as the U.S. Supreme Court reverses a lower ruling, allowing proceedings in Ukiah Justice Court to resume. Jonathan Byers of Potter Valley, then 19, faced misdemeanor charges and a rights challenge over compelled identification. The case moved through appellate courts and state supreme courts before the federal high court decision.
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District Court of Appeal
California State Supreme Court
United States Supreme Court
Mendocino County
Jonathan Byers
Potter Valley
Byers
John Poulos
Ukiah
Winslow
California Supreme Court
U.S. Supreme Court
Ukiah Justice Court
Indians claim right to enter U S land
Four Lake County Indians filed a federal suit in San Francisco claiming First Amendment rights to access surplus federal property to air grievances over loss of ancestral lands. They seek to preserve culture by using the Middletown Army radio station site as a cultural base.
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Lake County
San Francisco
Elizabeth Knight
Herbert Geary
Arvella Cervantes
Ermadine Geary
Middletown
California
California Indian Legal Services
William P. Lamb
Coast crash claims Seattle woman's life on Highway 128
A Seattle woman, Cynthia Grot, 19, died after her small sedan drifted over the center line and collided with a 40-foot trailer rig driven by Archie Melkonian, 39, in Mendocino County. Melkonian was uninjured. The crash occurred at 8:30 a.m. Saturday and she died at Redwood Coast Hospital around 11:57 a.m. It marked the 13th highway fatality in 11 fatal accidents in the county patrol area this year.
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Seattle
Highway 128
Highway 1
Highway Patrol
Cynthia Grot
Archie Melkonian
San Francisco
Melkonian
Redwood Coast Hospital
Patromen
Mendocino County
Nixon seeks emergency law as rail signalmen strike
President Nixon urged Congress to pass an emergency measure to force 13,000 railroad signalmen back to work through July 1 after a nationwide strike idled rail lines. The stoppage disrupted 600,000 commuters and halted most passenger and freight traffic from coast to coast, prompting White House and congressional action and emergency licenses to trucks and buses.
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Nixon
Washington
UPI
Brotherhood of Railway Signalmen
Florida
White House
Congress
Senate
House
Signelmen’s Union
James D. Hodgson
Harley QC. Staggers
D-W.va
House Commerce Committee
Gerald R. Ford
Ford
Boston
San Diego
Hodgson
John A. Volpe
Interstate Commerce Commission
NWP trains roll along despite national strike
Despite a nationwide signalmen strike, Northwestern Pacific freight trains kept running through Ukiah toward Eureka and Shellville and Roseville. Two northbound trains passed Ukiah today, with at least one southbound freight expected. If SP service later slows, NWP could halt at Shellville four miles south of Sonoma.
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New York
Chicago
Chrysler Stamping
Tinesburg
Ohio
Ziegler
Nixon
NWP
Northwestern Pacific
Ukiah
Eureka
Shellville
Roseville
Southern Pacific
Sacramento
Sonoma
Postal Rate Commission opens hearings on permanent hike
The new Postal Rate Commission began hearings on whether the 1.41 billion temporary mail rate increase should become permanent. Proceedings opened slowly due to procedure questions, with witnesses for and against the change. If no action by July 1 rates revert. Newsletters: 5 billion stamps sold as rates rise across classes.
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Washington
UPI
Postal Rate Commission
Marie D. Eldridge
Office of Statistical Programs and Standards
The
Postal Service
Commission
Eldridge
Association of Public Utility Mailers
William Connole
Connole
Seymour Wenner
U.S. Postal Service
Board of Governors
Rate Commission
Congress
Supreme Court
Regional pollution unit eyed by Mendocino supervisors
Mendocino County board of supervisors will consider forming a regional air pollution control district Tuesday at 10 15 a m with invites from Lake and northern Sonoma counties. Options include a district with northern Sonoma or adding Lake County or forming a multi county district including Lake Humboldt northern Sonoma Del Norte and Mendocino. A decision is urged by northern Sonoma County before State Air Resources Board deadlines.
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Mendocino
Lake, Humboldt
Sonoma
del Norte
Sonoma County
State Air Resources Board
Oral contraceptives use linked to cancer
At the National Conference on Breast Cancer, Dr Edward F. Lewison of Johns Hopkins warned premalignant breast lesions and high risk cases should avoid long term oral contraceptives citing estrogenic hormones as linked to epithelial cell changes in breast tissue. Dr Martin P. Vessey of Radcliffe Infirmary reported London case controls finding no evidence that oral contraceptives raise breast cancer risk and may even protect against benign lesions.
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Los Angeles
Lewison
American Cancer Society
Martin P. Vessey
Department of
Welfare revision boosts social security by five percent
Washington (UPI) The House Ways and Means Committee approved a 5 percent across the board rise in social security benefits for retirees disabled and widows for 1972. The $2.1 billion increase would take effect June 1 1972 with higher checks beginning July if Congress approves.
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Washington
UPI
House
Ways and Means
Congress
Quail disrupts lumber yard with nesting logs
In UKIAH a Georgia Pacific worker stopped a power loader after a quail attacked him. He found a rotten log where the bird had eight eggs, moved the log aside, and noted the mother laid another egg. GP says the log will remain in inventory until hatching and training, then the usable wood will be milled by mid-June.
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UKIAH
UPI
Georgia- Pacific Corp
Vestor Sims
Sims
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Konocti Harbor Inn
Joe P. Mazolla
UAL
Tunney
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Association of Plumbers and Pipefitters
Mazzola
Journal
K. Hunter
Mendo DA
High
Robert Winslow
U.S. Land
S. State
By Donald Finley
Ronald L. Ziegler
Ernest Banker
State
B&b Road
Radcliffe Infirmary
Oxford
England
London
Vessey
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