Decisive Margin In Voting Crushed Ukiah School Proposals
Ukiah Union Elementary District voters rejected all three school measures in a special election. Proposition A Pomolita expansion failed 731 to 1072, B land purchase lost near 2 to 1, and C tax increase failed 1127 to 679 district wide. Oak Manor fared best for A while Frank Zeek River Nokomis and Oak Manor rejected all. Trustees note public support for more money is absent and propose appointing active opponents to the board.
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Ukiah Union
Oak Manor
Ukiah
Leo Cook
iPomolita
Frank Zeek
River Union
Nokomis
Oak ‘Manor
Frank Zeak
River ‘Union
River
Assembly Passes Supervisorial Reapportionment
SACRAMENTO APs reports the Assembly approved 61 to 0 a bill to reapportion county supervisors districts based on the 1960s census. It requires districts to be nearly equal in population and bans three districts from holding 51 percent or more of the county total. Incumbents may finish current terms while counties must redraw every ten years after each census.
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Sacramento
APS
Assembly
County
Alfred Alquist
San Jose
Senate
Alquist
Public Opposes NWP Service Reduction
Mendocino County residents challenged Northwestern Pacific Railway plans to cut the Willits to Eureka passenger run from thrice weekly to once weekly at a California Public Utilities Commission hearing in Willits. About 100 people attended as witnesses argued for restoration to daily service. NWP cited losses and light loads while opponents cited local business impact and travel needs.
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Mendocino County
Northwestern Pacific Railway
Willits-Eureka
California Public Utilities Commission
Willits City Hall
NWP
Ukiah
CPUC
Thomas E. Daly
San Francisco
Randolph Karr
R. M. Jochner
H. M. Orner
J. W. Lundeen
Northwestern Pacific
Eel River Canyon
Orner
Willits
Bell Springs
Spy Rock
Otto L
Pete) Hedtkamp
Sunset Magazine
Eureka
Hedtkamp
I. C. Shipley
Eel River
Keith Garcelon
Pre School Registrations Underway in Ukiah
Registration for Ukiah elementary schools is open for today and tomorrow with birth date before December 1 1958. Physicals are offered at Frank Zeek Oak Manor Yokayo and Nokomis schools with specific morning and afternoon slots. Bring birth proof and immunization records including polio coverage started before fall. River School area children may register at Oak Manor today. others may use alternate clinics.
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Ukiah
Frank Zeek
Oak Manor
Yokayo
Nokomis
County approves farm wage raises for 328 workers
The Board of Supervisors conditionally accepted a Civil Service Commission and Gordon McKillican plan to raise pay for 328 county employees, totaling about 109 994 dollars. Road department personnel were not included, with a Civil Service meeting set to decide their requests. The total could rise to roughly 135 000 to 140 000 dollars with the road item. The package is expected to save about two percent from reduced turnover if approved.
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Civil Service Commission
Gordon McKillican
Board of Supervisors
Road Department
Kempe Richardson
Grand Jury Room
Richardson
Ewart Mitchell
McKillican
Oscar Klee
North Koreans Refuse to Release Two U.S. Pilots
UPI reports North Korea will not release or confirm the status of two American helicopter pilots Capts Ben W. Stutts and Charleton W. Voltz after a boundary-spotting mission strayed into North Korea. Maj. Gen. George H. Cloud said Pyongyang will not answer and that the flight carried no cameras or weapons.
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Ipanmunjom
Korea
UPI
North Korea
United States
Ben W. Stutts
Florence
Ala
Charleton ‘W. Voltz
Frankfort
Mich
George H. Cloud
Cloud
United Nations Command
New York Toasts Gordon Cooper in Ticker Tape Parade
Leroy Gordon Cooper, 36, the Oklahoma astronaut who orbited Earth for 34 hours, rides a packed parade route through Manhattan from Bowling Green to City Hall and on to lunch at the Waldorf Astoria. Mayor Wagner, Vice President Johnson, and thousands cheer as Cooper credits the public and all NASA personnel for the moonshot achievement.
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Charles ‘F
NEW York
UPI
Leroy Gordon Cooper
Canyon of Heroes
Cooper
Robert F. Wagner
Lyndon B. Johnson
Major Cooper
Hattie
Bowling Green
City Hall
Trudy Cooper
Thei Husband
Johnson
Gordon Cooper
Super Cooper
Waldorf-Astoria
Manhattan
James
Webb
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Jim Webb
Humanity
America
Broadway
Bazoo
Hiss
Trudy
New York City
la Guardia Airport
Washington
Richard C. Patterson Jr
Grover Whalen
Kelseyville Parents Struck Car Tragedy After Crash
A Lake County mother of five remained in Lakeside Community Hospital with major back and chest injuries after a car crash that killed her husband George Pitchforth 54 of Kelseyville. The couple’s car reportedly traveled along a ditch for 468 feet struck two trees uprooting one, crossed the road 78 feet slid on its side 87 feet and hit a large oak before stopping. Funeral plans awaited the arrival of a son from Los Angeles.
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Lake County
Lakeside Community Hospital
Lakeport
George Pitchforth
Kelseyville
Los Angeles
Major JFK Defeat Seen in Wheat Program Vote
The U S wheat farmers rejected Kennedy 1964 wheat program by a landslide, signaling a major farm policy defeat. Prices tumbled on grain markets as the administration signaled no new legislation this year. Final tabulation showed 597 776 votes against the plan to 547 776 for it.
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Gaylord P. Godwin
Washington
UPI
Kennedy
Congress
Charles B. Hoeven
Iowa
Agriculture Department
Showdown over Alabama integration clash nears
Federal judge refuses delay in admitting Vivian Malone and Dave McGlathery to the University of Alabama amid governor Wallace vow to bar any Negro enrollment. Birmingham hearing sought reinstatement of 1081 students who skipped school for protests. Tensions rise as federal troops stand by and past Mississippi crisis recalled.
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United Press International
Alabama
University of Alabama
George Wallace
Birmingham
North Carolina
South Carolina
Jackson
Miss
Allen Thompson
H. H. Grooms
Vivian J. Malone
Mobile
Dave M. McGlath
Grooms
Wallace
White House
Washington
Pierre Salinger
University of Mississippi
Ross Barnett
Mississippi
James H. Meredith
Ole Miss
Perons
Oxford
Maxwell Air Force Base
Montgomery
Ft. McClellan
Anniston
Kennedy
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Covelo
Judy Felts
Brenda Canady
Julie Palsley
Covelo Rodeo Grounds
Bob Conner
Graviers
Jack Riddle
Riddle
U.S
N.Y
M. Cohan
Rockefeller,Center
President Kennedy
NASA
Rose Garden
JFK
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