Ukiah council faces critique over license and utility hikes
Merchants and a chamber director accuse the Ukiah city council of pushing water sewer and business license fee increases without sufficient public input. The Downtown Merchants Association sought a rehearing as the chamber mulls support, while council and city manager justify the changes as alignment with other cities and SB 90 constraints.
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Mark Raymond
Ukiah
Ukiah Chamber of Commerce
City Council
Chamber of ,Commerce
Woody White
Hal Phillips
Downtown Merchants’ Association
Chamber
Phillips
Merchants Association
Axt
Jack Cox
Jim Swayne
Swayne
Pring Akiani
Weather report for Northwestern California and coastal areas
Rain at times and patches of fog tonight with a transition to partly cloudy conditions Tuesday. Fort Bragg low 53 high 59 Ukiah 54 and 62. Small craft advisory along the coast through the 13th. Year No. 132. Resolution increases business license fees.
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California
Fort Bragg
Ukiah
Auto crash near Yokayo shopping center injures no one
Police report details a northbound collision at S State Street when Palmer swung into the Yokayo shopping center parking lot. The vehicle, owned by Jim Langton Jr of Ukiah, struck a stop sign at the driveway entrance and then hit a railing. Journal photo by Fae.
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Jim’ Langton’, Jr
Ukiah
S. State Street
Palmer
Yokayo Shopping Center
Journal
Fae
Ukiah Students Survive Mountain Van Crash In Ukiah
Fifteen people including thirteen teenagers from Stipp Academy in Ukiah survived a several hundred foot plunge down a steep bankment after a van slid off Hull Mountain Road near Lake Pillsbury. Three students suffered serious injuries. all were later reported in satisfactory condition.
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SDA Stipp Academy
Ukiah
Lake Pillsbury
Kenneth Utecht
Rhonda Trumbull
Jeanine Jones
Hillside Hospital
Cedar Grove
Hull Mountain
Journal
Schultz
Dr. Schultz
Rainfall gap narrows as Ukiah records 1.93 inches by Sunday
Ukiah weather watchers report weekend rain continued with 0.56 inch overnight to 8 a.m. today. Seasonal total reached 1.93 inches by 5 p.m. Sunday, still 2.18 inches below last year’s pace, while forecasts call for more rain and fog tonight and possible clearing by midweek.
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Ukiah
United Press International
Nixon Firing of Cox Sparks Impeachment Talk Nationwide
Washington reports President Nixon risks impeachment as he asserts a right to defy a court order and fire prosecutor Archibald Cox over Watergate tapes. The crisis deepens amid Agnew resignation and White House efforts to salvage support.
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Washington
UPI
Nixon
Archibald Cox
Congress
Spiro T. Agnew
White House
Don" Clausen
The
Daily Journal
D.C
Elliot Richardson
Clausen
Redwood Empire
Redwood National Park
Crescent City
Newton B. Drury
National Park Service
Save the 'Redwoods ‘League
House
Senate
Cox
Elliot L. Richardson
William D. Ruckelshaus
Ruckelshaus
Mideast cease-fire takes effect amid mixed responses
United Nations announced a cease-fire ending the Israel Egypt war went into effect at 12 50 p m EDT though firing continued on both sides. Israel claimed victory while Arab parties voiced reservations and Syria Iraq Libya rejected or refrained from acceptance amid disputed terms and posturing. A separate fatal motorcycle crash near Lake County, California killed 23 year old Richard Lee Baker as he collided with a van on Highway 20.
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United Press International
United Nations
Middle East
Israel
Egypt
U.S
Henry A. Kissinger
Leonid I. Brezhnev
United ‘Nations Security Council
Syria
Iraq
Muammar Khadafy
U.N
Suez Canal
Cairo
Security Council
New York
United States
Russia
Richard Lee Baker
Sacramento
Richard Boyd
Placentia
Calif
Lake County
Baker
Grizzly Springs
Jones and Lewis Mortuary
Lower Lake
Boyd
Ukiah Unified Board Considers Bond, PE Plan, and Employee Unions
Bond election campaign topics, an adaptive physical education program at Pomolita Junior High, and goals setting will be reviewed by the Ukiah Unified board at its regular meeting Tuesday night at 8 p.m. at the district office. The public is invited. Proposals include recognition of Ukiah Federation of Teachers and Méndoseta as employee associations and Chapter 194 for California School Employees Association for non teaching staff.
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Pomolita Junior High
Ukiah Unified Board of Education
Henry Streets
Ukiah Federation of Teachers
UFT
Méndoseta
California School Employés Association
Fall clean up reminder from Ukiah Chamber of Commerce
Ukiah residents receive a reminder from the Greater Ukiah Chamber of Commerce about Fall Clean-Up Week scheduled for October 29 to November 2. During that week the city and Ukiah Valley Sanitation will collect all rash and articles placed curbside, including items not normally allowed in the waste hopper.
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Ukiah
Firemen Injured as Ice House Blaze Destroys Ukiah Plant
Four volunteer Ukiah firemen suffered non burn injuries while battling a three alarm fire that gutted the second floor of the old Ukiah Ice House and heavily damaged the adjacent Lucky Brewery office at 200 Clara Avenue. Fire crews used 24 firefighters and multiple pumpers to contain the blaze, reported at 3 16 a m and under investigation. No beer loss or brewery damage beyond the office.
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Ukiah
Lucky Brewery
Clara Avenue
Ukiah Fire Department
Bill Ornbaum
Charles Barnes
Gregg
Bakker
Devin Futch
Fire incidents and false alarms at Lucky Distributorship
Weekend fire and rescue calls report rekindling at 200 Clara for Lucky Distributorship with minor damage, plus a major blaze at ice house owned by Harold Madden. Investigations underway. Other entries note false alarm at Frank Zeek school and a rescue assist on 1070 S State.
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Clara
Lucky Distributorship
Frank Zeek
Clara Ave
Harold Madden
John
Hazelwood
S. State
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Lorraine Pearson
Kennneth Dail Palmer
Calpella
Sharon Santana
Jose Rangel
Ukiah General Hospital
Hillside
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Miss Shirley
Ann Munroe
John C. Stennis
D-Miss
Robert H. Bork
Yale
Bork
Mideast
Board of Supervisors
County Supervisors’ Association of California
Redding
Regina Water Company
Finance Committee
Chi Chi
Zinfandel
Empire Gardens
Cali
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