Huge Dos Rios blaze surrounds containment near Dog House fire
More than 700 firefighters threw a line around the Dog House fire which burned about 7000 acres of woodlands and brush since it began near a hunting camp southeast of Dos Rios. The blaze, four miles by three, started by children lighted matches and threatened Dos Rios before backfires and air support contained it. No structures were lost and injuries were reported only aboard a logger rescued by a Helitack helicopter. Containment expected by 8 tonight with control by 8 a.m. tomorrow.
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Dos Rios
Division of Forestry
Finley Creek
Shelter ‘Cove
Oceanside
Mendocino
Humboldt County
Mendocino County
Garberville
Petrolia
Nixon lawyers press secrecy in Watergate tapes case
Washington UPI reports President Nixon's legal team argued the secrecy of his Watergate tapes could shape the presidency forever. Chief White House representative Charles Alan Wright warned of invasion of presidential privacy, as nine federal judges hear the appeal with spectators and Ehrlichman testifying before grand juries. Sen John Stennis attended amid health and security concerns.
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Washington
UPI
Nixon
Charles Alan Wright
White House
U. S. Court of Appeals
John J
Archibald Cox
Sirica
John D. Ehrlichman
Grand Jury
Wright
John F. Kennedy
Cox
Watergate Grand Jury
Watergate
Court of ‘Appeals
District of Columbia
Edward A. Tamm
Roger Robb
John ‘Stennis
D-Miss
Senate Armed Services Committee
Senate Watergate Committee
John J. Wilson
Ehrlichman
Lewis Fielding
Pentagon
Daniel Elisberg
Covelo Man Under Guard After Big Bend Ranch Shootout
Clifford Eugene Anderson 20 of Covelo is under guard at Community Hospital charged with assault with intent to commit murder assault on an inhabited dwelling and damage to telephone lines following a Saturday shootout at Big Bend Ranch 20 miles north of Covelo on Minah Road near the Eel River. Deputies say Anderson argued with Thomas Rubattino 35 of Santa Rosa over authority. Rubattino and two friends Ray Austin 57 and Richard Ferrari 33 confronted Anderson inside a house. Anderson fired several shots wounding Rubattino in the arm. Rubattino wrested the rifle and wounded Anderson in the left thigh as he fled. Inside the house Anderson tore the telephone from the wall. Rubattino tied Anderson to a fence and notified authorities. Anderson was taken to Community Hospital by ambulance and operated on Saturday afternoon. his condition described as fair.
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Clifford Eugene Anderson
Covelo
Big Bend Ranch
Minah Road
Eel River
Anderson
Thomas * Rubattino
Santa’ Rosa
Allende Fate Unclear as Chile Military Coup Unfolds
Chile’s president Salvador Allende appeared unaccounted as the military and national police carried out a coup. Tanks moved on the presidential palace, fire raged, and Allende’s fate remained unknown while rebels declared a junta and warned against resistance. Protests and battles were reported in Santiago and Valparaiso districts.
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Santiago
Chile
UPI
Salvador Allende
Allende
Western Hemisphere
Valparaiso
Quillota
Quinteros
Talcahuano
Truck Driver Killed in Highway 101 Head On Crash
A 34 year old Willits truck driver Thomas Jerry Lawrason died from injuries after a head on collision on Highway 101 north of Ukiah. Delroy Jarose 42 of Eureka, the other driver, was in fair condition in Ukiah General Hospital ICU. Police say Jarose saw a deer, braked hard, and skidded into Lawrason’s northbound lane. Lawrason had delivered lumber for Bud Dee Transport Co and worked for Moffitt Wholesale Lumber previously, leaving a wife Frantis and two children. Both trucks were totalled in the wreck.
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Thomas Jerry ‘Lawrason
Willits
Ukiah
Ukiah General Hospital
Thomas Jerry Lawrason
Delroy Jarose
Eureka
Jarose
Ukiah General
California ‘Highway Patrol
Highway 101
Denson
Lawrason
Los Angeles
Bud-Dee. Transport Co
Bud-Dee
Moffitt Wholesale Lumber
Frantis
Laos Premier Seeks Peace Pact End to War
VIENTIANE Laos Premier Souvanna Phouma announced a peace pact to end more than a decade of war with the Communist led Pathet Lao. The government and Pathet Lao would form a coalition, with signing planned Friday and a preliminary signing on Thursday. The new coalition cabinet approved the accord, including ministers who previously opposed a settlement.
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Vientiane, Laos
UPI
Souvanna Phouma
Laos
Pathet Lao
Souvana Phouma
California returns to capital punishment under SB450
The California legislature sent Gov. Ronald Reagan a bill reinstating the death penalty for 11 specified crimes with effect Jan 1. The Senate concurred in Assembly amendments by 29-11, with some Republicans voting no. Reagan signaled possible approval, citing ballot initiative support and public will, while the state had previously ruled capital punishment cruel and unusual.
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Sacramento
UPI
Ronald Reagan
California
Senate
Milton’ Marks
San Francisco
Peter Behr
Tiburon
Reagan
George Deukmejian
Long Beach
State Supreme Court
U.S. Supreme Court
Assembly
Mendocino College trustees to interview architects at meeting
Mendocino Community College district trustees plan a two session meeting at the interim campus 12th District Fairgrounds Room 501. They will listen to presentations interview two top design firms and may choose an architect for a permanent campus by mid October. They also expect to act on Spanish language course expansion led by Dean Paul Alcantara.
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Mendocino College
Mendocino Community College
12Th District Fairgrounds
Paul Alcantra
GOP Women Launch Meals and Wheels Fundraiser in Ukiah
Ukiah Republican Women organize a community effort to fund a 13 passenger bus with steamer to deliver hot meals and transport seniors. They plan three gourmet lunch fundraisers at the Saturday Afternoon Clubhouse on Sept 28 Oct 19 and Nov 9 plus a box supper auction at the Fairgrounds on Nov 17 to raise $2,500. Barbara Curtis and the fiddlers perform. hay bales decorate the venue. tickets at door or from GOP members.
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Kathy Hunter Ukiah
Pat. Nicholson
GOP
Floyd Ross
Savings'Bank
Fairgrounds
Dennis
Denny
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Pioneer CO
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Bulletin
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College Board
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