Potter Valley Hosts 11th Spring Festival and Rodeo
Potter Valley hosts the 11th annual Spring Festival and Rodeo on May 19 and 20. The event opens at 10 a.m. with a flower show at the Grange Hall, a baseball game at the high school, and the coronation of Poli Valley Fastfeet 20 at 1:30 p.m. Saturday features a parade with 16 floats and an evening dance. Sunday includes junior and senior rodeo events, a barbecue at Holman Ranch, and a grand entry at 1:30 p.m. followed by rodeo finals at 2 p.m. Notable riders from Fort Bragg, Willits, Cloverdale, Potter Valley, Sebastopol, Napa and others are listed among top entrants.
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Potter Valley
Grange Hall
Poli Valley
Anson Weeks
Holman Ranch
Louis Garbard
Jimmy- Bases
Spring Festival Activities and Events Schedule
The Potter Valley Garden club hosts the Spring Festival at Grange Hall with a flower show all day Saturday, plus a 10 a.m. baseball game between Potter Valley and Laytonville High at the high school diamond, 1 30 p.m. coronation, 2 p.m. parade with over 16 floats, and a 0 p.m. dance at the high school auditorium. Sunday features another 10 a.m. flower show, cowboy breakfast at Holman Ranch, 10 a.m. junior rodeo, noon barbecue at Holman Ranch, 1 30 p.m. rodeo grand events, and 2 30 p.m. senior rodeo.
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Grange Hall
Potter Valley Garden Club
Potter Valley
Laytonville
Pam
Holman Ranch
Ukiah Policewomen Begin Inaugural Instruction Session
The first class for Ukiah Policewomen's auxiliary was held at city hall led by Chief George Smith. Mrs. Vivian Martin announced upcoming monthly sessions covering police work, first aid, and rescue. Seven applicants took the oath and learned basic duties including felonies versus misdemeanors. A film on Women's Volunteer Services and a strip on radioactive fallout were shown.
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Ukiah
Policewomen’s Auxiliary
George Smith
Vivian Martin
Weekend Work Party Sets Camp Navarro Prep
A second work party is planned for May 19 and 20 to ready Camp Navarro for the Boy Scouts of the Sonoma Mendocino Area council. Painters carpenters plumbers and concrete workers are needed to accelerate preparation for a July 1 opening at the camp located about 15 miles west of Boonville off the Masonite private lumber road on the north fork of the Navarro river.
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Navarro
Boy Scouts of the Sonoma
Murder trial set to begin June 18
Tra McCleskey 76 is charged with murder and will face trial in superior court on June 18. He allegedly fatally stabbed Woodrow P Wade 41, a Potter Valley rancher, on Wade ranch last April 14. McCleskey pleaded not guilty at arraignment before Superior Judge Hale McCowen. Represented by Attorney John Golden.
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Tra McCleskey
Superior Court
Woodrow P. Wade
Potter Valley Rancher
Wade
McCleskey
Hale McCowen
John Golden
County Board Considers Converting Hospital to Aged Care Home
The Mendocino County board authorized an investigation into converting current county hospital buildings into a home for the aged after welfare director Roland Kussow urged future nursing and boarding facilities. It would free space for acute cases while serving 60 to 90 potential residents in coming years.
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Board of Supervisors
Roland Kussow
Kussow
Redwood Region Logging Conference Opens With Big Display
The 18th annual Red wood Region Logging conference and Equipment Show runs May 25 and 26 at the 12th District fairgrounds with 96 exhibitors and a multimillion dollar display. About 1,200 delegates from the region and western states are expected to attend the public exhibits, panel discussions, concerts by Scotia Community Concert band and Hamilton Field Air Force band, a daring Mia r pole act, logger parade, aerial fireworks finale, and Saw Dust Bowl festivities. Public attendance allowed Friday and Saturday with evening events for delegates.
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12Th District
West
Redwood Region
Vic Jones
Earl Fullerton
Redwood
Purdy Hall
Scotia Community
Hamilton Field Air Force Band
Mia R
Thia Ig
Harmilton Field Air Force Band
Aronson Shooting Ruled Death by Own Action
Sheriff Coroner Reno Bartolo announced the investigation found Roland Aronson a 40-year-old Masonite worker died from a shotgun wound in an apparent self inflicted act. Despondence noted by a friend. funeral set for 9 am at Zimmerman Mortuary with burial at Golden Gate National Cemetery. Survivors include wife Mildred daughter Sharon and siblings Raymond Aronson Irene Capra Louise Harrison Leone Milan.
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Reno Bartolomie
Roland A. Aronson
Aronson
Ukiah
General Hospital
Zimmerman Mortuary
Golden Gate National Cemetery
San Bruno
Ithur
Wallace
Ayvonson
Mildred
Police
Raymond Aronson
San Carlos
Irene Capra
Redwood City
Louise Harrison
Menlon Park
Leone Milan
Oakland
Austin Hulbert Named Manager of County Fair
Boonville report notes Rankin Rickard resigned as Mendocino County Fair and Apple Show manager due to personal business pressure. Austin Hulbert Yorkville rancher and fair board member is appointed to succeed Rickard. Hulbert, Anderson Valley Union High graduate, active in Farm Bureau and 4 H Club work.
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Boonville
Rankin Rickard
Mendocino County
Austin Hulbert
Yorkville
Fair Board
Richard, Hulbert
Anderson Valley Union High
Farm Bureau
County Road Camp Plan Gets Okay From Supervisors
The county board endorsed building a sheriff's road camp at Willits with a 20-person dormitory, cookhouse and dining room, and a shower house. An eight-foot cyclone fence will surround it. Sheriff Reno Bartolomie said bids will be requested and the camp may be expanded if needed due to jail crowding.
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Board of Supervisors
Willits
Reno Bartolomie
Bartolomie
Willits Ty
Mobile X-ray Unit To Be Here Two Days
The mobile X-ray unit sponsored by the Mendocino County Tuberculosis association will be at J. C. Penney store on North School Street. Free service offered annually. Hours today run from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 2 to 4 p.m. Friday hours are 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. and 5 to 8 p.m.
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Mendocino County
Plane Crash Trial Moves into Fourth Day
Testimony continues in the $70,000 damage suit from a Willits plane crash that killed seven week old Laura Ann Stiles and injured her mother Martha Stiles on July 29, 1951. Plaintiff seeks 20 000 for the child's death and 50 000 for injuries. American Trust Company as administrator of pilot Dave Holder’s estate is defendant. Jury panel includes locals from Willits, Ukiah, Fort Bragg and surrounding area. Trial expected to continue into next week with witnesses questioned by both sides.
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Willits
Lilburn Gibson
Martha Rachel Stiles
Laura Ann
American Trust Company
Dave Holder
Bay Area
Depary
Stiles
Wayne Burke
Burke and
of Mannon
Bra« Aier and Bell
Forrest A. Betts
Meda Locatelli
Elizabeth Stafford
Redwood Valley
Jesse Sanders
Grace Day
Vertie Frost
Annabelle Anker
Leonida Franceschi
Esma Cavallini
Fort Bragg
Victor Jones
James Hopson
Margery Covell
Ukiah
James Robinson
Talmage
Opossum Hunt Ends at Ukiah Store Scene
Montgomery Ward's furniture department saw an opossum hunt after a boy brought two baby opossums in his shirt pocket. One animal escaped and hid, a search failed to flush it out, and staff resumed the hunt Monday amid odor fears. See POSSUM Page Four.
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Montgomery Ward
Mendocino County Board of Education Election Friday
Mendocino county voters will go to the polls Friday to elect a county board of education for the first time and decide four contests in school district trustee elections. Thirteen candidates seek seven seats across five districts and two at large positions, with candidates listed countywide on one ballot.
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Mendocino
Joe Hartley
Harold Bainbridge
James Campbell
Palo Alto
Planning Commission
Mendocino County Farm Bureau
Joe Scaramella
Mendocino County
Board of Education
Norre
Ean Taste
Basia
Paul Hansen
Gertrude Moores
Ukiah
Angelo Petit Big
Carlton "Whiaciey
Fort Bragg
Wart Clarke
Covelo
Donald Nassle
Red Wood Valley
Glen Wright
Ruby Larsen
Carley Chase
Carl DeRego
Willits
William Grader
Alder Thurman
Ralph Pennock
Point Arena
Albion Union
James Martin Sansi
Glenn E. Richardson
Vera R.shandel
William A. Wright
Mendocino Union
Jack A. Lem
Teedseborn
Grtags FF
Rau
Round Valley Union
John Rohrbough
Thomas Henthorne
Grace E. O'Ferrall
Ukiah Dogs Sweep Petaluma Show Honors
Three Yokoyo Dog Training Club entries earned ribbons at the Petaluma Dog Show. Tomki's Blue Heather placed first in her class and earned reserve overall honors. Tomki's Nokomis Pathfinder won first in his puppy class. Twinkle Black Diamond took second in open female cocker spaniel black. Blue Heather is shown by Barbara Bryant of Redwood Valley. Pathfinder by F E Bryant. all three dogs owned by Mr and Mrs F E Bryant. The Bryants plan to enter Blue Heather in the Richmond Show on June 17.
Horseless Carriage Tour Through Mendocino County
The Horseless Carriage Club of America announces its ninth annual Western caravan July 26–29 open to cars pre 1916. Registration begins in Sonoma July 26 with a route to Ukiah Fort Bragg and Willits, a barbecue parade dance and awards banquet planned, costumes required, insurance mandatory, and a gaslight parade featured.
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the Horseless Carriage Club, of America
Mendocino County
Heart of
The
Redwood
Sonoma
Ukiah
Fort Dragg
Masonite Wises Mdr
Sonoma Mission Inn
Absentee Ballots Available for June Primary Election
Absentee ballots for the June 5 presidential primary may be obtained from County Clerk W. J. Broaddus's office starting today. The closing date is May 31. Ballots are available in person or by written request. Written applications must include the voter's home address, the address for ballot delivery, and the reason for requesting absentee status. The application must be signed personally. husband and wife must apply separately.
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W. J
Jim) Broaddus
Hopland Ex-Husband Pleads Guilty in Domestic Incident
Jerry Mahan 31 of Santa Cruz pleaded guilty in Ukiah to disturbing the peace petty theft and malicious mischief after breaking into his divorced wife Bonnie's Hopland home last Sunday. He stole $60 tore up her clothing and damaged the house. Judge Fred Goss suspended two six month jail terms for the first two counts and gave 90 days for the third, plus three years probation.
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Jerry Mahan
Santa Cruz
Fred Goss
Ukiah Judicial District
Mahan
Reno Bartolomile
Bonnie
Hopland
Goss
Estate of Willits Man Set at $63,175
The estate of Frank V. Werts of Willits who died June 15 1955 had a fair market value of 63175.41 per an inheritance tax report on file in the superior court. His brother Michael Herzog of New Hampshire was the sole beneficiary. Mr Werts ran a garage and service station in Willits and had lived there since 1930.
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Frank V. Werts
Willits
Superior Court
Michael Herzog
New Hampshire
Werts
Art and Blooms At Fort Bragg Festival May 19-20
Wild rhododendrons will be in full bloom as Fort Bragg hosts a two day festival. The Flowershow at Setting Geimmar Senco Auditorium features nurseries and private garden exhibits, with adjoining growing garden displays. Art-in-action demonstrations and a May 19 concert by Fort Bragg and Mendocino high schools bands. Timber Toppers dance group performs May 20 at Port Bragg high gym.
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Fort Bragg
Geimmar Senco Auditorium
Everty Lau
Eslans UW
Cotton Auditorium
Mendocino
Port Bragg High School
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