Ukiah Daily Journal from Ukiah, California • Page 2

2-Uklah Daily Journal, Ukiah, Calif. Friday, 49er jam expected SAN FRANCISCO (UPI) Police expect a mammoth traffic jam Friday in San Francisco, as 60,000 fans bound for the 49ers-Seattle pre-season game compete with homeward bound commuter traffic, normally near gridlock on Fridays. Traffic on the Bayshore Freeway, normally tied up in rush hour, will likely worsen, spokesmen for both the California Highway Patrol and the San Francisco Police Department said Thursday. San Francisco police warned motorists against expected grid-lock traffic on Third Street near the freeway. Heroic gripmen honored SAN FRANCISCO (UPI) The two cable car crewmen, who stopped a runaway cable car struck head-on by a speeding, wrong-way automobile, have been given awards for heroism from the U.S.

Department of Transportation. Ray McCann, the gripman injured in the collision, and Charles Gerstbacher, the car's conductor were presented the awards Thursday at Sheraton Palace Hotel ceremonies by Alfred A. DelliBovi, deputy administrator of the Urban Mass Transportation Administration. Owen Spann's last time SAN FRANCISCO (UPI) Owen Spann, Northern California's top-rated talk show host, has issued his farewell broadcast from the St. Francis Hotel with a guest appearance by Shirley Temple Black before 250 misty-eyed fans.

Spann, 59, has worked for KGO Radio for the better part of 22 years. He did his last show from 9 a.m. to noon Thursday, then boarded a flight to New York where he will work in a local radio talk show for ABC. "It's heart-wrenching for me," Spann told listeners and an emotional studio audience. "I'm getting teary-eyed." According to industry ratings, the Pittsburgh, native has been rated No.

1 over the past 10 years in the Bay Area. 135,450 housholds listen to Spann in an average quarter hour. 5 killed in Monterey MONTEREY (UPI) Five persons were killed in the crash of a light plane near the Monterey airport late Thursday. The Monterey County sheriff's office said the dead included three members of a Madera family and, a young woman from Fresno and another young woman from the Madera area. Their names were not disclosed pending notification of relatives.

A sheriff's office spokeswoman said witnesses reported seeing the plane take off from the Monterey airport about 8:30 p.m. and plow into a hillside in Carmel Valley. Kesterson bird deaths LOS BANGS (UPI)- A U.S. Fish and Wildlife biologist said Thursday preliminary tests results indicate bird deaths and illnesses among birds have increased at the Kesterson National Wildlife Refuge in western Merced County. The refuge is a repository for toxic farm waste waters from agricultural operations in Fresno County.

Biologist Harry Ohlendorf noted coots, which suffered massive deformities last year, did not even nest at Kesterson this year. Merced County duck club owner Jim Claus, who owns property adjacent to Kesterson, has filed state and federal suit to halt the pollution of the refuge. Operators of other duck clubs are considering filing suits. Morgan Hill quake SACRAMENTO (UPI) No injuries or damages were reported after an earthquake measuring 4.1 on the Richter Scale rolled through the Morgan Hill area, the Department of Water Resources said. "We received about 4 or 5 calls from people asking whether or not we even had an earthquake," said a dispatcher fr the Santa Clara County Emergency Services.

She said the quake hit at 6:05 p.m. Another tremblor hit early Thursday about 10 miles east of Coalinga. The 2:35 a.m. quake registered 3.5 on the Richter Scale. Its epicenter was about 165 miles southeast of Berkeley, officials said.

Espionage arrests SAN DIEGO (UPI) Four people, including a San Diegobased sailor, have been arrested for allegedly trying to sell top- secret decoding devices to the Soviet Union, the FBI said Thursday. Petty Officer Michael T. Tobias, 21; Bruce E. Tobias, 19, Chula Vista and Dale Irene, 24, San Diego were lodged in the San Diego Metropolitan Correctional Center. Michael Tobias's nephew, Francis X.

Pizzo, 18, Chula Vista, was in custody in San Francisco. "INDEPENDENT AND DEPENDABLE 1 CLIFFSINGER 463-1515 Journal photo by John Anaslailo Willits structure burns A WILLITS STORAGE BUILDING and Its contents Me In ruins early this morning after a fire, allegedly started by two teen-age boys spending the night Inside, spread from a homemade heater. Little Lake Fire District Chief Dave Thomen said that one of the two 16- year-old Covelo boys was the son of a man who was renting the building for storage of auto parts. A pickup and Volkswagen were also destroyed In the fire. No value has yet been put on the loss, Thomen said.

The building was located at 184 A State Street, about two blocks from the fire station. No injuries were reported. BID (Continued from page 1) segregated from the rest of the jail population. That requirement boosted the construction price by $500,000 to a total of $2.7 million, according to an estimate provided by RCF. Shea said on Feb.

22 that the costly single cell requirement "was something we didn't know about." A Board of Corrections official, Karen Rosa, at the time said that a stipulation for receiving a $1 million construction grant was compliance with current jail construction standards, including provision of single cells. Sgt. Jim Tuso, who actually wrote the grant proposal, said then the county had hoped for a variance from the single cell provisions in order to save the $500,000, but was denied by the Board of Corrections. On Feb. 28 the Board of Supervisors approved a recommendation by Shea that the 40 cells be constructed larger than the minimum size required for one prisoner so that in the event of future crowding the county could, with state permission, house up to three prisoners per cell.

The larger cells upped the cost estimate, again provided by RCF, by $250,000 to a total of $2.95 million. The decision to award RCF the jail contract on an emergency basis was -reversed- last month after the county received complaints doubting the existence of a genuine emergency, said Gordon Logan, deputy county administrative officer. "We were concerned. We heard noises that people, mostly contractors, didn't really believe there was an emergency," he said. Bid documents were prepared, but RCF was the only firm to submit a bid, which was opened Wednesday.

Jail construction costs are to be paid in part by a $1 million grant from the state Board of Corrections, but the county is still negotiating the terms of the contract awarding the grant. A bigger complication in receiving the state grant could arise because of a suit brought by Sonoma County against the state challenging as unfair the division of bond money for jail construction. Some observers think Sonoma County may request an injunction, halting the distribution of construction funds. If a court issued an injunction, that would put on hold Mendocino County's $1 million grant. The remaining $2 million for the jail will come from long term financing the county has secured for capital projects.

Jail construction could begin by late September, Logan said, with completion expected by March. The entire matter will be reviewed by the board of supervisors at the regular Tuesday meeting. -Police Eight-year-old shot as sister plays with gun UPPER LAKE An 11-year-old girl, playing with her parents' loaded rifle while they were not at home, accidentally shot and seriously wounded an eight-year-old boy here yesterday. Lt. Carl Webb of the Lake County Sheriff's Office said that about five children were shooting at trees at the Rancheria Road home of Ampelia Lopez Garcia.

He said that at about 3:30 p.m. the girl was shooting from the back porch of her home when Donald Thuleen Jr. walked into her line of fire. The boy was wounded in the abdomen. Webb said the boy was taken to Lakeside Community Hospital in Lakeport, where he underwent surgery.

Although his condition this morning was unavailable, Webb said he was in fair and stable condition as of 9 p.m. last night. Suspect hospitalized LAKEPORT A 21-year-old murder suspect was hospitalized early this morning following an apparent attempt to hang himself in the Lake County Jail, according to the Sheriff's Office. Lt. Carl Webb said that at about 2:35 a.m.

Vincent Smith, who is charged with shooting a man on Cobb Mountain two months ago in an apparent dispute over a woman, used a sheet to try to hang himself in his cell. Smith was taken to Lakeside Community Hospital. His condition was not immediately available this morning. Another jail escape A 19-year-old man being held in the minimum-security county jail on Low Gap yesterday escaped by climbing over the fence, according to the Mendocino County Sheriff's Office. Sgt.

Jim Tuso said that at about 5:15 p.m. Henry Turpin was being brought back from the dining room with a large group of prisoners when he bolted and went over the fence. He was being held for allegedly being a minor in possession of alcohol, and on a no- bail warrant from Fresno County. He is wanted there for allegedly failing to appear in court on stolen property charges, Tuso said. Tuso said that Turpin, who remains at large, now faces a felony escape charge.

Turpin is described as a Mexican male, five-foot-seven, 135 black hair arid brown eyes. He was, last seen wearing the jail's dark green jumpsuit. a School burglary Ukiah police say that an unknown burglar or burglars have stolen a video recorder from Pomolita Middle School in Ukiah. Police said today that the heist apparently occurred sometime prior to Tuesday. The thief or thieves broke into a storage room at the school and made off with a Panasonic video recorder valued at about $900.

WEATHER National summmary United Press International A high pressure system drifting down from Canada sent temperatures plummeting to near freezing today in the Great Lakes. Summer thunderstorms in the desert Southwest diminished and Californians evacuated after floods returned home. The mercury dipped to 35 today in Marquette, and to 42 in Hibbing, Minn. Temperatures in the 40s were found as far south as Illinois and forecasters predicted more cool weather ahead. "It looks like it will be there for a few days," National Weather Service meteorologist Nolan Duke said of the Canadian weather system.

"But it looks like it will be warming up from the sun. It's still August." Thunderstorms covered the Atlantic Seabord and the Gulf Coast today, soaking Ft. Rucker, with more than an inch of rain. Dense fog restricted visibilities to near zero in New England and parts of the Carolinas. OBITUARY Rain also continued over the Rockies and southern Plateau, where storms Thursday night poured an inch of rain on Glorieta, N.M.

Autos stalled in floodwaters at Las Cruces, N.M., and streets were flooded in Alamogordo, N.M. Outlook The extended forecast, Sunday through Tuesday: Sunny and warm days and clear nights inland. Mild along the coast with night and morning fog or low clouds. Highs in the upper 60s and 70s near the coast to the 80s and low 90s inland. Lows in the 50s and 60s with 40s in the mountains.

Florence M. Herrick Memorial Services will be held at the First Presbyterian Church, 180 Estudillo San Leandro, at 2 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 8, for Florence M. Herrick, 89, of Ukiah, who died of heart failure Aug.

22 at a Ukiah Convalescent Hospital. The Rev. Chartier will officiate. Private in-' tombment will be in the Chapel of the Chimes in Hayward. Arrangements are by Eversole Mortuary in Ukiah.

Mrs. Herrick, who was born Feb. 14,1895, in St. Paul, lived in California 38 years. She was formerly a resident of White Bear Lake in Minnesota.

She lived in San Leandro 34 years and in Ukiah four and a half. She was a member of the First Presbyrterian Church of San Leandro. Her husband of 50 years, Clifton A. Herrick, died in January of 1972. She is survived by three daughters, Joyce Sarber of Ukiah, Muriel Bibeau of Castro Valley, and Dorothy Chenowth of Sebastopol; and a son, Robert Herrick of Palo Alto.

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