Ukiah Daily Journal from Ukiah, California • Page 1

STA7E LIBRARY PERIODICALS LiBRAp SirCRAHEWTO CALIF. 1929, ukioh tepiMicwi OtlMMlM. Itt. 1160 UMTS iitii cmd CoanfiM III VOLUME xn CITY LANDMARK Wreckers yesterday demolished the First Presbyterian Church at Dora and W. Perkins Streets, a structure that has stood on that corner for the past 85 years.

The old church was tightly linked to the history of photo by Cober Old Presbyterian Church. City Landmorlc, Is Razed A landmark the First Presbyterian church at the comer of W. Perkins and Dora Streets is being razed and practically none watching it can remember when it was.built. But there arc these, who remember its later years and the additions made to the original building whose eyes with fears as they watch the diJstruction of the for a new church. Records show that the main building of the' old church completed in 1879 by Contractor CD.

Osbotfaeirom constrUctiwi begun in 1877 of a perfect 32x 52 feet with the entrance at the northeast comer. Originally arJificial light was supplied by eight kerosene lamps on the walls and a homemade stand, adjustable foi- height, held a large lamp which stood near the pulpit. A wood- burning furnace was located in the basement at the south end and through ducts under the floor it circulated hot air to the north and south ends of the sanctuary. TTie two-story manse, razed when the new church school building was put up, was built next. In 1908 tl)e part connected with the main building by em archway in the wall and an entiy to this was made at the north end.

The large window at the north end was moved to the west wall and' the space widened and filled in with a half- round bay window decorated with colored glass. A lean-to at the south end housed a bathroom, kitchen two sizable -ooms wtuch at ftiat time served as living' quarters for young, single rooms have been filling a real need, records show. The organ was the next building" project until 1951 when the present educational and social plant on the east was built. Church records show that on Jan. 18, 1876, there was a recorded deed conveying to R.

M. McGarvey, E. W. King, F. O.

Townsend, W. D. White and Tapping Reeves, trustees for the Centennial Presbyterian church of Ukiah the west half of block 49 in the virestem addition of of $250 in committee of the old church shows that assistants to the contractor C. D. F.

Brunner, plumbing; M. Keenan, painting; W. A. Hoffman, doors a(id windows; Moore hauling; John Sanders and Indians, digging- cellar; W. Reynolds, seats, and Bromley, striking lurnber, In addition to these another.

Norton Wagonseller, stands out. A charter and one of the first of church, he was the only ptem- jtUIl. ip that The redwood from which the old church was constructed was hauled from the Reeves Canyon Mill owned toy Tapping Reeves. congregation plans to start the now church building in. March, matching it to the style of the present educational and social facilities.

Bids will go out to the contractors within the next few days and it is expected they will be in by mid-February. IBNWPCars Leave Tracks EUREKA pars of a 66-car Northwestern Pacific lumber train were derailed 95 miles south of Eureka in the Eel River Monday Night. No one wras hurt. Cause of the accident was not immediately learned. A spokesman said the derailment began with the 3Gth car.

Four loaded fell on their side. The three diefeel locomo- the lives proceeded to WiUitScWith first 35 cars. The rear cafs and caboose were hauled back to Island MountEiin. Rail officials hoped to clear the track by Bdby Pdchydarm Has One Big Appetite ISiEWCASTLE-Upon-Tyne, England (UPD officials said their baby elephant, Freddy, eats anything! They just managed to stop him a sign on the; outside of hJs enclowire saying, "Please don't feed the An 1880 report x)if Public Service Directory Being Compiied for Coimty A directory listing public and has this material, but OmUal city and CdHiity Ntinpdp aid NlA Swvleti Mght Pages Boy Sumr Drowns Coast Luce Presents Casd; Against Claude Depility District Attorney David for The Fedple iapiihst C3aude Ray Jr. late yesterday with a dlspassionaite, step-by-step account of tihe defendant's background and marital which culminated in the death of his 7-year-old daughter and the disappearance of her 9-year- old sister last October.

On trial for his life, accused of murdering his own child, the 37-year-old Napa man set calmly without any visible sign of emotion yesterday while a jury of 10 women and two men heard the prosecution tell them a story of 14 years of an on again, off again marriage which, despite the frequent quarrels and separations, brouglht five children into the woi'ld. Body Found One of the children, Renay, is dead. Her bruised and battered body was found half buried in (the sand of Schooner's Gulch on the Mendocino Coast. Her sister, Jeanette, has not been seen since she and Renay left for school with their father on Oct. 4.

An extensive, Ihree- counity seardi has failed deliver up any clue as to her fate. "The dharge in this case is Luce told the jury, "and I believe the evidence will show a deliberate arid tated kdlling (trated by the would show thaif the bitter arguments between the Rays, were prlmariiy 'cjbrtcertied with the "relationship of the defendant with his oldest daughter, particularly Ift 19657' The daughter, Audrey, age 14, sihce been placed in a foster home. Live said the prosecuticm would show thait Ihe motive for Renay's' death lay in the Rays' argumehts over the family situation. Threats by Defendant Luce told the jury that during the fijequent argiiments, Ray made many threats: "If I can't have the children, no one is going to have them. Sworn As First Negro Cabinet Member WASHINGTON (UPD Robert C.

Weaver weis sworn in today as the naticm's first Negro Cabinet member. He took his oath of office as secretary of housing and urban affairs at a White House ceremony. President Johnson said Weaver's task as the first man to head the new Cabinet department "is to build our cities anew." Weaver, former head of the federal housing agency, was nominated for the Cabinet position Thursday and unanimously confirmed by tiie Senate Monday. Robert C. Wood, who has been die political I'll see you all You'll come home and locrfr On the night before the By mCttM litfle girls left for school wiliil fUm tiieir farther.

Luce saJd jy strength in Viet Nam Rays had argued until to more than 190,000 nroming, with Ray insisting tain with the twin landings oC his wife and the children thousands of fresh Marines to him. from Hawaii and that day, Mrs. Ray Okinawa, had agreed to leave the childrerii U.S. military commander at the home of some friends'' Gen. William C.

Westmoreland with whom her father Uved wtth; on the beach at Vung Tau, the understanding thait Ray 40 miles southeast of Saigon, take the children to school, are when the first elements of the prepared their clothing and 2nd Brigade of fhe lunches for the next day, Mon- Division from day, Oct. 4, and gave them to Schofleld Barracks, HaWtiU, Ray. ihoved ashore. According to the To die north at Chu Lai, 60 ment, Ray was to stay at the south of the. Nanff same house with the children, drbase, 3,000 of the 1st and take Thbmas, age 12, to from Okina- junlor high s6hool at 8 a.m..

scrambled off LSTs which Renay and Jeanette to the West- wood elementaiy school at "wUght Marine and John, age 5, to Wndergartenl 42.000 men. at 1 p.m. After welcoming officers Of Picks Up Girls 2nd Bfigwdfe, Westmoreland Thomas was taken to school Pvt. Richard Hill of first and Ray returned Ky-. now he Uked -(Continued on Pag? 8)- two-week trip from Hawaii.

ivux Made 'I mil sdld his pifly VW)rry had iawen "that I might not make IJ I iNOrneO io Vlet Nam" since soldiers 18 cannot serve here. HUl turned 18 two days ago, "The Kentucky and his pUtfit were hustled ofito trucits For Man of i Siilfqnh rligthfrrtceires from itti denQtihfihU 'lifefime' Itii 'i IdfW $taff. While i hoi a Jong Record givtn Bari aub -misdiijt board noon off the nioitth erf Biver near Deputy sheriffs, voluntieeni and an ahrplane today seardHiftt for the body of Mike of Dr. and Mrs. George Jr.

of Mendocino and 8 of the Mendocino Club. to Copper. of Mendocino, the IsbjHJ 'toi- a girl acquaintance hud made a bonfire on the beach. The decided to go their skin suits ahd paddled out to meet.the big boreaKllrs. Riding a wave fAioet, they spilled from the Rick swam to shore, that Mike was with htm.

neither his friend nor the appeared, iK Coast -Guatd and the MendQcffia Volunteer Fire Department ptSI sheriff were alSio htformed." A Coast from but to search due to dwimiess falling, -y- -HeT' At 9:15 last night, the rigiti foot yellow washed up on theJieach; A Sheriff's Air If. :1 -1 Massachusetts Institute -'Technology, retary of the department. Three young men have been nominated for Outstanding Young Man of the Ukiah area for 1965, the Ukiah Jaycees announced today. The nominees are Reginald W. Bateman, 24, loan officer at Laurentide Charles GUbert, 23; Redwood Valley elementary school teacher, arfdl William Ray Puser, 24, associated with Mendb Lake Office Equipment and Stationery.

A panel of judges will meet tonight to discuss the nominations of the three men and will select the winner. Identity of the winner will be disclosed Friday the annual Outstanding Young Man banquet at the House of Geirner. 1 Judges are Elena Ij'leildoeino State Hospital yolun- teer coordinator; Attorney George L. Nelson, and Floyd Ross bank official and president of the Ukiah Chamber of Commerce. The public is invited to attend the banouet at 7:30 p.m.

Friday, said WlUlam Bishop, OYM Chairman. State Senator Frank S. Petersen of Ukiah will keynote the banquet with an, eiddress Urging young men to enter government. jaycee President Gerald E. Newton, recipient of the OYM honor last year, praised" all three nominees as "truly outstanding selections." He noted that the three are "by far younger than the average nominee" in past years.

nomination deals largely with his activities as of die new Ukiah Optimist Qub, Gilbert is nominal on the basis of his work as a Uvasurar rown to miles north of Saigon. The 1st Marine Regiment meanwhile moved oUt into the Chu" Lai regicMi to beef up Marine forces guarding the Da Nang complex and clearing Viet Cong guerrillas from the countryside. The landings came as the war tapered off in anticipation of a cease fire in observance of the Chinese lunar New Year, Tet, beginning at noon Thursday (1 p.m., EST Wednesday). Lull Continues For the 25th consecutive day, li.S. planes did not attack targets in Communist North Viet Nam.

The truce in the air war against the North began at 6 Dec. 24 at the start of the 30-hoUr Oiristmas cease fire. Late today, a large force of Viet Cong ambushed two platpons of Vietnamese troops in Vinh Binh Province 60 miles sdCith of Saigon. The Viet Cwig opened up with automatic weapons, small arms fire, grenades and mortars, inflicting moderate casualties before withdrawing after about an hour. "The Communists launched three simultaneous attacks before dawn today at.

targets around Binh Hiep, 50 mUes west of SaigOTi. A squad of government defenders was (Continued on Page THE WEATHER Northwestern California: Fair ViefPolfey Upheld GOP Heads Claim Theft' By Admirtistration volunteer firemen iiild sheriffs. The tragedy happe.ried sbortlbr 2 p.m. Of year, was for his' efforts as lihrough Wednesday: high today historic old and low tonight Ukiah 58-30, Santa Rosa 60-30; small craft norHi of Fort Bragg alongwinrWeffTOr; Hsewhere Valley RodeorpaHwler By WILLIAM THEIS WASHINGTON (UPD ctmgressional today stood firm in support of presidential. policy in VTet; but the was silenfly stealing billion a year from In a GOP ''State of the Union" declaration Monday, the administration was blanied for a 2 per cent rise in the cost of living yMvh was "the equivalent of a secret sales tax that Silentiy steals some $8 billton araiually The declaration, delivered by Senate GOP Leader Everett M.

Dirksen and House GOP Leader Gerald T. Ford, producejl prompt Democrairtc rebuttals. LBJ Dampens Thunder President Johnson dampened the GOP bid for attention by releasing two major news announcements' Just before the Republicans went before color television cameras in die Supreme Court chamber. National GOP Chaimaan Ray C. Bliss, a dozen sehators, for north winds-20-35 fsome -60 Ifeiise mombers" and Wednesday; coastal knots private agencies, private schools.

clubs, and other orgfuiizatioins available to meet the needs of coimty residents will go to press sometime near the end of February, E. Joe Swisher, psycMatrio so- glal worker and chairman of the health and welfare councU committee charged preparing the directory, that compilation is proceeding the editorship of Miss IJ. deputy of invitation, and forms he' group? wishing to ih the have mailed. Any has failed to complete and rer turn It to die committee, is in of being from the publication unless the information is provided no later than Feb. 20.

Any service agency.which may have in die initial and wtdch wishes to be included, is Ui to ppor fact at 4ra- 3871 Ext 456, or KOss Kinsey at 4624731 Ext. 318, hefxae the Feb: 20 deadline. "This is a directory long needed in diiis cqinmiiqjity," Swiihto "btit tiiere is previous to a WexyhoflyivPlfe W' Youth Describes Klan Terror their wjyes listened in silence aij Dhtaen replied to Presidenrs foreign policy out- By DANIEL BAPOPOBT WASHINGTON 23- year-old told- cqngresskmal in- vesdgators" today how he and other Ku Klux bonibed the. home of a McComb, Negro one July night to vm. BlUy Wilson, wiiose bknd crew cut and horn rimmed glasses made him look like a coUege students save the Activities'ffltid insider's at the day he joined the white sUpremJBCist untQ he left it i Wilson no lives in McCcHnb.

the safety of Him xesJdi Jg. Wilson be: joined a McComb unit of the United Klans of America on July 7. 1964. On Oct 23 of the same year he pleaded. guilty to bonibing thef home of Charles Biyant, broflier of tite head of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (MAAGP) In iWcComb.

Wilson, who presuniably left the Klan at tfiat tMe, and With him, had 8Qttenf suspended on condition'diat they commit no further acts violence. Hip bombing of Bryant's home, far was amitmififl done oif shoft npdee and without any reason gives Klan "I guess it was for reason that Mr. Bryant was real active in the work that going on in the area by the lyAACP and COFO (Council of Federated Organizations)," he told the committee, He said on the night of July 26 Paul Wilson, his cousin and a local Klan official, called him and asked him to help "with a job that needed to be done." About 12:30 a.m. Paul Wilson picked him up. They Subse- guendy picked up two other Anea, lOlton.

Dunaway and Gerald Wilsto said. Mcording Wil- tb? at Bacyants' line of last The Illinois Republican offered this "ratiwml course" for the war in Viet Nam: continued peace efforts combined with intensified military action as expert judgment deems this necessary. Ford, who handled GOP was applauded more than 20 times by his partisan audience when he laid into Johnpn's Great Society programs. Challenge to Deinoerats He the nation cannot fight a costly war abroad whhoa't "setting priorities at home." He challenged Democrats to he trim home front The Republicans igave this reply, to the President 's pressed concern for Hie nation's poor: "Vfe will not sacrifice pom: pec will sacrifice pool' pnxnwns. -pootly ceived am potsly carried out "We wiU sacrifice administrators.

We will flee poor arithmetic in accounting." Anticipating details of -poor saczi- public the President's forthcoming budget. Ford said that, "We need truth in budgeting by the White House." He said it already appears that fiscal 1966 spending "will be at $8 billion more than we were told a year ago." Religions Unite In Mutual Fight Against Poverty WASHINGTON Protestants, Roman Catholics and Jews today formally established a united front in the war against It was a significant extensiion of the technique of interfaith cooperation during the 1964 batUe for enactmrtii of the Civil Rights act. Established at a toiv-levcl, closed meeting here was a new be known as "The I er religious Against Cranston Seeks Reelection By DEN VAN L. SHDMWAT SACRAMENTO State Controller Alan Cranston formally announced his dacy for a durd fOWryear term with a slash at extremists, left, and right Cranston, 52, was state Constitutionat oCtfcer fo enter the other incumbcads, InehidSS Gov. Edmund G.

are expected to run again. pteiddtiit- of the California CouncU told newsnien he would not seek support fippdl the huge volunteer group unless Simon El Ci itiis "dusied" as CDC president: Asked if couM be ousted. Cranston he "ceiS tainly hopes that efforts In iWb succeed." The controller, edged out in a 1964 bid for the U.S. Senate by fellow Democrat Heire Salinger, promised a "positive and constructive" campaign and predicted two "areaS trf ty" in the campaign: C'nuiHton's Views said he exiietted to be a target tremists l)ecause he had denounced members of the John Society and various Cbm- munist group. "Whatever the he" said, I Committee Its Ission is to moliilizo the full weight of the principal religious oiganizations for an effective and continuing fight against poverty.

The founders siiid tlie three major faiths aro "united in the conviction tiiat toleration of persistent poverty our national affluence Ls moially Indefensible." stand firmh' smon all on my early such extremist Miller and Tolan Named to SACRAMENTO H. Miller of Upland and John H. Tolan of Berkeley have been reappointed to four-year terms on the Real Estate by Gov. Edmimd G. Brown.

Miller is; a director of the California Rear Tolan is the of Bar. Homes, tnc. in The. controller said he anticipated difficulty fi- naRL-int: a.campaign, particular" ly because he had vowed accept conu -ibutions from state inheritance tax apprais- ei-s, "by Cranston as controller. (Jharges of coencion against appraisers Up dliring Cranston's.

1964 senafeqtt cd campaign. -Cranston made his ment in a statement issued to Sacramento and followed it on Page TEMpiRATURI Jan. 1MB Noon Today 48 Balnfall Couftw UWah Weathw i 4.