Ukiah Daily Journal from Ukiah, California • Page 1

-t. iah woman and SCENE OF marks the spot where the body of Clyda Jean Dulaney, 24, was found at 7:30 this morning by her son John, 7, as he emerged from the trailer at left. The horrified boy ran into the trailer home of his grandmother, Nancy Warren, 64, to find her lying dead on the floor. Both women had been garroted with leather boot laces. It was conjectured that Mrs.

Dulaney may have heard a disturbance and gone out to investigate when she was confronted by the murderer. Seven-year-old child finds bodies; no clue to slayer A seven-year-old boy who brothers dressed. The young- awakened shortly after 7:30 this morning ran out of his trailer home six miles south of Ukiah off Highway 101 and found tys mother lying on the ground, the victim of a brutal strangler. The shocked youngster then ran into the adjoining" house occupied by his grandmother only to find her lying dead on the floor, also strangled. 1 The victims were Nancy Warren; her granddaughter, Jean Dulaney, 24, wife of California Highway Patrolman Don Dulaney and an expectant mother.

"Making the gruesome 'discovery was Johnny Ussery whose younger brothers. Lane," 5, and Brettt-4, wera otill ncleop tn ttio trailer. The children were the issue of an earlier marriage. Johnny then went back into the. trailer, got his younger sters trudged south to the home of Don Torell where John blurted out to Torell and his "Mommy and grandma are dead." Mrs.

Torell notified the sheriff's office and a swarm of deputies, headed by Sheriff Reno Bartolomie, were dispatched to the scene. The victims, both fully clothed, were slain in identical fashion, garroted with new leather boot laces. Two turns had been taken around the neck and the laces were knotted in back. Robbery was the apparent motive although a plastic box and glass jar containing approximately $300 in cash was in a closet of the older woman's cash box which had contained a smaller amount of cash had been rifled and left on a table. At the sceneTwas Clyde Where's all the money, Eel group wonders ren, owner of Warren Trailer Sales on N.

State Street, father of Mrs. Dulaney and son of Mrs. Warren. Warren operated Nancy's Antique sales just west of Highway 101 and south of Burke Hill on the two-lane portion of the highway. She was a long-time resident of this area.

laney was a graduate of Ukiah high school. John Ussery, Mrs. Dulaney's first husband, is believed to be in Oregon. The sheriff's office is attempting to contact him. Officer' Dulaney, whose wife and children had been living in the trailer while they attempted to find a house, was contacted in Sacramento this morning enrolled at the academy for a special course.

Dulaney told the sheriff's office that he dropped his wife and step-phildren at Nancy's Antique Shop at 9:30 last night with the intention of continuing on to Sacramento. Realizing that- he had forgotten his uniform, Dulaney returrfedT to his Ukiah residence, picked up the uniform and continued on to Sacramento where he signed in at the Academy at 1:45 a.m. today. Dulaney was being brought back to it Est. 1954.

A Combination of That Redwood Journal, Eil. 1929; Ukiah Republican Prots, 1879, Official City KeWSpopef and Diipatch Democrat, Est. 1860. Complete News Coverage of Mendocino and Lake Counties United Press International Wire and NEA Telephoto Worldwide Service VOLUME XV 10c Per Copy UKIAH, MENDOCINO COUNTY, October 14, 1968 Eight, Pages No. 125 i Woman killed in crosswalk Apropos this election year, the Eel River Association Friday gave a resounding "yea" and "nay" to two -tax propositions on the November ballot and continued to wonder where the money is going to come from to finance the many needed north coast water and when.

The association, by resolution, threw its support behind Proposition 1 -A as a "better than nothing" property tax relief measure and by another resolution went on record as strongly opposing Prop. 9, the Watson initiative. The latter proposition would, the Eel River Association felt, "virtually halt water development in California" by severely restricting the uses of funds from the property tax. Pending Disaster Throughout Friday's meeting at the Flamingo in Santa Rosa there-was a feeling of pending water project financial doom as dark as the rain-laden skies overhead. Fiscal and engineering experts alike, reviewing the presently authorized or projected water development projects on the north coast, and the need for others, wondered aloud where the money is going to come from to finance not only federal projects like the controversial Corps of Engineers Dos Rios high level dam project or the Bureau of Reclamation English Ridge developemnt now on the drawing board, but also various state and local agency flood control and water source development and quality control projects.

Not only did the Corps of Engineers present a paper oh the effect of higher interest rates on the project costs at the Dos Rios project, adding to costs and possible revision of cost-benefit ratios, but others spoke out on the difficulties faced by all agencies at all budget levels in securing funds for water development in 1969-70 $nd beyond even it the Vietnam war should end sooner than expected. Funding Pressures A tremendous pressure upon federal and state legislators for additional funds for urban renew additional funds for urban renewal and correction of ghetto problems' means that the Eel River Association and others concerned most deeply with flood control, protection and maximum benefit use of water in areas of origin, and improvement of water quality will have to almost literally "fight tooth and nail" to keep even the most worthwhile projects on the drawing board and funded so that step by step progrsss toward solution of north coast water problems may" be continued at least at a tortoise, if not hare's, pace. Part of the morning session was spent in exploring possible new ways of securing adequate, less-painful financing for federal, state or local water projects in the future. Jerry Butchert, Eel River Association secretary, called prospects for added substantial water development funds at any budget level in the year 1969-70 "slim at best." Four-Year Study On behalf of the association he called for exploration of every possible means of securing joint local, state and federal financing of the first phase of a projected association backed $280,000 four year study evaluating methods for control of the Clear Lake algae problem. Teh association may take a position of supporting or possibly even sponsoring a part of the research needed if it can first gain assurances of state or federal financial assistance.

It was pointed out repeatedly that passage of Proposition 9 the Watjon seriously affect, if not kill, the efforts of local water districts to solve even their most rudimentary problems, since Prop. 9 would severely limit the amount and types of expenditures from property tax revenues. Recreation It was suggested in one brief presented to the association that a reversal of the present federal financing might result in securing some $4 million for recreational costs for half that amount of federal expenditure under a government supported bond issue plan. While the prospect of no available financing in the immediate future for such massive projects on Page Ukiah this morning by a CHP unit. Sheriff Bartolomie could set no time of death pending examination of the bodies by a physician nor does the sheriff's office have any specific clues at this time.

Eva Gilbert, age 78, hit by car An elderly Ukiah woman, returning home after attending a' supper alt the First Christian Church, was strucfk by a car in the crosswalk near her Spring Street home last night at 8:20 and killed insttan'liy. The body of the" victim, Eva A. Gilbert, 78, was found proximately 125 feet from whatf is believed to be the point of impact at Spring and Clay Streets. The contents of a grocery sack she was carrying and broken glass from the car's windshield and right headlight littered Clay Street for half a block. Driver of the westbound car was-Dan Srrfith, 17, a Ukiah high school student and a son of Mr.

and Mrs. William H. A. Smith, 260 Highland Avenue. The impact was heard by several of the neighbor- hoody Diane McCoey of 809 W.

Clay Street, phoned police. One of Officers dispatched to the scene was Paul McCoey, the informant's husband. The Smith boy, condition of shock, was taken to the police station where he was joined by his father and Attorney Newell RawJes. On advice of his attorney the youth, did not make a Statement. Police Chief Donn Saulsbury said that no citation had.

been issued pending a complete investigation. The right headlight was completely turned under by the, impact. The right portion of the windshield-was shattered when the victim's body apparently slid over the hood. The 1955 sedan, a customized model, had its radiator smashed by the impact and a trail of water indicated that the driver continued on for a half block, making a. U-turn at Hope and returning to the location of the on Page 8) Local CHP nabs murder suspect Teamwork by two Ukiah-based Highway Patrolmen early Sunday afternoon led to the arrest, without resistance, of a Tacoma triple-shooting murder suspect.

The arrest took place on Highway 101, just south of Burke Hill when Patrol men-Pete stopped a car driven by Robert Lee Cantrell, 23, of Tacoma. Cantrell county jail on a hold for Washington authorities. Washington wants him for questioning about a Saturday shooting in Tacoma in which he allegedly got into an altercation with members of a motorcycle group and shot three of killing one and critically wounding a second. The Ukiah CHP office reports that it received an all-points bulletin Saturday from Washington notifying them of the triple snooting and giving a description of the car thought to be used by the murder suspect and a descripition of the suspect himself. About 1:20 p.m.

Sunday DeBernardi was observing traffic from an off-ramp overpass south df town when he spotted a southbound car which fitted the descripition of the vehicle' given by "Washington authorities. He followed the vehicle for a distance and verified its license and idertttfication and called for back-up assfiSEance before attempting 'an arrest. Fellow patrolman Ralph Fimbres dame to his assistance and the pair stopped the suspect's car south "of Burke Hill. Patrolmen report that Cantrell surrendered Without resistance, after submitting to the "routine" traffic stop by CHP officers. DEATH Phouse, a neighbor of Mrs, Eva filbert, points a flashlight on the right front of the car struck and killed the elderly Ukiah woman shortly before 9 p.m.

Sunday. The windshield was broken by the force of the impact, the right front fender and headlight inward and the radiator was broken. The victim's body was found 125 feet fromjrhe crosswalk. SHOCKED A. Chessall, retired Ukiah high school superintendent, registers shocked disbelief at the scene of the accident which- last nicjht' claimed the life of-his housekeeperrMrs.

78. Mrs. Gilbert was hit in the crosswalk at Spring and Clay Streets by a car driven by a 17-year-old photos by K. Hunter Heavy rainfall raises total A chilling and at times heavy rainfall this morning raised the seasonal rainfall total for Ukiah to an unofficial 2.18 inches, compared with 1.75 inches this dale last year. The sun broke through momentarily at noon but disappeared shortly after.

Since Thursday the city's rainfall has Earnings get 'live' glimpse of life in orbit By AJJ ROSSITER JRt brandished a "Beat Army" sign been forced down prematurely. UPI Space Writer from a Gemini capsule window The goal of their mission is to SPACE CENTER, Houston I prove that Apollo is safe for a (UPI) Three chipper Apollo 7 "Keep those cards and letters roundtrip to the astronauts, waving, smiling and coming in, folks." moon. If the flight of 7 is flashing hand-lettered signs, The astronauts, entering the an unconditional success, the today gave earthbound televi-; fourth day of their 11-day earth next Apollo team may be sion viewers America's fiivst orbital shakedown'run, showed 1 cleared for' a Christmastime "live" glimpse of life in orbit, none'of the reluctance to-star in flight the moon and The unique seven-minute tele-; the nation's first orbiting back, cast produced a surprisingly television show that led them to "We're ticking off every test clear picture of Apollo 7. cancel a previously planned like gtv whiz, like we've done astronauts. Walter Schirra, Donn telecast Saturday.

it a thousand times and this is Eisele and Walt Cunningham as they swung over the southern The camera, small enough to the first time." fit in a shoe box, had a slower Director Eugene part of the United States on the scanning rate than those used going great." said Flight Kranz. "It 45th orbit of their 163-orbit, 11- day flight. After a brief period of "snow" on the screen, 'Eisele came in clearly, grinning broadly, as soon as the five-pound camera zeroed in on him. Ground communicator Thomas Stafford radioed: "You forgot to shave this morning Donn." "I lost my razor," Eisele jumped from. 1.42 inches to the I replied.

noon Eisele, grinning broadly, and inches, an increase of 0.76 in- Schirra, on his left, opened The ches. The official rainfall fig- "show" by holding up- a sign ure is posted at 5 p.m. each which said: day. I "Hello from the lovely Apollo Today's noon temperature was room high atop everything." a cold 47 the low Another sign, held by Schirra by commercial networks, and the astronauts' movements appeared strangely slow in weightless space, as though they were floating underwater. Eisele was wearing his white spaeesuit while his two fellow crewmen were wearing coveralls in the cabin, which Although the telecast was the first "live" one from an American spaceship, Russia claims the world's fh'st, a television transmission from the Voshkod 1 spacecraft in 1964.

After zeroing in on the astronauts, the little camera was aimed out a spacecraft appeared surprisingly roomy as window thp ship unK owl this morning 38. compared to previous space craft standards. The astronauts began the television transmission at 10:46 a.m. EDT, after clearing up a ghost-like flaw that knocked out part of the 16-ton spaceship's electrical system early in the day. If the power collapse had the astronaut who continued, the pilots would have Boonville road accident injures five Five persons were seriously injured shortly after noon Saturday in a two-car side-swipe accident on the Boonville Road, nine miles west of Highway 101.

the Highway Patrol reported today. It was the only local weekend injury accident reported, although Friday afternoon, just north of the Healdsburg-Geyserville freeway, a Willits wbman and two companions were seriously injured in an auto-truck collision at which Coaches Ray Panchaiian and Keith Swedlund of the Ukialh Junior Varsity football team gave emergency first aid assistance. The Saturday Boonville road accident reportedly was triggered when a westbound car driven by Tom Olsen, 21, Livermorc, drifted onto the wrong side of the highway and sideswiped an eaBtbound car driven by Leroy Mitchell, 24, Navarro. Olsen and his passenger, James Shaffer, 28-, Pleas'anton, received, major injuries and were taken to Hillside Community Hospftal by Ukiaih Ambulance Service. Mitchel, driver of the eastbound car, and one of his two passengers, John Mitchell, 16, Navarro, were taken to Ukiah General Hospital by Ukiah Fire Department ambulance.

A third occupant of the Mitchell vehicle, Oscar Mitchell, 19, Navarro, was taken to Hillside by Ukiah Ambulance Service. The three Mitchells all received moderate to major injuries, patrolmen report. The Friday afternoon accident occurred about 3 o'clock just south of Lytton Springs Road when a late-model hardtop driven by a WiHits woman swerved to avoid a man, reportedly a State Division of Highways worker, who adshed across ttye road in front of the northbound Willits car driven by Lois Thompson, 38, Willits. In swerving to avoid the pedestrian she'lost control of iher car and it smashed, head-on into the side of a southbound truck and trailer rig, the trailer being carried pig-a-back by the truck. The driver of the truck, Paul James Buelna, 61, Santa Rosa, received minor injuries but he said he would see his own doctor.

The three occupants of the car the driver, and Millie Maskp- vich, 40, Erlimart, and Kevin D. Thompson, 14, Willits, all were thrown out of the demolished vehicle. All tihree suffered probable major injuries but were reported in fair condition at Healdsburg General Hospital. The accident took place just; ahead of a Ukiah high school bus carrying members of the junior varsity football team to a swept Friday night football game Vqllejo. The team's coaches assisted by giving first aid to the victims until the ambulance and officers arrived at the scene.

The bus was delayed for a number of minutes until the highway was cleared. New Orleans. Clouds and part of the Gulf of Mexico coastline As the ship swept over Cape Kennedy, where it began its 4- million mile voyage Friday, one of the astronauts said, "This should give you a good shot of the Cape today." When the camerlf was first turned on, anxious observers at the Houston Control Center saw nothing. Monitors showed nothing but the "snow" of a weak transmission and a spokesman said "we are getting indications from the network controller that the signal is weak to read." But a few seconds later, the picture came up clearly. "Here comes the picture," mission control reported.

"Look at Eisele." Among the viewers at the Houston control center were Schirra's wife Jo, Eisele's wife Harriet and Cunningham's Lo. Apollo 7, at best, will be able to transmit only one seven-10 minute telecast a day, when it sweeps over Corpus Christi, and Cape Kennedy, the locations of the only two ground stations equipped to receive the signals and convert them to be beamed into the nation's homes. The space craft was using only a tiny fraction of the power to beam the telecast back to earth that commercial, broadcasting stations use on earth. The tiny TV camera was a triumph of technology. 'Its manufacturers used ized integrated circuits to build a camera 30 times, lighter and 85 times smaller than a standard black-and-white TV.

broadcast camera. The Apollo camera required only six watts of power to operate. It used a 160-degree wide-angle lense for the spaceship interior scenes and a 100- millimeter telephoto lense for the views through the window of earth more than 150 miles below. The'spacecraft electrical system failure early today was believed caused by a momentary electrical overload. The remedy was to turn off the fans in one of the ship's oxygen tanks.

The problem developed shortly after midnight when the spacecraft's two alternating current I AC) distribution systems failed. Systems specialist Cunningham nicked a switch to reactivate them. failure riggorod the ship's master alarm warning system which lights a red light on the Apollo control panel and sounds a buzzer in the astronauts' headsets. "We sound casual now," Schirra said as ho rejiorted the problem. "We were not then." Once the problem was resolved, Apollo 7 was told to continue its planned operations.

While the spacecraft was beaming the telecast to ground stations, a spacecraft radar unit on the ground fruitlessly attempted to track the ship. The experiment was designed to test the radar system that will'be used in the four-legged moon landing spacecraft. It must track the Apollo mother- ship in lunar orbit before blasting off from the moon and flying to a hookup with the command craft for the trip back Th we other Northwestern California: Rain today; chance of showers tonight; clearing Tuesday; little temperature change, high today and low tonight Ukiah 65 -44. Temperatures 1.968 1961 Hls-h I.nw Tow; 13 67 52 Noon Today 41 Lwgl Rainfall 1.84 Courtesy Ukiah Flra Dapartma eathar Obwrvar..