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Ukicih Dailu Journal 110th Year, No. 195 Phone Ukiah, Mendocino County, Jan. 18, 1971 10 Cents A HELPING HAND Nann, St. Mary's school secretary, gives Johnnie Shafer a hand with the nearly 1,000 general admission tickets mailed to area residents oyer the weekend for this year's Mardi Gras Ball. The dates for this year's three-day Mardi, Gras are Feb.

19, 20, and 21, with the Ball and dinner to be on Saturday, Feb. 20. Shafer and Jack Hampson are in charge of the general ticket sales for the annual fund raising event to keep St. Mary's school in operation. photo by Williams.

McGovern candidate for U.S. president By KONALD L. LARSEN SIOUX FALLS, S.D. Sen. George S.

McGovern of South Dakota announced his presidential candidacy today with a call for a "second American Revolution" and an ironclad pledge to withdraw every American soldier from Vietnam. Charging President Nixon with deepening "the sense of depression and despair in our land," McGovern predicted the next president would be a Democrat and offered himself as "uniquely qualified" to lead the nation in these times. McGovern also said his nomination in 1972 "offers the best chance of heading off a fourth-party movement byDemocrats still fuming with impatience over the mistakes of past leadership." The South Dakota senator announced his long-anticipated candidacy in a statewide television and radio broadcast (5 p.m. EST) and in a letter mailed to 275,000 potential contributors to his campaign. Beating the traditional timetable for presidential declaration by many the 48-year old senator got an early jump in what is expected to be a free-for-all for the Democratic nomination and a chance to run against Nixon.

McGovern, who plans to enter every primary, is sure to run into Sen. Edmund S. Muskie of Maine, the acknowledged frontrunner for the nomination. Other possible candidates includes Sens. Birch Bayh of Indiana, Harold E.

Hughes df Iowa, Fred R. Harris of Oklahoma, William Proxmire of Wisconsin, Henry M. Jackson of Washington, and Walter F.Mondale of Minnesota, plus former Attorney General Ramsey Clark. Waiting for a deadlocked convention could be former Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey and Sen.

Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts. In assembling his campaign team, McGovern recruited people who worked for Humphrey, Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, and Sen.

Eugene J. McCarthy in 1968. In addition to working them into his personal organization, the South Dakota senator announced the formation of the National Citizens for McGovern Committee with Blair Clark, McCarthy's campaign manager in 1968, as a vice chairman. Bethelem yields to Nixon pressure PITTSBURGH (UPD Bethlehem Steel Corp. bowing to White House pressure and competition from U.S.

Steel Corp. today announced substantial cutback on its proposed increases in the price of steel. Bethelem in rolling back matched the price rise announced last Saturday by U.S. the nation's No. 1 producer.

The White House applauded the proposed increases by U.S. Steel. The original Bethlehem increase of $16 to $17 per ton met sharp criticism from President Nixon who had threatened to lift voluntary restraints on steel imports in retaliation for the original price hikes. Bethlehem said today it how planned to increase prices only by $9 to $12 a ton. Minutes after Bethlehem announced the rollback Lukens Steel said it also was cutting back to meet the Bethlehem and U.S.

Steel prices, which amount to 56 per cent to 70 per cent of Bethlehem's original boosts. Effective dates for the smaller increase 9 9 9 9 CHEST FREEZER 22 CU. ft. NOW 219 88 YOU SAVE $30 SEARS UKIAH 401 S. State 462-6581 are the same: Feb.

16, for sheet piling, and March 1, for carbon plates, H-Piling and structural shapes. Steel industry observers had expected Bethlehem Steel to retreat to meet U.S. Steel's lower prices. The White House had no immediate comment on Bethlehem's rollback, which came a few days after the company's Chairman Stewart S. Cort termed his firm's original price increases non-negotiable.

The U.S. Steel increase amounted to 6.5 per cent. Bethlehem's original boost amounted to 12.5 per cent, which angered the White House. Ukiah receives heavy rains over weekend Nearly three inches of rain which fell in Ukiah between 5 p.m. Friday and 5 p.m.

Saturday brought calls of assistance to the Ukiah department's "sandbag patrol." It also led to arequest from the Ukiah police department to assist in helping locate a 14-year-old boy first believed drowned in a creek here where he had last been seen playing with his football. But the boy, identified as Lawrence Goodman, 14, was found in the Peach Street area unharmed. He had walked and apparently followed his floating football from N. Bush to Peach Street. Firemen were called about 11:30 a.m.

Saturday to help sandbag a potential flood spot in the Talmage area and assisted in sandbagging until about 4 p.m. The 2.92 inches Saturday of rain helped swell the season's total to 28.59 inches early a little higher than the total this date last year of 27.24 inches. Staggering fined being imposed Ecuadorians impound four U.S. tunaboats SAN DIEGO American tunaboats were seized today by Ecuador, bringing to eight the number seized within the past week, the American Tunaboat Association said. The vessels were picked up by a former United States destroyer and several patrol boats while former United States warplanes flew overhead, Ed Silva, vice president of the association, said.

Seized today were the San Diego-based Antonina and Ocean Queen and the Puerti Rico-based Cape Cod and Captain Vincent Gann. None was fired on, according to Silva. The world's largest tunaboat, The Apollo, was seized Sunday and was expected to be released after paying a fine estimated in excess of $100,000. The Anna Marie and Bold Venture were seized Friday and released Sunday after paying fines of $52,000 and $49,000 respectively, Silva said. The San Diego-based Lexington was seized last Tuesday and released Saturday after paying $34,160 in fines.

Silva said the State Department has advised the owners to pay the fines. They are reimbursed by the federal government. Silva said he called Washington D. C. for aid but was told everyone was in conference.

"We want some protection down there before they shoot our men and damage our boats," Silva Seizure of the eight marked the strongest concentration in the 11-year history of tunaboat seizures. About 100 such vessels had been seized between 1960 and the first of this year by Equador, Chile and Peru. Those countries claim a 200-mile territorial limit while the United States claims a 12-mile limit. Silva estimated the eight will involve fines totaling $550,000.. "They see a million dollars floating in the bay and they go pick it up," Silva said.

The Apollo and the Hornet, an 800-ton vessel, both based in Puerto Rico, were strafed Saturday by what the captains believed were Ecuadorian warplanes. The Hornet was not involved when the Apollo was seized Sunday. A part owner of the Apollo, Ed Madruga of San Diego, said he was in constant contact with Apollo skipper Manuel Cintas during the boarding incident. Madruga said Cintas observed the patrol boat when it was about 10 miles behind the Apollo. "I could outrun him, but I'm just going to go about my business as if I belong here," Cintas said.

"If I see some fish, I'm going to try to catch them." Minutes later he said, "They're firing on us. I can hear the shots going over the boat. I'm going to stop the engines. I don't want anyone getting hurt." Madruga said the patrol boat passed up 8 or 10 smaller boats fishing in the area without licenses and headed directly for the Apollo because the skippers of the patrol crafts get 25 per cent of the fines on vessels they catch. "Our government said 'don't buy licenses from those and we go along with them on that," Madruga said.

"These little countries are walking all over us these days. "Many times we have asked the government to send a patrol boat and show a little bit of force, but the State Department always gives a rough time on this. They don't like to rock the boat." Huge oil spill in S.F. Bay Tanker collision under G.G. bridge Chamber to install 1971 officer slate By JOHN M.

LEIGHTY SAN FRANCISCO (UPD Two large oil tankers collided in darkness and fog under the Golden Gate Bridge today, spilling at least half a million gallons of fuel oil in San Francisco Bay. The Coast Guard said the total spillage from two ruptured cargo tanks of the 523- foot Oregon Standard might approach 2 million gallons, greater than the entire leakage from the 1969 Santa Barbara Channel oil spill. The Oregon Standard, heading out of the bay toward British Columbia, collided with its sister ship the Arizona Standard. There were no injuries to the 35-man crew of each ship. At least 500,000 gallons of the Oregon Standard's 4-million gallon cargo of bunker fuel leaked out before the ruptured tanks could be pumped out into barges.

The two tankers, both owned by Standard Oil of California, were passing at 1:45 a. m. under the west strand of the the Oregon Standard heading outbound, the Arizona Standard inbound from Estro Bay near San Luis Obispo, Calif. One of the year's thickest fogs was pouring through the Golden Gate from the Pacific Ocean when the Arizona Standard struck the Oregon Standard on the port side just ahead of the bridge, ramming its bow 40 feet into the side. The Coast Guard said oil was reported "heavy to light" on a two-mile-long stretch of the Bay from Sausalito, a picturesque village across from San Francisco, "toward Angel Island which is across the bay from Fisherman's Wharf.

As Coast Guard and oil company workers struggled to get floating containment booms around the slick, oil reached the shoreline at Sausalito. "It's all over the place," said Lile Vail, a secretary at the Trident restaurant at Sausalito. She said it was coating the shoreline rocks and a statue of a seal about" 40 feet out in the water, a local landmark. Pumper trucks on the shoreline sucked up the oil through long tubes. Up the shoreline from Sausalito, baled hay was used to line the beaches.

After the collision, the two ships, still? locked together, drifted eastward on the bay and dropped anchor near Angel Island, across from San Francisco, where Coast Guard cutters and tugs sped to the scene. Tugs pulled the two craft apart about 7 hours after the collision and the Arizona Standard steamed to, its home port at Richmond, Coast Guard and oil company ships spread oil. dispersant on the water and dropped booms around the slick. A spokesman for Standard said three of the Oregon Standard's 26 compartments were damaged. The Arizona Standard was loaded with about 4.6 million gallons of fuel oil, but no tanks were ruptured.

The area of the Bay between Angel Island and Tibiiron, northeast of Sausalito, was closed to navigation. Each vessel's 35-man crew remained aboard, and the Coast Guard said there was never any danger of either sinking. I A fire boat was also summoned but Coast Guard officers said the danger of fire was remote. The heavy bunker fuel, used to power ships and boilers, does not easily ignite, officials said. The two tankers are each 17,000 tons and 523-1-2 feet long with 68-foot beams.

Richmond is the home port of both. During the annual general membership dinner Friday, Jan. 22 the Chamber of Commerce will recognize the efforts of outgoing officers and directors, reveal the name of the Ukiah Outstanding Citizen award winner, and install new officers and directors. Marshall Leve, newly elected president of the Greater Ukiah Chamber will be installed as will John Maudlin, Maudlin Realty, vice president; Lee Sandelin, Ukiah Travel Bureau, treasurer, and new directors Bob Axt, Max Kappqler ciate; Chuck Lewis, J.C. Penney's; Jack Pearson, Bevan-Pearson; Frank Turner, Yokayo Liquors; and Woody White, KLIL.

Leve, now principal of Ukiah adult school, has been active in school and com- inity affairs since his arrival over 12 years ago. He taught and coached at Ukiah high school and was a counselor and work experience coordinator. "My involvement in community activities increased with my assignment to the adult school and to federal projects in the vocational training of adults along with a family decision to make Ukiah a long term home," said Leve. Since that time Leve has work on the first, second, and now third Ukiah Congress for Community Progress, Forward Ukiah, the Teen Center, senior Citizens groups, the junior college concept, and the chamber as a member and director. A graduate of the University of California with a background in the Navy and local Naval Reserve (as executive officer and commanding officer), Leve continues to work with both, as a commander in the Reserve and a graduate student at the University.

When asked about his goals for the Chamber in the coming year he said, "I am but one member of a community based organization; my goals are to learn what MARSHALL needs to be done listening to the Chamber and to the comments of the general public then bringing together groups and ideas to get the job done. "There is enough talent in the Greater Ukiah area to develop the business community and environmental interests side by side t- working and talking together. "I have no monopoly on ideas and Will work to see that the exchange of good ideas is facilitated." I could not accept the position of Chamber president unless I knew I had the support and active assistance ot many lellow businessmen, community leaders, friends, neighbors, and family, but I do know of their support and interest in a better Ukiah." Bulletin CAPE KENNEDY The launch crew surmounted a fueling hitch and pumped thousands of gallons of frigid propellants into the Apollo 14 rocket today in a critical countdown trial for the Jan. 31. start of the fourth moon landing mission.

The beginning of the long fueling operation was delayed more than two hours by difficulty with an oxygen loading device in the Saturn 5 rocket's third stage. But the trouble was bypassed and the 1 fueling started at 9:15 a.m. EST. The week-long countdown test was scheduled to stop just short of engine ignition at 3:23 p.m., but there was a chance the fueling problem would dqlay the simulated blastoff. COMMISSION NAMED Seven county residents were sworn in by Clerk Vi Richardson Friday as a Juvenile Delinquency Prevention Commission.

Seated from left are Margaret Angell, Ukiah; Harriet Stanley and Geraldine Grader, both of Fort Bragg, and Sybil Hinkle, Ukiah. Rear row from left are Superior Judge A. B. Broaddus, the juvenile court judge; Herb Pennock, Point Arena; Richard Smith, LaytonviUe; Lester Divine, WilHts, and Mrs. Richardson.

Created by the board of supervisors, the commission will coordinate its activities with all other juvenile delinquency groups, legally constituted, as well as youth- oriented groups, throughout the county. photo by Williams..

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