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SUNDAY, MAY 14, 1995 -THE UKIAH DAILY JOURNAL- Daily Digest May 14, 1995 OBITUARIES John M. 'Jiggs' Cooper CLOVERDALE A funeral for Cloverdale resident John M. "Jiggs" Cooper will be held 1 p.m. Monday at Eversole Mortuary. Viewing will be from 2 to 5 p.m.

and 6 to 8 p.m. today at the mortuary. Cooper died Wednesday, May 10, 1995 at his home. He was 76. Born Aug.

truck 16, driver 1918 for in 50 Cunningham, He Cooper was a selfemployed years. was a veteran of the U.S. Army and served in World War II, receiving the Bronze Star for bravery and many other decorations and citations for meritorious service in the 179th infantry. Between July 1943 and May 1945 hc saw action in Sicily, Italy, France and Germany. After the war, he settled in Ukiah, where he and his brothers established themselves in the trucking business.

He is survived by his stepsons, Steve Hardin of Montrose, Irvin Hardin of Sacramento, Dennis Hardin of Oroville, David Hardin and Mike Hardin of Cloverdale; his stepdaughter Theresa Paul of Windsor; his brothers, David Cooper and Melvin Cooper of Ukiah, and Henry Cooper of Cloverdalc; and his sister, Lucille Stanley of Alluwe, Okla. He was preceded in death by his wife, Inez Cooper in 1988. Contributions may be made to the Yountville Veterans home in Yountville. Burial will be at Evergreen Memorial Gardens. Harvey Coleman Mitchell A graveside service for Ukiah resident Harvey Coleman Mitchell will be held 3 p.m.

Monday at the Ukiah cemetery. Mitchell died Friday, May 12, 1995 at a local hospital. He was 86. Born April 24, 1909, Mitchell was a millworker for Boise Cascade for 22 years. He had lived in the arca for 23 years.

He is survived by his sons, Curtis Mitchell of Yuba City and Richard Mitchell of Redwood Valley; his daughter, Eunio Tecmire, of Medford," his brother, Cecil Mitchell of Suisun City; 12 grandchildren and six great-grandchildren. He was preceded in death by his wife, Maric, and son Lawrence. SHERIFF'S REPORTS The following was compiled from reports prepared by the Mendo- cino County Sheriff's Department, STABBING A 25-year-old man was stabbed in the leg Friday night, the sheriff's office reported. Sgt. Tom Allman said the victim, who was not identified, was uncooperative with law enforcement.

The stabbing reportedly took place on Spy Rock Road and was reported around 8 p.m. The man was taken by Laytonville Ambulance to Howard Memorial Hospital in Willits and later transferred to a Santa Rosa hospital where he is doing fine, Allman said. BURGLARY A burglary at the Animal Shelter was reported Friday to the sheriff's office. The burglary occurred sometime Thursday Memories Continued from Page A-1 flight before we leave the blocks. It's instruments just trying to find the taxi runway.

Take-off seems to go quite well. No lifting the tail wheel, nothing fancy, keep the wing tips off the runway and let it pull itself off. We're off the ground and gear up when I decide to put them back down. "Your cargo door's open YOUR CARGO DOOR'S OPEN!" The tower is screaming at us. Calmer: "Eight-thrce-one-one, your cargo door is unlocked and flappen'.

Turning in my seat to look back, the gets in my lap so he can sec 100. Yep, they seem to be right about that. "Eighty-three, eleven roger, "Go a fast look, and see what it's doing back there." Keeping a tight look for hills, I climb a little, being especially careful to keep a perfect heading and exact speed. I note the time; and have Beattie write it down as he returns. I want to know how far back that field is if we have to go back.

He brings the expected bad news. "It's flopping away like mad, the wind is like a hurricane, and if it comes off we stand to lose our tail with it." Unconsciously, I brace for it on the controls. "Boy! How'd you like to have those two passengers back there, now?" After unloading our gas last night, the ground crew must have The neglected to lock the cargo doors. missing crew-chiefs we used to carry would have probably caught it, but I didn't even know they had a safety lock on the damn door, having only used the regular small entry door. Luckily, we haven't picked up enough speed yet to blow it off.

Nothing for it, but to try to go on back. Continued Monday. Crops Continued from Page A-1 crop cut this year would actually be have to go out and spray two times, all right for pear growers, he or even five or six times and it may predicted. not be as efficient," he said. Grape growers right: now have Scab disease is even worse.

If a less to worry about. Prices began to conventional grower loses 25 per- climb in November and December cent of the crop to scab, an organic of 1994 and he said many growers grower can lose 30 percent to 35 have already signed lucrative conpercent, he added. tracts. The only thing that can climbing an awfully steep ly hurt the grape growers would be hill if he's got scab," Bengston early fall rains, said. "That's the kind of thing that The only disaster for everybody, makes it hard to be an organic Bengston said, would be a summer grower." freeze or hail storm, which happens But even with the crazy weather, every 50 years or so, the last time in Bengston is optimistic.

the 1950s. He said last year's "granddaddy "Farmers are always at the merof them all" bumper crop of pears cy of the weather," Bengston said. which set in Mendocino "You have to have a sense of records humor County, sent prices plummeting. A to be a farmer." Notice of Death Richard Richard "Dick" Healy, died Easter Sunday, after a 10 year battle with cancer. There will be a celebration of his life, his humor which never failed him, and his courage which never left him.

Born in Richmond Hill, N. 72 years ago, he was a B25 pilot in the South Pacific during World War II. He became an engineer after the war, and was a 25 year member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. He and his wife, Madeline, and five daughters lived in Alaska for eight and one-half years, then moved to San Jose where he was a lockheed research engineer for 13 years. He and Madeline arrived in Ukiah 22 years ago where they were owners of FJords Smorgette for 13 and one-half years.

Friends and acquaintances are MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY WEATHER EUREKA Showers Cool Warming Warm TODAY-TOMORROW: Scattered showers Sunday and a slight chance of thunderstorms. YESTERDAY'S TEMPERATURES Highs in the 50s and 60s. Scattered showers and a slight chance of thunderstorms Sunday night and Monday. Lows in the upper 30s to low 50s. Highs in the 50s and 60s.

TUESDAY-THURSDAY: Widely scattered showers Tuesday. Some afternoon and evening thunderstorms, mostly over the higher terrain. Cool with below normal temperatures. Lows in the upper POTTER 30s to lower 50s. Highs in the mid-50s to the 60s.

Partly cloudy Wednesday. A chance of showers. FT. BRAGG VALLEY Lows in the upper 30s to lower 50s. Highs in the mid-50s to low 70s.

Fair Thursday. Near normal Amateur peratures. Lows in the 40s to mid-50s. Highs in the upper 50s to the 70s. weather UKIAH Water watchers: TEMPERATURES RAINFALL UKIAH To add your As of 5 p.m p.m..........................0.65 Lake Mendocino town to the Last year Last to to ...21.81 turday.

Season map call Last year (Rainfall year season starts acre-feet 468-3519 STATE TEMPERATURES Max July 1) acre- feet Los San Santa Inflow 246 cfs San Luis Obispo. Santa Outflow 243 cfs m-missing San San HIGH TIDES AIR QUALITY measured Thursday in Ukiah Sunset today: 8:01 p.m. at San Francisco Ozone .050 (state standard Sunrise tomorrow: 5:31 a.m. High tide: 11:45 a.m. Carbon Monoxide ppm .09) 0.10 ppm (20) High tide: 10:45 p.m.

Nitrogen Dioxide .010 0 ppm (.25) PM10 11 micrograms pom (Tuesday) night or early Friday morning. CHP REPORTS The following was compiled from reports prepared by the California Highway Patrol. INJURY ACCIDENT- Two people suffered moderate injuries dur- ing it traffic collision Friday just north of Willits. CHP officers said George H. Reid, 89, of Leggett, was traveling south on Highway 101 when a vehicle driven by Dennis Aten, 50, made a left turn into the path of Reid's car.

Reid and his passenger, Harriet M. Reid, 88, suffered infuries and were taken to Howard Memorial Hospital in Willits. The accident occurred around 11:30 a.m. ARREST Robert W. Evans, 19, of Comptche, was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence Thursday.

According to the report, Evans was stopped on Orr Springs Road, just west of North State Strect at 10:10 p.m. ARREST Michelle Dawn Morris, 25, of Shasta, was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence Thursday. According to the report, Morris was stopped on Highway 101 at Geysers Road at 4:30 p.m. Those arrested by law enforcement officers are innocent until proved guilty. People reported as having been arrested may contact The Daily Journal case has been concluded so the results can be reported.

Those who feel the Information is in error should contact the appropriate agency. In the case of those arrested on suspicion of driving while under the influence, all DUI cases reported by law enforcement are reported by the Journal. The paper makes no exceptions. Continued from Page A-1 was planning to distribute tell people how to avoid contact with the virus without sounding alarmist. They will be in French and three dialects, with illustrations for the illiterate.

"If we tell people they have to stay at home and wear a mask, they will be afraid and flee," said Dr. Razack Akadiri, a community health adviser for the international Red Cross. "Everyone who has a fever will think they have the virus and are going to dic." The pamphlets advise people to Wife Ebola Continued from Page A-1 house the day after Lester told him he killed the family. Mendocino County Deputy District Attorney David Eyster, who is prosecuting the case, could not be reached to comment on Cheryl Lester's statements. Cheryl Lester, who said she met Gerald in 1983 and married him last June, said her husband had no idea he was wanted for the murders.

"If he'd known, he would have turned himself in," Cheryl Lester said. "He's not been in hiding. He has an Arkansas driver's license." She knew he was an ex-Hells Angel and that he had been questioned regarding the case. It wasn't until the Friday FBI agents and police arrested her husband that she was aware he was charged in the "We came home from a fishing trip and we were fixin' to back into avoid all contact with the blood of the afflicted; not to wash the cadavers in keeping with tradition; to burn syringes immediately after use; to use gloves to handle the clothes of the sick and boil the clothes before washing. The Red Cross campaign faces a challenge from rumors that worsen with each retelling and Zairian newspapers, read with morbid fascination on the sidewalks of Kinshasa.

"Ebola on the verge of wiping out the Kikwit region," screamed a headline in Le Soft. "Two hundred, three hundred, a thousand deaths in a few days in Kikwit and surrounding area? More?" the newspaper speculated. our driveway when we had guns pulled on us," Cheryl Lester said. "They put us down in the middle of the road." She called Gerald a loving, decent man. "There's not a day that went by that he didn't tell me he loved me and I loved him." Cheryl Lester also said Gerald, who recently had back surgery, had just received a doctor's release to go back to work and was looking for work as a marine mechanic when the arrest took place.

Since the arrest, she said, people have been driving by her home and slowing down to take a look at the place where the -Hells Angel lives. "I know he's a decent person and he's innocent," she said. "This is very traumatic." Cheryl Lester said she met her husband when he visited his family in Arkansas. She said she did not know the other suspect, Diaz. UKIAH 6 Theatre 612 S.

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Saturday ARCING POWER LINES Fircfighters responded to a report of power lines down at the Talmage Road and Betty Strect intersection at 12:03 a.m. The arcing lines reportedly caused a short power outage. LOTTERY NUMBERS LOTTERY NUMBERS DAILY 3: Friday-1, 7, 4. I DECCO: Friday--hearts, Saturday- -hearts, clubs, king; FANTASY 5: Friday-3, LOTTO: Saturday-2, 12, Saturday-7, 0, 7. clubs, diamonds, ace; spades, jack.

diamonds, king; spades, 3. 8, 18, 32, 38. 22, 30, 33 and 40. CORRECTIONS The Uklah Daily Journal uses this space news articles. Significant errors in obituaries reprinting of the entire item.

Errors Bombing Continued from Page A-1 "He was a geck, a brain." In the mid-1980s, John Strickland said he and his brother accompanied Colbern on a weekend waterskiing trip to Lake Mohave, Ariz. The trio stopped in the desert along the way, where Colbern detonated small homemade bombs, Strickland said Saturday. Colbern had brought a 100-pound device made of ammonium nitrate, the same type fertilizer used in Oklahoma City, and diesel fuel along on the trip, Strickland said. But Colbern was talked out of exploding it. Strickland also said Colbern had a short temper: "He couldn't keep his cool when we played Dungeons Dragons." Colbern graduated with a chemistry degree from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1989 and worked at Cedars-Sinai Rescarch Institute in West Los Angeles until about six months ago.

He was described as eccentric, keeping snakes as pets, including a' 5-foot boa constrictor. Bankruptcy documents filed on May 23, 1989 in Los Angeles show he and his then-wife bred reptiles. The filing said the Colberns ran a business called Boa Connection out of their Oxnard home from 1987 to 1989. Colbern, the son of Robert and Eva Colbern, was born in Illinois and moved to Oxnard when he was three. The elder Colbern is a 60-year-old colonel in the U.S.

Army Reserve and a dentist for the to correct errors or make clarifications to or birth announcements will result in may be reported to the editor, 468-3519. state Department of Corrections. "We don't believe what they arc saying," Colbern said outside his home Friday when asked about his son's possible link to the April 19 Oklahoma bombing. The distraught father, whose home was searched a day carlier by federal agents, said he hadn't seen for talked to his son for eight months. Colbern was arrested on weapons charges last year, and federal agents said the intensive search for him began after learning that the chief bombing suspect Timothy Mc Veigh tried to contact him last fall in Kingman, Ariz.

Officials in Washington, speaking on condition of anonymity, had told The Associated Press they were seeking an apparent associate of Mc Veigh and that a witness saw a brown pickup traveling in tandem with McVeigh shortly after the bombing. Guilty Continued from Page A-1 ard him. Affidavits stated Young identified himself by. name and, as a police officer and shined a flashlight toward Seay, but Seay lunged toward the officer, hitting him in the face with the gun. Seay then moved behind Young and held the gun to his head.

Other agents ordered Seay to drop the gun and after a brief standoff, Seay surrendered. A search of the house uncovered growing marijuana, Williams said, as well as another 9 mm Glock pistol that belonged to Seay. 'Dick' Healy invited to join his family at the Mesa, on the northeast side of Lake Mendocino, from 2 to 4 p.m. Saturday, May 20, to honor his life and share memories of this wonderful man. COMMUNITY EVENT BILLBOARD PLOWSHARES Greater Ukiah Valley Hearts Tournament Championship Friday, May 19 from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m.

at Todd Grove Club House Three divisions: Semi-serious, Just for fun, and Beginners Hors D'oeuvres Refreshments $20 per person Tickets available by calling Plowshares at 462-8582, or at the Mendocino Book Company Sponsored by Savings Bank OF MENDOCINO COUNTY A Full Service Commercial Bank Member FDIC.