Good pictures are coming to Orpheum Theatre
Feb. 11, 1932
Leo Reese, manager of the Orpheum Theatre, has returned form San Francisco and reports he has purchased the following pictures to be shown at the local theatre in the near future: “Frankenstein,” “Lasca of Rio Grande,” “Murders of the Rue Morgue” and several other outstanding pictures.
Mr. Reese is trying his best to give the people of Lake county the best in pictures. First run pictures have been shown here at times before they have played on Market street in San Francisco and the people should appreciate the efforts of Mr. Reese.
Amnesia victim brought here to Co. hospital
Feb. 11, 1932
An unidentified amnesia victim was brought to the county hospital recently and to date no clue to his identity has been learned.
The man, about 40 years of age, first made his appearance at Howard Springs about a month ago and asked J. P. Francisco, the owner of the springs, to give him food and a job. He worked at the springs for about two weeks and was then taken ill with the flue and was brought to the county hospital.
He does not know who he is, or where he came from, but states his name is Drift Wood. He was wearing good clothes when he arrived at Howard Springs and according to Mr. Francisco he would talk about interior decorating at times and stated he helped decorate Aimee McPherson’s temple in Los Angeles.
Local Masons, who have been out to visit him, state he must have been connected with a Masonic lodge at one time as he is very familiar with the work of the Masonic order.
Fred Wilson is hunting his car and his friend
Feb. 11, 1932
A. Wells, who had been here visiting his friend, Fred Wilson, county surveyor, for a few weeks, was arrested Wednesday in Ukiah and charged with taking a car without the owner’s permission.
Wells left Lakeport Sunday and took Wilson’s car and the two had not been seen until yesterday.
Wilson went to the local authorities and asked for help in locating his car.
The car and Wells were taken into custody by a traffic officer in Ukiah and the two brought back to Lakeport.
Freak wind hits only part of shore
Gale Tues. night tore out entire pier at Austins
Feb. 13, 1941
Austins >> Tuesday night, about seven o’clock p.m. a high wind of almost hurricane proportions hit like a crash, the Austins and Clearlake Highlands area. Waves rose three and a half feet to lash over seawalls and flood yards, while windows rattled, great tree limbs shook in the wrath of the elements and residents held their breaths, having in mind the recent havoc wraught by a hurricane at Ukiah, only a few days ago where century old trees were uprooted and houses demolished.
However, a trip to the Clearlake Park district found every thing calm, with hardly a breath of the gale that was whipping the lower shore.
The wind apparently came tearing down through the narrows and vented the full force of its energy on the first big object to block its progress, the Austin’s Resort pier, which it wrenched in great sections from the piling. The next morning this was all found floating nearby. One section, fully twenty-five feet in length was found piled up on the bathing beach, with the great roof of the canopy bobbing up and down on the water nearby.
Late on Tuesday afternoon distant sun lit hills and a stretch of clear, blue sky along the horizon gave promise of fairer weather after another unprecedented storm had drenched the entire county for days.
Monday afternoon the Kelseyville creek was a roaring torrent, threatening to engulf the highway north of Kelseyville and water was over the highway between Lakeport and Upper Lake and the latter place and Blue Lakes.
Burns Valley creek was flooding the highway for hundreds of feet, where usually a storm brings only a stream across the road.
In many orchards throughout the county, where drainage had not been provided, water stood six to ten inches deep. All the property on the east side of Lakeshore Drive was a morass. The ground every where had absorbed every ounce of water possible and was running off with every reek and ravine filled to capacity.
The lake has been rising steadily and although now an inch or so about eight feet, has not reached the danger point, and will not do any material damage unless a series of high winds come.
The gates at Cache creek dam have been wide open since Christmas day, and the channel is taking the water in much better volumne than before the dredging took place two years ago.
Senator Dolwig supports his bill to divide California
Feb. 10, 1966
Santa Rosa >> State Senator Richard J. Dolwig spoke in support of his senate bill to divide California into two states, in addressing the meeting of the North Coast Supervisors unit in Santa Rosa Friday.
Senator Dolwig cautioned that with senate reapportionment, southern California will have the voting strength to step in and take northern California water; do away with county of origins protections; elect all future governors; eventually control the judicial branch; and move the state capitol to Los Angeles.
They would have the votes in the senate and assembly to do all of these things and more, Senator Dolwig warned.
Dividing the sate at the Tehachapis would give southern California a population of ten million and northern California eight million.
Where is there any proof that mere bigness is beneficial? He wanted to know. The cult of bigness produces many myths.
Too Large
The state now pays 12 million a year for in-state travel by civil service employees and department officials. They just have too large a territory to cover, he asserted.
The state is becoming more and more a government by bureaucracy, Senator Dolwig declared.
He recalled that Huey Long rose to be a virtual dictator of Louisiana because he learned how to break down the system of checks and balances in state government.
Re-apportionment has destroyed the traditional checks and balances in California, the senator maintained.
The people will have to decide the issue, he stated. He added that he has a great deal of support for his proposal in southern California.
Green belt zone area reduced
Feb. 10, 1966
Lakeport >> A greatly reduced green belt zone was presented to the Board of Supervisors Monday by Raymond Mostin. The agricultural zoning started out with 15 objectors and there are now 63 property owners asking for exclusion.
The hearing was continued, on motion of Supervisor Lilburn Kirkpatrick, until Monday, Feb. 21. Mr. Kirkpatrick also moved that all lands outside the present proposed boundaries, as shown on the map presented by Mr. Mostin, be excluded from the zoning.
Mr. Mostin again stressed before the board that the press of sub-divisions threatened agriculture in Big Valley. He also noted that farmers pay 46 percent of the taxes and that Big Valley produces ten percent of the pears shipped from California. Millions of dollars have been invested in packing sheds and equipment, he pointed out. Also the area produces prunes, walnuts, cattle, and sheep, and more than 50 percent of the agriculture produce in the county.
Proponents of the zoning have worked two years on this project, Mr. Mostin said. There have been 17 hearings before the planning commission. Spot zoning will not work, he concluded.
Uncertainty was expressed by several property owners present as to what restrictions the zoning would impose upon their land.
