U.S. Navy wants capable youths for enlistment
April 3, 1941
Lower Lake >> A special request has come to this editor that particular attention be called to the following notice:
“The United States Navy needs capable young men, loyal American citizens, between the ages of 17 and 31 to fill its units in the air, on the surface, and under the sea. Opportunity for trade training and rapid promotion is greater than ever before. The Navy maintains over 50 trade schools, from which more than 14,000 men are graduated every year.
“Your Navy Recruiter will again be stationed in the Ukiah Post Office Building, on Monday, April 7, during the hours of 8:30 a.m. and to 5:00 p.m.”
Resorts hail the extension of the school vacation
April 3, 1941
San Francisco >> San Francisco schools will open this coming Fall after Labor Day, on September 3, according to the Travel and recreation Committee of the California State Chamber of Commerce. This decision was reached at a meeting of the San Francisco Board of Education last week and confirmed in a meeting with Secretary Ormond and Walter Smith, Assistant to Superintendent Nourse.
According to Ted Huggins, Chairman of the Travel and Recreation Committee for this area, “This means that we will now have the full months of July and August for Vacations. These two months are the best of the entire year for summer vacations. The action of the Board has also a great economic significance in that it permits the people of the resort counties and transportation interest to enjoy better business generally.”
The San Francisco parochial schools and the schools of the East Bay are being presented with the facts with the hope that the opening of the schools around the Bay area can be uniformly established to take up each year after Labor Day.
East Bay schools, with the exception of Alameda,. Will open August 25; Alameda, September 2. A request has been made for a reconsideration of such schools for the Labor Day opening period.
G. Biggar writes to constituents
April 3, 1941
Sacramento >> State Senator George N. Biggar sends this letter to Lake county friends:
People of Lake County –
Greetings:
So many telegrams and letters have come to me from citizens of Lake county I find it impossible to reply to each individually, and wish to take this method of acknowledging your communications. Most of the communications have requested me to support S.B. 877 and S. B. 487. S. B. 877 has passed the Senate and is now in the Assembly Committee. While no one knows beforehand what action either house may take on a bill, I am confident that the Assembly will pass this bill. It may be that an amendment will be offered which would make the law operative equally, with the employers and employees. Such an amendment was offered on the Floor of the Senate by Senator Shelley of San Francisco, but the Senate acted rather hastily and did not give due consideration to it. A number of the senators expressed the belief that the amendment should have been adopted. Should the Assembly adopt the amendment, I am confident that the Senate will concur.
S. B. 487 has not yet been heard by the Senate Committee. It will probably come up next Thursday morning.
I hope that the good folks in Lake county will pardon me for not replying to each of them personally, but time will not permit this courtesy which I regret.
Sincerely yours,
George M. Biggar.
Upper Lake fishermen stranded off Ft. Bragg in crippled boat
March 31, 1966
Upper Lake >> A group of mighty fishermen from Upper Lake went to Fort Bragg Sunday to do some bottom fishing.
Well, I heard they had quite an experience.
Seems that Earl Strong’s boat is not as sea worthy as it could be and the men got stranded way out.
Undersherriff Ernie Clay happened to have his trusty walkie talkie along. In past years Ernie has been quite a double talker so, when he called his friend Jim Tarplay who was in another boat, Jim just didn’t believe Ernie when he said they were stranded. After quite a bit of talk back and forth Jim finally believed Ernie and went to their rescue.
The rudder had fallen off the boat and they were drifting toward the rocks
Others in the party were Laurence Story, Neil Dunken, O. L. Dunken, Jerry Wood, Earl Strong and Ricky Clay.
Mrs. Neil Dunken and children went over to Fort Brag also for the day and enjoyed a picnic on the beach.
Postal rate increases effective March 26
March 31, 1966
Lower Lake >> Postal patrons were reminded today of increases in money orders, insurance, certified mail and COD rates effective March 26.
The new rates were announced earlier this year by Postmaster General Lawrence F. O’Brien who pointed out that the cost of operating the five special postal services now exceeds revenues by more than $60 million annually. The Postmaster General said the new free increase should narrow the cost-revenue gap by about $36 million, based on business handled in the 1965 fiscal year.
The new fee rates are the first changes authorized by the post office department since 1961.
The increases include:
Money order fees; Domestic and international money order fees will be increased by five cents.
Insurance fees: The minimum fee bracket will be increased from $10 to $15 and the minimum fee will go to 20 cents from 10 cents. Most other fees are to be boosted 10 cents. The maximum fee now 30 cents, will be boosted to 60 cents for values above $150 to $200.
Registry fees: the present 60 cent and 75 cent fees are to combined into a single fee at 75 cents for values up to $100. Registry fees for articles valued in excess of $100 remains unchanged.
COD fees: The present 40 cent and 50 cent fee brackets are to be combined into one bracket at a 60 cent fee for amounts up to $10. No change is to be made in fees covering items valued above $10.
Certified mail: The fee will be increased 10 cents from the present 20 cents per item or to 30 cents.
Storms deepen snow pack by 64 inches
March 29, 1991
Echo Summit >> There is six times as much snow in the Sierra Nevada as there was just one month ago, thanks to a series of March storms that eased California’s drought, state officials said Thursday.
Monthly measurements at Echo Summit and other key Sierra monitoring stations found the snow pack had increased from 12.3 inches at the end of February to 76.7 inches a month later, state water expert Jack Pardee said.
Even more important, however, is the water content of the snow pack, which increased from the equivalent of 3.4 inches at the end of February to 20.4 inches Thursday. Normal would be 28.1 inches.
Pardee and other water officials said the series of storms produced the sixth wettest March in California history and increased the snow pack from 14 to 72 percent of normal.
They cautioned that the drought isn’t over but Pardee said it may be possible to ease water rationing slightly.
“We’re not our of the woods, but at least now we can see the edge of the forest,” said drought center spokesman Jeff Cohen.
State Department of Water Resources officials said the statewide precipitation average still totals only about two-thirds of normal, with most of the wet season gone. Reservoir storage across the state is just over half normal, they said.
In doing the surveys, experts use an aluminum tube which is pushed into the snow then pulled out and weighed to determine water content.
Snow normally builds all winter, then melts each spring and flows into rivers, reservoirs, the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta and canals. Eventually, it winds up in the homes, businesses, and farms of the state’s 30 million residents.
Authorities base releases of water form reservoirs into rivers and canals on the amount of snow that will, in turn, melt in the mountains and run into their reservoirs.
