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SEATTLE HIGH MINNEAPOLIS BOSTON Collects NEW YORK STATIC More Cash SAN FRANCISCO DENVER 30.00 August collections totaling $122.603 were announced today LOS ANGELES by Napa County District HOT torney Public Administrator DALLAS Public Guardian James D. HIGHEST NEW ORLEANS MI Boitano. LEGEND The total compares to -80 $96.561 for August, 1976. The RAN SNOW August, 1977 total is the largest AIR 90 90 SHOWERS FLOW monthly collection in the UPI WEATHER FOTOCAST history of the office. A total of $889.046.86 was collected during the 1977 calendar year, compared to $808.024.64 Weather Report for calendar year 1976.

There were 2,376 active By United Press International "failure to provide" cases durForecast ing for August, the 1977, previous compared month. to Regional 2,385 Also reported were 131 acNapa and Sonoma valleys and Santa Rosa Plain: Fair through tive public guardian cases Wednesday except patches of fog night and morning. A little representing a total cash incooler Wednesday. Southerly winds to 15 m.p.h. afternoons and of $191,390.15 and 37 Rosa 55 and 92.

ventory administrator evenings. Wednesday except active public Santa San Francisco Bay Area: Fair through with $251,430.99 in cooler cases gross patchy fog or low clouds night and morning. Slightly cash inventory. Wednesday. Lows tonight in mid 50s to low 60s.

Highs Wednesday in the 60s near the coast and 70s to 80s inland. Small craft ad- The Consumer Affairs Divifor west to northwest winds 15 to 25 m.p.h. afternoons and sion processed 155 consumer visory evenings. Little tem- fraud complaints during Northeastern California: Fair through Wednesday. August, 1977, and collected perature Northwestern change.

California: Fair through Wednesday except fog restitution of $3,003.75 during Susanville 45 and 95. and with chance of the same time period. and low clouds on the coast night morning local drizzle. A little cooler coastal valleys Wednesday. Fort Total restitution in the ConBragg 52 and 62, Ukiah 58 and 98.

sumer Affairs Division during Sacramento Valley and Lower Sacramento Valley: Fair 1977 amounted to $49,789.98. through Wednesday. Continued warm. Highs in the 90s to 105 except 6-The NAPA REGISTER Tuesday, September 6, 1977 3000 HIGH Napa DA through Wednesday. Continued warm.

Highs in the 90s to 105 except low 90s in delta Wednesday, lows in the 60s. Variable winds to 15 m.p.h. except southwest to 25 m.p.h. in the delta. Mount Shasta-Siskiyou area: Fair through Wednesday.

Little temperature change. Mount Shasta City 52 and 87. Sierra Nevada: Fair through Wednesday. Continued warm days. Lake Tahoe 36 and 85.

Yosemite Valley 55 and 101. Northern and central California: Fair through Wednesday except fog and low clouds along the coast night and morning. A little cooler coastal areas Wednesday but continued warm inland. San Joaquin Valley: Fair through Wednesday. Continued warm.

Highs in the mid 90s to 105 except low 90s in delta Wednesday. Lows in the 60s except to mid 70s extreme south. Variable winds to 15 m.p.h. except westerly to 25 m.p.h. in the delta afternoons and evenings.

Diablo, San Ramon and Livermore valleys: Fair through Wednesday but with local low clouds Wednesday morning. A little cooler Wednesday. Highs Wednesday in mid 80s to mid 90s. Lows in mid 50s to low 60s. Westerly winds 10 to 25 m.p.h.

afternoons and evenings. Los Angeles: Sunny and warm through Wednesday but early morning fog and low clouds near the coast. Highs Wednesday near 88, lows tonight about 67. California Summary California skies have been clear except for low fog near the coastline. The fair weather and warm daytime temperatures will continue.

temperatures Monday ranged from the 60s and 70s along the coast to near the century mark in the Central Valley. The desert reached 111 degrees. National Roundup A cold front that extended from Texas to Maine brought heavy rains to portions of Missouri, Ohio and Pennsylvania early today. Missouri rivers, still bloated from the heavy rains that poured over the Central Plains last week, took in more water Monday night. A funnel cloud was sighted near Summersville, Mo.

While Babe, demoted from hurricane to tropical depression, brought heavy rains and spawned at least two tornadoes in the South, much of the remainder of the nation was cool and dry. The National Weather Service predicted more showers and thunderstorms today for the South and the Middle Atlantic states. Scattered rain was expected in the upper Great Lakes region and upper New England, with mild temperatures. Warm and dry conditions were expected to prevail in the Pacific Northwest. Labor Day rains postponed the Arkansas River at Tulsa, Okla.

tracted an estimated 150,000 held Sunday. annual Great Raft Race on the Tulsa's raft race, which atspectators last Labor Day, will be Temperatures Temperature and precipitation table for the 24-hour period ending at 4 a.m. Pacific time, as prepared by the National Weather Service in San Francisco: Hi Lo Pep. Albany 77 58 .48 Albuquerque 82 60 Atlanta 85 69 Bakersfield 102 77 Bismarck 85 55 Boise 89 63 Boston 80 70 Brownsville 99 77 Buffalo 76 61 .04 Charlotte 89 69 Chicago 73 58 Cincinnati 86 70 .14 Cleveland 81 63 Dallas 88 70 Denver 87 61 Des Moines 79 61 Detroit 85 60 Duluth 60 52 68 Eureka 64 54 Fairbanks 62 38 Fresno 101 67 Helena 86 51 Honolulu 88 76 Indianapolis 87 67 Kansas City 81 64 HIGH AND LOW Napa 93-59 St. Helena 101-55 Yountville 100-52 Calistoga 102-58 Lake Berryessa 105-63 Angwin 97-64 Bothe 97-57 Las Vegas 109 76 Los Angeles 89 64 Louisville 88 73 .30 Memphis 92 74 Miami 86 81 Milwaukee 71 52 Minneapolis 75 61 New Orleans 83 76 2.06 New York 80 72 .05 North Platte 86 55 Oakland 75 59 Oklahoma a City 81 71 .03 Omaha 80 60 Palm Springs 108 79 Paso Robles 98 58 Philadelphia 85 69 Phoenix 107 84 Pittsburgh 83 67 Portland, Me.

70 58 Portland, Ore. 74 54 Rapid City 91 59 Red Bluff 104 mm Reno 95 48 Richmond 93 71 Sacramento 99 65 St. Louis 83 69 .58 Salt Lake 95 61 San Diego 78 70 San Francisco 70 55 Seattle 72 52 Spokane 73 46 Thermal 104 83 Washington 87 72 TIDES AT FIRST STREET BRIDGE High Low Tuesday, September 6 10:25 a.m. 5.5 3:55 a.m. 0.9 9:13 p.m.

6.5 3:24 p.m. 3.0 11:21 a.m. 5.7 4:52 a.m. 0.8 a Wednesday, September 7 10:12 p.m. 6.6 4:31 p.m.2.9 NAPA VALLEY RAINFALL Season 24 Hours Last Year Normal Season Season To To 08 a.m.

Date (Since To Date To Date Normal Today July 1) .05 .00 1.30 .03 23.88 .13 .00 .80 .10 33.11 Napa St. Helena .07 .02.... .97 .06 36.78 Calistoga .00 .48 19.90 Lake Berryessa .00 1.42. .09 39.81 Pacific Union .00 1.00.. .02 29.41 Col .10 Yountville .04 44.69 Bothe-NV State Park .00 Greek Fete In Napa Oct.

8,9 As many as 10,000 people are expected to turn out for Greek Festival '77, to be held Oct. 8 and 9 at the Napa Town and Country Fairgrounds main exhibit building. Continuous entertainment with Greek folk dances, foods, pastries and imports will be featured. The event is sponsored by Sts. Constantine and Helen Greek Orthodox Church, which serves Napa, Solano and Sonoma counties.

Proceeds will go toward construction of a Greek cultural center. Admission to Greek Festival '77 is $1.50 for adults and 50 cents for children. Tickets may be purchased in Napa at the fairgrounds, Banana Records, Olivers Restaurant or the Pizza Palace. In addition. the new check division obtained check restitution of $6,955.56 for August, compared to $5,258.81 for the same period last year.

A total of $50,036.23 has been collected for calendar year 1977, compared to $31,946.30 for the same period one year ago. Camera Club Show On Rafts The Silverado Camera Club will host a three-dimensional, Stereo Realist Camera show on "Running the Wild Colorado," at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 13 at Pueblo Vista Elementary School. The show will be presented by Art and Bea Ojeda who recorded the journey of 34 persons via rubber raft down the 178 rapids of the Colorado River.

The trip took 10 days and covered 300 miles. Addie Lee Jones Napa County Road Projects Funded Two Napa are included Transportation proposed, year highway program. Already million for County projects proach roads to the $11 million The Napa Hopper Slough to be adopted in October. in the California Southern Crossing bridge link- project is tentatively District Four of the CaliforDepartment's ing the Napa Vallejo and scheduled for the 1978-79 fiscal nia Transportation billion, six Napa Sonoma highways. year.

ment, which takes in the nine construction Proposals include $1.1 mil- The proposed $6.4 billion Bay Area counties, would lion to realign and replace spending program was bridges across the Napa River presented to the California receive about 18 per cent of the approved is $11.9 and Hopper Slough near Highway Commission in annual average outlay, or signalized ap- Rutherford. August. A program is expected some $75 million per year. Ob Obituaries Evelyn E. Jones Evelyn E.

Jones, 68, of 1160 her home following a long illness. Mrs. Jones was born in Byron, raised in Rochester, Minn. She was married to Griffith 31, 1927. While living in Clinic for 17 years.

Republic died Monday at Minn. on Oct. 2, 1908 and was Jones in Kasson, Minn. on July Minnesota she worked at the Mayo She came to Napa in 1957 and first worked in Richmond where she and her husband operated the Richmond Cleaning Works. Later they operated Griff's Dry Cleaning Establishment in Napa.

They retired in 1974. She is survived by her husband, Griffith of Napa; a daughter, Gwendolyn Davison of Napa; a son, Gerald of Denver, a sister, Elizabeth Postier of Rochester, Minn. and a brother, Walter Berg of Rochester. Four grandchildren and two great-grandchildren also survive. Friends are invited to attend funeral services at 2 p.m., Thursday, at the Chapel of Richard Pierce Funeral Service with the Pastor Ted Zimmerman officiating.

Interment will be in Napa Valley Memorial Gardens Cemetery. Mabel B. Wetton Mabel B. Wetton, 84, of Napa, died Monday at the Queen of the Valley Hospital after a long illness. A native of Napa, Mrs.

Wetton was born on Jan. 13, 1893 and attended the old Lincoln School. She was employed at the Glove Factory. She was married to Edward T. Wetton 67 years ago in Napa.

They owned and operated the Shrimp Boat Restaurant on Imola Avenue and also two Shrimp Boat Restaurants in Berkeley. They lived in Berkeley for several years and returned to Napa in 1953. As a child, she attended the First United Mehtodist Church of Napa. She is survived by her husband, Edward of Napa; a son, Emery Sr. of Napa; two daughters, Alma Landell and Hazel B.

Wetton, both of Napa; a brother, Fred Jensen of Napa; two sisters, Margaret Guittard of Bethel Island and Clara Lundberg of Walnut Creek; Four grandchildren; four great grandchildren and several nieces and nephews also survive. Friends are invited to attend services at 2 p.m., Thursday, at the Treadway and Wigger Funeral Chapel with the Rev. William McCord of the First United Methodist Church of Napa officiating. Interment will be in Tulocay Cemetery. TREADWAY Funeral Cemetery Planning Since 1902 226-1828 Member By Invitation ANSI MORTICIANS 623 COOMBS STREET Money Talks Money printed in the Revolutionary War era not only paid for guns and military supplies.

but served as propaganda encouraging Americans to fight. Notes bore such slogans as "An Appeal to Heaven' and "Pro Arms et Focis." and featured woodcuts of victorious battles. Addie Lee Jones, 77, of 3211 Laurel died Sunday at her home after a brief illness. Mrs. Jones was born in Texas on July 12, 1900 and received her education there.

She came to California in 1947 and resided in Lincoln. She moved to Napa in 1953 and had worked for several years at the Veterans Home in Yountville. She is survived by her daughter, Mrs. Ann R. Schill of Napa and two sisters, Mrs.

Jean Sanderson and Billy Hess, both of Texas. Three grandchildren also survive. Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m., Wednesday, in the Chapel of the Napa Valley Memorial Gardens with the Rev. Maynor Reed of the Grace Baptist Church officiating. Interment will be in Napa Valley Gardens Cemetery.

Lidwina Margaret ST. HELENA Lidwina Margaret Ilg, 82, died Monday morning at the St. Helena Hospital after a long illness. Mrs. Ilg was born and educated in St.

Helena. She had operated her vineyard, located south of St. Helena, for 40 years. She was a member of the Napa Co-Op and the Catholic Church. Survivors include her sister, Mrs.

Theresa Hanns of Vallejo and many nieces and nephews. Friends may meet at the Morrison Funeral Chapel at 9:30 a.m. Wednesday, then to the St. Helena Catholic Church where a Mass of the Christian Burial will be celebrated at 10 a.m. The rosary will be recited at 8 p.m.

tonight at the chapel. Interment will be in the Holy Cross Cemetery. Pearl Wise A memorial service will be held Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. in St. Mary's Episcopal Church, Napa, for former local resident Pearl Wise.

Mrs. Wise died Saturday in Rancho Tehama near Red Bluff. She lived in Napa for many years and had been active in school and library affairs. She is survived by her husband, Fran, of Rancho Tehama; four sons, Kevin of Sacramento, Don of Eureka, Bob of San Leandro and Roger of Hawaii, and a daughter Mary Kathleen Ledford of Seattle, Wash. Five grandchildren also survive.

Memorial contributions may be made to the Friends of the Library Endowment Fund of the Napa City -County Library. Funeral Notices Funeral MC DONALD, Floyd 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, Richard Pierce Funeral Service, 1660 Silverado Trail, the Rev. Erwin Bollinger officiating. Interment: St.

Helena Public Cemetery. Casketbearers are: George Sousa, Kenny Wagner, Chuck Johnson, Jim Waldon, John Tagliaferri and John Henderson. SALSMAN, Joseph 11 a.m. Wednesday, Richard Pierce Judge David Robert York Retired Napa Municipal Court Judge David Robert York, 59, St. Helena, died Monday at St.

Helena Hospital after a sixmonth illness. Judge York was born in Napa Sept. 16, 1917. He attended Napa schools, graduated from the University of California and was first in his graduating class a at Hastings College of Law of 1940. He received a U.S.

Navy commission and served as a naval intelligence officer on the U.S. Battleship Missouri. He was on board the Missouri during the Japanese surrender at the end of World War II. He was married to the former Bernice Berling. Judge York served as Napa Municipal Court since the position was created in February, 1976.

He retired in June after suffering a heart attack. He was a past president of the Napa County Bar Association; a former Senior Warden; a member of the Grace Episcopal Church, St. Helena; a past exalted ruler of the Napa Elks Lodge; a past state president of the California Marine Parks Harbors Association; a member of Native Sons of the Golden West Napa Parlor; the St. Francis Yacht Club; the Inverness Yacht Club; the California Judges Association; the California Alumni Association; the English Speaking Union; Napa Post of the American Legion Veterans of Foreign Wars and a member of the Napa Boys' Club. He is survived by his widow, Bernice of St.

Helena; three daughters, Jane Sagaser and Ellen York, both of St. Helena and Nancy Constantino of San Mateo and a sister, Margaret Fagiani of Yountville. Two brothers, John William York and the late Daniel Keig York preceded him in death. Friends are invited to attend services at 8p.m., Wednesday, at Treadway Wigger Funeral Chapel with Judge Thomas Kongsgaard, Dr. A.

Edward Percy and the Father Richard Tumilty of the Grace Episcopal Church of St. Helena officiating. Services will be held at the Grace Episcopal Church, St. Helena, on Thursday at 10 a.m. with the Father Tumilty officiating.

For those who so desire, contributions may be made to the chairty of the donors' choice. Pallbearers will be: Lou Paine, William A. Bacigalupe, Wade N. Shifflett, Thomas Kongsgaard, Virgil Galleron, Dr. Edward Percy, Kendall McCune, Lowell Edington, Orvelle Brisbin, Edmond Brovelli, Charles Niccolls, Dr.

Charles Queary, Ernest Sander, Wesley Gardner, George W. Griffiths, Carlo Forni, Roland Terwilliger, Judge William Blanckenberg, Joseph Dillion, Clarence Thom, Robert Benning, Kenneth Wara, William Novelli, George O'Brien and Wil- liam J. Bacigalupe. Funeral Service, 1660 Silverado Trail, the Rev. G.F.

Behlnar officiating. Private interment: Napa Valley Memorial Gardens Cemetery. MONUMENTS Memorials SMITH'S and Cut Stone Finest quality materials and workmanship in Granite-Marble-Bronze East Third St. Silverado Tr. 226-8484 We meet all financial conditions Claffey Rota Funeral Home 1975 Main Napa PH.

224-5210 RICHARD PIERCE FUNERAL SERVICE 1660 Silverado Tr. At the Lincoln Ave. Bridge 226-7444 We Welcome Comparison 5 NAPA MEMORIAL GARDENS Mortuary Cemetery 255-3433 2383 Napa- Vallejo Highway.

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