Ukiah Daily Journal from Ukiah, California • Page 24

''it Mendocino $fafe Important to orea With an operating budget of $11,715,067 and slightly more than 1000 employes, Mendociilo State Hospital is an important factor in the economy of the Ukiah Valley area. The monthly payroll is $760,000. Originally designated Mendocino State Asylum for the Insane and established by an act of the 1889 State Legislature, the state institution across the riv6r at Talmag6 is now ranked as one of ttie most outstanding and progressive state hospitals in the United States. The first patients, 60 men, were transferred from overcrowded Stockton State Hospital on Dec. 12, 1893, and two days later a like number was transferred from Napa State Hospital.

The first women patients were transferred froin Agnews State Hospital in 1894. Today, 77 years later, average in-patient population fluctuates between 1125 and 1200 housed on 33 living units. Although average in-patient population is small for a state hospital, annual admissions are not. Admissions for fiscal year 1968-69 were 5.480; this fiscal year to date May 6, they are 5,607. Most of the patients are voluntary and are seeking help and hospitalization because they want it, according to hospital staff.

Since last July when the Lanterman-Petris- Short Bill went into effect, patients come to the hospital by referral from the commiinity mental health service in their area. ADMINISTRATION BUILDING The old Mendocino is the facility serving California's northwestern counties: Sonoma, Mendocino, Humboldt, Del Norte, Trinity, Siskiyjou, Tehama, Glenn, Colusa and Lake. It is also the designated State hospital for drug and alcohohsm patients from San Francisco and Marin counties. Because of the hospital's national reputation for its drug abuse treatment program, drug addicts from all over the state have been asking for referral to Mendocino and the numhpr nf drug admissions is increasing. In.

addition to the long-range treatment program known as "The Family," the hospital now has a short-term program and is planning for still a third short- term program to meet the needs of its service area. Another program which is showing an increase in admissions is the adolescent program. Most of the their ages range from 14-lhrough 17- go into One of two sub-program units, each with its own, treatment philosophy. The hospital has its own secondary school on grounds, and the students attend regular classes. SchoQl staff, includes a teacher- principal, four teachers and three Chico State stpdent teachers.

i The alcoholism program, with 411 beds, is the largest inpatient treatment program for alcoholism in the United States. It is also the alcoholism demonstration program for California's Department of Mental Hygiene. Because one specific treatment does not work for every alcoholic, there are several sub-programs; among these, behavior modification is attracting wide interest. Another is the unique pilot program for Indians suffering from alcoholism. Mendocino State Hospital has an active research department, with much of the research concerned with abuse and alcoholism.

In a Drug Dependence Research-TCenter will be in operation with two psychopharmacologist -biochemists. A recent project has been the development of an, eiectroencephalophone which makes it possible to listen to brain waves. Several grant requests are pending. The hospital is also a teaching institution and began psychiatric residency training program In 1958. There Is a cldso working relationship between the residency program and the Mendocino Mental Health Services.

The hospital is approved by the U.S. State Department as a sponsor hospital in the United States Foreign Exchange Visitors program and has received trainees from England, Scotland, South Africa and Japan representing disciplines of psychiatric residency, undergraduate medical study, nursing, social work and clinical psychology. Not to be neglected is the fact that Mendocino is currently the only hospital in the state system operating a dairy or farming operation. Gross income in fiscal 1968-69 waS $456,158 and net income $98,499. In 1967 the Napa State Hospital and Mendocino herds were cour solidated and the best of eath herd kept.

Mendocino State Hospital herd cows have consistently commanded top prices at sales, and they are in demand as stock for 4-H and Future Farmer projects. EEL RIVER DRAINAGE More than 160 miles of excellent trout waters in the Mendocino National Forest section of Lake County, that includes Bear, Salmon, Smokehouse, Cold, Rice, Soda, Panther, Bucknell and Rock Creeks and the Eel River and South fork of the Eel. AND THE NEW Friday, Uklah Dally FInlsybseriber back in 1897 Growth of Ukiah's remarkable progress From 27 telephones in 1897, ukiah 's telephone exchange has grown to 12,738. in 1970, "reflecting the remarkable progress and growth of Ukiah itself," said E.J. Bean, Piacific Telephone manager.

He noted that a Dr. G. W. Stout was the first telephone subscriber back in 1897. Reviewing historical telephone records.

Bean discovered that the first telephone line was placed between the Fashion Stable- owned by J.H. Smith, whose son D.C. Smith served Mendocino County treasurer in the Mendocino State Hospital. On July 27, 1897 the first telephone exchange opened its doors in the Post Office building, later named the Preston Building, located on the corner of School and Perkins Streets. Among other subscriliers then were CP.

Smith, who operated theQty Meat Market; Eversole and Templeton Furniture Porterfield Bartlett Groceries; the Palace Hotel and the Grand Hotel, later called the Cecille Hotel. Mrs. A.D. Scott was appointed the first telephone manager as well as the operator. Hours of calling service were from 8 a.m.

to 8 p.m., and from 8a.m. to 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. on Sundays and holidays.

In 1897, if you wanted to make a long distance call, you had a choice of Lakeport or Santa Rosa. Today, you can call any of 110,000,000 phones in America, directly from Ukiah, plus another 120,000,000 in countries around the world. But at that time, trouble on the line or new phone installations were taken care of by installers in Santa Rosa who traveled by horse and wagon, -with swift arrival dependent upon good weather. About six months after the phone exchange was Over 20 years of now serving the Agricultural and Industrial needs of County and State! In 1959 John Paul Dalerio started their wood planing mill. Today the mill is able to handle 125,000 sq.

ft. of wood board a day for use In the industrial and agricultural fields. "We are proud to be one of the largest suppliers in the state of Paul says. Almost any large or small, can now be handled through their latest plant, where automatic machinery and skill allow production of millions of square feet a month. In 1968 production reached the all time high capacity of 40,000,000 sq.

ft. Four heavy duty diesel trucks deliver orders to areas in Southern California, the San Joaquin Valley, the Bay Area and Sacramento. Dalerio Pallet Shook Co. established here, the office was moved from tlie Post Office to the old Hegar Building, which even later was the spot where J.C. Penny Co.

opened a store. Shortly after, and still before the turn of the century, a lohg distance phone line was added to serve the coast country. As an opening attraction to Ukiah residents, free calls were allowed on the first day after the line was completed. of service were extended and Barnard Saunders, who had served as the messenger, was made the city's first night operator. The telephone growth story here has been one of gradual but steady progress.

Pacific Telephone subscribers increased to 69. And this was the first year that a list of Ukiah residents' names appeared in a phone directory. There were 600 phones in service here by 1916 and double that number 20 years later. In 1953, when dial telephone service went into effect allowing Ukiah residents to dial calls anywhere in the country, there were more than 5,000 in use. In 1960, Pacific Telephone served 8,500 phones in Ukiah; by 1965 the figure increased to 11,000, and today there are 12,738 phones here.

predicts there will be 15,500 phones in Ukiah by 1975, and 18,000 by 1980. The company employed 134 men and women in Ukiah in I960, 136 in 1965, and 168 at the first of this year. By 1975, expects to employ 207 people here, and 249 by 1980. Pacific Telephone's. annual payroll in Ukiah totals $1,286,800.

This year, Pacific Telephone will spend more than $1 million in Ukiah on construction projects, including $193,000 for conduit, cable and poles, $169,000 for phones PBX equipment, and $655,000 for central office switching equipment. also will spend $314,000 on construction projects in Willits in 1970. "We believe we contribute much to our community's economy, to its future development, and to its betterment," says Ed Bean. Quainf listings nofed Telephone history notes Twenty telephone users. Who after 34 years on the Ukiah list of subscribers, still had their names in the 1933 telephone directory, were invited to be guests of honor at the open house, given by Ukiah telephone employes in December, 1933.

The 20 pioneer telephone Users represented about one- third of the city's 69 subscribers of 1899, which was the first year that a list of Ukiah names appeared in directory form. Tallying the businesses ot Ukiah subscribers, as given in the 1899 directory, it Was found that Mendocmo County offices led with eight telephones, attorneys followed with seven, livery stablies were next with sue, then groceries with five. There were four physicians, three dentists, two three general merchandise stores, three hardware dealers, two newspapers, a bakery, a planing mill, three public utilities, a furniture store, two laundries, a warehouse, and a "drayman." There were eight residence telephone subscribers. Quaint listings noted included "dry goods," "drugs and groceries," "stageman," "groceries and feed yard." The north and south were represented in the naipes of two liveries the "New England Stables," and the "Kentucky Stables." The local history of the telephone was traced back to the early nineties, when J. H.

Smith strung a single wire from his Fashion Stables, on South State street, to the State Hospital, and connetited two telephones, which were used for speeding livery orders. Smith, father of former County "Treasurer D. C. Smith, thus was the first Ukiah man to use the telephone in his business. When the telephone company established an exchange in Ukiah, July 27, 1897, a small switchboard was installed in temporary quarters on the floor of the old post office building, now known as the Preston building.

The first switchboard operator was Mrs. A. D. Scott, and there were 27 "charter" subscribers to telephone service. Dr.

G. W. Stout had telephone No. 1, which was installed in his office at West Standley and Oak streets. In 1897 there were two long distance lines, one to Lakeport, other to Santa Rosa.

Ukiah's telephone circle then covered only central California. In the succeeding 36 years the range of long distance telephone service was widened to include 31,000,000 world telephones, located in 53 countries. When the lines in Ukiah needed repairs in the early days, or there was a telephone to install, a repairman would drive up from Santa Rosa in a. spring wagon. The elapsed time for the trip depended wholly upon the weather and condition of the road.

The Forks Ukiah Phone Putting "Go Power' Into Uklah Power! The men and women working at the City of Ukiah Municipal Electric Company have but one job; that is, to provide electrical power to local homes, businesses and industries efficiently and economically. City of Ukiaii Municipal Electric Co. 203 South School St. Ukiah 462-2971.