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Newspaper
Argus
Location
Fremont, California, United States of America
Date
Apr 08, 1971
Page
1
Oklahoma City's new mayor elect Patience Latting cheers as early tabulations show her leading. Latting, a former city council member for four years, defeated Councilman Bill Bishop by about two to one and will take office April 3 making the city the largest with a woman mayor.
The House voted 354 to 7 to approve an education aid bill of 4.8 billion, rejecting a 728 million add on sought by national educators. The plan, 131 million above Nixon’s request, moves to the Senate amid calls from groups led by Rep. Hathaway to raise to 5.4 billion. The measure funds a range of education efforts and includes an increased Impacted Aid amount.
Berkeley voters elected Warren Widener the city’s first black mayor in a narrow win and radicals gained four of nine council seats. They seek community control of police, a goak-the-tax approach, and abolition of the city manager. Widener favors an elected police commission and vows to press radical goals despite a two to one rejection of community police control.
A Hayward man, Orson N. Seamons, 26, pleaded guilty to trying to rape a Fremont girl last May. He was ordered to return May for a probation report and sentencing in Alameda County Superior Court. The incident allegedly occurred May 23, 1970, when he followed the girl to her aunt and uncle’s home.
Leslie K. Patchin, 16, of 6328 Narcissus Ave, pleaded guilty to possessing dangerous drugs after police, who had surveilled a sack containing 2,000 suspected seconal capsules, arrested him on March 16. The sack was picked up in a field following discovery by a school maintenance employee and Patchin was certified for Alameda County Superior Court on April 27.
Selby Montgomery, 20, of Fremont, pleaded guilty to 10 drug counts in Alameda County Superior Court. Police said he supplied narcotics to youths, including selling marijuana to an 11 year old last July. Investigators found LSD in his car and a marijuana cigarette on him at arrest.
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