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Newspaper
Argus
Location
Fremont, California, United States of America
Date
Apr 23, 1971
Page
1
A fair weather pattern continues through tomorrow with a cool feel. Highs reach the upper 50s to mid 60s both days while tonight's low settles in the 40s. West to northwest winds 10 to 20 mph today. Details on Page 16.
The organization supporting Baker Road housing suit pivots to praise Union City as a national model for solving rent housing issues. Newark residents prepare for the second annual Congress for Community Progress at Newark High School, aiming for broad turnout representing the city’s spectrum.
Readers learn Hoover High students in Fresno eat an unusual lunch of seaweed with brown rice and a half cup of powdered milk. The report appears on Page 14 in the edition.
NASA postpones a West German designed high altitude barium cloud experiment citing cloud cover over South American observation sites. The launch remains planned for Friday night pending clearer conditions as observers watch Western Hemisphere skies.
The Viet Cong and Hanoi say a firm U S date is key to an immediate cease fire and prisoner talks. They hail Washington protests, claim broad American backing. Francois Duvalier of Haiti dies at age 70 after 14 years rule. his son Jean-Claude poised to succeed as president.
Three cosmonauts aboard Soyuz-10 reach earth orbit nine minutes after launch as Tass notes the ship aims to assemble mankind’s first orbital station with Docking and space walk among key tasks. Commander Col Vladimir Shatalov, flight engineer Alexei Yeliseyev, and test engineer Nikolai Rudakovnikov lead the effort alongside the Salute unmanned satellite as joint experiments proceed.
Newark officials faced a request from Mowry West resident Thomas Bostaph to open Eucalyptus Grove Park daily. He cited 75 signatures and urged graded off street parking picnic tables and trash cans while denying plans to sell the park. The council questioned supervision concerns and politics ahead of Bostaph’s 1972 council candidacy.
110 antiwar demonstrators were arrested for disorderly conduct at a Supreme Court rally in Washington as President Nixon allegedly authorized Vietnam veterans to bivouac on the Mall despite the court order. Judge Hart dissolved the ban with criticism of the Justice Department, noting political pressure and mixed compliance among veterans.
The Senate Armed Services Committee voted 18 to 3 to extend the Selective Service Act for two years beyond the June 30 expiry and to raise enlisted pay and junior officer pay by 9 to 50 percent in hopes of achieving a volunteer army by 1972. The panel defeated one year and four year extension bids.
Dr Isabella A Abbott of Stanford’s Hopkins Marine Station presented findings to the Regional Water Quality Control Board warning that chlorine from wastewater plants harms marine life. Her three year Carmel Bay study tested 12 species and four algae varieties, showing reduced growth and possible local extinctions from chlorination. a state study on stoppage effects is expected to report next month.
The TriCity Ecology Action sponsors a weekend recycling center at the daw Squire Shopping Center on Grimmer Boulevard and Blavow Road. It will operate 1 am to 4 pm Saturday and Sunday, accepting newspapers, glass, tin and aluminum cans. volunteers are urged to help.
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