Fremont Council urged to enforce water waste rules at gravel pits
Alameda County Water District Board moved after adjournment to indemnify Fremont if litigation over pumping from quarry pits proceeds. The council, split 2-2, faced staff advice that 28 million gallons daily is wasted, with operators and staff urging action. ACWD vowed support to push enforcement of conditional use permits and prevent water waste.
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Alameda County Water District Board of Directors
Fremont
ACWD
Alameda County Water District
Gene Rhodes
Alameda County
Matt Whitfield
ACW
Whitfield
Geoffrey Steel
William van Doorn
City of
Morris Hyman
Alameda
Ford cites Nixon shift ahead of 1971 elections
Ford touts ending the Vietnam War and taming inflation before the 1971 congressional vote. The piece lampoons monthly elections and envisions rapid legislative gains. Ralph Nader calls for food industry reform, warns life expectancy has fallen since 1962, and predicts tax increases.
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House
GOP
Ford
Nixon
Ralph Nader
Sne
Voice Of The People: Police Praised For Dope Raids
Reader thanks law enforcement for recent narcotics arrests and praises coverage listing offenders. She urges courts to curb repeat offenders, mobilizes parents and groups to pressure lawmakers in Sacramento for stricter drug control and sentencing.
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Argus Newspaper
Sacramento
Panderers of Smut Threaten Public Morals
A critic denounces New York stag productions, films, and art as vehicular for obscene content. He attacks the theater, cinema, and advertising for pandering to base desires, praising Supreme Court censure while warning of cultural decline and mass debasement. He urges accountability and restraint against a rising tide of sensationalism.
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New York
High Court of the Land
Walter Mittelholzer: Swiss aviation pioneer largely unknown
A tongue in cheek diary notes bemused reactions to a Swiss Tourist Office press release about Walter Mittelholzer. The piece recalls a 1922 Milan to Zurich flight that ended in a crash, mentions his obscure status outside Britannica, and riffs on whether readers have heard of him.
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Waliengton
Hades
Walter Mittelholzer
Wright Brothers
Lindbergh
Eddie Rickenbacker
Curtis
Trippe
Sikorsky
Hughes
Lilienthal
Walter Mittelholze
Mittelholzer
Milan
Italy
Zurich
Switzerland
Walter Mittelhozer
Walter
Hitler Death Watch in Berlin Final Hours Revealed
A sweeping account details Hitler's final days in Berlin including plans to die by his own hand, his last orders on April 25 1945 and the suicide scene in the Reich Chancellery bunker. New revelations cover Goebbels Eva Braun and aides, SMERSH verification of remains, and attempts by Allied and Soviet forces to seize him.
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Hitler
Berlin
Heigh
Singer
Soviet Union
Hiller
Stalin
May Hy ~ Yaar
Reichsmarshal
Hermann Goering
Augsburg
Fuhrerbunker
Army Group A
Brooklyn
Theodor Morell
Reichschancellery
Johann Gebhardt
85 Medical Corps
Ludwig Stumpfegger
Marzehn
Luftwaffe
Munich
Goering
Alfred Jodl
Lutber
Rayreuth
George
Patton
Juterbog
Fuehrerbunker
Goebbels
Magda Goebbels
Armaments
Albert Speer
Frau Gertrud Junge
von Ribbentrop
Fas
Goebbelses
Moscow
First American newspaper Boston News Letter debuts
On this day in history 1704 the Boston News Letter became the first American newspaper printed regularly by John and Duncan Campbell. Other events include Hayes removing federal troops from New Orleans in 1877, Spain declaring war on the United States in 1808, and 1967 space tragedy of cosmonaut Vladimir Kama tova. A closing thought from John Tililsan notes liberty linked to power and observation.
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United I Press
Inrernapie
Boston News- Letter
John and Duncan Campbell
South
Rutherford Hayes
New Orleans
Spain
United States
Cuba
Sviet
Vladirmir Kama- Tova
John Tililsan
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