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Newspaper
Argus
Location
Fremont, California, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1970
Page
1
At Sun Valley Idaho GOP governors debated Nixon and Agnew campaign methods after last month’s elections. Some argued law and order emphasis hurt or helped, while Reagan backed Nixon and Agnew. They stressed economy as pivotal for 1972, urging a more positive message and unity.
Government geologists report substantial concentrations of detergents and other contaminants in eastern Long Island wells. Suffolk County restricted detergent sales as a precaution. Nathaniel M. Perlmutter led the Interior Department survey noting high detergent levels at shallow Babylon area wells and rising contaminant trends in drinking water supplies.
Philip D Guthrie 41 public information officer for the California Department of Corrections was freed on 1100 bail after drunken driving and marijuana possession charges. He and Norma C Carvian were stopped on the California 98 Freeway in South Sacramento. A smoking pipe and a bag believed to contain marijuana were found in the car.
The San Jose jury considers Betty Lansdown Fouquet accused of abandoning her daughter Jody on a Bakersfield freeway side. Prosecutor Robert Vander Noor alleges brainwashing and a deliberate conspiracy to create a false identity, with the 1969 incident dated October 25 when the girl was found on U.S. 9.
Alameda County deputy says he used a club to calm a prisoner at Santa Rita Jail during a 350 detainee roundup. Prisoner Robert M. Wurster, 24, Berkeley, alleges diabetic shock from denied food. Deputies E Turner, David A. Lynch, and Gary R. Nelson face charges over the incident after a scuffle on the prison floor.
Orchard worker Mogamed Alie was celebrated in Gotsatel Daghestan where farm leaders awarded him the title Shock Worker of Communist Labor on his 100th birthday, according to Pensipee Sovietskaya Rossiya.
Fragmented OCR text from a legal notice in Alameda County mentions the Superior Court and a registration matter. It references Fremont and Portice with unclear terms and subscription rates. The readable items indicate a formal public notice format without coherent facts or dates.
Washington nations lawmakers prepare to revisit the supersonic transport issue as a key Senate vote on a 210 million funding compromise looms. Senate opponents vow filibuster, predicting Congress may stay in session into the new year beyond December 19 adjournment goal.
At a San Francisco conference on sexual problems experts predict pornographic films will lose customers as interest wanes among youth and tourists. They call spectator porn a fading trend though debate continues on permissible signs outside theaters and parental rights in restricting minors.
FCC Commissioner Nicholas Johnson charged President Nixon uses television as a central tool of government. He argued the administration treats private TV programming as an arm of public information and exploits broadcast media to shape policy. Johnson compared Nixon’s TV use to a government strategy, calling for ground rules on presidential time and network access.
Militant leader Richard Oakes refuses to turn over his 10 year old son Rocky to juvenile authorities who seek to charge a youth in slashed tires. Oakes cites retaliation for reservation roadblock actions as motive. He recalls leading the Alcatraz occupation a year earlier.
Rep. L Mendel Rivers 65 chairman of the House Armed Services Committee remains in a slowed recovery after open heart surgery on Friday. A university hospital bulletin cited restlessness weakness and cough as factors. He is in intensive care and slowly taking liquids as doctors assess progress.
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