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Newspaper
Argus
Location
Fremont, California, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1974
Page
3
Readers send anonymous letters to the Argus Tapes page voicing opinions on school programs at Chadbourne and Irvington, tax and union concerns, water quality, transit support, and local real estate conflicts. The set includes praise for teams and calls for investigations into developers and city planning with calls for portable classrooms and community discussion.
Governor-elect Edmund G Brown Jr outlined a traditional inauguration for January 6 in Sacramento with a joint session of the assembly and Senate. He will deliver an inaugural address at 10 am after a prayer breakfast, then visit San Francisco and Los Angeles to meet officials. He plans to live in a Capitol-area apartment and scrapping the mansion project to keep the budget in balance amid economic pressures.
Washington reporters enjoyed a White House party hosted by President Ford and his wife. Attendees praised the event as a return to better times, with Ford signing Bernseas and greeting guests in the State Dining Room as a New York band played. The 7 p.m. start drew about 500 guests including photographers and aides.
Former California Governor Edmund G. Brown recovered a rare Kennedy family book stolen from his personal library. Brown reimbursed an unidentified man who bought the volume for 85 dollars at a California flea market and delivered it to a Chicago dealer for appraisal. The book titled As We Remember Joe Was edited by John F. Kennedy and Robert F. Kennedy, with about 150 copies in existence.
Berkeley Ecology Center urges a merry Christmas that saves resources amid double-digit inflation and energy fears. It promotes live trees, homemade decorations, minimal wrapping, and eco friendly gifts such as transit, bicycles, and second hand purchases, with advice on locating homes for trees and shopping at local outlets.
Pittsburgh and other states report coal mine operations returning to normal after more than a month as construction workers end picketing. A disputed contract with truckers threatens another slowdown with 90 percent of independent haulers affected as talks with UMW stalled.
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