Fremont Raceway faces rules to curb fire noise and traffic
City planning commission accepts an environmental impact report for Fremont Raceway noting significant environmental effects. Mitigation required before renewal of a use permit, including fire safety, police security, traffic management during events, mufflers for motorcycles, and banning alcohol at events. Noise conflicts with a nearby drive-in theater lead to limits on weekend evening events and noisy drag classes. Singer’s Northpointe housing project faces FHA VA financing barriers due to zoning and price mix, with high end homes unlikely to sell inside a 600 foot FHA zone.
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Fremont
City Planning Commission
Lune
Satousiee
Siing Company
Northpointe
Alvarado Boulevard
Singer
Wostary
Circus Maximus
FISA
Veteran's Administration
Pacific Telephone seeks $131 million rate hike in 2024
SAN FRANCISCO UPI The Pacific Telephone Co asked the state Public Utilities Commission for permission to raise annual rates by 131.2 million dollars. The petition proposes a 1 cent monthly rise for residential one party and 1.05 for business one party, citing payroll needs and material costs. Hearings set for Feb 24. prior actions included a 19.4 million boost last July and a 7.2 percent annual return for the year ending Dec 31, with projections down to 6.83 percent by June if no increase.
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San Francisco
UPI
Pacific Telephone Co
Thsday
State Public Utilities Commission
Pacific Telephone
PUC
Steve Dow makes bridge his life not hobby
Steve Dow treats contract bridge as a life calling not a pastime. He describes the game as a pure skill contest that eliminates luck, notes long sessions and travel demands, and explains tournament formats where hands are rotated among tables to track scores. Dow and his wife travel 35 to 41 weekends yearly, with local clubs in Newark hosting regular events at the Newark Community Center.
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Chicago
Dow
Don
Bow
Fremont-Newark Bridge Club
Fremont - Newark Bridge Club
Newark Community Center
Cedar Blvd
Dows
Russia
Far East
Newark Recreation Center
Insurance threat worries South County hospitals
South County hospital officials warn that proposed large increases in malpractice insurance may drive doctors to stop practicing. Washington Hospital faces steep premiums, with doctors paying up to 920,000 yearly, while Kaiser and Fairmont hospitals rely on staff employment or self insured plans. Officials urge state or federal action to provide a malpractice program as doctors express concern over rising costs and potential loss of coverage.
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Fremont
South County
Washington Hospital
Kaiser Hospital
Hayward
Fairmont Hospital
San Leandro
Argonaut Insurance Co
Menlo Park
Conrad Anderson
Anderson
Argonaut
Washington
Richard Warren
Memorial Hospital
W. H. Schneider
Eden Hospital
Castro Valley
Schneider
St. Rose Hospital
Dean van Metre
St. Rose
van Metre
Dan Donahue
Fairmont
Dowde
Kaiser Pilal
Kaiser
Four suspects plead innocent in Culver City kidnapping case
A husband and wife and two others pleaded innocent to kidnapping Culver City attorney John P. Shaby and holding him four days for a $30,000 ransom near Venice Beach. The four, all from Mar Pita, were arrested January 7 and await trial set for January 19.
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Santa Monica
UPI
Culver City
Robert B. Coptey
Judy Ann
Barry Willis
Jeee Movers
Mar Pita
Pearce Young
Copley
Moreno
Venice Beach
John P. Shaby
Butler School Board to reconsider Ellison back story disposal
Butler Pennsylvania school officials will review a vote to destroy 140 copies of a Ralph Ellison short story from a textbook after protests from board president William Smith who teaches black literature at Slippery Rock State College.
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Butler, Pa
UPL
Ralph Ellison
Dimitro Bourandas
William Smith
Smith
Slippery Rock State College
Water main extension approved for Brookvale housing
Officials approved a water main extension with Singer Housing Co for 25 homes in Brookvale. The district reported mid year revenues 55.2 percent above budget and expenses 50.4 percent ahead, while rainfall was 8.03 inches to date versus 11.6 normally. The meeting memorialized Dr Clarence Smith, UC Berkeley anthropologist, who died January 32.
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Singer Housing Co
Brookvale
Clarence Smith
University of California At
Hayward
South County
Smith
Center ok but sign is no-no in Newark
Salter Hill may win approval for a 20 acre Newark shopping center but cannot sell the city on a 20 foot monument sign. City council deadlocked 22 on the issue sending the plan back to planning commission.
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Newark
Salter Hil
Planning Commission
Robert Plowright
Sutter Hill
Las Cortez
Shirley Sisk
James Balentine
Shannar Abraham
Salter Hill
Ford concedes on food stamps amid deficit warning
President Ford announced he will let a bill freezing food stamp prices become law without his signature, conceding defeat to Congress and warning a sizable budget deficit could result. About 17 million stamp users will keep current rates through year end, despite Ford’s March 1 price hike.
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Washington
UPI
Ford
White House
New York
Congress
Accused on stand in Sweeney trial
Testimony centers on a alleged beating in Montenegro front yard with two German Shepherds barking. Montenegro Webb and Tufts describe events before a bar outing and a toll plaza scene. Karr and Sweeney are named in a highway bridge incident where Sweeney later died.
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Sweeney
York
Karr
Webb
Hayward
Montenegro
Tufts
Johnson
Karl
Welfare department seeks budget hike in county plan
Angeles county welfare department requests a 1.462 billion budget increase for 1975 76 with an estimated 76 000 more unemployed next year. The Department of Public Social Services seeks 1.04 billion funding this year 84.5 million was appropriated. Cost increases expected in food stamp and medical programs.
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Angeles
UPI
County Welfare Department
Redlion
County Department of Public Social Services
Ford declines chocolate sauce at Waldorf Astoria dinner
At a Waldorf Astoria dinner for Nelson A. Rockefeller a waiter attempted to pour chocolate sauce on President Ford's vanilla ice cream. Ford declined with a polite remark while the waiter nodded. Ford eventually ate his dessert as served.
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New York
UPI
Nelson A. Rockefeller
Ford
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