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Newspaper
Argus
Location
Fremont, California, United States of America
Date
Feb 24, 1970
Page
4
The council will set program priorities for 1970-71 at the March 17 meeting and give the budget public review for adoption in June. It will consider a joint powers agreement for a Bay Area intra-community bus system with a $60,000 study funded by two thirds federal grants.
Don Edwards announced from a Hyatt House press conference that he will run for a fifth term in Congress. He cited the risk of a damaging primary, the needs of the area, and health or defeat factors, with support from labor groups and top Democrats urging reconsideration.
In Louisville and across Kentucky, about 22,000 to 27,000 of the 33,000 public school teachers walked off. The KEA demands include a $100 raise over two fiscal years, improved benefits, and professional negotiation rights, while officials warn the strike may last a week as legislators consider the request.
SAIGON UPI The United States has removed more than 70,000 troops in the past year but must redeploy 38,000 more by April 15 to meet Nixon Administration Phase III pullout goals. Feb 19 strength stood at 472,000 on duty. Phase III aims to 434,000 by April 1. Navy and Coast Guard crews aboard 7th Fleet add 26,000 and 600 respectively. Overall, 394,400 Army, 58,100 Air, 52,100 Marines, 29,000 Navy and 400 Coast Guardsmen serve in South Vietnam.
Miss Maria Nelly Fernandez of Union City will outline Latin American library services for Spanish speaking patrons. The all day Alameda County event, sponsored by the Alameda County Library Association, starts 9 am at His Lordship restaurant Berkeley Marina. Fernandez, Latin American services librarian, will lead after lunch at 12:30 pm.
State subsidy payments to Alameda County total an estimated 744000 this year for reducing commitments of youths and adults to state institutions. The California Youth Authority administers the program, which rewards counties for placing offenders on probation. Alameda reports 678 fewer commitments than expected, earning 492000 less than last year, with funds used for intensive probation units and case handling techniques.
European airports stepped up security for all Israel bound flights. Police cars shadowed jetliners at Heathrow while Brussels and Copenhagen airports deployed armed guards. Airlines banned mail and cargo to Israel, lifting total suspensions to ten carriers. A Swissair jet to Tel Aviv crashed near Zurich killing 47, with suspected Arab militants in the disaster and in an Austria crash two hours earlier. Meir urged action against groups and hosting nations, warning Israel may act alone. A Heathrow meeting of seven major airlines discussed heightened measures. a second airline summit of 53 carriers is planned for Tuesday. Swiss authorities ordered stricter controls on foreign nationals. a cabinet statement sought to detect Oslo Gaza links at the border. In California, a Chinese seaman died after a fall from a mast aboard a British tanker about 100 miles off the coast.
A year old widow, Mrs. Mary Leuci, narrowly escaped serious injury when a cigarette ignited a fire in her living room at 4104 Converse St. Firefighters said the blaze, started around 7 20 p.m., caused about 2000 dollars in damage to the two story house with heavy smoke throughout. Leuci, who had just had the house repainted, fled to a neighbor and will need to redo the interior.
Funeral services are set for Gertrude M Adams 9 a native of San Francisco who died in Fremont. Services will be at 2p m at Fremont Memorial Chapel. She is survived by husband Joseph a daughter Beverly Adams Brainard and sisters Al Rice Emma Keyes and Bernice Sage. James M Cline 22 of Fremont died Feb 22 in an auto accident. He was the husband of Lynne M Cline son of Mr and Mrs W M Cline Jr and grandson of W M Cline Sr. Services 11 a m at Berge Pappas Mortuary with Rev Karl Olson officiating. Interment Irvington Memorial Cemetery. Steven R Farney 1 died Sunday in a Fremont auto accident. Requiem Mass at 9 a m at Holy Spirit Church. Interment Holy Sepulchre Cemetery Hayward. Rosary recited tonight at 7 p m. He was Syracuse NY native a 1969 Washington High School graduate student at Ohlone College son of Robert C Farney and Mrs Nap Lebelace grandson of Mr and Mrs Nap Lebelace.
General Motors announced that 2,200 employees will be laid off in March as GMAD plants will shut down one day to a week to cut inventories. Baltimore Kansas City Fremont and Framingham Mays Atlanta sites will halt March 19 20 with a reduced assembly rate starting March 23, and Arlington Texas Tinden New Jersey and South Gate California will suspend operations on the coming Monday and Tuesday.
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