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Newspaper
Argus
Location
Fremont, California, United States of America
Date
Jan 05, 1971
Page
4
Dissidents shouted obscenities and waved Viet Cong flags as Reagan took the oath for a second term in Capitol Park. About 1,500 attended, with National Guardsmen guarding the outdoor ceremony and a few arrests for flag incidents amid vows for welfare reform and tax relief.
President Nixon predicted an economic recovery in 1971 while signaling no resumed large scale bombing of North Vietnam. He said retaliatory strikes would target military sites only if North Vietnamese forces threaten U S troops and would avoid civilian targets unless necessary. He cautioned that U S Soviet summit meetings should occur only if yielding major gains such as arms control or Middle East peace. He urged a shift toward negotiation over confrontation and expressed hope for progress in arms talks given strong incentives to end the arms race.
A blast at Manny's Restaurant caused the two story roof to collapse onto an adjoining blueprint company and gift shop on Lincoln Lane. Debris and fruit from the gift shop littered the street while Carl L Paxton Jr reported a gas odor and reported it to an air conditioning service.
Police report two youths, including 20 year old David Treason and 23 year old Barbara Guerra of unknown addresses, were found in a field after taking pills, suffering exposure. Treason attended Willamson Continuation High School. They were treated at Washington Hospital then transferred to Highland General Hospital in Oakland.
Instruments worth 805 dollars were reported missing from a room at Walters Junior High School in Fremont. A trumpet a cornet an alto saxophone and a bass clarinet disappeared during Christmas vacation with no sign of forced entry. Police believe they were taken during a music program held two weeks before the holidays.
The Stanford study shows Bay Area air inspectors using beer cans as simple H2S detectors to shield lead acetate paper from pollen and rain. It notes this low cost method, while older tools like titrolig and Gilman samplers exist, reflects broad critique of archaic pollution monitoring.
Snow flurries are forecast for the Great Lakes area with showers moving across to rain and snow over New England. A cold front brings mixed precipitation zones and brief icy conditions likely in exposed areas.
The Fremont city council and planning commission discussed the residential range policy to govern housing densities, with no decision expected for about a month. Mayor Gene Rhodes noted input from three hearings will guide a potential vote, as developers and residents clash over density goals and open space requirements.
American archaeologist Jeffrey Wilkerson reports the discovery of an ancient city on the Yucatan peninsula dating to about 600 B.C. This site, 1,000 years before Chichen Itza, shows walls, facades, stanes, spears, arrowheads, pottery, and skeletal remains, with inhabitants identified as Totonacs.
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