Temporary dam spill windows threaten Cave Run flood project
Rhett warned that a spill over the temporary earthen dam could cause irreparable damage to the $35 million Cave Run flood control project eight years into construction. An unusually wet July has raised danger as engineers expected flood levels to ease after June. Residents of Farmers, four miles below the dam, had been evacuated last October after a Chesapeake & Ohio derailment caused a butane fire.
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Rhett
Appalachian
Kentucky
Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad
Coastal forecast calls for fair weather today and tomorrow
The Ca st area expects fair conditions with low clouds and fog near the coast. Daytime highs reach the 70s and overnight lows drop into the 50s. More weather on page 16.
Reading Help Sought After Arrest
A person recalls being unable to read the papers given at arrest and asks for someone to read to them. They express fear of losing family and home and say they have never been jailed before. The incident centers on confusion over legal documents and call for assistance.
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Gett
Trustees approve pay hike package at Fremont College District
Fremont Newark Community College District trustees approved about a 4.1 percent pay increase plus a dental plan in a 4-3 vote. The plan covers employees and some dependents with fringe benefits including life and pharmaceutical coverage. June salary requests total 7.4 percent, with 5.5 percent cost of living and 2 percent for professional growth.
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Caroline Turner
Fremont
Fremont-Newark Community College
Warren Enos
Ohlone College
Stephen Zipler
Bay Area
Salary bargaining resumes as city, employes close gap
Fremont union negotiators and city representatives resumed talks to resolve nearly two months of bargaining over pay raises and benefits. An outside firm will aid, with a $14,000 fee for the rest of the year, as talks focus on a retroactive raise planned for July and the 1972 wage package.
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Fremont
Asst
Garth Kipsky
Don Driggs
Industrial Employers Association of San Francisco
Lipsky
Biegel
Comb & Bunch Jr
Senate warns Nixon over China illusions during Peking trip
Washington scholars and lawmakers told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that any expectation of a mellowing Chinese Communist leadership is unfounded. Professor Franz Michael warned of dangerous illusions, while Senator Tower cautioned that rapprochement could undercut Taiwan and the Nixon Doctrine. Secretary Rogers briefed a group of ambassadors, including South Vietnam's Bui Diem, on the mission's aims.
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George Washington University
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Asia
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Committee of
China
United Nations
William P. Rogers
South Vietnam
Bui Diem
Fremont council approves weaker tree protection policy
Fremont city council approved a watered down plan requiring developers to provide an accurate tree location map and 48 hours notice before site work so a city inspector can ensure trees are not damaged. The measure passed four to one with Councilman Don Dillon opposed citing heritage trees and replacement concerns.
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Fremont
Don Dillon
Dillon
Financial Club
William Yar Doorn
Jack Pimentel
GI heroin arrests balloon in Vietnam June
UPI reports U S military police arrested 1148 GIs on heroin charges in June in Vietnam, nearly matching all of last year. Increased surveillance and MP activity cited, with 12 463 men applying for amnesty or arrested for heroin in the first half of 1970. Doctors warn addicts may evade urinalysis tests as the program aims to screen departing soldiers.
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Saigon
UPI
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Vietnam
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Nison
Jerome H. Jaffe
Kenneth J. Braddick
Fremont teachers seek 4.1 percent pay hike plan
Fremont educators demand a 4 percent cost of living raise plus enhanced health benefits and a school district funded dental plan. Edward Roberts, chairman of the certified employees council, says the proposal was submitted to the district’s negotiating team and will be presented at the upcoming budget meeting to discuss financing via potential override taxes. The package mirrors prior COLA calculations tied to the April–March 31 period and maintains the current operating tax rate.
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Fremont
Edward Roberts
Certified Employes Council
Roberts
Union City council clash over mayoral assault incident
Union City officials escalate after Mayor Henry Franco allegedly struck Councilman Leo Alvelais in last week's incident. Hayward councilman Charlene Santané accuses police tactics used in arrest of two elderly Decoto shopkeepers, urging reform and oversight.
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Leo Alvelais
Hayward
Charlie Santané
Frank
Uged
Decoto
Plea for information in search for missing red haired boy
A week after a red haired mentally retarded boy vanished in a grove of giant sequoias his father urges anyone with information to come forward. The plea requests details that could locate the missing child and bring answers to the family.
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Huey Newton
John Frey
Radioactivity linked to higher infant mortality in western states
A University of Pittsburgh professor reports increased radioactivity in air, milk, and water has raised infant mortality by up to 25 percent in the last two years across three Western states. The Defense Department plans to destroy 8071 tons of mustard gas next month at a cost of 7.6 million dollars. Selective Service prepares for a third annual draft lottery on August 5 to set next year’s draft order, though no draftees have been inducted since late June.
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University of Pittsburgh
Defense Department
Selective Service
Sayid leadership cool to Nixon meeting idea
Communist sources report that Sayid leadership is cool to a meeting with President Nixon before his trip to China. The report appears on Page 2.
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Sayid
Nixon
China
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