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Newspaper
Argus
Location
Fremont, California, United States of America
Date
Jul 24, 1971
Page
1
Petitioners under a Concerned Citizens Committee seek a 1972 election with six council seats from district areas and one at large. To force expansion from five to six members, 10 percent of about 26 000 registered voters must sign within 180 days. Councilman Gene Rhodes currently resides in District One.
Continued warm spell expected through Sunday with coastal and inland fog dissipating. Night lows near the for afternoon highs mid tens, easing to the mid tens by afternoon as winds 10 to 20 mph. Details Page 14.
Agriculture Department will inspect 12 areas for possible chemical leakage into poultry feed from a North Carolina plant. Justice Department weighs timing of a possible grand jury investigation into Kent State shootings. Senate negotiators expect Nixon to accept a legislated end date for Vietnam combat. Apollo 15 engineers avert battery issue while keeping countdown on track. Red tide outbreak in Tampa Bay area coats shore with dead fish. Daniel J. Haughton of Lockheed Aircraft faces accusations of insulting the Senate over company survival talks.
U.S. figures show 2,785 people detained in South Vietnam this year on narcotics charges amid a joint U S Vietnamese effort to curb drug distribution. A separate report notes a military court convicting three young American airmen for disobeying orders on guard duty and Sudan’s short lived leftist coup leaders were executed by firing squad after a military court death sentence was announced.
In a Kennedy Airport standoff the hijacker of a TWA jetliner was killed by an FBI agent with a high powered rifle on the runway while a hostage, hostess Idie Marie Concepcion, remained unharmed. The suspect Richard Obergfell, 27, later died at Jamaica Hospital.
Fremont researcher Bruce G. Elliott of the State Fish and Game Department leads a two year study evaluating whether cultivating marsh grass along salt pond dikes could create aquatic nurseries for wildlife. The effort, tied to a potential California wildlife refuge, examines how ponds support brine flies and shrimp, and their impact on shore birds including the endangered California clapper rail.
Hearings on 8 BIE to create the 222000 acre Sam Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge are tentatively scheduled for Aug. 3 in Washington D.C. A spokesman for the Bureau of Outdoor Recreation in San Francisco said the hearings would follow a bill by Rep. Don Edwards. The measure has been pending with the House Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries. A long awaited Interior Department report on the refuge is due within two weeks and should be forwarded to the committee.
Washington United Press International reports Defense Secretary Melvin R. Laird voiced opposition to a Senate loan guarantee bill intended to rescue Lockheed Aircraft Corp. from bankruptcy. Senator William Proxmire interrupted Senate debate to read accounts of Laird’s position and led a filibuster against the measure.
Negotiations with Fremont city employee groups neared a settlement this week with a five percent pay raise essentially decided. Assistant City Manager Garth Lipsky noted the raise while fringe benefits and unused sick leave remain unsettled. A key meeting with FACE, the Fremont Police Association, and Fremont Firefighters Union was set for Monday afternoon as negotiators led by Richard Blegel and Thornton Bunch Jr. work toward a final agreement.
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