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Newspaper
Argus
Location
Fremont, California, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1967
Page
9
Forecast calls for fair conditions through tomorrow with overcast or fog in the inland night and morning. High near 87 degrees, low around 50 to 55. Westerly winds 10 to 20 miles per hour. Details on page 8.
The Newark Unified School District plans to adopt a 4.7 million dollar preliminary budget tonight. Officials caution that changes may occur before final approval. The budget action is noted amid other Far West college and local government items.
Lawmakers pursue a tax exemption to fund rapid transit districts but hit a roadblock as concerns about revenue, equity, and regional funding delays stall progress. Officials urge compromise to avoid delaying transit projects and service improvements.
The article notes Wiarch slows after two fast days as blisters form and an apparent Achilles tendon injury affects his left leg. It also mentions Luci Johnson Nugent and Pat bringing home their newborn Patrick Lyndon from an Austin hospital, mother and baby reported in excellent condition.
The report states more than two thousand Communists have been killed in the northern Vietnamese provinces since U S troops arrived two months ago to aid Marine units. Kosygin visits Cuba for post summit talks with Fidel Castro amid polite restraint. Syrian officers linked to a failed coup are executed with U S backing. Radio Damages Hays notes Thieu claims censorship of speeches and interviews.
Chinese news agencies report that a Chinese navy air unit shot down a US Phantom F4C over southeastern Hainan Island amid war provocation claims. The Pentagon acknowledged the jet was downed but said it was unarmed, with both crewmen rescued unharmed after departing from Clark Field en route to Da Nang.
May meetings continue as Director Harald Alameda plans to report at a study session tonight. Trustees face budget steps with potential salary increases to be debated. A formal budget adoption is set for tomorrow night at the IMC building, 37802 Fremont Blvd. Alameda explains the district anticipated needs since last October, including a 14 cent tax increase that raised the starting balance from about $500,000 to an estimated $780,000 amid rising enrollment and assessed value.
Fremont narcotics investigators report a potent new drug called STP entering the market from San Francisco. State Bureau official Matt O’Connor confirms STP supply areas and undercover agents have tried to purchase the drug for weeks. The Argu s notes ongoing efforts and hints at future coverage.
Fremont soldier Alfred Hampton, 19, wounded in Vietnam two months into his tour, suffered wounds to his right forearm during a combat operation near a 4000 foot ridge on the central highlands border region with Cambodia and Laos. He is recovering at the 67th Evacuation Hospital. Hampton is the son of Mr and Mrs James Hampton of Fremont.
North Vietnamese forces attacked two American bases and a U S Marine unit near the Demilitarized Zone with mortar artillery and rocket fire before dawn Tuesday. Six Americans were killed and 103 wounded, most of them Marines. One American was killed and nine wounded at Khe Sanh.
Fremont City Council plans a long budget session at the Community Center tonight at 7 80 p m with a public hearing on the 1967 68 budget. Youth baseball groups request increases, citing a 15 180 next year allotment while Babe Ruth League Fremont Baseball Inc Fremont Football League and Fremont Girls Sports Association seek higher funding. Chamber of Commerce and other groups are also slated to speak as council aims to approve by Friday.
Newark's summer program opened with Rango week and a Wild West theme as the first in a series of programs tied to television shows. Recreation supervisor Jim Pekkaín says playgrounds will host cookouts and western style activities on Thursday, the special events day.
AMMAN Jordan closed the Allenby Bridge over the River Jordan and refused to absorb more Arab refugees from Israeli occupied Jordanian territory. A Jordanian government spokesman said we cannot possibly absorb any more refugees.
President Johnson told Congressional leaders a future summit with Soviet Premier Kosygin was agreed to but not set with date or place. Senate leaders, after a Glassboro meeting, said Johnson and Kosygin envisaged further talks but offered no specifics.
A Fremont father of six spent about ninety minutes on a beam above the Golden Gate Bridge praying for the urge to leap but chose not to jump. He had left his children at home and drove to the span where he climbed the side and moved to a catwalk and beam before returning to the roadway. After telling police he believed the episode was a message from God, he boarded a tow truck home and was later found at his residence. authorities noted marital separation as a factor.
California Angels defeated the Washington Senators 4-3 in Anaheim as Jack Hamilton earned his first win of the year. The game, played under protest, saw Angels build an early lead before fending off the Senators in a tense American League matchup.
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