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Newspaper
Argus
Location
Fremont, California, United States of America
Date
Mar 25, 1971
Page
7
Fremont recreation commissioners vote unanimously to approve 53000 for park spending and 62000 in additional expenditures with 6 to 0 tally as Alice Cline was absent. A staff recommendation then seeks 53964 for park expenditures and 9689 is slated for street improvements per Parks Superintendent Ted Harpainter.
A five member committee representing state and local teachers administrators and school boards will investigate Fremont Unified District administrative reassignment decisions. The probe, requested by affected elementary principals and FADTA, seeks violations of due process and good personnel practices.
Fremont residents form the Responsible School Board committee to offer voters alternatives to incumbents in the April 20 district board election. The 8 p.m. meeting at St James Episcopal Church aims to reinstate seven reassigned elementary principals and lines up four candidates including two write-ins.
Newark resident sues for $109000 alleging false arrest and malicious police action. He claims a warrant for forgery was misapplied after wallet theft evidence failed, with court delays and eventual release after transfer to Santa Hata. Damages sought include $100000000 in punitive relief.
Fremont area trustees of the Fremont Newark Community College District approved a 50 meter pool at the new Ohlone campus replacing the planned 25 meter pool. The larger pool will cost 400000 dollars, with design shifted from the smaller pool.
In Los Angeles UPI reports actress Samantha Eggar was divorced Wednesday from film producer Tom Stern after six years of marriage. Stern received $25,000 in a property settlement and alimony set at $1 per year. He claimed Eggar hid more than $500,000 in community assets abroad. child support was waived.
Newark city council plans a second review of the Mirabeau and Mayhews Landing Neighborhood Parks master plans. A 2 to 2 tie blocked adoption previously, with calls to involve City Manager Plowright. The plan includes selling 3.5 acres at Mayhews for family housing to fund park development, plus budget cuts and land acquisitions for Thornton Avenue widening.
Fremont officials argued the county’s priority system overreaches, as the committee outlined a detailed list of road projects including Dumbarton and Foothill freeways, Nimitz and Shoreline routes, and interchanges. The plan, refined by engineers, requires cross-community support for legality, with a 27-member voting body and city chambers each holding one vote, before the State Highway Commission meeting in Oakland on July 22. Opponents of the priorities lost both the vote on the package and an earlier bid to overturn the system.
Two youths identified as Alexander Baca and Mayne Garza were taken into custody on charges of assaulting Patrolman Hon Packard and other officers near the corner of Sixth and I streets in Union City. Packard was knocked down and injured, with additional officers reporting being kicked during the fracas. Police, alerted by bystanders, dispatched units including Patrolman Richard Aives to intervene as the scene unfolded after a disturbance at about 19 p.m.
In San Francisco the strike forced Galileo High and Luther Burbank Junior High to close before noon for safety reasons after reports of roaming pupils and broken windows. Secondary schools saw the heaviest absenteeism with over 1,000 teachers off, and only 25 percent student attendance in many cases while elementary schools stayed open. Shaheen said junior and senior highs would run half days Thursday, while Shaheen pledged to keep schools open despite the half-day plan.
Fremont Unified School District trustees postponed adoption of the 1971-72 calendar until next month after the chief negotiator for teachers warned that approving it now would fragment negotiations. Edward Roberts, chairman of the certificated employes council, urged acting on the master agreement as a whole and noted calendar details affect wages and working conditions. He said differences over the proposed calendar can be resolved in negotiations, with a target date in May to complete the master agreement.
Crutcher outlined a two phase master plan for Coyote Hills with a $30,000 first phase analyzing marina sites wildlife, and a $10,000 second phase detailing a schematic park plan and expansion areas. Officials weighed environmental impact and funding against past feasibility studies and local land constraints.
A 4 year old Fremont girl was left with a fractured right leg after being struck by a pickup while crossing Weeers Drive near Fremont Boulevard. Elizabeth Ann Orderee, a Washington High student, and Cherry Gann were involved as witnesses. The driver Darcy Wo Phelps, 17, of Newark, faced no citations though his license was expired.
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