Weather Outlook For Rete City
Cloudy start with light rain possible then areas clear this evening. Friday looks fair and warmer. Low temperatures from the low 40s to low 50s tonight, highs 55 to 65. Rain chances around 30 percent. Details on page 2.
01 May 1969
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Newspaper
Argus
Location
Fremont, California, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1969
Page
1
Cloudy start with light rain possible then areas clear this evening. Friday looks fair and warmer. Low temperatures from the low 40s to low 50s tonight, highs 55 to 65. Rain chances around 30 percent. Details on page 2.
A meeting today gathers Fremont quarry industry representatives and the Alameda County Water District to seek a compromise on the water pumping controversy. Newark wins condemnation case to purchase 1.96 acres of park land. Fe Mont and Newark students win $100 scholarships from Fremont Savings and Loan Association.
A Thai witness testifies at a San Francisco Presidio stockade court martial about guards being mocked by their commander. Berry Goldwater 14 wins a California seat in a special congressional election. A federal grand jury probes Black Panthers activities. California Assembly approves strict oil spill liability. Revenue and Taxation Committee stalls Reagan tax rebate bill. Bay area bay fill control urged by Reagan administration and state senator.
Congress demands that Treasury Secretary Kennedy renounce a $200,000 gift from the bank he once led amid probes into his $1.2 million stock sales. White House works on financing formulas for supersonic transport and airport programs. Two women found stabbed in Kansas City. killer washed hands before fleeing. Initial cosmic ray tests fail to reveal new pyramid chambers. further efforts possible. Brig. Gen. Marshall cites 40 percent of American combat deaths in Vietnam as from "our own mistakes."
Fee The Key Republican Independents led by Valery Giscard d Estaing swing support to Georges Pompidou in the contest to succeed Charles de Gaulle. Pope Paul VI elevates 33 new cardinals while accepting Cardinal Cicognani's resignation. Cambodia's Norodom Sihanouk says he temporarily rejects U.S. moves to reestablish relations with Cambodia.
US med units seized a combat hospital complex and over 100 Communist troops were killed in two days of sweeps along the main North Viet Nam–Saigon supply route from Cambodia toward Saigon. Two-day tolls reached 135 Red troops killed in separate operations nearby.
Fremont officials endorsed a plan for an independent Fremont Youth Congress. The Fremont Recreation Commission voted 4-1 to back the concept but withheld a 42000 operating budget. The Youth Task Force urged a joint powers agreement among Fremont, the city, and two school districts to form a self directing youth agency. The next step is approval by the city council and district boards.
Fremont Unified School District panel approves dress code revisions allowing neatly trimmed beards for boys and dress slacks for girls on junior high and high school campuses. The committee keeps skirts at three inches above the knee and notes beards were previously banned and slacks limited to athletic events.
Fremont civil suit seeks 5000 against six youths and a neighbor for harassment of a Negro Newark family. Judge Sabraw has 30 days to issue a decision. Damages focus on exemplary penalties. actual property loss around 100 dollars.
Kenneth Foster, ex mayor of Newark, has entered Washington Hospital in Fremont with fibulations described by his wife Ruthe Foster as irregular heartbeats though tests show no heart damage. He previously served on the Newark Planning Commission 1958 to 1964, was city council member 1963 to 1967, and mayor from 1966 to 1967 before losing re election.
Washington UPI report shows 76 percent of 1,216 physicists polled at the American Physical Society meeting oppose the Safeguard ABM while 21 percent favor it. Dr. Tom Kirk of Harvard led petitions to Dr. Lee DuBridge at the White House. On Capitol Hill scientists sought hearings on the military program amid a House floor debate.
Alameda County residents face about a 1 cent rise in the BART tax rate next year under a proposed 1949 70 budget of 5.8 million dollars. The administration committee backed the plan sending it to a May 8 board hearing, with Alameda County likely to rise from 3.7 to about 6.5 cents per 100 assessed value.
Three Fremont students Edward Kurtz Sandra Kring and William MacGregor were named National Merit Scholarship winners by the National Merit Scholarship Corporation. They join seven Southern Alameda County students among more than 9 000 nationwide recipients from 1988 69 finalists. Scholarships include four year awards ranging from 400 to 6 000 and one time 1 000 National Merit Scholarships. Kawaguchi a James Logan High student is noted as a Army Merit Scholar with a diverse background and awards.
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