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Newspaper
Argus
Location
Fremont, California, United States of America
Date
May 03, 1975
Page
9
A girl born Friday at Camp Pendleton at 5:30 a.m. PDT became the first American born in the tent city facility. The baby weighed six pounds and measured 16 inches, and automatically gained citizenship as she was born in the United States.
Newark man Michael Potts, 24, was arrested after being spotted in a stolen truck near Alder Short Stop Market. He fled, was captured, and allegedly admitted breaking into Central Chevrolet. Police found tools in a stash in an abandoned Newark truck. Potts faces burglary auto theft grand theft and malicious mischief charges.
A Coca Cola plant employee from San Jose was arrested Thursday as a suspect in a freeway assault on Wednesday. Officer Steve Loyd tracked a car near the Nimitz Freeway, detaining Dennis Keith Campasi, 20, of Hayward after finding a toy gun and knives in his vehicle. Campasi wore a Coca Cola shirt. police noted he claimed the gun was a toy. In a separate report, a Beechcraft Debonair crashed near Palm Springs on Thursday morning killing two men, Arthur J. Woodward and Michael E. Campbell, while survivor William Heath, 43, of Whittier, escaped with multiple injuries. FAA probes the crash cause.
Dale Viertel 26 of Venice faces one count robbery three counts burglary and one grand theft after alleged burglaries in Bel Air that included a banjo toothpaste basket canned goods and a brass sword. He was arrested after a gunpoint car theft and held on auto theft and grand theft warrants. He has a diuretic condition and is in County USC Medical Center jail ward.
Fremont duo Dave Bachelder and Bruce Navratic design and build custom theater sets from a Warm Springs Bay workshop. They have created for Washington High School Mist Fremont Pageant Ortone College and West Valley Civic Light Opera while planning larger studios and modular pieces to fit regional schools and small theatres.
Paris based French diplomats warn that exuberant Chinese reaction to Indo China regime changes could jeopardize President Ford’s planned late year trip to Peking. They note Moscow’s wary stance on detente and describe differing Soviet and Chinese responses to the Saigon and Phnom Penh collapses.
President Ford awarded the Harmon Trophy to three Skylab II astronauts Joseph Kern, Fall, and Cy Osbourn for space repair work that enabled rendezvous with Skylab I. Air Force Col. Edward J. Nash and Lt. Col. Edgar L. Allison received the Aviator award for long range airlift missions. Malcolm Forbes was honored with the Aeronaut Award for air balloon journeys.
A hotel fire broke out in downtown Los Angeles causing street traffic disruptions as fire crews contained the blaze. Officials reported no injuries and crews remained on scene through the evening operations.
Flames swept an Oakland trestle as firefighters battled the blaze for over an hour. No injuries were reported. Several Santa Fe Railroad freight cars adjacent to the wooden trestle were damaged, with damage estimated between 100000 and 150000 dollars.
Oakland negotiators and labor officials from Alameda and Contra Costa counties met for two hours in a state mediated session as Local 2428 AFL-CIO pushes 50 plus changes. The district offered 16 modifications including job classification, maternity leave, seniority, minority recruitment, and use of state conciliators. Both sides target binding arbitration, medical benefits, cost of living adjustments, and temporary hiring reforms with talks to resume Tuesday.
Perrin Johnston, once the world’s second longest surviving heart transplant patient, died in a Toronto hospital after living for 62 years with a donor heart. Born in Milwaukee, his family described his long life post surgery in November 1962. Johnston, married with two children, recalled fearing waking from the operation and later planned a return to work before his death from heart disease.
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