09 Nov 1969
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Newspaper
Argus
Location
Fremont, California, United States of America
Date
Nov 09, 1969
Page
1
Partly cloudy today with a chance of showers tonight. Fair tonight and tomorrow with highs in the upper 60s to low 70s. Southeast winds 10 to 20 mph. Rain chances about 10 percent today and less than 10 percent tonight. Details Page 3.
Fremont Mission San Jose High defeats James Logan High 47 to 0 at Washington Memorial Stadium to cap a perfect football season and extend their winning streak to nine.
Betty Lansdown Fouquet, a pregnant California mother of six, is back in Kern County Jail as officials seek the whereabouts of her eight year old son Jeffrey. In Port Chicago, 65 year old Terry Bidelman remains the last holdout against the Navy evacuation order.
Connecticut Senator Thomas Dodd releases a report accusing Russia of aiding the Polish Home Army’s defeat by Nazi forces, calling it one of the crassest betrayals in history. The piece notes other items on page 7 including Apollo 12, Pentagon spending claims, Nixon-Ho Chi Minh letters, and a New York telephone strike.
Reports from Parma Ce diplomats and observers cite increased Arab Israeli raids and spillover fighting. The notes warn that stepped up clashes raise the chance of a full scale war if tensions escalate further. The fragment touches on broader regional instability and mounting hostilities.
Washington planners of the New Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam frame the antiwar march as peaceful and legal. They expect hundreds of thousands of demonstrators with support from about 100,000 affiliated groups, deny Nixon admin charges of violence, and note transport holdbacks. Coretta King and Dr. Benjamin Spock stress nonviolence, while The Weathermen pledge peaceful participation.
Senator Barry Goldwater said he asked the U.S. Attorney General for guidance on legalizing drugs and whether legalization could cripple organized crime. He clarified he is not for immediate legalization, but seeks reaction and potential policy options while in Honolulu after the Western Republican Conference.
Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird predicted final congressional approval of a lottery system draft based on birth dates. He said the Senate will likely act favorably after hearings begin Monday, noting several senators had shifted their positions. The plan would place 19 year olds into a lottery for the draft until age 20, aiming to address perceived inequities in the current system.
A car driven by William J. Raymond 49 of Fremont crashed into a power pole on Mowry Avenue near Bonner Avenue causing a citywide outage in Centerville. Raymond was treated at Washington Hospital for facial and elbow injuries and listed in satisfactory condition. Police report the impact occurred around 7 50 p.m. after his vehicle veered off the road.
A major Hydro Quebec outage knocked out power for about four million people in southern Quebec and across the province from 11:43 a.m. to 1:58 p.m. Hospitals, airports, and broadcasters switched to emergency power as traffic lights failed and elevators stalled. The failure stemmed from a lightning arrester at Levis Station near Quebec City, with isolated areas still without power afterward. Weather was mild and no deaths were reported.
The Commemorative Special trip marking the first transcontinental passenger train was halted in Oakland last night after a passenger, George A. Nelson, died at 2 26 pm likely a heart attack. Nelson, 2012 Parker St Berkeley, was with his grandson Nelson Thorp 8 of Hayward at a scheduled stop in Lathron. He was transported to mortuary in Manteca. The event, organized by the Pacific Coast Chapter Railway and Locomotive Historical Society with Southern Pacific, aimed to observe the centennial of the railroad's completion. Passengers had traveled from Oakland to Sacramento.
In Leicester England police clashed with about 2 000 demonstrators protesting South Africa’s apartheid outside Welford Road Stadium where the Springboks beat a Midlands team 11 9. Nine arrests and injuries to officers and demonstrators were reported as guards with dogs backed the show of force.
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