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Newspaper
Argus
Location
Fremont, California, United States of America
Date
Oct 17, 1968
Page
1
The forecast calls for high cloudiness today and tomorrow with little temperature change. Daytime highs will reach the seventies with overnight lows from 45 to 55 degrees. West to northwest winds up to 15 mph.
Fremont Planning Commission weighs three applications to place 384 acres of farm land into agricultural preserve status under the State Land Conservation Act. Alameda County panel backs a wildlife preserve in South San Francisco Bay and reviews its FY 1967 68 annual report. A Fremont man helps design a device treating a sometimes fatal infant illness. Page 2 and 16.
In Sacramento Wilford Gray, 34, serving a life term for kidnaping former state Finance Director Hale Champion during a four day 1965 rampage, testifies he pleaded guilty to avoid execution. In Glendale Max Rafferty accuses Democrat Alan Cranston of conducting a senatorial campaign by insult.
George Wallace appears to gain male support in recent weeks while losing ground with women, per the Sindlinger Survey in New York. Rep Wilbur D Mills had blocked a 10 percent tax rise for nearly a year, a measure to curb inflation and align government revenue with spending. The Apollo 7 astronauts turn to weather monitoring as they track Hurricane Gladys and report thunderstorms with familiar dimpled eye patterns.
U S Undersecretary Katzenbach tells Western Europe that they must assume more defense responsibility as U S aid cannot cover the cost indefinitely. Three American scientists win 70 000 Nobel Prize in medicine for independent studies. Stockholm calls it a breakthrough in heredity. United States and North Vietnam fail to agree in a three hour meeting to speed peace talks.
Alfred B. Redd, longtime water advocate in Niles, testified at a state Public Utilities Commission hearing on a Citizens Utilities rate hike. He opposed improvements in Niles and Decoto, urging annexation to Alameda County Water District while demanding better storage and water quality, saying the system must be integrated. The full exchange continued on page 2.
A four page brochure sent to 208000 voters in the South District under Franking privileges sparked a clash as Republican Larry Fargher accused Congressman Don Edwards of using taxpayer money for political material. Edwards defended the mailings as informational summaries of sessions, noting printing costs at about 1600 dollars and that the pieces were not government prepared.
Owners of Hast Bay medical colleges establish a $500 trust at Crocker Citizens Bank, San Jose, for seven orphaned Prada children living with grandmother in Fremont. A prior fund for Prada children killed in a Niles District crash was set up by Sam Arnold Real Estate Co. of Fremont at Bank of Fremont.
Washington sources say President Johnson hopes to announce a halt in bombing North Vietnam soon pending from Hanoi. White House cautions no guarantee, while secret talks in Paris outline a three point formula involving DMZ withdrawal, end to attacks, and expanded peace talks with Hanoi. Australian Prime Minister Gorton says only one point remains to be ironed out.
A 22-year-old Fremont soldier Spec. 4 Pierce M. Kimball was killed when mortar fire hit his infantry unit near Lai Kot in South Vietnam. His wife Judith was notified, they married last November. He is survived by his mother and two brothers, Sean in Washington, D.C. and Brian in Seattle. Burial will be in Seattle.
SUNOL California Jesse Unruh speaker of the State Assembly branded Gov Ronald Reagan s accusation that he places a price tag on bills to clear them from committee as a lie Unruh challenged Reagan to a face to face television debate and said he sent a telegram denouncing the charge as slanderous in a park telegram note and warned that a Reagan refusal to debate would be damaging to the party.
San Diego reports Gov. Ronald Reagan rejected Assembly Speaker Jesse Unruh’s demand for a face to face debate over alleged campaign financing tricks. Reagan dismissed Unruh as a coward and liar, while Unruh condemned the governor’s tactics and warned of future political maneuvering.
In Hayward a tense campaign meeting saw Rep. Don Edwards and challenger Larry Fargher trade charges over a pretend ballot that allegedly distorts Edwards voting record. Fargher called Edwards extreme with an ACA voting history of 100 to zero, while Edwards accused Fargher of distributing an official test ballot to mislead voters.
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