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Newspaper
Argus
Location
Fremont, California, United States of America
Date
Oct 31, 1969
Page
5
Vice President Spiro Agnew warned that unrest and street demonstrations threaten national policy urging legal dissent only and accusing anarchists and communists of exploiting protests He argued foreign policy cannot be set in the streets and warned against sliding into an authoritarian state as tensions rise around Nixon's presidency.
AEC disclosed small clouds of radioactive gas from an underground nuclear blast drifted across U S 95 near Lathrop Wells and between Lathrop Wells and Mercury. Readings peaked at 0.06 milliroentgens per hour, with one location at 0.04, above a 0.02 background. Health officials said levels posed no hazard and returned to normal quickly.
The board unanimously voted for a planning department reorganization and to create a zoning official. Salaries for county posts were set with ranges from 1,869 to 2,102 for treasurer and from 2,085 to 92,345 for other officials. district attorney 2,726 to 3,067. sheriff 2,299 to 92,586. Bart opposed, urging streamlining before any increases. Hannon and Murphy supported raises.
Dorothea Gross, 64, was struck by a car while crossing Mission Boulevard near Foothill Villa. She suffered a broken pelvis and back injuries and was moved to Highland Hospital after initial evaluation at Washington Hospital where her condition was listed as satisfactory. The driver, Richard Jepsen, 44, Hayward, said he could not stop in time.
The six man U S delegation to the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks with the Soviet Union heads to Helsinki Finland and is expected to depart Washington November 12, led by Disarmament Agency Director Gerard C Smith. They likely stop in Brussels en route for a NATO council chief.
A pan of hot grease ignited a $700 kitchen fire at 5683 Wilkie Place belonging to Mrs George Sanchez yesterday shortly before 2 pm. Firemen reported she turned on a burner beneath a skillet while removing other pans, then left to wash her hair. Smoke filled the home but damage stayed mainly in the kitchen and was quickly extinguished.
Funeral services are set for Cornelio Montez a four year old who died Tuesday in a San Jose hospital. Mass will be at St Anne's Union City after a chapel service in Fremont. Interment follows at Holy Sepulchre Hayward. Survived by widow Lucy, four daughters Ophelia Marion Mary and Phyllis, a brother Norberto and 17 grandchildren.
A Pennsylvania judge weighs exhuming Miss Kopechne’s body for an autopsy after Kennedy’s car plunged into a tidal pond on Chappaquiddick Island. The court notes extensive media coverage and public interest while preserving the possibility of a fair trial, ruling inquest documents may be released only when the case is certain to proceed.
Governor McKeithen says enforcing a federal desegregation plan would require about 27,000 marshals for two institutions and would ruin public schools in Louisiana. He criticizes HEW for not ordering eastern schools desegregated and warns the state legislature may withhold funding once the plan takes full effect.
Newark Fire Chief Dean Holzgrafe urged the City Council to develop a 2500 training facility near Station Road and Mawry Avenue to improve protection. Councilmen, while not formalizing a motion, voiced unanimous support during the budget session for a third permanent fire station and temporary arrangements on Mowry before 1971.
George Pops Foster a veteran of classic New Orleans jazz died Thursday in San Francisco at age 77. He began his 60 year career in 1908 in the New Orleans red light district and became one of the best known and best liked musicians of the old school.
In Hayward, about 540 residents petitioned city officials demanding relief for heavy westbound traffic on a five block area of West Winton Avenue between the Nimily Freeway and Hesperian Boulevard. Council ordered an immediate study as a traffic engineer noted bottlenecks and a new signal phase and lane restripe began that day.
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