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Newspaper
Daily Review
Location
Hayward, California, United States of America
Date
Aug 11, 1972
Page
3
In Oakland two youths aged 10 and 16 were arrested on assault charges after a sniper incident left a painting contractor critically wounded in the groin and a bystander, Mrs. Paslon, shot as she leaned from a window. A .22 rifle was recovered. Mane Sousa was also wounded and underwent emergency surgery.
Police say a crowd of about 200, mainly Blacks and Mexican-Americans, attacked a building with a firebomb and pelted police with rocks after Herman L. Johnson, a 16-year-old, was shot following a burglary report. Four people were arrested, including the shooter’s suspect, Michael Piorkowski, 27, booked for murder.
San Francisco reports the Flying Scotsman, the famed British steam engine that once roared between London and Edinburgh, is at end of its line in the United States. Alan Pegler, who saved the engine and toured with it, says he spent about $1 million on the 10ton train and that it has been a Fisherman’s Wharf tourist draw during British Week after arriving months ago.
A warehouse fire on the Gulf Coast in Morgan City La engulfed four blocks of waterfront businesses. No casualties reported. Fire spread 50 to 100 feet threatening several large oil storage tanks. Firemen sprayed water from four tugboats and urban hydrants. tanks did not ignite.
An American owned barkentine Regine Maris with 56 crew aboard was reported out of danger after two days battered by a Pacific hurricane. Coast Guard and Air Force pumps drained water allowing 36 Americans and two non Americans to ride out the crisis in life jackets. The vessel may be towed to Panama for repairs with the main issue a broken tail shaft.
William Lee Wollard 30, a former mental patient, cut his left arm with a razor on the Fulton Superior Court witness stand after confessing to four burglaries. A blood trail led from the eighth floor to the sidewalk as he was taken to a hospital. he said I bleed for my sins. Wollard and Richard Steven Brooks, 23, face four burglary counts. The defense called the confession unusual.
Sacramento outlines welfare cuts and new duties for families on welfare, AB 661 by Biddle Riverside. It also mentions AB 108 by Polan San Francisco easing property disposal for wives of war prisoners. AB 1625 Miller Berkeley repeals slave import penalties. Ventura County Municipal Court gains one judge, Lagomarsino Rojas. San Diego County Superior Court gains judges under SB 928 Burgener. Fairs provision allows multiple county fairs with Department approval.
A Cresap, McCormick and Pagel report recommends a two year planning cycle, smaller committees, and expanded executive board role to boost direction and coordination. It calls for a deputy pollution control director, replaces the enforcement division with upgraded engineering and inspection crews, and improves public communications.
About 33 men with drunkenness convictions marched through downtown Sacramento demanding county detoxification centers as humane alternatives to jail. Organizers tied their action to a prior statute and cited costs of jail versus a 72 hour residential holding model in neighboring San Joaquin County.
North and South Korea will begin negotiations to reunite 40 million families separated since World War II at a conference in Pyongyang on August 20. Red Cross negotiators at both sides agreed today.
About 6,600 acres burned in Mendocino County as 500 firefighters used bulldozers and air tankers to contain a 96,600 acre blaze near Laytonville. One firefighter, Lloyd S. Shellabarger, 43, of Crescent City, died of a heart attack. An aerial tanker pilot escaped injury in a wheels-up crash at Ukiah Airport. Fire crews planned to gain full containment by midnight with hundreds of personnel and equipment deployed.
Lightning sparked hundreds of wildfires across Idaho Utah Nevada and eastern Oregon as firefighting crews battled more than 200 active blazes. The Boise and Humboldt forests saw rapid new fires with 200 smoke jumpers deployed and air tankers aiding efforts.
Kathleen Kennedy, 21, daughter of Robert Kennedy, campaigns for George McGovern in San Francisco and across the Bay Area urging action to push for change. She cites visiting day care centers ghettos and Indian reservations and plans a weekend swing before returning east.
Tens of thousands of residents along a burning east Moscow crescent are evacuated as a massive peat and brush fire rages for weeks. About 15,000 soldiers, fire personnel and civilians fight the blaze with bulldozers, water trucks and explosives while half a million people in Shae tuva and nearby towns endure tent cities and hospital transfers.
In Goteborg, Paul McCartney Linda McCartney and drummer Danny Serwell posted a 2100 bond after admitting to marijuana import during a Wings tour. Police say they could be fined and possibly expelled, but plan to continue the concert schedule. They acknowledged sending parcels from London while on tour.
Snow fell over the 4000 foot Cairngorms as a rare spell of sun struck Scotland's highlands. Gusty winds accompanied the unusual weather pattern creating a striking clash of sun and snow across Aberdeen and surrounding areas.
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