San Francisco officers dive for pilots rescue in bay
Police Chief recommends public Recognition Awards for a civilian Nesby Jackson and three officers who jumped into freezing San Francisco Bay to pull five helicopter pilots from water after their craft failed midflight from Mather Air Force Base to the Presidio. Wendell Lowry and Stephen Isle among the rescued. Foley Macey Robis aided in the effort.
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Yuba City
Stephen Isle
Davis
Mather Air Force Base
Presidio
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National Guard
Follies pair held obscene act arrests in San Francisco
San Francisco police arrested Katherine McGee, 21, a former performer, and Bill Long Loon ey, 42, a doorman, at the New Follies Theater. McGee faces charges of staging an obscene act while Loon ey is charged with assisting or aiding the act.
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Cranston backs wage and price freeze to curb inflation
Sen. Alan Cranston of California urged a temporary wage and price freeze in Concord during a Contra Costa County tour. He said controls provide breathing space but are not the solution, blaming the Vietnam War for inflation and advocating a massive federal job creation program in both private and public sectors.
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Cranston
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Grapes Cause Fatal Throat Obstruction in Boy
In Berkeley a two year old boy died after grapes became lodged in his throat. Firemen couldn't clear the obstruction, and after two hours doctors removed a grape but another obstruction apparently deeper in the throat caused his death at Herrick Hospital.
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Hill
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Fragging pre-trial hearing set at Fort Ord California
Pvt Billy D. Smith 23 of Los Angeles faces court martial on two counts of premeditated murder two counts of attempted murder and three counts of assault for allegedly throwing a fragmentation grenade into an officers compound at Bien Hoa army base Vietnam on March 15 Military Judge Rawls H W Frazier will preside over a pretrial hearing August 20 expected to last one to two days with trial slated for early next year Fragging refers to attacking officers with a grenade in GI slang
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Muslims Escapees Cleared in California Jail Break Case
In Sachoamento California a Superior Court jury acquitted prisoners Aluecrord Terry and Clau dell Gosper of escape charges after they argued they fled Fol som Prison dairy farm due to threat to their Black Muslim beliefs. They left the farm on an unspecified date in March and were caught five hours later. Both inmates were serving time for assault in Los Angeles County. The defense cited a state law protecting acts carried out to save life from criminal liability. verdict delivered late Wednesday.
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Mechanical transplant brings hopeful Detroit patient to joking nurse visits
Detroit hospital reports 62 year old plant guard Has kell Shanks recovering after a cigar shaped mechanical heart device was sewn into his body. He remains intermittently on two respirators but his vital signs are stable and he is cheerful with nurses. Doctors spent hours sewing a patch booster into the aorta and say the next days are critical due to risk of blood clots around the device.
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Sinai Hospital
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Condor colony found in Baja California remote Diablo Peak
Dr. Wd N Harrison of the Western Foundation of Vertebrate Zoology reports a new California condor colony on Diablo Peak in Baja California. He says sightings imply 10 to 40 birds may live there, reducing extinction risk if the Los Padres population suffers a catastrophe. Tracks and feathers were shown at a news conference.
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Columbas River
Mexico
Los Padres National Forest
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Baja
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Baja California
Stanford performs 33rd transplant. teacher in satisfactory condition
A Rochester, New York elementary school teacher, Donald E. Wanson, now 47, remains in satisfactory condition three days after receiving a new heart in Stanford University's 33rd heart transplant operation. He is among twelve other Stanford heart recipients still living.
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Rochester, N.Y
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90 Story Fall Shocks John Hancock Center Residents
Chicago police and managers probe the high rise death of Lorraine Kowalski a 29 year old widow who reportedly fell or leapt from an apartment at the John Hancock Center after an evening visit to Marshall Berlin with authorities noting intact window safety standards and conflicting accounts of how the glass broke as a bystander described the body bouncing on steel girders before hitting the sidewalk.
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UPD
Securiry
John Hancock Center
Lorraine Kowalski
Man not joking about heroin arrest follows escape
SAN JOSE California UP I reports Jonny Muir 54 escaped from Madera County Jail told police he had a stomach full of heroin. Doctors at Valley Medical Center said Thursday he was not kidding as two one ounce bags were found in his stomach during an operation. Muir was in the hospital's prison ward in good condition after the escape a week and a half earlier.
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Jersey official indicted in kickback scheme in New Jersey
Federal grand jury indicts 77 year old John V Kenny a longtime New Jersey Democratic leader on eight counts alleging extortion and pressuring a contractor to award subcontracts. Associates Angelo Sarabbi and John Luciano also charged along with other Hudson County figures in the Kearny post office project scandal.
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