Police Probe Mystery Slaying On Garbage Dump
Phillip A Soares 15 died from a neck wound while walking on Oakland Scavenger Co property near Aurora Drive with two friends. Police and coroner investigators seek cause, unsure if homicide or accident as autopsy proceeds. Dennis Kirsehling and Craig Carden described the scene and blood on the neck. Phillip, a Garfield School seventh grader and former Daily Review carrier, was survived by his sister Pauline and brother Michael. his father Paul Soares works in Emeryville.
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John Oliver
San Leandro
Tare
Phillip A. Soares
Arctic St
Oakland Scavenger Co
Aurora Drive
Yainly
Fairmont Hospital
Phillip
Dennis Kirsehling
139Th Ave
Craig Carden
W. 136Th Ave
Dennis
Philip
Sterling Transit Co
Paul Soares
Phil
Garfield School
Daily Review
Pauline
Michael
Moore
Emeryville
Thomas J. Rogers
Whitney Q. Rosanen
Army to Draft Rejects and Expand Aptitude Testing
The Defense Department outlined a plan to rehabilitate and draft more rejectees by enhanced aptitude testing. Officials discussed selecting 10,000 to 60,400 men through examinations and record reviews to develop better measures for admission and training.
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Ithe
Defense Department
Hershey Plan
McNamara plan widens pool of military manpower
Flying Crane Briegs supplies and armament to the 4th Division as it searches the highlands for North Vietnamese regulars. Lewin Hershey advocates using the militarys educational and medical facilities to upgrade youths who fail selective service exams. McNamaras faction, without legislation, enlarges the manpower pool while defense chief links the move to poverty and national security. notes 600000 men rejected for service.
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Highlands
Pee Wy Ulagk Wueclius Lewin B. Hershey
McNamara
Defense
America
Mine Sinks U.S. Ship Seven Killed Near Saigon
A Communist mine exploded sinking the Baton Rouge Victory in the Saigon River 22 miles southeast of Saigon. Seven of 45 crewmen were killed and another injured. Salvage efforts began under guard as Vietnamese navy closed the channel. Marines landed unopposed 50 miles southeast of Saigon with no contact in 36 hours.
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Saigon
South Viet Nam
Viet Nam
Baton Rouge
South China Sea
U.S
U.S. Marine
Wade
San Leandro Considers Raising City Council Pay
Mayor Jack J. D. Maltester and City Attorney Glen Forbes propose an ordinance to raise council salaries, matching nearby cities and allowing the council to set its own pay within charter limits. The plan mirrors Hayward and targets a November ballot for voter approval.
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San Leandro
Jack
Maltester
Glen Forbes
South County
Hayward
Ardinonen
Newark
Two Angels Jailed After Bar Rampage in San Leandro
Four Hell's Angels and a woman were jailed after a San Leandro melee at Klassy Kat A Go Go on MacArthur Boulevard. A barmaid, 22, was struck in the back as stools flew and vending machines toppled. The group fled in a black station wagon, later found in Oakland where three men and a woman were arrested. another Angel was held on related charges.
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San Leandro
Hell's Angels
Angels
Patie
Oakland
Walter ‘Tiny’ Walters
Winston B. McConny
Linda Estrada
Poplar Ave
Hayward
Walters
Hell's Angel
MacArthur Blvd
Congress Offers Mortgage Funds
Washington AP reports Senate and House conferees reached a quick agreement on a compromise bill to add 474 billion dollars of government mortgage purchase funds to the sagging home building industry. The conferees accepted devices from both House and Senate versions, signaling broad support for the measure.
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Washington
Senate House
House
Senate
Haywardite Engineer Ambushed and Killed in Philippines
Charles D. Hall a veteran mining engineer living in Hayward was ambushed and killed by two unidentified men on a lonely road near Toledo City in the southern Philippines. His wife Lynda and two daughters Susan and Grace, aged 5 and 3, live with his mother Elizabeth Hall Shepherd at 226 Rondale Court, Hayward. Hall's employer Atlas Consolidated Mining Corp issued a statement, noting he was en route to a copper mine when killed.
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Hayward
Toledo City
Philippines
Charles D. Hall
Lynda
Susan
Grace
Hall
Elizabeth Hall Shepherd
Rondale Court
Atlas Consolidated Mining Corp
Wall Fatal To Bushman
Hollywood AP reports Francis X Bushman died at age 3 after a fall at his home. He rose as a silent screen leading man in the 1910s beside Mary Pickford Charlie Chaplin and William Hart and last appeared in films in the 1920s. He preserved his fame from the San Diego World’s Fair in 1915 titled King of the Movies.
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Hollywood
Francis X. Bushman
Bushman
Shoot-Em-Up GI Hits Snag a Pistol for Vietnam
Hayward born Army medical corpsman Dennix Hague, 1 year in service, plans to refuse deployment without a personal weapon. He argues a .357 Magnum offers better accuracy than a .45 at 60 yards, after completing basic training at Fort Ord and corpsman school in Texas.
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Army
Hayward
Viet Nam
Dennix Hague
Hague
Fort Ord
Texas
Explosion collapses Texas church roof killing worshiper
A severe blast at the Church of God in Christ in Plainview Texas collapsed the roof during Monday night services. The disaster killed a woman and injured three others while twelve remained trapped under debris. Emergency crews worked to rescue those still trapped as conditions were described as dangerous.
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Plainview
Tex
Church of God In Christ
Purchio Named Mental Health Committee Chair
Alameda County Superior Court Judge John J. Purchio, currently presiding in the juvenile court in Hayward, was named chairman of the Governor s Advisory Committee on Mental Health by Governor Edmund G. Brown. He has long been involved in mental health studies and policy work. During the same day a deadly gas explosion occurred at a church in Plainview as rescue crews searched rubble and mourned a 200 plus attendance revival hosted by the Negro congregation. the blast injured the pastor, and the body of church district president Inis A. Dukes of Pampa was recovered beneath collapsed timbers.
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Alameda County
John J. Purchio
Hayward
Edmun G. Brown
Purchio
Plainview
E. N. Givens
Givens
Inis A. Dukes
Pampa
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