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Newspaper
Daily Review
Location
Hayward, California, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1965
Page
2
Concord AP reports English instructor David Shoemaker at Diablo Valley Junior College leads students in a campus experiment on how new words enter usage. He asks 100 students to judge terms like nerd and fans and to analyze why these words stick or fade, aiming to map word dynamics.
An extensive air search focused on a missing U.S. space medicine plane over central New Mexico and Colorado. The crew included Dr. W Randolph Lovelace and his wife Mary along with pilot Milton Brown. After five days, the group of trainees aiding the effort were located and transported to Albuquerque to resume their Peace Corps training.
Five protesters faced jail or fines after pleading no contest to trespassing and resisting arrest during an antiwar demonstration near the University of California campus. Among them were Gen Maxwell D. Taylor and Steve Weissman plus Jerry Rubin, with others delayed or sent to serve short terms. The incident followed a Free Speech Movement rally as demonstrators urged broader student liberties and U.S. policy scrutiny in Southeast Asia.
Japanese customs said two theft cases surfaced as Lovelaces three daughters, Jacqueline 16, claimed not to worry. Whisky worth about 722 dollars was imported from Los Angeles and found aboard a Japanese freighter Saikyo. Investigators suspect the fraud arose from frequent family travel and misdeeds aboard the ship.
AP report details a double tragedy at a suburban Fresno home where James Leonard Wheat, 97, a bartender, shot five relatives and himself with a .44 revolver after a quarrel with his family. Victims include Jesse Devitte, 79, Belly Dentils, 60, Terl, 419, and Lauria Smith, 11. The surviving child, Laurie Roman, 11, and the sheriff’s department reported the sequence of gunfire and the killer’s suicide. Authorities aided by deputies, finding Wheat dead from a self-inflicted head wound. The case remains under investigation in California.
In California the Save the Redwoods League obtained a 1.5 million Ford Foundation grant to help purchase 2,10 acres at Gold Bluffs in Humboldt County. The fund will cover half of the 2.4 million cost with state matching, while remaining Ford money supports other conservation projects over three years.
In San Francisco a one year old, Spencer Blanson, died after slipping from his aunt’s grasp and darting between two parked cars into an oncoming vehicle. The driver was unnamed in reports, listed as James Herron, 29. Police did not cite the driver.
Advertisement touts Tulip and Butterfly girdles offering slimming action and firm molding from waist to thigh using nylon Lytra apandex and power net. Describes colors Black honeysuckle beige white and sizes S M L. Price listed as $171.
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