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Newspaper
Daily Review
Location
Hayward, California, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1971
Page
3
Sacramento report on Philip E Watson plan to cap property tax at 1.7 percent of market value seeks June ballot. It would freeze rates for five years, then cap inflation at 2 percent, limit education and welfare funding, and shift costs to other taxes. Los Angeles would face the largest deficit.
Epaminondas P. Panagopoulos, a Greek historian expert on America from the revolution, is chosen as San Jose State College outstanding professor. A Los Altos Hills resident, he maintains a Greek garden and serves as a lieutenant colonel in the Greek Army reserves. He has not seen active service since World War II after being wounded in Albania.
Former San Quentin inmate Paul Cook chained himself to a lamp post in front of the Capitol on Christmas Day to protest prison conditions. Police required a permit. after 22 minutes he unchained himself. He said prisons are producing murders and described harsh routines inside. Cook, paroled 19 months ago, works with Alternative House in Oakland and studies criminology at Merritt College.
Four East Bay men died in separate Christmas weekend accidents. William Svie, 41, crashed near Concord while Neal Cochrad, 4, of Knightsen, was killed as his brother Raymond 19 was seriously injured after a canyon road crash near Pittsburg. Joli Woodard, 24, Oakland, died when his car spun out near Oakland. William G. Horn, 74, Oakland, was struck by an unknown vehicle while walking to church on Christmas Eve.
The nationwide weekend traffic toll rose to 371 as Americans traveled for the holiday. Officials said fatalities began Thursday and will end at midnight Sunday. Rain and snow slowed travel in parts of the Far West while highways remained clear in many areas.
In Los Angeles AP report, Mrs. Mattie Williams hosts a large Christmas dinner for 41 Marines at Camp Pendleton and nearby base contingents. She and her family have long served Marines, with her parents and ancestors also being Marines, continuing a multi decade tradition despite her son serving abroad.
A mass of cold air and heavy snow hit northern and central California with winds inland and waterspouts off the coast. The National Weather Service warned of extreme winds near waterspouts and blizzard conditions through Sunday as routes like Echo Summit and Interstate 80 faced closures and chain requirements remained in effect.
Heavy snowfall stops rescue efforts for five people including three Anaheim Calif men and a Hayward Calif man missing after flights over Nevada. Civil Air Patrol in Reno says no planes will fly until weather clears as snow lingers through Sunday in parts of Nevada. Authorities pursue search near Hawthorne for Gourley and Vestale missing since their Reno to Yuma flight in a single engine Cessna 177.
Cairo paper says Nixon pressed British and French leaders to urge Egypt to refrain from operations until a renewed diplomatic push yields a peaceful settlement. Israeli Ambassador Rabin in Washington echoed U S optimism that Egypt has not yet despaired of peace prospects amid ongoing diplomacy.
In Vietnam on Christmas Day a mine damaged an armored personnel carrier on Ong Dong Plain injuring none seriously. Bravely, crewmen including Briggs, Gray, Marshal, and Furzigh endured the blast with only cuts and concussions as another mine later set off nearby. The men waited for medevac and reflected on the holiday danger. Separately, labor Zionist groups Farband Peale Zion and American Habonim Association agreed to merge into a single organization with over 60,000 members.
President Nixon quietly left a White House family gathering to work on the upcoming summit with West German Chancellor Willy Brandt and to place Christmas calls. He phoned Ed Heath Lyndon Johnson Mansfield Scott Albert Ford Graham Allen and others, and also coordinated prep for a Key Biscayne meeting ahead of trips to Peking and Moscow.
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