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Newspaper
Daily Review
Location
Hayward, California, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1972
Page
1
In Independence Missouri Bess Truman 87 said goodbye to Harry S Truman after a three-week hospital vigil. The former first lady viewed him at Carson Funeral Home before his funeral. Daughter Margaret Truman Daniel and Secret Service aided their arrival and departure.
Chris C. Stapp, a 63 year old San Leandro resident with 44 years driving trucks and a flawless four million mile record, is named America’s Driver of the Year by a panel led by John H. Reed. He and his wife Shirley will visit Washington DC and meet national leaders, with planned appearances on radio and television. Stapp credits defensive driving and patience, noting he never speeds and avoids driving in unsafe conditions. He has long worked for System 99 Interstate carriers, mainly running Florence Arizona to Redding and Oakland, and saved two people from an overturned bus before flames engulfed it in the 1930s.
President Nixon and wife plan to honor Harry S Truman in Independence as the former leader dies after a three week illness. Truman will lie in state at the Truman Library in a sealed casket with no pomp or parade. Bess Truman and daughter Margaret Daniel stay at 219 Delaware Street as the nation mourns.
Phil Turner owner of a Independence music shop recalls meeting Harry Truman in youth. Neighbors describe the president’s humor, poker games, and casual chats at the courthouse square, Groceries with his wife Bess, and a favorite clock repair at Walter Diess’s hardware store.
City of San Leandro and San Leandro county offices including welfare and superior courts will close tomorrow in observance of the national day of mourning for former President Harry Truman. Municipal and county facilities such as libraries in San Lorenzo Castro Valley Newark Pleasanton Dublin and Fremont will join the closure. Governor Ronald Reagan announced the national mourning actions.
The forecast calls for showers tonight with cooler conditions. A fair sky is expected tomorrow, as temperatures stay cool with highs in the mid to upper 40s and lows near the 40s. More weather details on page 16.
Fremont resident Suero and his family endured a Christmas in Managua during a deadly quake sequence. He described streets and sidewalks as moving like jello, with black dust and collapsed homes. They fled the city after damage to relatives’ businesses and flew to Tampa the next day.
Fremont woman and her four children were awarded 600000 after an Alameda County judge approved an out of court settlement in a 1970 medical malpractice case. The husband Erhard R. Nicholas died eight days after a routine sinus surgery was canceled when a skin cleansing preparation entered his lungs. The settlement covered medical defendants and Fremont hospitals, with Mary Nickolai and her four daughters aged 6 to 19 as plaintiffs.
Relatives and officials rejected claims that 18 survivors of a crash in the Andes survived 10 weeks by eating dead friends. Diplomat Cesar Char tones said 16 Uruguayans who lived seven days after the Uruguayan air force F27 crash will issue a statement upon returning to Montevideo. Survivors remain isolated in hotel rooms until then.
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