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Newspaper
Daily Review
Location
Hayward, California, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1971
Page
8
San Quentin prison invites applicants aged 31 to 35 with a high school diploma and two years of experience to apply at the personnel office by today 3 p.m. Selected hires start at 631 dollars per month with immediate employment. Warden L B Nelson urged Black and Hispanic communities to apply to address the prison’s staffing needs.
The National Institutes of Health awards UCSF a 5.8 million four year grant to expand the world’s largest organ transplantation center. Co director Dr Samuel L Konitz says funds will advance knowledge and tackle transplant problems. He notes over 300 Californians rely on dialysis while awaiting kidney transplants.
The coroner identified one of two people found dead from asphyxiation in an apartment as Lee Fon, about 50, of San Francisco. A male companion, about 40, was dead on the floor. They were found shortly before midnight Wednesday after police said a heater or fans exhausted the room’s oxygen.
The Labor Department designated San Francisco as a persistent unemployment area enabling greater access to public works aid and federal bidding preferences. About 60 of 68 metropolitan areas share the designation due to sustained rates above 6 percent and above national averages. San Francisco's unemployment stood at 7.4 percent last May and has barely fallen since.
Alan B Carder Santa Clara County fire marshal said faulty dental equipment caused two blazes at Redwood City dental offices. Investigative panel found fires started in flexible tubing supplying oxygen to nitrous oxide units. One victim Frances Graham 23 San Jose died September 21. A second fire occurred December 24 at Plaza Medieval Dental Center in Redwood City.
The Certified Linen Co. plant in Oakland was gutted by a three alarm fire reported at 10 20 p m and contained within minutes. Damage was estimated at 150 000 arson possibility under investigation said Assistant Fire Chief Hubert Costa.
California Supreme Court orders Albert I. Monroe reinstatement at San Francisco State College after 21 years since his Juan? dismissal for refusal to sign a loyalty oath. Monroe was then chairman of the college language arts department.
John Linley Frazier told reporters he regrets the killings of five people but said thousands of words would be needed to explain them. He spoke from San Quentin death row after being sentenced to die for the Santa Cruz mansion slayings.
Prime Minister Hisaku Sato said Japan and Communist China probably will establish diplomatic relations in 1972. He noted the Taiwan issue remains a point of difference but hopes for normalization and peaceful coexistence based on independence, nonintervention, and mutual respect.
San Francisco couple and five children linked to a burglary ring were halted by Marin County authorities after officers saw suspicious activity at a home. Sylvia St. Andrew, 30, was arrested and released on 2000 bail. her five children, aged seven to 13, were handed to grandparents. Father Theodore St. Andrew, 35, remained at large.
Three suspects robbed the Hibernia Bank in San Francisco taking about 80 000 dollars from two vaults and five tellers wages. A witness said one man waved a sawed off shotgun and ordered customers and staff to freeze as the group escaped.
Ex city council candidate Ben Lindsay Becknell 50, owner of Hide-Away pool hall, was wounded in a West Oakland shooting. Curtis Lee Baker 37, arrested, allegedly owned the gun. Becknell is in serious condition at Highland Hospital with an abdominal wound. Baker previously chaired East Oakland Neighborhood Council and served with the Oakland Poverty Council.
Da vid Lee Dumler, 29, escaped a San Quentin work detail Thursday and was recaptured within two hours. He is serving a 4 minimum 10 year sentence for two counts of robbery in Los Angeles County and was received at San Quentin in March 1967. He reportedly crossed the Richmond San Rafael Bay Bridge before being captured in Richmond.
Oakland records its 103rd homicide as Larry Lee Tucker, 28, is killed near a drainage ditch in a case that follows 79 deaths by the same date last year. Police note an arrest history for narcotics and burglary. Tucker shot three times in the back of the head and once in the neck with a 45 caliber pistol from about four feet away.
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