Death ends girl's tragic romance with narcotics
Dublin reporter John Oliver outlines the final months of 17 year old Denise Fairman Gaschk a Valley School senior who battled depression tied to drug use. After a failed suicide attempt she used a revolver to end her life leaving a note about school grades. Her mother Mrs Laura Gaschk provides the closer details to the events.
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Dublin
Denise Fairman Gaschk
Valley School
Denise
Moryday
Laura Gaschk
Plea from mother at funeral warns of drug romance
Denise Gaschk’s mother spoke at her Pleasanton funeral about her daughter’s drug use, especially PCP, urging teens to examine their own drug connections. Denise, once in Valley School’s work study, struggled with employment, credits, and graduation while under psychologist care and amid peer drug involvement. A Project Eden spokesman noted PCP effects worsen with frequent use.
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Denise
Pleasanton
Frenzied Stock Market Opens with Record Volume
United Press International reports a brisk opening on the New York Stock Exchange with 9.8 million shares traded in the first hour, a record driven by IBM activity and a rebound from a wage-price freeze era. The Dow jumped, IBM soared, and tape delays marked the intense trading.
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New York Stock Exchange
Nixon
IBM
US Court of Appeals
Denver
Tetex Corp
Securities Exchange Commission
No pageant for Miss Hayward '75 in Santa Cruz
Hayward will not crown a Miss California this year as the 1975 pageant is not staged. Wanda Bray of the Hayward First Committee says Kenneth M. McGill organized last year’s event but is no longer in the area. The committee considers delaying to 1976, aims to file a franchise for 300 dollars, and may seek council approval to merge with Maid of Hayward pageant next year.
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Hayward
Santa Cruz
California
Wanda Bray
Kenneth M. McGill
South County
McGill
Bray
Runaway BART car drives through Oakland stations
An uncoupled BART spur car rolled onto the main line at MacArthur Station and moved through three downtown Oakland stations before stopping between 12th Street and Lake Merritt. The incident caused a system shutdown of about three minutes with no injuries, while the car was taken to Hayward for study.
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BART
Oakland
Board of
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MacArthur
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Leth Street
12Th Street
Lake Merritt
Healy
Hayward
Ballot proposal targets none of the above in California
Assemblyman William Campbell announces a bill to add a none of the above option on all ballots. Voters could register displeasure with both candidates while the winner remains declared. The measure excludes some incumbent judicial candidates. Sacramento report by AP.
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Sacramento
California
Assembly
Mailbox return welcomed in Fremont housing tract
Mike Lyons finishes a curbside mailbox outside his home at 32505 Lake Barley Lane as Fremont lifts a ban on doorstep mail delivery. The council ended curbside mailbox prohibitions in Northpoint and twelve other housing tracts after prior postal refusals.
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Fremont
Mike Lyons
Lake Barley Lane
Lyons
Ail
Northpaint
Tomorrow's car small and tall compact future GM Ford shift
Detroit reports a coming generation of smaller lighter cars for the late 1970s. Cars will be about two feet shorter and 500 to 1,000 pounds lighter though still large by European standards. Ford and GM outline new lines with interior width reduced and mileage targets rising toward 18.7 mpg by 1980 amid fuel shortages and stricter federal rules.
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Jaguar
Rolls Royce
Ford
General Motors
Ernest 8. Larkman
Harold €. MacDonald
U.S
Congress
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