Bay Area school desegregation brief heads to hearing
Thirty nine residents sued in U S District Court seeking to stop Sequoia Union High School Districts compulsory desegregation busing plan. Judge Robert H Sehnacke declined immediate injunction and set a Wednesday hearing. Trustees voted 41 to reverse a prior decision to require busing for hundreds of students to desegregate Ravenwood High School. About 1200 volunteers offered transfers while 400 students still required busing. The board says desegregation busing will be voluntary. suit cites Civil Rights Act and the 14th Amendment.
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San Francisco
UPS
U.S. District Court
Sequoia Union High
Robert H. Sehnacke
Sequoia
Ravenswood High School
Campulsm
Lrusters
East Palo Alt
Astgnneys
Sidney Berlin
Redgond Ci
Busing suit filed to halt Sequoia district plan
A group of private attorneys filed in U S District Court to stop Sequoia Union High School District from rescinding the mandatory busing phase of its desegregation plan. Trustees voted 401 to cancel the program affecting 235 of 12 500 students in six high schools.
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San Francisco
U.S
San Mateo County
Sequoia Union
Northern California sheet metal contract ends strike
In San Francisco the Sheet Metal Contractors Association and the Sheet Metal Workers Union Local 104 announced a new contract to curb inflation and boost minority hires. The agreement divides inside and outside work, sets outside pay at 9.41 dollars per hour and inside fabrication at five dollars, with a guaranteed annual wage for inside workers. The strike began June 1 and follows a broader work stoppage that saw 10,000 carpenters pulled off jobs amid stalled negotiations with six other crafts.
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San Francisco
GPI
Sheet Metal
Califonia
Sheet Metal Contractors Association
Bruce McKenzie
Sheet Metal Workers Union
California
Oid
Computer safety car unveiled at safety conference
A GM designed car with a built in computer called Phys Tester was unveiled at an automotive safety conference in San Francisco. The device requires correct input to start and offers a second attempt. failure to enter the right code makes the car inoperable for hours. An emergency button can start the car with sirens and lights to summon help.
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San Francisco
UPT
Phys
General Motors Corp
William Ratterr
National Motor Vehicle Safety Advisory Council
Moon rocks show traces of free carbon in Fra Mauro
Sunnyvale Calif. UPt scientists report life detection tests found 309 patterns per million of free carbon in moon rocks from the Fra Mauro region. Ames Research Center scientist Vanue Oyama led the work with Dr. Charles Sonnett Dr. William Quaide and Dr. Cyril Pomamperama coordinating with other research centers.
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Sunnyvale
Calif
UPT
Vanue Oyama
National Aeronautical Space Agency
Ames Research Center
Fra Mauro
Moon
Quama
Charles Sonnett
William Quaide
Cyril Pomamperama
Dynamite cache suspect released on bail in San Jose
An 11 year-old parking attendant, son of retired fire chief Ronald Le Beau, was released on bail after police found 278 sticks of dynamite in his family garage. He was arrested on suspicion of possession of unauthorized explosives and felonious charges after selling seven sticks to an undercover officer. Sheriff Geary did not confirm any link to a separate blast. The youth said he found the explosives in the Santa Cruz mountains.
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San Jose
Stille
Dion le Beau
Ronald le Beau
Santa Clara County
James Geary
Geary
Departtment of Corrections
Santa Crux Mountains
California to study moral values in schools program
San Francisco AP reports the state budget has no funds for a proposed school moral values program. Superintendent Wilson Riles vows to find money and seek transfers. The board unanimously backed a booklet guiding teachers on moral values and a training plan costing 12,000 and 5,000 respectively.
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Public Instruction
Wilson Riles
Riles
Stile Board of Education
Laveliers
Melvin Belli faces seaman suit for over a million
A disabled seaman sues attorney Melvin Belli in San Francisco for more than $1 million claiming failure to properly represent him in a 1964–1970 case against Golden Gate Steamship Lines. The plaintiff says Belli’s office is sloppy and the legal process was mishandled.
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San Francisco
UPI
Melvin Belli
Belli
Golden Gate Steamship Lines
Raymond W. Scott
Suolt
Scott
California Supreme Court asked to block Pacific Telephone rate hike
Consumer advocates led by William M. Bennett filed a petition with the California Supreme Court in Sacramento seeking an order to stop Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Co from raising statewide rates by 143 million dollars. The challenge targets advertising cost deductions and argues the Public Utilities Commission erred in approving the increase, which would raise the average monthly residential bill from 4.63 to 5.65 dollars.
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Sacramento
California Supreme Court
Patific Telephone and Telegraph Co
William M. Bennett
State Public Utilities Commission
Consumers Arise Now
Bennett
State Board of Equalization
PAC
Pacific Telephone
Ma Bell
Pacific Telephones
Halt ordered to cease solicitation for cancer boy aid
The Los Angeles Department of Social Services ordered Sausalito firm Stuart A. Schwalbe & Associates to stop soliciting funds for a 10 year old boy in Tijuana undergoing cancer treatment. The agency said the boy has ample funds and demanded a cease and desist for advertising donations across newspapers nationwide.
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Angeles
Los Angeles
Alty
San
Disney animator Iwerks dies at 70 in Burbank
Walt Disney's chief cartoonist and collaborator on Mickey Mouse, Ub Iwerks, died at age 70 in Burbank California. His work helped shape early animation and the company’s iconic character.
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Burbank
Calif
Ob Iwerks
Walt Disney
Mickey Moise
East L A post office hit by 7th in bomb series
A bomb shattered windows at a post office in East Los Angeles on Thursday night, the seventh attack in a month long campaign by Mexican American militants claiming the work. An eighth blast at the Pan American Bank caused damage without a call to claim responsibility. Sheriff deputies found an army recruiting car damaged by fire irons, and over 200 people evacuated from city council chambers amid the threat.
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East L.A
Los Angeles
UPL
The
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner
Chicano Liberation Front
Pan-American Bank
Tas Los Angeles
Iy Sheri
Rem the Chicano Liberation
Herald+Examiner
Lyall
Death averted after viper bite in San Francisco
A U S customs agent was saved from a dangerous viper bite when antitoxin sewn from the Los Angeles Zoo was applied. Wada Williams, 4, remained at UC Medical Center after being bitten while handling snakes in a shipment intended for a shop. Officials investigated the container and shipment route.
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San Francisco
UPI
U.S
Los Angeles Zoo
Wada Williams
University of California Medical Center
Williams
Chamber Resists Rescue Aid for Mt Shasta Climber
Mount Shasta California reports that Rev. Douglas Smith stranded near the summit will likely not receive chamber aid. The Mount Shasta Chamber of Commerce, with 35 members voting unanimously Thursday, recommended Siskiyou County not authorize funds in case Vietnam War rescue needs arise.
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Mount Shasta
Calif
Douglas Smith
Mt. Shasta
Carameree
Siskiyou County
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