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Newspaper
Daily Review
Location
Hayward, California, United States of America
Date
Jul 16, 1968
Page
2
Allen Selverston visiting Stanford watched his German shepherd Thor leap from a four story lab roof after a whistle. The dog fell to his death as he responded to the command and injured the building another day.
In Moscow the Aeroflot Ryushin 62 jet and Pan American World Airways 707 marked the first U S Soviet commercial air service link. The Pan Am flight, after a late departure from New York, landed in clear weather at 2 43 p m with 58 passengers aboard including Charles Buhlen and Foy Kohler former U S ambassadors to Moscow. Congestion at New York delayed both flights.
SAN FRANCISCO AP The state filed a 2 million suit Monday by Atty Gen Thomas C Lynch against Foremost Dairies Inc and Lucky Stores charging sale of milk below set price Foremost allegedly paid rebates after wholesale price set by State Agriculture director Karl Coke and rebated about 4.4 million to Lucky since July 1967
Early this morning a couch fire at 2278 Miramar Ave in Ashland engulfed the living room and damaged the apartment. Firefighters arrived at 4:07 a.m. to find flames and smoke damage, with furniture rugs and drapes destroyed. Investigators consider a lit cigarette as a possible cause.
SAN LEANDRO police report Al Hydraulics Inc at 655 Peralta Ave was burglarized over the weekend. Tools and office equipment valued about 3206 were stolen after a rear window was broken to gain entry.
Rockefeller says nationwide poll shows unpledged delegates favor nominee Richard Nixon or a strong Republican. Poll results to be announced soon and likely by July 22 26 ahead of the GOP convention starting August 8. Endorsed.
LBJ says arms curb talks due. Johnson's disarmament push discussed with Foster as world powers seek to halt a strategic arms race. Democratic Humphrey backs youth draft plan, while GOP contenders race for delegates with Nixon leading. Union strike threats loom over convention logistics and city choices.
Newark 39 Operating Engineers Local 3 members walked off at Newark Lavine brick refractories plant 550 Wells Ave as a three year contract expired. A picket line was set up at the gates and a security guard posted at the administrative entrance. Negotiations overseen by FMCS Commissioner Jerry Finley reportedly cover salary issues. The plant, part of International Minerals and Chemical Corp, makes refractory brick for high temperature furnaces in steel glass and other industries.
Tobey D. Millard age 19 of Pleasanton died from injuries after his car was struck by an eastbound train near the Kaiser sand and gravel plant. He was hospitalized in Hayward with critical head injuries after the Thursday collision in the vehicle he drove.
Cyrus R. Vance, deputy U.S. delegate to the Vietnam talks, flew home to brief President Johnson on the deadlock. His departure follows warnings from Communist sources that prolonged talks bolster Hanoi militants favoring military outcomes ahead of Johnson’s Hawaii meeting with South Vietnam’s Nguyen Van Thieu.
Fortas told the Senate Judiciary Committee that his White House meetings were occasional, not frequent, and that the president has asked him to help at times. Senator Gore introduced Fortas and noted he would be the 15th chief justice, stressing judiciary independence and limits on questioning about Supreme Court cases. The committee must approve Fortas’s elevation before a full Senate vote.
In Tahiti the French tested a medium powered nuclear device on Bastille Day at the Pacific test range about eight miles from Tahiti. The test, reported by UPI, occurred on Monday and marked another launch in France's atmospheric nuclear program.
At a Hayward planning hearing residents pressed for stronger code enforcement and a third assessment district to ease overcrowding and poor infrastructure. They cited crowded Shepherd and Glassbrook elementary schools, lack of playground space, and dense housing as major issues.
Bradley Raymond Unruh, 14, son of Assembly Speaker Jesse M. Unruh, is set for trial August 21 on a felonious joyriding charge filed in Torrance AP reports the case involves the son of a state official and a serious theft related offense.
Four men in black turtlenecks rob Bank of America in Emeryville, firing a shot to the ceiling and ordering ten customers and four tellers to the floor. They escape with $9,048 from cash drawers as a passerby notes the quick exit.
Maj. Gen. Vaclav Prehlik announced that a large contingent of Soviet troops delaying departures will leave by Sunday instead of today. He urged Czechoslovaks not to fear a war of nerves as training exercises wind down.
U S District Judge Lloyd Burke heard a habeas corpus writ and a stay of Newton's state court trial. Defense argued jury selection biased by registrar voter panel. UC sociologist testified West Oakland is mostly Black but with few registered voters. Demonstrations around Alameda County court house featured about 2,500 people. security tight. some spectators admitted with passes.
Joseph Ju Musser 38 of 3480 Castro Valley Blvd Castro Valley was fatally hurt yesterday after falling about 60 feet while working on a Jack London Inn Oakland sign. He worked for American Sign Co and fell from a basket overhead a sign erector truck when the table foiled and dropped the basket to a pavement lined with a sawed off shotgun below. Igan robbed the Quick Stop Market at 165th Avenue and Gast 14th Street about 8:30 am today. The thieves fled in a car later seen on the Maac Arthur Freeway. Alameda County sheriff deputies could not say how much money was taken.
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