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Newspaper
Daily Review
Location
Hayward, California, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1974
Page
9
The council projects 450 to 550 fatalities and up to 24,000 disabling injuries during the July 3 to July 7 holiday period. President Vincent Tafany urges motorists to buckle seat belts to cut the toll, noting a still-improving traffic-safety trend from last winter’s energy crisis.
The National Federation of Press Women named Katherine Graham and Emily Ivanoff as cowinners of the 1974 Woman of Achievement Award. Graham became Washington Post publisher in 1963 after her husband’s death, won the year’s Pulitzer for Watergate reporting. Ivanoff, from Fairbanks, Alaska, is an Eskimo writer and educator praised by Nixon for service to others. The awards were presented on the first day of the federation’s convention, with about 250 people expected at the three day session.
Expo 74 in Seattle received a gambling permit from the Washington State Gambling Commission for the Environmental Fair run May 4 onward. The license allows Nequin Corp. to operate the amusement area, while Expo will manage about 166 licensed games on site. Expo had earlier explored ties with a firm tied to interstate racketeering, a matter not clarified by officials. Arnold Kagan of Naquin denied any link to Emprise Corp., Buffalo.
Freddie D. Smith, a former oil supply executive, admitted to kidnapping wealthy oilman Walter H. Helmerich III with a toy pistol and holding him for 700000 dollars. He was sentenced to 20 years in prison after pleading guilty on June 18. Smith claimed someone else forced him to kidnap Helmerich in Tulsa.
A TWA L1110 jet carrying 88 passengers made an emergency landing at Kansas City International Airport after a tire ruptured on takeoff from Philadelphia during a San Francisco bound flight. The plane was to receive a new tire and continue after a routine landing.
Mercury mission set for Sept 21 pass at 29 991 miles giving new angle views of Mercury south pole. Jet Propulsion Lab notes second pass should improve analysis of surface shapes heights and light reflections after first flyby last March 29.
A secret White House letter claims John W. Dean III will exonerate President Nixon of ordering hush money to Watergate burglar E Howard Hunt. Nixon lawyer James D St Clair asked that Dean be among critical witnesses, asserting the meeting on March 21 1973 shows no direct directive to pay hush money.
In a bitter fight in Washington the House Judiciary Committee deadlocked nineteen to nineteen on allowing witnesses for President Nixon’s defense. James D. St. Clair argued that testimony from John Dean and Frederick LaRue would support legal fees rather than wrongdoing, while critics warned the move could shield impeachable conduct. The dispute came amid six weeks of committee hearings on the Watergate affair and related testimony.
In Northern California the geysers area near Pacific Gas and Electric geothermal plants shows traces of radon 222 and polonium as steam power touted as clean energy. PG&E says levels are tiny and within state limits for public areas. State health chief Doris Honey notes long term effects remain uncertain while EPA monitors emissions.
In East Texas Barcel Rowe grew up reading comics at a drug store and now at 37 works as a municipal bond attorney who buys sells and trades comics. He notes prices rising with a 1839 Superman issue selling for 2000 after a similar sale at 725, predicting future museum value as collecting evolves like stamps.
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