Tragic pre dawn death on San Leandro tracks
Police report a 32 year old San Leandro woman identified as Mrs. Alice Baca walked onto Western Pacific tracks near Davis Street and was struck by a southbound train. Front brakeman Richard Shankel saw her emerge from a curve north of Antonia Street as the engine approached. Brakes were applied but the train could not stop in time, and she lay about 245 feet north of Davis Street. Witnesses said she appeared to hesitate before stepping onto the path of the train amid mental and emotional distress.
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Martine Street
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Accident delays northbound Nirnlta Freeway near Hesperlan
California Highway Patrol reports a noninjury crash tied up the slow northbound lane of the Nirnlta Freeway near Hesperlan Boulevard at about 6:45 p m. today, causing about an hour of traffic tie up. Fresher details were not available.
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Cali
Fornia Highway Patrol
Hesperlan Boulevard
Soft drink strike talks continue in San Francisco
Negotiations resume in San Francisco as talks continue between striking soft drink bottlers and the team's union, seeking to end a three month walkout that has nearly emptied stocks of major brands. Wages and work rules remain central to contract talks after the December strike began.
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San Francisco
UPI
Teansters Union
Iaen
Cea
Dee
Court rules on BART San Francisco subway project
The State Supreme Court ended a key obstacle to a San Francisco subway station in Garden Gateway. It rejected an appeal by plaintiffs in a taxpayers suit seeking forceful completion of the West Portal line, noting funds had shifted to the Municipal Railway project.
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UPT
Garden Gateway
High Court
Bay Area
Trac Pic Transit District
Municipal Railway
West Portal Avenue
West Portal
McCormack Aide Sentenced to Three Years in Bribery Case
Martin Sweig longtime aide to former House Speaker Jol W McCormack was sentenced by District Judge Willian Mehrtens to three years in prison for taking a $5000 bribe to obtain a Navy hardship discharge for Henry A Keller Jr Keller's son was discharged six days after the application Sweig remains under a 22 month perjury sentence from the grand jury probe of Nathan Voloshen with potential additional time if parole is denied.
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Martin Sweig
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Jol W. McCormack
Miami
Navy
Willian ©. Mehrtens
Nathan’ Voloshen
McCormack
Mehtens
Siyer
Sweigz
Sweig
Tic
Henry A. Keller
Keller
Henry Jr
San Francisco Inhabitants Ageing Beating Bay Area Now
A UPI summary of a UC Berkeley census analysis shows San Franciscans are older, less married, and more likely to live in poorer housing than neighbors. Median age 33.7 vs 28.3 state age. white and nonwhite figures cited. high rates of never married noted. city shifting toward larger minority families and more child bearing white households.
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UPI
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City Planting Commission
Census Service Center
University of California At Berkeley
Cate
Boy freed after ransom paid in Rio de Janeiro
Police report a one year old boy abducted Monday by two armed men was released unharmed Friday after a $66,000 ransom payment. The child's mother, Sergin Oasleo, confirmed the release as ransom was left in a folder before a theater. Abductors had asked $132,000, agreed to half after rejection.
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UPI
Sergin Oasleo
Soi
Chicano official accuses Riles over education promises
An Anies Tobar district official of the Mexican Manpower Development Association charges state schools chief Wilson C. Riles failed to fulfill bilingual or bicultural education promises for Chicano students. Tobar notes the Education Department has little time to act on 187% legislation and warns action is overdue. The group aims to boost Chicano employment in government agencies.
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Anires ‘Tobar
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Miles
Department of Education
Tobar
Behanes
Missing Pleasanton Woman Found Drowned in Canal
Pathologist determines cause of death for 26 year old Roberta Brill as consistent with drowning after she went missing following a collision at Santa Rita Road overpass and I 580. Her body was recovered from the Mocha Canal in Pleasanton Meadows.
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Roberta Brill
Santa Rita Road
Interstate 58
Evernal
Mocha Canal
Pleasanton Meadows
Consumer classes proposed at consumer conference
Reagan prepared remarks opened the consumer conference as speakers stressed teaching youths to be sophisticated consumers. Attendees included Virginia Knauer, Bill Lee from the Commerce Department, and David Schoen of the Consumers Union.
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Virginia Knaver
Nixon
Bill Lee
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Comroprae
Ail David Schoohtaid
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Consumers Union
Ex-senator takes 61 year old bride in Salt Lake
Ex senator Arthur Watkins, 61, wed Dorothy Be. Watkins, 23, in the Salt Lake Temple. The ceremony was conducted by Mormon elder I Marckl Lae, a member of the First Presidency of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Mrs Watkins, a commercial artist who moved to Utah two years ago, converted to the church as a teenager.
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Lae
First
Presidncey
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
Mice Chew Deeds Delaying Westward Property Plot
In Westerham England Charles Stanley 77 asked police for help locating a plot of land at Peavehaven about 23 miles away after mice chewed his only copies of the deeds. The loss jeopardizes ownership records and mobile property access.
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Westerham
England
UPJ
Charles Stanley
Peavehaven
Secret Asian arms supply from US?
Washington senator William Proxmire accused the Pentagon of secret large scale arms shipments to South Vietnam, Thailand, Laos, and South Korean forces. He cited a breakdown showing transfers across Navy, Marine, Air Force, and Army materiel, with costs rising from 321.1 million to 701.9 million by 1972 and unspecified 1975 figures.
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Vietevun
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14,000 S. Viets launch drive after disembarking from helicopter
U S troops of the 1st Cavalry Division Led Brigade disembarked and pressed a ground assault 20 miles north of Saigon. An Air Force Phantom jet reportedly downed a North Vietnamese MIG over Laos, while a U S aircrewman from Gulaila Florida earned notice for combat missions. In Laos, Vientiane reports say heavy artillery and tanks backed by infantry aimed to sever Communist supply lines across the Plaine des Jarres.
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Boy, 5, survives 28-foot shaft ordeal near LA
Anthony, five, was trapped in a 28-foot shaft at a busway site along the San Bernardino Freeway, east of Los Angeles. Dr. William Baker and a TV crew aided the rescue, monitoring him by steroscope and microphone. Anthony said he was cold but OK. The shaft, dug for a piling, was covered with boards when he fell while playing with a kite. Prior similar cases include Kathy Piscis in 1949 and Alycia Hernandez in Lomita last year.
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Kathy Piscns
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Lomita
Nixon drug war claim of progress on heroin control
Washington AP reports Treasury enforcement official Eugene Rossides says Nixon administration’s drug war reduced heroin from overseas and bolstered U S seizure totals. He cites 1970 to 1971 increases and notes optimism tempered by the task ahead while linking efforts to foreign policy.
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Candidates favor pot law change
Democratic presidential hopefuls largely back reducing penalties for smoking marijuana. McCarthy and Muskie urge legalization with regulated sale. McGovern and Hart back decriminalization. Lindsay favors no penalties for users but wants more medical evidence before broader steps. Jackson has yet to reply. Mills and Wallace declined.
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Shirley Chiihaim
New York
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Edmund S. Muskie
Maine
Hubert Hy Huphrey
Mitmeguta
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George McGovern
South Dakota
Vance Tkwtke
Indiana
John ¥. Linssay
McCarthy
Jobless rate shows decline in unemployment figures
The report notes a drop in the jobless rate to seven percent in January from twelve percent, with younger veterans contributing to the decline. It indicates a continuing decrease in unemployment, highlighting the improving labor picture for veterans.
POWs see little in Nixon journey
POWs in Hanoi express scant hope for Nixon seven point peace plan and potential agreement. Navy Lt. Dale Hoffman and Cindy Wilber of Columbia rise report limited faith that the president can secure release or halt the war. Dr. George Wald notes prisoners doubt the plan’s sincerity while Wilber and Hoffman critique timing and duration.
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Hanwi
Vixon
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Nixon
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Dale Wesley Hoffman
San Diego
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Wailerugéne Wilber
Columbia Grassroods
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George Wald
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Wald
Wilbur
Neve
Indictment of Three Californians Tells of Honolulu Case
AP reporting indicates the Oahu Grand Jury indicted Kerry Mulligan Harvey Ludwig and John Meeney in a Hawaii bribery inquiry. The case involves Engineering Science, Inc. of Arcadia, a $20,000 political contribution to Mayor Frank Pass, and alleged efforts to influence a sewage treatment plant contract. The firm’s Hawaii representative has pleaded innocent.
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Hannlul
Wrank Pass
Jack Techan
Tasn Cenew
Freeway Plan Prompts Housing Relocation Debate Near San Ysidro
Highway officials presented slides of new housing for families displaced by a proposed freeway through Ban Ysidro, San Diego, claiming the project would benefit the community. Critics cited limited housing, concerns about Portuguese and Chicano neighborhoods, and potential loss of community ties as relocation housing and rent subsidies raise questions about duration and eligibility.
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