Indictment Won’t Deter Heroin Ring in Alameda County
A federal grand jury charged 14 individuals in a $2 million heroin raid in Southern Alameda County. Included are Umberto Chavez Irene Chavez John Fernandez Aen Fernandez Carmen Ramirez Delores Fernandez Armondo Ramirez George Apodaca Margaret Apodaca Filemon Miramontes Pedro Araujo Luis Rodriguez Baca and others. All face conspiracy to import and distribute heroin. Chavez and Fernandez also charged with interstate travel to promote a falsification scheme involving narcotics.
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San Francisco
Alameda County
Umberto Jose Chavez
Carmelita Place
Fremont
Irene Chavez
John Fernandez
Aen Fernandez
GSL
Union City
Olivia Montez
Park St
Hayward
Jesse
George Apodaca
Whipple Road
Margaret Apodaca
Gernon Baca
Filemon Miramontes
Pedro Araujo
Mexico
Luis Rodriguez
Baca
18Th St
Chavez
Fernandez
Hayward Man Charged In Camper Theft Attempt
Hayward police arrested George Gaspari 46 of 1158 Folsom Ave on a charge of attempted grand theft after he allegedly jacked up a camper at a sales lot on Mission Blvd. The operator, Tony Farr, reported no permission to move the camper. Earlier, Raymond A. Johnson 24 of Fremont was charged with purse snatching near a downtown street after a clerk and bystanders chased him from Alfred and Sons Shoe Store.
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Hayward
George Gaspari
Folsom Ave
Mission Blvd
Gaspari
Tony Farr
Farr
Fremont
Raymond A. Johnson
Waller Ave
Alfred & Sons Shoe Store
Doris Faulkin
Michael White
Jonnse
Heeing Johnson
Welfare ruling under review by California judge
Presiding Superior Court Judge Robert Kroninger weighs a motion by the California Welfare Rights Organization to reverse his landmark order removing working recipients from welfare. Legal Aid Society argues for vacating the ruling as a policy change that would cut about one third of Alameda County's 4000 working welfare recipients.
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Superior Court
Robert Kroninger
California
Welfare Rights Organization
Legal Aid Society
Welfare Rights
Kroninger
Alameda County
State Department of Social Welfare
Girl Hurt in San Leandro Car Crash
A 1 year old girl passenger in a car that struck a utility pole near San Leandro High School was listed in satisfactory condition at Memorial Hospital with a fractured cheekbone and possible concussion. Maureen Elizabeth Keele, 14744 Washington Ave, was passengers of Ana Maria Sousa, 17, 217 W Broadmoor Blvd. Sousa was northbound on Bancroft Ave and apparently spoke to Keele before the collision. The car hit the curb and backed up about 24 feet north of the south driveway. The driver sustained minor injuries and was cited for driving without due care and caution.
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San Leandro
Memorial Hospital
Maureen Elizabeth Keele
Washington Ave
Ana Maria Sousa
W. Broadmoor Blvd
Misa Sousa
Bancroft Avenue
San Leandro High School
Quebec landslide toll rises as search ends
In St Jean Vianney Quebec officials gave up hope of finding alive the more than two dozen missing after the province s worst landslides. A police spokesman said it would be a miracle if anyone else is found alive. Five bodies have been recovered though the coroner could account for four. The area is described as mud filled with debris.
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ST. Jean Vianney
Que
DPD
Quebec
Richard Authier
Reagan
Carpenter
Paul Beck
Red China trade controls eased by Connally order
Treasury set rules loosening dollar transactions with the People's Republic of China noting the changes do not remove export bans. The order allows American oil firms to sell fuel to Chinese vessels abroad except those tied to North Korea, Vietnam, or Cuba while keeping U.S. flag vessels from mainland China ports prohibited and barring imports to the United States.
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Vammeree
China
Tutmis
Hing
Treasury Alsio
Connally
U.S
North Korea
Nort Vietnam
Cuba
Treasury
United States
People’s Republic of China
Filibuster to End Draft Extension Stirs Senate Debate
Senate debate opened on a five year draft extension as Sen. Gravel vows to stall with a filibuster. Gravel aims to let amendments pass and delay action while McGovern Hatfield Mansfield propose antiwar amendments. Gravel asserts a small group will sustain the filibuster amid broader amendment strategy.
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Senate
John C. Stennis
D-Miss
Gravel
Alaska
House
Vietnam
George 5. McGovern
D-8
Mark C. Hatfield
R-Ore
Mike Mansfield
D-Mont
U.S
Europe
Harold Hughes
Iowa
William Proxmire
Ti-Wis
Hatfield
Vance Hartke
D-Ind
Umbrella program at AC Transit stalls after losses
Alameda-Contra Costa Transit District tried to curb umbrella theft by placing bins at the San Francisco Depot. Last year 50 umbrellas were returned. this spring 150 vanished with only one damaged item returned. Officials said they will try again with 130 more umbrellas during heavy rain.
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Oakland
Destruction of U S Germ Weapons to Start Monday
The Defense Department announced that starting Monday American supplies of germ warfare weapons will be destroyed at Pine Bluff Arsenal in Arkansas. This action follows President Nixon's November 25 1964 order for total destruction of all U S offensive germ weapons and the facility will later become the national center for toxicological research under the Food and Drug Administration.
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Pine Bluff Arsenal
Arkansas
Food and Drug Administration
National Center For
Penta- Bot
Committee urges board study of nonelectorate administrators
Trujillo advocates a fact finding effort to assess whether full time versus part time supervisors are needed. He warns against delegating authority and argues supervisors must spend more time on day to day operations to spot problems early. Tigila plans to send a letter to the board for Tuesday action.
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Trujillo
Tigila
U S Jets Hit North Vietnam Amid Bad Weather
U S jets bombed communist positions as weather grounded most helicopters supporting operations near Saigon. B 52 bombers continued strikes around the Shaw valley despite the limited daily communique by U S command.
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U.S
Tha
Shaw Valey
Saigon
Blast kills four in Colorado dynamite plant disaster
In Louviers Colorado a dynamite plant explosion killed four people including Claude Mosher a 45 year old foster father to two women from Fremont and Hayward. Other victims were Alvin Oxnam 54 of Salida DeWayne Garlow 48 of Littleton and Max Converse 47 of Castle Rock. Two workers outside were injured.
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Louviers
Colo
Alameda County
Claude Mosher
Littleton
DuPont Chemical Yn
Pat Greenman
Mowry Ave
Fremont
Karen Arouletta
Brae
Hayward
Sheperd
Alvin Oxnam
Salida
Solo
DeWayne Garlow
Max Converse
Castle Rock
California lawmakers reveal varying state tax payments
San Francisco Mayor Joseph Alioto said he paid about 200000 in state income taxes over four years. Other leaders reported ranges or ranges for 1970 and prior years, with figures for Moretti, Mills, Monagan, Flournoy, Priest, Reinecke, Moscone, Brown and Brown’s statements.
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Sacramento
San Francisco
Joseph Alioto
California
Associated Press
Reagan
Tom Flynn
Aliota
Alioto
Assembly
Bob Moretti
Moretti
Senate
James Mills
Robert T. Monagan
Houston Flournoy
Baker Priest
Ed Reinecke
George Moscone
Moscone
Willie L. Brown
Assembly Ways and Means Committee
Brown
State Senate
Ren-gan
Capitol
Gov. Reagan
Robert C. Cline
Woodland Hills
Cline
Reagan tax questions spark curbed press conference
Reagan defended his tax payments amid a leak probe and allegations of possible improper disclosure. He cited his California and federal tax history, disputed rumors, and calls for proof while press access remained restricted.
Man dies in apparent suicide in Castro Valley
Lawrence Henderson, 40, of Butterfield Drive, Castro Valley, died yesterday morning from a gunshot to the head in an apparent self inflicted death. The coroner reported his wife Harriet Henderson arrived home at 10 45 a m and found him in the garage with a hunting rifle. The coroner noted Henderson had been ill since the start of the year.
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Castro Valley
Lawrence H. Henderson
Butterfield Drive
Henderson
Harriet Henderson
California jobless rate climbs to 7.4 percent in April
California April unemployment rose to 7.4 percent though payrolls fell. Gilbert Sheffield of the State Department of Human Resources Development cited 595,000 jobless statewide, down from March but 167,000 above April 1969. Total employed rose 51,000 to 7.99 million, still below 8.03 million four years ago.
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Sacramento
California
Gilbert Sheffield
State Department of Human Resources Development
Sheffield
Open campus debate stirs Castro Valley school concerns
Castro Valley High School faces a bitter open campus debate as students push for freedom to smoke on campus while critics cite off campus loitering, drugs and discipline. Trustee Mefford and resident complaints frame the clash as 1800 students versus a few rule-breakers, with a special board meeting scheduled to resolve administrative items.
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Miss Small
Dick Williams
Castro Valley High School
Pereimriel
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