Schmitz Returns to GOP Citing Watergate Leadership
Former American Independent Party candidate John Schmitz, once a Republican congressman linked to the Western White House district, returns to the GOP amid calls for new leadership after Watergate. He returns as a Santa Ana College professor citing integrity and loyalty to the party. The Newport New York Island Festival announces Benny Goodman quartet reunion for opening night June 29 with Hampton, Krupa, and Wilson in the lineup. Field and Stream features Phyllis Dilfer in gold boots on the June cover, while Mary Brooks presents Nixon with a bronze peace medal. Erle Seaverld, CBS newsman, hospitalized for abdominal pains, recovering from a gastric upset after a Washington to New York flight. Salvation Army Booth Memorial Hospital reports Seaverld’s coronary care unit admission. he is 81, in transit from LaGuardia.
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Gere Krupa
Teddy Wilson
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Erle Severeld
Washington
Salvation Army
Booth Memorial Hospital
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LaGuardia
Booth
Morning rushes worsen as Bay Bridge car pools lag
Sacramento UPi reports commuters struggle to keep pace with growth as three hour morning rush exceeds 23 000 vehicles crossing the San Francisco Oakland Bay Bridge. A statewide survey shows HOV use rising but occupancy per vehicle climbs from 1.98 to 2.49, signaling more people crossing during peak hours. The study, Freeway Lanes for High-Occupancy Vehicles, says the project is successful yet faces significant problems.
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New statistics on dope addicts in California
The State Bureau of Criminal Statistics reports 5,747 persons arrested for narcotics addiction or registered in drug withdrawal programs in California from mid 1959 to Jan 1, 1978. County figures show Alameda, San Francisco, Orange, and San Diego with varying percentages. The report notes four method changes over the period but officials believe most addicts with three years of drug use were captured.
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Skylab repair crew races to prep sun shades
Skylab engineers raced the clock at Cape Kennedy to modify three emergency sun shades and ship them to Florida for the Friday launch window. Astronaut-repairmen Charles Conrad Joseph Kerwin and Paul Wells waited at the Cape as teams weighed fabric durability under solar radiation and ultraviolet exposure. If ready, the crew would depart at 9 a.m. EDT for a 28 day to 56 day mission aboard Skylab with two more three-man crews planned later in the year.
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Paul J. Wells
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Transplant recipient rode cross country on motorcycle
Frank LaSole, a 30 year old heart transplant survivor from South Gate California, rode a motorcycle from Los Angeles to Chicago to prove life after transplant. He had three prior open heart surgeries for rheumatic fever and received a donor heart on March 22 1971. He says the ride reflects his freedom and desire to do things despite the emotional weight of carrying another person’s heart.
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Los Angeles
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LaSole
South Gate
Calif
Nick LoSole
Frank
Ten
California
Frank LaSole
Frank Logole
Washington
New York
Yacht blocks French nuclear testing plan in Pacific
A peace group spokesman says an American yacht moved into position about 140 miles east of Moruroa Atoll in the South Pacific to disrupt France’s planned atmospheric nuclear tests. France has not announced dates, while protests grow in Australia and New Zealand.
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Antioch College fires teachers as student strike widens
Yellow Springs Ohio Antioch College fired seven activist teachers and expelled 20 students to end a student strike that began April 20. Striking students vow to ignore expulsion letters while demanding a guarantee of financial aid through graduation. College says it cannot promise aid beyond two more years, citing fiscal limits.
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Ohio
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Antioch College
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St Louis
Margee Freed
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