20 Nov 1969
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Newspaper
Daily Review
Location
Hayward, California, United States of America
Date
Nov 20, 1969
Page
1
A Thursday edition dated November 20, 1949 from The Daily Review in Heyward, California, appears in the OCR fragment. The item presents itself as a historical newspaper snippet with no clear lead story. Further readable context is limited to publication details and date.
Oakland reports two avivitsses urge Assembly Transportation Committee to include Bay Area air ports under the Metropolitan Transportation Agency. The bill by Assemblyman John Foran gives the agency three years to assess sea and air facilities within the transit plan. Marcella Jacobson backs placing seaports and airports under MTA while Supervisor Joseph Bort says MTA should not operate them.
Black Panther Party chief of staff David Hilliard was found not guilty by a municipal court jury of obstructing a police officer in a June 27, 1968 incident. The verdict followed a six and a half hour deliberation amid ongoing Alameda County cases linked to a 1968 shootout that left one youth dead and several wounded.
A 75-member panel of doctors police and engineers debated whether a barrier on the Golden Gate Bridge would curb suicides. They noted the toll of bridge leap deaths since 1937 and discussed that some may still seek self harm elsewhere. Stanford and UC scholars warned barriers might not deter all jumpers.
Admiral John Hyland told the West Coast Civilian Personnel Directors Conference at Alameda that the Navy will turn over all river warfare craft now crewed by U S sailors in Vietnam to the South Vietnamese by July. Some Navy advisers will stay to establish a logistics system and teach overhaul and engine maintenance. He cited clear Vietnamese ability and willingness to operate boats and weapons, noting progress already made.
Four San Francisco high schools will host emergency treatment crash pads for students under the influence of dangerous drugs. Dr. JM Stubblebine notes teens can be immobile in class during a bad trip, as the program, supported by the Board of Education and Health Department, launches within about 10 days. The $115,000 annual cost, funded by the Health Department, will staff each pad with a nurse, a psychiatric technician, and student aides to provide nonpunitive care and reduce fear. Dr Robert Jenkins says the initiative has police backing and aims to keep treatment within the school setting to reassure students.
University of California President Charles Hitch warned scholars that student militancy threatens academic freedom on campuses. He spoke at a Hoover Institution dinner during a three day symposium on peaceful change, emphasizing integrity over indoctrination and personal opinion masked as university stance.
STANFORD AP The Assembly Natural Resources Committee chair George W Milias warns California will produce about 120 million tons of solid waste annually by century's end and calls for advanced disposal methods. He foresees doubling sewage waste quadrupling solid waste and rising radioactive waste in many areas as population grows.
Richard Copas, 15, and Douglas Donald, 14, Fort Pierce natives, were sent to three years in the adult system after juvenile court certified them incorrigible. After ten days behind bars they were moved to Florida’s Lake Butler Halfway House for boys, as Gov. Claude Kirk personally intervened to release them from the prison system.
C Douglas Dillon, former Treasury secretary and Kennedy era investment banker, will become president of the Metropolitan Museum of Art on Jan 1 succeeding Arthur Houghton Jr. Houghton becomes board chairman. Dillon, a longtime Met trustee, aims to strengthen finances amid the museum’s centennial celebrations and building expansion.
Legislative analyst A Alan Post told a joint Education and Ways and Means hearing that California's 19 state colleges have room for about 10000 more students but lack about 6.3 million dollars for new faculty and services. Assemblyman Vincent Thomas suggested reallocating funds from under enrolled schools, while Chancellor Harry Brakebill described plans for a unified application form and centralized enrollment monitoring across all campuses.
A band of 89 American Indians seized Alcatraz Island to press for a new Indian center. Led by 26 year old Mohawk Richard Oakes, they followed a previous peaceful two week occupation urged to depart by the General Services Administration, owner of the former federal prison.
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