Judge delays ruling on Viet war challenge in San Francisco
UPI reports Judge George B. Harris postponed deciding the Noyes case challenging the Vietnam War’s constitutionality until a higher court, the Ninth Circuit, rules on a related matter. Judge Sweigert had earlier allowed a government appeal after denying dismissal of a similar UC case brought by residents who are military.
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Teachers hit large SF classes
In San Francisco, teachers from 12 racially integrated schools say promises of smaller classes were unmet. At a Wednesday meeting, 120 of 185 teachers voted to seek a Saturday meeting with the Board of Education to address class sizes, with first grade averages at 26 pupils and others up to 32, while some classes reach 37 under the new plan.
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Topless Kidnappers Get Life Sentences in San Francisco
In a California case linked to the Little Lindbergh Law, Carol Kitzal Joseph Mack and Malcolm Hragin received life terms for kidnapping Dabsey Spears, a Fairfield topless club operator. The jury deliberated seven hours after final testimony described Speers being ambushed and robbed of 66 dollars following a job interview.
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Art director defends nude dance at UC Berkeley
UPI reports UC Berkeley assistant art museum head Tom Freudenheim rejects objections to a nude dance in the new $4.8 million building. He calls the act not shocking, while San Francisco Examiner critic Alexander Freid calls the postures and movements chaste. The Wednesday remarks refer to a Tuesday opening performance linked to Ann Halprin's San Francisco Dancers Work project.
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Ann Halprin
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Panhandling charge dropped in Berkeley court
UPI report says Municipal Court freed 18 year old Laura Woodman after Judge William Phelps found insufficient proof that begging was a lifestyle rather than a one time event. Councilman LeBonix testified Wortman begged on Stal tuck Avenue. police were alerted after she refused his meal offer for his mother's number.
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UC sanction over tuition and degree amid campus unrest
UC officials censured mathematics professor Mortis Hirsch and docked one week’s pay for an unsatisfactory introductory calculus class during the spring reconstitution. Reese Erlich was denied a degree for disrupting a philosophy class, marking the first faculty punishment tied to anti-war protests during Cambodia incursion events.
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Das Spring
Motorcyclist Dies After Oakland Crash
Ronald L. Dynes, 19, of Oakland died from injuries after a motorcycle he rode as a passenger struck a parked car. The accident occurred Tuesday night, leaving Dynes to pass away on Wednesday. Local authorities investigated the crash and identified the vehicle and circumstances surrounding the collision.
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Ronald L. Dynes
Berkeley considers local income tax replacement plan
Berkeley Mayor Wallace Johnson floated a possible city measure Tuesday to adopt a local income tax replacing part of the municipal tax base tied to real property values. He persuaded seven council colleagues to seek a model ordinance covering payroll income and self employment taxes, following similar moves in San Francisco and Oakland to shelve joint income tax plans for the year.
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Shirley MacLaine wins suit for $750000 damages
California Supreme Court upholds a Superior Court ruling awarding actress Shirley MacLaine $750000 after 20th Century Fox failed to produce Bloomer Girl as agreed. The court rejected the notion that offering a starring western constituted a substantially similar employment or that the actress could approve the director and script for Bloomer Girl.
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Witness testifies to phone threats in Manson Tate murder trial
Key witness Flynn recounts late night calls and taunting from Manson followers as he faced intimidation to deter testimony. He describes visits by two cult members bearing threats and notes of violence, including a suggestion to attack Flynn’s relatives, amid the Tate-LaBianca case proceedings.
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Explosion kills truck driver amid Missouri union strike
Two truck drivers and a woman face second degree murder charges after a dynamite-laden load exploded on Interstate 44 near Springfield. Victim Jorn Galt, 48, of Oklahoma City, was killed. Witnesses reported gunfire and a rifle fragment found at the scene. The blast caused a 40 foot by 12 foot crater and shook Springfield, with the driver’s family notified from Joplin.
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Appeals court upholds California gun control laws
California Court of Appeal ruled state gun laws constitutional with several provisions. Justices affirmed that officers may examine firearms in restricted areas and upheld searches tied to illegal carrying. The ruling centers on a campus incident at Diablo Valley College involving a rifle and other firearms found with marijuana, and the legality of opening the vehicle trunk during an investigation.
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Convicted slayer beats her mother in Red Bluff case
Barbara Lous Britton year-old Red Bluff resident pleaded guilty to assaulting her mother Therese Ashcraft 42 in Red Bluff. Britton earlier admitted felony manslaughter in the stabbing death of her father James A1 Ashcraft 44. She received six months in prison and three years probation, with credit for pre trial time. The probation was revoked and she faces about three years more in prison after a later hearing, as court officials said.
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