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Newspaper
Daily Review
Location
Hayward, California, United States of America
Date
Oct 03, 1973
Page
6
Volkswagen of America announced a 14 percent price rise for 1974 models due to dollar devaluation and higher costs. Beettle price climbs to 2825 dollars and the Karmann Ghia Coupe to 3475 dollars, with dealers receiving new cars this month. A spokesman said the higher price is partly offset by a looser warranty policy.
Don Velez aged 33, a San Francisco police officer, shot himself Tuesday in Pacifica after an argument with his wife Dofiha. Police say the couple had been estranged for three weeks and Velez had returned to the family home seeking an reconciliation.
James Fisher a 26 year old Auburn Washington man died of kidney failure after spending 72 days adrift in the Pacific following the capsizing of the Triton off the California coast. Fisher and his brother in law Robert Tininenko 34 and Tininenko’s wife Linda left Tacoma bound for Costa Rica. Linda Tininenko died at sea four months later. Fisher was placed on dialysis Sunday at St Francis Hospital. They were rescued September 21 by a British freighter 900 miles southwest of San Francisco.
Carol Parrott, a lesbian mother, asks the California Supreme Court to return her four children removed in 1971 after her narcotics arrest. An appeals court upheld the removal, though she argues there was no suggestion of inadequate care in the child custody trial. Two of the children were later returned and then taken again by a probation officer.
The U S Navy said a Soviet vessel rescued Ensign Michael Robert Jang 23 of Chattanooga Tennessee who fell from the USS Blue Ridge and drifted over eight hours in the South China Sea. He was picked up on a Soviet warship and returned to his ship in good condition with sunburn.
Black Panther chief of staff David Hilliard, 41, petitions U S District Court for release from state prison where he serves a term for assault with a deadly weapon. He alleges his indictment and trial were biased against black jurors by peremptory challenges. He is incarcerated at the California Medical Facility in Vacaville.
Forbes Magazine publisher Matchlm Forbes aims to launch a gas balloon from Cape Arago Oregon for a coast to coast hop to New York in a voyage costing over 100000 dollars. He seeks to be the first to travel the continent by balloon and likens it to a Walter Mitty dream.
Police disarmed an incendiary diary bomb in a Bayview district market after two anonymous calls alerted staff. The device was found Tuesday on the second floor among paper towels at Super Save Market, 4517 Third St, built from kerosene, a friction starter and an alarm clock timer. Firemen reported plastic bags over the sprinkler system. Store manager Mike Ghanam said he received harassing calls after opening the market in May.
Pittsburgh UPI reports AWOL soldier and former mental patient Jack Reali 23 confessed to six killings over the weekend. He faces murder charges in the death of George Nicholson 70 of Hampton Virginia and will face a second murder charge for Michael Oley 45 of Struthers Ohio. Oley's body was found near a Hillaville Pennsylvania quarry last year. Beall of Lowellville Ohio reportedly confessed to two additional Hampton killings and one in Struthers during interrogation. The suspect, a Vietnam veteran with six years in the Army, has a long psychiatric history including a stabbing of his grandfather and a hammer attack on his father.
Skylab 2 astronauts report a solid groove after a month in orbit and say a 59 day flight could extend to 70 days or more. NASA officials caution against a four month mission and await further data while doctors reserve judgment on longer weightless durations.
University of Utah geologist M Leroy Jensen says Skylab images show light colored deposits amid volcanic rock near Ely on public land near Kennicott Copper Co. s Big Cut mine. He cautions area covers about 100 square miles and staking is costly and premature. If real, deposits lie beneath a thick volcanic cover and magnetic anomalies suggest underground mineralization.
Communist forces fought government units near Phnom Penh as clashes pressed on three sides of the capital. At Prek Roteang the pagoda site seven miles northwest of Kongpong Tuol, a government battalion with armored carriers was repelled. seven soldiers died and 30 wounded. Communist infiltrators near Highway 4 met mine defenses, while on the river’s north bank and a dawn assault east of Kompong Tuol further marked the heavy fighting around the capital.
Redwood City report details Joseph Canfield, a 43 year old former German Army medic, and Dr Frank Small, a Calgary physician and ex med ic, reuniting over a World War III prisoner of war. Canfield seeks disability pay for a back injury from a 1944 bail out, with Small agreeing to testify.
Brig. Gen. Vu Van Giai, former commander of the South Vietnamese 3rd Division, was demoted to private and discharged after a military court found him guilty of disobeying orders and abandoning his post during the 1972 DMZ offensive. He fled Quang Tri City by helicopter as Hanoi forces advanced toward Hue. The 3rd Division, formed six months before the attack, faced shortages and included many draftees and deserters. The North Vietnamese push was halted at the My Chanh River, near the provincial southern border.
The My Lai massacre case reaches the U.S. Court of Military Appeals, a three judge panel, for 90 minutes of arguments on Calley’s conviction and 20 year sentence. The hearing opens at 7 am PDT. Calley will not attend and remains confined at Fort Leoning Ga.
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