Bay Area transit fares cut as tolls ease on Bay Bridge
San Francisco reports a five cent cut in the 2 stride Greyhound Lines commute book between San Francisco and the Hast Bay after reduced tolls on the Bay Bridge. An experimental automatic toll taker begins operation with tips advising motorists to drop coins gently and noting 50 cent payments trigger a green “Thank you” light.
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UPI
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State Public Utilities Commission
San Francisco Oakland Bay Bridge
San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge
Six Alarm Fire Closes Nimitz Freeway in Oakland
A six alarm fire at a Safeway Stores warehouse in Oakland sent heavy smoke and forced the waterfront Nimitz Freeway to close from 5th to 23rd avenues for close to an hour. Police and California Highway Patrol restriced traffic during the blaze.
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UPA
Safeway
Nimitz Freeway
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5Th
23Rd Avenues
Bay Area costs rise one percent in latest index
The federal report shows a one percent quarterly rise in living costs across San Francisco San Mateo Alameda Contra Costa Solano and Marin counties for the three months ending Sept 30 Prices climbed 46 percent year over year while clothing housing health and recreation and public transit advanced Food costs fell two percent with declines in fruits vegetables meals poultry and fish Major driver was a five cent bus fare increase in San Francisco
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UPI
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Labor Department
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Alameda
Contra Coga
Solana
Marin
Foster City Incorporation Okayed by Hearing
San Mateo County hearing clears Foster City incorporation with no opposing witness. County supervisors will set election date for the community of 10,000, expected to grow to 30,000 after Brewer Island development. Centex West of Dallas bought 1,500 undeveloped acres from Foster California Corp for 19 million dollars.
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Incorpo
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Dallas
Tex
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Jack Foster Jr
Bomb suspects change plea in San Francisco State case
Two black students Wimnathy Peebles and William Puttiam pled guilty to one count each of possessing an explosive after a bomb incident at San Francisco State College during the Black Student Union strike. Judge Drewes postponed remaining charges and scheduled sentencing for November. Both are free on bail.
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San Francisco State College
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Superior Court
Robert Drewes
Asst. Dist. Alty
Robert Podesta
Underground paper lists cars of narcotics agents at OSU
The Purple Berries, an underground Ohio State University paper, prints license plate numbers of cars it claims belong to undercover narcotics agents, calling them nasties. Nineteen plates appear in the latest issue. State Narcotics Bureau chief Al Cook says some numbers match his agents and some do not.
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Columbus, Ohio
UPL
Ohio State University
State Narholics Bureau
al Cook
Extradition order signed to send Angela Davis to California
New York Governor Nelson A Rockefeller signed an extradition order to return Angela Davis to California where she faces murder charges. A spokesman said extradition hearings will determine if Davis, arrested with a Teale companion in October, will be returned to the West Coast for trial.
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New York
Nelson A. Rockefeller
Angela Davis
California
Miss Davis
Rokefeller
No-smoke seating urged by San Mateo medical group
San Mateo County Medical Society urges a boycott of airlines that do not offer separate seating for nonsmokers. Dr William Sayer of the allergy group says exposure to cigarette smoke harms nonsmokers and nonsmoking people exposed to smoke show biological effects.
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San Mateo
UPI
San Mateo County
William Sayer
UC study claims middle class as violent as poor
Two University of California sociologists report a 1968 survey of 1 176 adults finds middle class Americans as likely as poorer ones to engage in physical aggression. They contend the middle class may be more prone to assault than the poor.
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San Francisco
UPI
University of California
Rodney Stack
James McMvoy
Pastor Sues Berkeley Over Alleged Police Beating
Berkeley minister Rev. Richard Yorke and his wife filed a 300000 damage suit in Alameda County Superior Court against the city of Berkeley and Police Chief Bruce Baker and officers Carl Lipgans David M Johnson Terence Bruins. They say they were assaulted on Tulson Street with Yorke beaten and his wife pushed and shaved without provocation.
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Berkeley
UPI
Wednesday
Bruce Baker
Carl Lipgans
David M. Johnson
Terence Bruins
Richard Yorke
Berkeley Free Church
San Francisco Film Festival Opens Amid Rain At Palace
The 14th annual festival opened at the Palace of Fine Arts with a packed 1,000 seat audience paying 50 dollars a ticket to see The Great White Hope. Past openings saw starlet misbehavior and pies tossed by underground groups, but this year ended incident free.
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San Francisco
UPI
Palace of Fine Arts
New Theater
20Th Century Fox
Wight
Bus service vote set for Golden Gate area directors
Golden Gate Bridge Highway and Transportation District directors will vote Oct 3 on creating a bus service between San Francisco and Santa Rosa. The district committees recommended purchasing a fleet of 112 to 142 buses and urged staff to begin talks with Greyhound Lines about using private company routes.
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UPI
Golden Gate Bridge
Highway and ‘Transportation District
Santa Rosa
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