Bay Area boxing champ shot in Oakland hotel lobby
Roger Rischer, 36, former California State heavyweight champion, remained in serious condition at Highland General Hospital after being shot five times in a hotel lobby argument. Witnesses say he had a gun but it did not fire. Rischer, who lost the state title in 1965 after a nine year reign, fought Sonny Liston two years ago in Pittsburgh.
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Reward Offered in Saratoga Gas Station Killing
San Jose UPI Phil lips Petroleum Co. posted a 5000 dollar reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the killer of gas station attendant Thomas S Deceveo 19 gunned down during a robbery at a Saratoga station on October 14 Santa Clara County sheriff’s office issued a description of a white 1957 Chevrolet sedan with a black top and higher rear end as possibly involved in the robbery murder.
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Oakland woman killed in crash near Wells Nevada
An Oakland woman died and two other women were injured when their car skidded on icy pavement and overturned on U.S. 40 about four miles east of Wells Nevada. The Nevada Highway Patrol identified the dead as Sandra Rosaline Curtis 25 injured James Carlin Gentry 25 of Martinez and John Lambardo 22 of Farmingdale Long Island New York. This was the 216th road death in Nevada this year.
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Two survive light plane crash near Grass Valley
Two Bay Area men Richard White and Ronald Schoenberg survived a crash of a single engine plane west of Grass Valley. They were treated at Sierra Nevada Memorial Hospital after deputies said fuel exhaustion led to a crash north of Spenceville. a search plane found them after sighting a signal fire.
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Judge upholds credentials verdict in Comings case
A San Francisco judge upheld the revocation of Arthur Lilleard Comings teaching credentials. Comings, 27, who taught in Berkeley and was jailed for 30 days on marijuana possession, had challenged the Board of Education action with the ACLU of Northern California. The ACLU plans an appeal as New York education officials reportedly show little concern about the conviction.
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Cosmonauts Try San Francisco Cable Car Ride
Cosmonauts Major General Nikolayev aged 41 and engineer Sevastyanov aged 35 rode a century-old San Francisco cable car after dining with Mayor Aliofo at Fisherman’s Wharf. They had just visited Ames Research Center and tested a $5 million aircraft simulator, which Nikolayev found harder to fly than a real plane.
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