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Oakland Tribune (Newspaper) - June 17, 1970, Oakland, California A responsible metropolitan newspaper wednesday june daily a month Congress passes 18 voting age Washington a p Congress completed action to Day on a Bill to Tower the Vot ing age in All elections to 18. If president Nixon signs the measure it will take effect next Jan. 1. The final vote in the House was 272 to 132. The House passed the Mea sure after defeating 224 to 183 a Republican led attempt to Send the Bill Back to a Confer ence with the Senate in Hopes the 18-year-old voting provi Sion would be deleted. Another provision of the Bill would continue for five More years the voting rights act of 1965, which is designed to protect negro voters in the South. It would also ban voter literacy tests in All states and set a uniform state residency requirement for presidential elections. The possibility of a vote has been hinted at by some opponents of the Bill but most democrats regard it As unlikely. The Bill extends the right to Vole to All persons 18 years old or older in All elections after Jan 1, 1971. It provides for a prompt supreme court test to decide its Constitution atty. At present Only four states permit voting by persons under 21 Georgia and Ken Tucky where the age limit is 18 Alaska where it is 19, and Hawaii where it is 20 in the last five years 20 other states have rejected efforts to lower he voting age supporters of the provision noting that approximately half the combat deaths m Vietnam come within the age group of 18 to 21, argued a person old enough to fight and die for his country is old enough to vote for its leaders. The opponents besides Cit ing constitutional grounds said 18 year Olds Are not mature enough to vote and Point to violent protests on campuses to support their position the voting rights Section of the Bill continues until 1975. The act has been hailed As the most successful civil rights Bill Ever enacted. Its key pro visions expire in August. Aimed primarily at South Ern states there had been widespread evidence of discrimination against negro voters in the past the 1965 voting rights act led to vastly increased voter participation by Blacks and the elec Tion of scores of local Black officials the administration tried to replace the 1965 act with a see Back Page col. 5 Nixon Calls for i i o inflation Barrier Emeryville officer Robert Mierkey inspects blast damage two pipe bombs exploded and flying debris injured a woman customer Emeryville diner blasted by bombs Emeryville two homemade bombs exploded in the Doggie diner at san Pablo Avenue and West Macarthur Boulevard Early today injuring one person and causing extensive damage. Two other unexploded bombs were found at the diner an All night stand frequented by police officers. The first blast came shortly after Midnight just As Deputy police chief John Lacoste and officer William Hart drove their patrol cars into the Park ing lot. A third Emeryville police patrol car was on the Street about to pull into the lot. As Lacoste and Hart circled the Patio Type Structure to a planter Box where the explosion took place a second pay hikes Given in Contra Costa Martinez by fran Dauth Tribune staff writer pay raises and fringe benefits totalling were granted to Contra Costa county employees yesterday by the Board of supervisors supervisors approved t h e pay package to be effective july i by a 3 to 2 vote with Board members Alfred m. Dias of san Pablo and James e. Mon arty of Lafayette opposing it. The package includes a 6 per cent pay raise for All of the county s employees plus an additional 2% per cent for uniformed sheriff s office employees firemen planners animal control workers and a few Hospital employees. Some 40 per cent of the Cost will be paid by Federal and slate subventions with the remaining to be financed by county property taxpayers. Cost of the wage package on the tax rate is estimated to be about 12 cents per assessed valuation. Supervisors now Are reviewing the 1970-71 proposed budget which Calls for a 25-cent tax increase to finance million in spend ing during the next year. That proposed budget in clude provisions for the Cost of the salaries to be taken from reserves. Major fringe benefits in the package Are adjustments in the health plan life insurance vacation schedules and a Day off for employees receiving recognition for Long time ser vice. County administrator j. P. Mcinen estimated that All the pay raises and fringe benefits amount to about 7.3 per cent of the present county pay Roll. The plan approved yester Day essentially follows the recommendations o u 11 i n e d by Mcinen two weeks ago. In addition supervisors included Mcinen in the 6 per cent increase and approved pay raises for the District at Torney and county auditor controller As recommended by the grand jury. Mcbrien s pay will go from to per year. Approval of proposition 2 on the june 2 ballot allows supervisors to set the pay of District attorney and auditor controller previously set by the state. The District attorney will be upped to annually. County auditor controller s pay will go up to supervisors turned Down the grand jury s recommendation that they ask the state Legisla Ture for pay raises for them selves on the suggestion of see Back Page i bomb apparently strapped to a table inside the eating area went off. A woman customer Willie b. Dorn of 1916 Stuart st., Berkeley was struck by flying debris but was not seriously injured. Robert Faber 18, the diner s Counterman of 4279 nor ton ave., Oakland was not Hurt. Several other persons were outside and also escaped injury. A search of the premises turned up two other unexploded bombs both of them in the planter Box near the initial blast. Army ordnance bomb experts were called to the scene to remove them. The bombs were made of Inch and a half pipe of vary ing lengths the biggest being about eight inches Long filled with some Type of explosive. The Type of fuse used to set off the explosions was not revealed. Most of the Force of the first blast went upwards through a roof covering. The second explosion broke windows in the stand. Bomb fragments were scattered Over a wide area. Faber said he first believed a Gas line had exploded. He said he started out a rear see Back Page col. 3 classroom construction j Bill signed Sacramento a p governor Reagan signed into Law today a Bill pumping million into new classroom construction for a dozen Over crowded school districts throughout the state. Reagan said the Money would go a Long Way toward relieving the need for double and triple sessions in school districts most critically affected those experiencing the most rapid growth in the at the Bill signing Reagan was flanked by assemblyman Earth Crandall a san Jose author of the measure and assemblyman Clare Berryhill a Ceres the million loan will be repaid from the proceeds of yesterday s school Bond Sale. As a result the repay Robert Faber thought it was Gat Thurmond blocked on Jet sales Washington a the Senate today rejected a move to permit sales of the free Dom fighter Jet planes to Well As to South Vietnam. The vote was 45 to 36. Opponents charged the amendment by sen Strom Thurmond r-s.c., was de signed to create an added Loop Hole in foreign military Aid programs Thurmond sought to revise a provision in the military sales Bill that limits sales of the plane to regular military Aid programs through which South Korea and Taiwan would get to South Vietnam. Urging inclusion of thai land Thurmond argued that if this country is to provide for its own defense and not depend on the United states we must give Thailand the Means through equipment supplies and sen. Frank Church a Idaho opposed the Amend ment and said Aid to Thailand should be included m the Reg ular military Aid program rather than in the defense budget As at present. It is not a question of whether she gets the planes or he where the Money comes from the de sense budget or the military Aid wage and Price controls Why tll6 ruled out business labor a n responsibilities stressed almost resigned Washington a president Nixon announced today the erection of a three Way govern mental Barrier to spiralling inflation while promising i will not take this nation Down the Road of wage and Price Nixon thus gave Way to increasing pressure for a policy of voluntary restraint on wages and prices. In a nationwide to radio broadcast on economic Pokey he lectured business and labor on their responsibility to re Frain from excessive Price markups and wage increases. The fight against inflation is everybody s the president said. He announced these actions to pull the reins tighter on inflation National commission on productivity will be named with representatives from business labor government and the Public. Its duty will be to find ways of increasing output per worker and bring ing a balance Between Cost and productivity to assure More stable prices. Directed the coun cil of economic advisers to prepare a periodic inflation to spotlight significant wage and Price bulges and an Alyze their inflationary Impact. This inflation Alert will Call attention to outstanding cases of Price or wage increases and will be made Public by the National commission on Nixon said. Regulations and Pur chasing review Board is being set up to review Federal purchasing procedures to As sure that they do not drive up costs and prices and to re View import policy to see whether supplies can be in creased to meet rising con Sumer demand without loss of jobs at Home. This administration by its spending restraint has set the example in this past year we believe we have now earned the credentials to Call for Sim Ilar restraint from business and labor to slow Down Infra Nixon said. Nixon assured the nation that a peacetime Economy is clearly on the he prom ised our scheduled withdrawal of forces from Cambodia will be kept. Our scheduled transition from a wartime Economy to a peacetime consumer Economy will be kept As Well. While our Economy adapts to the reordering of our National priorities and re sources we Are undergoing a second great change. We Are trying to do something that has never been done before to avoid a recession while we see Back Page col. 5 . May Deal with Nasser by Raymond Lawrence foreign news analyst the United states is consid ering a direct new approach to Egypt on a Middle East peace formula. Although american Diplo Mats have abandoned an exclusive Reliance on the soviets As a go Between the United slates and Egypt the stale department expects to reopen shortly talks with the rus sians on devising an Arab Israel peace formula. All efforts to this end in the past have failed completely due to Moscow s Espousal of the Arab cause which is in line with its military assist Ance program that is estimated to run about billion a year. Israeli foreign minister Abba Eban today completed his talks with italian officials in Rome and said they produced no new signs that egyptian president Nasser is ready to negotiate for a per manent peace. Eban made the visit on invitation of foreign minister Aldo Moro who in talks with Nasser has been acting As an unofficial middleman m the Middle East conflict president Nasser Eban said is not prepared for a permanent contractual peace. He wants to Tell us where the boundaries should Eban also called for a Cli mate of criticism m the West against soviet policy. He believes that if Western nations Are apathetic passive indulgent toward Moscow s Mas Sive intervention in the Middle East then the russians would Only become bolder. Thus intervention will become sharper with great dangerous consequences of course to peace in the Middle Eban reaffirmed Israel s position that it wants to main Tain just Borders and not to retain the Arab territories occupied in the 1967 War. But is see Back Page col. 3 by Bill Martin Tribune staff writer mayor John h. Reading nearly quit in disgust recently in a dispute with the Federal office of economic Opportunity Over the refunding of the Oakland economic develop ment Council inc. But reports that he plans to resign soon Are incorrect he said last night. His term expires july he admitted he has consid ered it but said he will not make a decision on it for at least a couple of months. Financial reverses at his food products firm and disenchantment with Federal poli cies involving Core cities S.C. As Oakland have caused him to give the resignation matter some thought he said. But i be still got a Job to do Here with the read ing said. I want to see the City Center project the mayor was referring to a proposed six Block Complex of office buildings a major hotel and a department store in downtown Oakland. A Hawaii development firm dil Lingham corp., has been pre paring a development plan for months. Reading and the office of economic Opportunity Leo tangled earlier this Spring when the Federal Agency appeared ready to refund Oak land economic development Council inc., Oedri for an other year the mayor has been a Long time and outspoken critic of the Community s incorporated anti poverty Agency and its mayor John Reading not resigning executive director Percy Moore on a trip to Washington d.c., Reading told High Nixon administration officials he d resign with a blast at the administration if the Leo re funded the local Agency. The mayor had barely re turned to Oakland when an Leo troubleshooter arrived from Washington to try to gauge How serious Reading was about his threat. Gov. Reagan s aides be came involved in the Situa Tion creating reports that the governor would veto any S.C. refunding thus backing up Reading the Nixon administration obviously eager to avoid a Dis see Back Page col. 7 Senate approves amended budget compiled from Sacramento a the Senate today approved a com Promise amendment to gov. Reagan s billion budget which pumps an extra million into Public schools by cutting deeper into All other state programs. The Compromise increases the proposed across the Board budget Cut of other programs to pay for the increase in sup port for local schools. That makes the across the Board Cut 2.25 per cent. Another million would be raised by transferring the truck tax from the Highway fund to the general fund and a million surplus in this Newark s new Black mayor vows to cure City s wounds Kinnith Orison jubilant Newark . Up Kenneth a. Gibson who forged a fragile coalition of negroes and Whites to win election As Newark s first Black mayor vowed today to reconcile his City torn by a racially bitter Campaign. Right on As we Gib son told his enthusiastic sup porters. Eight on for All the people of Newark. For the next four years the City of Newark will have decent Hon est mayor Hugh Addonizio soundly beaten yesterday in his bid for a third four year term is on trial in Federal District court in Trenton on charges of tax evasion conspiracy and extortion. The is sue of governmental corruption slowly gave Way to bitter racial recriminations in the closing Days of the Campaign. The final unofficial tally gave Gibson votes to Addonizio s Gibson picked up 56.1 per cent of the vote in an election that saw a record turnout for a Runoff. Though Gibson pledged to reunite the diverse factions in the largely Black City it was going to be no easy task. Followers of the 38-year-old City Engineer took to the streets after the Victory speech shouting a o w e r to the people and right m e a n t i m e at Addonizio Headquarters violence erupted As the mayor s supporters attacked newsmen blaming them for the loss. Nigger a and up year s budget makes up most of the difference. The amended budget will come Back before the Senate tomorrow for a vote to Send it to a conference committee of the two houses. The amendment was adopted without debate on a voice vote. The budget itself re quires two thirds approval. Democratic caucus chair Man Mervyn Dymally said after a three hour closed door session with gop leaders that agreement had been reached to Cut million out of exist ing state programs to give More Money to schools. There just in t enough Money for some of the serv ices we think Are said Dymally a los Angeles. It s an unhappy Compro Mise the cuts would be on top of a 1.6 per cent across the Board Cut adopted by the sen ate finance committee last week after the stats finance department issued revised budget estimates putting the proposed 1970-71 budget million in the red. Republicans have called for cuts in welfare and education the programs democrats want to democrats have leaned toward elimination of some of the boards and commissions appointed by the governor. A Bill designed to provide about million to finance salary increases for College and University faculty moved a step closer to winning Assem Bly passage. The Assembly Revenue and taxation committee yesterday endorsed the measure by chairman William t. Bagley r san Rafael and sent it to the floor despite complaints it was an in Silt to truckers. The Bill would Transfer the see Back Page Cri. I

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