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The Argus from Fremont, California • Page 8

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The Argusi
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Fremont, California
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PageS Thursday, November 17, 1966 THE ARGUS The a TEMPERATURES l-'a-K' A A Rain'is'iforecast the Pacifit'Goast rain and the' arid Ccn- trkl- Snow is over. the'Northern the Northern Plains. snow is also'pre'dicted for northern New.England.'Showers will occur over Florida: Temperatures will be cooler in Northern Rockies, Northern Plateau," Northern and Central.Plains and portions of.the middle Mississippi Valley. weather'is in store the Southern Plateau, Gulf states, Ohio'and Tennessee Valleys, Southern and middle Atlantic coast states. Newark 'branch'bf the' Alatricd a has.

set a new; books' loaned in a single day ince'it moved into new quarters at city Acting. branch 'librarian Don- aid Pcltyjohn.said' the of loaned in one day was set NovJ9. 'It was almost: 100 higher than the. previous record THE. -LIBRARY moved into square foot faeili-, ties "attached to the new city hall just prior arid have been open for service for less tharfthrce weeks.

the new space, besides times larger, is' much more attractive. The the corner. bf Road and Newark Bbulevard. leased: the'' facijilies to the library for $10,000 a year for Ihree years. PETTYJOHN Ihere has been a.general increase in book loans since moving in despite a decline nationally in children circulation.

More than half the loans from (he new facilities have been to "I expect Ihe location near a.school.-arid'the.city hall will produce a big increase in circulation this year," he added. Forecasts San Francisco Bay Area -Fair Thursday except patches of low: clouds Thursday morning, increasing cloudiness Thursday night cloudy Friday, and cHance of rain beginning before Friday fnorning. Low. 45.to 55, Gentle-winds bfr caning'southerly 20 to 30 m.p.h. Friday.

Chance 5 per cent and 20 per. cent Thursday Vnight. V.Sacramento a 1,1 Fair Thursday except patches of morning fog. Increasing Temperatures Elsetvhere ft Arsui Ptioto by Jim wllun Newark Students Toiir New Library Child Librarian Miss 'Virginia Munchrath checks out books, for" Steve Sinner, 10, of 6444 Stonecrest while the other 32 fifth grade pupils and teacher Miss Marge Callow from Kennedy School wait their turn before touring the adjoining city hall. ilbuquerque Anchorage Mlanta High Low Free I ness Thursday night, then mqst- temp'er- change.

Low 45 to 53, high 65. Gentle winds becom ing 'southerly 10 to 20 m.p.h Nevada an Friday: Colder at night: Ixw 3 I Minneapolis New Orleans New York Oakland Omaha Paso Robles Philadelphia Phoenix Piltsburgh. Portland Red. Bluff teno Sacramento St. Louis Salinas Salt: Lake City ian.

Diego Francisco Santa Barbara Seattle Spokane Thermal Washington High Low Free 30 45 34 53 1.05 41 58 .14 29 47 .26 46 .58 51 .88 43 .23 54 .79 44 53 51 .62 55 .89 .01 .39 42 75 51 62 63 63 52 79 58 56 63 54 68 71 62:63 '68 62 64 50 45. 78 57 .58 44 39 51 33 The slate had contended new evidence blood iri motion" found.deposit- ed on Sheppard's wristwatch had meant the killer had been vearing the watch when Mrs. Sheppard was beaten to death with 25 savage blows to Ihe lead. The verdict was. the biggest triumph to date iri the meteoric trial-counsel career.

of chiel defense attorney. Lee Bailey of Boston, who; ha.d; told the jury in his summation lhat "for five years 'I have waited for this .33 unction the American Federa- -fion "6f Teachers will'stand idly is sadly mis- taken," the 'officers said in a -written statement. The proposed closed session Tstems from a lalk made by a -visiting lecturer to Ihe senior i a 1-science class, during which 4 he reportedly suggested trial marriages as one solution Ito the problems of a p'y a divorce in A- merica. News his reached the Elliot Paul sen, president of the New Haven school board, and the five- member board asked Supt. Harold Schoenfeld to schedule the closed session.

SCHOENFELD. subsequently sent a memorandum lo all' social science teachers, request ing.them to allend Ihe closec session lo discuss Ihe "Family In the Modern World" units the senior course and the 'statements of the lecturer, Dr. Mer vin Cadwallader, a sociolog professor at San Jose State Col lege. Originally scheduled for the Nov. 15 board Ihe closed session later was pos poned to next Tuesday's mee ing.

Ferde Kay, president of Lo cal 1657, and Richard Grbulx executive assistant secretary the Alameda County Central La bor Council, both requested las week that the closed session be cancelled. THE UNION has contended that the proposed closed, session; constitutes a violation of the state's' Brown Act, which prohibits; public governing bodies from holding closed sessions except for personnel lers. a said Wednesday that "academic freedom" is anolher issue in Ihe dispute. are concerned about ames Logan High 'arid grievance chairmariV.of. Local 657, said' soci al 'depart- rienl teachers to'3 lo nore to attend the losed session.

same we'in- ormed Dr. Schoenfeld in a let- er that" the membersVof the ocial science department are eady at any. time to discuss he social science- program-jut not in a closed session," 3auer added. Both Schoenfeld and the Rev. Paulsen said Tuesday that they are still planning to hold 'the closed session.

Schoenfeld add ed he has been informed that four teachers who teach "Family in the Modern World" unit have said they wil attend the session and wish ii to be closed. Bauer, also counlcred any mplaints 'that only one view marriage was iri "Family in the Modern o'rld" unit by Dr. CadwaUa- er's lecture. He'feaid two social science achers gave on e' Ramifica- ons bf Divorce" and on liristian View of Marriage" at he. next class session.

OF THE four teach ers are members of Local 1657. The union officers said thej are concerned about Ihe prec edent" which will be set if th board is lo hold it closed session to discuss cur riculum mailers and to "ignore 1 Iheir own policies. "We teachers will take a in hypocritical standards teachers and denls follow board 'regulations but the board itself can chang the rules any time it wants, their statement Abraham Newman, execuliv secretary for AFT chapters the Bay Area, said similar 1 si ualions in other districts hav "resulted in complete disaste 'or teacher morale and the en lire district." these attacks on academic freedom and on the curriculum, none of which have been dig- or legalized by put in writing," he being He noted that the district's 'own "Controversial Issues icy" requires complaints from 5 citizens to be put in writing. HARRY A i a Science department head at Wales Wants New Status LONDON (UPI)-The loin Welsh Nationalist member the British Parliament sal Wednesday- that Wales wan Commonwealth status, a peat! the United Nations and shou be allowed to Join the Europea Common Market on Its own. "There is no reason wh Wales should-not be in- United a I tons," Gwynfi Evans fold a ineeling.of'Cny London Young Conservatives "We'wanl to bee there.

The are 35 countries there srrialle than Wales." pard case'wheh'no auofrrifey repute i his, country' ad een a' ray i.hope:; fo -'i th; had taker it through victory when an Ohic federal district judge freed-Dr Sam on a habeas writ in July, 1964'on the grounds tha he was denied a fair trial in 1954 because of prejudicia publicily that suffused tin That action was overturns by the U.S. Court- of Appeal for the Sixth District in a 2-tp- iecision months later. Bu Ihe: court' 'allowed him remain free iri $10,000 bond. The U.S. Supreme Cour reversed the appeals cour as can rjdered the habeas' corpus writ riforced or, a trial.

The uyalibgu prosecutqr, exhorted th on a "the truth ew trial which began nearly the hall affairs rom the.bne in Dr. Sam vas' Dec. 21, 1954. Shortly; freed in rharried Vriane teb'benjona'nris, a Ger- Tiari'divorcee; had struck a peri-paiSfrien'dsliip. with his "Older'' brother, Together they, have written; a bb p)i'i' and leayjhg, the -last chapter' written 'as' the andjjudge not to be moved bylseats.

Twice Aviane, wearing alhe said he knew Susan Hayes 'sympathy or bias." In his charge, Judge Tally jurors to seek in this case as truth In human bfe attained." He explained 'there were three jossible verdicts: Guilly -of second degree murder, guilty of first degree manslaughter, guilty. 5 A murder verdict called.for a mandatory life sentence with a parole possible within 10 years. First degree manslaughter carried, a prison ternvpf 1 to 20 eopard skin coat, wiped her eye's with a handkerchief during Tally's charge. Tally told the jurors that Sheppard "has 'seen fit to exercise his constitutional right not and admonished them not to consider this fact any He said the jurors, to and had given her a watch. At nis first trial, Sheppard admitted having sexual relations with Miss Hayes, who 'was a laboratory technician.

prosecution summation Tues- day told the jury to look at the statement and it would find a motive for Mrs. Sheppard's killing. years, within with parole 11 months. Shoppajd speni 9 1 months' and .16 days behind joyously night'-by Those who signed rianTes to, Ihe verdict were six ne bachelor, Ihree' housewives, -two of them and one widowed ea t''grand mother who had confided Bailey while being as a prospective juror'that she had only, art eighth.grade education and hoped she would'gel along all Before entering deliberation room in (he' 2QtH day of Sheppard's. second trial, the jury was instructed by the consider the more severe charge first, then the -lesser, and finally innocence.

The jury, he said, was not to be it felt Shepparc guilty of the higher crime il should not. settle.for the lesser. Both sides presented testimony in the current trial that was not given 1954. New Witness Points To Union SAN FRANCISCO (UPI)--A ormer Sacramento painting ontractor testified Wednesday lat the International Painters Union: offered $5,000 for the eath of two Northern California labor, leaders. Norman last month in connection with one the slayings, said, however, hat the international riever' came up money after the dual assassinations were carried'otil; What's the going 'rate for assassinations "days?" asked defense attorney Melvin Belli 'to an obviously agitated 1a.ll.',.'·''.'.,-' was told they had made 5,000 available for job," Call He Ihe International 'would come up with attorneys' ees if we got caught!" Call appeared as 'a prosecu- ion witness in the Superior of Max Ward, another painting con- raclbr and Carl Black, an Oak- and accountant, charged with he slaying of San Painters Union of- Icial.

Dow Wilson. The prosecu- jon charges Ward and -Black jlso were involved in the slaying of Hayward union official Lloyd Green, but the Green slaying is not a part of the current trial. came under stiff cross- examination by Belli who, re- pealediy iqueslioned the, truthfulness sbf the witness's re- of riiiirjier inline July. 4, 1954, bl udgeoh'. slay ing ilarilyn Sheppard, 31, convic- iori that.was last June Supreme Court.

'Av stale if Sheppard was convicted for' a Ihe period.he had spent in prison would have no learing on any application for laroje. Sheppard, however, could at, any for clemency through the' Ohio Adult Parole Authority, would make 'its. recbmrnenda- lion to the governor, who has the right lo commule a sentence or issue a pardon. Sheppard, 42, was composed throughout Tally's 40 minute charge--except for bne moment when he heard the words of the indictment charging he "unlawfully, purposely and maliciously killed Marilyn Sheppard'. v'.

against the dignity of the Slate of Ohio." As Tally read those accusatory words, Sheppard bit his lips. Not once did the defendahl glance back at his blonde second wife, Ariane, sitting in the second row of spectator leslirriony for 'idefensfe ricluded -that of a b'lpod expert who said he found alien blood- not that of'Sheppard or his wife --in A delivery man that seven before the murder he saw. Mrs. Sheppard an elderly a a house key, felling the mari not lo let tier husband know Also new the defense contention that Sheppard was bludgeoned by a left- landed person, probably a voman, and lhat the killer had had a key to the home for some time 1 New stale testimony included hal of a crime lechnician who said that spots -of blood on Sheppard's wristwatch came 'rom "blood in motion." Another stale witness testified Marilyn 1 Sheppard's eyes could have been blackened by something other than the murder' weapon, possibly fists. The slate also introduced a statement Sheppard made six days after the rnurder in which Obituaries Sophie Grayson Private funeral services were held yesterday afternoon in Fremont for Sophie Grayson, 73, who died Monday at Smalley Avenue Convalescent Hospital in Hayward.

A native of San Francisco, she was the wife of the late William C. Grayson, and the mother of Milton Grayson of Antioch and Mrs. Frances Carlson of Hayward. The 2 p.m. services at Fremont Memorial Chapel' were followed by burial at Cypress Lawn Memorial Park in Colma.

Raymond B. Merp A Requiem --Mass for Raymond B. 6274 Noel who' died Tues- day'at Washington Hospital in Fremont, will.be offered at St. Edwards' Church in Newark to- LBJ Better Following Operation (Conllnuad from Page II growth on the edge of his right vocal cord--was eased when it --at 10:22 p.m. was determined immediately Down.

to after removal to be "clear-cut was met Cleveland Goui troom Resounds (contEnued from Page 1) associate defense counsel Russell A. Sherman. Judge Tally thanked '(he urors for "rendering a public service of the.highest value to his country." Tally told the jurors they were free to go home or if ihby wjshed could slay the night 'at Ac hotel at which they have been sequestered since the first day of testimony. He told them they had "no- responsibility or obligation to' discuss this case with anyone at any time." He added that "you may discuss it or choose not to." The filed out at 10:20 p.m. and Dr.

Sam, crying on the shoulder of Sherman while standing at the counsel able, turned and saw his wife at the rail. He hurried back to saying me" to question- ng reporters. He hugged and cissed her, leaning across the Dar and as a woman reporter asked him if he fell vindicated, sobbed: "Ah, for Chrissake, give me a break, will you?" To Ariane he Said only, "Baby!" and Ihen turned to leave through the bailiff's exit. The last man was out of (he courtroom--just across the hall rom the one in which he had een convicted on Dec. 21, 1954 day at 9a.m.

Services will UPl.TtMptwto Rail Tragedy Kills 38 A rescue worker looks at body hanging from 'wreckage of tram following rail tragedy near Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, early yesterday. A least 38 persons were killed injured when a crowded commuter train collided nead- on with a train south of the city. Nineteen of the Injured Were given little chance for survival. Fremont Memorial Chapel Mortuary, 3723 Peralta at 8:30 a.m. today.

i 1 A native of Michigan, Mero was the husband.of Mrs. Ethel Me'ro; Thomas and Ralph Fremont; and brother Mero of Salinas and David Mero of Raymond, Rosary was held last night at the morluary. Burial will be at Holy Sepul chre Cemetery in 'Hayward, wnign" or not malignant. Soon after the Presidenl reporters, regained consciousness, 14 min- proscribed nutes afler surgery was finished, he took a pen and wrote on Ihe back of a medical form, "Tell me -something." The doctors at his bedside discussed the operation briefly and then Johnson wrote, "Tell. me all took place." Johnson, and wife seemed happy with the results.

Word was relayed quickly by telephone to Vice President Hubert Humphrey at. his. apartment and to the Johnson daughters, Luc! and 'Lynda, at the. White House. visited her father; on originate from her lunch hour from work as a McCall's Magazine' So did Courtenay Valenti, 3-year- old daughter of former presidential, aide' Jack' equipmenl--carrying broadcast the first by a floor, mob he of The such judge had equipment The scious Presidenl the operating room the; firsl floor of the towering center in the Maryland, 'suburbs for one 17 rrilriules.

in effect going home with' my wife JViJii Jinrtrt 1 an during time, was riot'called on to make any presidential decisions, 1 go. outside the second floor courtroom or the third floor jury room until one hour after the verdict. He was asked how he fell and i "Whatta you think?" "What about'the last J2 years?" he was. asked. He you gonna bring my mother back?" mother, Mrs.

Stephen Sheppard, had altempled suicide during the last trial during lestirriony by the coroner lhal a blood imprint on the pillow slip of the. murder bed seemed to have been made by a surgical instrument. Soon after his did -kill herself. Her husband, Dr. Richard Sh'eppard, died a' week" after she did.

The slain uncon- Marilyn's falher commilled dark, green suicide-'in the 1960s, leaving a nole saying he couldn't it longer." what he was -going to Sheppard said: ''I'm Bailey, walked bill -will)' i saying: "I'm tired.".

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