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THE ARGUS Page 12 Fremont-Newark, Criif. Satunhy, August $1.3 million project in Fremont revealed FREMONT Paccar, a Wnhington bated manufacturer of truck, and oHw heavy equipment, it building a $1.3 million warehoute in tbt Warm Springs District. The warehouse, with 87,000 square feet of storage space and another 10,000 square feet of office space, is scheduled to be completed in ftarch 1W7 at Warm Springs Blvd. A company spokesman said the warehouse will be used to store truck parts from the Peterbilt Motors plant in Newark. Peterbilt is a subsidiary of Paccar.

Panel okays Dumbarton bill SACRAMENTO The Assembly Ways and Means Committee yesterday approved a bill authored by Sen. John Holmdahl. D-Castro Valley, speeding construction of a new Dumbarton Bridge. Holmdahl's bill would remove the authority of Peninsula cities over the location of western approaches to a new span an authority that was written into his original 1972 legislation authorizing construction of a new Dumbarton. Fearful a new bridge and new approaches will dump large volumes of auto traffic on their streets.

West Bay cities have held up the project by refusing to approve the location of the western approaches. The bill reported out of Ways and Means yesterday. SB 1975. now goes to the Assembly floor for It's already passed the Senate. Marriott's roller coaster closed SANTA CLARA IUPI) -There's one thrill too many on the most popular ride at Marriott's Great America Amusement Park.

It happened Thursday the second time in nine days -when a roller coaster wheel guide assembly broke loose and fell to the ground. The "Turn of the Century" was braked automatically and none of the 24 passengers was hurt. A Marriott spokesman said the malfunciton occurred just a few seconds after the roller coaster came out of its double corkscrew. "We are going to look at this ride very seriously before we put it back on." the spokesman said. It was shut down indefinitely.

The coaster, which has had more than one million riders since a March 20 opening, was idled for two days after a similar incident Aug. 9. One of its 14 axle-type "spindles" snapped. Electricians' pact vote today About 750 Alameda County electricians will vote this morning on a two-year contract, according to Bob Croll. a commissioner with' the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service.

Croll said the two-year settlement calls for a Si hourly raise retroactive In June I. The pact also calls for ah additional S1.75 per hour raise during 1977. Electricians in Alameda County now earn wages and benefits totaling S13.29 per hour and work a 36-hour week. Flectricians originally asked for a S2.20 per hour raise this year. If the agreement is ratified by workers, electriciims will go on a Sln.29 hourly salary, including: wages and benefits, and will return to work Mondav.

Robbery charge reduced FREMONT Charges of strong arm robbery and vehicle theft against Ruben E. Espinoza. 5111 Morris Way, were reduced to a misdemeanor charge of joyriding when he was arraigned in municipal court Wednesday. Espinoza was arrested Monday after he allegedly took a motorcycle by threatening the driver. Tim Berrien.

19. and his pregnant. 16-year-old passenger in the Hub parking lot. The motorcvele was later recovered. Search for escapee continues Police were continuing an intensive search in South County.

yesterday for a 26-year-old man who was arrested Wednesday after he allegedly shot a gas station attendant during a holdup and later escaped from Fairmont Hospital. San Leandro. Vyshon R. Rosarizo was handcuffed to a bed in the hospital and apparently slipped out of the handcuffs and jumped out a second-story window, police said. He was barefoot and wore a white hospital gown.

Rosarizo was arrested along with two cousins. Gaylord Brace Napaepae. 21. and Brian Napaepae. 17.

of 5746 Souza Newark. The escapee was thought to have gone to Castro Valley and then possibly to Newark, according to police. Hector J. Uredo. 17.

who was shot in the stomach at Stanley's Super Shell in Hayward. was reported improving at St. Rose Hospital. Hayward. Traffic safety bill advances SACRAMENTO (UPII The Senate voted yesterday to establish a S750.000 traffic safety instruction program at all grade levels in the schools which would cover everything from pedestrians to automobiles.

If enacted into law. the measure would take effect in the coming educational term as an experimental project in up to 10 school districts selected by state Superintendent of Public Instruction Wilson Riles. The bill (AB1386I by Assemblyman Jerry I.ewis. R- Highland. made the finding that traffic safety education information for youngsters is often "inadequate or absent" and directed that the schools "shall undertake necessary method lo insure public safety and accident prevention at ail grade levels." The proposal was approved 28-5.

one more than the two- thirds majority required, and returned to (lie Assembly for concurrence in Senate amendments. During the first year of the experiment. $200.000 would be provided to finance the program. During the second. $550.000 would be provided.

Three die in train collision LISBON, Portugal (UPI) A speeding commuter train filled with rush hour passengers yesterday slammed into the rear of a train which had stopped on the tracks in a Lisbon suburb, killing and injuring scores of homeward-bound commuters. Rescuse workers said at least three persons were killed and 60 injured in the wreck. Army units brought in armored cars to pull away the twisted wreckage of the trains to allow rescue units reach the injured inside the cars. The rescue workers said most of the victims were passengers in the rear car of the front train. All available ambulances were dispatched to the scene of the crash on the northern outskirts of the capital.

Railway officials said (lie crash occurred when commuter train from Sintra slammed into the rear of a passenger train coining from Pigueira da Poz that had stopped in the tracks for an unknown reason. Scores sought in lassa fever scare TORONTO IUPI) Kleven persons known to have had contact with Canada's first suspected case of lassa fever have shown some symptoms of the deadly African disease and scores more are being sought for examination, health offficials reported yesterday. Three persons who were aboard a transatlantic airlines flight with the suspected case have indicated some symptoms, while eight nursing staff members at the hospital where she has been for the past 12 days have recorded above normal temperatures. Dr. William Frank, director of Toronto's communicable disease center, said three persons from the flight--British Airways No.

601 that arrived at Toronto International Airport at 1:15 a.m. EOT Aug. 2-- "have got symptoms of some sort." He declined to identify the three, other than to say they were from the Toronto area. He said all had been advised to stay at home and immediately contact their family The eight staff members at Etobicoke General Hospital, which closed to the public Thursday, "are people who have shown tern-, perature changes." according to Dr. Boyd Suttie, Assistant Ontario Deputy Health Minister.

Suttie told a news briefing the eight "are people wtohad contact (with the patient. Olga Birthday, birthday Brothers Erik Berg and Oscar Vanberg have a lot in common. Both are 89 and were born within minutes of each other. They immigrated together from Sweden to Spokane, in 1904 and they usually manage to celebrate their birthdays together. Vanberg lives in but he made the trip to his brother's home in Seattle to celebrate their 89th birthdays Wednesday.

Berg became a cabinet maker in Spokane, then moved to Seattle where he started a manufacturing company. Vanberg worked for a plane mill in Spokane, then a sawmill in Everett, for 32 years before retiring to Fremont in 1956. He and his wife, Marie, 87, raise fruits and vegetables organically on a small farm. Modifications to curb BART failures told Continued from Page 1 consuming lo take a train out of service and repair II. hut also because one out of 10 flashovprs require a SI .500 motor overhaul.

One solution is an air deflector which fits inside (he motor cowling. The plastic deflector. Ventiinitn said, causes air to circulate to an area in the motor where accumulation of carbon dust has been causing flashnvers. Ho said lests have shown that Ihe deflector has cut flashovors by 50 per cent. Another solution involves an electrical shunt, which is a parallel coil to the main electrical mil through which electricity passes to the motor.

Venturalo said the shunt draws juice from tho main coil when a train roaches about 3.1 miles per hour. The standard shunts- were ill-designed and allowed of electricity to outer the motors, causing flashovcrs. according to Ven- turalo. If can lx kept lo between five and 10 per month. Vcnlurato said he'd find that acceptable.

Venturato snid Iho task force has also just finished removing from trains tho kind of fuses which wore blowing out during (he hoi weather The fuses causing tho problem were not the kind originally manufactured for the cars and were not up to specifications, he said. In June. 139 fuses blew out during the hot weather. Tho number dropped to 65 in July as tho change in fuses was being made. Vcnturatn said another problem has been corrected during the past few months.

The problem was that at times when an operator put his train on manual control while it was in a station, the doors on both sides of the train would open. The problem was a connector which filled up with water every time the train was in the rain or went through the car washer as the water leaked in through the windshield. The modification involves a "raincoat" around the connector to stop it from filling with water and shorting out. Bank robber flees into G-men's arms BURBANK (UPI) A bank robber practically ran into the clutches of FBI agents yesterday. Geral Jess Ricketts, 44, was observed by the agents as he ran from a Crocker Bank branch and they grabbed him as he started to get into a waiting station wagon.

They also arrested the man at the wheel, Thomas Edward Spoo, 36. Air ace dies in Fremont FREMONT Col. Roger Q. Williams. a Fremont man who was the first to make a trans-Atlantic flight from the United Stales to Rome, died Thursday.

Williams died of a a causes at Washington Township Hospital, according to the coroner. A member of Ihe Aviation Hall of Fame in llammondsport, N.Y.. Williams flow everything from biplanes lo jets in logging over 20.000 hours in Ihe air, Ho earned (ho i "King of the Daredevils" while barnstorming from one county fair to another after World War I. In 1928. Williams joined with Clarence Chamberlain to sot an endurance record of 52 hours in the air.

Speaking of his love for flying. Williams once said. "They used to say I'd fly a barn door with an engine and I probably would if it looked safe to me." Williams is tlio author of a book on aviation history, "Flying to tho Half Way Rick." Funoral services woro held yesterday at Fremont Otapol of Ihe Hoses Mortuary. Kamckey. 56.

of St. Catharines. and they are being isolated." He said the eight were among 170 hospital staffers known to have had some contact with Mrs. Kamckey but the only to show any of the symptoms. When the hospital was closed Thursday.

238 patients we're registered. They are being released normally, but no new patients are being admitted. Meanwhile, a team of public health officials was attempting to contact all of the 407 passengers and 18 crew members who were aboard the jumbo-jet. A passenger list supplied by British Airways.contained addresses and telephone numbers for all hut fid of the passengers. Dr.

Suttie said. Mrs. Kamckey collapsed on arrival at Toronto International and was taken by ambulance to Ktobicnke. She is in critical condition. Wednesday the hospital received test results from Ihe center for disease control in Atlanta that she was a lassa fever victim.

A positive diagnosis is expected this weekend. The disease named after Ihe l.assa region of Nigeria and first discovered in West Africa in 1969 is fatal in between and 50 per cent ol its victims. It is uncurahlc. with no preven- lative vaccine and no treatment- Sex scandal figure Hays withdraws from re-election Continued from Page 1 A curvaceous, leggy woman with flowing blonde hair. Miss Ray quickly became one of the most photographed and interviewed women in Washington.

A publishing company rushed out a novel she had written with ghostwriter assistance based upon her Washington sexual escapades. Playboy magazine includes three nude photos of her in the "Girls of Washington" feature of its current issue. At first. Hays, then a bridegroom of six weeks, denied Miss Ray's allegations entirely. He said they had, no affair and indicated he would tough it out.

But on May 25. he rose before the House of. Representatives and admitted that, before his marriage. "I did have a relationship with Elizabeth Ray." He said he had lied about that part of it to protect "the woman I love." In rapid order. life went sour for Hays.

The House Ethics Committee began an investigation of Miss Ray's allegations. It is still in progress. The Justice Department began investigating the possibility Hays had broken laws governing personal use of the public payrolls. A federal grand jury now has the case. In addition, the Justice Department is considering filing a civil damage suit against Hays to recover any money improperly paid Miss Ray.

Under pressure from House Democrats, he resigned his chairmanships of the Democratic Campaign Committee and the even more powerful House Administration Committee. Those were his chief power bases. On June 8. he won his district primary election for renomination as Democratic candidate from Ohio's 18th district but by a 32 margin, where he always won by landslides in the past. hi June, he was hospitalized in a coma from an overdose of sleeping pills.

He said that, under strain, he took the overdose accidentally. Conviction reversed for Manson Family girl LOS ANGELES (UPI) The conviction of Leslie Van Houten, a Manson Family girl convicted in the Tate-LaBianca mass murder case, was reversed yesterday and a new trial ordered by the California appellate court on grounds she did not have proper Miss Van Houten, now 26. was sentenced to life imprisonment along with cult leader Charles Manson. and two other girls in January 1971., The appellate court, also considered an appeal by Manson. and by Susan Atkins and Patricia Krenwinkel and denied it.

confirming their life sentences. The Van Houten reversal, by vote of 2-1 on the three-judge panel, was based on denial of "effective representation" by counsel because the young woman's attorney. Ronald Hughes, disappeared on a weekend outing in a remote mountain area and he was not present to make a final argument. Hughes' body was found some time later in the Sespe Creek area of Ventura County, north of Los Angeles. He drowned when his camp site was flooded during a rainstorm.

Maxwell Keith, the court-appointed attorney who made the final argument, also presented the arguments to the appellate court for reversal. The district attorney's office may appeal the reversal, going to the state supreme court. A motion for a mistrial was made after Hughes disappeared but Superior Court Judge Charles H. Older who presided in the lengthy case turned it down. Ford policies rubber-stamped Continued from Page 1 process took nine hours longer than expected, meaning that delegates to the Republican National Convention may not receive their printed copy until the enter the hall Monday.

A party rule stipulates that platforms should be available to. delegates before the convention starts. Reacting to an uproar among elected GOP officials who feared defeat in November, the committee decided to study the issue education aid. The committee Thursday agreed 5343 to call for a halt to federal aid to education and perhaps make up the deficit by allowing states to assume the federal tobacco tax. Sen.

Hugh Scott, warned that any GOP candidate who supported that position "would run with every school teacher out after him with a branding iron." Ford backers worked to kill the platform amendment after Ford scored a string of victories on the foreign policy planks. Despite the victory, the foreign policy challenge by Ronald Reagan's most conservative supporters succeeded in uncovering a deep Republican resentment toward the approach of Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. Detente and the Panama Canal were the key foreign policy issues in the conservative challenge. They promised they would appeal these and a few others to the Republican National Convention next week, magnifying the effect of their dissatisfaction. The first test of Ford's foreign policy came when-the committee voted 55 to 43 against a conservative plank demanding the United States maintain "sovereign rights and control" over the Panama Canal Zone.

Once the trend was established on Panama, the other conservative foreign policy planks were rejected on voice vote after long debate. One of those was detente, on which the committee accepted language praising administration cffortS'to cool world tensions. The appellate court found this a "reversible error" in ordering the new trial for Miss Van Houten. All four defendants were sentenced to death in January 1971 but were given life in prison when the state supreme court declared the death penalty unconstitutional. Manson was convicted ordering the slaying of actress Sharon Tale, pregnant wife of Polish movie director Roman Polanski.

and four other persons at their secluded estate in Benedict Canyon. Polanski was in Europe at the time. Cleaver out on bail OAKLAND (UPI) Former Black Panther leader Eldridge Cleaver, who lived seven years in Europe and Africa as a fugitive, was freed on S100.000 bail yesterday. Cleaver voluntarily returned to the United States last November, saying the attitude of the public and law enforcement had changed for the better in the United States. He fled in 1968 while awaiting trial on charges resulting from a Shootout between Panthers and Oakland police.

He had been free on $50,000 bail. Upon Cleaver's return, the Panthers denounced him. saying he had agreed to become an informer for the Justice Department. Cleaver denied the charge. Cleaver was charged with assault with a deadly weapon and attempted murder.

Cleaver. 40. was greeted by his wife. Kathleen, and their two children as well as a horde of newsmen when he emerged from the Alameda County Courthouse jail where he had been lodged since Jan. 7.

Before that, he was held in a federal correctional facility in San Diego. He charges by the Panthers and other leftists that he had become an informer for the government. "I'm not going out of my way toward reconciliation with the Black Panther party." he also said. Cleaver also said the Panthers "haven't come to visit me. but I'm leaving here in a spirit of conciliation." 'Super sewer' bonds on ballot Continued from Page 1 share of super sewer, the sewer service fee, now at S26.96 per year, will increase gradually to $77.92 per year by 1982.

After that, significant reimbursements of grant money could either head off further increases or even begin to reduce sewer service fees. District directors also had the options of funding the entire super sewer obligation through a larger bond or offering no bond at all, instead financing their share of the project through even larger, but more temporary increases, in the sewer service charge. The latter alternative was unanimously dismissed as unrealistic and unwise. The former was rejected because it required voters lo approve a $13.2 million bond Directors also felt they would have difficulty explaining why long.ternvbomicd indebtedness was being used to nay off short-term cash flow rraiiirernenls during a coastruction period scheduled to end by 1982.