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There was a flurry of excitement when the mutilated body of a young white man was found at Oakland, Miss., about 100 miles from the search area. At first it appeared that it might be the body of Michael Schwerner, one of the missing trio. It was later identified as that of a carnival worker run over in a highway accident...
Perilous Loneliness. Even in the bustling San Francisco Bay Area, the pristine, almost deserted Richmond-Oakland hills are only a few minutes away from the roar of U.S. 40. Motorists driving from Los Angeles to San Francisco can turn off U.S. 101 and, at the price of a few extra hours, follow California Route 1 along the coast from San Luis Obispo to Monterey. Most spectacular is the 102-mile stretch from William Randolph Hearst's San Simeon estate through the Big Sur country to Carmel: with bare, steep cliffs on one side and a dizzying drop...
...firm of limb. It abounds with good hotels, fine restaurants and postcard vistas. It also fields three dailies favorably disposed to the Republican cause: Hearst's morning Examiner, the morning Chronicle, and Hearst's evening News Call Bulletin. To this triad must be added a fourth: the Oakland Tribune, published just across the bay by former Republican U.S. Senator William Knowland. But if delegates to next week's convention depend on the four dailies for comprehensive accounts of their activities, they may be disappointed...
Little Interest. It is William Knowland's Oakland Tribune that may quite possibly be the most thoroughly read local paper in the Cow Palace. The Tribune gave its heart to Barry Goldwater months before the California Republican primary, and has since published scores of editorials calculated to make pleasant reading for the 700-odd delegates who plan to arrive more or less in Goldwater's pocket. Sample Tribune comment: "Because Senator Goldwater is the one candidate who can capture large chunks of Democratic votes without conceding to the Democrats more than a handful of GOP votes...
Outside of that, the Tribune should offer little of interest to political tourists; it is preoccupied with local bond issues, civic development and a current crusade to get Oakland a professional football team...