Milpitas

The assembly plant, which closed in 1983, was sold to Mariana Financial, a Los Altos, Calif.-based real estate firm, which plans to make it an office and research park, Ford said. The price wasn't disclosed. The plant, outside San Jose, was one of two called on in the mid-1960s to handle an unexpected overflow of orders for the newly introduced Ford Mustang.

Army Spc. Doonewey White of Milpitas, Calif., and his fiancee were expecting their first child in October. Their wedding was planned for January, after his tour in Iraq was scheduled to end. But on May 28, a roadside bomb exploded near White's vehicle in Baghdad. White, 26, died of his injuries a day later in Balad, north of the capital. He was assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 5th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division at Ft. Hood, Texas.

Milpitas-based Interdyne Co. appointed Jerome Resnikoff vice president-engineering.

A 20-year-old man drowned in the Merced River while swimming with friends at Emerald Pool, Yosemite National Park officials said Tuesday. Melvin L. Paballa, of Milpitas, tried to swim across the river at Emerald Pool when he went under Monday. Bystanders and park rangers performed CPR, but he died at the scene.

A 20-year-old man drowned in the Merced River while swimming with friends at Emerald Pool, Yosemite National Park officials said Tuesday. Melvin L. Paballa, of Milpitas, tried to swim across the river at Emerald Pool when he went under Monday. Bystanders and park rangers performed CPR, but he died at the scene.

System Industries, a supplier of peripheral equipment for computers, charged that Digital violated federal and California antitrust laws by fostering illegal tie-in arrangements to force buyers of Digital's computers to purchase tape and disk drives, printers and other peripheral equipment only from Digital. SI's complaint seeks treble damages, an injunction and other relief, SI Chief Executive James K. Dutton said.

With water levels lowered by drought conditions, the wreckage of a small airplane was spotted at the bottom of Calaveras Reservoir six miles east of Milpitas, Santa Clara County officials reported. Early reports to the Federal Aviation Administration were that the skeletal remains of two people were seen in the aircraft. Officials said the plane may have been in the water for 10 to 20 years.

Inmate Lance Todd, driven by a craving for burritos, broke out of jail in Milpitas to make a dinner run, authorities said. He bought 14 burritos from a nearby Taco Bell but never got to eat them because he got caught as he tried to break back into the Elmwood Correctional Facility. When the hankering for the Mexican food hit Todd, an inmate trusty, he allegedly slipped out of the minimum-security section and into a storm drain outside his cell.

Custody of a 6-month-old Omaha boy--the center of court battles in California and Nebraska--has been awarded to a Milpitas woman, who moved to Omaha to press her claim for the child. A Douglas County, Neb. judge appointed Darline Conyers as permanent guardian of the baby, Jordan Breanne Devney. Conyers and her husband, Victor, were ordered by a California judge in January to return Jordan to her natural mother, Janette Devney.

State and county authorities are investigating allegations that a Santa Clara County jail guard assaulted three prisoners during a tirade he led against four dozen inmates. Elmwood Correctional Facility officials had no comment on the Jan. 21 incident that was reported by four prisoners. But state Department of Corrections Director Frank Hall said he has asked the Santa Clara County district attorney's office to investigate for possible prosecution of the guard, whose name was not released.

Reacting to more demands to preserve computer data, disk-drive powerhouse Quantum Corp. said Tuesday that it will buy Irvine-based ATL Products Inc. for about $300 million in stock. ATL makes automated tape libraries, or systems used for archival and backup storage of network computer data. "It's a very fast-moving industry, and it makes a lot of sense for these two companies to get together," said Neil Cooper, an analyst with Cruttenden Roth Inc.

How could a domestic manufacturer with just $140 million in sales in 1989 turn itself into a multinational player with more than $1 billion in revenue in five short years? "By delivering products faster, better and cheaper," said Koichi Nishimura, chief executive of Solectron Corp., a computer circuit board manufacturer based in Milpitas. It sounds simple, but the company's recipe for success includes painstaking attention to product quality, the manufacturing process and customer satisfaction.

Emulex Corp. said Monday that it has agreed to sell its line of storage products compatible with Digital Equipment Corp. computers. The buyer is System Industries Inc. in Milpitas, a competitor that sells a variety of computer storage products. System Industries said it will pay $1.875 million in cash, plus a secured note for $625,000 and about 929,000 shares of common stock. A company official valued the purchase at about $5 million.

Stephen Berkley likes to talk about how fast his business is. A deadline every minute, he says. Still, Quantum Corp., the Milpitas-based disk-drive maker, insists on speeding things up. Not long ago, for instance, the company succeeded in reducing how long it takes to turn an idea into a product on the shelf. In the past, it took 18 to 30 months, said Berkley, Quantum's chairman. Now the company is working in the 12- to 14-month range.

The Sematech chip research consortium suffered a significant setback Monday when one of its founding members, LSI Logic of Milpitas, became the first to withdraw from the 5-year-old organization. Sematech, a novel government-industry venture that receives about $100 million a year in taxpayer funds, is lobbying for another five years of government support.

Inmate Lance Todd, driven by a craving for burritos, broke out of jail in Milpitas to make a dinner run, authorities said. He bought 14 burritos from a nearby Taco Bell but never got to eat them because he got caught as he tried to break back into the Elmwood Correctional Facility. When the hankering for the Mexican food hit Todd, an inmate trusty, he allegedly slipped out of the minimum-security section and into a storm drain outside his cell.

Army Spc. Doonewey White of Milpitas, Calif., and his fiancee were expecting their first child in October. Their wedding was planned for January, after his tour in Iraq was scheduled to end. But on May 28, a roadside bomb exploded near White's vehicle in Baghdad. White, 26, died of his injuries a day later in Balad, north of the capital. He was assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 5th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division at Ft. Hood, Texas.

A 19-year-old San Jose man was behind bars Saturday, accused of raping and beating a 10-year-old Milpitas girl after the two were left alone. In a statement, police said Emilio J. Brotherton was arrested Friday, a few hours after the alleged incidents, in a San Jose trailer. Brotherton was being held at the Santa Clara County Jail on suspicion of rape, sexual assault on a minor and parole violation.

Custody of a 6-month-old Omaha boy--the center of court battles in California and Nebraska--has been awarded to a Milpitas woman, who moved to Omaha to press her claim for the child. A Douglas County, Neb. judge appointed Darline Conyers as permanent guardian of the baby, Jordan Breanne Devney. Conyers and her husband, Victor, were ordered by a California judge in January to return Jordan to her natural mother, Janette Devney.

State and county authorities are investigating allegations that a Santa Clara County jail guard assaulted three prisoners during a tirade he led against four dozen inmates. Elmwood Correctional Facility officials had no comment on the Jan. 21 incident that was reported by four prisoners. But state Department of Corrections Director Frank Hall said he has asked the Santa Clara County district attorney's office to investigate for possible prosecution of the guard, whose name was not released.