Corona Daily Independent (Newspaper) - September 28, 1967, Corona, California huge Los Angeles chlorine gas - A violent electrical storm flashed across Los Angeles early causing a chlorine gas that killed one man and isent more than 60 other persons to hospitals for treatment of deadly pre-dawn lightning and rain blacked out power in many chain accidents on ' freeways and set off hundreds of burglar struck the American Chemical Co. plant in the harbor area at 4:30 a.m. disrupted electric power to a gas reactor regulator firemen and pressure built up until a pipe choking cloud of chlorine spread over the area near the intersection of the San Diego and Harbor plants and residences in the area were evacuated as city and private ambulances rushed victims to five rains that followed the lighting acted to dissipate the gas but also emergency to reach the from the chemical plant and the Goodyear Rubber Co. plant next door rushed out of their buildings after the where some choking from the from a Los Angeles station across the street the chemical plant swarmed into the plant and grounds immediately to aid and remove the Capt. Owens said firemen were station and the near the investigated for possible fire or damage and finding none returned to the Moments later they heard an explosion and saw a green cloud rise from the located In an industrial victim was identified b|y Harbor General Hospital spokesmen as Fred Davenport of Huntington giant gas cloud drifted toward the neighboring B. whose employes scrambled away from the The cloud then floated oyer the San Diego which had been closed to traffic by the California Highway Patrol until the fumes the 39 persons taken to Harbor General six or seven were affected seriously enough to need emergency officials at the scene administered oxygen to numerous victims in a of the in the area of the gas cloud at first thought they had encountered Storer 29, of Long told newsmen at a hospital he and his family were getting an early start on a camping driving into a he the fog bank turned out to be chlorine We were in on all sides for a time by autos that either stalled or were involved in said his reacted quickly to the emergency by clamping a pillow over her face and sheltering their 2-year-oid The wife and daughter also were given hospital 31, of Los was southbound on the San Diego Freeway he just drove into a Cars and trucks started piling up all me and my car was struck and shoved into the center divider I was shook up by the ambulance non 37, of Long Beach was overcome and collapsed as he helped victims into the emergency room of Harbor General tanks of oxygen were rushed to the for use during the emergency as victims arrived by ambulance and private Emergency treatment was administered in the hospital parking allowing victims to take oxygen an natural air at the same western Riverside 54 10 CENTS PHONE 737-1234 SEPTEMBER 28. 1967 HIGHWAY This frailer loaded with ground feed overturned in Santa Ana Canyon this morning when the driver braked and skidded on the rain-soaked according to California Highway Patrolman at the Feed tipped across divider and into fast lane skidded and spun in the mess like Patrolmen permitted this to take only one picture because of the danger of being hit by a spinning A second accident occurred only a short distance photo by Marjorie huge lightning displays and thunder shook up the it promised only to be an aerial finally moved in to and Norco last night along with occasional crashing thunder and frequent after first passing through Los Angeles where they called it least two traffic deaths wgere attributed to the storm lightning seemed continuous until after today and thunder and rain came and left throughout the though locally heavy at did not fall in any appreciable The California Division of Forestry at Norco measured the most at of an the Corona Fire Department measured hundredths bigger problem than FRANCISCO Wt San Francisco is the major source or Los In San is the big problem right rather facts about the hippie generation were laid before the Assembly Committee on Public Health at a one-day hearing in San Francisco cannot predict who is going to have a bad Dr. Goldsmith bad trips recur three years he The average trip is 7 to 8 hours but in some cases they may be extended for noted there was some evidence of chemical change in brain tissues from is a estate slump ANGELES Wt - The recent slump in California real estate sales is says Burton E. state real estate told the California Real Estate Association convention Wednesday that after lowest point in recent history during real estate nervous in said its Users points to a heightened perception but also steady and continued develop highly paranoiac back to school as teachers sign library site to 60 MARJORIE of the Corona Area Redevelopment Agency meeting with the public library trustees this morning suggested the trustees reach a decision within 30 to 60 days concerning a site from the post office as a location for a new G. and Robert director of the agency told the they would like to have the library in or close to the urban redevelopment Stanley president of the said two repeated an that a site would be available across from the post which comes at a curve in Main Street as since they are having inquiries as to site they suggested a decision within 30 to 60 Reynolds was suggested that the proposed site is large enough for the library's present the board explore possibilities of adding to the site to take care of future Reynolds we'd to think in terms of acquisition of adjoining also As the redevelopment plan is formulated at the where Main Street curves will be closed at the Sixth Street was suggested that consideration be given to acquisition of the property now owned by the Featherston estate the lot on Sixth now occupied by the Union Oil station and Key Insurance Co. And since the city owns the parking lot adjacent on Seventh and that to move wards integrating the urban renewal the YORK New York's school teachers accepted a contract today and in its 14th day their crippling walkout against the nation's biggest school vote was 18,171 to accept and 3,442 to union president Shanker said that school operations will resume in the terms of the the teachers gained one of the salary scales in the nation with a top yearly salary teachers won a reduction in class relief from some clerical and other and a measure of initiative in seeking banishment of disruptive pupils from balloting took five hours at Madison Square and the lateness of the vote made impossible a hoped for resumption of meaningful schooling this afternoon for LI million bulk of the package increase applied to wages and other benefits for the 55,000 teachers and 6,000 professional employes who man the city's 900 budget estimate of the Board of Education called for total spending of about billion this school Cerrito station measured weatherman predicted a return of the same for tapering toward build up during the day over desert and mountain then drift westward over coastal forecasters and sometimes move in when they are least they will be mostly sunny and slightly warmer with highs from 80 to 88. Lows tonight will be 60 to 68. a weather Bureau at said the lightning display was about as brilliant as ever seen in Southern in the South Bay area bore the brunt of the along with Long Beach and other coastal Segundo operated on emergency power for 45 minutes when the entire city went ' all the City's burglar alarms rang in unison around 2 a.m. A deluge flooded the intersection of El Boulevard and Kansas square blocks in were blacked out when lightning hit a power Los Angeles Water and Department reported 1,000 power the Lbs Angeles 500 in San Fernando Valley and more than 300 in Los officials called the thunder bolt assault worst in Los Angeles blackouts came from lightning Strikes on transformers and lasted for periods up to two Corona chamber hits city water rate hotly - contested increase in water rates to be by the City of Corona on users outside the city limits was hit again today when the Corona Chamber of Commerce's board of directors opposed the proposed 20 per cent increase up for second reading at Monday's City Council factora which considered in justifying a change in the water rates materially was related to the fact that the average length of lines per user is longer for those being served outside the further understand that consideration was given to both a per meter charge and a surcharge on water rates or a possible combination of encompasses members both inside and outside the city The chamber is also aware of the fact that sales tax revenue is derived from sales in the city to persons residing both inside and outside the Because of these the chamber is particularly anxious that any change in water charges the the a letter signed by president and Don secretary - manager of the the members of the City were asked to reconsider their previous The letter in part is our understanding that basically two cost were considered in at the proposed One cost factor is the fact that the City must pay taxes on facilities located outside the The other which may have been of lesser were considered in justifying a change in the water rates or it seems to is materially relevant the quantity of water used by any particular that that the amount of taxes paid by the City is the same regardless of the quantity of water pumped through the facilities and that the life of water lines is not ordinarily materially affected by the volume of water it further appeared to us that amy equitable adjustment or change in the water should be in the form of a per meter or per user type Chamber of against miniskirts kick In the tm A suburban Taylor Township grandmother who doesn't like miniskirts demonstrated her feelings forcefully Wednesday by booting a 24-year-old art teacher at Brake Junior High target of the blonde Hope was advised by the school superintendent to file an assault and battery furnished us indicates that at the time the council considered proposed formula for a change in water only four members of the council were present and two members favored a per meter the light of the the Board of Directors considered the and feels that the amount of any increase should not exceed that which can be equitably justified and that toy change should be based primarily on a per meter or per user Such would not seem as likely to cause a decrease in volume use and thereby a derived amount of water site and the city parking lot as one large site for present and future library Reynolds of this morning's meet was to explore he and no decisions were made because the board is scheduled for several other meetings and it is a study session the city council in a month to six At that time the board would present its firm recommendations as to the final site if the Corona library's joining the Inland Library system and resulting possibility of obtaining matched federal funds for a new influenced trustees Reynolds we move towards the bond election we feel ultimately must we hope we will be able to keep the local election as low as possible if it can qualify for a federal said trustees were heartened by the presence this morning of five members of the Friends of the Library meaningful about the possibilities of the urban renewal area He said the board is grateful for the support and heartened to with them at 6 a.m. to help reach a reasonable trustees also held view of the information considered the board of directors respectfully urges that the matter be reconsidered by a full Council prior to final passage of Ordinance No. 1053, and that particular consideration be given to making any one based primarily on a per meter or per user charge evidence of conspiracy in racial WALTER R. Senate quietly at work in cities across the have found no evidence of a national conspiracy behind outbreaks of violence but believe there loose among militant Negro preliminary indication is in line with the report of FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover to President Johnson's Commission on Civil sources disclosing it said there are perhaps months of investigation ahead before any report will be ready on the the President's commission Aug. and said that on the basis of his knowledge of 52 riots in the past three he no indications of a But he did say there were indications outside agitators were involved in some of these of the said after the FBI appearance that the outside agitation was not something to which Hoover a great deal of weight or with which he was greatly the Senate investigators word Wednesday from Philadelphia of an alleged plot to start a race riot there summer authorities involved a plan to poison hundreds of Philadelphia Atty. Arleo an arrest In the said the plot wai the work of members of the Revolutionary Action RAM a Negro extremist Specter said his own life and those of the mayor and police chief to be previously have been connected with a to moderate Negro rights leaders and with a plan to blow up the Statue of Liberty and other American board meeting and proved the financial report which specifies the funds expended last year in final official The report will be forwarded to both the state librarian as required by and to the city says it's not never advocated a U.S. of North Vietnam pr a bombing of every conceivable target in the Henry Cabot Lodge declared in a statement U.S. envoy to South Vietnam issued the statement after a report of remarks he had to be placed off the record was published in an account of his speech to the World Affairs Council of never said that restrictions which limit U.S. forces to South Vietnam aid only the the statement did I say thing about committing more American now a senior State Department adviser in said none of his during beyond the previously and clearly stated position of the U.S. government to you boss hi your married It's the 3840 Adams would say is the boss of the household because that's where she spends most of her Hamersma Ray 492 Seventh an unfair Why don't you come back in thirty minutes when my wife isn't 3291 Hillside There's no doubt in my mind that I'm the boss in the the time of this Mr. Dohn was finishing up the dinner dishes while Mrs. Dohn was watching television in the living Murray Tom Norco Mobil Hell I'm like Robert 1250 Fourth That's a dangerous question but if I'm been living in the wrong house for 840" Fourth 8 Abby 7 4 4
