Los Angeles mother found insane after infant drop incident
Esther Aguirre, 33, accused of dropping her 18 month old son Jubinal from a freeway overpass, deemed sane for now and committed to Patton State Hospital. Judge James G. Kolts suspended criminal proceedings pending recovery of sanity, with potential attempted murder charges if fit for trial. Child rescued by four passing officers after the fall.
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Los Angeles
UPIL
Esther Aguirre
Superie
James G. Kolts
Aguirre
Patton State Hospital
Kolts
Court rules on actress estate amid settlement
In Los Angeles the Superior Court approved a compromise divvying about 60,000 from the Mansfield and Brody estates. Beverly Brody sought 325,000 claiming gifts from community property. The settlement designates share of jewelry sale proceeds and cash on hand, with Mansfield’s estate facing insolvency due to obligations and litigation costs.
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Los Angeles
UPI
Jayne Mansfield
Samuel
Brody
Superior Court
Beverly Brody
Mansfield
Miss Mansfield
Miss Mansfied
Irwin Roscoe
Two-term limit bill for governor and legislators offered
Freshman Senator Arlen Gregorio of San Mateo introduced constitutional amendments in Sacramento to cap governors at two four year terms and lawmakers at twelve years total. He said the change would bring new blood into state government. Similar bills failed in the Senate two years ago.
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Sacramento
UPI
Arlen F. Gregorio
Gregorio
Dsan Mateo
Senate
State welfare take-over proposed by California senator
Sacramento report says Sen. Alfred E. Alquist proposes shifting more than 302 million of welfare financing from counties to the state. The plan would have the state pay about 96 million to counties each of four years, or contract with counties by program costs until the total shift is completed. The move aims to centralize welfare funding amid political debate.
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Sacramento
UPI
Alfred E. Alquist
Alquist
Sak
Behr seeks ban on tidelands oil exploration in California
Senator Peter Behr introduced a bill to halt oil exploration in California tidelands and cancel existing state Lands Commission permits. He said the measure aims to stop drilling derricks in tidelands and would force a drilling permit review if a potential field is discovered. Behr opposed a recent permit for Standard Oil Co. of California for a new failsafe well off Southern California.
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UPS
Peter H. Behr
California
Tidelands
Mill Valley
Republican
State Lands Commission
Behr
Commission
Standard Oil Co. of
Hairy prisoner loses bid for new hearing
Los Angeles United States District Court denied Robert Winsley a motion for a new hearing or release. Winsley, 28, in solitary at Terminal Island federal prison for refusing shaving and hair cutting on religious grounds, was convicted of illegal transportation of marijuana. ACLU plans to appeal.
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Los Angeles
UPI
Robert Winsley
Soltary
David Williams
American Civil Liberties Union
Winsby
Terminal Island
Obey Onders
ACLU
Williams
Peter Osirass
No contest plea in Torrance hostage case
Torrance landowner Telo Koletos pleaded no contest to hostage taking charges after holding Ted Frederick, 36, an executive at Columbia Savings and Loan, with an unloaded gun for about four and a half hours amid foreclosure dispute. Sentencing set for March 23 by Superior Court Judge Earl C. Broady.
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Torrance
UPI
Savings and Loan
Telo Koletos
Superior Court
Earl C. Broady
Ted Frederick
Columbia Savings and Loan Office
Redgado Beach
Officer shoots burglary suspect in Hawthorne
UPI reports Darrin Whitely, 23, Hawthorne, was critically wounded after allegedly pulling two guns on a police officer during an attempted burglary. He was rushed to Harbor General Hospital for treatment of a bullet wound to the side.
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Hawthorne
UPI
Darrin Whitely
Harbor General Hospital
Reagan era probes nursing home price fixing
Sacramento reports a UPI item stating the Reagan administration opened an antitrust inquiry into nursing home price fixing. Deputy AG Robert E Murphy leads the probe at Human Resources Secretary James M Hall’s request, with focus on California Association of Nursing Homes and Medi Cal payment impacts. A temporary restraining order barred nursing homes from Medi Cal patients to a county hospital amid antitrust concerns.
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Sacramento
UPI
Nising
Attorney General's Office
Robert E. Murphy
Human Relaise
James M
Hall
California Association of Nursing Homes
Association
Hah
Sista Gorty
Superior Court
Medi-Cal deficit overestimated by budget adviser
Legislative Analyst Thomas Dooley told a special committee that Medi-Cal deficit projections were too high by about 100 million dollars, estimating a shortfall of 40.5 million instead of 140 million. Dooley blamed caseload shifts and timing differences, while administration officials argued figures were correct.
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Sacramento
UPI
Reagan
A.alan Post
Ronald Reagan
Post
Thomas Dooley
Dooley
Richard W. Lemos
The
Health Review and Program Council
House hearings on oil spill and tuna boat seizures set
A House subcommittee will hold hearings next week in California on the San Francisco bay tanker collision and the seizure of American tuna boats. Chairman Edward A. Garmatz says testimony in San Francisco on Feb 9 will cover the oil spill from Jan 18 and a Feb 10 hearing in Los Angeles will hear from tuna industry reps about 17 boats seized by Ecuador since Jan 11.
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Washington
UPI
House
California
San Francisco Bay
Edward A. Garmatz
D-Md
Home Committee On Merchant Marine and Fisheries
San Francisco
Los Angeles
Ecuador
John D. Dingell
D-Mich
Fisheries and Wildlife Conservation
Robert L. Leggett
Glenn M. Anderson
Paul N. McCloskey Jr
William 8. Mailliard
Garmatz
Bay
Credibility Gap Charged Over Aid to California
Rep. Ogden Reid accuses Frank Carlucci of undermining the administration’s pledge to the poor by not overruling Governor Reagan’s veto on the California Rural Legal Assistance program. Reid warns the faith of the poor could be shattered if the veto stands.
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California
Ronald Reagan
Reagan
Hebd
Carlucci
UC reports discovery of antiomega-minus particle
University of California physicists announced the discovery of the anti omega minus baryon, a tiny antiparticle existing for 15 billionths of a second. Observed by its track in a bubble chamber, the finding closes gaps in antiparticle evidence across baryons and follows earlier Berkeley discoveries of antiparticles.
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UPI
University of California
Lawrence Radiation Laboratory
Brookhaven National Laboratory
American Physical Society
New York
Gerson Goldhaber
Goldhaber
Grant
Stanford Linear Accelerator
Wallace
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