Crop damage from smog rises in Los Angeles County
Los Angeles County crops suffered about 2.17 million dollars in losses last year due to smog, up from the prior year. Commissioner Paul Engler cited San Fernando and San Gabriel Valleys as hardest hit from high levels of sulfur and peroxyacetyl nitrate, noting air pollution worsens insect and disease impacts. He warned some crops, including vegetables once grown extensively, are no longer planted amid the combined pressures on growers.
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Los Angeles
UPI
Senay
Los Angeles County
Cuety Nets
Engler
Boy Struck by Car In Fremont. FourYearOld Hurt
Four-year-old Patrick Finley of 422 Darwin Drive escaped with minor cuts and bruises after being run over by a slow-moving car on Darwin Drive near Yukon Court at sunset. Witnesses say the boy crossed diagonally when the car driven by 67-year-old Cliff F. Smith could not stop in time. Police found the pedestrian at fault and Smith was not cited.
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Smith
Cannery contract talks break off in California
Negotiations for California cannery workers halted to reassess positions as union leaders and growers assess proposals. 24 canning firms and 13 Teamster locals involved. contract expired June 30 and a strike could affect summer harvests. Talks to resume tomorrow with joint bargaining planned.
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San Francisco
UPI
California
Freddy Sanchez
Teamsters California Council of Cannery and
Teamster
Previowly
Sanchez
Strike averted in Oakland hotel and restaurant sector
Negotiators reached a tentative contract agreement between the Hotel, Restaurant and Bartenders Union Local 28 and the East Bay Restaurant Association. The accord would keep 4% of eating and drinking places open and allow about 4,000 union members to stay on the job pending a ratification vote next week after a 95 percent strike authorization earlier.
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Oakland
UPI
Local 28
Sal
East Bay Restaurant Association
SLA members Prissell Little and Joseph Remiro sentenced
Prissell Little and Joseph Remiro of the Symbionese Liberation Army received five years to life on two counts of assault on a peace officer for an Alameda County Jail escape attempt. Each also has suspended six months to five years for attempted escape conditioned on serving the assault terms. They already hold life sentences for the Marcus Foster murder and plan appeals.
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SAN JC@E
UPN
Symbionese Liberation Army
Prissell Little
Joseph Remiro
Alameda County
Oakland
Superior Court
James A. Weight
Remira
Little
Marcus Foster
FBI Nabs Hospital Worker Fugitive After Hedged Entry
Bartholomew Emmett Foley thirty was arrested by the FBI after trying to ram his car through a hedge at Dammasch State Hospital in Portland. He used the alias Marvin Otto Braun while an orderly there and has been a federal fugitive since spring. A May 26 warrant from a San Francisco court cites charges of unlawful flight to avoid prosecution for child molestation burglary with intent to molest a child and indecent exposure. The case stems from an August 1974 assault on a nine year old girl in Martinez, California. Foley escaped from Concord authorities August 22, 1978.
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Portland
Ore
UPI
Bartholomew Emmett Foley
FBI
Dammasch State Hospital
Foley
Marvin Otto Braun
U.S. District Court
San Francisco
Attorneys Removed in Hoffa Disappearance Probe
In Detroit UPI report Judge Ralph Freenwin removed Union attorney William J. Bufaline Sr. and his son from representing four new witnesses in the James R. Hoffa disappearance probe due to conflict of interest since they also represent possible suspects. The grand jury proceedings were postponed three weeks as a result. Bufaline vowed to appeal the ruling.
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Detroit
UPI
Tors
Bufalina
Freeman
Duty slashed on dissident's art in emigration case
Moscow reports that writer Andrei Amalrik says customs have cut the duty on his paintings he plans to take to the West. He noted the assessment fell from 4000 rubles to ad hoc figures and expects to pay little or no duty. The dispute has delayed his emigration for five years in which he faced prison and exile after his 1969 Westward publication.
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Moscow
UPI
Andrei A. Amalrik
Amalrik
West
Soviet Union
Israel presses UN to declare war on international terrorism
Israel urged the United Nations Security Council to condemn terrorism and back a global fight after its Uganda raid. Arab and African delegates clashed over Israel as Kenya denied aid allegations, saying Nairobi offered landing permission for humanitarian reasons.
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United Nations
UPI
Israel
Uganda
Chaim Hering
Security Council
Hering
Agamtan
Jura Abdalls Oni
Tdi Amin
Air France
Entebbe
Organization of African Unity
Herzog
Kenya
Chaim Herzog
Juma Abdalla Oris
Hstens
ULN
Decision reversed on negotiated plea in rape
Oakland Superior Court Judge Golde overturned a negotiated plea by Michael Alston 21 who pleaded guilty to raping a woman at knifepoint in Newark on Feb 2. The case, initially set for nine years in county jail under the deal, now heads to trial with Alston facing a second rape charge and a preliminary hearing on July 19. Bail remains at 150000 in municipal court and 25000 in superior court.
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Michael Checie Alston
Alston
Gary Cummings
Newark
Asst
John Pace
Cumumings
Golde
Remont
Controversy Over Reader Content Sparks Debate on Public Schools
Miss Curry notes children watch TV and need literature to prompt reading. A proposed second grade reader Our Country presents Tommy and the Old Man a black boy in New Orleans who learns river history and Civil War slavery. Critics fear graphic slave imagery. publishers push animal tales as safer alternatives.
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Miss Curry
Tommy
Old Man
New Orleans
Mississippi River
Dreamland
America
Jane
Ino
Aesop
Zimmerwoman proposed as new name by Anne Arundel student
Glen Burnie resident Toni Louise Zimmerwoman, 18, a Anne Arundel Community College student, plans to legally adopt Zimmerwoman as her surname with a matriarchal suffix to reflect feminist identity. She has used woman as part of her name for years and awaits legal approval before updating documents. Her mother Mil supports the idea as a way for her daughter to claim identity amid ongoing controversy.
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Glen Burnie
Mel
Toni Louise Zimmerwoman
Toni Louise Zimmerwoman Jr
Tool
Zimmerman
Zimmerwoman
Anne Arundel Community College
Tani
Radio Atation
Unruh Campaign Gift Probe Under Forward Look
The California Attorney General’s office probes possible violations of campaign reporting rules over a $10,000 furniture sale linked to state Treasurer Unruh. Chief Deputy Barrett confirms inquiry into whether the sale concealed a campaign contribution, while Unruh and McKean defend the transaction as legitimate and not a contribution.
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Sacramento
UPI
Charles A. Barrett
Barrett
Grover McKean
Thale
Unruh
Louis Cella
Cella
McKean
Brown names special assistant to governor
SACRAMENTO UPI Leroy Chatfield former member of the farm labor board and top aide on Gov Edmund G Brown's presidential campaign has been named as a 45 percent a year special assistant to the governor Chatfield 4 was rated in the post following the June California primary election as no share was made according to associate Press Secretary David
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Sacramento
UPI
Leroy Chatfield
Farm Labor Board
Edmund G. Brown
Chatfield
California
David
June Surge in Industrial Prices Across Wholesale Market
Washington reports wholesale prices rose 0.4 percent in June driven by steel and gasoline costs, with the second quarter posting a 6.6 percent annual inflation. Food prices eased slightly, while fuel and metal costs climbed, signaling a mixed inflation picture into summer.
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Washington
UPI
Jed
Labor Department
Ford
White House
Roc Nessen
Clemency Denied for Mercenaries in Angola Executions
In Luanda President Agostinho Neto confirmed death sentences by firing squad for one American Daniel Gearhart and three British mercenaries. He called mercenaries instruments of Imperialism and said no appeal possible. Ford expressed shock. Sen Mathias planned to plead personally for Gearhart’s life.
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Luanda
Angola
UPI
Agostinho Neto
Exercia
Ane
Neto
Gearhart
Maryland
Nambia
Africa
Zimbabwe
Rhilesia
Daniel Gearhart
Kensington
City raises granted to most workers except firefighters
Newark city council approved across the board increases for 37 miscellaneous city employees and 26 managers while excluding firefighters whose negotiations continue. Clerical and police staff receive targeted raises with clerical workers in the department boosted and managers gaining executive raises as administrative assistant Suzanne Foucault outlined.
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Newark
Suzanne Foucault
Ms. Foucault
Pey
Abdy
M. Foucault
Chy
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