Public transit bike transport, storms, Exxon history, and a fatal crash
Readers seek bicycle friendly bus service for Los Angeles area and as surfboard case. The 1938 Long Beach flood killed over 100 and caused $65 million in damage. Exxon renamed from Standard Oil of New Jersey after a lengthy marketing study costing about $150 million and becoming the world largest oil firm by assets and revenues in 1974. Roger J. Kahn, 20, of Rancho Palos Verdes, was killed when his car struck a telephone pole on Crenshaw Boulevard in Rolling Hills as CHP cited speeding.
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Action Line
Los Angeles
Orange County
M.C
Encino
Greyhound Bus Lines
Southern California Rapid Transit District
Orange County Transit District
Laguna Beach
RTD
OCTD
T.M.C
Torrance
Long Beach
California
Anaheim
Fullerton
West Seaside Boulevard
Artesia Street
Anaheim Street
Southland
Exxon
O.R
Standard Oil of
New Jersey
Humble Oil & Refining Co
Humble
Enco
Esso
Standard-Humble
Crenshaw Boulevard
Rolling Hills
California Patrol
CHP
Kahn
Grand jury panel urges major Compton reforms
A Los Angeles County grand jury committee says in its report that poverty is common in Compton and crime has reached an unbearable level. The panel plans action following hearings where a speaker warned that nothing is OK in Compton.
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Grand Jury
Los Angeles County Grand Jury
Compton
Glenn W. Reeder
Bomb hits office but 2nd fails
An anonymous caller claimed the Iraqi Airlines blast at 6205 Sunset Boulevard damaged the office and a car, with damages estimated at 10 000 to 15 000 dollars. A second explosive outside a Beverly Hills building at 9171 Wilshire Boulevard was found and defused by a sheriff’s bomb squad.
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Hollywood
Beverly Hills
Sunset Boulevard
Wilshire Blvd
Los Angeles
Topless bar waitress shot. friend sought in Lomita
Louise Brady, 32, was shot and killed Saturday night while working as a waitress at The Buckit topless bar on Hawthorne Boulevard. She died on arrival at Hawthorne Community Hospital. Deputies sought her boyfriend Earl Provost, 32, in connection with the shooting after an argument.
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Lomita
Louise Brady
Pacific Coast Hwy
Hawthorne Community Hospital
Buckit
S. Hawthorne Blvd
Earl Provost
Reform panel outlines actions for Compton issues
The Reeder committee hearings in Compton proposed welfare reform with wage subsidies, a guaranteed private-sector job, and easier adult trials for serious juvenile offenses. They urged tougher pretrial limits, tougher sentencing for public safety, gun ownership controls, and a state take-over plan for a mismanaged school district.
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Compton
Los Angeles
Woman killed in Carson crash injures two
A 50-year-old Compton woman, Peggy Hill, died when the car she rode in collided with another vehicle at Central Avenue and Victoria Street in Carson. Passenger Charles L. Clark suffered a possible broken neck. driver Ernest Taylor, 50, was booked on manslaughter charges after sustaining minor cuts.
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Compton
Central Avenue
Victoria Street
Carson
Sheriff's Deputies
Peggy Hill
E. Marcelle Ave
Charles L. Clark
Ernest Taylor
Harbor General Hospital
Clark
Boat blast injures Pauley family at Marina Del Rey
A Sunday explosion and fire aboard the 26 foot Playmate docked at Marina Del Rey seriously injured oil magnate Edwin Pauley’s son Robert 30 and granddaughter Tasha 2, with first and second degree burns. Matthew 5 was less injured after being thrown into the water. the boat is a total loss and damage is about 10000 dollars.
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Edwin Pauley
Marina del Rey
Robert Pauley
Brentwood
Tasha
Brotman Memorial Hospital
Culver City
Pauley
Matthew
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Korea
International Seamen’s Investment Services
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International Seamen's Investment Services
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Ralph Nader
V.K Long Beach
Center For the Study of Responsive Law
Washington, D. C
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Seind Ney
Roger J. Kahn
Stone Crest Road
Rancho Palos Verdes
United Press International
Long Beech
Norms Lakewood
Lakewood Blvd
Bellflower
California Federal Savings and Loan Association
Aliforni
California Federal
Bellflower Boulevard
Bell Gardens
E. Florence, Cerritos
Los Cerritos Downey
Figstone
Knw
Lakewood
Carson Street
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