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Newspaper

Independent

Location

Long Beach, California, United States of America

Date

Apr 20, 1972

Page

6

Assembly panel approves ban on poison tableware

In Sacramento the Assembly Ways and Means Committee backed a consumer protection bill to ban the manufacture or import for sale in California of unsafe glazed ceramic tableware by 1974. Introduced by Assemblyman David Pierson the measure passed 19 to 0 and moves to the full Assembly. A similar bill failed last year in a Senate committee.

Assembly Panel Sacramento UPS Assembly Ways and Means David Pierson Inglewood Pierson Senate Oblinhus California

Death penalty ruling questioned by California inmate

Robert Page Anderson, housed on death row for a 1965 San Diego holdup killing, argues the California Supreme Court’s abolition of capital punishment nullifies all penalties for first degree murder. He seeks freedom or a life sentence, contending the court overstepped by voiding penalties and altering statutes without legislative change.

San Francisco US State Supreme Court California Robert Page Anderson San Diego Anderson Jerome Falk Supreme Court Falk Atty. Gent Evelle Younger Hacker Younger

Mystery heiress tied to unclaimed California estate

State Controller Flournoy reports custody of a 76,907 inheritance for a nameless woman who may not exist while another 75,907 awaits a claim by her unknown brother. The Forster estate left provision for a potential daughter and her two children, but she remains unnamed and unlocated.

Sacramento UPI Houston I. Flowney Los Angeles County Flournoy Bureau of Hector L. Forster Forster Los Angeles Department of Water and Power Los Angeles Robert Leopold Forster San Francisco

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