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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Apr 27, 1971
Page
4
The United States and Orange County Water District start a $7.5 million desalting plant on the Southern California coast to produce three million gallons daily. The project aims to prove scale up potential to 200 million gallons per day and expand to a 12-15 million gallon daily prototype after initial data.
Demonstrators ringed Senate offices with sit ins and vigils while meeting with Selective Service Director Curtis Tarr to press a $6500 annual guaranteed income for a family of four. Police reported 26 arrests as protests spread from the Pentagon to Georgetown.
In San Francisco, Angela Davis and Ruchell Magee face conspiracy charges linked to the Marin County shootout. Davis sought a two day delay to allow her chief attorney Moore Jr. to attend, claiming he is out of the country. Judge Lindsay is set to hear the case after appeals ruling. Santerno High School tensions ease as students return.
A reader asks about viewing a credit record after a denial. The Long Beach Credit Association offers in person access at 601 Pacific Ave on weekdays and provides steps to challenge or correct items in the file, noting telephone requests are not allowed.
A DPSS lodging and meals order remains unpaid after a recipient’s lodging for 12 nights at 2.10 each last August. The sender sent receipts to DPSS at 2615 Grand Ave. and received only one reply asking if payment was made, then no further contact. ACTION LINE states a gender relations rep found the unpaid order and promised payment after the form is returned.
A Molotov firebomb exploded at Kingston Hall and damaged the office window of College president Dr. Joseph Platt at Claremont College. The attack followed two prior blasts at Bauer Hall and Sumner Hall within 24 hours, with minor damage and no leads in the case.
A federal judge scheduled trials for July 27 for three Los Angeles officers and one from San Leandro amid charges of civil rights violations. Judge A Andrew Hauk did not dismiss the indictment naming Sgt Marshall Gaines officers Jeffrey Fedrizzi and Hector Zepeda of LA and Sgt William Kinsella of San Leandro in a 1970 summer shooting involving two Mexican nationals.
Fire on Monday gutted the 50 per cent demolished Los Angeles High School, hit by the February 9 earthquake, leaving only the auditorium and portions of the administration building intact as wrecking crews worked to tear down the structure.
The body of 48 year old Jimmie J Watkins of Los Angeles was found floating at Pier C Berth 124 Long Beach by Coast Guardsmen aboard a patrol boat at 846 a m He had fallen from a fender log at the berth March 27 while fishing with three friends who tried to save him
The Nixon administration and Procter & Gamble urge more time to test phosphate substitutes as a labeling rule to warn of water pollution is debated. Meanwhile a Stanford dormitory fire causes $50,000 plus damage amid campus arson attempts and protests across the university.
A tanker trailer fire produced a flareup and explosion in a vapor pocket during firefighting. No injuries were reported as the forward tank was saved, but southbound freeway lanes opened by 6 55 a m and northbound remained closed until 9 31 a m causing commuter disruption. A vacuum truck removed about 1000 gallons of gas from the first section before the rig was cleared.
Fullerton pilot Bruce Levine, 28, escaped injury when his Cessna 210 made an emergency landing in El Dorado Park after reporting engine failure. The plane sustained minor damage and was towed to Long Beach Airport for repairs. the nose wheel broke during the landing.
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