Thousands Flock to Beaches Along Sunny Coast
Crowds totaling about 514000 crowded beaches from Long Beach to Laguna Beach enjoying clear skies and warm seas with lifeguard events and a Catalina race winning by Carpenteria amid a Surf Festival buildup. Temperatures spanned 73 to 84 degrees with water around 68 to 70.
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Long Beach Lifeguard Association
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Seal Beach
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Los Angeles County
Cabrillo Beach
Huntington Beach
Huntington State Beach
Woman Fatally Shot in Los Angeles. Friend Held on Murder Charge
A 20 year old Los Angeles woman died after an argument with an acquaintance. The other woman, 22 year old Lillie B. Virgil, was booked on suspicion of murder. Deputies said Johnie Mae Boone died at St Francis Hospital from chest wounds. The incident followed a domestic dispute.
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Los Angeles
CNS
Firestone
Johnie Mae Boone
St. Francis Hospital
Lillie B. Virgil
Shooting and Looting in Watts Beats Area Police Siege
Immediate chaos in Watts as shots fired across the area from Watts festival to Locke High School. Officers James Young and another constable wounded by buckshot while civilians like Kenneth Williams were shot during arrests and looting at pawnshops along 103rd Street. Police cordoned off neighborhoods as a helicopter illuminated the siege around the San Pedro corridor.
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Locke High School
111Th Street
San Pedro
Central Receiving Hospital
James Young
Long Beach
Kenneth Williams
Los Angeles
103Rd Street
76Th Street
Central Avenue
Manchester Avenue
Imperial Highway
Alameda Street
Watts Summer Festival draws thousands in Watts parade
Thousands lined the sidewalks for a one mile parade in the Watts Summer Festival finale. 78 floats and units marched with grand marshals the widows of Malcolm X and Medgar Evers. The event opened by Mayor Sam Yorty and featured rock n roll shows at Jordan High, Health-o-Rama eye and dental care, a new rodeo, jazz concerts, and plans to use profits for child care and scholarships.
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Martin Luther King
Watts
Los Angeles
UPI
Malcolm X
Medgar Evers
Sam Yorty
Flip Wilson
The
Seven Souls
Jordan High School
Wesley Dickson
United
Dickson
Man Dies After Self-Inflicted Burns in Redondo Beach
A 41-year-old Redondo Beach man died Sunday at South Bay District Hospital after reportedly pouring gasoline on himself and setting it afire. Officer Varas found him ablaze in the rear yard of 2219 Huntington Lane. the man had been recently released from Metropolitan State Hospital and was described as depressed for two weeks. A separate burglary at 145 West 65th St. saw a television set and jewelry worth 320 dollars stolen after intruders forced a kitchen door.
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Redondo
South Bay District Hospital
Alexander Varas
Jack Oades
Huntington Lane
Oades
Lola Matthews
Northridge
Varas
Donald Meinert
West 65Th St
Teens Held After Knife Point Kidnapping in Norwalk
Three Norwalk teens are jailed on kidnapping assault with a deadly weapon and grand theft auto charges after forcing a woman, Ann Francis McKinney, 20, to drive them at knife point. Deputies stopped the car on Cecilia Street and Little Lake Road. suspects unnamed due to age.
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Norwalk
Home Burglarized as Burglars Take Clothing Guns Cash and Jewelry
Long Beach police report a burglary at the home of Donald Sheridan in which burglars forced open a front window, ransacked bedrooms, and fled with clothing guns cash and jewelry valued at 2625 dollars.
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Robert McMillen
Pacific Ave
Donald Sheridan
Long Beach
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