Western fires threaten Oregon and California spots
Fires across the West burned about 110000 acres with 34 major blazes. Oregon reported 16000 acres charred as guards bolstered lines near Klamath Falls and La Grande, while Montana forests closed at midnight due to danger. Firefighting used C130 retardant planes and river-scooped helicopters as crews faced high heat and shifting conditions.
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National Guard
Klamath Falls
la Grande
Oregon
Montana
Alte
Thomas Judge
Kovienai National Forest
Idaho
Nez Perce National Forest
Air Force
Sly Park Reservoir
Stanislaus
Immigrant Basin
Adams
Yosemite
Beachgoers flood Southland shores in heat wave
About one million people crowded Southland beaches on Sunday as temperatures rose into the 90s. Long Beach drew 90,000 beachgoers with 93 degree heat, Seal Beach 30,000, Cabrillo 12,000, Santa Monica 225,000, and Huntington through Malibu 600,000 to 700,000. Lifeguards logged 35 rescues and no major injuries. Forecasters warned of a sunny day with a few high clouds and a rise to 93 before a cooling trend to 99 Tuesday.
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Southland
Long Beach
Seal Beach
Art
Cabrillo Beach
Santa Monica Beaches
Huntington Beach
Malibu
Twenty jailed after wedding party melee in Tulare
Twenty persons were arrested and three police officers were injured early Sunday in a rock throwing melee after a wedding reception at the Veterans Memorial Building. About 1,000 attended the event. deputies aided by private security dispersed the crowd.
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Tulare
Upl
Veterans Memorial Building
Tulare County
Troy Otto
Golden Gate Bridge Suicides Prompt Barrier Talk
A 40 year old unidentified man jumped from the Golden Gate Bridge and was recovered by a fishing boat. The incident raises the death toll and follows a 27 year old Maryland lieutenant governor’s son who leaped from the bridge last Friday. Bay Area churches tolled in memory and to urge a suicide barrier.
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San Francisco
UPI
Golden Gate Bridge
East Guard
Maryland
Pierre Boal Lee
Bay Area
McGovern Warns on Tapes and Impeachment Path
Senator McGovern argued that a president may be compelled by court order to release tapes and evidence, warning that if the Supreme Court requires turnover and the President refuses, Congress must seriously consider impeachment. He cautioned against claims of a resident's poster rights above Congress's inquiry.
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Congress of the United States
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Supreme Court
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United States
Congress
Houston officials plan dig for more murder victims
Houston authorities move to excavate a Galveston County beach area after two couples reported seeing two men with long wrapped bundles. They described a white van, two cars, and a freshly dug hole with a plastic wrapped bundle, amid the ongoing mass murder case tied to Dean Corll and Elmer Henley.
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Houston
Galveston
Dean A. Corll
Elmer Wayne Henley
U.S
Henley
Corll
C. C. Abernathy
FTC urged to probe hoarding by canners
Baltimore based report says the Food Action Campaign asks the Federal Trade Commission to investigate alleged deliberate halting of canned goods supplies by major canners until Phase 4 price controls end. Pennsylvania Agriculture Secretary James McHale accuses cannery firms of creating artificial shortages to justify future price hikes.
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UPI
Food Action Campaign
Federal Trade Commission
Pennsylvania
James McHale
al Afl-Cio
McHale
FTC
Light plane crashes off San Pedro coast with two aboard
A small two seater Luscombe piloted by John Rowan age 12 crashed 400 yards off Royal Palms State Park in San Pedro on Sunday. Passenger and instructor Frank Sloan age 33, Hawthorne, owned the craft. Both occupants were rescued uninjured after a passing vessel and Cabrillo Beach Lifeguard boat transferred them. the plane sank in 20 feet of water after circling the beach west of White's Point and stalling in a downdraft.
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San Pedro
John Rowan
120Th SL
Hawthorne
Prank Sloan
136Th St
Sloan
Cabrillo Beach
Authoriies
Agnew cash kickback evidence expands to trial risk
Time magazine cites at least three Maryland contractors ready to testify they paid kickbacks to Spiro Agnew while governor and after his 1969 vice presidency. Allen I Green, 43, president of a Maryland engineering firm, named as a witness. U S prosecutors and IRS agents examine Agnew era tax and bank records, with a diary from Jerome Wolff detailing alleged payoffs to Maryland officials.
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Agnew
Allen I. Green
Green
Time
Nixon
U.S
George Beall
Internal Revenue Service
Baltimore
Beall
Jerome Wolff
New York Daily News
Wolff
Bridges calls break with Teamsters over UFW ties
Longshore union figure Harry Bridges urged suspending ILWU Teamsters link due to Teamsters organizing farm workers in California. His proposal, backed by Democratic union representation aims, but was rejected by the Teamsters Executive Council. Bridges notes distrust of Teamsters spending against the United Farm Workers and cites broader AFL CIO affiliation discussions amid raids on ILWU and UFW memberships.
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San Francisco
Harry Bridges
Teamsters Union
California
Central Valley
Bridges
Dispatcher
International Longshoremen’s and Warehousemen's Union
United Farm Workers Union
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FLWU
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