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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1971
Page
2
First Lady Nancy Reagan joined Governor to fire up the 600 light Colorado spruce beside the Capitol as a 100 voice children's choir sang. Reagan urged peace and Christ’s teachings while greeting Sacramento students and staff at the festive event.
Sacramento reports a legislation effort to ban highrise development near state parks. The proposal, signed Tuesday by Governor Reagan, aims to curb construction deemed harmful to park lands and natural resources.
Al Washington, 33, becomes North Pole Santa Corp. s first fulltime black Santa. Hired at a Los Angeles Sears in a predominantly black area, he greets families while colleagues note parents bring children from across the city to see him. Some stores report fewer black applicants after a mixed display. Washington recalls his first Santa memory in Tyler, Texas, and says gifts like dolls and bicycles remain sought after.
Joseph Barboza Baron, a self described Task Coast Mafia figure, arrived Tuesday at the California Medical Facility to begin a five year sentence after pleading guilty to second degree murder. He ended an eight week trial by reversing his original innocent plea in the fatal July shooting of Ricky Clay Wilson, 26.
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