Grand Jury Flags Alarming Drug Use Rise in 1969 Report
The 1969 Los Angeles County Grand Jury cites an alarming rise in illegal drug use and urges reevaluation of educational methods to warn the public. It notes 138 investigated cases with 132 indictments, all involving narcotics and dangerous drugs, and highlights a 2000 percent increase since 1961. The panel also urges tougher smog standards and an intercity rapid transit push, while calling foruster restraint as county spending grew from 94.33 million to 1.77 billion over 30 years.
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Los Angeles County Grand Jury
Los Angeles
Memorial service honors Miramar crash victims
In San Diego 11 Navy personnel and a civilian died when an F-81 crashed into a hangar at Miramar NAS. Chaplains led the service as 300 mourners listened to prayers and songs. Two of 14 injured were removed from critical condition. investigation by a three officer board.
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Navy
Miramar
San Diego
Miramar Naval Air Station
Cmdr
Benson Mack
Naval Station
Joseph Howand
William J. Walsh
Church of Christ At
Vista
John Hunter
Christopher
Kenneth A. Hecht
Naval Hospital
J.C. Lank Thomas
William F. Emery
Dredge Clears Santa Barbara Channel Entrance
A dredge began pumping sand from the Santa Barbara channel entrance into the harbor to reopen a passage closed to most boat traffic for almost two weeks. City officials expect two dredges to create a 15 foot deep and 100 foot wide channel by next Tuesday.
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Santa Barbara
UPS
Santa Barbara Channel
R. Dennis Hogle
Newport Beach
Hogle
Spilled Gas Blamed for Carson Fire
An accidental gasoline spill touched off a 200000 blaze at Accessories Inc. a Carson motor cycle parts firm. Three teenagers suffered minor burns and did not seek treatment. The 90 by 90 foot concrete block building and its contents sustained about 200000 in damage. Names: Steven M. Nichols Wilby E. Yee John T. Blankenship.
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Carson
A Accessories Inc
168Th St
Steven M. Nichols
Wilkie Ave
Gardena
Wilby E. Yee
Ridgecrest homeowners push for 22 000 signal system install
Palos Verdes Peninsula residents seek hazard relief at Crenshaw Boulevard and Crest Ridge Road. The Ridgecrest Homeowners Association leads the project with a $22,000 signal system. County officials say planning and design wrap up next month, with operation expected before June 1970.
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Palos Verdes Peninsula
Crenshaw Boulevard
Crestridge Board
Ridgecrest Homeowners Association
County
Diocese Taxed 1.6 Million in 1968 Property Taxes
The Los Angeles Roman Catholic Archdiocese paid more than $1.6 million in property taxes and assessments during 1968, covering school buildings churches and parish properties across Los Angeles Orange Ventura and Santa Barbara counties. The archdiocese also operated its 325 elementary and secondary schools at a deficit exceeding $9.3 million.
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Los Angeles
Orange
Ventura
Santa Barbara
Matson Fleet to Resume West Coast Sailings
The Matson Navigation Co 40 ship fleet will depart Long Beach and other West Coast ports today for the first time since November 17 when crews walked out over ship size disputes. The strike ended last weekend in San Francisco with federal mediators helping reach a settlement.
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Matson Navigation Co
Long Beach
West Coast
Matson
San Francisco
Jody placed with foster family after roadside rescue
Jody Lansdown, the 5 year old found clinging to a fence beside Highway 99 last October, is placed with a foster family in Kern County. Authorities seek Jeffrey, 8, another Fouquet child missing. The mother Betty Fouquet and Ronald Fouquet await trial on child abandonment charges.
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Bakersfield
OPI
Jody Lansdown
Highway 99
Kern County Welfare Department
Jody
Kern County
Betty Lansdown Fouquet
Ronald Fouquet
Fouquet
Jeffrey
Fouquets
Bell Gardens
9000 Year Old La Brea Skull Discovered in 1914 Find
Scientists at the Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History and UCLA dated the skull to about 9000 years old using carbon analysis. A $200 television set was stolen Friday from Alice Richards home at 1210 Hoffman Ave after burglars forced a rear door.
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Niles Barnes
Sherman Place
la Brea
Western Hemisphere
Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History
UCLA
Alice Richards
Hoffman Ave
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Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs Committee
RITES
CWO
Dean Zeitler
Thomas P. Loughrige
M. E. Hutchinson
L.A
Bullock's Stores
Santa ¢ Ana
San Fernando
Lakewood
Trolman
Smith
Welch's
WELCH
Atlantic Ave
Naugahyde Furniture
Orange County Breach
Wardlow
S. Main
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