Long Beach economy seen flat then set to rebound
L B area leaders forecast a slow, low start to the year with a mild upturn in the second half. Cal Worthington warns of potential weakness after rebates end, while United California Bank economist Jack Keyser cites slower overall activity, rising unemployment, and inflation risk. Harbor trade and mortgage-rate declines offer modest support.
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Long Beach
United California Bank
Buffums Department Stores
Douglas
California
Jack Keyser
Keyser
Shell refinery strike in Wilmington settles
A tentative pact with Shell Oil Co. Wilmington refinery workers, about 600, gives immediate 75 cent per hour raise and 12 percent wage rise by January 1976. Ratification depends on Denver leaders and local members. Arbitration over profit sharing and start dates remains disputed at related plants.
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Shell Oil Co
Wilmington
Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers Union
Charles Armin
OCAW
Denver
Union Oil Co
Armin
Standard Oil Co
el Segundo
David Welty
Welty
Standard
City forms housing task force in Long Beach
City officials announce a housing task force to address rising costs scarce land resources and new environmental concerns affecting residents. The nonprofit and business communities will join in crafting policy and redevelopment options to balance preservation with growth amid ongoing housing conflicts.
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Long Beach
Long Beach Plans Housing Task Force Faces Community Pressure
Long Beach moves to form a Housing Task Force to review high density condo plans and preserve neighborhood fabrics amid environmental and community opposition. Planning Director Ernest Mayer Jr. seeks broad representation including low to high income groups, seniors, minorities, students, and industry professionals in downtown redevelopment considerations.
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California
Long Beach
Alamitos Bay
Orange County
Ernest Mayer Jr
California floods kill two as thousands left homeless
Two people dead and thousands displaced by severe Texas floods. Casualties confirmed as rescue operations continue and communities brace for further winter rains. Local officials urge caution and coordinate relief efforts across affected towns.
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Texas
Helms Ordered CIA Data Deleted During Watergate Probe
Richard Helms while CIA director directed a high official to withhold Watergate information and block Justice Department access to a key witness in the six weeks after the June 17, 1972 break in. Howard J. Osbourne, former CIA security chief, testified in May 1973 that Helms chose not to forward McCord letters to the Justice Department amid an agency subpoena for Watergate communications.
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Washington
Richard Helms
Central Intelligence
Justice Department
Howard J. Osborne
CIA
House Intelligence
Helms
James W. McCord Jr
Democratic Party
Watergate Complex
McCord
Officials Plan CIA Theory On Break-In, Reelection Panel Hints
The Committee for the Reelection of the President officials planned to claim the break-in was a CIA operation. McCord wrote he had evidence implicating former attorney general John N. Mitchell and others sufficient to convince a jury Congress and the press.
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Committee For
McCord
John N. Mitchell
Congress
Ford budgets $349 billion with record peacetime deficit
President Ford announced a $349 billion federal budget calling for almost $1 billion daily in spending and a $52 billion deficit, $5 billion more than two weeks earlier, warning it could rise to nearly $70 billion without approved reductions. He urged Congress to cooperate as the budget would be sent for formal review on Monday.
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Washington
Ford
Congress
U.S
Administration
State Department
Iask
White House
First phase of oil tariff takes effect
Washington expects Congress to vote next week on reversing President Ford's 3 per barrel crude oil import tax. Ford and Rep. Ullman push for a compromise while the Ways and Means Committee weighs a proposed 19 billion relief plan to aid low and moderate income earners. If vetoed or resisted, gasoline and refined products could rise as import fees schedule tightens and new charges unfold in March and April.
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UPI
Ford
Congress
Rep
al Ullman
D-Ore
House
Ways and Means Committee
Senate
Ullman
Fugitive killer eyed in skid row slasher murders
Police sought 32 year old prison escapee Carl A Eder as a possible suspect in the skid row murders. Eder who escaped Tehachapi last November killed a family of five four whose throats were cut 15 years ago. Investigators said he generally matches the killer description but officials stressed he is not a prime suspect. At least a dozen men were questioned and released as the manhunt widened. The ninth victim Clyde C Hay 34 of National Cash Register Co was found.
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Carl A. Eder
Thomas J. Pendergast
State Correctional Institution
Tehachapi
Los Angeles
Hagan
Eder
Robert F. Kennedy
Clyde C. Hay
The
National Cash Register Co
Tragic Liquor Store Clerk Shot. Homicide Probes Crime
At 8 55 p.m. Monday January 27 18 year old clerk Steven Snedeker was found dying behind the counter at H and O Liquor Store 6069 Cherry Ave. He died 15 minutes after arrival at Paramount Hospital from a chest wound. Investigators lack witnesses and report no sign of a struggle. Secret Witness offers 2000 dollars for information.
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Cherry Ave
Steven Robert Snedeker
Snedeker
Paramount Hospital
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