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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Jan 23, 1975
Page
3
A mild earthquake struck the Santa Monica Malibu beach area at 7 50 p m sparking calls to police and the Malibu substation. Preliminary readings from a Caltech seismologist put the tremor at 3 2 on the Richter scale with no damage reported.
About 500 members of the Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers Union at Mobil Oil’s Torrance refinery ratified a two year pact by 88 percent. The deal matches settlements at Gulf, ARCO and Texaco with 75-cent hourly raise retroactive to Jan 8, two further raises totaling 12 percent, a new holiday, and enhanced medical and retirement benefits.
LA police disclose a crowd control training program for 7200 officers to handle possible food riots. Cmdr Frank Brittell says they are not panicking but preparing with SWAT tactics emphasizing communication and lawful arrest if necessary.
Standard Oil Co of California said it will appeal a Federal Trade Commission order before the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. The FTC ruled that its F310 gasoline additive misrepresented exhaust pollutant removal and ordered advertising review of all products.
Two fires created columns of dark smoke that drifted over large areas of west side Los Angeles on a Wednesday, unsettling motorists along the Santa Monica Freeway as they drove through the smoky air.
Four fires operable in the Los Angeles area as flames swept the freeway near empty stretches. One blaze hit an apartment under construction in the Westwood area while a brush fire burned on the Culver City Studios 40 acre lot. No injuries or immediate danger reported.
William D. Miller 37 of San Francisco, a public relations representative for the Twentieth Century Motor Car Corp, was shot four times in the head and killed in the firm’s Encino offices after a brief argument with an unidentified man. Witnesses heard five or six shots and saw a brown-haired man flee.
A Los Angeles federal court jury convicted Robert D. Hill, 49, Irvine. Charles Gish, 30, Newport Beach. and Richard Gray, 54, Woodland Hills, of conspiracy and fraud charges in a nationwide commodity-option scheme with International Commodities Exchange. Sentencing set for Feb. 10.
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