Port Pilots Call Off Walkout After Pay Standoff
Los Angeles port pilots voted to cancel a threatened day-long walkout after the Board of Harbor Commissioners refused their demand for a 10 percent pay hike. The decision came at a regular meeting in San Pedro.
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Los Angeles
Los Angeles Harbor
Board of Harbor Commissioners
San Pedro
Ryckaert
Richard Jacobsen
Long Beach
Jacobsen Piloting Service, Inc
Yorty Signs Tax Plan Amid City Budget Talks
Mayor Sam Yorty signed a 5 percent alcoholic beverages tax to help avert higher property taxes. The ordinance raises total drink taxes to 11 percent by summer’s end, with state and municipal sales taxes at five percent and a one percent municipal rise Aug. 1. Officials project about seven million dollars in revenue for the 1968-69 year. The council approved the measure despite tavern and restaurant opposition planning court challenges.
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Los Angeles
Sam Yorty
Yorty
Rundberg Starr Bribery Trial Closes With Corruption Claims
Former Harbor Commissioners Karl Rundberg and Robert Starr faced closing arguments in Los Angeles Superior Court as prosecutors charged them with accepting 6 500 in office furniture and a 6 047 remodeling job from Keith Smith in exchange for favorable harbor project decisions. The case centers on the World Trade Center lease and other harbor contracts.
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Karl Rundberg
Robert “Nick” Starr
Los Angeles Superior Court
San Pedro
Keith Smith
Smith
Harbor
Montagna
Rundberg
Starr
World Trade Center
Pacific Trade Center
Harbor Department
Altimira Construction Co
Channel Investment Co
Robert Imerman
Hippie Feed-Ins Stir Laguna Beach Officials And Natives
About 100 residents and visitors attended a seventh consecutive beach feed-in at Laguna Beach financed by contributions. City officials, facing resident complaints, pursue moderation while hippies resist regulation. Local incidents include porch thefts and ongoing tensions between police and nonconventional residents as plans for a July 20 love-in and July 24 feed-in unfold.
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Laguna Beach
Mecca
Robert Bland
Warren Morgan
Hermes Trismagistus
Laguna
Trismagistus
Laguna Canyon
South
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L.A
Jack C. Baldwin
Gordon G. MacLean
Albert Ryckaert
Marine Clerks Assn
Selves
Michael J. Montagna
Board
of Harbor Commissioners
Harbor Tennants
Charlie Stillwell
Catalina Steamship Company
Rundberg and _ Starr
National Metals and Steel Corp
Rundberg and Starr
Cat
Bakersfield
Hart Park
Here
Sandra Gail Washington
Molly Burrell
Leonard Mason
W. 52Nd St
Douglas
Pr & GS
Orig
Orson
45Th
Atlantic
Alfred
Southern California
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