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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Jul 16, 1968
Page
3
The district attorney filed criminal complaints Monday against two of seven suspects in Harbor City firebombings. Three others were not charged due to insufficient evidence according to Long Beach deputies.
In Long Beach Municipal Court Danial Lord 19 of Cudahy and Larry McMillen 20 a Marine stationed in San Francisco were arraigned on charges tied to an execution murder after they paid $1000 for a marijuana sale that never occurred. A preliminary hearing was set for July 26.
Area youths from about a dozen cities in the Los Angeles area will join a See it for yourself patrol program starting next Monday. About 100 teens aged 16 to 18 will ride in police cars, patrolling day and night in eight hour and four hour shifts, under the Younger's citizens council.
County assessor Philip E. Watson announced more than 16 billion dollars in property is assessed for the 1968 69 fiscal year. The preliminary roll shows a net total of 16 370 514 156 5 4 percent higher than last year with land at 6 5 billion and improvements at 8 2 billion.
The Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce urged against a constitutional amendment proposal by County Assessor Philip E. Watson. It would cap property taxes at 1 percent of market value after July 1 and cut revenue by over 50 percent, risking drastic tax shifting and higher sales taxes to cover the gap.
Former Harbor commissioners Karl Rundberg and Nick Starr were found guilty of accepting furniture from Keith Smith, boosting Los Angeles efforts to cancel a 12 million World Trade Center lease. Smith faces multiple bribery counts while another ex-commissioner, George Watson, awaits trial.
Citizen Marines storm Camp Pendleton to begin Operation Bell Ranger a three day exercise involving 4000 reserve Marines joined by 1000 regulars and 3000 naval personnel with 11 warships. Brig Gen Weinstein heads the expeditionary brigade as crews rehearse amphibious landings and aerial inserts for readiness.
An all night search for five year old Diane Dickerson in Yosemite area ends after a pilot spots her near the rim of Tumolume Gorge about four thousand eight hundred feet deep. She wandered from Camp Mather before dusk Sunday.
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