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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Jul 29, 1970
Page
5
Izzie Pearl, a Yonkers junkman in his 70s, travels with horse drawn wagon collecting rags and old items. He bells his arrival before 8 a.m. and scavenges newspapers lamps furniture toys radiators and salvaged parts, believing every discarded item has value.
A 27 year old Riverside artist known as J. C. turns discarded items into sculpture. He roams for bargains including rummage sales day old bakery scraps and desert stones for bases. His work features animals to express emotions and he hopes for a life devoted to creating not wealth.
Richard Bragunier, a San Jose hiker, found a cardboard box with 116 sticks of aging dynamite near San Pedro Road outside San Rafael. Bomb experts moved the box to a beach near China Camp. investigators sought the tenant for questioning. The Hercules labeled dynamite dated April 1967 had crystallized and could detonate with friction.
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