Computer helps man lose dream at casino
Sunnyvale reporter recounts Keith Taft engineer and self made electronic gambler who built a wearable minicomputer to assist blackjack play. After 90 minutes for $1,200 profit he then lost $4,400 in 30 hours and retired promising his wife he would risk no more. Taft believes with enough capital about $40,000 the system could work though luck remained against him.
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Sunnyvale
UPI
Keith Taft
Lady Luck
Taft
Nevada
State sues food firm for mislabeling cans
The California Attorney General filed suit against Tillie Lewis Foods Inc and several wholesalers and retailers over misbranding dented and swollen canned foods found July 1, 1974. The action aims to remove unlabeled adulterated products from the salvage canned foods market under state law.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atty
Evelle Younger
Tille Lewis Foods, Inc
Delaware
Stockton
California
Department of Health
Kassis Brothers Wholesale, Inc
Sacramento
Tillie Lewis Foods
Kassis Brothers Wholesale
Mutual Grocery Co
United Grocery Limited
Bert McDowell Co
Candlerock
Steak Pit Restaurant
The
Carousel Restaurant
Stop-N-Shop, Inc
Taxi Drivers Firing Sparks Airport Pick Up Row
In San Diego a taxi union outbreak ends with one driver fired and six suspended as drivers refuse pickups at San Diego International Airport. The action follows a dispute over cab stands and access at the main terminal amid union backing and threatened suspensions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Diego
UPD
San Diego International Airport
Port Authority
Mike Spadacini
Yellow Cab Co
Rights leader plans march through Taft protest
M Douglass Talley of the United Freedom Organization announced a September march through Taft aiming for 10 000 participants to protest alleged racial violence. Taft police chief Walter McKee and editor Dennis McCall both opposed the plan citing potential disruption and limited impact.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Taft
M. Douglass Talley
United Freedom Organization
Walter McKee
Dennis McCall
Daily
Taft Midway
Oil firms plead no contest in price fixing case
Four small oil companies pleaded no contest in a Los Angeles federal court to charges of fixing gasoline prices in California Oregon Washington Nevada and Arizona. Each faces up to 50000 in fines with sentencing set for July 18. Phillips Petroleum and Douglas Oil pleaded innocent. trial scheduled for summer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Los Angeles
California
Oregon
Washington
Nevada
Arizona
Powerline Oil Co
Fletcher Oil & Refining Co Golden Eagle Refining Co
MacMillion Ring-Free Oil Co., Inc
U.S. District Court
Malcolm Lucas
Phillips Petroleum Co
Douglas Oil Co
Jobless wait for pay after money stolen
Seventy five people lined up for unemployment payments in Los Angeles were forced to wait after a $100000 robbery the previous night. A state unemployment bureau employee in Hollywood was abducted and forced to open the safe. She and a friend were bound and gagged at the office before the cash was taken and payments issued.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Los Angeles
State
Hollywood
James Heaney
Brown signs override bill for Medi-Cal
Gov Brown signed a 33.5 million dollar bill to cover Medi-Cal overruns. The measure, sponsored by Sen Arlen Gregorio of San Mateo, adds funds beyond the 8.8 million already allocated for local administrative costs. The administration found an extra 25 million in local benefit overruns this fiscal year.
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Sacramento
Updgov
Brown
Arlen Gregorio
Dsan Mateo
Senate
Mobile home reform bill moves through Assembly vote
Assembly approves mobile home reform measure by wide margin. Bill by Bob Wilson of La Mesa would require manufacturers dealers salesmen transporters and repairers to post performance bonds and require buyers licenses to pass a written DMV test.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sacramento
Assembly
Bob Wilson
D-La Mesa
State Department of Motor Vehicles
TI shooting incident wounds truck driver
A 45 year old truck driver, Roger A. Cannon from Florence Mississippi, was wounded in the arm during a gun battle on Cannery Street on Terminal Island. He was hospitalized at San Pedro and Peninsula Hospital. The opposing worker, Ralph Barajas, 35, Los Angeles, a foreman for Van Camp Sea Food, Inc., was being sought by police to determine if he was injured. witnesses said Cannon appeared intoxicated. Five empty cartridge cases were found. Cannon arrived earlier in a large truck parked near the scene.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Terminal Island
Roger A. Cannon
Florence
Miss
San Pedro
Peninsula Hospital
Cannery Street
Cannon
Cannery
Ralph Barajas
Los Angeles
van Camp Sea Food, Inc
Cannnon Ap
Assembly votes to add six non lawyers to bar board
The California Assembly approved legislation to expand the State Bar governing board from 15 to 21 by adding six public non lawyers. The measure opens board meetings to the public while excluding disciplinary proceedings, drawing support from Gov. Brown and Assemblyman Howard Berman despite criticism from several attorney lawmakers.
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Sacramento
UPI
State Bar
Assembly
Gov
Brown
Z’berg
John Knox
Richmond
Robert Badham
Newport Beach
Art Torres
Los Angeles
Stanford
Clerics urge boycott of non-UFW grapes in LA markets
Clerics and religious groups asked vendors at Los Angeles central produce terminal and Grand Central Market to boycott grapes not bearing the United Farm Workers label. The effort targets Coachella Valley grapes lacking Cesar Chavez's UFW Black Eagle mark and vows return visits if sellers do not cooperate. The UFWU demands growers hold secret elections under California law, with renewed sanctions planned if elections are delayed.
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Central Produce Terminal
Grand Central Market
Los Angeles
United Farm Workers
Coachella Valley
Cesar Chavez
Wayne Chris Hartmire
National Farm Worker Ministry
Hartmire
United Farm Workers Union
California
Western Airlines flight attendants vote on new management contract
Ballots were mailed to Western Airlines flight attendants for a second vote on a management contract offer. AFA official Judy Pierce said 1,400 members will vote after a 510 to 451 rejection of the previous package. AFA President Kelley Rueck ordered the new ballot following a Washington meeting.
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Associated Press
Western Airlines
Los Angeles
Judy Pierce
The
Association of Flight Attendants
AFA
Kelley Rueck
Washington
Lake Tahoe parachutist rescued from tree
Ginger Santopietro rode a parasail over Lake Tahoe when the boat engine failed and she drifted toward Incline Village. She became stranded about 30 feet up a tree and had to be rescued by firefighters.
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Incline Village
Nev
UPI
Ginger Santopietro
Lake Tahoe
Non-Responsibility Notices From Local Residents
Billie M Dunaway of Long Beach California says after June 21 1975 she will not be responsible for debts or obligations incurred by others. Lanny Yakel of Carson California states after June 23 1975 he will not be responsible for debts incurred by others.
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Belinda Nelson
Wolfe
Lakewood
California
LBI
Billie M. Dunaway
Gondar Ave
Long Beach
Lanny Yakel
Delores
Space
Carson
Lanny R. Yakel
Cver
Department of Personnel and Employee
City of
East Ocean Boulevard
Suite
Sateen
Multiple Trustee Sales and Public Notices in Long Beach Area
Several notices announce public auctions and bids in Los Angeles and Long Beach. Trustee sales target properties in Long Beach and Los Angeles County, detailing keys like Lot 3, Block 1 Harbor View Tract and Lot 4 in Tract 3636, with trustees Safeco Title Insurance Company and United Investment Corporation overseeing proceedings. Also listed are Long Beach Unified School District bid invitations and a Title I funding notice for the City of Long Beach.
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Safeco Title Insurance Company
Wilshire Boulevard
Los Angeles
State of California
Ernest Duaine Hyder
Ruth Juanita Hyder
Recorder
Los Angeles County
California
United States
County of
Safeco Title Insurance Company A Corporation
Felicia Kozik
LBI
Long Beach Unified School District
Locust Avenue
Long Beach
Frances S. Grace
Samuel Miller
the Recorder of
Cent Recorder
31St St
Calif
Los Angeles County Courts
Norwalk Boulevard
Norwalk
United Investment Corporation
T D. Service Company
Karen Mocerino
T.S. No
Jomar Investment CO
County Recorder
Wilshire Blvd
City of
Kallin Avenue
Unders
Ate
Teri Williams
Obituary notices from Long Beach area burials and services
Multiple death notices list survivors and service details for Harry Fisher Stewart Kennedy Grant Maude May Hardison William Hoffman Mary Alice Jarvis Adeline M Johnson Augusta E Johnson Leonard M Link James Lynch Grace L Mackey and Grace L, with service times at Hunter Memorial Park Sunnyside and local mortuaries in Long Beach and Westminster.
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Grant
Stewart Kennedy
Shirley
Michelle
Sabrina
Michael
Alice Marish
Hillside Drive
Long Beach
Rexford Styzens
the Unitarian Church
Hardison
Maude May
Kentucky
Corrine Payne
Ia Linda
California
Elsie Yancey
Florida
Sunnyside
Cathedral Chapel
Mottell’s Mortuary
Woodruff
Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church
Westminster
Johnson
Augusta E
Martin R
Hildur Anderson
I. R. Moline
Patterson & Snively Chapel
Link
Leonard M
Hillside Memorial Park Chapel
Glasband Willen
Long Beach Mortuary
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Woody’s
NAT L News
Colm
State Department of Health
Spadacini
Taft Junior College
McCall
United Press International
Mobile Home Law
Berman
Edwin Z'berg
UFW
Marie Wells
C.P
C.C.P
U. S Depermans of Labor
Mares Employment and Training Act
Uppertuty
Paraupa
U.S. Department of Labor
Ipumerisdad Bralacsy
Num
Etopee
Nvniee
Eee
Pve
Voce
Ion Ies
Dasmlatines
Lc.f. of
Holy Name Society
St. Barnabas Church
Sierra Madre Dolorosa Retreat House
Sheelar
Fisher
Harry
June
Wilda Santos
Hunter Mortuary Chapel
Lynch
James
Frank Lynch
Myrtle Showmake
Juanita Stoneham
Hunter Mortuary
St. Cyprians ‘Catholic Church
Luyben
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