Action Line Answers Long Beach Readers Questions
Readers ask about wages for waitstaff and welfare options, cooking on a budget, arthritis telethon costs, and getting refunds from Paramount Square. The column explains California wage rules for tips and meals, relief programs, and local classes and clubs including Der Volks Bruckenaufbau and Keep on Buggin'.
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Long Beach
Calif
Action Line
B.G
der Volks Bruckenaufbau
DVB
S. Western Ave
Anaheim
People's
Michael Sellers
Los Alamitos
Volkswagen
Keep On
Bellflower Blvd
Bellflower
Grace Lane
Costa Mesa
Real life crime bust filmed during TV set piece
Two FBI agents and Long Beach detectives watched as a bank robbery suspect was captured during a SWAT style filming at Locust Avenue. Dwight L. Miller confessed to robbing Crocker National Bank downtown and another Crocker branch on Hazelbrook Avenue, then was booked.
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F 1St Street
Locust Avenue
FBI
Long Beach
Rudy Prell
Frank Barcott
Locust Ave
Dwight L. Miller
Prell and Barcott
Miller
Crocker National Bank
Hazelbrook Ave
Bank sues L A over fake check
The Banque de Paris of Geneva filed a 1.1 million claim against Los Angeles for a stolen city treasury check worth about 902 thousand dollars plus 200 thousand in recovery costs. The bank alleges fraud tied to 18 stolen checks with two men facing trial for conspiracy and forgery.
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Los Angeles
Burt Pines
Banque de Paris
Geneva
Switzerland
Pines
Bank de Paris
Superior Court
Leslie W. Light
Morton B. Freeman
Bernard R. Howard
California
Freeman
Palos Verdes
Howard
Yonkers
N.Y
City Treasury
Monrovia killer sentenced to death
Billy Jo Booker 28 of Lubbock Texas was sentenced to death by gas chamber for kidnapping and murder of Audrey Gaines 25 and her 14 month old daughter Heather in Monrovia. Jury imposed the sentence after conviction following August 22 abduction from a shopping center. Bodies found in a ravine six days later. Booker arrested in New Mexico after liquor store robbery.
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Pasadena
Billy Jo Booker
Monrovia
Superior Court
Walter Evans
Booker
Lubbock
Tex
Audrey Gaines
Heather
Gaines
New Mexico
Los Angeles
Greene widens edge in tight state Assembly race
Assemblyman Bill Greene gains votes in a close race against Kenneth Washington who requests a recount after a razor thin margin in the state race.
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Bill Greene
Kenneth Washington
Police Sgt Sues Gillette Over Cricket Lighter Blast
Los Angeles police Sgt. Lynn Leeds files a $1 million suit against the Gillette Co and the LAPD Relief Association after a Cricket lighter exploded in his hands injuring his face and eyes. The Relief Association is named for operating the lobby vending machine that sold the lighter at Parker Center.
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Los Angeles
Gillette Co
Los Angeles Police Relief Association
Lynn Leeds
Police Relief Association
Parker Center
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Ction Fine
H.L
California Industrial Welfare Division
Los Angeles County Department of Public Social Services
Long Beach Blvd
G.S
Long Beach City College
Home Economics
Senior Opportunity Services Center
E. First St
Wesley United Methodist Church
Freeman Ave
Drake Park
Ninth Street
Maine Avenue
King Park
Lemon Ave
Carmelites Center
Wanda
MacArthur Park
Anaheim St
Admiral Kidd Park
Santa Fe Ave
Long Beach Recreation Department
KTLA
Jane Wyman
Allen Ludden
M.M
Southern California
Arthritis Foundation
Foundation
Paramount Square
S. Paramount Blvd
Paramount
R.F
Estelle Hankin
James Pelton and Associates
Navy
Beetlebug
Prell and
Barcott
Mike Seikel
Owen Odom
Blood Bank
Prell
L.A
United Press International
Shin
Reed & Barton
Francis
Silverware
Marina
Buffums
Farberware
Santa Ana
Pomona
LA Habra
San Diego
Arcadia
Greene
Associated Press
Senate
Washington
Carer Delwee
Dany
Man Dall
Fieldcrest
Georgetown
Bath Shop
Lakewood
Newport Center
Habra
Laguna
MELLS
ABC Adea
Soward
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