Explosion near Lomita injures spectators and workers
Yancy, aged 60, housed as a gauger with Chase, was among those believed to be at the scene when the first blast hit a truck unloading casing head gas into a refinery tank. Nineteen county fire units plus two helicopters and twelve city units fought the blaze for hours with police evacuations along Lomita Boulevard.
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Petrolane Gas Service Transport and Supply Division
I Knew Fear Witness To Pacific Fireball Evacuation
Special correspondent Louise Meteor describes a near atomic blast experience in Carson as a massive fireball sweeps from Fletcher refinery oil tanks. She recalls heat, smoke, and a stalled freeway as vehicles jammed bumper to bumper awaiting green signals before fleeing.
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Sepulveda Boulevard
Carson
Fire devastates Lomita refinery amid series of blasts
A massive blast at the Fletcher plant near Lomita ignited a diesel tank and damaged a gas station. Firefighters battled water shortages as auxiliary pumps aided containment while a photo window shattered and a light plane observed the scene from above.
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Edison
Fletcher Plant
Solons Kill Move To Free King Jr. Resolution
In Sacramento the Senate 20 to 18 blocked bypassing the Rules Committee to bring a resolution praising Martin Luther King Jr. to the floor. The measure, already cleared by the Assembly, seeks Reagan to proclaim April 4 as a memorial day for the slain civil rights leader. In South Bend a Notre Dame study describes aversive conditioning as a strong quit-smoking method requiring real commitment.
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Rules Committee
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Ronald Reagan
King
South Bend, Ind
Notre Dame
Venice Canal Project Put Off by City Council
City Council postponed approval of the 19 million Venice canal project for at least three weeks after property owner assessments in the 106 acre area failed to win approval amid protests by residents fearing rental displacement. Demonstrators gathered outside the chambers while hundreds listened in an auxiliary room as the measure stalled.
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Los Angeles
UPI
Venice Canal
Raw Milk Contempt Charge Dismissed Against Mayor Stueve
Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Richard Schauer dismissed a contempt charge against Monrovia Mayor Harold J. Stueve for selling raw milk in violation of a restraining order. The judge criticized the mayor’s conduct but found the complaints defective and noted a technical deficiency in the declarations. Stueve, a partner in Alta-Dena Dairy, had been accused of selling milk labeled pet food not for human consumption.
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Monrovia
Harold J. Stueve
Superior Court
Richard Schauer
Stueve
Alta-Dena Dairy
Schauer
Three L A Men Charged in Counterfeit Ring
Three Los Angeles men James Hilliard Eddie Moore and Lynwood Johnson were indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of conspiring to transfer and pass bogus federal reserve notes in a counterfeit money ring worth 726 430 dollars.
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UPI
Federal Reserve
Federal
James Hilliard
Eddie Moore
Lynwood Johnson
Regents Recall Bill Moves to Constitutional Change
Schmitz of R-Tustin introduces a measure to recall the 16 appointed Regents and a second bill bars the State College Board of Trustees from delegating policymaking or administrative authority to the statewide Academic Senate, a key faculty body.
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Sacramento
UPI
University of
Schmitz
R-Tustin
State College Board of Trustees
Academic Senate
Teenage killers sentenced in bus-driver murder case
In San Francisco two 17-year-olds were handed life terms after being convicted of killing municipal bus driver Martin Whitted during a $12 robbery. Judge Robert J. Drewes imposed a straight life term for Joseph Willie Brown as the trigger man and recommended parole eligibility after six months for Robert McFarland.
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Superior Court
Robert J. Drewes
Seph Willie Brown
Martin Whitted
Robert McFarland
AWOL Marines Seek Sanctuary At Whittier Church
A Marine private and a Navy hospitalman from Camp Pendleton found sanctuary Thursday at the Unitarian Society of Whittier Church after a church vote. Hamburger and Lunsford said they sought shelter due to dissatisfaction with military life and cited a recent AWOL Marine, Craig Murphy, as precedent.
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UPI
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Camp Pendleton
Unitarian Society of Whittier Church
C. Robert Hamburger
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Pvt
Jacky Eugene Lunsford
Tulsa
Lance Cpl
Craig’ Murphy
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