Cities face belt tightening across regional budgets
Long Beach Lakewood and Cerritos face deficits as revenue sharing and CETA funds shrink. officials warn of slowed development, rising capital costs, and higher public safety and parks expenses while inflation dampens projects and delays housing aid. Key figures include Knapp Grissom and city budgets.
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Swcred
Phelps
CETA
Hahn Center
Westside
Transportation Center
Long Beach
Lakewood
Grissom
Cerritos
Knapp
Tt Knapp
New Hepatitis B Vaccine Tested on Animals
Baylor College of Medicine researchers announced a new vaccine for the deadly hepatitis B virus, successfully used on animals. Dr. Joseph L. Melnick warned the disease kills about 3,000 people yearly in the U.S. with no proven treatment and about one million carriers nationwide, 50,000 cases annually.
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Houston
UPI
Baylor College of Medicine
Joseph L. Melnick
Baylor
United States
Los Angeles Bans Smoking in Public Building Arenas
Mayor Tom Bradley signed an ordinance prohibiting smoking in designated areas of public buildings used for exhibitions and performances. The rule takes effect 150 days after publication with exceptions for sports events and lobbies, and requires prominent no smoking signs.
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Los Angeles
Tom Bradley
George Buchanan
Bradley
Marvin Braude
Police monitor Hells Angels over Midwest gang war plan
Sacramento dispatch reports officers nationwide were urged to watch Hells Angels members believed bound for North Carolina for a gang war. CHP teletype notes about 500 Angels attending a fiddlers convention, with the main aim described as war with an outlaw group from Chicago or the Midwest.
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Sacramento
Hells Angels
North Carolina
California Highway Patrol
California
Highway Patrol
Ken Hunter
Chicago
Midwest
Hunter
Gunman locks self on 80-foot cabin cruiser
An armed and possibly deranged man locked himself in the aft cabin of the 80 foot Deligh t, heading toward San Diego as Coast Guard cutters and two U S marshals prepared to meet and escort the vessel into port. No injuries were reported, and the crew said the threat did not materialize.
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Coast Guard
Ken Stockwell
George Henderson
George Brice Jr
Henderson
San Diego
Pt. Stuart
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Kissinger, Dobryn
Cenfer
Middle East
Washington
Henry A. Kissinger
Anatoly F. Dobrynin
State Department
L.A. Law
Royal Garden
Jcpenney
Carson
Downey
Torrance
Portland
Ore
Stockwell
Brice
Security Pacific Bank
Santa Monica
Marina del Rey
Catalina Island
Catalina
Mary Macias
Santa Paula
Alaniz
Larson
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