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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
May 03, 1977
Page
1
Commission delayed certification after a deputy attorney requested more input on new information in the final draft EIR. Dr Bright urged equal consideration for all 118 commenters while critics warned that oil tankers not meeting air quality standards could be used if the project proceeds.
The Federal Power Commission split its vote 2 to 2 and urged President Carter to seek agreement with Canada on a trans Canadian pipeline to move natural gas from Alaska via North Dakota and Minnesota to a Chicago area terminal. The LNG coast option for California was largely rejected. Carter must choose a route by September 1 and begin talks with Canada.
In Los Angeles County about 40 000 students were barred from attending school Monday after health officials ordered measles immunizations. Long Beach Unified and Los Angeles city districts reported the largest impacts with thousands kept from classrooms, as lines formed for shot clinics and a countywide tally indicated widespread absence.
A pistol wielding man held two Downey bank officials during a daylong siege before releasing them unharmed early today. Police and 17 officers inside and around the Bank of America faced a gas masked suspect identified as Albert Powers. Powers used a 41 caliber pistol and held hostage bank manager Marshall Allison and operations manager Richard Torres before negotiations and food exchanges led to their release.
A court decision upholds the legality of for sale yard signs stating curbside sales rights. The ruling clarifies permitted placement and size limits for residential displays in the city, reinforcing residents’ ability to promote goods under local ordinance provisions.
President Carter calls scrapping the present welfare system in favor of a tiered plan. Workers get jobs, non workers receive cash, with tax credits for the working. HEW Secretary Caliofano notes remaining cost and details to be worked out while promising proposals by early August after state consultations.
In San Francisco an appellate tribunal ordered 82 year old Associate Justice Marshall F. McComb to retirement due to senile dementia interfering with duties. The panel found removal or reprimand inappropriate and said retirement adequately serves the public. The decision marks California’s first removal via the constitutional mechanism adopted last year. Governor Brown will nominate a successor, with speculation centering on Cruz Reynoso, though Brown declined comment.
In Sacramento the Assembly Criminal Justice Committee sent Sen. George Deukmejian's death penalty bill to the floor amid opposition within the panel. The panel also amended the bill to loosen explosives provisions and debated proportionality review requirements as critics warned. Deukmejian signaled he would resist further amendments on the floor.
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