Westside couple wins guardianship of two orphans
Francis Pogan and his wife Rita were awarded guardianship of Christian Murray and his sister Lisa by Superior Court Judge McIntyre Faries in Los Angeles. The Pogans testified the children's deceased parents, parachuting hobbyists Thomas and Prudence Murray, asked they and the Pogans raise them if they died. The Murrays perished in Laos on March 3 after a river rescue attempt.
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Palos Verdes Peninsula
Francis Pogan
Rita
Christian Murray
Lisa
Los Angeles
Superior Court
McIntyre Faries
Pogans
Charlotte Fillekas
Huntington
Long Island, N.Y
Christain
Thomas and
Prudence Murray
Laos
Murray
Old Air Transport Company
United States
Helen Murray
Jersey City
N.J
Pogan
Murrays
Santa Monica
Faries
Christian
California
Los Angeles County approves $45 million pay package after tense vote
After nearly two hours of debate, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors approved a $45 million employee salary ordinance for fiscal 1969 70. The package includes 8.2 percent raises for 113 department heads and an average 5.5 percent boost for about 57,000 rank and file workers.
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Los Angeles
Gordon T. Nesvig
Ernest E. Debs
Kenneth Hahn
Warren M. Dorn
Hahn
Dorn
Burton Chace
Frank G. Bonelli
Nesvig
Debs
New Trial Plea Planned for Sirhan B Sirhan
Defense heads for the Court of Appeal with an appeal for a new trial in the Kennedy assassination case. Sirhan is on Death Row at San Quentin after a 1969 death sentence. the appeal argues the judge should have accepted a life plea and that jury notebooks indicating intent were seized illegally without a warrant or Sirhan's permission.
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Sirhan B. Sirhan
Sen
Robert F. Kennedy
State Court of Appeal
U.S. Sumpre Court
Sirhan
San Quentin Prison
Superior Court
Herbert V. Walker
Cooper
Walker
Kennedy
Charcoal Fumes Kill Two Aboard Boat At Sunset Marina
Police and Orange County Coroner report two fully clothed victims Dorothy Georgia Philbrick 54 and James Swindle 45 of Lancaster found Tuesday morning by a marina employee in a 25 foot cabin cruiser at Sunset Marina Huntington Beach. Investigators say they asphyxiated from fumes from a smoldering charcoal broiler. time of death around 10 p.m. Sunday.
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Sunset Marina
Huntington Beach
Orange County
Dorothy Georgia Philbrick
James Swindle
Lancaster
Marina
Hunger Strikers Camp at UCLA Protests Continue
A hunger strike at UCLA entered its second day with 20 students camped on the grass in front of Royce Hall vowing not to eat until the National Guard is removed from Berkeley. Pickets marched on campus in sympathy with Berkeley demonstrators.
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UCLA
University
National Guard
Berkeley
Royce Hall
New York Tops 1967 Metropolitan Income Figures
The Commerce Department released 1967 metro income data showing New York leading with 52.0 billion dollars, followed by Los Angeles-Long Beach 28.8 billion, Chicago 28.1 billion, Philadelphia 16.54 billion, and Detroit 15.8 billion. The five largest cities were also the top income producers.
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Long Beach
Commerce Department
Washington
New York
Los Angeles
Chicago
Philadelphia
Detroit
Activist take over vote at Long Beach college meeting
Activists from Students for a Democratic Society and allied groups seized the Little Theatre meeting at California State College at Long Beach, branding existing college government irrelevant and passing resolutions aimed at Berkeley police actions and campus reforms. Administrators condemned the action, warning it could invite greater evils.
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California State College At
Long Beach
Students For A Democratic Society
Little Theatre
Jack Shainline
Berkeley
Carl W. McIntosh
Rex Gay
Ken Miller
Goodman-Malamuth
Academic Senate
Student Senate
Griffin
Little Theatre Group
Student Leader Defends BSU At LACC
LA City College student body president Calvin Nelson defended the Black Students Union, saying apathy rather than violence harmed the campus. He credited the BSU with fostering the black studies program and minority counseling amid strife.
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Los Angeles City College
Calvin Nelson
BSU
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Ironwood St
West
Grant B. Cooper
N.Y
FIRST
Long Beach Area
Pine ¢ Torrance
CSLB
Senate
Leo Goodman-Malamuth
Gary Griffin
Robert Ehrlich
Shainline
College
People’s Park
McIntosh
James Rector
The
Black
Student Union and
Oriental Concern
Ehrlich
el Camino Junior College
Caribbean
National
Miami
National Airlines
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