36 Vessels Sail Past L A s Rat Ports
The waterfront rat war keeps Los Angeles and Long Beach ships away with 36 vessels redirected to other West Coast ports. Longshoremen refuse to unload the President Taylor while rats in No 5 hold and fumigation demands stall work amid PMA ILWU dispute and arbitration appeal.
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Los Angeles
Long Beach
West Coast
California
President Taylor
Consolidated Marine Terminal
San Pedro
American President Line
PMA
ILWU
Taylor
Vietnam
Keystone State
Jefferson Davis
San Francisco
Harry Bridges
S Teamsters
Speed King Craig Breedlove's New Wife Revealed in Hearing
During a Los Angeles temporary support hearing, Carolyn Lordes, 24, identified as Craig Breedlove's new wife after his Nevada divorce from Lee Ann Breedlove, 33, who still contests the California divorce. Breedlove, 31, agreed to $500 monthly alimony and $650 for the Palos Verdes home. he holds the world land speed record of 600 mph.
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Craig Breedlove
Carolyn Lordes
Los Angeles
Lee Ann Breedlove
Superior Court
Breedlove
Nevada
Miss Lordes
John Leslie Goddard
Breedloves
Alread
California
Palos Verdes Peninsula
Lee Breedlove
Riverside
Calif
Tot Fatally Stabbed Mother Held in Park City
A 32-year-old Huntington Park woman, Lorna D Custer, was booked on suspicion of murder after her 5-year-old son Cameron Custer was stabbed to death in his bed. She fled to her stepfather Edgar Hearne's home nearby and confessed, prompting police to respond. The weapon was a paring knife used to stab the child in the chest.
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Huntington Park
Lorna D. Custer
Gifford St
Edgar Hearne
Cameron Custer
Ex-cop and girlfriend stand trial in insurance-murder case
A seven-man five-woman jury is sworn in Los Angeles for the murder-for-insurance trial of Kristina Cromwell and Paul Perveler. Prosecutors allege they plotted the deaths of Cromwell's husband and Perveler's second wife to collect policies totaling 85 000 dollars.
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Downey
Los Angeles
Bugliosi
Perveler
Cromwell
Torrance
Lela
Meter-Box Murderer Given Life Sentence
Horace Odell Bell, a 49 year old Bell Gardens handyman, was sentenced to life in prison for abducting 6 year old Edward Gleason and forcing him into an electric meter box near the Long Beach Freeway. The boy died from asphyxiation and heat prostration. box temperature exceeded 100 degrees. The body was found July 13 after 23 days missing. Judge Woodmanse called the crime heinous and repulsive.
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Bell Gardens
Horace Odell Bell
Edward Gleason
Long Beach
Los Angeles
Charles H. Woodmansee
Bell
Jury Still Pondering Friars Case
A jury of 10 women and two men deliberates in the Friars Club conspiracy trial in Los Angeles. Prosecutors allege five men used signaling devices and peep holes to cheat members and guests out of more than 400000 dollars through rigged card games at the Beverly Hills club.
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Los Angeles
UPI
Friars Club
William P. Gray
Beverly Hills
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