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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Oct 19, 1968
Page
3
S B Nelson, former head of Los Angeles City Water and Power, was selected as general manager of the Southern California Rapid Transit District for 45 000 a year. He will take the post on November 11 after a closed session.
Nearly 200 members of the Industrial Union of Marine and Shipbuilding Unions Local 9 walked off at six harbor boat works including Port Welding on Friday. A picket line formed around Port Welding with plans to picket Pier 50 in Long Beach for a lifeboat delivery aboard the Washington Bear. Police maintained order as federal mediators sought a settlement after management withdrew offers the previous day. Local 9’s contract expired July 28. other struck firms include Wilmington Welding and Dockside Machine Co.
The jury selection started Friday in a civil suit over jet noise and fumes from Santa Monica Airport. Ten homeowners’ representatives, from 37 residents, seek 5 000 each for personal injuries with property losses up to 5 000. Dozens of similar suits are pending against LA International and other fields.
Hope faded Friday for the survival of Capt Koshe Shimoyama a 37 year old Japanese pilot after his single engine Beechcraft Debonair went down about 800 miles west of San Francisco during a flight to Tokyo from Hawaii. Five circling planes and two ships failed to locate any trace of the aircraft or the man. Coast Guard officials said an earlier sighting report by a passing plane was incorrect.
The Assembly Elections and Reapportionment Committee will hold a Monday hearing in Los Angeles on the uses and abuses of public opinion polls. Chairman Jack R. Fenton said concerns over poll reliability and election impact motivate the session at 10 am in the State Building.
A 36-year-old man, John L. Jeffries, was arrested Friday on suspicion of murdering Laura Jean Krome a science fiction hopeful living at the Salvation Army Residence for Girls in Los Angeles. Krome from Cleveland Ohio had lived at Evangeline Hotel tunnel under Harbor Freeway since July and was found stabbed and assaulted.
Former Harbor Commissioner George D. Watson testified he felt he was taken in a stock deal with developer Keith Smith but kept silent about it while Smith had a $12 million project before the harbor commission. Watson admitted he did not tell anyone in the Harbor Department about being taken.
Darrrell D. Chavarria, 18, of Klamath Falls Oregon pleaded guilty in Salinas Superior Court to kidnapping a policeman. Judge Anthony Brazil set Nov for sentencing. Chavarria, an AWOL Ft. Bragg soldier, was captured Aug. 30 after forcibly taking officer John McCarter, disarming two MPs, and forcing a car chase ending with a crash. McCarter escaped and Chavarria later surrendered. He shot himself in the stomach during transport to a Fresno booking, in a failed suicide attempt.
The Defense Department announces Army Private First Class Juan C. Duran Jr. husband of Betty L. Duran of 3168 Carline St Apt J Lynwood was killed in action in Vietnam.
State Attorney General Thomas C. Lynch released a mid year study showing a 324 percent rise in juvenile arrests for dangerous drugs in California during the first half of 1968. Marijuana offenses still dominate juvenile drug arrests though.
California state senator Anthony Beilenson denounces funeral costs as a luxury tax on death and vows to reintroduce funeral reform legislation next year. Speaking at a California Federation of Funeral Societies meeting, he urges campaign action and outlines reforms including price lists disclosure, embalming notices, respect for the deceased wishes, and ash distribution within health rules.
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