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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Oct 23, 1969
Page
7
Robert Sterling Caneday, a 30 year old Folsom inmate, was sentenced to die in San Quentin for fatally stabbing Leonard Thompson, 45, in the prison athletic shed. Co defendant Beard received life imprisonment after a separate trial.
In Seattle Mrs. Douglas H. Macneil of Princeton New Jersey was installed Wednesday night as president of the Girl Scouts of the United States succeeding Mrs. Halton R. Price Jr of St. Louis.
Fontana W As Floyzer Ainsworth, 52, recovering from a bullet wound in a hospital, police searched in vain for his assailant. A nurse wheeled a new patient, Damond Thomas, 50, into Ainsworths room and Ainsworth identified him. A warrant was issued for Thomas arrest after he allegedly shot Ainsworth while interceding in a dispute between Thomas and a woman friend. Both men were reported recovering satisfactorily.
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