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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Sep 16, 1968
Page
3
Five trash can fires in an eight block Hollywood area caused more than $15,000 in damage. One man, Joseph Ruhome, 65, was rescued from a rooming house, overcome by smoke. Police label the incidents as the work of a pyromaniac.
A blaze at St. Mary's Catholic Church in Fullerton damaged about 80 percent of the main sanctuary and caused over 150000 dollars in damage. Five pumper units and a ladder truck responded, with Battalion Chief William Houser noting a faulty floor furnace as a suspected cause. Fire Chief Lloyd Eckels led 45 firefighters to control the flames by 6 37 a.m. One firefighter, Michael Parker, was injured from falling glass and required stitches. A pumper crew remained on duty at 6 p.m. to watch for embers.
Anaheim man Rick Paul Scharlow 21 was shot during a party dispute at 311 E Clifton Ave. Juergen Stengel 35 fired a 12 gauge slug through a door wounding Scharlow in the chest and left hand. Stengel surrendered to police.
Burglars forced open a bedroom window at Claude Fitch's residence 6843 Delta Ave using a pry tool and took a television valued at 520 dollars, police reported Sunday.
Dennis Clark aged 17 of 1831 S Walker Ave San Pedro was killed when the small car he drove roared into a palm tree and crashed through a fence into a private yard. Passenger Susan M Clark remained in critical condition at Harbor General Hospital.
Los Angeles Mayor Sam Yorty urged relaxing media restrictions in the Sirhan case. District Attorney Evelle Younger sought California Supreme Court relief to lift the ban. Yorty defended releasing diary contents earlier, saying he shared only facts to curb rumors and violence. Superior Court Judge Arthur Alarcon ordered no out of court statements.
Thousands sought entry into 740 six month reserve slots in the 111th Support Brigade as Maj. Stephen Urette described the scene as a madhouse. About 3,000 were processed after long waits and bivouac outside the brigade armory, with 16 weeks of basic training and 2 months of specialist instruction planned for the final 740 sworn-in unit next Sunday.
A Sunday two car crash in Redondo Beach killed a woman and injured four others. Betty Cole 24 of Hawthorne was ejected from her car driven by Arvilla Larson 30 of Lawndale. Jannell Hanson 29 and Barbara Carvey 22 were treated at South Bay Hospital. Larson's car failed a stop sign and was hit by James Wade 53 of El Segundo whose passenger James Erickson 28 was also treated for cuts.
Harold Lee Chandler, 40, of Portland Tennessee, was shot in the chest in a crowd of more than 120 magazine salesmen in the lobby of the Mayfair Hotel in downtown Los Angeles. Several bullets hit the walls. no arrest was made and no motive could be determined.
Grangeville Idaho man Charles P. Walrath was found near his wrecked plane on Burney Mountain after it struck the northeast slope on a Burns Oregon to Chico California flight. He was rescued and in satisfactory condition at a Redding hospital with facial fractures a broken arm and multiple injuries.
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