County approves private academy land giveaway in Los Angeles
The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted 3 to 2 to back contracts enabling a private foundation to build the Academy of Performing Arts on county land near the Music Center. The plan includes a funded underground garage and a $4.8 million revenue bond with annual costs around $336,000, plus possible subsidies. Grand Jury foreman Lenes E McKee criticized the move as nonessential. Lesley Ann Warren and Jon Peters announce the birth of son Christopher at Cedars of Lebanon Hospital.
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Board of Supervisors
Academy of Performing Arts
Long Beach
Music
Howard A. Jarvis
United Organizations
Jarvis
Lenes E. McKee
Grand Jury
McKee
Los Angeles County
Frank G. Bonelli
John D. Maharg
Burton W. Chace
Bonelli
Hollywood
Lesley Ann Warren
Jon Peters
Christopher
Cedars of Lebanon Hospital
Reagan blasts L A County Board grape boycott stance
Governor Ronald Reagan denounced the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors for endorsing a grape boycott as silly and ridiculous. The 3-2 vote along party lines urged citizens to refrain from buying grapes while not halting all grape purchases.
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Ronald Reagan
Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors
California
Reagan
Kenneth Hahn
Abandoned Girl Traced To Flight at Orange County Airport
Corrinne Ann Esaw, a 7 year old girl, was found wandering the Orange County Airport after a note requested she be sent to her grandmother in Escanaba Michigan. A security guard spotted her, she had two suitcases and 45 cents, and officers brought her to the Albert Sitton Home for dependent children.
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Orange County
Michigan
Corrinne Ann Esaw
Corrinne
8Th Avenue South
Escanaba
Mich
Sheriff
Robert Griffeth
Margaret Woodard
Sheriff's Juvenile
Albert Sitton
Watson challenges Governor Reagan to debate property tax measures
County Assessor Philip E. Watson urged Gov Ronald Reagan to appear in an open statewide debate on the ballot propositions for property tax relief. Watson sponsored Proposition No 9 proposing a 1 percent limit on property tax after Reagan signed the Miller Constitutional Amendment Proposition 1A.
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L.A. Bureau
Philip E. Watson
Ronald Reagan
Watson
Reagan
Nursing home hit by earthmover outside Los Angeles
A 40 ton earthmover crashed through the Foothill Nursing Home wall in San Fernando after careening down an embankment on a freeway project. The operator, Edward Carter, 47, died. Five others were injured, including a 94-year-old woman in critical condition.
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San Fernando
UPI
Foothill
Edward Carter
Los Angeles
Pacoima Lutheran Hospital
SLAIN BOY S PARENTS SUE OFFICER L A
Jeff and Josephine Leonard sue the city of Los Angeles and Officer Larry Fultz for 1 million dollars over the March 9 shooting death of 19 year old William A. Leonard on West Imperial Highway. The suit says Fultz was negligent and reckless after a revolver he held discharged when Leonard appeared at a back bedroom window while police were called to a neighborhood disturbance.
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Los Angeles
Jeff
Josephine Leonard
William A. Leonard
Larry Fultz
West Imperial Highway
Leonard
Fultz
Woman Drowns in Pico Rivera Pool
A 54 year old Pico Rivera woman Aldona Lambert slipped and fell into the family pool Tuesday and was drowned. The body at 4:30 p.m. was found by her mother Virginia Stanley. Investigators say the victim was a nonswimmer.
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Pico Rivera
Sheriff's
Aldona Lambert
Hasty Ave
Virginia Stanley
County Supervisors Back Federal LSD Penalty Bill
County supervisors endorsed a federal bill to stiffen penalties for LSD and other dangerous drugs. Supervisor Ernest E. Debs said the measure would aid police by placing such drugs on a par with narcotics and noted it includes a one year probation for first offenders and possible erasure of the conviction after probation.
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Ernest E. Debs
Debs
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Sue Officer
Welch’s
Welch's
Atlantic Ave
Esoterica
Mitchum
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Lakewood
Mitchum Beauty Products
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