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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Apr 14, 1997
Page
2
A two year old girl named Priscilla Gutierrez was shot in the torso while sitting in a car with her parents during a gang battle in South Los Angeles. She died at a nearby hospital. The mother, Priscilla Zavala, 18, described the scene and said her boyfriend was wounded in the hand.
Thousands of United Farm Workers members and supporters gathered in Watsonville to press for higher pay and better conditions for California's 20 000 strawberry pickers as the union begins a new push to organize the industry. Arturo Rodriguez noted some longtime workers were not rehired this season after seeking essentials such as clean bathrooms water pay raises and health insurance.
Nobel Prize winner George Wald, awarded in 1967 for his work on the biochemistry of vision, died at age 90 at his Cambridge home after two years of declining health. Wald, born in Manhattan, studied at NYU and Columbia, helped discover vitamin A in the retina and retinal, foundational to the visual cycle.
Late Tuesday in Lawrence the Alferd Packer Memorial String Band will entertain tax filers at the main post office 645 Vt. Musicians Mason and four others join a 10 year tradition that lightens tax day while 3000 people are expected to use the midnight hours and mail their returns. The event features the Creek Bank Ghetto Boys at 10 p.m. and a jam session at 11:30 p.m.
The United States sees shrinking welfare rolls amid a strong economy and incentive driven reforms. Wisconsin leads with a 49 percent drop since 1993, followed by Oregon Indiana and Oklahoma. Alaska California DC show small increases. The new law shifts funding to a capped block grant and ties work participation to aid, but where former recipients go remains uncertain.
Mayo Clinic doctors tracked 950 women who had bilateral prophylactic mastectomies from 1960 to 1993. The surgery reduced breast cancer risk by 91 percent but is not foolproof due to residual breast tissue and possible undetected cancer elsewhere. Dr Lynn Hartmann led the study presented at the American Association for Cancer Research conference. Most women cited family history as the reason for surgery.
Clinton signed the crime bill in September 1994 but crime fell only modestly in 1995. Northeastern University expert Jack Levin noted aging population and stricter parenting as factors, while officials reported an overall 9.1 percent drop in property crimes and double digit declines in urban, suburban, and rural violent offenses.
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