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Newspaper
Lompoc Record
Location
Lompoc, California, United States of America
Date
Jan 30, 1975
Page
5
Police say a 40 year old man was found dead with his throat cut in East Hollywood. The murder matches the Skid Row slasher pattern, though location differs, with prior victims slain in cheap hotels or alleys around downtown Skid Row.
Robert Elmer Kleason, 42, worked in a taxidermy shop and is charged with murder in the October disappearances of Gary Smith Darley, 20, and Mark J. Fischer, 19. Police say he used band saws to dismember the victims and dumped remains in an animal parts storage bin behind the shop.
Two men from Los Angeles identified as Jewish Defense League members were booked on suspicion of arson after a fire near John Artukovic’s Sherman Oaks home. The case ties to Artukovic’s brother Andrija, a former Croatian minister accused of wartime atrocities.
C Jackson Grayson who headed Nixon era price controls told 3 000 delegates of the American National Cattleman Association that a return to such controls would be disastrous for the U S economy Inflation would continue and new pressure for controls would emerge by year end He warned that controls breed controls and called it a dangerous trend toward more government regulation
Three children under 16 held a market owner at gunpoint demanding cotton candy and hot chocolate. Marvin Heidt, 52, reported the youths stole $35 and fled after threatening to shoot. An 11-year-old girl was in custody as police pursued suspects.
A California Senate committee calls the Peripheral Canal plan premature and urges cautious steps. The 286 million project would move water from the Sacramento River through a 43 mile canal to the Clifton Court Forebay, with uncertain federal participation and unresolved Delta environmental protections.
California Attorney General Evelle J. Younger said at a news conference that 10 to 50 percent of the state's 22 000 prisoners are unrehabilitable. He warned rising prison violence hampers rehabilitation efforts, citing more than 2 500 incidents in six years and limited participation in therapy programs.
Three oil barges and a freighter collided on the Mississippi River near Chalmette Louisiana, igniting crude and forcing a Coast Guard traffic ban. The flames reached 30 feet as five barges were freed and towed away amid heavy fog with no injuries reported among crews. Witnesses described a spectacle of fire along the waterway while the tug Mamma Lee pushed the barges upstream before the collision with the American Wheat.
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