Notable cases and incidents across the nation
A roundup of legal and violent events includes the Ramon Navarro murder penalty deliberations in Los Angeles where a brother faces death or life in prison. a Chicago printing press explosion injuring several workers. Seattle protests at the airport delaying flights. Tokyo China disease rumors about Mao Tse tung. Smothers Brothers sue CBS for 31 million. Oakland Black Panther Warren Wells found guilty in a 1968 shootout. Redwood City duel plea by Douglas Pirtle with sentencing set on Oct 9.
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Los Angeles
UPI
Ramon Navarro
Smothers Brothers
Columbia Broadcasting System
CBS
Oakland
Warren Wells
Wells
Alame
Palo Alto
Pirtle
King
Sherry
Superior Court
Conrad Reisch
California panel probes 1200 AFDC fraud cases
A five member board appointed by Governor Reagan begins review of 1200 AFDC cases to gauge unauthorized receipts of state and federal funds. The panel, drawn from the Social Welfare Department and district attorneys, aims to report by December 1 on the extent of abuse in the AFDC program.
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Sacramento
UPI
Ronald Reagan
John Price
State Social Welfare Department
AFDC
Reagan
State Social Welfare Board
Final victim found in 1967 plane crash on Bully Choop Mountain
Two deer hunters uncovered bones and clothing near the wreckage of a light plane that crashed March 11 1967 on Bully Choop Mountain. The remains include Alvin F. Oien and his wife Phyllis and daughter Carla Corbus with a diary detailing a 54 day survival ordeal in snow.
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Redding
UPI
Alvin F. Oien
Bully Choop Mountain
Oien
Phyllis
Carla Corbus
Portland
Ore
Clifford
Carla
Civil Air Patrol
Alvin Jr
Delta Air Lines
Forgotten American dies after beating in Fort Worth
Dykes A. Simmons Jr known as the forgotten American who escaped a Mexican prison dressed as a woman was found beaten to death in Fort Worth. After spending 10 years in Monterrey prison for a physician’s family murder, he fled in April with visiting inmates and later crossed the Rio Grande. Police said he was beaten in one part of town and driven to another nine miles away.
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Fort Worth
Tex
UPI
Dykes A. Simmons Jr
Simmons
Monterry
Mexico
Monterey
United States
Rio Grande
Food stamps approved for the poorest of the poor
In a 54 to 40 Senate vote, Hollings and McGovern led a coalition to make food stamps free for families earning 60 dollars a month or less. The measure also ends the 50 cent minimum daily stamp and allows use for nonfood items like soap and toothpaste, drawing critique as expanding welfare.
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Washington
UPI
Ernest F. Hollings
Senate
South Carolina
Hollings-McGovern
McGovern
George Aiken
R-Vt
Warren court approves showing of Swedish film to jury
Sacramento judge Earl Warren Jr approved a private preview of I am Curious Yellowy for a trial jury, allowing the Swedish film while deeming the male homosexual movie Un Chant D Amour as pure filth. The defense staged the exclusive preview to reflect community morality standards in public entertainment.
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Sacramento
UPI
Earl Warren Jr
Warren
U.S
Atty
Kenneth Hake
Reagan denies racism in UCLA firing of Angela Davis
Reagan and the UC Board of Regents deny racial motivation in the dismissal of Angela Davis from UCLA. They say the firing stems from her admitted Communist Party membership, violating university rules, per a Sept. 19 Regents resolution released for accuracy.
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Los Angeles
UPI
Ronald Reagan
University of California Board of Regents
UCLA
Communist Party
Angela Davis
Reagan
Miss Davis
Board of Regents
Change of routine costs three women their lives
Three women and a bank teller were murdered in a Delhi Hills savings office robbery. Investigators say the trio altered routines to shop instead of bank, prompting a deadly heist that netted $275. Police detained Raymond Kassow with two more suspects sought. Witnesses described a brutal, cold blooded crime.
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Cincinnati
UPI
Joseph Huebner
Henrietta Stitzel
Luella Stitzel
Walter DeWald
Cabinet Supreme Savings and Loan Association
Delhi Hills
Raymond Kassow
Kassow
Stitzels
John Leigh
Waterson Johnson
McAlpins Department Store
Huebner
Nicholas
Henrietta
Jerome Grueter
Savings and Loan
St. Francis Hospital
Grueter
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International Press Institute
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