Transit funding defeated in House vote shock to transit supporters
The House rejected a proposal to divert 700 million dollars from the highway trust fund to mass transit in a 215 to 1% vote. The decision leaves final fate to a House Senate Conference Committee as the Senate earlier approved a highway bill allowing up to 850 million dollars per year in diversion.
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Washington
House
Senate
John Bilatnik
D-Minn
House Public Works Committee
Rep
Gerald Ford
Rmich
White House
Dairy Aide Shot During $50 Holdup at Local Dairy
A Carson dairy clerk and another worker faced a holdup at Lockman Dairy on Avalon Boulevard. Two men entered took $50 from the register and shot 26 year old Thomas Whitley in the chest before fleeing. Whitley was hospitalized at Harbor General in serious condition.
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Carson
Lockman
Avalon Blvd
Tirestone
Thomas Whitley
Torrance
Jeff Moulton
Moulton
Whitley
Harbor General Hospital
Kidnap Ordeal Ends With Escape From Laguna Beach
A 22-year-old Long Beach woman said she was kidnapped at Paramount Boulevard and Candlewood Street, forced to drive to Laguna Beach where she escaped after a frightened bystander tried to help. The suspect fled in her 1970 yellow Volkswagen with license 753-BBE. Police describe the white male kidnapper as about 22, 5 feet 8, 140 pounds, with long sideburns and brown hair, wearing a blue shirt and gray pants. The abduction occurred about 8 am after she dropped off her child at Parwood Preschool.
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Long Beach
Laguna Beach
Parwood
Paramount Boulevard
Candlewood Street
Los Angeles Man Bitten by Six Foot Rattler
Ed Gill, a 67 year old former boxer known for defanging snakes, was bitten while demonstrating a rattlesnake from Oklahoma during a hunt. He collapsed after attempting to suck venom, and remained in critical condition at an Arcadia hospital famed for bite treatment.
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Los Angeles
Ed Gill
Arcadia
Gil
Roger Morehart
Gill
Not ready to quit job even at 80
Kathryn A Rooney of Portland Oregon said she was not ready to retire after her Union Pacific Railroad clerk post was abolished. Roone y, who had held the job for 54 years, died recently and left a note about her service.
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Portland
Gre
UPI
Kathryn A. Rooney
Union Pacific Railroad
Miss Rooney
Gunman slain holding 4 hostage in lovers row
Sheriff deputies killed 28 year old Jim McManus after he held four hostages at gunpoint in a Sacramento area home. The four, including his former girlfriend Gary Tsukuda, and Mr and Mrs Alvin Gillette and their 2 year old, escaped unharmed as negotiators failed to coax McManus out before he fired and was shot.
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Carmicael
UPI
Aunpoint
Jim McManus
Gary Tsukuda
Alvin Gillette
Gillettes
Sacramento
Gillette
McManus
Ing
Miss Tsukuda
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