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Newspaper
Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Apr 20, 1967
Page
9
Albany New York the state lottery changes payout to 240 prizes for every one million dollars in tickets sold monthly The schedule announced by state tax commissioner Joseph H Murphy marks the third revision since the plan was approved Winners will receive 1000 250 and 150 dollar prizes based on the new tiered drawings
William Kane a 20 year old inmate serving a one year Nassau County Jail term has appealed to Governor Rockefeller to commute his sentence and allow him to die at home with his wife and four children He is at Meadowlark Hospital near Valley Stream N Y where visiting has been limited Kane pleaded guilty to petty larceny in January before Judge Martin Kolbrener and received a suspended 1 4 to 1 5 year term for robbery The judge called Kane a persistent offender yet granted a light sentence due to his illness Kane said he would rather face 10 or 20 years than die in prison and asked for the dignity of dying with his family
A 13 year old Muskegon boy found a pot of gold by the Muskegon River on March 27 and kept the hoard after his father turned it over to the police. Under Michigan law the finder may retain lost articles if no owner is claimed within a year and a reasonable effort to locate the owner has been made.
Los Angeles County Supervisors approved a plan to install 2000 emergency telephones at quarter mile intervals along 280 miles of freeways. The project costs 862000 dollars with 200000 dollars annual maintenance. Eighty telephones on the Harbor Freeway downtown have operated since 1965 with new units planned for the Pasadena Freeway and Harbor extension before 1970.
Fidel Castro denounced the United States for deploying troops into Bolivia and other countries amid revolutionary activity. He claimed about 1,000 Green Beret forces were pouring into Bolivia from Panama and urged resistance, touting the need for armed struggle and critiquing Western Hemisphere summit plans for a Latin American Common Market.
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