11 Feb 1972
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Newspaper
Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Feb 11, 1972
Page
1
Gospel figure Bly Graham met with inmates at Ohio Reformatory for Women and listened to a young woman’s brief sentence about deserving to be there. He plans a fall prison tour with Johnny Cash, urging patience amid imperfect justice.
Deborah Short, a 20 year old with facial scars, testified from her hospital bed how she delivered a special delivery package that exploded in a San Fernando parking lot killing her father Richard Short and maiming her. John Heel, a Cerritos dealer, was ordered held for murder and attempted murder in Los Angeles Superior Court.
An all white jury in Long Beach Municipal Court awarded the Johnson family ten thousand dollars for housing discrimination after a 10 day trial before Judge Frederick A. Kepka. The Johnsons sued under the Fair Housing Act claiming they were denied a rental because they were Black.
Eighty five Mexican nationals working illegally in Orange County construction were arrested over three days by Justice Department agents under the Organized Crime Strike Force led by U.S. Attorney William D. Keller. The Orange County operation, headed by postal inspector H. L. Almond, aims to deport those detained. The campaign followed complaints that Mexicans took jobs from Americans by underpay and longer hours.
A damaged newspaper fragment mentions a sale action and local officials but yields few readable details.
Naomi Stout, 43, held without bond on murder charges in the death of Essex County Judge Roger M. Yancey, 67, found dead in a Newark motel. Prosecutors say she had a prior conviction for stabbing Yancey in his court chambers in 1987.
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