California to Allow Conjugal Visits at San Quentin
California inmates at San Quentin will gain conjugal visits with wives and children in private housing on prison grounds. The program, modeled after Tehachapi and expanded from Soledad, targets minimum-custody inmates and aims to widen eligibility to include parents and other family members.
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Quentin
San Quentin
California
James Park
Park
Tehachapi
Louis Nelson
Soledad
Corrections Department
Inmate Leads Way to Missing Girl's Grave
Indio California UPI reports a jail inmate directed detectives to a desert grave four miles north of Indio containing what is believed to be the remains of 1 year old Joyce Ramsey missing for 12 years. The inmate, Frank P. Kretz, 31, a convicted rapist, aided a search for a second grave near Hemet linked to the girl's boyfriend Jesse Work. Detectives seek a murder complaint against Kratz, who is serving time for a parole violation. The couple vanished February 6, 1959 after visiting a party.
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Indio
UPI
Frank P. Kretz
Here
Hemet
Krefz
Riverside County
Try the Magic of 4 Want Ad to Sell What You No Longer Need
Quick tip from a 1940s classified page urging readers to use the Want Ad service at HE 2-5959 to move unused items. The playful phrase invites easy, fast sales through the local newspaper classified column.
California to appoint first Negro and Japanese prison superintendents
Sacramento UPI The state Department of Corrections announced plans to appoint California s first Negro and Japanese prison superintendents. Bertram Griggs, a Black man, will head the California Institute for Men at China. Jiro Evomoto, deputy superintendent at Soledad and past president of the Japanese American Citizens League, will lead the California Correctional Institution at Tehachapi.
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UPI
State Department of Corrections
California
Bertram Griggs
California Institute For Men
China
Jiro J. Evomoto
Soledad
Snowmobile Registration Bill Aims Trail Only Use
Assemblyman Leo J. Ryan introduced a bill on Thursday to require registration of snowmobiles, wanni bikes and all-terrain vehicles and limit their operation to specially marked trails on state and county lands.
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Sacramento
UPI
Leo J. Ryan
D-Burlinfame
UC Tuition Boost for Nonresidents Approved?
Regents Finance Committee voted to raise nonresident tuition by 300 to 1500 dollars a year, pending full board approval at Los Angeles meeting. Current 1220 fee set in 1968. Regents Education Policy panel discussed student voting at departmental faculty meetings. ROTC programs at UCLA Berkeley Davis Santa Barbara to continue with minimal changes despite past protests. Santa Barbara ROTC building damaged by fire causing 540000 in damages.
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California
Charles J. Hitch
Board of Regents
Los Angeles
Regents
John Canady
Repcats
Keith Schiller
UCLA
Canady
Hitch
Reserve Officers Training Corps
Berkeley
Davis
Santa Barbara
U.S
Southeast Asia
Bear mistaken for burglar in San Francisco warehouse
Three patrol cars and two police dogs closed in on an intruder making rustling noises in a San Francisco warehouse early Thursday. Officers shined a flashlight on the source and found it was a three foot brown bear.
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San Francisco
Deputies Acquitted in 1969 People’s Park Shootings
A federal jury in San Francisco acquitted Alameda County deputy sheriffs Leonard Johnson and Lawrence Riche in the 1969 People’s Park riot case. The panel found them not guilty on civil rights charges after 11 hours of deliberations, ending the federal prosecutions of all 12 officers involved. The trials centered on the fatal shooting of James Rector and the wounding of Alan Blanchard in Berkeley.
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UPI
Alameda County
People's Park
Berkeley
U.S
Leonard Johnson
Lawrence Riche
Johnson
Dymally Proposes Prison Reform Unit
Sen Mervyn Dymally of Los Angeles proposes a 14 member prison reform commission to study improving California’s penal system. He emphasizes the body would address the full range of problems, not just incidents or individual institutions.
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Mervyn Dymally
Los Angeles
California
Dymally
Senate
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