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Newspaper
Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Feb 21, 1974
Page
7
Coast Guard reports the 510th known death by self act from the Golden Gate Bridge. An elderly man leaped from the span Wednesday and was recovered by a Coast Guard ship.
In Long Beach Superior Court the murder case of ten Los Angeles youths was explored as testimony detailed that a quest for revenge over a humiliation led to gunfire that killed 7 month old Tasha Lucas and wounded Portia Howard. Rosalind Green testified about gang activity near a fast food restaurant two blocks from Poly High, and about contradictions in her account.
Occidental Petroleum Corp in Los Angeles said its 1973 fourth quarter earnings rose 152 percent from 1872 with 35 cent per share. Q4 sales hit a record 1.07 billion while the year ended December 31 1973 earnings totaled 79.74 million and sales reached 3.44 billion. Improved international marketing refining and transportation, higher European prices, and gains from Island Creek Coal and Hooker Chemical subsidiaries drove the rise.
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