12 Jan 1968
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Newspaper
Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Jan 12, 1968
Page
1
Patricia Kennedy, a mother of six in New York, faced 150 unpaid tickets totaling 2510 dollars in criminal court. Her lawyer said the family moved to a new apartment with a garage, and the judge warned of leniency as Kennedy begins payment next month.
The 1968 Los Angeles County Grand Jury will be led by Cong Beach resident Lewes E.F. McKee, 65, as jury foreman, with William Woeklin, 69, of Myrtle Avenue, as the other Long Beach member. The group includes 18 members and 4 women, named from Beverly Hills to Van Nuys, Pasadena, Glendale, and Los Angeles, serving under Superior Court Judges Wright and Schauer.
Four Senate committees plan hearings next month on rising physician fees and hospital charges, the main inflationary factor in the economy. Labor data show hospital costs doubled in ten years and doctor fees up about 40 percent. hearings will examine fee abuses and Medicare-related overcharges affecting millions.
Horace Bell, 48, former neighbor of a murdered Bell Gardens child, was charged in San Antonio Municipal Court with the killing. He had been arrested in Wichita Falls, Texas, on probation violation and previously faced a child molestation arrest in 1965. The body of 6 year old E Gleason was found crammed in an electrical meter box near the Long Beach Freeway.
A Los Angeles County Grand Jury report faults county services and 88 advisory committees while praising Long Beach’s honor farm. The 50 page forecast cites a $3 million subsidy for the Music Center and urges audits, with criticisms of inventory losses at Barbor General Hospital and overcrowding at sheriff stations. It also notes tax costs, license fee losses, and welfare program concerns, and highlights regional Civil Service training centers in ten U.S. cities.
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