Ninety Nine Escapes L A Jetliner Fire After Gear Collapse
Sixty six aboard a Trans World Airlines jet from New York to Los Angeles escaped as emergency chutes deployed when the nose gear failed on landing at L A X causing a fiery crash. Eight injured include a 2 year old boy from Bellflower and a Rialto woman. Damages listed at four million with the craft valued at twelve million dollars. Witnesses described passengers rushing from wings as flames engulfed the cabin.
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Associated Press
Trans World Airlines
Los Angeles International
TWA
Bob McKay
New York
Bellflower
Anthony Brust
Cedar St
Apt. 8
Daniel Freeman Hospital
Inglewood
Elnora Quade
Rialto
Calif
Italy
Wallace Grebe
Pasadena
Iran
Judge ponders grand jury quiz on erased tapes
US district Judge John J. Sirica plans to decide if a grand jury should be asked to consider the Watergate tape case. The judge spoke after Secret Service agent Louis Sims contradicted Mary Woods about the 18 minute gap and delivery of a tape recorder. Woods testified she used the machine briefly before accidentally triggering a button.
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Washington
Histrict
John J. Sirica
Sirica
Secret Service
Stose Mary Woods
Nixon
Louis B. Sims
Technical Security Division
The
Miss Woors
Sims
Stephen Bull
Miss Woods
Bull
White House
Siricen
Charles 8. Rhyne
Action Line helps resolve problems and rights requests
The notice describes an ACTION LINE service in Long Beach California offering help to solve problems and obtain action. It invites readers to write to Box 230, Long Beach, CA 9081 or call 432 between 9 am and 9 pm, Monday through Friday. It asks readers not to send original documents.
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Action
Long Beach
Calif
Dial
Picast
Frost Free vs Manual Defrost Refrigerators Debate
A reader asks about frost free versus manual defrost fridges for a new home. Frost free models reduce maintenance but use more energy and may affect food quality due to periodic warming cycles. The tradeoff is labor savings versus energy use and potential texture changes.
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Mr. L.C
Long Beach
Senator warns Polaris sub misfire could spark nuclear risk
A senator states Polaris submarines signaling error incorrectly claimed sunk by enemy action raising the threat of nuclear conflict. Details appear on page A-5 with related notes in Classified and other sections including editorials and obituaries.
California Senate Victory Gives Democrats Big Lead
UPH-Rohen Ayala upset Republican Assemblyman Jerry Lewis to win the 20th District Senate seat. Ayala’s 54 percent victory secures a 21 9 to 19 Democratic majority, marking the party’s strongest control since 1972 and making Ayala one of the first Mexican American state senators in years.
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Ban Bernarding
UPH
Rohen Ayala
Democratic Party
Jerry Lewis
Ayala
Senate
Vic
California Supreme Court Extends Tenant Habitability Duty
In a unanimous ruling the California Supreme Court abandons the old common law rule that landlords owe no repair duty and holds landlords must keep rentals safe and habitable. The decision supports tenants who withhold rent for failure to make repairs after a history of code violations and unsafe conditions in a San Francisco apartment.
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San
Mathew Tobriuer
San Francisco
Jack Sumski
Roger Green
Green
Sumski
Hire-kill case suspect recalls meeting tycoon wife
Daniel Ayers, 37, in county jail, describes his first meeting with Eloise Popeil, 48, wife of Chicago multimillionaire Samuel Popeil. He denies cohabitation and says he is being set up while prosecutors file a Municipal Court conspiracy charge against Popeil and Ayers. The complaint cites 10 overt acts in a murder conspiracy linked to Popeil, a $200 million gadget maker. The alleged contract on Popeil allegedly called for $25,000 down.
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Daniel Ayers
Long Beach
Eloise Popell
Chicago
Samuel J. Popeil
Popeil
Direct electronic deposits to replace government checks
Washington officials speed up a plan to pay 3.5 million Supplemental Security Income recipients by direct deposit in March with a goal to expand to 25 million Social Security recipients and veterans and civil service retirees within two years. The program aims to end paper checks, reduce check-cashing issues, and shift to electronic funds transfer across federal payments while keeping options for mailed checks.
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Washington
Treasury Department
Treasury
David Mosso
The
Sidney Cox
Mosso
Cox
California
New York City
Social Security Administration
John F. Richardson
San Frantisco
U S family slain on trip in Mexico
Sheriff Donald Jennings of Shohamish County Washington and his wife and mother-in-law were shot to death in a mobile home while camping in the Sierra Madre mountains west of Mazatlan Sinaloa State Mexico. Slayings believed caused by robbery. Bodies sent to Mazatlan funeral home.
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Mazatlan
Mexico
Donald Jennings
Shohamish County
Wash
Sinaloa State
Jennings
Everett
Jean
Thomas Healy
Concordia
Sinaloa
Sata Lucia
Sierrra Madre
Durango
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