25 Jan 1973
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Newspaper
Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Jan 25, 1973
Page
1
Two McAlester inmates wives told the Oklahoma House Penal Affairs Committee that a two hour per month visiting limit harms family ties and heightens crime risk. They urged warmer, more humane visiting facilities to keep families connected.
In Los Angeles Superior Court the singer Lou Rawls 59 agreed to pay 4500 a month for wife Lana Jean 40 and two children Lou Jr 8 and Lou Anna 4 with 3500 to wife and 500 each to children. The couple wed February 12 1962 separated January 18 1972.
Emory University professor Edward Y. Ladd, 52, member of the National Advisory Council of the ACLU, died after a large tree limb fell on his bicycle on the Avanta campus. He suffered head injuries and died in hospital several hours after the Wednesday accident.
Alexandria attorney Joe Wiggs and his son were awarded 25000 by a federal court jury in Miami Beach after a waitress called Wiggs a black son of a biter and his family unworthy. The Twelve Caesars Motel was found guilty of gross insult during a restaurant visit.
About 1,700 Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers union members struck Shell Oil Co on the West Coast including 475 at Wilmington-Dominguez and 350-400 at Anacortes. Company seeks to keep plants running with supervisors as mediators are contacted after talks over health and safety stalled.
Three Hai tian kidnappers who freed 120 political prisoners and received $70,000 in ransom from the Haitian government have sought asylum requests in Mexico City. They released U S diplomats Knox and Christensen at the air port steps after holding them at gunpoint overnight.
A Bellflower boy of about six years old remained in critical condition at Long Beach Memorial Hospital after his car was rear ended by a pickup truck while turning into his home driveway Wednesday night. Deputies say Kenneth Gene Murphy of Bellflower drove the truck east on Compton Boulevard and struck the vehicle, pushing it more than 100 feet and onto its side.
Aristotle Onassis told doctors to let his son die after Alexandros Onassis 24 died from injuries in an amphibious plane crash near Athens. Surgeons said recovery was hopeless but could prolong life three or four days. Onassis insisted there was no mercy killing.
About 3,500 gallons of heated crude escaped from a Richfield Oil Co. pipeline behind 4237 Deebagar Ave in Lakewood. Deputies and firefighters halted gas to five homes as cleanup crews used vacuums, broams and sand to remove oil from gutters along a full block. The leak originated in a field near Union Pacific tracks and affected nearby properties.
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