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Newspaper
Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Jan 29, 1974
Page
1
Canterbury England H B Bates novelist playwright and short story writer dies in hospital at 68 His best known works include Fair Stood the Wind for France The Darling Buds of May and Triple Echo He began writing in 1926 after leaving a leather factory He leaves a wife two sons and two daughters
In Oxford Mississippi the Supreme Court Justice William O Douglas told reporters the petroleum industry profiteers during the fuel shortage and called the energy crisis largely self created. He charged a fuel monopoly worsens the situation.
A fuel protest in Ohio saw four trucks shot at and nine windshields smashed while six rigs had radiator hoses cut as independent drivers attempted to delay deliveries along the Pennsylvania border. Police reported vandalism at the Akron terminal and a related plant closure affecting 150 workers.
In Houston the state and defense agreed that Elmer Wayne Henley, 17, cannot receive a fair trial locally. Judge William Hatten announced an inevitable delay and denied a motion to dismiss the indictment amid publicity concerns. The court recessed until 9 am Wednesday as prosecutors urged moving the trial out of the area.
Los Angeles County Supervisor James Hayes was unanimously named chairman pro tem, triggering an automatic rise to chairman next year. The new rule rotates chair duties among supervisors by seniority, replacing the prior ad hoc selection process. Baxter Ward nominated Hayes, while Kenneth Kahn previously proposed the pro tem concept to avoid ongoing conflicts.
James A. Hunt, 23, son of a Lirewood deputy sheriff, was found shot dead in a Stop n Go market on Artesia Boulevard in Torrance around 4 to 4:30 a.m. Investigators say he was shot at close range in the head, with no sign of a struggle or binding, and about $40 missing from the cash register.
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