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Newspaper
Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Jul 08, 1974
Page
1
Nashville Democratic gubernatorial hopeful Johnnie Elkins reported total campaign contributions of 99.50 with 82 donations averaging about 3 each. Elkins, who campaigns on the job, donated 25 of the funds amid a crowded Aug. 1 primary.
Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr. a scion of railroad tycoons and longtime journalist, died at 76. A former foreign correspondent and publisher, he interviewed Stalin and Mussolini and covered the Reichstag fire. He lived in Miami since 1969.
Martine Bianchi a 21 year old Paris secretary rode from Kennedy Airport to Manhattan paying 52 for a 10 fare. Queens owner drivers gathered to compensate gifting her a 52 check and arranging a free air conditioned tour to landmark sites guided by Edward Duthu. Bianchi praised New Yorkers as wonderful and dreamlike.
A 28 year old Long Beach man, Lawrence Williams of 3038 W Thompson St, was shot in the right knee during a late Sunday encounter with two Black male bandits in North Long Beach. Williams and a friend were in a car in front of 287 Cummings Lane when the robbers demanded $40. Williams punched one attacker, the other produced a pistol and fired, Williams was treated for a flesh wound at Dominguez Valley Hospital.
US Forest Service reports an 1.8 acre Pinyon Pine and brush fire near Walker will be contained by early Tuesday. About 967 firefighters expected as winds up to 40 mph push cover while thunderstorms threaten. Six mobile homes and three permanent structures burned, one firefighter injured. Residents evacuated, fire started by an uncontrolled campfire on Sunday near Toiyabe National Forest.
City crews manned garbage trucks sewers and water plants in Fresno ending the city’s first municipal strike. Blue collar workers had walked out a week earlier over contract talks and ratified a weekend bargain that provided raises of at least 10.7 percent across all categories with some categories reaching higher. Vernon Neuman, president of AFSCME Local 2051, said the pact was hammered out after nearly 25 hours of marathon bargaining sessions.
Typhoon Gilda struck Japan causing 75 deaths and extensive damage across western and eastern regions. Police reported 23 people missing or injured as landslides and floods overwhelmed communities in Hokkaido and beyond.
A panel of prospective jurors was qualified today in the murder trial of Elmer Wayne Henley. Defense lawyers immediately challenged the panel, requesting a mistrial, but District Court Judge Preston Dial overruled the motion and set one hour for lawyers to pick the jury.
Seated, 32 jurors out of 32 were challenged as testimony to begin this afternoon. Defense lawyer Will Gray complained members of the panel discussed the case with awaiting jurors, seeking sequestration which was denied. Henley faces six of 27 killings tied to a homosexual rape torture ring. motions to quash indictments and move the trial were overruled.
Final figures show 545 traffic deaths over the four day Fourth of July period with California leading at 67 deaths. The traffic council cited the 55 mph speed limit and energy crisis factors as reducing toll from previous years. Local Los Angeles County fatalities included a Wilmington woman killed in Lomita after being struck near Cayuga Avenue. a 44 year old Torrance driver was not cited.
A moderately strong quake rattled the Tokyo area causing street lamps to wobble and buildings to sway. It registered a level four on the Japanese scale. The epicenter was near Ibaraki prefecture, northeast of Tokyo, in the Pacific Ocean.
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