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Newspaper
Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Jul 16, 1973
Page
3
A freight train derailed after a washed out roadbed left tracks suspended above a stream. Five crewmen were killed when the six mile from the nearest road section in Jefferson County near Birmingham collapsed following weekend rains. Recovery of bodies took about 12 hours.
In New York a spokesman for striking workers in AT and T long lines division claims weekend long distance service was affected by the walkout. A company spokesman denies any disruption. Local 1150 of the Communications Workers of America walked off Friday protesting AT and T's new work schedule.
In Greenwood Kansas City suburb area a 50 ton dynamite explosion Sunday afternoon damaged dozens of homes and created two 40 foot deep craters. Police found two licenses and body fragments near the site but positive identification of victims remains uncertain. The two youths Gary A. Henke 19 and David G. Stower 18 of Baytown were named on licenses found. both were reportedly planning target shooting, driving a brown Plymouth when the blast occurred near two adjacent magazines two miles south of Greenwood.
Harbor division detectives said two men, Terry K. Ruddock and Henry Ornelas, face murder complaints after an undercover narcotics buy ended in the fatal shooting of 24 year old Richard J. Mendoza in a San Pedro garage. Officer Darrel Gath, who was to buy narcotics with $1,400, was robbed during the exchange.
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