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Newspaper
Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1977
Page
27
Two health minded residents turned a sunny Wednesday into a casual workout on Bluff Park paths. A woman dashed across the park while a man paused for tummy trimming situps as the afternoon reached the high sixties guided by favorable weather.
The readable text lists scattered terms including places, groups, and possible names with dates and venues. It references seafaring or coastal terms, air or weather hints, and various identifiers, suggesting a damaged historical page with partial event and person mentions.
A fragmented report notes smog and ozone concerns across areas including LODaP Sah and the Inland region with hourly air quality readings around 28 20.50 for an hour and sporadic advisories. Mentions of coastal, Mead Anwares, and Gari econ areas imply varying warning levels tied to sulfur dioxide and related pollutants.
A Sacramento report outlines state agency moves to tighten local control over well permits and transfer duties. It notes rules for sealing abandoned wells, extending bond requirements, and ensuring wells produce for six months before ending obligations. The memo references the Department of Teal Sh and Department of Tests and calls for stricter enforcement.
Oxnard City Councilwoman Janet Tolmach warned that an LNG explosion could kill thousands and urged excluding Oxnard from site considerations. Pacific Lighting Corp. pressed for Oxnard Los Angeles Harbor and Pt. Conception as possible LNG terminal sites, while lawmakers weigh siting bills and PUC control.
The piece highlights Josefa Heifetz Byrne and her self edited dictionary of unusual and obscure words. It cites examples from osmosis to dharnas and omphaloskepsis, noting the work includes terms dating back to 1620 and warns against looking them up in standard dictionaries.
Park rangers sought Wednesday to recover the body of a young man who was swept away by a mud slide after a cloud burst near Mirror Lake. His companion, a woman in her 20s, had drowned Tuesday. her body was found. Two other men were swept downstream but one reached safety. Both victims remained unidentified.
A Los Angeles County fraud investigator testified at a State Senate hearing that fire insurance crime is up about 25 percent from last year. Richard Pachman of the district attorney’s major fraud division said many arson fires are not labeled as such and urged stiffer penalties, noting arson costs California consumers between 50 million and 100 million dollars annually.
Four officers were put on routine administrative leave after firing 38 shots at two robbery suspects in Riverside. One suspect died, the other wounded but not shot back. The driver was later detained for armed robbery and Carmen Parrelht, 04, was beaten but in good condition. Officers Mike Cook, Mark Gillmore, George Lanterman and Nan Gann were off work to allow review and recovery.
The Los Angeles school district reports 8 300 more requests for a voluntary fall busing program. Dan Isaacs, coordinator of the Permits With Transportation program, says the district aims to double the current 5 million participants, with about 9 560 expected to remain in the program. Many new applicants are San Fernando Valley parents volunteering for their children to attend predominantly minority schools.
Two armed men robbed three Tastee Freeze clerks at the Nevaitan Gardens stand on Carson Street after 10:45 pm. They forced workers to the floor and fled with 345 dollars from the cash drawer, deputies reported. A clerk, Brian Seedberg, described the scene and said the suspects escaped. Another resident reported burglars entered a garage nearby and stole tools valued at 3a.
Lakewood deputies search for a green thumb thief who took three potted plants from two Cerritos porches valued about seventy dollars. A separate Mobil Oil station burglary nets eighty six dollar cash box. Tang Beach police report distraction by a customer. Long Beach police log antiques, TV and equipment as a total loss of about one thousand four hundred thirty five dollars from Roland Manning home.
Click Avenue residents in Lakewood prevail to keep the street’s residential character. City Council unanimously abandons widening South to Ashworth, follows Community Safety Committee advice to resurface the road and bypass county plans for left turn pockets. A speed survey will be ordered after residents urged lower speeds to reduce accidents. County official Morhar had urged reconstruction to 64 feet and wider lanes.
A one year old girl died after attempting to rescue two boys who touched a chain link fence electrified by a fallen ornamental light. The two boys suffered burns but survived. police said the pool area lost power as bystanders cut the electricity.
The court names US District Judge Robert Van Pelt as special master to resolve California Nevada border claims around Lake Tahoe. He will supervise hearings, witness testimony, and evidence, with findings and recommendations to follow. The dispute centers on 3000 feet eastward shift of the boundary affecting casinos and hotels currently in Nevada.
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