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Newspaper
Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Mar 24, 1972
Page
2
Rep Wayne Hays of Ohio announces a campaign to exterminate roaches in the Longworth cafeteria. He seeks funds to relocate carryout, wall openings, and place a bakery in a evacuated area to block access from loading docks, aiming to force roaches to be stepped on before entering dining areas.
Deborah Deliere, a 15 year old Palmetto Senior High student with long blonde hair, died after a pickup mirrors knocked her off a bicycle and a car ran over her in Miami. Rod Overholt, 17, said he found her in the street crying. The driver, Robert James Bird, left the scene but stopped to help.
A 19-year-old Compton area man, Gary Atwell Thomas, was shot in the shoulder as he fled Lynwood police after a liquor store robbery at Charley’s Liquor Store. The incident occurred at 12:30 a.m. when he and another youth robbed the clerk of $100. Police, who pursued the getaway car, arrested three youths. Thomas was treated at St. Francis Hospital and later moved to USC County Medical Center. Also noted, Thomas Burns, 67, former Chicago Tribune editor, died in Boynton Beach Florida.
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