Knight Gives Address Awards Made at Law Day Observance
Long Beach's legal community and civic leaders attended Law Day USA at the Lafayette Hotel where former Gov. Goodwin J. Knight spoke on the theme No man is above the law and no man is below it. Liberty Bell awards recognized four citizens for justice administration. 17 high school scholarships were awarded.
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Knight
Long Beach
Lafayette Hotel
Goodwin J. Knight
Administration of Justice
Superior Court
John McCarthy
Long Beach Bar Assn
Liberty Bell
Clark voices gun sale curbs and opposition to death penalty
United States Attorney General Ramsey Clark told reporters at the Ambassador Hotel he opposes capital punishment as a crime deterrent and urges tighter gun sales control. He argued that court rules on confessions are less impactful than gun access on crime and discussed Cassius Clay's army draft case, expecting a brief DOJ decision.
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Bob Schmidt
L.A
United States
Ramsey Clark
Cassius Clay
Clark
Ambassador Hotel
Los Angeles County
Clay
Justice Department
Venture Into Wet Space By NAA Underwater Workboat
North American Aviation reveals Beaver Mark IV, a 25 foot four man submarine workboat designed for dry transfer of workers to undersea stations as deep as 2000 feet. Built in Compton, it features two crew of two, 12 hour submerged endurance, 2.5 knot cruise, top speed 5 knots, three propellers, manipulators, tool chest, TV and still cameras with ten view ports. Used for research, undersea construction, salvage, and rescue, the vehicle weighs 27000 pounds and measures 25 by 9.5 feet with air liftability in cargo planes.
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Q Ocean Systems
North American Aviation
Wet Space
Compton
OSO
Navy
Long Beach
Execution Ordered for Killer Saterfield at San Quentin
Three time killer Freder ick G. Saterfield was ordered to die in the San Quentin gas chamber on July 20. Orange County Superior Court Judge Byron K. McMillan signed the death order. Saterfield, 50, was convicted March 4, 1966, of murdering his common law wife Patricia Washington, 30, and her daughter Mary, 16, in Santa Ana on Thanksgiving Day, 1965. The California Supreme Court had refused to overturn the death sentence earlier this year. Saterfield remains on death row at San Quentin.
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Frederick G. Saterfield
San Quentin Prison
Orange County
Saterfield
Patricia Washington
Mary
Santa Ana
California Supreme Court
McMillan
San Quentin
Tax Advisory Group Faces State Tax Investigation
The state attorney general’s office investigates a group claiming to advise members on reducing income taxes. Charles R. Billings and B. Douglas Fahey are ordered to appear May 15 with records related to Americans Building Constitutionally. The complaint says the group teaches creating charitable trusts to yield large tax savings, with information deemed false and possibly civil or criminally liable. Billings says the effort is educational but denies tax avoidance as a purpose.
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State Attorney - General's Office
Superior Court
Benjamin Ostrin
Charles R
Lost Off Catalina Judge to Inherit
Judge Thomas C. Yager, whose wife vanished at sea on their Catalina honeymoon cruise, is to inherit about 412000 from her estate per an appraiser's report filed in Los Angeles. Mrs. Eileen Kelcher Jef fers Yager disappeared May 6 1965, three days after their marriage. he claimed she fell overboard and drowned and said he would not take any of her money. The estate will go to charity per his statement.
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Superior Court
Thomas C. Yager
Catalina Island
Los Angeles
Yager
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