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Newspaper
Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
May 03, 1973
Page
21
Berkeley City Council rescinded a motion and directed the city manager to fully comply with the voter initiative on marijuana. The measure lowers police priority for possession and requires council permission before arrests, sparking cheers and turnout chaos in the chambers.
Butte County deputies seek Tray Miller 25 for the strangling of Patricia Catherine Parish 18, mother of a month old, whose partially nude body was found in an orchard beside a fraternity house after a large Chico State party. Police questioned Tau Gamma Theta members as campus officials reassess spring festivities.
Cambridge physicist Dr Henry Kendall warned at a Public Utilities Commission hearing that a pipe rupture could disable the emergency cooling system at San Onofre. He said rapid core melt and a lethal radioactive mass could result, with gas potentially seeping to miles around. Edison and utilities officials argued the system would function as designed.
Los Angeles County District Attorney Joseph P Busch told the House Select Committee on Crime that justice in the county is unequal with minorities treated more leniently than the white majority. He cited a Rand Corp study showing sentencing variation by county and race, noting blacks receive more lenient treatment in many cases.
Sacramento County sheriff says 12 lootings of damaged houses near the Roseville area after the Southern Pacific railroad yard bombing. Fourteen yard workers arrested for burglary, 12 charged with illegal possession of explosives, as they claimed cans and fragments of blast material were souvenirs.
A one year old Long Beach man, Donald Ray Foster, had his guilty plea rejected by Superior Court Judge Elsworth Beam. The hearing was postponed a week to allow testimony from a state psychiatrist at Atascadero State Hospital. Foster faces second degree murder and an August 25 burglary charge in the killing of Carl A. Kindig.
The 14 year old Jimmy Manning died after being dragged behind a pickup on Interstate 15 near Barstow. Authorities ruled the death an accident, freeing four youths who had been questioned. Suspects Javier Lew Parker and others from Las Vegas were investigated but released.
Norton Simon collections spurred a Sotheby Parke Bennet sale that grossed 6.78 million dollars for 47 paintings, including 1.4 million for Manet Nature Morte aux Poissons and 1.4 million for Cezanne Vase de Tulipes, a global record for a single auction. Degas Repetition de Ballet sold for 760,000, and the sale continued with 930 works from Simon's holdings across three more days.
A Compton toddler named Edwardo Rodriquez died after a driver backing out of a drugstore lot struck him. Alfred Luque, 47, of Compton, stopped after the impact, found the child with head injuries, and was not cited as police investigate.
In Bakersfield United Farm Workers picketed growers who refused union talks. At least 16 people were arrested in two incidents as a row over contracts with the Teamsters spilled from Coachella to the San Joaquin Valley. Chavez accuses Teamsters and growers of destroying the union representing grape workers.
Raymond Kersten, who won back his wife Esther Kersten, pleaded guilty to two counts of turning to false alarms. Investigators said he ordered unwanted services and sent police units to her residence. He was sentenced to two weekends in jail and one year of summary probation.
A May 2 1972 AP brief from Sacramento outlines introduced constitutional amendments and bills. Key items include creation of tax appeal and tax courts, exemption of officers from civil service, a state animal care commission, private assessment rules, and tax credits for dependent children. Also proposed are surplus land retention, Dumbarton Bridge construction without MRT, pharmacist price disclosure rules, and various revenue, housing, and transportation measures.
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