Career Agent Knight Named Secret Service Leader
Washington I H Stuart Knight was named head of the Secret Service at age 52. Knight, longtime agency career agent and former assistant director for administration since 1971, succeeds James J. Rowley who retired last month. He will oversee about 2800 employees guarding the president, vice president, visiting dignitaries, candidates and enforcing anti counterfeiting laws.
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H. Stuart Knight
Secret Service
Knight
James J. Rowley
The
Secret Service For Administration
Detroit
Berkeley
Calif
Treasury
George P. Shultz
Treasury Department
Los Angeles
Bus drivers chased from buses in South Central Los Angeles
In Los Angeles a Jalast incident saw about 50 Horace Mann Junior High students box in two Southern California Rapid Transit District buses, chasing drivers J. R. Cousins and L. B. Moses before police arrival. Earlier, 600 drivers staged a sick-out in Watts over security. RID directors approved 212 mobile radios and eight base stations and lights to aid drivers. Educator dies. Harvard Mass Prof Alfred Sherwood Romer, 78, authority on vertebrates, died Monday.
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UPD
Polite
Horance Mann Junior High School
Southern California
Rapid Transit District
J. R. Cousins
L. &. Moses
Watts
Earliey
RID
Public Inquiries Highlight Local Issues And Services
Readers seek guidance on July 1974 traffic rules and long delays in radio repairs at White Front. ACTION LINE provides eviction steps in Knoxville, rent collection tips, and explains Huntington Beach animal shelter contracts between the Humane Society and California Animal Centre agency with contact details.
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Philco
White Front
Chercy Ave
Long Beach
Action Ling
C.V
Huntington
Stave Shaw
White Froot’s
Knoxville
Action Line
Huntington Beach
The
Humane
Humane Society
Newland St
California Animal Centre Agency
Edison’ Ave
Christmas gift drive for Long Beach care centers
Sound Off urges donations for three intercommunity gate centers in Long Beach serving elderly and disabled residents. Requests clothing, games and toys plus volunteers to visit and offer attention. Contact numbers and addresses provided for the elderly sanitarium and two facilities for mentally challenged children and adults.
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Hree
Long Beach
Grand Ave
California Ave
French alert on senator kidnap plot shocks Paris
Alain Poher, president of the French Senate and Israel supporter, was alerted to a late week plot by pro-Arab commands to kidnap him. Senate security coordinated with national police. Reportedly, plotters described as Iraqis targeted Poher as World Defense Committee for Iraqi Jews head.
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Alain Poker
Senate
Israel
Poker
Poher
World Defense Committee
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Santa Ana
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Newport Center
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