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Newspaper
Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Sep 27, 1973
Page
22
In Amsterdam a housewife testified in court that after the guilder rose, bread fell one cent yet bakers added a one cent bag charge. The baker reportedly explained the price drop applied to the loaf while the bag cost an extra cent.
Concord beekeeper Pancho Bacciglieri sold 27 of his 42 hives after merchants complained of bee droppings and the city council ordered him to keep 15. He warned backyard gardeners the lack of bees will harm tomato crops beans and flowers.
Robert Timinenko described his wife Linda Timinenko's death at sea after a 30 day struggle aboard the Trimaran Triton 40 miles north of San Francisco. Timinenko and James Fisher were later rescued by a British freighter and faced a long recovery in Honolulu before his planned return to teaching at Lower Columbia College.
Judy Gee, 17, named Miss North Australia in Darwin, is disqualified from entering Miss South Australia and Miss Australia because she is an unmarried mother of a 2-year-old son. Organizers say contestants must be single Australian girls, stressing moral standards. Gee remains Miss North Australia and will focus on charity work for spastic children.
Stephen B. King, Martha Mitchells former bodyguard, failed to win a career civil service post in the Agriculture Department. He accepted a political appointment at the same salary in the congressional relations office after the Civil Service Commission and media scrutiny blocked his career track. King, ex FBI agent and Nixon reelection security director, says publicity from 1972 Watergate ties has damaged his career prospects.
UPI reports a fire of undetermined origin struck the Riverside Hotel early today, sending about 100 people fleeing as a four story structure burned to rubble. One firefighter was hospitalized with minor injuries. fourteen units and 250 men fought the blaze downtown, keeping flames from spreading to nearby buildings.
In Denver five Stanek sextuplets are improving with doctors optimistic. Spokesman Sharbara Springer said all are off respirators and in good condition. Three boys and the sole surviving girl are stable, with Nathan recently removed from a respirator but still breathing via a throat tube.
Sharon Oldman a 17 year old Urbana High School senior was barred from the homecoming queen ballot after being told only virgins can run. The unwed mother gave birth March 23 and her family filed suit in U S District Court seeking voiding of the student election while superintendent Hildreth admitted no board policy bans unwed mothers.
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