Venison helps Californians counter high meat prices
California residents turn to venison as meat prices soar and beef scarcity grows. Officials report increased deer hunting and licenses sold, yet hunter numbers are down from last year. Poaching mainly affects northern California, with wardens boosting patrols in some areas.
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Los Angels Times
California
State Department of Fish and Game
Bernie Faist
Department
Wildlife Protection Branch
Hope's Jamboree Joke Draws Scout Apology
The Boy Scouts apologized to the Japanese American Citizens League after comedian Bob Hope used the term Jap in a joke at the Jamboree West in Idaho. Alden Barber apologized to Ben Nakagawa by phone and asked that Seattle Scouts Troop 43 hear the message.
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Seattle
UPI
Boy Scouts of America’ Organization
Hope
Alden Barber
Scouts
Ben Nakagawa
The
Japanese Baptist Church
Ward Grant
Natural habitat zoos and community based prisons discussed
At the Seattle congress a 16 000 member union cohort urged humane options. Speakers argued only 20 to 42 percent of inmates need custodial imprisonment to protect society. Prisons cost about 110 per year versus 365 for probation. Delegates called for halfway houses training releasees and local involvement for safer downtowns. Senators and former prisoners of war joined the talks on long term incarceration.
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Seattle
Gravp
Congress
U.S
Apartment Fire Forces Evacuation In Six Story Building
A fire in a six story brick building in New York forced 374 residents to flee. Twelve firefighters were treated for smoke inhalation as the blaze, believed to have started in a kitchen stove, raged through the structure.
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New York
UPI
Thomas Cregan
Three men held after vineyard pickup shooting in Kern County
In Lamont California three men Raymond Galvin Alfred Guerra and Arthur Galvin were arrested after a shooting injuring Steve Riggenberg 28 of Bakersfield who drove a vineyard truck owned by Giumarres Vineyards amid a union dispute. A .22 rifle was seized and authorities said none of the suspects were believed to be official pickets. Chavez planned return to peace talks with the Teamsters under conditions.
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Lamont
Calif
UPI
United Farm Workers Union
Kern County Sheriffs Office
Steve Riggenberg
Bakersfield
Saturda
Giumarre Vineyards
Thajor
Cesay
Chavez
Farm Workers Union
Teamsters
Raymond Galvin
Alfred Guerra
Arthur Galvin
Tracy
Hows
Dying woman hosts farewell party in hospital room
Ruth Hoffman, 57, bone cancer patient at Sequoia Hospital in Redwood City, staged a eight hour open house to say goodbye to more than 100 friends and relatives. She greeted telegrams from distant places and urged others to find happiness as her end nears. Her daughter Linda Gage and husband Sylvanus Hoffman supported the event.
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Redwood City
Calif
Ruth Hoffman
Green- Ville
D.C
Sequoia Hospital
San Francisco Peninsula
al Forney
Ruth
Tve
Mother abandons infant in Cleveland church restroom
Police will file no charges against a 24 year old woman who left her month old baby in a church restroom after traveling 10 miles seeking help. The child remains in a children’s home in good health as police note she attempted to place the baby with agencies and a church before surrendering. The mother, with four other children in foster care or with relatives, says she was distraught and lacking food or money.
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Cleveland (Ap
Poice
Patricia Carr
St. Johnis Cathedral
Cleveland
Carr
New Jersey
Michigan
Gas kills two California gold miners
Two brothers Joseph Anthony Wheeler 39 and John Patrick Wheeler 36 died underground in a Mojave Desert mine from gas fumes. Matthew Wheeler 19 escaped after being lowered to the surface by his brother and grandfather. The men had been digging underground for several days when the tragedy occurred.
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Baker
Calif
UPI
Mojave Desert
San Bernardino
Convict Munizaga Retires From Prison Under Amnesty
BUENOS AIRES (UPI) Ramon Munizaga spent 34 years in jail for murder theft and assault. An amnesty law allowed his release and the prison granted him a pension for attaining the rank of sergeant while jailed.
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Buenos Aires
UPI
Ramon Munizaga
Munizaga
San Juan
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