Press-Telegram (Newspaper) - May 1, 1968, Long Beach, California Fills PULLED OUT OF COMBAT RUNS HOME EDITION Story on Page Phone HE LONG BEACh CALIFORNIA WEDNESDAY MAY Classified HE PAGES 10 CENTS Ike Had Heart ACTION LINE is your service solving your problems getting your answers cutting red tape and standing up for your rights To get action write ACTION LINE Box 230 Long Beach Calif 90801 or between 9 and 1 p.m or 5 p.m and 9 p.m Monday through Friday Questions to be answered are selected for their general interest and helpfulness Campy Q I would like to send a boy to camp for eight weeks this summer Can ACTION LINE tell me where to find a list of reputable camps in Long Beach A The camp bureau of the Community Welfare ning Council 731 S Hope St Los Angeles 90017 has free brochures available listing summer camps You might also like to consult the Guide to Summer Camps and Summer published by Porter Sargent which lists camps throughout the United States and tells what activities are featured at each It is available at the Long Beach Public Library Ocean Boulevard and Pacific Avenue Send Away for Q I've been dealing with a mail-order house that seems to be one of those chronic disreputable offenders I cannot get a refund as they promised Can't these shysters be barred from Isn't some federal action As it is if sufficient pressure is exerted they refund How many innocent do not or cannot put the pressure The lake from these outfits must be mous Huntington Beach A It must be And practically the public ently doesn't have much protection There are mail fraud laws with postal inspectors empowered to investigate and U.S attorneys to prosecute But simple nonperformance of advertised of merchandise or failure to obtain refunds is not sufficient grounds for tion Under the law according to Los Angeles postal in- spector I L Padgett actual intent to defraud must be proved not just nondelivery This he says is very cult Persons and according to ACTION LINE'S mail there are many of them who think they have been on mail orders should send a detailed documented account of the problem to the Better Business Bureau and to the postal inspector's office in the area where the order house is located Thousands of complaints are filed each year with the postal inspectors Of these says ett very few ever even reach U.S attorneys for possible prosecution I myself never order anything through the says Padgett I prefer to deal with a store where I can return unsatisfactory merchandise in person Hit Q For 13 years my mother worked hard to pay for singing and dancing lessons for me She thinks I have a beautiful voice and has always loved to hear me sing She was disappointed that I never did anything with the talent she worked so hard to bring out For her birthday this year I would like to make a recording of my singing as a By RALPH DIGHTON MARCH AIR FORCE BASE UP Former Presi- dent Dwight D Eisenhower had a restful night and is progressing very and without com- from a heart at- tack officials said today He is expected to remain in the cardiac care unit four or five days A morning bulletin on Eisenhower's condition after his mild attack Monday He has had no ther chest discomfort Blood pressure temperature and pulse are normal His diet is being modified surate with his improved condition The statesman suffered what the March Air Force Base hospital called a dial infarction This is a death of heart muscle due to a blood clot or other ob- struction in a coronary ar- tery It was Eisenhower's third heart attack since 1955 The bulletin issued late Tuesday was the first cial word of his illness It said a general prognosis cannot be made at this time Although the bulletin did not specify when the attack occurred it was assumed the retired five-star general was stricken Monday after playing golf in the morning UNTIL TUESDAY his ailment was described as chest pains He has had a good day with no chest the hospital bulletin said Blood pressure has re- mained normal He has no IKE Col 4 Panel OKs Spending Revisions Court ROCky Pulls Off Stunning Win in Mass Write-In OKs Gas Rebates special gift for her I am a working divorced mother ing two children and my funds are limited How can I ar- range for an accompanist and for the amount A You can make the record at Garrison Recording Studios 1120 Pine Ave where pianos organs and celestas are available for a nominal fee Jeff Silverman a member of the Long Beach Youth Talent Showcase and leader of his own musical group has volunteered to accompany you without charge on piano or organ Salad Days Q On April 11 I heard a young group of musicians clay at the Teen-Age Fair in Hollywood My daughter tells me they are known as Word Salad Can ACTION LINE tell me how to contact them for an Long Beach A Word Salad a group who play a total of nine instruments are members of Local 47 of the cians Union 817 Vine St Los Angeles You may get in touch with them by writing the union's business Frank Sorkin or call him at HO SOUND I am glad the proposed Irish Castle In El Dorado Park East was rejected Parks were meant for kids But I wish along with many others around here that the planners would think for a minute about all the kids with and small motorcycles There are so many of them and they want a dirt area where they can ride them legally Why not set aside a section of park Governor Will for these kids and their motorized You wouldn't WASHINGTON UPI The House Appropriations Committee today approved a billion dollar ic plan recommended by the White House and de- signed to free President Johnson's tax boost Under the plan son's spending plans for the new fiscal year would be cut billion New be cut billion and billion in previous appropriations would be rescinded The package was laid be- fore the committee by top administration officials at a closed session It was put together at a White House meeting Tuesday night Republicans denounced the economy proposal as in- adequate and offered their own counterplan to cut spending by billion by billion and to rescind billion in earlier appropriations The GOP plan was ed and committee cans then abstained from voting on the tion proposal worked out in a meeting by Johnson with key Democrats MRS HOLTZMAN Accuses Sergeants Drill Abuse Laid to 2 Sergeants PARRIS ISLAND yp Two Marine drill in- face a special court-martial next Monday on charges of mistreating a recruit at the Parris Island Marine Depot Marine spokesmen said the charges were brought after the recruit's mother Mrs Dorothy Holtzman of Miami Fla claimed her son was abused Charged are S Sgt seph B Johnson and Sgt Shelly Harden Maj Mike Styles of the recruit depot's information office said today that an in- was ordered ter the Parris Island com- mander received a letter from Mrs Hollzman t IT WAS FOUND that there evidence of some substance to her allegations and the special court-martial was ordered Styles said Mrs Holtzman writing as a mother with an only alleged that her son Mark 20 and other ees were abused by their drill instructor Mrs Holtzman was ed as saying that Mark was ordered to lie on the ground while other trainees ran over him stepping or jumping on him be- cause he could not keep up with the rest of the toon She said Mark was as a Jew and other trainees were lold they were Nazis and asked what they would do to this Jew in the the Mi- ami Herald reported ONE DRILL put a bucket over a boy's head and struck it while the boy was forced to yell I'm crazy each time it was struck the paper quoted the mother Other charges by Mrs Holtzman reported by the Herald included Mark was forced to walk through a swamp all night as a motivation penalty as the drill instructor labeled it He was stripped with other trainees and made to do bends and thrusts against each other in a small crowded room and he was beaten three times WASHINGTON UPI The Supreme Court today approved area rate-making for natural gas producers including rates and refunds ordered by the Federal Power Commission for the Permian Basin in Texas and New Mexico The decision was a victory for California inter- ests where the bulk of the Permian Basin gas is The action will mean lions of dollars in refunds for both individual ers and industrial ers in California and will bring lower prices in the ture for gas users in other Most of the nia gas is delivered to the Pacific Lighting Co for dis- in the Los An- geles area and to the ic Gas and Electric Co which sells it in Northern California The gas is transported to California through the El Paso Natural Gas Co and Pipeline Co T o d a y s ting opinion was written by Justice John M Harlan It explored all aspects of the complex rate-making cess in 75 pages Justice William O las dissented Justice good Marshall did not The commission came up with the area ing concept in 1965 after the court had determined in a landmark 1954 decision lhat wholesale rates of ural gas at the well head are subject to FPC GAS Col 6 Bar Patron Shot Dead 1 Wounded A man was killed and another wounded in a mysterious shooting in a Wilmington beer bar Tuesday night The victim Berdell O Herrmann of 1317 W heim St Harbor City died at Harbor General Hospital today three hours after the p.m shooting at the Jaguar Bar 1229 ton Blvd Harbor Division tives said Herrmann was drinking at the bar when a man wearing a net stocking over his head entered with a drawn gun and began ing at Herrmann and er customer Robert ter 26 of Papeete St Wilmington TO IT even have to improve the area These boys are on the whole good boys They are learning so much with their bikes Many people say the kids will get hurt but I dont think many with a little supervision by parents or park workers And with their bikes the kids learn a lot about sportsmanship and fair play These things are really fun to ride and people who think cycles arc terrible should try it And the kids are learning to take them apart and put them back together You can t expect and to be satisfied with swings Let's make El Dorado a park for all kids Come on you parents ot heard Mrs Long Beach Quit Be Judge SPRINGFIELD III UPI Gov Otto Kerner two- term Democratic chief ex- of Illinois an- today he will re- sign at midnight May 19 to accept his judgeship on the U.S Circuit Court Kerner announced in February he would not seek reelection Lt Gov Samuel Shapiro 61 automatically will take over as governor to serve out the remainder of second term Most Californians favor a payroll withholding plan for state income taxes a State Poll survey indicates Page Beach 23 Omarr's George Shipping to 6 TV Tides Vital to 9 ACCORDING to two barmaid Leslie Kent and a male customer the gunman ran out after ing both men with a volley of bullets from a relled revolver The barmaid told officers she ran out the rear door of the bar when the faced gunman began firing The other customer whose identity was not ately learned fled out the front to escape the bullets He later told police the gunman ran out after the shooting and fled with a companion in a waiting HE WAS ABLE to nish police with a license number which police were checking out today Schulter also was taken to Harbor General Hospital where he is in fair tion with a bullet wound through bis abdomen Herrman was shot in the neck shoulder and chest Officers said they knew of no connection between the two victims and could give no explanation of what provoked the shooting McCarthy Victor but Challenged BOSTON UPI Gov Nelson A Rockefeller of New York who polled a flood of write-in votes only hours after announcing his candidacy today was de- clared the winner of the Massachusetts presidential preference primary in a startling upset The New York governor scored a stunning victory Tuesday over Gov John A Volpe of Massachusetts a favorite son candidate whose name was the only one on the GOP ballot For- mer Vice President Richard M Nixon was third THE WIN assured of Massachusetts 34 delegate votes on the first ballot at the Republican National Convention Sen Eugene J McCarthy of Minnesota easily won the Democratic race as ex- over Sen Robert F Kennedy of New York McCarthy's was the only name on the Democratic ballot Vice President Hubert H Humphrey like Kennedy a write-in candidate ished third On the Republican preferential ballot returns ROCKY Col I Sen Young Ohio Quits Wagon WASHINGTON UPI Sen Stephen M Young D- Ohio today withdrew his endorsement of Sen Robert F Kennedy for the cratic presidential tion Young switched to a neutral stance in the race Young certain to be named Ohio's favorite son candidate to the ic convention Right now I make it crystal clear that I draw any statement or en- which I made heretofore Young outlined his new position in a letter to all Ohio candidates for gate to the August tion in Chicago His shift was viewed on Capitol Hill as a lift for Vice President Hubert H Humphrey whose ers claim he has growing support in Ohio which has 115 convention votes A ROCKY VICTORY SMILE New York Governor After Big Upset U.S Accepts Indo Offer of Viet Talk on Warship WASHINGTON UPI The White House agreed today to a suggestion by In- donesia that preliminary o r t h Vietnamese talks be held aboard an Indonesian warship in the Gulf of Tonkin Sources in Jakarta said no reply has been received from Hanoi Indonesia's foreign ister Adam Malik made the offer to Washington and Hanoi in an effort to help two nations break an impasse over selection of a location to discuss con- ditions for possible peace talks NEITHER THE United Stales nor North Vietnam has seemed inclined to cept sites proposed by the other side George Christian White House press secretary said Indonesia's offer of the cruiser Irian is acceptable to the United States and you can be sured this would be con- to the Indonesian government Christian said he did not know whether the proposal had been discussed by American and North diplomats who have had contact in ane Laos The Irian has been lying idle in the port of Surabaja in East Java Indonesia for more than a year because of a lack of spare parts Foreign observers in ta expressed doubt the sel would be suitable for even seaworthy NEWS OF the suggestion by Malik first came from Jakarta in news reports though it was evident had been earlier official contact by Jakarta with U.S officials Asked whether the ed States be willing for the America Vietnamese meeting to be arranged aboard an s i a n ship Christian answered with a flat Yes A neutral ship on a tral sea would be a good meeting Christian commented Jakarta was one of the sites originally suggested hy the United States tian pointed out that both the United States and North Vietnam have in the Indonesian capital U.S Paratroops Destroy North Vietnam Battalion Pakistan Plane Crash Kills 22 RAWALPINDI Pakistan A Pakistani air force transport crashed today and all 22 persons on board were killed the ment reported The plane was carrying supplies and passengers to northern areas of West Pakistan around Gilgit 200 miles north of Rawalpindi Do you know why ning never strikes twice in the same It doesn't have to SAIGON UPI U.S paratroopers wiped out a North Vietnamese battalion in a two-day baltle Tuesday and today and possibly saved the city of Hue from a May Day invasion front dispatches reported Heavy fighting raged near Hue night UPI correspondent mond M Wilkinson said men of the Airborne Division killed 117 today in their final thrust against a battalion which already had lost 217 men So far this week the Communists in that general area have lost 791 dead The paratroopers battling near the village of Phuoc Yen five miles northwest of Hue also captured 95 persons many of them found hiding in a river and breathing through hollow reeds Prisoners said almost all of their officers had been killed in the fighting TONIGHT the ers vere being hit by grenades at a rate of about 100 within a NORTH Col 8 TONIGHT AND AREA Low over- cast clearing Thursday High today 70 DESERTS Clear and hot Highs near 90 high erts to 102 desert valleys MOUNTAINS Cleat and warm Highs 65 to resort levels
