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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Apr 12, 1969
Page
2
Communist gunners carried out about 25 shelling strikes on South Vietnamese military bases and towns Friday night and Saturday. Among targets was Vinh Long city in the Mekong Delta, hit heavily 15 hours earlier, with 21 killed and about 100 wounded.
Nixon expects to study a Pentagon draft plan that would call up the youngest eligible men first, reversing the current oldest-first system. If approved, a message to Congress would seek amending the draft law with backing from Defense Secretary Laird.
Airman First Class Patrick J Nugent son in law of former President Johnson completed a year in Vietnam and received the Distinguished Flying Cross for a mission delivering 55 troops to Cantum Air Field amid mortar fire. He logged 1 023 flights and 797 hours in combat zones before separation at Bergstrom AFB Austin Texas. Field Marshal Montgomery 81 is confined to his London home described as not very well in a Friday announcement.
Ventriloquist Edgar Ber will receive the University of Notre Dame Club of Chicago’s Decency in Entertainment Award at the April 28 dinner. Cmdr. Lloyd M. Bucher of the USS Pueblo will address the gathering as ticket demand soars.
Nuevo Leon Governor Eduardo Elizondo ordered the legal department to study extradition from the United States of Dukes Askew Simmons who fled from a state prison to Los Angeles after being convicted in Monterey for the slaying of three family members in October 1959. He reportedly escaped Sunday by hiding in a special compartment of his brother’s car.
The private papers of Helen Keller including correspondence with presidents from Coolidge to Johnson were left to the American Foundation for the Blind in New York.
Gary Steven Krist, charged with kidnapping heiress Barbara Mackle, has not eaten for two weeks claiming jail officials tried to poison him. He is accused of abducting Miss Mackle in December from a motel and burying her alive for four days in a box north of Atlanta.
Observances mark the 24th anniversary of Franklin D Roosevelt's death with services at the Little White House Warm Springs Georgia. Anna Roosevelt Halsted, the late president's daughter, speaks at the memorial. Henri Varna, 81, director of Casino de Paris and Mogador, dies in Paris after a heart attack. Josephine Baker and other stars began under his direction.
Lady Clementine Spencer-Churchill, 84, showed slight improvement Friday in her recovery from a fall that broke her thigh a week earlier. London doctors provided the update.
Rep Donald Rumsfeld a 36 year old former investment house executive is reported under strong consideration as director of the Office of Economic Opportunity. Henry Francis du Pont great grandson of the Du Pont founder died Friday at Winterthur near Wilmington Del
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