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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Apr 13, 1970
Page
3
The UTLA urged parents to join picket lines as teachers reject a 5 percent wage offer amid poor school conditions and large classes. Ransom warned a citywide shutdown, with principals guiding consolidated classes as the strike targets state aid and a 175 day school year.
In Pomona Budget Ranch Market robbery, a 16 year old was shot and killed by police as he and a companion attempted to flee. A 20 year old from Upland, James Randall Coon, was booked on murder investigation after the car crash and subsequent police pursuit. Rickey Thomas Nance, 16, of Pomona, was identified as the deceased.
Ten men raided a Coast Guard post 18 miles north of Buenos Aires on Sunday, manacling four guards and fleeing with three uniforms and some weapons. Police say the raiders are believed to be members of an armed antigovernment faction.
UC President Charles J. Hitch criticized the rising violent rhetoric around campus protests while defending ROTC and urging cooler talk. He warned escalating language could threaten academic freedom and said the university plans to improve ROTC academically with a forthcoming faculty commission. Hitch noted UC will add $4 million in aid and work study to offset higher fees, while promising aid repayable over 10 years after graduation.
Action Line reports a shopper’s refund dispute with Nuevene International of Union City New Jersey. BBB verification shows false advertising by the company and ordered closure of post office boxes. All mail to the firm is returned. the company has run since 1967.
A DPSS spokesman states welfare regulations do not provide funds for traffic tickets or bail bonds though past cases reportedly included such disbursements. They emphasize penalties deter misuse while noting a caseworker could seek special funds but mislabel the expense.
Swigert joked about unpaid taxes and leaving two cards at Cape Kennedy detailing deletions from the flight plan. Officials said 5 of 46 lunar orbit experiments were canceled due to his unfamiliarity, while the craft continued toward the moon, near the halfway point of its 246000 mile journey.
Fireboats aided by crewmen battled a smoldering cotton fire in a hold of the Pacific Far East Lines freighter Hong Kong Bear docked along the Embarcadero. The blaze, discovered Saturday night, burned slowly with 84 firefighters at the scene before containment.
A train and a bus carrying picnickers collided at a crossing near Roseworthy, 30 miles northwest of Adelaide. Police said 15 people died and at least 20 were injured, many in critical condition, including children.
Soviet officials voice frustration as Apollo 13 and Apollo 15 race to the moon, sighting Washingtons timing as political warfare. Moscow debates goals, preferring lunar firsts but stalled by U.S. momentum and Brezhnev’s schedule. Cosmonaut Day and Lenin anniversary frame a tense, public mood. The feud highlights competing space ambitions and waning Soviet initiative.
Three people died and five were injured in separate traffic crashes. James Beerling 18 Redondo Beach died after a motorcycle crash near a Redondo Beach lifeguard station. Thomas E Ekkens 69 Seal Beach and Emma Ekkens 65 died after their car broadside a vehicle in Lancaster. In Santa Fe Springs a sheriff s patrol car collided with a car carrying three young women sending five to the hospital. Deputy Gerald Talbott 41 and Deputy Adrian Douglas 47 were injured. Douglas remained in intensive care. Teresa Macias 23 and Angela 16 were in Whittier hospital in stable condition. Denise Santo 19 Downey released after minor injuries.
Ralph Nader told 3,500 University of San Francisco attendees that students should quit smoking and drinking, change career aims to fight environmental violence, and form public interest groups to battle corporate pollution. He urged student action to counter Nix on pollution rhetoric and highlighted corporate crimes and code violations costing consumers millions.
U S Marshal Al Butler and Federal Judge Krentzman pressed the desegregation plan for Manatee County schools after Kirk defied orders by taking command at dawn and halting cross-busing that would affect about 2700 elementary students and 107 teachers. He claimed forced busing illegal and sought a Supreme Court hearing.
A 34 foot fishing boat Seadrifter owned by Clayton Osborne of Charleston Oregon disintegrated off the Oregon coast north of Coos Bay. Owner Dave West and Gary Boleman were aboard along with 34 foot craft overdue at 7 pm Saturday. Coast Guard search for three missing crew continues after aerial and beach sweeps revealed stern wreckage five miles north of the Coos Bay jetty.
In Ventura County a sailboat capsized near Anacapa Island during high winds. Judge Phillip C. West and attorney Hugh Gallagher are presumed drowned. Deputy Marshal Douglas Deihl swam to a rock and was rescued by fishermen. The boat drifted into Frenchie's Cove as waves smashed it against rocks.
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