Action Line answers on tickets and scooter freeway rules
The column explains how to get Lawrence Welk show tickets with free access but long waiting lists and notes dances at Hollywood Palladium with entry from $3. It also clarifies freeway requirements for two wheeled vehicles, stating brakes and horsepower rules, and confirms a Grand Sport model VSBI is freeway approved while another is not.
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Lawrence Welk
D.S.E
Garden Grove
Kabc Studios
Prospect Ave
Los Angeles
Lois Lamont
Ucla
Long Beach
Ted Bradley
CHP
Western Scouter Distributors
San Francisco
Action Line
Tax refunds on sales tax and other local notes
Reader asks how to recover 5 per cent sales tax paid by a contractor after a rate hike. Haas of the Board of Equalization says non permit holders must reclaim through suppliers with an exemption certificate obtained at a BOE office. Also letters discuss traffic signal timing on Del Amo Lakewood and a chimp foster home query with purchase option and cautions.
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Artesia
Robert Hass
Long Beach
Board of Equalization
Long Beach Blvd
Lakewood Boulevard
del Amo Boulevard
del Amo
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Lakewood
Gays Bert Clark
Los Angeles County
Turners
Clark
Long Beach Trash Curbside Rules Cited in Letter
A reader questions the city beautification award and urges enforcement of curbside trash rules. The editor notes Long Beach Municipal Code Section 52201 requires cans be placed at curbside no earlier than the evening before collection and removed by ten o clock the day after.
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Long Beach
L.B
Pan
Assassin Eric Galt tied to MLK case in Birmingham report
A Birmingham boarding house owner told FBI agents that drawings of a man hunted in MLK murder closely resembled Eric Gall. He said Eric Galt lived at the house six weeks last fall before vanishing. Investigators found few records confirming Galt’s possible employment or driver’s license in multiple states.
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Birmingham
Ala
FBI
Martin Luther King Jr
Eric Gall
Peter Cherpes
South Side
Eric Galt
Mississippi
Louisiana
Galt
Chemes
Memphis Warned by Abernathy in Two Day Strike Ultimatum
Dr. Ralph Abernathy urged Memphis to end its 10 week sanitation strike within two days or face blocking trash trucks with civil disobedience. He announced a two day staff retreat and vowed to return ready to stop the trucks. The city relied on 1,200 mostly Black workers continuing limited collections.
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Memphis
Tein
UPI
Martin Luther King
Ralph Abernathy
Dick Gregory
Reagan Boom Looms for 1968 Convention Hopefuls
Clifton White, key to Goldwater's 1964 nomination, tells California backers Reagan could emerge as a top contender at the Miami Beach GOP convention. He predicts a multi ballot race with 10 to 12 names on the first ballot and warns Nixon may not secure the nomination. White cites widespread Reagan organizing and a possible Oregon primary challenge.
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Los Angeles
Clifton White
Barry Goldwater
Ronald Reagan
Californa
White
Reagan
Miami Beach
Richard M. Nixon
Nixon
Recall Vigil Begins at Capitol to Oust Reagan
The recall movement against Gov Ronald Reagan started at the Sacramento Capitol on Monday vowing to continue until the 780414 signatures required for a recall election are collected. Organizer Edward Koupal Orangevale calls it a vigil not a protest with wife Joyce and Nancy Parr as co chairs. Three to five participants paraded at the west entrance carrying Remove Reagan signs.
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Sacramento
UPS
Ronald Reagan
Capitol
Edward Koupal
Orangevale
Frecall
Joyce
Nancy Parr
San Francisco
Reagan
Bridge leap foiled by father of five on Vincent Thomas Bridge
North Long Beach father of five Victor Pepin 32 of 850 Via Carmelitas warned rescuers the family would be better off dead before attempting to plunge from the Vincent Thomas Bridge Monday night. CHP officers Dodson and McCune halted him from a 185 foot fall near the west tower as traffic was stopped for over 15 minutes between Terminal Island and San Pedro.
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Long Beach
Vincent Thomas Bridge
Victor Herbert Pepin
Carmelitas
California
Robert Dodson
James McCune
Terminal Island
San Pedro
Ambush Probe in DMZ Escalates Tensions
North Korean representatives failed to attend a U.N. joint probe in the DMZ after North Koreans ambushed a U.S. Army truck, killing two South Korean soldiers and injuring two Americans. Capt. Harold J. Dauk described the act as premeditated murder as evidence showed bloodstains, bullet holes, and a damaged Swiss wristwatch at the scene near Panmunjom. Two wounded U.S. soldiers remained in a Seoul hospital, unavailable for comment.
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Demilitarized Zone
Korea
North Korea
U.N. Command
Panawnjom
Harold J. Dauk
Second Infantry Division
Johnson says no response from Hanoi on peace talks sites
President Johnson said the United States has had no official reply from Hanoi on proposed sites for initial peace negotiations. He urged a serious reply and noted four neutral sites proposed by the U.S. in Asia and Africa. Senate Morse urged accepting Hanoi’s site suggestions despite their omissions. The State Department rejected Hanoi’s claim of stalling and Johnson spoke at Iolani Palace with protests outside.
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Honolulu
Lpi
Johnson
United States
North Vietnam
Flo
Hanoi
U.S
Montclair
UPT
Wayne Morse
Vientiane
Rangoon
Jakarta
New Delhi
Washington
State Department
Iolani Palace
Park Chung-Hee
Antistar
Nixon Maintains GOP Lead in California State Poll
California Republicans favor Nixon for the 1968 Republican nomination and believe he can win in November, with continued strong Rockefeller support. The State Poll surveyed a cross-section of voters who were asked who they would vote for if the nomination contest were between Nixon, Rockefeller, or others, noting forthcoming June delegate selection and the likelihood of two slates on the GOP primary ballot.
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California
Richard M. Nixon
Nixon
New York
Nelson Rockefeller
Nixon Rockefeller
Gov
Reagan
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