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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1967
Page
8
Kenneth Day of Bellflower was in critical condition at Memorial Hospital Monday night after his clothes caught fire while lighting a barbecue. He had first and second degree burns on his face back legs and eyes after he spilled flammable liquid on his clothes while filling tiki torches.
A Torrance man’s 40 foot fishing boat reported sinking 60 miles off San Diego was abandoned Monday. The Italy, Joseph Trani’s vessel, is moored in San Pedro’s Fish Harbor. Investigators could not explain a 9:20 p.m. Sunday distress call and searchers found no sign of a sinking or boat in distress west of San Diego.
Funeral service for 19 month old Raymond R. Thomas Jr. set for Wednesday at Long Beach Seventh Street Landing after drowning. Graveside rites at 10 a.m. in All Souls Cemetery. Parents Mr. and Mrs. Raymond R. Thomas Sr. of Wilmington witness survivors incluce grandparents. Dispay Family Funeral Directors in charge.
Rear Adm. Bernhard H. Bieri, former supply officer at Long Beach Naval Shipyard 1956 59 and later fleet supply and force supply roles, is named commander of Naval Supply Systems Command and chief of the Supply Corps. He relieves Rear Adm. Herschel J. Goldberg in a Washington Navy Yard ceremony with Adm. Ignatius Galanti delivering the principal address. Bieri will visit the Long Beach Naval Supply Center this fall.
Ramon A. Soto, 35, a Gardena area hotel resident, is in serious condition in Los Angeles County Hospital Jail after a self-inflicted head wound following the shooting of Virginia Cancel, 35, of Gardena, at El Antillana on South Figueroa Street. Detectives at the 77th Street Division say the pair argued before the fatal shooting.
A Vietnam veteran recalls April 28 to May 12 1967 at Chu Lai detailing a brutal ambush that wiped out over half his company and the critical aid from Air Force strikes. He reflects on loss pride and the debt Americans owe for freedom and peace.
California State College at Long Beach hosts its 16th annual aerospace education program drawing 250 teachers from California and the West. The session runs through Aug 25 with talks by Charles K. Willard and Zeno Klinker, plus field trips, films and a full scale airplane build. Last year the CSCLE conference earned an outstanding award from the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education. Stanton City Council to meet in special session at 7:30 tonight to discuss a 25 cent tax override for parks and recreation programs.
Defense Department lists Lawrence A Dietz II of Palos Verdes Estates as killed in action in Vietnam. He was the son of Lawrence A Dietz Sr and Mrs Dietz of 3302 Corinna Drive.
A Houston advertisement claims a new laboratory treatment can halt male pattern baldness and regrow hair for both men and women. It promises a no risk 32 day trial, asks readers to send information, and asserts confidentiality with no obligation.
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