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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Aug 14, 1967
Page
1
Action Line helps a reader obtain photos from the June 11 flag-raising ceremony at the U S Naval Training Center in San Diego. A massing of colors featured 50 flag-bearers, and the reader will receive a long overall shot of the event.
A Riverside County reader asks how to restore soil and prevent erosion on six miles northeast of Anza. The California Division of Forestry offers free site assessment from Perris and sells erosion control trees at cost from its nursery. The service forester advises suitable plantings based on soil, slope, and exposure.
A mobile home is treated as a normal home for aid purposes. Husband and wife must have under $2,000 combined assets, property value under $5,000, be at least 65, and have resided in California for five of the past fifteen years. For applications and interviews call 591-6611.
S. K. of Paramount laments Long Beach loss of convention business as Lafayette Hotel closes to guests and notes Anaheim Center's rise. The writer blames poor management and foresight for the city lacking a major convention facility and housing elderly in hotels, warning of lasting tourist trade decline.
The Independent and Press Telegram advise using ACTION LINE with the special number 432 and include name, address, and phone for publication. Do not mail photos or documents, request only one query at a time, and do not expect acknowledgments or stamps as replies appear in the column.
In Hammond Louisiana a group of Negroes fired on a crowd outside Ken's Riverside Service Station injuring five white men. The attack occurred as civil rights marchers proceeding from Bogalusa to Baton Rouge gathered nearby. Prosecutors and state police followed leads, with two abandoned autos found in Covington as officials sought culprits.
A reckless driver speeds aggressively, while a careful driver moves with caution. The contrast highlights two approaches to highway safety and vehicle control in everyday driving.
A 50 foot sloop named The Legend returning from the Transpac race was smashed on rocks off San Miguel Island. Eight passengers, seven men and one woman from Orange County, were rescued unharmed by the Coast Guard cutter Cape Higgins after seven hours on the island. The vessel, which had placed ninth in the race, was owned by Phil Campbell of Brea and skippered by Francis M. Baumgartner of Anaheim. The crew included Baumgartner’s wife and daughter Marilyn, along with several Fullerton and San Gabriel residents.
In Watts a 40 unit procession capped the Second Annual Watts Festival. Muhammad Ali led the parade but did not speak to reporters, smiling for thousands. Rap Brown seized the moment, denouncing the white press and rallying about 1,000 at the Uruhu rally at 82nd Street and South Broadway.
Elaine Terry Kirschke told a friend of her eerie premonition of doom shortly before she and Orville William Crankhan were murdered in their Naples area apartment. Crankhan, nicknamed Bill, had a life centered on flying from solo at 17 in Buffalo to service in the Army Air Force. Born March 6, 1926, in Rochester, he died with Kirschke near midnight on April 8, in bed at 185 Rivo Alto Canal. The article notes his aviation passion and early life shaping his fate.
Eight men were burned eight seriously when a Richfield oil well exploded at 4 25 a m on a site near Mount St Marys College Los Angeles Harbor and Santa Monica Freeways. Fire destroyed above ground installations. damage listed at half a million dollars. Police closed off a quarter mile area as residents reported the blast like an earthquake.
Glacier National Park rangers hunted two killer boars that mauled and partly devoured two 19 year old female park employees on day off trips. Julie Helgeson of Albert Lea Minnesota died from puncture wounds and massive trauma while Michele Koons of San Diego was nearly eaten. A male companion Ron Ducat of Perrysburg Ohio survived with serious bear related injuries.
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