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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 1968
Page
2
Geneva reports the Red Cross resumed mercy flights to Biafra using a Swiss charter from Fernando Po. Six flights were allegedly made in the last three nights under cover of darkness, though no official announcement has been issued.
District attorney investigates possible legal breaches in the transplant of Marine Cpl. Larry B. Smith's heart to Leonard Drake of Eugene Oregon after Smith died from brain injuries. Autopsy and coroner review prompt procedural scrutiny at Stanford Medical Center.
About 200 people mainly women gathered at Hollywood Memorial Park Cemetery for the 42nd annual Valentino memorial. Tributes included lines like Sleep, my darling and remarks by comedian Vince Barnett as attendees laid flowers and wrote messages on the crypts honoring The Sheik star.
Sonny Bono proposes a national youth commission with two representatives per state to serve as an unofficial youth lobby and help unite a nation split into two societies. He vows to cut singing engagements to focus on addressing disenchanted youth.
US Marines repelled a Communist attack on a bridge at Cam Le near Da Nang as Viet Cong mortars hit two Mekong Delta capitals. In heavy fighting, 81 Communists and 15 Marines died. 50 more Communist soldiers killed further south. Washington reports China will field MRBM this year and ICBM by 1970.
Police report 28 dead and 9 injured from landslides triggered by heavy rain. The worst slides struck Bongchon-Dong in Youngdongpo, Seoul, burying 19 people alive in two successive collapses.
Dr Andrew Billingsley named assistant chancellor at the University of California Berkeley to align academics with minority community needs. His post marks the highest campus position held by a Black faculty member. Parents of a college student who donated a heart visited Nobuo Miyazaki the recipient, 18, as Sapporo Hospital officials noted Miyazaki thanked the Yamaguchis and all three wept.
Chief Justice Earl Warren, on vacation in Montana, told a Carroll College luncheon that Senate delays on Abe Fortas threaten to push the Court opening into October. He quipped that the delay is not about retaining him and noted if a choice exists they will choose Fortas.
Maj. Josef Bur sik, a former Czech tank commander and executive committee member of the Organization of Czechoslovak Legionnaires in Exile, returned his World War II Soviet decorations in a letter to the Soviet Ambassador in London protesting the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia.
Eight year old Angela Mercer won the Pee Wee Division trophy and then defeated older competitors to become Los Angeles City Hula Hoop Champion. She earned the right to represent the city in regional playoffs on August 31 at Universal City.
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