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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Aug 28, 1968
Page
1
Police fired tear gas into thousands of hippies and Yippies in Lincoln Park to disperse them for the third night. A city dump truck advanced on the protesters as tear gas shells were used, driving the crowd apart after midnight.
Readers can write ACTION LINE Box 230 Long Beach California 90801 or call 432-3451 during listed hours for answers to questions chosen for general interest and usefulness.
A reader sought artist Heiner J.C. formerly of Long Beach for a Dana Lamb explorer lecturer book. After a brief search ACTION LINE found Heiner living in Playa del Rey and spoke with his wife who will relay the message.
Reader asks how to enter a homemade rug in the Los Angeles County Fair in Pomona. Answer: submissions closed for this year. join next year by mailing to the fair office after Jan 1 1969 and request the Domestic Arts catalog and contest info to be sent in June 1969.
The Columbia is on its six month barn storming tour with Goodyear saying the airship will appear at Hemis fair in San Antonio. It spends six months at its base near the San Diego and Harbor freeways and six months touring the nation returning to Southern California in November. The Columbia is the 297th nonrigid Goodyear airship.
A reader from Long Beach advocates dropping the term alcoholic in favor of wording that prompts accountability for drinking problems. The letter argues using drunkard carries stigma and urges more respectful, constructive language to encourage help.
Weary Democratic delegates forced a 1:17 a.m. adjournment on Vietnam policy as tensions flared. Mayor Daley demanded order while McGovern and McCarthy backers pressed a minority plank for an unconditional North Vietnam bombing halt and a Viet Cong South Vietnamese coalition government. Pierre Salinger and Stephen Smith led floor management for the minority effort amid a platform compromise drafted by Walter Reuther and Clark Kerr.
Eugene J. McCarthy and George S. McGovern met California's Jesse Unruh to discuss a possible presidential draft of Edward Kennedy. Kennedy, from Hyannis Port, stayed in touch by telephone to gauge support and unity among anti-Vietnam critics for a Kennedy candidacy.
A 250 man U.S. Forest Service hot shot crew moved to seal a two mile strip in Monrovia Park as crews fight a 4.5 million dollar brush fire covering 20 000 acres. Nine people have died. Authorities said control could come within hours despite hot conditions and 20 mph winds. The fire is along the northwest fire perimeter toward Cog swell Dam two miles away.
The SEC charged Merrill Lynch and 14 of its officers with fraud for allegedly sharing inside Douglas Aircraft earnings information with 15 investment firms. The case marks a major SEC action since 1966 and aims to curb improper trading based on advance corporate data.
The SEC accuses Merrill Lynch and others of using devices and artifices to defraud by trading on nonpublic information. The action targets a Wall Street practice where brokers act on insider data, alleging $4.5 million in gains or avoided losses by 15 institutional investors in one week.
Czechoslovak leader Alexander Dubcek asked citizens to face a slowdown in democratization amid thousands of Soviet troops. He warned that free speech would be curtailed and urged trust as temporary measures are applied, while pledging to maintain order and sovereignty. Demonstrators opposed the occupation, with Soviet armored cars and protests in Prague as parliament discussed the crisis.
A South favoring bloc pushes Hubert H. Humphrey toward the Democratic nomination. AP tally shows Humphrey with 1159 first ballot votes, 153 short of the 1312 needed, McCarthy at 487 and McGovern at 51, with 727 uncommitted. Strong support from Dixies with over 200 delegates backing Humphrey.
In Chicago delegates from California cheered for Kennedy with chants and orange signs urging Sen. Edward M. Kennedy to be nominated. Convention Chairman Carl Albert ordered the demonstrators to stop or lose credentials, evicting them from the floor. signs remained in the balcony reading Kennedy and Kennedy Now.
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