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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Aug 28, 1968
Page
2
Communist gunners hit Saigon again Tuesday night killing three civilians and wounding six as rockets struck a new housing area on the city’s southern edge. It followed a renewed shelling campaign after a two month lull from earlier in the month.
Allied artillery hit suspected launching sites near a Vietnamese city as U S and South Vietnamese troops trapped a veteran North Vietnamese force near Hue. In Mexico City tens of thousands protested Diaz Ordaz over government and Olympics while embassies stood guarded. France predicted hydrogen bomb capable missiles within years after a powerful thermonuclear test. Sweden granted asylum to three more U S servicemen while expelling another amid Vietnam protests. Washington seeks Panmunjom talks with North Korea over Pueblo crew release with no reply.
More than 500 Biafrans disrupted the prime minister's residence, breaking three windows and burning an effigy. Police faced the crowd as demonstrators staged a war dance and raked flames with newspapers. In Nevada, a low yield underground nuclear test at Yucca Flat released minor radioactivity confined near the detonation site.
U S cost of living rose sharply in July as food prices mortgage rates and medical costs climbed. CPI up 0.5 percent reaching 121.5 percent of 1957 59 base. Aimed to rise further in August but slower overall.
Former President Dwight D. Eisenhower shows cautious optimism from doctors at Walter Reed amid his 11 day heart attack and seven heart seizures while remaining in critical condition. He rested well with heart irritability persisting but no major disturbances since Saturday evening.
Actor Bradford Dillman recounted how gasoline shortages blocked the film crew from leaving Czechoslovakia during the Russian invasion. Dillman and co star Robert Vaughn hid with a taxi driver at the Hotel International as authorities rationed fuel amid the crisis. It took 17 Czech taxis and two days for the company to depart the country.
Recording executive Jimmy Bowen filed for divorce from Keeley Smith after a two month separation claiming she inflicted grievous mental suffering. Bowen, 30, cites extreme cruelty and seeks marital dissolution with unspecified support terms.
Actor and former Cleveland Browns fullback Jim Brown is being sued for divorce by his wife Sue after a nine year marriage. They have three children: twins Jim and Kevin aged eight and James Jr. aged six. Brown is estimated to earn $250,000 annually.
Actor Charlton Heston is nominated for a fourth one year term as president of the Screen Actors Guild. Other nominees include Gene Barry as first vice president Whit Bissell as second vice president John Gavin as third vice president and Ron Rawson as fourth vice president.
Attorney Terence Hallinan sues the city of San Francisco and a tactical squad member for 500000. He claims he was beaten without cause and falsely arrested during a May sit in at San Francisco State College.
Dr. Richard Bitner Tibby from San Pedro was appointed head of USC's Catalina Marine Science Center having served on the USC faculty since 1947. Gov. Ronald Reagan will give the funeral eulogy for Tom May, 85, a Los Angeles department store executive, who died Monday.
The notice lists phone contacts INDEPENDENT Phone HE 5 116 and Classified HE 2 5959 for the Long Beach newspaper. It provides publication details Aug 28 1948 Vol 31 No 173 and address Sixth St and Pine Ave Long Beach California. It notes legal adjudication by the Los Angeles Superior Court Oct 6 1946 Decree No C 10280 and carriage rates per single copy and by mail.
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