ACTION LINE answers garden tips and studio tours options
Action Line provides glycerin leaf preservation tips using half water and half glycerin soaked two weeks, with split stems to aid absorption. It notes Warner Bros Seven Arts offers no public tours but lists Universal and MGM studio tours with prices and hours. Universal tours run 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. daily costing 3.75 adults, 2.75 youths, 1.75 children. MGM tours in Culver City run weekdays with 7.95 lunch-inclusive or 3.58 non lunch options, reservations at 451-5435.
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Bruce Mason
Park Nursery
Mason
I. PT Garden Pages
Warner Bros
Seven Arts
E. P
Long Beach
Universal
MGM Studios
Washington Blvd
Culver City
Rattlesnake Recipes and Film Ratings in Local Answers
Readers seek rattlesnake cooking tips and a movie rating explanation. Martha Eastlake’s guidance suggests flour dusting and browning, then frying until tender with toast. the MPAA explains voluntary ratings and access for independents. Also notes a vintage essay request and Christmas party coordination in Long Beach.
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Action Line
F. G
Long Beach
Martha Eastlake
Pop
Rifemen at My Lai Debate Massacre Truth in Vietnam Outpost
Americal Division riflemen at Landing Zone Bayonet question the My Lai massacre. Soldiers from Company C and the 198th Brigade discuss the 1968 killings, with some denying the event and others defending U.S. actions. Local views mix doubt and shock amid war weariness.
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20Th Infantry
Vietnam
198Th Infantry Brigade
Fourth Battalion
Third Infantry
San Juan Hill
Duc Pho
Soldier recalls My Lai killings and defiance of orders
Sgt. Michael A. Bernhardt, 23, from Hempstead New York, recounts how he refused to take part in the My Lai massacre describing orders to kill and “point blank murder” of villagers in Song My. Life magazine later published his account with eight color photos of death from the hamlet.
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Michael A. Bernhardt
My Lai
Song My Village
Life Magazine
Bernhardt
Hempstead
N.Y
Ft. Dix
N.J
Road Toll: California Tops U S Traffic Fatalities
United Press International reports California led the nation in highway deaths as the Thanksgiving weekend ended at 2 a.m. with 63 fatalities. Six died in fires and seven in other accidents nationwide total 636 since the holiday period began, with heavy congestion on major Los Angeles freeways and slow traffic on U.S. 101 through Thousand Oaks.
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United Press International
California
Los Angeles
Thousand Oaks
Conejo
U.S. 101
Indians Renovate Alcatraz for Long Stay as Indian Center
Indians occupying Alcatraz Island repair the old prison for a prolonged stay. Electricians and plumbers arrive from across the nation to transform the site into an American Indian cultural and educational center while awaiting talks with Interior Secretary Hickel. Richard Oakes leads with plans for 1,000 Indians visiting the island.
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Glen Dodson
San Francisco Bay
Richard Oakes
Alcatraz
Interior
Walter J. Hickel
Hickel
62 Guns 20 000 Rounds Seized In So Cal IRS Case
IRS agents arrested Gary Stella a Los Alamitos reserve policeman and Charles Hatfield a Buena Park market manager after a raid yielding 62 machine guns and more than 50 000 rounds of ammo valued around 4 000. Stella was held at Maywood warehouse and later at Los Angeles County Jail along with Hatfield for alleged violations of the 1968 gun control act.
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Los Alamitos Reserve
Buena Park Market
Internal Revenue Service
Southland
IRS
Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms Division
Gary Stella
Katella Ave
Anaheim
Los Alamitos Naval Air Station
Los Alamitos
Maywood
Charles Hatfield
el Verando Drive
Treasury Department
Stella
Los Angeles County
Showery December Seen in Southland
The U S Weather Bureau forecasts a wet first week of December for the Southland and Long Beach area with showers and near normal to above normal temperatures. One or more showers are expected in Long Beach while the region sees light showery periods through next Saturday ending a 13 day dry spell that aided three county fires.
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U.S. Weather Bureau
Southland
Long Beach
Prepars Chucks School Days Offer Bright Promise
A playful ad notes that school days can be the happiest times if children are old enough to attend, casting Prepars Chucks as a lighthearted helper for school life.
Professor joins hunt for missing Lisa Levering in Illinois
FBI widened search for 14 year old Lisa Levering of Seal Beach after clues showed her missing from a Carbondale Illinois street following a teen club meeting. Father Professor David Levering flew to Carbondale to assist agents and local police as purse and one shoe were found along her route home.
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FBI
Seal Beach
Illinois
David Levering
Cal-Poly Pomona
Carbondale
Ill
Cal
Ann Levering
Lisa
Dale
University of
Southern Illinois
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Third Street
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Department of Public Social Services
Marilyn Brown
Chu Lai
South Vietnam
Americal
Song My
Spec
William J. Minear
Moline
Pfe
Waldo Pierce
Tampa
Fla
U.S
James Farmer
Houston
Combined News Services
Lorraine
Lorraine Parrish
Berkeley
Alcatraz Courtyard
San Francisco
UPI
Alcatraz Island
Federal Building
Dad
F. E. Graper
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Castro
Eldridge Cleaver
Cuba
Nixon
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