Action Line helps foster children with Christmas gifts
Long Beach readers ask for wholesale Christmas gifts for two foster children. Naples Cycle Shop and Brownie’s Toy Store offer discounted bicycles and skates. Defense pamphlets on flag laws available from government offices. Navy guest program supported by the Long Beach Armed Services YMCA continues this year.
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Action Line
M.S
Long Beach
A. Millard B. Hudson
Naples Cycle Shop
Second St
Dana Brown
Brownie’s
ABC
B.A
Long Beach Armed Services Ymca
The
Navy Handclasp program aids missions and repair classes
The article notes Project Handclasp as the Navy’s people to people program started in 1949 with a broad reach, plus guidance on donating goods to missions and hospitals. It also covers Long Beach classes in electrical equipment repair and on the job training offers in appliance repair, with local resources listed.
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Midwest
Navy
Long Beach
San Diego
Norfolk
South
Central America
Europe
Naval Supply Center
Long Beach City College Extension
Pacific Coast Highway
Action Line
Chet Johnson
Catfish Electric & Appliance
Anaheim St
Johnson
Navy Reserve
Long Beach Public Library
Pacific Avenue
Ocean Boulevard
Ernest Trcomis
Jack Carr
Sounding the Queen Mary horn heralds Long Beach New Year
A.B. from Long Beach urges New Year and holiday horn blasts on the Queen Mary to announce the ship is alive and to draw crowds of residents and businessmen. He predicts thousands will toast the horn on New Year’s Eve and celebrate another year in Long Beach.
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Long Beach
A.B
Nixon's Cabinet Choices
Washington sources outline Nixon's upcoming cabinet with Catherine May as agriculture secretary a Washington congresswoman and two top advisers. The plan features Henry Jackson for defense Moynihan for housing and urban development and leaves three posts state treasury and postmaster general unsettled amid possible last minute changes.
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Nixon
Agriculture Department
Washington
Catherine May
May
GOP
House’ Agriculture Committee
President Johnson
National Commission On Food Marketing
Albert Quie
R-Minn
State
Treasury
Defense
Sen
Henry Jackson
D-Wash
Interior Committee
Armed Services Committee
Daniel P. Moynihan
Kennedy and
Johnson
Institute of Urban Studies
MIT
National Guard Troops Deployed to Vietnam Spar Over Constitution
Justice Douglas allowed the Army to send 386 National Guardsmen to Vietnam amid a bid to block mobilization as unconstitutional. The guardsmen from California and Washington argued the Constitution restricts calling up guards to execute the laws and repel invasions. The request for a restraining order was rejected by a Tacoma court.
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Washington
William O. Douglas
Vietnam
Supreme Court
High Tribunal
Douglas
National Guard
18Th Armored Cavalry
Burbank
U.S. District Court
Tacoma
Wash
North Korea
Pueblo
Fort Lewis
Enraged Fans Riot After Boxing Title Fight
Enraged fans rioted at the Forum in Inglewood after Lionel Rose retained the bantamweight title with a split decision over Chucho Castillo. Latin American supporters started fires in the stands and pelted the ring with trash as police moved in and spectators sheltered beneath chairs and coats.
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Australia
Lionel Rose
Mexico
Chucho Castillo
Forum
Inglewood
Eight Marines Injured in Two Explosions at Camp Pendleton
A base spokesman reported eight Marines injured at Camp Pendleton California on Friday two severely. Five hurt in a training explosion near Las Pulgas Lake included one seriously injured who underwent surgery. Earlier three Marines were burned in a mess hall blast caused by a gas stove pilot flame with two other sailors sustaining lesser burns. Names withheld pending relatives.
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Camp Pendleton
Upi
California Marine Base
Las Pulgas Lake
Base Naval Hospital
Agnew Draws Flak Over Journal Mockery Comments
Vice President elect Spiro Agnew, speaking at a Republican Governors Conference session in Palm Springs, likened The New York Times and Newsweek to executionary journals and said other papers were fit only to line birdcages. He later defended his remarks as humor and refused further discussion. The comments echoed prior campaign remarks about ethnic groups as Agnew faced renewed scrutiny.
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Spiro T. Agnew
Agnew
New York Times
Newsweek Magazine
Nixon urges governors to make nation worthy of Vietnam veterans
President elect Nixon at a state dinner asked Republican governors to help honor Vietnam veterans. He saluted 66 disabled veterans among 1,000 guests and urged Americans to dedicate themselves to a peaceable, opportunity filled future for those who fought. He praised the veterans' sacrifices and pledged leadership from the nation’s governors.
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Palm Springs
Richard M. Nixon
Vietnam
Nixon
Fair Weekend Expected Amid Fog Slowdown at Long Beach
Early morning fog lingered over Long Beach delaying operations at International Airport for a second day. Officials lifted suspensions as fog watched and a weekend forecast called for mild 70 degree days and 45 degree nights with no rain and variable high clouds.
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Long Beach
Long Beach Municipal
U. S. Weather Bureau
Weather Bureau
Southland
First Horseback Ride Brings Comfort to TroDaAy
There is nothing like the first horseback ride to make a person feel better off.
San Francisco State strike leaders reject Hayakawa concessions
Acting president Dr. S I Hayakawa offered a broad plan to end a month long walkout at San Francisco State College. He proposed a Black Studies Department with February classes and minority student admissions. Striking groups demanded full amnesty autonomous departments and control of faculty appointments.
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SAN Francisco Pi
S. I. Hayakawa
San Francisco State College
Hayakawa
Nathan Hare
George Murray
Black Panther
Black Students Union
Students For A Democratic Society
Third World Liberation Front of Latins and Orientals
Murray
Militants Submit Grievances Statement On UCI Negroes
Page A-3 notes militants present a bill of grievances from UCI Negroes. Page A-5 reports Nixon's chief talent scout questions traditional personnel practices. Page A-5 covers Daniel Walker denying Chicago violence report was rewritten under Attorney General Clark's direction.
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UCI
Nixon
Daniel Walker
Atty. Gen. Clark
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