Action Line answers reader questions on rights and meat sales
The Action Line guidance column offers help with public issues. A reader asks where to buy game meat and learns ranch raised pheasant sells for 3.50 to 4 dollars at Olympic Poultry Market in Los Angeles, while wild game sales are illegal per California Fish and Game. It notes permits required to rear game birds and that most squirrels are protected.
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Long Beach
Olympic
Olympic Bivd
Los Angeles
California Fish and Game Department
California
Long Beach Gas and Water ad space favors charities
A Long Beach Gas and Water Department spokesman explains that the bill pamphlet’s last page is shared with charitable groups on a first come, first served basis. Current organizations include the Heart Fund, Health Department emergency preparedness, Recreation, Sea Festival, United Crusade, and the Arena and Exhibit Hall.
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Long Beach Gas and Water Department
Long Beach
Peter Fort
Gas Department
The
Heart Fund
Long Beach Health Department
Department of Emergency Preparedness
Recreation Department
Pregnancy hospital benefit dispute at South Bay firm
A Long Beach reader describes paycheck deductions for hospital insurance from 1967 to 1969. She says she was told maternity expenses would be covered up to 400 dollars but later learned she was not covered. She asks if anything can be done.
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South Bay
Long Beach
Bill Fagger
Computer Dimensions, Inc
Dallas
Palm tree bands curb rats in San Pedro
A Los Angeles County Health Department spokesman explains galvanized steel bands around royal palm trunks on the scenic drive in San Pedro deter rats that climb the trees to reach pigeon nests. The bands, installed a year ago after complaints, do not harm the trees as palm trunks do not expand.
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Ocean
San Pedro
Action Line
W. W
Long Beach
Los Angeles County Health Department
Catholic Big Brothers Extend Local Presence In Long Beach
Reader notes a Long Beach YMCA office at 600 Long Beach Blvd where applicants are interviewed every Thursday. Additional details are available from Catholic Big Brothers Los Angeles at 1400 W Ninth St 385-7211. The Big Brothers of Greater Los Angeles plan a mobile office next month for Long Beach.
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Big Brothers, Inc
Big Brothers
Long Beach
Long Beach Blvd
Catholic Big Brothers
Los Angeles
Ninth St
Big Brothers of
Greater Los Angeles
G.F
Police Panther clash spooks Los Angeles
A four hour gun battle at the Black Panther headquarters on 4115 South Central Avenue ended with the militants surrendering. Three officers were wounded, five defenders injured, and twenty four suspects arrested as police conducted three simultaneous raids. An arsenal was seized and later unrest erupted with protests and minor uprisings around the city.
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Black Panther
South Central Avenue
Los Angeles
S. Central Ave
Panther
Top Juror Describes Tate Manson Murders as Worst
Six people were Indicted late Monday by the Los Angeles County Grand Jury in seven murders connected to pregnant actress Sharon Tate and restaurant owner Lena LaBianca. Jury chair Joseph Bishop called the case shocking and praised coroner Noguchi’s testimony. Indicted are Charles Manson and five others on seven counts of murder and one of conspiracy.
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Los Angeles County Grand Jury
Sharon Tate
Lena LaBianca
Long Beach
Joseph Bishop
Thomas T. Noguchi
California
Charles Manson
Manson
Inyo County
LaBianca
Rosemary
Tate
91 Die in Greek airliner crash near Athens
An Olympic DC-6B propeller plane crashed in a rainstorm 40 miles south of Athens on approach to the airport killing 91 aboard. One foreign passenger, a West German, was among the dead as rescuers faced darkness and heavy rain.
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Athens
UPI
Crete
Here
Crat
Highest Waves Drench Surfside and Coast Highway
Storm driven surf battered beachfront homes in Surfside Sunset Beach area. Coast Guard reports six to eight foot seas with possible ten footers northward. Seal Beach police and California Highway Patrol closed the highway after seven foot waves flooded the road, leaving 50 vehicles stalled and a nine mile jam two hours after peak at 7:30 a.m.
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Surfside
Sunset Beach
Pacific Coast Highway
Seal Beach
California
Calley Defense Moves to Dismiss 110 Murder Charges
UPI reports at Ft Benning defense attorneys ask to dismiss all 110 murder charges against Army Lt. William L. Calley Jr alleging he cannot receive a fair trial in a U.S. military court. The case centers on 1968 My Lai killings of South Vietnamese civilians. A Jan 20 hearing is scheduled.
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FT. Benning, Ga
UPI
Army
William L. Calley Jr
U.S
Calley
My Lai
Nixon Pledges Vietnam Pullout and Domestic Tax Plans
President Nixon announced during a prime time White House news conference that a further U.S. troop withdrawal from Vietnam would be revealed around Christmas and that the war would end regardless of Paris talks. He said he would veto a Senate tax reform bill with higher Social Security awards and an increased personal exemption, and urged restraint on inflation. The Pentagon counted 475,200 U.S. troops in Vietnam, with Senate leaders noting additional withdrawals.
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Washington
UPL
Nixon
U.S
Vietnam
Paris
Senate
White House
Congress
My Lai
Spiro T. Agnew
Pentagon
Nixon denounces My Lai massacre at news conference
President Nixon condemned what he termed a massacre of civilians in My Lai and said atrocities by Communists in Vietnam were a key reason for U.S. involvement. He noted no individual soldiers had been convicted and rejected forming a civilian commission to investigate at this time.
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Nixon
My Lai
Vietnam
U.S
Sen
John Stennis
D-Mass
Panel Studies Civil Disobedience
A panel examines civil disobedience and its impact on social movements. The discussion highlights tactics, ethics, and historical examples, with emphasis on changes in public opinion and policy responses.
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