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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1969
Page
1
The notice explains Action Line services offering problem solving and rights advocacy. Readers can write to Box 230 Long Beach or call 432-3451 during specified hours on weekdays for questions chosen for general interest and usefulness.
City Auditor Murray Courson says Long Beach expects 1969 traffic fines total of 1,717,000 dollars with November alone issuing 4,600 moving citations and 15,000 parking tickets. Half funds traffic devices and the other half goes to the general fund for safety like street striping.
Charles Manson 35 leader of a hippie cult charged with seven killings at the Tate and LaBianca homes was moved to Los Angeles for trial. He arrived Tuesday night in custody, wearing fringe buckskin and moccasins, and was taken to the police headquarters under guard. He will be arraigned alone Thursday after arriving from Inyo County jail on arson and receiving stolen property charges. Three female family members indicted with him face arraignment today.
Washington The United Mine Workers reported a 4-1 margin for President W. A. Boyle amid early counting in the near 50 year contest. At midnight Boyle led 43,462 to 18,702 over Joseph A. Yablonski as ballots from 1,300 locals in 22 states and Canada were tallied.
Black Panther supporters claim police framed the Panthers after a raid on their headquarters in Los Angeles. Police say officers were fired upon during a four hour gunfight at 4114 South Central Avenue and recovered 35 guns and ammunition.
The Senate voted to let people retire at age 60 with two thirds of the Social Security benefits they would receive at 65, leaving implementation to the President. The measure could affect 3.5 million workers and cost the Social Security trust fund $500 million yearly at first.
The House approved a $1.6 billion foreign aid appropriation by 200 to 195, the lowest in history, with Republicans split and liberals wary over $104 million for South Korea and Nationalist China. The package includes about $1.2 billion in economic aid and $425 million in military aid, still short of Nixon’s request.
Senators Warren Magnuson and Mark Hatfield asked the White House and Pentagon to stop Army shipments of poison gas, potentially exceeding 700 railroad cars. The proposed route runs from Bangor Washington to the Army Ordnance Depot at Umatilla Oregon.
In New York City clashes between antiwar demonstrators and police left 48 arrests and three officers injured. Demonstrators gathered near the Waldorf Astoria as Nixon attended a dinner, with violence spilling onto Park and Fifth Avenues, including window breakage at Saks Fifth Avenue and banks.
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