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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1969
Page
1
The notice promotes ACTION LINE as a service to solve problems and answer questions. Readers are urged to write ACTION LINE Box 230 Long Beach California 90801 or call 432 3451 during specified hours on weekdays.
Local baby beauty contests run in summer. Gardena hosts a show on July 17 at Rowley Park with details from the Gardena Recreation Department. Hermosa Beach holds a tot beauty contest tied to the Surf Festival near the end of August, details via Hermosa Beach City Hall.
A reader questions how yellow pages ads list psychologists without verification. A G T Directory spokesman says advertisers are accepted as claimed and the book is not guaranteed. State and federal false advertising laws and professional bodies police misrepresentations.
Reader asks about a rock found near a school yard and road that BLM officials say could indicate valuable minerals beneath. Claims depend on surface discovery and whether land is public or private, with private land posing complications.
General Precision Corp of Elgin Illinois has bought Stahly razor assets and formed a Stahly Razor Division. The unit will repair and clean Stahly razors with a one year guarantee and charges 7.55 dollars including return postage. S F Elgin Ill.
Students at the University of California held a bleed-in on campus to protest tuition proposals. The on campus Committee against Tuition collected about $1,000 from roughly 120 pints of blood, with $10 payments on each donor. Plans for another blood-letting in January are already underway.
Two American helicopter crewmen released after 38 days in Viet Cong captivity said they could not fight their captors again due to the care they received. Sgt. Vernon C. Shepard and Warrant Officer Michael T. Peterson spoke at Tan Son Nhut Air Base after being shot down November 2 and held in Quang Duc province.
A Hy dromar Dredging Co. worker Joseph Martineau 35 of Stanton identified as missing and presumed drowned after a barge broke from moorings and swamped in 12 to 14 foot waves near Oxnard. Greek national Nicholas Bratsos body washed ashore, another man unidentified remains missing. Weather notes warn 6 to 10 foot locally with eight foot swells at Seal Beach and seven foot swells at Surfside and Sunset beaches.
Frictionless antiwar activity continued with vigils discussions and leaflets in cities and campuses from the Pacific to New York. In New York Brooklyn Time Square rally with South Vietnam Vice Consul Rang Van Nhuen and a motorcade planned to show support for President Nixon's Vietnam policies.
The Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 707, flying from Madrid to Addis Ababa with 14 passengers and nine crew, was hijacked by two men, an Arab from Yemen and a Senegalese, who were armed with pistols and explosives. A security guard shot the leading hijacker in the front as the pair struggled. the second hijacker was killed by passengers in the rear. Four other men fired as the incident unfolded, yet no one aboard was reported injured beyond the two hijackers.
Vice President Spiro Agnew blasted the Senate at the Republican Governors Conference in Hot Springs Arkansas accusing lawmakers of turning tax reform into a toy to lure voters. He warned the amended tax bill and spending measures would cause national disaster and inflationary pressure harming early 1970s stability.
The Senate approved a plan by 70 to 7 to outlaw cigarette commercials on radio and television starting January 1, 1971. The bill would strengthen warnings on packs and let the FTC curb other ads after July 1, 1971, with an amendment allowing action on print ads and billboards sooner if needed.
A brief musing on the rush of a novel idea as it strikes, followed by the dawning awareness of potential flaws and future doubts about its viability.
A brief item noting a young genius sits on the New York Stock Exchange as part of Page A-5 coverage. Other items preview religion top stories of 1969, a long beach shooting victim, a Christmas charity feature, and senior citizens travel and dine discounts across sections B-5 B-28 B-4 C-9.
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