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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1968
Page
1
Readers are invited to write or call ACTION LINE in Long Beach California. The column offers problem solving and rights assistance by selecting questions of general interest and usefulness for public guidance.
Long Beach residents consider a possible junk business run from a home in an R-1 zone. The Building and Safety Department enforces zone rules and illegal home business activity. file a complaint at 435 3435. A field inspection will follow and a notice with a correction deadline may be issued.
In the film biography Deep in My Heart MGM released in 1954 Jose Ferrer sings When I Grow Too Old to Dream. Romberg wrote the music and Hammerstein the lyrics. Ferrer, Merle Oberon and Helen Traubel star.
Alfredo Codona a famed circus aerialist was born in Mexco City in 1896 and later died by suicide in Long Beach in 1937. He trained from age four and pioneered the triple somersault and blindfolded trapeze. He married Lillian Lietzel in 1929 and Vera Bruce later.
Hong Kong flu tightens its grip as Long Beach Unified School District reports over 9,000 pupil absences and teachers missing time. Countywide, health officials fear up to 40 percent of residents may be ill at the epidemic peak while 350,000 Los Angeles County residents are already sick.
U S Weather Bureau forecasts cloudy skies with a 60 percent chance of rain today and a 70 percent chance by tonight over Long Beach. Mountain snowlines have fallen to about 6000 feet, with coastal highs in the 60s and low 50s in the mountains.
The FCC moves to start Pay-TV by June 12 1969 in communities with four VHF stations and to expand CATV into the 100 largest cities. New rules would require CATV to originate some programming while importing distant signals with station consent. Rosel Hyde says CATV enters the program market to compete fairly with broadcasters.
Associated Press writer George W. Cornell portrays Isaiah as the greatest Old Testament prophet who spoke openly on justice and oppression. The Independent Press Telegram begins a five part series on the prophets, starting Monday.
Gov. Reagan told administrators to draw the line and confront agitators now without appeasement. He said students must learn and follow rules or leave, critiquing teachers who back disruption and noting the Fre mont High demonstration in Los Angeles during Walter Cunningham's homecoming.
Atty. Gen. Ramsey Clark said 32 federal narcotics agents resigned amid an inquiry into corruption in the New York Bureau of Narcotics. Additional resignations and prosecutions are expected as deputies sold seized drugs and used contraband, with five agents indicted and others arrested earlier.
State police said a Lansing nursery class used deadly poisonous sequirity beans for Christmas card decorations. A Michigan State University botanist confirmed the beans are toxic as police search for all beans. The teacher bought the bright red beans with a black tip about two years ago for ornamentation. Sears Roebuck recalls brooches decorated with sequirity beans and suppliers cite possible shipments from the Philippines or Brazil.
A 20 year old Long Beach service station attendant was indicted under the 1967 Selective Service Act for evading induction. Barry Lee Blakely of 2076 Greenbrier Road was among 14 Californians indicted by a Federal Grand Jury in Los Angeles. United States Atty. Matt Byrne said Blakely refused to submit to induction.
A fragment mentions blondes possibly preferring gentlemen, with no clear event or person tied to it. The text seems to be an isolated aside rather than a reportable story.
San Francisco State College closed Friday for Christmas one week early amid threats of protests by demonstrators targeting vacationing high school students. Acting President S. I. Hayakawa announced the early closing, citing safety and welfare concerns for students on campus and voicing discomfort at the behavior of striking students.
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