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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1967
Page
3
The Christmas season spurred charity across the country and abroad. From Mount Vernon to Honduras, people donated food, toys and clothes to the needy. Charities fed the hungry and aided families while troops abroad marked holidays amid ongoing conflict.
Seaman Jerry Ray Newton 21 of USS Bennington told police he was beaten and robbed of 20 by four men after leaving a Long Beach bar at 2 15 am. They followed him as he walked in an alley between First Street and Ocean Boulevard. Newton was treated for a cut forehead at the Navy Hospital.
Janie Lou Gibbs of Cordele is jailed charged with poisoning her 19 year old son Roger L Gibbs with arsenic laced coffee. Authorities are probing four other family deaths over two years including her husband Marvin Gibbs and two teenage sons. Autopsy found several milligrams of arsenic in Roger’s body. The family deaths occurred in hospitals in Albany Columbus Sumter and Avanta in Georgia. Gibbs is held without bail and denies comment.
Police investigated the slaying of 27-year-old Jon Robinson whose well dressed body was found in a drainage ditch in Hollywood Hills. He was shot twice in the head and identified by fingerprints after papers were removed. Investigators suspect he was killed elsewhere and dumped there. A separate report notes a thief stole a $175 power mower from 4482 Orange Ave Long Beach.
President Johnson enjoyed his first White House Christmas with Lady Bird Lynda and Charles Robb. The family attended services at St Thomas and St Dominic's, opened gifts, and shared in a royal spruce tree ceremony. He said the day was wonderful though he may travel to Texas for the rest of the holidays.
Police hunt a tall leather-jacketed man after a homemade bomb was hurled at the park police station on Christmas Day. Sgt Brian Donnell, 42, and four other officers were taken for medical evaluation after the blast. two suspects fled into Golden Gate Park and were chased but escaped.
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