Action Line helps resolve consumer questions in Long Beach
A readers service from Action Line offers aid for consumer problems. A question about a hairpiece payment to Miss Sale ta Marti reveals the Dawsons’ expired license and unknown whereabouts. An appraisal for a violin stamped Stradivarius Cremonensis Anno 1730 is offered by Morey’s Music Store, noting copies are common and value varies.
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Public Line Answers Artesia Lights And Boeing DC-8 Debate
A Long Beach ACTION LINE reader asks about synchronized traffic signals on Artesia Boulevard and a one second power fault. The city reports the master system favors the busier direction and has corrected the issue. report persistent problems to 432-8904. A reader asks which jet first flew, DC-8 or Boeing 707. Boeing's 707 maiden flight was July 1954, DC-8 first test flight May 1958, with the 707 debuting airline service October 1958 and the DC-8 in September 1959. The KC-135 tanker was developed from the 707 after its 1954 flight. Also notes Vincent Thomas Bridge tolls: likely to end once construction costs are paid, several years away, with about $5.5 million in tolls collected on 25-cent charges from ~13,000 daily vehicles since 1963.
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U S Calls On U N Council to Condemn Israeli Attack
UPI reports Israeli jets swept Beirut International Airport in daylight after Saturday night raids crippled or damaged at least 13 Arab airliners. Lebanese forces offered little resistance as Israeli commandos carried out the operation under darkness. Jordanian-Israeli exchanges and Arab attacks on settlements followed with no casualties reported by Israel.
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No Comment On Jet Sale To Israel
The State Department declined to comment on whether the proposed sale of 50 Phantom jets to Israel would be affected by the Beirut airport attack. Spokesman Ben Thirkield said the U.S. protest was issued in the strongest possible terms, adding they cannot go beyond Saturday's statement regarding the sale.
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Moonmen Return Home After Apollo 8 Flight
At Houston Edward Delong Space Center crowds welcomed astronauts Frank Borman James Lovell and William Anders home then viewed published photographs and film from lunar surface mission. Space Agency released 13 photographs and 100 feet of motion picture with more promised. footage showed earth from 10 to 15 thousand miles out and lunar scene with a half turn of the Apollo 8 craft.
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Ice and Snow Slam Midwest to Great Lakes Region
A massive cold front and storm blanketed the nation from the Pacific Northwest to the Upper Great Lakes, with sub zero readings and record lows in Montana. Niagara County and western New York suffered widespread power outages after an ice storm, forcing evacuations near Niagara Falls and Middleport.
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Reagan Team Gets Chance with Creative Society Test
Sacramento 1969 marks the year Gov. Ronald Reagan and a Republican legislature face major issues in education taxation and public health. The administration expects to press the Creative Society program as Unruh Monagan and potential rivals position for future power while elections loom in 1970.
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Lebanon asks for sanctions over Beirut airport attack
At a UN Security Council emergency meeting Lebanon urged concrete sanctions against Israel including diplomatic economic or military action and monetary compensation. Israel defended the raid as upholding navigation rights in international skies while noting it was in response to an Arab terrorist attack.
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Fragmentary line recalling a time when fashion dilemmas kept girls indoors and shopping for outfits was scarce. The piece hints at social attitudes and consumer culture in a past era.
Moon race conceded by Russian experts in US shift
Article notes Russian experts virtually concede the moon race to the United States. Magazine poll reports 750000 college students nationwide identify with the New Left.
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