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Newspaper

Independent

Location

Long Beach, California, United States of America

Date

Feb 13, 1968

Page

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Sinatra Stricken With Pneumonia Forbids Miami Beach Booking

Frank Sinatra, 52, contracted viral pneumonia from the flu and postponed his six week engagement at the Fontainebleau Miami Beach. He remains bedridden in a three room penthouse suite as doctors estimate at least another 10 days to two weeks of illness. He briefly attended his parents anniversary party Friday night but appeared unwell.

Frank Sinatra Fontainebleau Hotel Miami Beach Sinatra Ralph Robbins Robbins Martin Sinatra

US Downed 108th MiG in Vietnam Air Raid Over North Vietnam

The U S Air Force F 4 Phantom shot down a Russian designed MiG 21 during Monday’s air raids over North Vietnam. The crew fired an air to air missile that exploded near the Communist jet causing it to smoke and spin. It marked the 8th MiG downed by U S planes in the air this campaign.

Saigon North Vietnam U.S

World News In Brief From Asia Europe And Africa

Details of air strikes near Vinh in Vietnam and stalled talks in Seoul over the Pueblo crisis are reported. West Germany seeks calm with the Soviet Union on Berlin, while Sicily endures aftershocks from a major quake. A London to New York cable break disrupts international news feeds.

Korea Seoul South Korea Cyrus R. Vance Johnson Park Chung Hee Pueblo Park Vance U.S South U.N. Command North Korea Mixed Armistice Commission Germany Bonn Kurt Georg Kieseinger West Germany Soviet Union Berlin Eugene V. Rostow Rostow Kiessner Europe London New York

Johnson Urges Talks to End Missile Race

President Johnson urged Congress to pursue U S Soviet negotiations to halt the missile race. He cited China’s detonation of a thermonuclear device and its growing missile capability as factors prompting the push for arms control.

Washington Johnson Congress United States Arms Control and Disarmament Agency China

State Dept rejects Soviet protest over U.S. bomber patrols

The State Department on Monday publicly rejected a Soviet protest against far flung patrols by nuclear armed U.S. bombers such as the B52 that crashed in Greenland Jan. 21. It said patrols are necessary due to world tensions and to provide collective security against the threat posed by Soviet nuclear forces.

Washington State Department U.S Greenland Russia

Orangeburg Boycott Sparks Private Civil Rights Talks

Orangeburg, S C officials meet after a Negro economic boycott follows racial violence. Bankers hold private talks on employment practices while a biracial committee meets in closed session. More than 660 National Guardsmen remain on duty around South Carolina State College where three Negroes died and 37 were injured in the Thursday night disturbance.

Orangeburg S.C South Carolina State College

Blonde Goes Back to War in Saigon

Scottsdale resident Jan Moorehead 26, assistant director of the USO in Saigon, planned her first home leave when Viet Cong fighters hit Saigon. She cooked hamburgers and served soldiers during the fighting and expects to return to Saigon in about five weeks. Morris B. Mitchell, 77, writer of Burma-Shave jingles, died in a Palo Alto fire caused by a short in an electric blanket. He formerly headed Burma-Vita Corp shaving cream and helped popularize roadside jingles.

Scottsdale Aziz Vietnam Southeast Asia Jan Moorehead USO Saigon Viet Cong Morris B. Mitchell Palo Alto Mitchell Burma- Vita Corp

Rockefeller Faces Setbacks In Sanitation Overhaul Fight

New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller faced bipartisan opposition in both chambers over his plan to let the state temporarily take control of the sanitation department. The Assembly favored no joint session. Senate Republicans refused to act, tying support to changes to Taylor Law enforcement.

New York Nelson Rockefeller Assembly Senate Rockefeller Senate Rules Committee New York City Sanitation Workers John Delury John V. Lindsay Lindsay

Chief Justice Sued Over Court's Dump

A Senate aide, Robert L. Schramm, 29, sued Chief Justice Earl Warren to force cleaning of a vacant lot behind the Supreme Court. He says beer cans, wine bottles, newspapers, rags, and dead cats pollute the area beneath his townhouse window where he plans to marry. Schramm, an aide to Sen. Herman Talmadge, filed the suit personally, noting sovereign immunity keeps suits against the court from going forward.

Senate Earl Warren Supreme Court Robert L. Schramm U.S. District Court Warren Schramm Herman Talmadge D-Ga Marsha Mustard Senate Finance Committee

Priest urges Duluth seniors to resist draft

In Duluth Minnesota a Roman Catholic priest Father Phillip M Solem of St Anthonys parish and a teacher at Duluth Cathedral High School distributed mimeographed pamphlets titled To a High School Senior advising senior boys to resist the draft and refuse to fight in Vietnam The pamphlets discuss alternatives to the draft including burning draft cards and reflect the priest view that the war is legal and immoral.

Duluth, Minn UPL Duluth Vietnam Phillip M. Solem St. Anthony's Parish Duuth Cathedral High School

Brigitte Bardot Denies Divorce Rumor With Sachs

Brigitte Bardot angrily denied reports she planned to divorce German heir Gunther Sachs over a romance with Stephen Boyd. She called the story groundless and invented, saying she and Sachs discussed nothing of the sort in Grenoble. Eugene Ryland won an Abe Lincoln look alike contest at the Americana Hotel in New York, being the sole entrant in a 6-foot-4 frame with beard and stovepipe hat.

Brigitte Bardot Gunther Sachs Stephen Boyd Almeria Spain Sachs Grenoble France Eugene Ryland Abe Lincoln Americana Hotel New York Ryland

Hedy's Stuff Auction Draws Los Angeles Crowds

Viennese glamour figure Hedy Ba marrs belongings fetch prices from $1 for kitchen boxes to $4000 for a chinchilla store. Auctioneer Arthur B. Goode notes the sale income already reaches six figures. Allen Levi, jailed in Salinas for a sex murder, died by suicide in his cell after authorities say an overdose of tranquilizers caused his death.

Hedy Bamarr Los Angeles Chinchilla Arthur B. Goode Allen Levi Salinas Levi

Bowman Named Assistant Secretary of the Treasury

President Johnson announced the promotion of Joseph M Bowman Jr a 36 year old tax legislation specialist to assistant Secretary of the Treasury Bowman will be nominated to succeed True Davis who resigned January 15 at the time of the promotion Bowman's move marks a key personnel change in the Treasury department.

Maharani Hope Nameyal Sikkim India Calcutta Himalayan Palden Thondup Namgyal Sarah Lawrence College Bronxville N.Y Queen Hope Eubank Mary Jo McDermott Tyrone Valento Providencia Avenue Kenneth Road Johnson Joseph M. Bowman Jr

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