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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Feb 14, 1968
Page
1
A compact notice from the Independent Press Telegram notes events on the beach and related activities. Details are sparse in the readable text, with the primary focus on the local coastal scene and a mention of timing.
Municipal Court Judge Joan Dempsey Klein announced a bid for Superior Court while sparring with rival Noel Cannon over courtroom image. Klein decried Cannon as a constant embarrassment and dismissed comments from photographers as insufficient.
Senate aide Robert J. Schramm reported partial success in pressuring Chief Justice Earl Warren to clean a littered lot behind the Supreme Court building. Workers cleared beer cans and newspapers, but more debris remains. Separate arrest: FBI nabbed Howard Borman in Covington, Kentucky, described as a top recent fugitive who offered no resistance.
Los Angeles Superior Court Judge D. Sterry Fagan sentenced James Robert Fagan, 35, to five years to life on a first degree robbery plea. The judge noted for the record that they are not related.
In Hue the old walled Citadel fortress resists a heavy assault by Viet Cong and Communist forces as Marines suffer six dead and 76 wounded. About 600 Communists hold the fortress while 500 Marines and Vietnamese troops press the attack. Nearby, U S bombers pound positions near Khe Sanh as clashes flare across the region.
New York Governor Rockefeller and the legislature remain deadlocked over ending the nine day garbage strike. Mayor Lindsay says he will try only if garbage men stay on the job and Rockefellers plan to take over city sanitation facilities is delayed. He proposes collective bargaining or fact finding and directs city negotiators to bargain with the union, warning he may seek full state assistance, including the National Guard, if the emergency returns.
In Westbrook Maine a teen aged boy shot and killed his father Roger G Allard mother Frances and younger sister Susan 12 and then took his own life. The four bodies were found in the Allard home after a relative could not reach them for nearly a week. Roger G Allard and Frances Allard were both in their forties and their 16 year old son Peter Charles is identified among the dead.
The Justice Department asked a court to desegregate Orangeburg Hospital amid a racially tense climate in the city where three youths died in violence last week. Martin Luther King Jr accused officers of overreaction as shootings wounded many students on campus. Romney warned of a civil rights crisis as McCarthy backers in Pennsylvania and North Carolina delegates show momentum. A congressman accused the Air Force of taking commissions from a salesman who bilked GIs. Priests vote to form a national federation to coordinate priest associations and senates.
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