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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Jan 03, 1969
Page
1
The column offers readers a service to get answers and stand up for rights. It instructs how to contact Action Line by mail or phone in Long Beach California with hours for questions chosen for general interest.
The 1943 United Artists film Stage Door Canteen can be rented from Merkle Film Library at 2254 Pacific Ave Long Beach for 15 dollars. It features William Terry Cheryl Walker and 48 other actors plus six name bands.
Israeli forces fired on three Lebanese military positions near Alamrah Almysat and Arab Alwayzah farms in Southern Lebanon. Lebanese forces returned fire with no reported Lebanese casualties. Earlier Israeli jets struck Arab gun positions in Jordan and Egyptian Israeli troops traded small arms fire at the Suez.
A reader from Long Beach asks about walking the roughly 990 miles from San Diego to La Paz Mexico and whether anyone has completed such a trek, hoping to become the first to do so.
The column notes missing records of a migration path to the California border and invites reader memories to illuminate the question. It also asks where to find a chimney sweep without contacting the British Isles, after a Long Beach reader seeks local service.
In Long Beach chimney cleaners, led by Berkin Duct Cleaning Engineers, still rely on brushes and vacuums to clear soot from dampers and slanted chimneys. They handle up to 200 jobs in December and January using eight inch extension brushes and canvas sheets for soot. Separately a reader asks about missing uniforms from James G. Fast Co. Chicago. Evelyn Fall replies that uniforms mailed Sept. 30 may have been lost, with stock options to replace or refund within two weeks.
An Eastern Air Lines DC-8 carrying 146 from New York to Miami was hijacked over the Atlantic and forced to Havana. The pilot radioed FD about 60 miles east of Jacksonville at 11 27 p m EST vowing to Havana. It marked the first hijacking to Cuba that year and the second largest on record.
Vincent Randolph Otto, 22, of Anaheim, was shot and killed Thursday during an argument with a 17 year old in a Fullerton parking lot. William Leroy Fitzgerald, 23, of Seal Beach, was arrested nearby at 1321 Harbor Boulevard and booked on suspicion of murder.
President elect Richard Nixon and a Southland vacation stop led to a 90 minute physical exam at Memorial Hospital of Long Beach. Nixon praised the visit while Lungren, his long time physician, observed a facility tour and noted computer blood analysis modernization.
Richard M. Nixon attended a nostalgia program at the Anaheim Convention Center where Whittier College football coach Wallace Newman presented him with a yellow W letter. More than 12,000 watched as Nixon, then president-elect, recalled his college days and received the bench he warmed.
The Los Angeles County Health Department reports 30 percent of 7.25 million residents struck by the Hong Kong flu with 20 percent more expected. Absenteeism runs two to four times normal and four days off on average, up to three weeks for some. Pneumonia can appear 10 days to 14 weeks after the flu with high fever and respiratory symptoms.
In Washington John W McCormack easily secured a second term as House speaker amid a youth challenge. The day before the 91st Congress Democrats and Republicans held leadership votes as Sen Edward M Kennedy sought to build support to replace Sen Russell Long as Senate Democratic whip. Kennedy led Long in early tallies though Long claimed a majority.
If evolution works, nature will eventually produce a pedestrian who can jump three ways at once. The quote reflects a humorous take on natural selection and human physical limits.
Saigon reports 1968 ended with 14 521 U S military deaths and 92 000 wounded. Weekly totals show 113 U S deaths in the last week of December amid a holiday lull. By year end 30 543 killed, 192 327 wounded, and 1 243 missing in action.
Defense secretary nominee Melvin R. Laird said he will decide soon after taking office on the future of the troubled F111 fighter bomber. He denied reports that he had already decided to scrap the project.
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