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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Jul 13, 1968
Page
1
An advice service offers to solve problems and answer questions. Readers are instructed to write ACTION LINE Box 230 Long Beach California 90801 or call 432-3451 during listed hours Monday through Friday for general interest inquiries.
ACTION LINE explains raft trips are privately operated but meet park safety standards and offers a complete list via Grand Canyon Visitor Center. For the shoe issue, the Star Shoe Co. with owner Max Warshaw gave conflicting excuses and did not resolve the missing shoes.
The column recounts brusque responses from Warshaw over a two week period with no merchandise delivery from Star Shoe Co. It suggests filing complaints with the State Attorney General’s consumer fraud division and the Los Angeles Better Business Bureau. It also notes a reader asking about volunteer work with children and an Indian chief seeking contact with Bob Hope, who may arrange a meeting through Paramount Pictures.
Ex Marine asks about VA hospital eligibility and alternatives. The reply notes service connected disabilities receive priority at veterans hospitals and others are treated if beds exist and no insurance or funds are available. For emergency care, VA hospitals treat until ready to move or eligibility is confirmed. Apply to the Admissions Desk at Seventh Street and Bellflower Boulevard Long Beach for bed waiting list.
A reader extols Fidelity Federal Plaza as the city’s finest new architectural complex praising its beauty after prior projects like the Navy Landing and Arena and International Apartment Building.
Bitter exchange between Councilmen Bert B. Bond and Robert F. Crow closed Long Beach salary hearings with unanimous votes for raises. Custodians and related staff receive 8.1 percent, and overall increases up to 12 percent for retirement brackets, while prosecutor staff pay hikes face opposition.
Washington reports California may enforce its tighter auto exhaust and fuel evaporation rules starting with 1969 and 1970 models. Senator Murphy announced Health Secretary Cohen granted a federal exemption, despite auto industry opposition, with support from the California congressional delegation.
The Post Office Department says it will end all Saturday mail delivery in city residences. Starting July 27 weekend window service will be cut back to limited hours at first and second class offices. The move follows manpower reductions from the new tax bill. Additionally 250 fourth class offices will close on August 2 and 97 more on August 30.
Bobby Rogers, 31, surrendered in Graham North Carolina after claiming he killed three Puerto Ricans during an attempted break in on a New York City street. He traveled by bus from Manhattan and told sheriff he used the assailants' own gun. Victims were Manuel Angel Figueroa 19, Efrain Castro 21, and Jose Rivera 20.
Delta Airlines Flight 977 carrying 48 passengers and six crew landed in Miami after a two hour drama. The hijacker, Oran Daniel Richards, 33, faced kidnap charges as the flight engineer Glenn Smith spoke with him for 30 minutes and him crying like a baby. The pilot credited the engineer for talking him out of the act.
After a week of record heat, Long Beach and Los Angeles expect a drop to 88 with a 64 degree low. Forecasters note a gradual cooling trend easing temperatures toward seasonal norms. The heat had limited smog alerts as a low pressure system breaks up dense smog saved by a sunny day.
UC regents vote 10-8 to urge lawmakers to override Reagan vetoes totaling 6 million dollars for 1968 69 and back a 10 page statement by UC President Hitch claiming a decline in education standards. Reagan says California taxpayers block more UC funding and leaves before public discussion. Separately a Minuteman I missile launch from Vandenberg AFB is reported.
A local oil tanker received a record $2,500 penalty for polluting harbor waters. Page A-3 highlights Notes on presidential aspirants. Page A-5 reports L. B. Civic Light Opera's Sound of Music continuing after the star suffered a heart attack.
The passage mocks a mathematical claim about horn blasts in a traffic jam. It asserts the number of blasts equals the sum of squares at the wheels, presenting a playful, punny calculation.
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