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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Jul 15, 1969
Page
9
Readers weigh US Russian space rivalry and the Apollo 11 mission. Bill Corbusier questions lunar dust risks while Mona King proposes barricades to curb wrong way driving. A 14 year old girl, Kittie Jackson, achieves a rare cribbage hand but loses the game, noting youth’s rising talent.
The destroyer USS Higbee returned to Long Beach after a 62 month Vietnam deployment with the 7th Fleet. Cmdr. John D. Stanard Jr. led 280 crew members in a homecoming marked by a musical and sign filled welcome at Pier 15. The ship logged forty night gunfire missions and a Sea of Japan passage with a carrier task force after an EC-121 incident.
The Board of Education approved a 1969 70 spending plan calling for a 24 cent per 100 tax levy, down from 29 cents, to fund an 68.6 million operating budget. Final board action and public hearing set for Aug 4, with state aid uncertain, possibly 600 thousand to 1.2 million, to restore cut programs. A 1.3 million low bid for Hudson Elementary construction was also approved, funded largely by state and federal sources.
City Manager John R. Mansell seeks a 7.5 percent raise for nearly all 4700 city employees with 222 workers receiving 10.2 percent and boosts for three others. Public hearings begin 9 a.m. Wednesday as the budget process nears completion and council sets allotments for housing, promotions, and visitor bureaus.
Long Beach Free Clinic and Opportunities Industrialization Center agreed to an interchange of services. The clinic will refer job training and placement candidates to OIC, while OIC will refer patients needing medical or counseling aid. Percy Anderson of OIC joined the clinic's board. The OIC at 1325 Alamitos Ave aims to train dropouts and assist the unemployed and disabled, while the clinic provides free medical care and counseling. Hours run 2 to 10 p.m. weekdays and 1 to 5 p.m. Saturdays.
An out of court settlement was reached Monday in a damages suit for an infant boy born with a deformity after his mother took the wrong birth control pill. Lawrence and Cynthia Green of Anaheim sued Thrifty Drug Stores Inc for 15000 dollars. the store settled for an undisclosed amount. Superior Court in Santa Ana approved the settlement on behalf of David Louis Green.
Keith Ford of Comp ton reports his 1960 Austin Healey ad appeared in the paper and drew a quick response selling the car before three o clock the same day. The ad appears in the local issue and boosted immediate inquiries.
The Long Beach Symphony opens its Summer Starlight Serenades at 8 pm in Recreation Park with a free program. Conductor Akira Endo, 30, leads the 70 member orchestra. Soloist Gerald Robbins, 23, performs Dohnanyi Variations on a Nursery Rhyme amid ballet pieces.
Robert Griess of Santa Ana became a Goodwill Industries cashier after enduring two big crashes that left him paralyzed in both legs and then fracturing both legs followed by ulcers. He studied accounting at Oklahoma Technical College after the 1954 crash and joined Goodwill last year, overcoming past setbacks.
Robinson A. Reid, prominent Long Beach banker and civic leader, was elected president of the Long Beach Board of Harbor Commissioners succeeding James G. Craig Jr. He has eight years on the commission and leads as Bank of Long Beach president and CEO.
Long Beach police said three parking meter heads valued at 225 dollars were stolen from meter posts in Belmont Shore around Second Street and Santa Ana Avenue. An unspecified amount of coins was also taken.
The Department of Oil Properties says Long Beach Harbor will see an 85 percent reduction in oil produced waste water dumps within about six months. THUMS Long Beach Co plans to reinject up to 105000 barrels daily, with Mobil Oil and Union Pacific reusing Gaspur zone water to cut harbor discharges.
At 7:30 p.m. a playwriting class led by visiting playwrights is offered at the Long Beach Douglass House Center located at 1021 Lime Ave.
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