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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Jul 16, 1968
Page
4
Sacramento lawmakers James A. Hayes and Paul Priolo urged studying California recall laws for adequacy. They argued the 1911 language may cause unintended results and waste taxpayer money, proposing petitions cite specific charges and provide signer copies, with a view to keeping recall while refining procedures.
Dale Morrow, a 27 year old construction worker from Rifle Colorado, was found guilty in San Mateo County Superior Court of toppling a 90 foot Pacific Gas and Electric Co pole during a Vietnam War protest. The act cut power for over an hour to about 200000 people along the Peninsula between Pacifica and Woodside.
Report on Warsaw Pact forces near Czechoslovakia with 20 Soviet divisions in East Germany and missiles, plus 14 Czechoslovak divisions facing possible intervention. Prohlik urges calm, calls for Warsaw Pact reform for equal say, while Moscow signals a warning rather than full assault. Stolen car at 3381 Kallin Ave. linked to four suits and two shirts worth 570 dollars.
Ron Reagan targets Birmingham Amarillo Little Rock Charlottesville Winston-Salem and Miami as campaigns for the national convention platform committee on July 31. He forecasts a multiballot GOP convention with changes and says he believes the party will rally through increased urgency and aggressive fall campaigning. Republican leaders urge Republicans to attack Humphrey and expand GOP strength in state offices and Congress.
A Black Independents and Democrats for Rockefeller group formed in New York to back Nelson Rockefeller. Members include Rev. Martin Luther King Sr., James Farmer, former CORE director, and Omar Ahmed, ex associate of Malcolm X.
About 2,500 demonstrators ringed the Alameda County Courthouse as Black Panther leader Huey P. Newton faced murder charges in the killing of a policeman. Newton sat with attorney Charles R. Garry as motions argued fairness and a juror pool claimed to be biased in Oakland.
The bodies of two men killed in a weekend plane crash were recovered from the Colorado River near Earp California. Identified are Robert Oliver Thomas and Irwin Allen Jr. The two women victims are Jeanne Elaine Venables and Dorothy Marie Claybusch. The single engine plane took off from Hawthorne Airport for a sightseeing flight and struck a power line.
In San Francisco a 48 hour literation service at Howard Presbyterian lined up eight servicemen from Navy Army and Marine Corps with clergy across five faiths chained by the wrists to men of faith. The AWOL group said they would be free men after the service and faced possible jail if required.
President Johnson urged a legacy of improved U S Soviet relations and detente as he backs a 60 million bond for L A recreation facilities. He pushed for early diplomacy and the nonproliferation treaty while submitting an astronauts rescue accord for Senate ratification and implied a summit with Soviet leaders before leaving office.
John Ray claimed the handwriting on a letter to his brother was his sibling's and doubted the suspect’s guilt in the King murder. U S officials link Ray and Sneyd as same person, though alias use complicates hearings. Ray faces a custody hearing in Bow Street as lawyers prep an appeal to extradition to the United States.
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