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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Jul 29, 1968
Page
1
Read like a historical notice, Action Line invites readers to write Box 230 Long Beach California 90801 or call 432-3451 with questions. Operates weekdays with two daily time blocks for general interest inquiries.
The column lists high protein foods such as eggs meat cheese milk fish chicken peanut butter and dried beans with about seven grams of protein per ounce. It also notes dried skim milk powder as protein rich and suggests adding it to foods. ACTION LINE identifies two ambergris buyers Fritzsche Brothers and J Manheimer and advises sending an ounce sample for testing.
Paul Manheimer of J. Manheimer company says good quality ambergris can fetch about five dollars an ounce. Real ambergris resembles a stone with layered structure from the whale and often forms around indigestible cuttlefish parts. Fresh ambergris smells disagreeable, drying improves to a sweet odor. Industry buyers warn most suspected samples are not ambergris. Fritzsche Brothers notes only about one in twenty samples proves to be ambergris.
Capper's Farmer ceased publication in 1960. Readers are advised to subscribe to Farm Journal in Philadelphia or Successful Farming in Des Moines. Also included are a personal appearance update for Glen Campbell via CBS ACTION LINE and local club details for the Britannia Society and the Queen Mary Club in Long Beach.
The Britannia Society and the Queen Mary Club promote dancing and recreational activities along with affordable charter flights to the British Isles. Contacts include John Scott in Long Beach for Britannia, and Ernie Tomlinson in Whittier for Queen Mary Club, plus Council of British Societies in Woodland Hills and the British Federation Society in Los Angeles for other groups.
A reader from Long Beach questions funding a Robert F. Kennedy memorial in Lincoln Park and urges directing money to a usable tribute such as a bridle path or teen club instead.
Walter Reuther calls the contract the greatest in aerospace history as roughly 17 000 UAW Local 148 members vote 82.7 percent in favor at Veterans Stadium Long Beach. The 38 month pact adds about $1.03 per hour per worker and spans Canada Tennessee South Carolina and Oklahoma with other plants also ratifying. J S McDonnell says the agreement is good news for the company and country while Reuther signals future talks with North American Rockwell.
Nixon campaign managers reported ready to deploy full delegate strength in a bid to win the Republican nomination on the first ballot. Rockefeller supporters counter that Nixon trails by about 150 votes of the 667 needed, foreseeing further erosion of his position.
Preconvention hearings open on the party platform led by Senate Republican Leader Dirksen as rivals gather for the 1968 GOP convention. Nixon surveys run mate options and delegates jockey for position ahead of the Aug. 5 convention while the Democrats meet in Chicago on Aug. 26.
A 65 year old Long Beach man, Earl Tuttle, was saved from a deadly apartment fire at the Anaheim Hotel on E Anaheim Street. Neighbors Arnold Creighton of the USS Hornet and others pulled him to safety and kept flames at bay with a garden hose until fire units arrived. Tuttle suffered facial and hand burns and was in serious condition at St. Mary's Hospital as police evacuated about 25 residents.
Czechoslovakia's reform leaders flew to Slovakia near the Soviet border for a showdown with Russia's rulers. They pledged to continue liberalization despite facing wrath from the Communist bloc and urged people to avoid thoughtless actions.
Across the Los Angeles Basin freak mid summer storms drenched areas while sun peeked through. The forecast calls for light morning showers and overcast skies with highs near the high 80s and 40 percent humidity. The Air Pollution Control District noted a partial clearing of smog as showers swept through the region. A surge in weather patterns explains the unusual weekend conditions.
Katamban Cha Chuma leader of NOW says three gunmen blasted the front windows of the Peace and Freedom Party office on Atlantic Ave in Long Beach and beat a white man as he walked home. Cha Chuma fled via a rear door and police were summoned. The incident left no theft reported.
Gov Ronald Reagan said dissenters who disrupt public meetings cannot be tolerated. He called booing of Vice President Hubert H Humphrey at a Watts voter registration rally disgraceful and compared the protesters to Nazism, urging the public to paddle the "jackbooted monsters" severely.
Vice president Humphrey supporters in Los Angeles faced boos and protests during a California swing. The campaign framed a politics of faith and hope as dissenters mocked the effort at Watts rally and outside Century Plaza as Peace Action Council pickets continued.
Sen McCarthy promises massive urban aid to solve city problems as he campaigns. In a news conference he addresses a critic and aligns with Clark Kerr's eight point Vietnam peace plan minus one item, sparking questions about policy deviations from Johnson administration.
Vatican City bulletin reports Pope Paul VI declares absolute rejection of all artificial contraception by Roman Catholics in a landmark papal document. The issue marks a defining moment in church teaching and ethics.
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