Readers forecast Nixon Humphrey tickets in party slates
In a reader poll on ticket pairings for the 1968 conventions, Nixon leads GOP pres nominations with 71 percent as Humphrey tops Dems at 82 percent. Vice presidential matchups show Humphrey Kennedy at 45 percent, with Nixon Percy at 30 percent and McCarthy Kennedy at 8.5 percent.
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Percy
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Lindsay
Hatfield
Connally
McCarthy
Jess Unruh
Ex-Rights Official Joins U S Civil Rights Post in L A
Joseph T. Brooks Jr. is appointed assistant director of the western field office of the U S Commission on Civil Rights based in Los Angeles. He will liaise with government officials across ten western states and bring a long record with the NAACP and local civil rights groups.
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Midnight Travelogue in Long Beach Nightlife Scene
A drifting observer traces a five hour cabaret crawl from Naples to Second Street and Lo cust Avenue with vivid scenes of barrooms. He chronicles a 40ish man paying rent with a disturbing photo of a woman and children, hinting at future worry.
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Naples
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Second Street
Cherry Avenue
Greenink
Long Beach Offers First-Zoning Overhaul Plan
City planning staff and commissioners present a 40 year revision of zoning rules to the City Council. The proposal keeps core policies while reorganizing provisions, with modest R-1 to R-5 changes and new C-N neighborhood commercial zones. A zoning administrator would handle limited variances and permit standards for noise and odor controls.
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Long Beach
Werner Rudhti
Ruchti
THE
Planning Commission
La Palma Bids Open For $700000 Civic Center
Bids for La Palma's controversial $700000 civic center project will be opened at 7 30 p m Aug 15 at an Orange County La Palma Civic Center Authority meeting in John F Kennedy High School The complex includes city hall police and fire stations and Orange County Branch Library with parking and land improvements. Financing uses a joint powers arrangement with the county after a failed leaseback plan and an initiative to ban such financing. An unsuccessful recall followed the council switching to joint power financing amid citizen efforts to gain control.
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la Palma
Orange County
Probation Officers Open Regional Meeting in L B
Judge Albert Lee Stephens Jr welcomed 125 federal probation officers at Edgewater Ian Marina Hotel for a three day in service training institute. Myrl V. Alexander and Merle Smith head the leadership team with representation from states west of El Paso including Alaska and Hawaii. Alexander will speak on a New Look at Federal Prisons with discussions on rehabilitation parole and community treatment of ex convicts.
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Albert Lee Stephens Jr
U.S. District Court
Los Angeles
Edgewater
Ian Marina
Myrl V. Alexander
U.S. Bureau of Prisons
Washington, D.C
Merle Smith
U.S. Probation Service
el Paso
Tex
Alaska
Hawaii
Alexander
Camper Sold First Day In Independent Classified Ad
Mrs. Jack Kranz of Paramount reports selling her camper the very first day after placing an Independent Press Telegram ad. She says the camper went to the first party that arrived and the price asked was met, with more than 20 calls. Classified ad numbers and contact lines for Bellflower Lakewood Garden Grove are provided.
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Press-Telegram
Jack Kranz
Elbury St
Paramount
No Politician Joe Ball in Line for Governorship
Long Beach attorney Joe Ball, a private citizen in the California line of succession to the governor from 1959 to 1967, is described as nonpolitical despite qualifications. The piece portrays him as outspoken and critical of fellow lawyers, praising recent Supreme Court decisions on individual liberties as overdue while noting his disdain for public opinion and political life.
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Gov. Brown
Sacramento
Long Beach
Joe Ball
Ball
American College of Trial Lawyers
Supreme Court
Trial Set in Tavern Shootings
Ex convict Coy Lee Hall, 36, dubbed the mad dog gunman, faces a August 12 trial in Superior Court for murder and assault after a Wilmington tavern shooting on April 30 that killed 46 year old Berdell Hermann and wounded 26 year old Robert Schuster Jr. Judge Raymond Choate heard defense motions to dismiss. Hall, previously convicted of robbery and burglary, allegedly opened fire at 1229 Wilmington Ave turning the bar into a shooting gallery.
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Wilmington
Superior
Raymond Choate
Hall
Harbor Division
Wilmington Ave
Berdell Orville Hermann
Harbor City
Robert Thomas Schuster Jr
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