REPORTER LOST A FRIEND The Evans Was a Special Ship
A journalist recalls serving aboard the destroyer Evans during Vietnam, noting 56 missing and one known dead among its crew after its fifth deployment. The piece honors Evans and its sailors, listing connections to Long Beach families and the ship’s awards for gunfire support.
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Kearsarge
Tonkin Gulf
Evans
Long Beach
Kelly
Melbourne
Manila
John Stevenson
Royal Australian Navy
G. J. B. Crabb
RAS
Hickel weighs panel advice on resuming Santa Barbara oil
Interior Secretary Hickel begins reviewing a presidential panel recommendation to allow Union Oil Co. to resume production from its leak plagued Santa Barbara platform. Local officials warn against a cheap solution and urge testing alternatives as the decision looms with potential long term risks.
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Washington
Walter J. Hickel
Union Oil Co
Santa Barbara
Hickel
Evans ship rammed while searching for survivors in Vietnam waters
The Evans, commissioned February 1945, left Long Beach March 29 on its fifth Vietnam deployment after wartime Pacific and Korean service. Reports cite a Melbourne Voyager collision in 1964 with 82 deaths and a 1952 U.S. warship sea disaster as related incidents.
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Long Beach
Evans
Seal Beach
Jack Davis
Wilma E. Davis
Fifth St
Reilly
Vietnam
Australia
Melbourne
Voyager
U.S
Berkeley Barb Tear Gassed Before Opening
The radical Berkeley Barb office was tear gassed Monday before opening. Circulation manager Kaline said gas was placed in the paper’s mail slot amid unrest linked to the People’s Park protests. Police were not called to avoid aligning with the paper’s anti police stance while broader incidents continued abroad including naval losses and inquiries into the Melbourne Evans collision.
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Berkeley
Berkeley Barb
Dennis Kaline
People’s Park
Kaline
ACTION LINE Hero of Cuba Romero Turns to Screen Fame
Action Line profiles a Cuban revolutionary hero who shifted from politics to entertainment. He started as a nightclub dancer, moved to stage acting in works like Strictly Dishonorable and Dinner at Eight, then reached Hollywood in The Thin Man (1934) and starred in Coney Island Vera Cruz and The Racers. In recent years he returned to TV. In 1966 he reinvented himself from suave leading man to villainous foe.
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Cuba
Romero
Hollywood
Coney Island
Vera Cruz
The
Veles
Slick talk leads to higher furniture bill says Compton reader
A Compton reader describes a furniture order where quoted price was 169 dollars but the written slip showed 250 dollars. After a 25 dollar down payment, the husband signed. Store later refunded 15 dollars, withholding 10 dollars for handling. The reader accuses some sellers of exploiting Spanish speakers.
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J.E
Compton
Nixon Foundation Formed In Sacramento
The Richard M. Nixon Foundation, a nonprofit corporation, was formed Monday with articles filed in the secretary of state's office. Original seven directors include Atty. Gen. John N. Mitchell and Health Secretary Robert E. Finch. The White House said the foundation will oversee a Nixon presidential library and museum.
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Sacramento
Richard M. Nixon
High Court Rules Against Segregation In Public Accommodations
The Supreme Court ruled 7-1 that privately run public facilities cannot segregate by race while noting exclusive private clubs are not covered. Lake Nixon Club near Little Rock was deemed a profit business with no private-club attributes. The decision followed two other civil rights rulings upholding school integration and restricting literacy tests. A landmark 5-3 ruling allowed servicemen to be tried in civil courts for off duty crimes not connected to the military.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Lake Nixon Club
Little Rock
Ark
William J. Brennan Jr
Lake Nixon
High Courts
Hugo L. Black
Montgomery
Gaston County
N.C
Mental fitness ruling in San Francisco mutiny case
Two Army psychiatrists and 14 civilian experts agreed the 14 soldiers charged with mutiny were mentally competent to distinguish right from wrong and to form intent to overrule military authority. The group formed the final 14 of 22 trialed after a sit down protest at the Presidio stockade last fall.
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Kenneth Kaye
Letterman General Hospital
Col
Robert Keim Jr
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