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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1969
Page
2
A U S Court of Appeals ruled draft boards may not reclassify registrants for antiwar activity, overruling Hershey’s 1967 letter. The decision labels his stance a declaration of war against antiwar protesters and cites no Selective Service Act basis.
Film star Robert Taylor, 57, under lung cancer treatment, is hospitalized at St Johns with a spokesman saying his condition is rapidly deteriorating and death could come within days. His stepson Michael Thiess, 23, was found dead in a west Los Angeles motel days earlier, a tragedy connected to Taylor by marriage to Ursula Thiess. Taylor, known for The Detectives TV series and films like Camille, has been in and out of St Johns since the prior September.
Ernest Sage, father of three missing sailors, was hospitalized from exhaustion after the USS Evans sinking. The Sage brothers were Gregory Allen Sage 21, Gary Sage 22, and Kelly Sage 19, all lost when the Evans collided with an Australian carrier near Niobrara Nebraska. Seventy other sailors remained missing.
Mrs Murray Davidson of Waterloo Iowa recalls the five Sullivan brothers who died aboard the USS Juneau during World War II. She relates how the Sage family mourns three missing sons as authorities worry protests may mar Pope Paul VI's Geneva visit.
Six year old Polly Ann Klat drew a face on her envelope and mailed it to Grandma Klat in New Britain Connecticut. The New Britain post office stamped and delivered it without noticing the fake postage. Grandma Klat sent the letter back to Polly's parents, noting it was not marked postage due.
Cuban stowaway Armando Socarras, who survived three days frozen in a wheel-bag on an Iberia jet to Madrid, shows improving condition after initial solid food. Doctors say he froze before reaching high altitude, explaining his oxygen deprivation and survival.
Reuters and Associated Press reports say security forces in Mexico arrested 20 people for looting the bodies of 79 killed when a Mexicana Airlines 727 crashed into Three-Peak Hill. Looters allegedly stole rings watches and cash amid difficult recovery work.
Three Michigan brothers aboard the Hornet remain united as the family confronts a rule allowing three sons to serve on the same ship. Mr and Mrs Donald Windblad of Grand Rapids mourn the loss of the Sage brothers who died together in Tuesday’s collision.
Vinton Freedley, 77, longtime Broadway producer of Anything Goes Girl Crazy and Red Hot and Blue, died in a New York hospital Friday. He helped discover stars such as Fred Astaire Danny Kaye Mary Martin and Ethel Merman.
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