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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1968
Page
1
Readers can submit questions to ACTION LINE at Box 230 Long Beach California or call 432-3451 during stated hours for help solving problems and cutting red tape. Questions chosen for general interest are answered.
Action Line recounts a 1930 Atlantic City parachute accident where a stunt man fell 800 feet when the chute failed to open, landing in the water near Steel Pier and entering hospital care. The item references a front page story from Aug 29, 1930 and offers a photostatic copy for $3.00.
In Independent note from Long Beach reader D. M. clarifies Red Wing Shoes in Long Beach do not stock women's sizes 13 and up. Investigations found no local stores with such sizes. Lane Bryant in downtown Los Angeles and Rushton's Shoes in Los Angeles carry women’s size 13 or larger.
The House approved a tax increase bill 268 to 150 with three present votes. It heads to the Senate for noon passage and then to President Johnson for signature. The measure raises income taxes on corporations and most individuals while cutting spending by 6 billion in the new fiscal year and keeping excise taxes on autos and telephone service. The expected 10 percent surcharge will be reduced to 7.5 percent due to delays in enactment and timing this year.
The Assembly Elections and Reapportionment Committee will hold a June 29 hearing in Los Angeles to examine the slow vote count from the June 4 primary. County officials and the voting machine firm will testify about the punch card system used for the first time and why results were similar to paper ballots past elections.
The House Judiciary Committee moved to outlaw mail order sales of shotguns and rifles and to tighten ammunition sales. President Johnson urged quick action before the July 4 recess as the Senate panel prepared to act. Attorney General Ramsey Clark announced a new anticrime agency and a $100 million funding plan.
Secretary of Defense Clark Clifford said at a Pentagon briefing that bits and straws of progress appeared in the Paris talks between American and North Vietnamese negotiators. He suggested tea breaks have provided informal discussions hinting at possible secret bargaining sessions.
John Parkinson, assistant general manager of the Harbor Department, testified that Keith Smith had smooth sailing with harbor lease applications after Rundberg and Starr joined the Harbor Commission. Parkinson described two leases for Smith tied to a World Trade Center project and Harbor Office space, approved at a June 15, 1966 vote with minimal attendance.
The FDA asked a federal court in Dallas to bar Lanpar Co from interstate sales of diet pills claiming weight loss. Thirty two Lanpar drugs are alleged misbranded for unsafe weight loss claims and three more for label issues. An FDA affidavit warns several drugs pose grave health risks including thyroid and digitalis poisoning.
Police used tear gas to break up a Poor People’s Campaign protest that blocked traffic near the Department of Agriculture. About 500 marchers gathered at the site, with six injured and two hospitalized as demonstrations continued into the night. Rep Glenn Cunningham was briefly affected by tear gas while heading to a vote at Capitol Hill.
Vice President H. Humphrey gained apparent delegate strength as 33 Indiana delegates to the Democratic National Convention were elected after district caucuses. The results set the stage for the state convention with most delegates not publicly naming their choice.
Observers at the 11 congressional district caucuses report far more Humphrey backers winning delegate elections. The 30 at large Indiana delegate votes to the convention will be named largely by Gordon St Angelo, Indiana Democratic chairman and Humphrey supporter.
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