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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1969
Page
1
Community hotline offers guidance on rights and consumer issues. Readers can contact Box 230, Long Beach, California, or call 432-3451 during specified evening hours for assistance.
Reader questions about whether Glenn Miller or Benny Goodman sold more String of Pearls records. Includes Pasadena Freeway trivia, water cooling chemical, and a shopping tip for Ice-O-Magic cooling sacks. Notes travel refund with a local tour firm and a partial price citation.
A passenger threatened crew with a butcher knife aboard an Eastern Airlines flight from Newark to Miami with 81 passengers and seven crew, diverting to Havana to visit kin for his ailing wife. The plane returned to Miami about 6 p.m. The incident marked the year's 30th hijacking, including 19 over foreign airspace, and the eighth for Eastern.
In Tehachapi five fires were started by inmates during a disturbance at the state facility. Riot police contained the blaze and no serious injuries were reported, authorities said.
Ray Bolger recalled crying after hearing of Judy Garland death in London. He remembered her as a great talent and spoke of her thin appearance a year earlier. Liza Minnelli learned of her mother’s passing from Montauk and called Vincente Minnelli for funeral plans in New York.
A San Fernando Valley rock festival drew 40 000 attendees when youths stormed gates throwing rocks at police. One officer in serious condition and 115 other people treated for injuries. Fifty three arrests included attempted murder and narcotics violations amid crowd skirmishes with police.
A six student panel from Poly High discusses race and prejudice with student leaders Gordon Hartstein Thurmas Strickland Dell Hutchinson Don Wallace Jr and others. They urge personal choice to challenge parental and societal attitudes and to push school and home to address race issues.
Newsweek reports the U S Defense Department aims to bring home at least 325000 troops from Vietnam by Christmas 1970. Pentagon officials warn such withdrawal would signal the virtual end of the U S ground role, though the plan may not reflect a formal commitment. Senator Fulbright announces new Vietnam hearings to reevaluate U S policy.
Judy Garland the famed singer and actress died in London at 47. Police say initial findings point to natural causes with no foul play or suicide suspected. autopsy to confirm. Garland had spoken of private struggles despite public happiness and success.
Former New York discotheque manager Mickey Deans discovered Judy Garland’s body at Cadogan Lane in Chelsea London after a civil marriage to Deans on March 15 and a secret Roman Catholic ceremony on January 9. Her press spokesman Brian Southcombe said Garland and her husband had returned from a business trip to New York three days earlier.
Senator charges five Air Force procurement officers resisted cost saving measures in a missile program and then joined a contractor. The report notes alleged misconduct and顺 transitions to private sector employment.
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