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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1968
Page
1
The column provides a public helpline in Long Beach to resolve issues and connect readers with vendors. An inquiry about electrical classroom bells leads to Simplex Time Recorder Co. and a sales representative for gear details. A reader recalls paying $17.98 for a Sunbeam iron at a local drugstore.
A reader asks how to handle a faulty iron returned for repairs and seeks a non Christian Mexican adoption path. A.O. should bring the iron to A. A. K. Brown for inspection and potential replacement. Intercountry adoption from Mexico is not handled by California officials due to risk. alternatives include Orange County adoption, with residency and eligibility requirements.
A reader asks if Hallmark Father’s Day card pictures by J Bohler can be reprinted for framing. Hallmark says no reprints are available but suggests contacting the artist via Hallmark Cards Inc. in Kansas City for possible special arrangements.
A reader reports an unresolved April 1967 payment for highway department property, with the state attorney noting many heirs affect title and advising local legal representation. Meanwhile a hummingbird inquiry suggests feeders from King's Pets and Supplies or Tucker Wild Bird Sanctuary with friendly viewing options.
An SUV crossed the center strip on I 5 near Eugene colliding with a Greyhound bus. Four dead include two bus occupants, while 38 passengers and the car’s occupants were treated at Sacred Heart Hospital. Long Beach area residents among the injured and unhurt.
Jerrold Potter of Pontiac Illinois, a Lions Club delegate, fell from an airliner door at 8000 feet over southwest Missouri. The flight continued to Springfield with Potter missing. 22 passengers and 4 crewmen unharmed. Missouri troopers searched but cautioned it could take days to locate him.
New York National Maritime Union ended negotiations with steamship companies and ordered an immediate walkout. President Joseph Curran warned that failure to reach progress by midnight would breach the four year contract signed in 1965. About 55,000 members are affected, with 45,000 on deep sea ships. West Coast unions remain uninvolved.
A aphorism about keeping an open mind, noting that openness invites others to project ideas, including irrelevant or low quality thoughts, into one's thinking. It suggests active discernment to avoid being swayed by bad input.
A Costa Mesa councilman's wife, Irene Tucker, 37, was booked on suspicion of murder after neighbor Harriet Westphal, 68, identified her as her assailant before dying from a stab wound. Westphal indicated the alleged attacker before collapse. police responded to a medical aid call and found Westphal dying at Hoag Memorial Hospital.
County Fire Chief Keith E Klinger reminds the public fireworks are banned in all unincorporated areas of Los Angeles County and in many contract cities to prevent brush fires. He cites possible fires from a single spark and lists Artesia, Bradbury, Carson, Commerce, Duarte, Glendora, Hidden Hills, Lawndale, Rolling Hills, Rolling Hills Estates, San Dimas and Signal Hill as affected.
Sirhan Bishara Sirhan received a three week postponement to enter his plea for the assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy. The nine minute hearing at Los Angeles County jail delayed arraignment to July 19 as defense counsel sought time for case records and psychiatric evaluations.
Reporters and photographers endure multiple searches as Sirhan B. Sirhan faces arraignment in a makeshift chapel courtroom at Los Angeles County jail. Deputies conduct bag checks and patdowns while 75 to 100 press members wait for proceedings led by Judge Rich.
Warily, lawmakers leave the fate of the record budget in Reagan’s hands as pages note the political campaign, London Bridge in pieces bound for Long Beach, and the Angels reaching a .500 mark with a double win over Washington.
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