ACTION LINE helps Long Beach residents with medical aid and bills
Readers ask ACTION LINE about prenatal care and Medi-Cal support coordinated by the Long Beach Health Department and Harbor General Hospital. The service also addresses small gas bills, iron-on patch material sourcing, power adapters for radios, and missing KABC records with practical, location specific guidance.
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Long Beach
Wyoming
Action Line
J.R
A. Lee Maddox
Long Beach Department of Gas and Water
Mishas
Credit Bureau
Maddox
F. H.S
Quickline Co
Meyering
Action Line guidance for readers to submit queries
Readers are advised to provide name, address and phone number for ACTION LINE help while avoiding photos documents or return items. Only one query per message to maximize reader assistance as mail volume rises.
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Action Line
Embittered landlord hunts as shooting kills two in Torrance feud
A long standing feud ends in a 2 a m shooting outside a first floor Torrance apartment. Antoine Poissant 42 is sought after killing Geneva Whaley 30 and Eduardo Martinez 35 and wounding Raymond Martinez 37. Rose Marie Martinez escaped unharmed.
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Antoine Rene Poissant
Carson St
Poissant
Geneva Joy Whaley
Carson
Eduardo Antonio Martinez
S. Hempstead St
Anaheim
Harbor General Hospital
Raymond Martinez
Chris Wuethrigh
Harbor Division
Eduardo Martinez
Rose Marie
Tornadoes Strike Texas Louisiana Mississippi and Arkansas
Tornadoes ripped across Texas Louisiana Mississippi and Arkansas with torrential rain and flash flooding. A Hampshire Texas woman was injured as gas lines and a trailer home were toppled. damage also reported at a Beaumont area service station and restaurant. Three drowned on Lake Travis, and other storms affected the Northwest with high winds and snow. The Aurora Borealis was sighted near Lake Charles after the storm.
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Texas
Hampshire
Beaumont
Vinton
Lake Charlies
Boys Village
Lake Charles
Lafayette
U.S
Louisiana
Lake Travis
Austin
Tex
Nixon weighs peace and war on West Coast flight
President Nixon and four top advisers spent about three hours on a West Coast journey weighing the Vietnam war outlook and peace prospects at the Paris talks. The group met at San Clemente and later aboard the presidential jet for Washington with no details released.
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Nixon
Washington
Vietnam
Paris
San Clemente Inn
San Clemente
Seashore
Ronald Ziegler
el Toro Marine Base
Ziegler
Bunker
Saigon
Goodpaster
U.S
Europe
NATO
Brussels
Capistrano
Sign in a garden supply store
A garden center uses a playful sign reading Let your mind go to seed to blend humor with plant minded cheer. The phrase links to growing and knowledge, inviting customers to explore seeds and supplies.
Four die and five hurt in Yorba Linda car crash
A late Sunday collision on Rose Drive and Imperial Highway in Yorba Linda left four dead and five injured, seven of whom were a single family riding together in one car. One vehicle struck another broadside around 10 30 p.m. local time.
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Yorba Linda
Rose Drive
Imperial Highway
Landslide Snarls Los Angeles Area Traffic
A massive landslide 12 miles north of Castaic blocked three major routes into Los Angeles, trapping hundreds. The Golden State Freeway 14 miles of backlog, Highway 14 5 miles, and Highway 138 four miles as crews cleared earth with bulldozers and motorists diverted through the Mammoth Mountain corridor.
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Los Angeles
Castaic
Golden State Freeway
California
CHP
State Division of Highways
Bakersfield
Mammoth Montain
Solemint Junction
Saugus
VA center patients allege slave labor at West Los Angeles
Veterans at the Veterans Administration Center in West Los Angeles accuse the facility of using 480 of 1400 patients as slave labor paid 25 to 60 cents an hour. Spokesman Leonard A. Wilson cites petitions sent to Senator Alan Cranston. Center director Dr. Charles S. Modica defends pay as non wage rehabilitation.
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United Press International
Veterans Administration Center
Los Angeles
Leonard A. Wilson
Wilson
Charles S. Modica
Modica
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Ons Beach
A. Scott Radio Supply
Alamitos Ave
Kabc Radio
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Santa Fe Springs
Sue Toren
New York
Leary
Martinez
Mississippi
Arkansas
Cotton
Secret Service
First Lady
Air Force One
el Toro
Phete
Tom Shaw
White House
William P. Rogers
Ellsworth Bunker
Andrew J. Goodpaster
Henry A. Kissinger
For National Security Affairs
Bulletin
V.A. Center
L.A
Sen
Alan Cranston
D-Calif
Douglas
Laird
Sen. Gore
New York Times Service
Justice Department
LTV
Steel Corporation
LBJ
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