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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
May 09, 1968
Page
4
Legislative action would raise revenues by about 1148 billion over 18 months with a 7.5 percent individual tax surcharge retroactive to April and a 10 percent corporate tax, expiring June 30, 1969. The plan includes a $180.1 billion spending ceiling with exceptions for Vietnam, debt interest, Social Security, and veterans pensions.
Gallup polls show former Alabama governor George Wallace winning up to 53 percent in Deep South states and 30 percent region wide, potentially denying either major party a majority and sending the election to the House. Johnson reportedly wrote Kosygin a letter exploring new talks amid Vietnam diplomacy and broader Soviet-US exchanges.
Volunteers toiled for over two days as rescuers in Hominy Falls West Virginia fought to reach 25 miners trapped by flood. Officials said contact likely by afternoon as 15 survivors were confirmed and 10 others feared dead.
Two youths Tim mie Hoppis and Rodney Michael Stewart pleaded guilty in Harbor Municipal Court to defiling the American flag by using it as a car seat cover. Judge Calvin Schmidt set sentencing for June 5. The case follows two prior Orange County incidents in three weeks. Local police also reported another flag incident in April with separate defendants.
The White House described talks with Hanoi as fragile with Haiphong at risk if negotiations stall. Paris talks were hinted as likely to broaden to peace negotiations beyond preliminaries. W Averell Harriman heads toward Paris with orders not to concede. Johnson meets the U.S. negotiating team including Cyrus Vance at a White House dinner.
Five homes were leveled by a gas explosion early Wednesday in San Jose. Four sleeping occupants escaped serious injury, nine people were treated for scratches and bruises and released. A vacant house fumigated for termites, with a plastic cover, was the blast site. A PG&E crew found a gas line leak near the destroyed house, suggesting an electric spark as a possible trigger. Property damage, including autos and houses nearby, was about $25,000.
Altadena police report 17 year old Christopher Davies fatally shot by sheriff's deputies after allegedly taking a pistol and firing on officers from a rooftop. Deputies say Davies disarmed Deputy Paul Courtright and struck him before firing on others as they arrived following a neighbor’s call.
Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Robert S. Thompson issued a preliminary injunction to stop mass picketing by ILWU at the U S Borax plant in Wilmington. The suit alleges traffic blockage and intimidation since the May 1 strike, affecting about 500 workers and idle crews at the Borax mining facility in Boron California.
Knott's Berry Farm gold miner Gilbert Glen Cornell faces a June 3 preliminary hearing in North Orange County Municipal Court. He is accused of embezzling more than 20 000 dollars worth of gold flakes from the Buena Park entertainment center.
A late worded plan describes a mule train forming in Mississippi and Alabama with about four people per wagon, moving through Batesville Grenada Starkville Tuscaloosa Birmingham and possibly Virginia for a Washington entrance. In Los Angeles about 300 people on five buses will depart Watts to join the march coordinated with groups from Texas New Mexico Washington and Colorado. Organizers hope to exceed one thousand participants from the West.
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