ACTION LINE answers readers with advice and refunds
The column provides reader questions on a range of topics from missing souvenirs to refunds for a deceased spouse, to training marine mammals. It cites specific individuals and organizations, including Dodger Stadium public relations official Peter O Malley and O Rear Convalescent Hospitals, plus MarineLand training methods and examples like the Flying Cloud voyage.
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Dodger Stadium
J.T.M
Long Beach
Peter O’malley
O’malley
Los Cerritos
Action Line
Richard O’rear
O’rear Convalescent Hospitals, Inc
O’rear
World War I memorabilia sources listed for purchase
A reader asks about buying WWI helmets uniforms guns and bayonets for a nightclub. Answers name three vendors: Uniform Exchange at 5239 Melrose Ave Los Angeles prices jackets and breeches around 30 dollars. Martin B Retting Inc Culver City offers guns bayonets and Liberty Bell helmets. Hollywood Military Hobbies on Hollywood Blvd Los Angeles lists German uniforms and spiked helmets.
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Garden Grove
Uniform Exchange
Melrose Ave
Los Angeles
Martin B. Retting, Inc
Washington Bl
Long Beach Readers Praise New Street Signs
Letters from residents praise the city for the new street signs noting their beauty legibility and improved visibility. Readers say the white on blue design and consistent placement ease wayfinding and even staggered mounting prevent sign obstruction.
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A.J.F
Long Beach
Weerk's Toll in Viet War Sets Record
Saigon reports 562 American deaths in South Vietnam for the week ending May 11, the highest weekly toll of the war. In the same period 2,225 were wounded, lifting total U.S. fatalities to 22,951 since the conflict began. The prior weekly high was 543 during the Tet offensive week ending Feb 17, 1968.
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Weerk
New York Times
Saigon
U.S
South Vietnam
I Corps
11 State Tornado Toll 72
The 11 state tornado outbreak left scores dead and thousands homeless as rescue crews search rubble in Iowa Illinois and Arkansas. Known death toll rose to 72 with bodies found in Iowa and Illinois and authorities fear more victims. Over 1 000 people were injured as tornadoes struck the Midwest and lower Mississippi Valley. Charles City Floyd County sheriff said about half the town was homeless and 372 homes destroyed with 188 severely damaged. Iowa Gov. Hughes sought federal aid from President Johnson for disaster areas Charles City and Oelwein.
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Iowa
Illinois
Charles City
Floyd County
L. L. Lane
Harold Hughes
President Johnson
Oelwein
Hughes
Humphrey Tours Tent City As Mayors Visit
Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey and mayors John V. Lindsay Ivan Allen Jr. and Walter Washington toured Resurrection City a 15 acre encampment where 500 residents welcomed them. Demonstrators swelled to over 800 with a caravan from Chicago bringing 320 more as rain fell. By weekend up to 2900 were expected to be in town.
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Washington
Humphrey
John V. Lindsay
New York
Ivan Allen Jr
Atlanta
Walter E. Washington
District of Columbia
Todays Chuckle Marriage Like the Army Reenlistment Joke
A light joke compares marriage to military service noting that while many complain the union continues and many re enlist in the relationship with humor.
Pleas Ignored 32 Floor Leap From the Tower
40 year old Negro drifter Kirk Hardy leaped from the 32nd floor balcony of the International Tower at 2 50 p m after being released from Signal Hill jail less than seven hours earlier for stealing a loaf of bread and a banana. He ignored pleas from a bellhop and two photographers and was seen by residents near the driveway where he lay beneath a white sheet.
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Leaper
Tom Shaw
Kirk Hardy
E. Ocean Blvd
Hardy
Signal Hill
Nod
Harriman cites possible DMZ restoration to halt bombing
US chief negotiator Harriman said Hanoi accepting the DMZ restoration could persuade President Johnson to order a total bombing pause over North Vietnam. He noted infiltration remains high and North Vietnam showed little restraint. Washington urged private peace talks. Hanoi signaled no discussion while plans for Saturday Paris talks proceed.
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UPI
W. Averell Harriman
Hanoi
Johnson
North Vietnam
Harriman
North
South Vietnam
U.S
Tion
Vietnam
Xuan Thuy
RFK backs Head Start over space program
Senator Robert F Kennedy told TRW aerospace workers in Redondo Beach that Head Start should be funded ahead of space. He noted a $25 million cut cost 4,000 Mississippi children and 1,000 in California, risking long term setbacks for disadvantaged students.
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Robert F. Kennedy
TRW, Inc. Aerospace
TRW
Redondo Beach
Kennedy
California
U S Denies Accord Reached Over Pueblo Crew Release
Washington reports say the United States and North Korea near an agreement to free 82 Pueblo crewmen with an apology by the U S The State Department denies the Post story as officials say talks continue from the May 8 Panmunjom meeting amid questions of Seoul reaction and Hanoi Pyongyang ties.
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United States
North Korea
Pueblo
Seoul
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Washington Post
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Panmunjom
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Hanoi
Hanoi- Pyongyang
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Reagan Urges Regents Halt Berkeley Anti-Viet Policy Protest
Reagan asks UC Berkeley regents to stop a campus protest against an anti-Vietnam policy. The request frames the incident as a matter of national security and academic freedom amid widening political pressure.
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UC Berkeley
Nixon
America
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