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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1968
Page
5
UC system to mobilize nine campuses for urban problem work starting 1969 70. President Hitch calls crisis moral economic racial and educational and outlines research public service and education roles. Agency tasks include training teachers expanding minority graduate enrollments and boosting job training with a $1 million revenue shift to the Educational Opportunity Program.
The California legislature closed week 16 of its 1968 session as senators left for home districts to campaign for the June 4 primary. Gov. Reagan signed a bill giving cost of living increases for retired state employees from 2 to 12 percent, effective July 1. Earlier retirees receive 12 percent. later retirees on a sliding scale down to 2 percent for 1966 retirees.
Anaheim police arrested Patrick Ronquillo 28 and Louis Ronquillo 21 on suspicion of murder in the death of Elsie Ronquillo 26. Investigators work through conflicting stories as they hold the brothers in the city jail and pursue clues about how the gunfire killed the wife of one brother.
Assemblyman Carley V. Porter of Compton hails HR 3300 as an excellent compromise on Colorado River legislation. He notes broad support from California and six Colorado River Basin states and highlights provisions essential to California.
Robert H Nightwanger defied a court order to wear shoes to Fullerton Junior College classes and received five days in jail for contempt. Judge James F Judge suspended the commitment if he follows college rules including shoe wearing. A June 14 hearing was set on an injunction to bar him from campus as trustees seek to uphold expulsion. He cites a foot ailment causing muscle spasms when shod.
A reader asks where to obtain J. M. Guinn's two volume A History of California and an Extended History of Its Southern Coast Counties published in 1907. ACTION LINE reports a Hollywood bookstore The Cherokee Book Ship at 6607 Hollywood Blvd. sells the set for 35 dollars. The books can also be viewed at Rancho Los Cerritos Museum 4600 Virginia Rd.
A reader requests a fluid filling material like in padded bras for a spinal curvature. California Foam Products Inc in Culver City reportedly supplies the material via company president Jack Howard who can be reached at 870 7811. Contact ACTION LINE at 432 3451 with name address and phone for one query.
A. W. Vienna of the Chamber of Commerce Clean Air Committee says smog controls and cleaner fuel additives could return Los Angeles to 1950 air quality by 1980. A. J. Haagen-Smit of Caltech supports the possibility of achieving clean air by the mid-1970s.
In New York, about 60 militants and 1,000 supporters seized a Columbia University owned apartment building on the Upper West Side and demanded the university halt its expansion. The group called for community control and participation in planning and affairs. In Dover, Delaware, Delaware State College remained nearly empty as National Guardsmen stood by after a student takeover led to an order to close the campus for the year.
Six thousand University of California students and faculty gathered at Sproul Hall in Berkeley for a noon anti-draft rally described as a Vietnam Commencement. The event included pledges to refuse military service and remarks by Robert Hutchins and Sterling Hayden. The organizers denied violating the regents ban, while Governor Reagan criticized the gathering as obscene and potentially treasonous if war were formally declared.
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