Pageant parade returns to Long Beach draws 80000 observers
About 80,000 spectators lined Ocean Boulevard as 50 contestants from the International Beauty Pageant paraded for two hours. Miss International Beauty 1970 Aurora Pijuan led the field from a float, with contestants from Ecuador Panama Spain Philippines Venezuela and more. Spectators enjoyed cultural group performances including Japanese Dancing, Polynesian troupe acts, 14 marching bands and police motorcycle drill teams.
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Long Beach
Ocean Boulevard
Pacific Coast Club
el Bekal Shrine Temple
Long Beach Police Department
Aurora Pijuan
Philippines
Tommy Manotoc
Los Angeles
Carol Wogen
Long
Turkey quake toll nears the thousand in Bingol ruins
Rescue teams labor amid collapse across Bingol eastern Turkey as the death toll climbs toward 1,000. The 90 percent destruction hits hospital and prison, with 800 confirmed dead and hundreds missing in 322 village areas. Prime Minister Erim eyed the disaster amid ongoing relief efforts and a separate Istanbul kidnapping case.
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Istanbul
Turkey
Bingol
ACTION LINE answers reader questions on stamps and a motorcycle park
Action Line advises that eight-cent air mail stamps must be used for air mail only. Using old air mail stamps on regular mail incurs three cents postage due. A reader asks about a 700-acre motorcycle park. Mintz plans a Moorpark Thou sand Oaks area park opening around June 1 with access via Fillmore Freeway. Contact Mintz Motor Mansion at Van Nuys for updates. park admission price not yet set.
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Long Beach
Charles Warmon
Muntz Motor Mansion
Sepulveda Blvd
van Nuys
Air crash in Yugoslavia kills 75 Britons and locals
Seventy five people died when a Yugoslav Aviogenex TU-134 twin jet crashed while landing at Rijeka. Only one passenger and four Yugoslav crew survived. Weather was windy and raining. Most victims were British tourists en route to a 15 day holiday on the island of Krk. Ten children were aboard.
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Belgrade
UPD
Rijeka
Yugoslavia
London
Raska
Krk
Adriatic
Bank fire bombs Oakland branch amid blast near airport
A small blast shattered the front window of Bank of America’s Oakland airport branch on Sunday. No injuries reported as the case was handed to the SBY police. The branch lies a few miles from Oakland International Airport.
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Oakland
UPI
Bank of America
California
Oakland Airport
SBY
Oakland International Airport
Lockheed chief would quit to win loan guarantee
Lockheed chairman Daniel Haughton told Time he is willing to resign if needed to secure a $250 million congressional loan guarantee for the TriStar effort. Time reports a slim, reluctant congressional majority supports the guarantee amid cries for the firing of Lockheed leaders as a condition.
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Lockheed
New York
UPI
Lockheed Aircraft Corp
Congress
TriStar
Airbus
Time Magazine
Rolls-Royce Co
Time
California
Alan Cranston
Daniel Haughton
Jerry Hannifin
Haughton
Los Angeles
Two Men Shot to Death Found in Carson Area
Sheriff's detectives investigate the slayings of Los Angeles men Michael Irving aged 24 and James Smith aged 56 whose bodies were found within seven hours of each other along roadsides in Carson. Smith was found near Torrance Boulevard and 329 BE Torrance, shot in the head. Irving, found two miles away near Victoria Street and Wilmington Boulevard, shot multiple times. Both men, well dressed, lived about two miles apart in Los Angeles.
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Sheriff's
Los Angeles
Carson
Michael Joseph Irving
James Leroy Smith
Smith
BE. Torrance Blvd
Irving
Victoria Street
Wilmington Blvd
Fifth Street
43Rd Place
British Consul Kidnapped in Rosario Argentina
Three members of the People's Revolutionary Army abducted British Consul Stan ley Sylvester as he left his Rosario home. A communique found later said he was detained for popular justice. Rosario, Argentina's third largest city, police sealed roads while witnesses described the early morning abduction. Sylvester, 58, has led the consul’s post for ten years and runs a Swift and Co refrigeration plant in Rosario with his wife Sara Alice and two sons.
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Rosario
Argentina
UPI
People’s Revolutionary Army
Stanley Sylvester
Sylvester
Swift and Co
Sara Alice
Independent Sen Henry Jackson warns of extremists drums
Sea interview highlights Henry Jackson warning of dangers from extremists. References to national guard called to Chattanooga and coverage of California coastline. Part II of a series notes credibility gap widening. Humprey asserts war issue could defeat Nixon. Low mercury tuna price rise noted.
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Sen
Henry Jackson
Humphrey
Nixon
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