18 Nov 1970
Page 1
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
This newspaper page contains 6 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Nov 18, 1970
Page
1
The Red Cross urgently appeals as survivors endure a grim disaster in Charrabber. Officials fear death toll could hit a million after Thursday’s catastrophe. water is polluted, grain stores destroyed, and refugees beg for food and medicine while relief plans include parachute drops.
About 1,800 South Vietnamese infantry armored cavalry and engineers from the 23rd Division entered Cambodia and seized 254 tons of 85mm artillery shells in a rugged hill country base camp 50 miles south of Bo Wan. The operation followed a two-pronged incursion announced earlier.
GM aimed to resume full production by December 1 but experts now forecast December 15 or later due to 57 of 158 GM UAW units still negotiating and a nationwide strike idling 394,000 workers. At plant contracts keys, with at least one plant deemed crucial to restart.
National industrial production fell 2.3 percent in October, the sharpest monthly drop in over 11 years. The Federal Reserve attributed about half the decline to the GM strike, with the rest due to a broad business slump. Even excluding the strike, October shows the largest monthly fall this year, signaling slower recovery than the Nixon Administration expected.
President Nixon and Mrs. Nixon attended the unveiling of three restored paintings at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia, praising culture over wealth and power. The event featured Watercolors by Frank Reed and led to a brief visit aboard a helicopter from the White House.
Country star Roger Miller said in Hollywood on Tuesday he quit pills after they harmed his career saying he began to lose a grip on everything. The 34 year old writer of King of the Road announced he would stop taking uppers and amphetamines to be a man not a vegetable. He became a father Monday to a daughter still unnamed.
We want people to find what they are looking for at NewspaperArchive. We are confident that we have the newspapers that will increase the value of your family history or other historical research. With our 7-day free trial, you can view the documents you find for free.
People find the most success using advanced search. Try plugging in keywords, names, dates, and locations, and get matched with results from the entire collection of newspapers at NewspaperArchive!
You can also successfully find newspapers by these browse options. Explore our archives on your own!
Browse by location and discover newspapers from all across the world.
Browse by date and find publications for a specific day or era.
Browse old newspaper publications to find specific newspapers.