Action Line answers readers questions on books and education
Long Beach readers seek help with delayed book shipments, a poem request, college district status, and a Swiss watch repair. Action Line reports Randall Publishing delays, Esther Walker poetry on its way, Long Beach City College separation timelines, and General Repair Service says the Ardath watch is being repaired and should return in about 10 days.
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Long Beach
Calif
A. Action Line
General Repair Service
New York
Jean Felber
Regents Uphold NoCredit Policy For Cleaver Course
San Diego UC regents approved a policy denying academic credit for a Berkeley course featuring Eldridge Cleaver the Black Panther. Gov Reagan supported the ruling and abstained on the budget vote as Hitch said the move quieted the tempest. The budget request totals 341 million for nine campuses, about 50 million more than 1968-69.
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San Diego
University of California Regents
Berkeley
Eldridge Cleaver
Ronald Reagan
Charles J. Hitch
Cleaver
Hitch
Reagan
Illustrated Guide to Championship Baseball availability
A 1967 copy of Illustrated Guide to Championship Baseball by John Herbold is for sale at Pickwick Bookshop Hollywood. Local special order offered from Parker Publishing Co. Bel monto. library lending copy exists in Long Beach.
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Randall Publishing Co
Tuscaloosa
Ala
M.T
Long Beach
John Herbold
Poly
Herbold
C.W
Pickwick
Hollywood Blvd
Hollywood
Lordan’s Book Shop
E. Second St
Belmont Shore
Parker Publishing Co
Nyack
N.Y
Lakewood High School
Pacific Avenue
Ocean Boulevard
New Plan to Halt Mine Fire in West Virginia
Fire crews at Mountaineer Coal Co. No. 9 mine in Mannington deploy limestone blasts down air shafts to combat a raging fire trapping 78 miners since Wednesday. Officials ordered 30 truckloads of limestone to two shafts after prior attempts failed. no contact with the trapped workers has been reported since the initial explosions.
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Mannington
W.va
Mountaineer Coal Co
Washington Leaflet Plot Blasts Near White House
A homemade mortar launcher exploded in a trash can near 15th Street and Constitution Avenue NW damaging a park-service shed and scattering anti-Communist leaflets signed by Minutemen. Investigators say the device could have sent leaflets toward the Ellipse and White House grounds. The notices urge armed defense of American heritage and constitutional rights.
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Washington
White House
15Th Street
Constitution Avenue NW
National Park Service
Washington Monument
U.N
Minutemen
Federal
Houston
Tex
Kansas City
Wichita
Kan
Dense Fog Closes Airports and Slows Traffic
Dense fog swirled into the Long Beach area late Friday with zero visibility forecast. Municipal Airport officials reported three quarters of a mile visibility at 9 p.m. and warned of an operational shutdown before morning. Los Angeles International Airport expected to stay open until after midnight as police brace for accidents. Weather officials said the fog should burn off by late morning with hazy sunshine afterward.
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Long Beach
U.S. Weather Bureau
Weather Brieau
Dispute Halts Cargo Handling at Los Angeles Long Beach Ports
Longshoremen and employers refuse to yield amid a labor dispute idling 24 ships as the PMA embargo slows cargo. Two ships worked overnight. one to sail today, one Monday. Military cargo movement remains unsettled despite PMA stance.
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Los Angeles
Long Beach
International
Men’s and Warehousemen’s Union
The
Pacific Maritime Association
PMA
Marine Exchange
San Francisco
San Diego
Jet Lifter Takes On Impossible Task In San Francisco Bay
A Japan Airlines DC-8 with 107 aboard sank in San Francisco Bay after a foggy approach. Bigge Drayage Co. aims to lift the jet from seven feet of water within 24 hours using straps pontoons and two large derrick barges. The operation seeks to prevent the aircraft from becoming a total loss valued at 8.3 million dollars.
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San Francisco
UPI
Japan Air Lines
San Francisco Bay
Art Reinholm
Reinholm
Bigge Drayage Co
Bay
San Francisco State campus to discuss racial issues after clashes
President Smith suspends normal classes at San Francisco State College for three days of classroom discussions on racial issues. Police confronted about 200 demonstrators as a tactical unit moved in and clusters dispersed. Faculty vote favored continuing classes while urging mediation and broader talks.
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San Francisco
UPI
San Francisco State College
State College System
Ronald Reagan
Smith
Joseph Alioto
Black Student Union
Watch Your Step Watch Your Language Sign
A tax office displays a door sign reading Watch Your Step on entry and Watch Your Language on exit, captured in a brief public noticing of office decor.
World Weather Watch links forge new global forecasts
United Nations World Weather Watch project for instant global forecasts forges new links. Page A-5 notes.
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World Weather Watch
U.N
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Will Stanley
Ricardo Montalban
Joey Bishop
M.N
Long Beach City College
Long Beach Unified School District
R.E
Lakewood
A. Long Beach City College
California
Leroy Lowery
Senate Committee On Education
Joseph McCleary
Long Beach Unified School
Lowery
Combined News Services
S.F
Walter Alston
Small Claims Court
Action Line
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E.L
Federal Aviation Agency
Los Angeles International Airport
Western Area Military Traffic Management and Terminal Service
Oakland
Job
Schucel
Alexander Dubcek
McCarthy
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