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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Oct 04, 1968
Page
1
The notice describes ACTION LINE as a service to solve problems and answer questions. It provides mailing address Box 230 Long Beach California 90801 and phone numbers 432 3451 with service hours 9 am to 1 pm and 5 pm to 9 pm Monday through Friday.
Rand McNally offers a 9x12 inch color world atlas from 1920 including a Europe on the eve of World War I map. Additional historical maps of ancient empires and territorial changes are available from Rand McNally at 423 Market St. San Francisco for 75 cents.
Reader asks which president suffered gum cancer and was allegedly taken to a Navy ship for a cancer operation. The claim is unverified and described as top secret. No named official sources or corroboration are provided.
The article recounts President Grover Cleveland’s upper jaw cancer operations aboard the yacht Oneida in New York’s East River on July 1 and July 17, 1893. Surgeries were kept secret to avoid public alarm amid economic trouble and foreign credit concerns.
A Glendale home built in 1912 at 727 Kenneth Road resembles the Tara mansion from Gone With the Wind. It is owned by Mr. and Mrs. Robert Feldman who bought it thinking it was the actual movie house. MGM says no exact Tara replica is known. the original set was torn down and shipped to Atlanta for potential reconstruction as a state monument.
ACTION LINE found beeswax and candle supplies at Candle Kitchen at Knott's Berry Farm Buena Park selling wax for 1.50 per pound. Everitt & Ray Inc South El Monte offers one pound bricks at 2 each with 15 minimum, contact 283-7146 for COD orders.
Curtis E. LeMay joined George C. Wallace as his vice presidential candidate and urged stronger military pressure on North Vietnam. He argued against a policy of no will to win and said nuclear weapons could be used in some cases though war is horrible. Wallace and LeMay toured cities, vowing to pursue Vietnam forcefully if peace negotiations fail.
A bomb exploded in an outside CO2 box at the Southern California Edison substation near Naples Belmont Shore, blowing a wall hole and shattering windows in seven nearby homes. Police report a tall man in a suit seen fleeing in a red sports car. no injuries or fire reported. Navy Demolition unit and fire crews responded. detonation caused widespread alarm across Long Beach.
Troops hunted room by room for snipers while tanks patrolled downtown Mexico City after the bloodiest fighting of the student revolt. The clashes left a death toll from 20 to 40, with hundreds injured and thousands jailed as authorities ordered an army takeover of the University of Mexico. Avery Brundage announced the 1968 Olympic Games would proceed on schedule.
About 100 chanting demonstrators from Chico State clashed with 200 Reagan supporters as Governor Reagan campaigned for Republicans. He urged students to follow college rules or lose access to state aid, while noting the need for three assemblymen and one senator to empower the party in Sacramento. The rally grew noisy and cut short his remarks.
Thunderstorms roared through five counties leaving four dead and several injured. The deluge caused millions in damage, flash floods, monstrous freeway pileups, and hundreds of fires from lightning. Long Beach saw little rain while mountain areas faced heavy downpours. A San Gabriel River Freeway pileup north of the Pomona Freeway killed two and wounded two. A gasoline tanker crash on the Golden State Freeway north of downtown Los Angeles cremated a motorist. A child died in a storm related car pedestrian crash on a state highway.
The House backed away from earlier moves to bar federal aid as a weapon to force desegregation and adopted Senate language reaffirming a 1964 Civil Rights Act provision. HEW urged no mandatory busing, while critics claim enforcement relies on freedom of choice plans. The compromise allocates 18.4 billion dollars in a fiscal package with over 3 billion in school aid. The chamber also kept a ban on loans or grants to students convicted in college riots.
A US Army helicopter collided with a twin-engine cargo plane after taking off from Camp Evans air strip. All 24 Americans aboard both craft were killed. The C 7 Caribou carried 13 service members including four Air Force crewmen. the Chinook carried 11, including four Army crewmen.
An undercover agent testifies that a Yippie leader urged murder of political candidates. The report also notes Max Rafferty denying calls to label Alan Cranston a traitor while Sen. Edward Kennedy endorses Cranston.
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