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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Oct 14, 1964
Page
18
Southern California reached a settlement in a month long food dispute that had disrupted retail food stocks and idled about five thousand workers. The agreement was announced Tuesday closing the dispute between major fast food chains and labor groups.
In Kazakhstan’s virgin lands, three shoeless cosmonauts landed on a farm inside their Voskhod space bus after a 16 orbit, 437000 mile flight in 24 hours 17 minutes. Tass News Agency confirmed the falsetto landing site, with pilots paroled to farmers and welcomed home before dawn.
Corpus Christi sheriff reports Julius Schmidt, 29, an ex convict, seized with a machine gun rocket launchers grenades and 20000 rounds. Federal agents plan more arrests while Schmidt faces federal firearms act charges for allegedly supplying weapons for an assassination plot with Nazi ties.
Tropical storm Isbell intensified to a hurricane with 80 mph winds and moved toward South Florida. Warnings cover Marathon to Fort Myers with watches from Fort Myers to Tampa as forecasters expect landfall near Dry Tortugas then the southwest coast. The storm formed Monday off Cuba after causing fatalities and damage there.
Louis Flax a 39 year old DNC employee testified in an affidavit that he was paid 1000 dollars to deliver confidential campaign information to John Grenier executive director of the RNC. He said he personally delivered Western Union messages on October 2 with access from Democratic headquarters and later received cash outside the Republican HQ.
Ft Ord reports its thirteenth death from meningitis as Pvt Gordon H Baker Jr 22 of Whittier dies after five weeks in basic training. The outbreak includes a civilian infant and two other civilians in contact with base personnel with carriers also identified. Isolation and quarantines are in place and trainees slated for Ord assignments are redirected under moratorium.
Tokyo bulletin reports Billy Mills, 26, a Marine Lieutenant, finishing strong in the final 30 yards to become the first American to win the Olympic 10,000-meter race.
A landing craft carrying 30 Marines in Exercise Hard Nose exploded offshore 3,000 yards from the beach. Nine Marines were seriously injured, with several others burned. Crewmembers extinguished the fire and towed the craft to shore while the operation continued. The exercise, largest West Coast counterinsurgency drill, includes 9,000 troops and ends Saturday.
Former President Harry S Truman, age 80, fell in his Independence home tub, suffering a cut over his right eye, lacerations from shattered glasses, and multiple rib and facial injuries. He was taken by ambulance to Research Hospital, where doctors reported he is resting easily and that his stay is indefinite.
A California statewide poll indicates Lyndon Johnson leading Barry Goldwater with about 62 percent to 32 percent among likely voters, with 5 percent undecided. The survey, conducted by two interviewing methods, shows Goldwater edging lower as undecideds split.
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