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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Oct 15, 1969
Page
5
Denver endured a record snow event followed by a four degree cold snap and then a severe smog episode. The smog formed around 10:30 am Tuesday, adding an unusual odor though visibility was only moderately affected and officials warned the inversion could worsen beyond first alert levels.
San Francisco supervisors voted 7-4 to delay Hunt's plan to convert Alcatraz Island into a tourist complex for at least six months. Investor H. Lamar Hunt Jr. promised restoration and new attractions including an underground museum, while residents pressed for public hearings. The Rock, owned by the federal government, housed famed inmates before 1963.
An Air Force C 5 Galaxy broke its own unofficial world record by taking off with 798 200 pounds, flying for 6 hours 5 minutes and landing safely at Edwards Air Force Base. The flight burned fuel to shed weight from the prior record of 790 000 pounds set earlier, with most of the load comprising fuel.
An army officer told Interpol that over 90 percent of this year’s Mexican marijuana crop has been burned. Col Edmundo Arriaga Lopez cited success against Acapulco Gold as authorities stepped up cultivation destruction. The U S government’s Operation Intercept aims to keep Mexican marijuana from entering the United States. A San Diego border drug traffic conference was postponed at Mexico’s request.
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