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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Oct 16, 1969
Page
1
Readers are invited to write ACTION to NE Box 230 Long Beach California 9080 or call 432-345 between 9 am and 1 pm or 9 am to 9 pm Monday through Friday. Questions chosen aim to solve problems and cut red tape.
Readers asked where to buy Graham posters and pictures for youth groups. The ACTION LINE arranged for black and white glossy photographs from the Billy Graham Evangelist Association in Minneapolis. The association says it is a non profit run by 21 trustees and all crusade kits are salaried. Graham himself has a fixed salary of 24,500 dollars.
A veteran reports benefits disrupted after changing schools and missing a certificate of attendance that he never received, asking Action Line to resolve the issue. Another case notes delays from the Veterans Administration over a certificate of attendance, with one veteran set to receive a $663.67 check and a third inquiry asks about where Tim Morgan is appearing.
More than 2 500 students joined a Vietnam Moratorium Day rally at California State College Long Beach with speakers including SDS leader Mike Klonsky. Attendees heard calls for faster peace and broad antiwar expression across music, theater, and speeches on the central lawn.
Thousands joined peaceful demonstrations in Long Beach as antiwar activists gathered at City Hall and the Selective Service office. Candles were lit and 21 selective service cards burned to protest the war while about 2,500 to 3,000 participants moved through streets and a separate 2,500 demonstrated at California State College Long Beach. Speakers including C T Weber called for immediate withdrawal and faulted the draft board as complicit in the war. The event spanned from morning until after 9 p.m. with a candlelight march concluding the day.
Hundreds of thousands join Moratorium Day reversions with candlelight crowds in Boston Washington and New York. Protests disrupt traffic as millions ignore sponsors calls. McGovern addresses Boston crowd while Martin Luther King Jr pleads for peace and homecoming of soldiers.
A teenage teacher Kirsten Anderson was abducted Tuesday from Arroyo Grande and freed Wednesday near Vacaville. The kidnapper, calling himself Robert A. Marvey, fled after dropping her in a park restroom. Police and FBI chase a jail escapee linked to an earlier Albuquerque kidnapping.
Thousands gathered at the Capitol and campuses across California to protest the Vietnam War. Leaders including Lou Hamer and Ralph David Abernathy urged action while Sen. Alan Cranston called for an end to the conflict. Demonstrations spanned UC Berkeley USC and public spaces, drawing diverse participants.
Notice on bulletin board urges members to bring their wives and one other covered dish to the potluck supper scheduled for Wednesday night.
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