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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Oct 23, 1969
Page
2
Los Angeles police pursuing a single killer in the Tate murders consider the suspect’s glasses a major clue. Helder and Houghton say tracing the eyewear could point to the culprit, as optometrists nationwide were asked to report customers with that prescription.
House Speaker John W. McCormack kept administrative aide Dr. Martin Sweig after being informed the Justice Department and a federal grand jury were investigating Sweig’s contacts with the executive branch. Sources on Capitol Hill said the speaker learned of the probe about two months earlier.
The government says a moderate standard of living for a retired couple costs about $4,000 yearly. President Nixon seeks a 10 percent Social Security rise and higher limits on earned income, boosting benefits from $2,040 to around $2,240 and allowing more earnings without losing benefits. The Labor Department notes a decade rise in living costs, urging automatic adjustments for future costs.
After World War II price controls lifted, inflation trends remain mixed as the Nixon administration weighs wage price policies. September 1967 figures show living costs rising, while purchasing power edged up due to higher hourly wages. Medical care, housing, transportation and food costs climbed with notable declines in tomatoes and some produce.
In a Senate investigations subcommittee led by Ribicoff Turner faced questions about erasing Wooldridge from Ft Benning files and withholding the Augsburg report. He describedSanitized as separating facts from allegations and denied social ties with Wooldridge while acknowledging a 1969 letter praising Wooldridge and remarks about a wristwatch and a smuggled shipment.
Justice Department disclosed that Hubert H. Humphrey wrote to top officials urging approval of a $2.3 million Agency for International Development loan to NAPCO Bevel Gear Ltd. The 1962 loan is cited in a 1968 civil suit accusing NAPCO of deceit false claims and breach of content relating to equipment sold to the Indian company.
Up to 20 daylight burglaries may be solved with the arrest of two men, Gary Winstead and Darrell Hell, linked to thefts from Lakewood to Anaheim including Judge Roberta Butzbach's Los Cerritos home. Arrests followed a Bellflower rental truck clue. investigations continue with more charges expected.
An 11 year old and three juveniles were accused of breaking into a Riverhead car lot to stage a dodge em game using real cars. Four youths damaged 14 vehicles totaling about 8000 dollars as they rammed them together behind a high chain link fence. Mark Cardogan, 16, held on criminal mischief in Suffolk County jail in 500 dollar bond. The others, ages 12 and 13, were released to parents for later Family Court appearance.
Police arrested 14 members of a group called The Grand Central Station after a pie attack on moviegoers entering the San Francisco International Film Festival at Masonic Auditorium. Leaflets protested the festival’s established routines. One plate glass window was shattered.
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