Stone Man Still Alive After 36 Years
Action Line reports John D. Shouse known as Wonderful John the Stone Man is alive in Commerce Oklahoma with his wife and a newspaper clipping service. He says doctors predicted six months to live 36 years ago and cites osteopetrosis as the rare hereditary disease behind his condition.
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Nu-Pike
C. F
Long Beach
John D. Shouse
John
Stone Man
Commerce
Okla
Action Line
IRS reward for informants on tax dodgers explained
The IRS may pay up to 10 percent of recovered amounts to informants who provide information leading to tax law enforcement. Most informants ask 2 to 5 percent or nothing, and rewards are paid only after a determination that the information materially aided collection.
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Treasury
Internal Revenue Service
IRS
Internal Revenue
IRS Intelligence Division
American Society For the Preservation of
Orlene Young
N. Richman Ave
Fullerton
Calif
Garden Grove Center Aids Children Through Look Magazine Tie
A Garden Grove based Exceptional Children's Foundation Center offers speech hearing and visual therapy to children at reduced rates. It operates with a Look magazine subscription arrangement that funds the center, providing over $100 weekly on average. The mother soliciting subscriptions may have worked for National Organizational Services. donations should go directly to the foundation.
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Miss West
Exceptional Children’s Foundation of
Garden Grove
Look Magazine
Children’s Foundation
Garden Grove Blvd
Richard Schwartzberg
Look
National Organizational Services
Schwartzberg
Ann Schwartzberg
Foundation
Rafferty Defends Image Against Drafting and Atheism Claims
Dr. Max Rafferty, Republican Senate candidate, rebutted claims of draft dodging and atheism from local press. He noted his attempted enlistment in what was then called V-1 later V-12, his church work in Needles and Sioux City, and accused rivals of misrepresenting the Navy program timeline. He cited a town hall exchange in Los Angeles and challenged the reporting as biased, planning further response.
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Max Rafferty
U.S. Senate
Independent
Press- Telegram Friday
Dr. Rafferty
Trona
Rafferty
Los Angeles
Navy
Los Angeles Arsenal
Episcopal Church
Needles
Sioux City
Iowa
I,Pt’s
IPT
Biltmore
Alan Cranston
Southern California
Rash of Brush Fires and Smog Plague County
A mid 90s heat spell sparked a rash of brush fires in Los Angeles County and a first stage smog alert was briefly issued for Azusa. Fires burned across the San Fernando foothills and along the Harbor Freeway area while crews, helicopters, and bulldozers worked to control blazes near Chatsworth and Modjeska Canyon.
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Los Angeles County
San Fernando Valley
Orange County
Tucker Bird Sanctuary
Modjeska Canyon
Air Pollution Control District
APCD
Azusa
APCC
Los Angeles
Harbor Freeway
First Street
Chatsworth
Flag protest sparks heated community debate
Letter writer from Long Beach criticizes teens who attempted to tear down the American flag and replace it with a Viet Cong flag. The writer urges them to visit another country to appreciate what they have in America.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Internal Revenue Service
S.F
Long Beach
America
A.T.A
Nixon in Texas Vying With Wallace
Nixon campaigned in Houston to win conservatives away from George Wallace and strengthen his lead against Humphrey. He visited the Manned Spacecraft Center with Dr. Gilruth and astronaut Gordon Cooper and supported space program funding. He also backed supplying phantom jet interceptors to Israel to deter regional threats.
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Houston
UPI
Richard Nixon
Lbj
George Wallace
GOP
National Space Flight
Nixon
Wallace
Texas
Johnson
Humphrey
Manned Spacecraft Center
Robert R. Gilruth
Gordon Cooper
Cooper
Mission Control Center
Chris Craft
U.S
Israel
Chicago Police Display 'Interesting' Yippie Arsenal
Police in Chicago showed reporters more than 100 confiscated weapons from DNC demonstrations. Among items were a glass jar with two black widow spiders, tear gas reports, bats, knives, a grenade, spikes, and an 18 inch machete. Most items were seized August 27 28 in Lincoln Park and Grant Park.
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Chicago
Conrad Hilton Hotel
Peter Duellman
Grant Park
Lincoln Park
Warren Rejects Plea to Block Vietnam Reservists
Chief Justice Earl Warren denied a bid to pause 113 Army Reservists from Vietnam as they pursue a legal challenge to President Johnsons authority to mobilize them. The suit challenges the 1966 law granting such mobilizations without war or emergency.
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Washington
Earl Warren
Vietnam
Johnson
Congress
Justice Dept Says Hershey Reclassifications Illegal
The Justice Department reopened its clash with Selective Service Director Hershey by saying draft boards illegally reclassified Vietnam protesters and ordered their induction. The brief to the Supreme Court in James J. Oestereich's case argues such actions may be unconstitutional and violate rights.
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Washington
UPI
Justice Department
Selective Service
Lewis B. Hershey
Department
The
Supreme Court
James J. Oestereich
Cheyenne
Wyo
Oestereich
Andover- Newton Theological Seminary
Newton Centre
Mass
Hershey
Sign on the Door at Atomic Lab Reads Gone Fission
A door at an atomic energy laboratory bears the humorous label Gone Fission. The quirky notice reflects playful wartime era sentiment about nuclear science and secrecy.
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Atomic Energy Laboratory
Messenger Robbed in Los Angeles Cash and Checks Stolen
APD officer C B Walker for Consolidated Hotels of California reported a man robbed him of 10000 dollars in cash and 5000 dollars in checks during collection rounds in Los Angeles.
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Los Angeles
APD
C. B. Walker
Consolidated Hotels of California
Demonstrators sue LA city and officers over fall incident
Two demonstrators arrested during a school disturbance last fall filed a $2 million lawsuit against the City of Los Angeles and five police officers. The report notes other items on different pages about a Vietnam troop aid puzzle stocker and Denny McLAIN seeking a 30th win.
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Los Angeles
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