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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Sep 25, 1968
Page
1
Action Line offers assistance solving problems and cutting red tape. Read ers can write ACTION LINE Box 230 Long Beach California 90801 or call 432 3451 during listed hours Monday through Friday for answers and guidance.
Action Line confirms son’s latest Army address via Office of the Adjutant General Washington DC and invites others to send full name service number rank and last known address to locate soldiers. Subscriptions questions explain delays and changes at Curtis Publishing with offers to extend missed issues. Market Basket issue resolved by offering a special order blank to complete English Ironstone set.
Capt. Asbury Coward notes two main U S monuments along Mexico City’s highway. Costanio Nivola, Sardinian-born sculptor, created an unnamed large piece and taught at Columbia University in 1963. Herbert Bayer, Austrian-born designer, built a reinforced concrete stair stepped block sculpture.
A reader from Downey criticizes the post office for using too many mini-motor vehicles trucks and rented cars. The letter urges returning workers to foot routes and using city bus service to cut expenses.
Eldridge Cleaver, parole status under appeal before a state Court of Appeals in San Francisco, was slated to speak at Cal State Long Beach on Oct 23 as part of campus activities. The Peace and Freedom Party signed him for a noon lecture while student leaders dispute eligibility and guest speaker rights amid requests from Associated Students and UC Berkeley course plans.
In Mexico City heavy fighting erupted as 1,500 troops drove armed students from the National Polytechnic Institute after a nine hour gun battle. At least 15 people died and 60 were wounded as snipers used Molotov cocktails and rifles from rooftops.
Police stopped a Long Beach city bus Tuesday night to arrest 42 year old Frances Tabis after she allegedly shot her estranged husband John Tabis in his kitchen. Investigators say seven shots were fired, one grazing his back as he died en route to Community Hospital. Two neighborhood boys witnessed the event and described the suspect, with Mrs Tabis reportedly crying later and shouting as she was captured.
Nixon criticized Hubert Humphrey as the most uncompromising defender of Johnson policies. He accused Humphrey of backing measures that raise living costs for the elderly and increase grocery and medicine prices, speaking after a Seattle rally near the Olympic Hotel.
Fourteen people were arrested after breaking into a Milwaukee selective service office, seizing 1-A draft files, and burning them with improvised napalm. The group included five Catholic priests, a Protestant minister, and a Christian brother.
Vice President Hubert Humphrey arrived in Los Angeles to a favorable welcome from California Democratic leaders as Pat Brown advised on a campaign path for California. The arrival kicked off a lengthy 214 day campaign in the state with an uneasy party atmosphere.
The hot spell eases slightly with highs near 95 in Long Beach, three degrees cooler than Tuesday's 98. Record Sept 24 temperatures and dense smog persist over the Los Angeles basin as fire danger rises in mountain counties due to low humidity and Santa Ana winds.
Rep. Melvin Laird said the Pentagon will cut U S troops in Vietnam by 90 000 over the next nine months, reducing forces from 540 000 to 450 000 by June 30 1969. He attributed the plan to updated South Vietnamese forces, higher draft calls, and easing construction needs.
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