Missile range pioneer Col Ewing retires after 30 AF career
Col Clair Ewing, the Air Force’s only PhD geodesist to help develop missile test ranges, retires after 30 years. He served as Vice Commander of the Air Force Western Test Range at Vandenberg AFB California since 1967 and received the Legion of Merit oak leaf cluster.
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Clair E. Ewing
Air Force
Col. Ewing
Kansas State University
Colorado University
Korea
Shoran
Forbes Afb
Kansas
Ohio State University
Lompoc
California
Lompoc Record Publications
Kenneth L. Adam
J. Donald Adam
Harry J. Crompe
Gaylen Jackson
Air Force Missile Test Center
Patrick Afb
Navy
Pacific Missile Range
Ewing
National Range Implementation Group
Pacific Area
National Range Division
Meek named new range vice commander at Western Test Range
Brigadier General Kronauer named Colonel Arthur M. Meek to succeed Colonel Clair E. Ewing as vice commander. Ewing retires December end and joins Federal Electric Corp at Van Denberg AFB. Meek served as Director of Range Support since October 1965 and has a long Air Force career beginning in 1941 with England missions in WWII.
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Clifford J. Kronauer
Air Force
Western Test Range
Arthur M. Meek
Clair E. Ewing
Ewing
Federal Electric Corporation
Vandenberg Afb
Meek
Colonel Meek
Army Ordnance Department
England
Eighth Air Force
95Th
486Th
4Th
Reagan faces long road to Creative Society agenda
Sacramento reports that Governor Reagan enters 1969 with Republicans briefly controlling both chambers but needing supermajorities for key actions. His Creative Society program stalled in prior sessions, with battles over judicial independence, labor ballot secrecy, anti pornography measures, and tax reform. A tax study by Controller Flournoy hints at endorsing payroll withholding, which Reagan opposes without full forgiveness.
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Carl N. Ingram
Sacramento
UPI
Ronald Reagan
Senate
Hugh M. Burns
Assembly
Reagan
Assembly Judiciary Committee
William T. Bagley
R-San Rafael
Assembly Criminal Procedure Committee
W. Craig Biddle
Riverside
Charles J. Conrad
Sherman Oaks
Industrial Relations Committee
Houston S. Flournoy
Flournoy
Newsmen
Portland children return to school after storm delays
Portland residents urged to clear storm drains as New Year’s week storm caused flooding risks. Minor flooding occurred on Johnson Creek while city crews removed slush and dumped it into the Willamette River. Hundreds of the county’s 17,000 boats were damaged or sunk with mooring covers failing amid the icy conditions.
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Portland
Ore
UPI
Johnson Creek
Multnomah County
Willamette River
Columbia River
Catholic civil rights marchers claim success
Northern Ireland civil rights marchers say the four day Belfast to Londonderry trek achieved attention on voting and housing rights. Police protection concerns surfaced as 155 were injured amid attacks by organized mobs.
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Londonderry
Northern Ireland
UPI
Belfast
Michael O’farrell
Nothern Ireland
William Long
Oil strike could trigger long cold winter across nations
The first nationwide oil industry strike since 1952 enters its third day with 50 000 workers walking out. Union leaders warn of a long winter while firms say supplies remain unchanged and most refineries stay running. States hit include Texas California Oklahoma and Colorado with Texaco Gulf American Standard Oil and others named.
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Denver
UPI
Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers International Union
OCAW
Ray Davidson
Los Angeles
Texas
California
Long Beach
Calif
Louisiana
Utah
Arkansas
Missouri
Illinois
Kansas
Oklahoma
Kentucky
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Montana
Indiana
Washington
New York
Wyoming
North Dakota
New Jersey
Colorado
Texaco
Gulf
American
Standard Oil of
Cities Service
Sinclair, Phillips
Continental
Frontier
Heart surgeon predicts slowing of transplant techniques
Stanford surgeon Dr. Norman Shumway, who performed America’s first adult heart transplant, expects a gradual rise in procedures over the next four years rather than rapid growth. He notes mixed results from nine patients, with four living and six managed with immune suppression, while two of his four survivors are at home. The first transplant occurred January 6, 1968, with mixed outcomes and ongoing knowledge gains guiding future use.
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Stanford
Calif
UPI
Norman Shumway
America
Shumway
Stanford University
Christiaan Barnard
United Press Interna
Mike Kasperak
Kasperak
Reagan Faces Friendly Republican Legislature In 1969 Session
In Sacramento Reagan meets a Republican majority in the Assembly and Senate, with Monagan as speaker and Unruh’s legacy looming. The session centers on higher education tax reform and state spending as Reagan prepares to deliver the state of the state message.
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Sacramento
UPI
Ronald Reagan
Reagan
Creative Society
State Senate
George Miller Jr
State Assembly
Assembly
Jess M. Unruh
GOP
Robert T. Monagan
Tracy
Unruh
Robert H. Finch
John G. Veneman
Modesto
Houston I. Flournoy
San Francisco State College
Senate
Finch
Health, Education and Welfare
Richard M. Nixon
Washington
Edward Reinecke
Los Angeles
George Deukmejian
Long Beach
Caspar W. Weinberger
Transportation
Gordon Luce
Don Mulford
Piedmont
Charles J. Conrad
Sherman Oaks
Monagan
Conrad
Assembly Democrats
Sirhan in eager but realistic mood before Kennedy trial
Sirhan B. Sirhan showed an eager yet realistic mood on the eve of his murder trial for the Kennedy assassination. Security was heightened in Los Angeles as the case opened on Tuesday, with Sirhan escorted through the Hall of Justice in a heavily guarded routine from his 14th floor cell to the courtroom.
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Los Angeles
UPI
Sirhan B. Sirhan
Robert F. Kennedy
Los Angeles County Hall of Justice
Sirhan
Kennedy
California
Grant B. Cooper
Cooper
West Coast
Los Angeles Bar Association
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New Range
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Nixon
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