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Newspaper
Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Apr 09, 1971
Page
6
A bomb exploded in a men’s restroom near the Fresno County Courthouse offices about 9:50 a.m. Thursday, causing a hole and moving a desk. No injuries were reported. A caller claimed a link to Chicano Liberation, but details were unclear and investigators pursued the case.
Airman Sgt. Robert L. Jones organized a drive at Phan Rang Air Base in Vietnam that raised more than 37 000 for Paula and Gary Holt of Austin Texas, two siblings facing a nephritis with two children lost. The campaign drew contributions from Americans Australians and Vietnamese and aims for 50 000 before Jones's return to the United States.
A federal grand jury indicted John Jordan Hill Jr. and James Adrian Steele for mailing two poisonous snakes from Dallas on December 10. Hill allegedly mailed a copperhead and a water moccasin to a Santa Rosa, California recipient, with Steele assisting.
U2 pilot Gary Powers says Lt. Williza Calley will live under public condemnation after his My Lai murder conviction. Powers, shot down over the Soviet Union in 1960, recalls his own hostile reception and notes public sentiment shifts as emotions fade. He warns Calley’s life may never return to normal.
Wy-Lt. Gen. Sir Humfrey Gale, deputy chief of staff to Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower in World War II, died at his Swiss home in la Tour de Peilz after a long illness. Commissioned in 1911, he served in both World Wars and later led the European regional office of the UNRRA before retiring in 1947.
A 1 year old boy in Ridgewood, New Jersey, is set to inherit about 20 million dollars from his mother, Marina Maguire Chickering Weiner, who died in a California jail cell last month while held on possession of a hypodermic needle. Her son Donald Chickering Jr. was unaware of the inheritance. the grandparents disclosed the news.
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