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Newspaper
Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1969
Page
2
In a new plan, welfare recipients would get a $30 monthly incentive in addition to welfare payments instead of job training. States and cities would assume more control over planning and spending federal manpower funds, while the Labor Department keeps overall responsibility.
Apollo astronauts describe a near fuel crisis during descent to the lunar surface. Armstrong credits ground control for guiding a safe manual landing away from a crater while Aldrin and Collins provide vivid observations of the terrain and their surface mobility. Parades and celebrations follow as Nixon hosts a state dinner.
The San Jose Mercury and News fronts a 3000 dollar reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the killer of Deborah Furlong and Kathy Snoozy, stabbed in Aug on a hillside picnic near their homes. The paper urges swift capture and warns against letting the offender remain free. Residents recall a white minivan near the crime scene.
Oceanside residents along the Strand watched two large gray whales swim close to the municipal pier on Monday a rare spectacle that drew crowds and local officials cautioning observers to stay clear of the animals.
Police in Venice arrested nine more gondoliers bringing the total charged to seventeen after a protest last week against a canal ban. The demonstrators disrupted a city council meeting, smashed a 15th Century chandelier and pulled down a waterpipe flooding the council chambers.
The Bureau of Mines aims to unseal the Mannington coal mine in West Virginia around Sept. 1. Disputes over timing exist among the bureau, Consol coal, the UMW, and state officials with a final plan to be announced jointly. Relatives of the entombed miners will be informed first.
Two men, David Morales 24 and Celia Martinez 21, both of Anaheim, were jailed in San Diego after undercover narcotics agents seized nearly a million dollars worth of heroin. Morales allegedly tried to sell four pounds of uncut heroin to agents from Los Angeles and San Diego, with the drugs said to have been brought across the U S Mexico border and taped to the underside of a pickup truck.
Viet fighters renewed assaults as communists shelled 128 towns. Spokesmen say the aim was to seize An Loc Loc Ninh or Quan Loi to spark a provisional revolutionary government for propaganda. Officers say the attack was repelled. prisoners mention attacks set for August dates. A U S command task force at Quan Loi faced heavy hits.
A Czechoslovak official reports thefts of arms and ammunition while protests loom toward the August 21 anniversary of the Soviet invasion. Across Vietnam, fierce fighting persists near An Loc and Da Nang. U.S. forces report casualties and attacks by enemy commandos, with several bases, hospitals, and supply lines hit.
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