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Newspaper
Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1970
Page
3
US and Brazil face a standoff over hostage negotiations amid a drive to free two diplomats seized by Tupamaros. Brazil denies any exchange deal, while police search suspected rebel hideouts and rights suspensions enable wider detentions.
A Agriculture Department study finds consumers spend more on alcoholic beverages than food. The 1969 per person budgets show $895 for food including beverages and tobacco. alcohol bills rose about five percent year over year, while clothing and tobacco costs also grew.
An 18 year old seeks information on PT training options. Fairview State Hospital requires a bachelor degree for licensure and does not offer a physical therapy program. A part time technician program exists with a paid $235 monthly salary and Civil Service test requirement. The next test is August 14 at Fairview Auditorium in Costa Mesa.
A May 25 salesman from Cutea Co. sold Wearever Aluminum knives for 37.40 dollars with a 30 day delivery promise. The customer reports no delivery or return calls after repeated attempts. Cubco Co. manager Tony Newton claims to arrange delivery. Wearever HQ cites prior complaints and promises action.
A reader reports a returned lottery check with a form letter stating federal law prohibits use of US mail to transport lottery tickets. The letter says tickets must be purchased in person in New York, though bought for residents elsewhere may occur locally.
In Westchester California a bank robber took a employee hostage during a Security Pacific National Bank heist. He fled into a shoe store where officers confronted him and a gunfight ensued wounding officer Dennis Seberlick in the left foot and ending with the suspect injured and money recovered.
Police report theft of nearly $64,000 worth of black and white television sets from Long Beach and Wilmington piers, with three wooden shipping containers hauled away by trailer and truck after 2 am. Losses at warehouses on W Eighth Street and Mast Anaheim Street total 760 units valued around $50,500, while 740 Japanese portable sets valued $33,000 were later recovered from an abandoned truck at 190th Street and Hawthorne Boulevard.
A Fairfield girl died Tuesday when a fire swept through a camper on a pickup truck driven by her father Dalton Hughes on Highway 9 south of Earlington. The father and his 4 year old son Duane escaped as motorists hailed the flames and helped pull the family from the vehicle.
Soledad prisoners began a hunger strike over transfers to other facilities while San Quentin inmates fasted in protest of a Friday escape that cost a judge and an 18 year old their lives. In total 54 Soledad inmates were moved to San Quentin and other camps with 74 more slated.
Huey P L. Newton, co founder of the Black Panther Party, called last week's Marin County shootout participants the recabnd aries and said Jonathan Jackson would have been his successor if he had died in the school incident. Newton blamed fascist police for the deaths and spoke during a KPFA interview in Berkeley after a $50 000 bond release and new trial in an Oakland police death case.
The firearms linked to Angela Davis appear connected to a shootout at Marin County Community Center after a guard was killed at Soledad State Prison. The incident involved George Jackson and Jonathan Jackson, with Davis active in funding defense efforts and previously denied investigatory access.
Senate debates an ABM bill with a Safeguard system at Malmstrom and Grand Forks. Proposals include a $322 million expansion and a Brooke amendment, while administration forces resist immediate votes. Key figures Sen Brook, Sen Tower, and Sen Stennis weigh in on defense and bargaining leverage.
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