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Newspaper
Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Aug 14, 1969
Page
1
An 18 year old secretary in an Austin shopping center was threatened by a caller demanding she undress or be shot with a high powered rifle. The caller claimed to be across the street with a rifle and warned not to alarm her as he watched. She asked for reassurance, then called police as she attempted to comply. No arrests were made after a search of the area.
Plymouth Michigan MSU student Greg Stoecker was expelled from Russia for adding a mustache to a Lenin photo in a Moscow hotel room. His sister notes his history of doodling. The incident occurred among other Michigan students accused of political hooliganism in Moscow.
U S forces report heavy fighting north of Saigon and in coastal lowlands as B52 raids intensify. Vietnamese and Viet Cong casualties exceed 1,700 with 424 North Vietnamese killed in five battles around Quan Loi An Loc Loc Ninh, while U S casualties reach 96 killed last week. Marine Lt Col John A Dowd, 37, of Woodbridge Virginia, dies leading an assault near a tree line held by enemy forces.
Nine East Germans commandeered a locomotive and another fled on a coal mine train to a slag heap near the West German border at Helmstedt. The group included two families and the escapees crossed a barbed wire frontier on the Berlin Wall's eighth anniversary.
A Los Angeles service drew about 150 mourners for Sharon Tate and the other victims of the Benedict Canyon killings. In El Monte friends carried Steven Parent to his hearse. Portola Valley sent a Tequilem mass for Abigail Folster as Jay Sebring’s funeral took place at Forest Lawn. Voityck Frykowski’s arrangements were under way in New York. Police reported no new leads as detectives pursued the killer or killers after the mass murder and severed telephone lines. Prominent mourners included Yul Brynner, Peter Sellers, Kirk Douglas, Warren Beatty, Peggy Lipton, and Steve McQueen who spoke at Sebring’s services. Polanski, in Europe, later consoled Sharon Tate’s mother at the cemetery funeral.
Philip Blaiberg world’s longest surviving heart transplant patient was readmitted to Groote Schuur Hospital Cape Town after a deterioration in his condition. A hospital bulletin said the 60 year old, who received his transplanted heart on January 2, 1968, is under investigation with no further information released at present.
In San Francisco the University of California Medical Center completed its first heart transplant. The 58 year old recipient, a San Francisco man, is reported doing well. The operation was led by Dr. Benson Roe, marking the bay area’s 18th heart transplant. The donor’s widow noted her husband wished to donate his organs.
The final eight of 35 people killed when a Gamblers Special DC airliner hit a granite cliff in the High Sierra were recovered from wreckage. Bodies, brought to Lone Pine by helicopter from Hogback Ridge, were moved to a Bishop morgue for identification by BI experts. The February 18 flight from Hawthorne to Burbank vanished until last Friday when located from the air. Admits Smuggling 384 Wigs into U.S. SAN DIEGO Yeon Kim, Los Angeles, pleaded guilty to smuggling 384 wigs across the San Ysidro border.
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