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Newspaper
Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Aug 18, 1971
Page
3
British commandos clashed with IRA elements in a graveyard in Londonderry amid ongoing Northern Ireland violence. A civilian was killed, the latest fatality in the long running conflict.
Los Angeles officials report county fees for services to 77 cities and multiple districts could be capped under President Nixon’s 90 day price and wage freeze. The county controller warned $2.1 million in employee raises may also be blocked, affecting service costs passed to local property taxes.
Los Angeles APD reports amputee Clifford Cunningham, 38, who found misprinted six cent stamps with inverted flag colors and blue overprint, shares the windfall with a POW support organization. He bought a roll of 100 and identified three stamp mistakes, one so rare another stamp sold for 38000 dollars. If valued near fifty thousand per stamp, the total could reach millions. He has not sold any yet despite intense interest.
Cunningham handed two stamps Tuesday to Mrs. Roosevelt Hestle of Los Angeles wife of an Air Force officer shot down over North Vietnam five years ago and unheard from since. Mrs. Hestle accepted the stamps for VIVA which has offered them to the highest bidder.
Haiti Observateur reports Marie-Denise Dominique, 20, daughter of François Duvalier, exiled from Haiti after a family rift with President Jean Claude Duvalier. She backed Defense Minister Luckner Cambronne in a proposed anti- Communist Leopards unit and resigned as her brother's secretary amid a power struggle.
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