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Newspaper
Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1969
Page
2
Washington reports the federal government urged banks to continue lending to needy college students as the student loan program faces tight money. Secretary Finch warned about 200,000 potential loan denials if Congress delays action and noted the need to lift loan ceilings to prevent a crisis.
South Viet Nam premier Huong faces removal amid cabinet changes and Thieu approval. Reports note student dissent over his policies and reforms as 137 delegates petitioned for his ouster in July. Also reported: Gen Frank A Armstrong, 67, famed for World War II daylight raid inspiration, dies in Tampa.
Saigon reports intensified combat along South Vietnam northern coastal plains. U.S. forces say they killed more than 40 North Vietnamese and Viet Cong this week and found Communist troops dead on a battlefield. An attack on Da Nang killed one American and wounded 42. Seven civilians died in a rocket strike 100 miles south. Thirty-five shellings hit U.S. units overnight, including 15 attacks in the Da Nang to Tam Ky corridor. A helicopter crash 23 miles west of Tam Ky killed eight Americans and an Associated Press photographer.
At the Presidio and Union Square crowds greet Presidents Nixon and Park. Park urges balanced Asian US efforts for stability while avoiding unilateral moves. He warns that imbalances could trigger new disturbances and threats in the region as demonstrators call for ending the war and question Nixon's secret weapon plan.
The Navy seeks 2.6 billion to start building new ships and reduce total force to about 700,000 by July. About 52 ships are over 25 years old, with manpower cuts achieved by lowering recruit inflow and more liberal early retirements. Some installations may close, and there will be no major cuts in fleet operations in Vietnam or the Mediterranean. A separate defense savings effort could require about 10,000 more personnel reductions across services.
Washington reports another July rise in the cost of living, up five tenths of one percent from June due to higher prices for food and services. Used cars and gasoline fell in parts of the Midwest and West amid a competitive market, with the overall index at 124.2 indicating $12.82 for every $10 of goods and services in 1997-50 terms.
Prices for meat and poultry rose 19.1 percent in a month. Chase notes fried chicken costs up 3 percent as shifts to poultry push costs higher. In Madrid, two Indian vultures bound for Havana Zoo from Zurich escaped when porters dropped the cage at Barajas Airport. The birds fled and are unaccounted near Madrid.
James A Linen has been relieved of the Time Inc presidency due to illness. James J Shepley, publisher of the magazine group, was elected president and chief operating officer. Linen, 47, will become chairman of the executive committee.
Seabees and rescue crews cleared debris and embalmments as live reports put Mississippi and Louisiana tolls around 316, with 4,717 homes destroyed and 9,718 major damages. Coastguard and Army engineers scaled cleanup while food and supplies flowed in. Water systems were stabilized with emergency power, and officials warned the final death count may never be known.
A 15 year old, Donald Gregory Norgaard of 4342 Bellflower Blvd, died after an apparent pool accident at a friend’s backyard in Lakewood. Royal Hunton, 38, found the body at 2 a.m. at 4239 Marber Ave during a social gathering, attempted mouth to mouth resuscitation, and Norgaard was pronounced dead at Woodruff Community Hospital at 2:20 a.m. Police report Norgaard left the residence between 11 p.m. and midnight after listening to records with two friends.
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