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Newspaper
Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1970
Page
1
A crane hoisted two men 95 feet in the air on Monday to dramatize Wichita Kansas KPTS fund drive. They vow to stay up until 70 000 fruit cakes sell for an 8 cent share each from Rainbow Baking. Aligned with the campaign they have sold about 30 000 in 10 days.
Black civics teacher Leroy Bates, 25, says the pledge is untrue and refuses to recite it. Superintendent Benjamin Willis suspended him for gross insubordination after he declined a direct order to pledge allegiance. Bates, who has two children, stood outside his classroom during the recitation and plans legal action.
Fulton County Judge Dan Duke acquitted Archie Julks, 44, on charges of stealing a package of 17 adult magazines, ruling the items had no value as worthless contraband pornography. The shop owners faced similar charges for selling pornography, with Duke calling the material legally devoid of value and thus not illegally possessed.
Ronald Reagan returns to Eureka College to help dedicate the Reagan Physics Education Center. The new 3020 K0 S facility, named for Reagan and his brother Neal Reagan, houses two basketball courts swimming pools offices and classrooms in the small north central town.
Romanian Tarom airliner from Tel Aviv to Bucharest crashed near Constanta due to bad weather. Killed were diplomat Paul Marin Bucharest commerce attache and Israeli professor Pinchas Naor of Haifa Technion. Also aboard were two Israeli businessmen and other Romanians. nine hospitalized.
DETROIT UP The Ford council of the United Auto Workers examined a tentative contract with Ford Motor Co that could avert a second crippling strike. The tentative three year deal adds about 1.2 billion in wages and matches GM terms, with retroactive pay and a Christmas bonus, shaping a recommended acceptance by Ford workers. Chrysler remains unresolved while AMC begins talks in Green Bay this week.
Famous cartoonist Rube Goldberg, creator of intricate invention cartoons and Pulitzer winner, died of cancer at his New York home at age 87. His work spanned Boob McNutt Lala Palooza and Mike and Ike, with later sculpture after retiring in 1964. Funeral set for Thursday at Frank C Campbell.
An official in Amman reported a Jordanian army patrol came under heavy fire in a premeditated ambush by Arab guerrillas at a road fork outside Jerash, 24 miles north of Amman. The attack used machine guns mortars and rockets. one vehicle was destroyed and there were no casualties. The incident threatened a five day cease-fire amid ongoing fighting and regional diplomatic activity in Washington and Amman.
FDA finds Grand Union Brand tuna exceeding the 0.4 parts per million mercury limit in two cans, prompting removal from suspect lots and a quarantine of the National Packing Co plant in Ponte Puerto Rico. FDA plans a wider check of other tuna brands to assess national scope.
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