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Newspaper
Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1967
Page
1
Pvt. John J. Wooden Legs, a Cheyenne Indian from Lame Deer Montana, topped a physical combat proficiency test for Company E of the 3rd Brigade the 4th Infantry Battalion at Ft. Lewis Washington. He posted the highest score ever recorded in the company and ran the fastest mile among its 200 Army trainees.
State Medical Board reinstates Sam Sheppard’s osteopathic medical certificate in Ohio after a Dec 14 board meeting. Attorney Benjamin Clark says Sheppard plans no Ohio practice, living in Europe and considering Peace Corps service. Prior license suspended following the 1954 Sheppard trial and later acquittal. he was released in 1964 after a federal ruling.
Mrs. Auguste Lorraine Alfone mother of actor Rod Steiger died of a heart attack in a car in Newark New Jersey. She was 64 and had driven there with her husband Sally Alfone Sr from Brick Township. She was to leave for London to holiday with Steiger and Claire Bloom. Steiger announced in Paris he would return to the U S for the funeral. Mrs Alfone was divorced from Steiger’s father and later married Alfone 24 years ago, living in Brick Township 20 years. Cary Grant cuts a Christmas record for children titled Christmas Lulla by joining with Peggy Lee on Here's To You proceeds going to Motion Picture Relief Fund. Grant is estranged from his fourth wife Dyan Cannon. they have two daughters.
Francis Cardinal Spellman willed his estate, about 534000, to his successor for the New York archdiocese. The April 30 1960 will was filed for probate in Manhattan Surrogate's Court after his death December 2 at age 78 from a stroke. Surviving siblings waived probate.
The Soviet press marks Leonid Brezhnev’s 61st birthday with private tones, continuing a tradition of honoring leaders only on specific landmark anniversaries. Observers note Brezhnev remains politically dominant, while Kosygin’s role appears diminished.
A massive blizzard dumped up to a foot of snow in parts of the Southwest and left drifts up to 15 feet. At least 46 deaths reported, 22 in West Texas. Governors Williams of Arizona and Cargo of New Mexico sought federal aid to deliver food, clothing, and hay. Rescue teams fought 15-foot drifts near Galup New Mexico for a missing man amid widespread closures, outages, and stalled traffic. Helicopters supplied Navajo and Hopi communities with relief while wind driven snow closed schools and paralyzed travel across Arizona Utah Colorado Nevada Wyoming and California.
Stanford physicist Nobel laureate William Shockley rejected claims that he urged sterilization and welfare cuts as a population control policy. He described a McMaster University lecture portraying a "thinking exercise" combining two birth control proposals and warned against misinterpretation. He supported anti poverty efforts and Head Start but cautioned against unrealistic hopes for rapid racial equality.
Court orders require pickets to stay seven feet apart and bar doorway protests at the Hearst owned Herald Examiner during a four day guild strike. Restrictions cover trespassing on company grounds and no harassment of employees, agents, or customers as the paper continues to publish with many workers on strike.
The Western European Union council approved British plans to withdraw over 5,000 troops from the Rhine army in early 1988. Britain will reduce Rhine forces to about 45,000 men following an agreement reached with the United States and West Germany.
Assembly Speaker Jesse Unruh a Democrat demands equal statewide television time to respond to Governor Ronald Reagan's report to the people. Unruh says Reagan's claims are partisan and plans a taped 154 minute program in January distributed by the California Broadcasters Association, after past rejected live telecast offers.
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