23 Dec 1968
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Newspaper
Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1968
Page
1
Scott Grandstaff, an Oklahoma City teenager, says he will avoid trouble and defends District Judge Carmen C. Harris who ordered a whipping by his brother in law for concealment of stolen property. The judge had previously given a deferred sentence for a prior burglary.
Senator Strom Thurmond, 66, married Nancy Moore, 22, in a private Aiken Presbyterian Church ceremony. About 150 outsiders gathered outside, with 35 guests inside. a public reception will follow. Moore was Miss South Carolina 1966.
London born Edward Hobbs a 42 year old veteran of British service and American citizen held a Christmas party for 200 of the Great Lakes Naval Hospital 1113 patients providing stockings music and refreshments. His Chicago Northwest side beauty salon customers donated most fixings and 600 to 700 patients went home for Christmas. He began in 1963 after customers gave gifts and started annual gifts and a holiday fund. In 1966 he expanded to a party and this year he added a July Christmas morale lift for sailors.
A fragmentary notice from December 22, 1866 outlines baths at the Cartier Deli and hotel events. It references Vatinne Rick and Hiony among participants. The readable text is brief and lacks full context or clear outcomes.
Nearly all 82 Pueblo crew members will join families at Miramar NAS for a Christmas reunion after North Korea release. Pentagon says families flown in at government expense. medical checks and debriefings planned. Navy arranged 80 hotel rooms and interview facilities as plans for planeside reunions and cautious relief unfold.
At Panmunjom the last remains of Duane Daniel Hodges, 21, were turned over after a North Korean delay. Hodges, a Pueblo crewman, died in the 1968 incident and had been treated as a prisoner until the transfer. The North Koreans finally handed over his body as surviving crewmen were released.
Negotiators announced a new contract agreement early today to end a week long hospital strike by about 3400 non professional workers at Kaiser Foundation Hospitals. Details await ratification by Local 250 of the Hospital Workers Union in May in San Francisco.
The Pueblo crew was freed after a controversial pact described as kooky by officials. Chief U.S. negotiator Maj. Gen. Gilbert H. Woodward agreed to sign a statement admitting U.S. guilt only after North Korea allowed a public preannouncement that the document was false. President Johnson praised Woodward and the negotiations at Panmunjom while noting the death of Seaman Duane D. Hodges.
In San Diego Mrs. Rose Bucher, wife of USS Pueblo skipper Cmdr. Lloyd Bucher, faced months of dashed hopes before a Sunday return was realized. She attended mass and prayed for the crew while expressing cautious joy and disbelief at the crew’s possible release. In London, Nicholas Bowe, Irish artist, received a one year probation after pleading guilty to attempting to steal a Rembrandt valued at $480,000 from Britten’s National Gallery.
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