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Newspaper
Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1968
Page
24
A reader asks how to upgrade a general discharge from the Women's Army Corps to honorable within six months. The response states a Request for Review of Discharge form is being sent by the Veterans Administration to the caller for processing.
A reader from Paramount asks about a baggage lien law used to impound a tenant’s personal effects for nonpayment of rent. The note requests information from ACTION LINE and mentions an Army Review Board review in St. Louis, Missouri with mail notice of the board’s decision.
Assemblyman James Hayes authored a lodging amendment effective Nov 13 that lets landlords or managers enter apartments with a witness to seize personal items like televisions. Items held 60 days before public sale, with 15 days notice to sell. Details available by writing Hayes in Long Beach. A Q&A note directs readers to the Soaring Society of America for aviation books and clubs in Elsinore.
Readers ask about Cecil Vivian of Colfax reported missing last spring. Lt Ables says the skull was found by deer hunters, but the rest of the remains and the friend Charles Smith remain missing. Coroner cannot determine cause. foul play possible but not confirmed.
Long Beach health officer Dr. Litwack describes a Hong Kong flu outbreak as an epidemic and likely the worst in three decades. About one in four adults in Long Beach and Los Angeles County are sick, with absenteeism in aerospace and other industries five times normal for the winter season.
A fragmented page listing sections and names for a newspaper issue. Mentions Todd Thomey Jenine Dixon George Robeson and various sections from Classifieds Comics Editorials and Sports. Provides page coordinates and generic event prompts without coherent narrative.
Two Long Beach pharmacists testified about kickback schemes draining money from elderly nursing home patients and state federally funded programs. They described under the table deals with about three of Long Beach’s seventy outlets, with institutional profits pocketed rather than passed to patients.
Dr Timothy Leary known as high priest of LSD was arrested with his wife Rosemary and their one year old son in Laguna Beach on marijuana possession charges after a patrolman saw marijuana in their car. Leary denied the action as police provocation and harassment. All three were held or bailed at police discretion with arraignments set for January 9.
People trying to live within means may be undermining the poverty program as officials probe how budget limits and eligibility rules affect aid. The report cites debates over waste, fraud, and better targeting of benefits.
Apollo 8 returned to the Pacific near the Yorktown after a dawn splashdown, landing less than three miles from the recovery ship. Stars Frank Borman James Lovell and William Anders were in excellent condition as frogmen and helicopters assisted their extraction from a liferaft and brought them aboard the carrier.
The State Department announced the United States will sell Israel 50 F-4 Phantom jets for just over 200 million dollars, with a small portion financed as a loan. Spokesman Robert J. McCloskey said the agreement was signed recently in Washington, timed after President Johnson's November 7 instruction to start negotiations with Israel.
The Labor Department reports November consumer prices rose four tenths of a percent, the sharpest climb since 1951. Despite a 0.5 percent grocery drop, housing, clothing, transport and medical care increased, lifting the CPI to 123.4 and signaling a roughly 4.8 percent rise in the first eleven months of 1968.
The Weather Bureau forecasts three separate storms gathering in the Northern Pacific could bring rain and snow to the Southland late Saturday. Forecasters note the new systems follow the season's worst Southern California storm, which dumped rain on coastal areas and snow in the mountains before it dissipated on Thursday. Rain chances are pegged at 30 percent.
LB region mostly clear tonight with increasing clouds and a 30 percent chance of drizzle or light rain late Saturday. High Saturday around zero. Mountains clear with high clouds, highs near 40 at resort levels. Deserts clear with high clouds, upper valleys near 50, lower valleys around 63.
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