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Newspaper
Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1969
Page
1
Rome tax assessor reports Sophia Loren and Carlo Ponti owe 147000 in city taxes for 1969 based on combined wealth of 1010. The bill mirrors 1968 and comes separate from national income tax. The report also notes other European and American figures in a playful Liars Club feature with listed quotes.
Funeral services were held Tuesday in Nashville for Cortelia Clark a 67 year old blues singer famous for winning a 1967 Grammy for Blues In the Street. Clark a longtime street performer who went blind at 25 lost his job in a broom factory and faced brief fame before returning to street singing on Fifth Avenue. He died on Christmas Eve after suffering burns from a home slave explosion on November 10.
An Onassis family source denies reports that Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis is pregnant. Athens papers say Christina Onassis may wed Greek heir Peter Goulandris, while rumors of a pregnancy after her Athens clinic visit are dismissed as untrue by Gerasimos Patronichola.
Multimillionaire Jack J. Dreyfus Jr., founder of Dreyfus & Co. and the Dreyfus Fund, retires to devote full time to the epilepsy drug DPH also known as Dilantin. He claims DPH eases fear, low mood, irritability and anger and rejects alcohol and other substances as tension relievers.
Saigon reports the heaviest fighting of the new year as about 250 guerrilla soldiers and several Americans die before a 24 hour ceasefire. US and South Vietnamese forces halted offensive actions for 24 hours from 6 p.m. local time after ignoring a three day Communist truce begun 41 hours earlier. The clash marked the 15th joint truce attempt, with significant losses on both sides and multiple helicopter downings near Saigon.
Indianapolis student Telsus Amagai of Japan toured the Indianapolis Motor Speedway during Christmas vacation and bought souvenirs to take to Tokyo. He later checked them and found they were labeled Made in Japan.
Pasadena readies for the first New Year Rose Parade with 60 floral floats, police coverage by Long Beach units, and grand marshals including Apollo 12 astronauts. The parade begins 8:40 a.m. and lasts about two hours. Thousands attend as Pasadena expects up to 1.5 million visitors. Separately 6,500 Michigan fans travel to the Rose Bowl to face USC Trojans Thursday at 2 p.m.
U S officials report North Vietnam plans regular mail to prisoners of war starting next February with one package every two months per inmate. Packages go to POWs by name and serial number via Hanoi care of Camp of Detention for U S Pilots Captured in DRVN Via Moscow.
Marine Captain Robert W. Poolaw of Anadarko Oklahoma faces general court martial in mid January for alleged murder of a North Vietnamese prisoner south of Da Nang during a 196X operation. He holds Bronze Star Purple Heart and Vietnamese Gallantry Cross among decorations. He commanded H Company 2d Battalion 5th Marines at the time. Witnesses and investigations led to the charge. Poolaw is not confined and serves at An Hoa. He served 1956 1960 enlisted, commissioned 1964, now a husband and father of three.
PASADENA UPI Superior Court Judge Lloyd S. Davis will stand trial March 23 on assault with a deadly weapon charge. Arrested October 26 at his South Pasadena home he pleaded innocent to stabbing his wife Mary 51 in the back with a butcher knife after a family quarrel.
Los Angeles reports ex attorney J Richard Dixie Davis age 65 died apparently of a heart attack after learning of an armed robbery at his Bel Air home. His wife Hope Dawn and son Barkley were present as two masked gunmen bound a maid and grandson and stole jewelry fur and 27 dollars. Davis once defended Dutch Schultz associates and was disbarred in the late 1930s during Thomas E Dewey's prosecution of Jimmy Hines.
Police traced a $2.4 million ransom demand to a northeast London telephone booth as they hunt for Muriel McKay, wife of News of the World deputy chairman Alex McKay, who vanished Monday from Wimbledon. Investigators questioned hotel guests and staff near the Bell Hotel and conducted house to house inquiries while treating the disappearance as abduction potentially aided by memory loss.
Deputy Prime Minister Praphas Charnsathien said Bangkok has evidence that Communist China is supplying arms and support to guerrilla tribesmen in the northern hills. He charged that Red China and North Vietnam are also providing military advisers to the tribesmen.
Ross Perot, Dallas magnate, failed to fly 25 tons of Christmas gifts and medical supplies to 1,400 American prisoners in North Vietnam by Hanoi’s deadline. He sought Moscow extension via Kozygin and contacted Paris peace negotiators, but received no word from Moscow and the plane stayed in Copenhagen.
The Agriculture Department bans paprika in federally inspected fresh meat and products to stop masking spoilage signs. The rule, proposed in 1968 and effective Jan 15, excludes chorizo and other Italian sausages. Paprika was found to preserve color after spoilage, misleading consumers about meat quality.
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