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Newspaper
Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Feb 07, 1969
Page
2
Oil spill cleanups continue along Los Angeles County beaches as responders halt drilling in the area. Booms, skimming boats, and absorbent materials extract oil from harbor waters while crews remove contaminated sand and debris. Nearby boat owners begin personal cleanup of their vessels.
Lima Peru and the United States drifted toward a worsening rift over the expropriation of IPG the U S owned Informational Petroleum Co Washington pressed for meaningful talks and threatened aid and sugar cuts while Velasco announced a revised claim of 590 million in lieu of 14 5 million and said legal action was started to recover sums The dispatch also notes oil spill impacts along the California coast with officials and scientists noting birds harmed and calls for stricter federal controls and disaster declarations
Long Beach operation praised as near fail safe while critics urge stricter federal standards and state participation. California officials press Interior to include state personnel in offshore oil regulation and safety reviews amid ongoing federal lease oversight. Muskie and Cranston to visit Santa Barbara for further assessment.
President Nixon announced California Assemblyman depe G Veneman as Undersecretary of Health, Education and Welfare. The 43-year-old Modesto peach grower, a liberal Republican and ally of Finch, faces Senate confirmation. Governor Reagan approved the appointment after talks with Finch.
Bomb blast at Biafra market and maternity clinic left two major local figures dead, including Valentine Njoku, 28, as civilians flee the ruined stalls. Five men excavated bodies by the market edge while women wailed and malnutrition aid workers tended the injured nearby.
Washington dispatch reports the Nixon family furniture from their New York apartment began arriving at the White House on Thursday. Among items moved to the second floor family quarters were the president’s favorite lounging chair and a French style table desk.
Scripps Institute of Oceanography warns oil may reach beaches from Redondo Beach to Huntington Beach. Horlander outlines a two line boom system with floating barriers and straw absorbent cleanup, noting such a method works only in calm water as tanker traffic and harbor craft risk millions in yachts at Redondo Beach and nearby harbors.
John W. Macey Jr named president of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting announces plans to ask the House Appropriations Committee for 20 million dollars for fiscal year 1970 to bolster noncommercial television. The agency has received five million so far. Macy Sr, appointed Thursday, is a former US Civil Service Commission chairman and Johnson era federal jobs talent scout.
Sweden’s Aliens Commission granted asylum to ten US military deserters citing humanitarian reasons. Since the policy began, 217 have contacted authorities, 175 granted asylum, one rejected, with about ten cases under review. Names and ages of the deserters include Terry Macdowell 19 and Michael Andrewsen 24 among others. Separately, Soviet Tass reports Venus probes Venus 4 and Venus 5 proceed on course toward May soft landings, with radio links described as stable. The report notes distances from Earth for Venus 5 and Venus 6. In Houston, Winfred E. Garrison, the last surviving delegate to New Mexico’s constitutional convention, died of a heart attack.
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