Quake Strikes Los Angeles Area Causing Widespread Damage
A major quake centered near Newhall rattled Los Angeles and surrounding areas, prompting evacuations and emergency declarations. Power and water mains broke, fires started, and windows shattered as transit, bridges, and high rises sustained damage. Hospitals treated scores of injuries while many communities faced outages and closures.
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Maclay
Newhall
Civic Center
Los Angeles
San Fernando Valley
Hollywood
UPI
Occidental Center
Northridge
Virginia Walters
Terriby
Simi Valley
Ventura County
Saugus
ACTION LINE Answers on Camps and Impostor Demara
ACTION LINE provides guidance on Southern California camps with the Los Angeles Welfare Planning Council directory, listing facilities, sessions, and fees. It also reports Fred Demara, the impostor often called The Great Impersonator, is now a full‑time minister in Day Harbor Washington near Victoria, B C, age 48, with a film and book about his life.
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Action Line
Southern California
P.C
Seal Beach
American Heiping Association
Los Angeles Welfare Planning Council
Santa Monica Blvd
Los Angeles
Ferdinand Demara
F.B
Arte Sia
A. Fred Demara
San Juan
Demara
Robert Chrichion
Artesia
Clarkdale Ave
Long Beach
Pacific Avenue
Ocean Boulevard
Hoy Rogers
Roy Rogers
Apple Valley
Mr. Rogers
Le.s
Huntington Beach
Dale Evans
Acion Line
Rogers
Joseph Rivkin
Roy
Dale
Rivkin
U.S. Mint may issue Eisenhower silver dollars this year
A Treasury spokesman says the Mint in Philadelphia has not yet chosen which facility will produce the new Eisenhower silver dollars. Orders for proof sets including the coin will start July 1, with letters advising readers to watch newspapers for the mint selection news and to write after July 1 for ordering instructions.
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U.S
Philadelphia
San Francisco
W.S
Long Beach
U.S. Department of Treasury
Philadelphia Mint
U.S. Mint
Fifth and Arch Streets
Two Torrance Men Die In Light Plane Crash
Two Torrance men, pilot Fred Dougherty and passenger Barry Harman, were killed when their single engine Cessna crashed near Imperial Beach after reporting fuel shortage. Helicopter crews assisted, but radar contact was lost at about 11 40 p.m. The wreckage was found inland from the beach by Coast Guard planes.
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Torrance
Imperial Beach
Fred Dougherty
W. T. Place
Barry Harman
Wayamith St
Coast Guard
Dougherty
San Diego
Tisiorg
Awe Shorne
Moonmen finish lunar voyage with safe splashdown
Three astronauts Shepard Mitchell and Roosa completed a 9 day, 900000 mile lunar journey aboard the Kitty Hawk. They described near rim climbs into Cone Crater and the lunar dust nuisance while mission control guided rest periods and damage limits. They prepared to bring back 95 pounds of rocks for analysis at the Lunar Receiving Laboratory as Laos invasion prompts Ottawa to seek ICC reconvening.
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Shepard
Mitchell
Roosa
Cone Crater
Mission Control
Fra Maura Highlands
Moon
Lunar
Space Agency
Apalio 14
South Vietnamese troops sweep ho Chi Minh trail ammo caches
South Vietnamese armored column moved across the Ho Chi Minh Trail in southern Laos, seizing large ammo caches left by retreating North Vietnamese. Officials said Laos operation could speed U.S. troop withdrawals, with Pentagon aiming to meet or beat a May 1 target.
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Saigon
Ho Chi Minh Trail
Laos
Washington
Nixon Administration
Congress
U.S
Southeast Asia
Secretary of Defense
Melvin R. Laird
Senate
House Armed Services Committees
Pentagon
White House
South Vietnam
United States
Pathet Lao
Cambodia
Siuoi
Route 9
Khe Sanh
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Southland Hospital
Ronald Reagan
Reagan
Nixon
Calif
Cowboy Hero
San Vernanto Valley
Fall of Justice
Charles Manson
Sharon Tate
Oceidental
William ©. Galloway
S. Olive
History Companion
Moonmen
New Orleans
American Samoa
Onie
Samoa
Houston
Manned Spacecraft Center
Moonwalkers
Ottawa
API
International Control Commission
Savannakhet
Laotian Panhandle
Thailand
Namese
Sepone
Sapone
King
IW Warner
Fate Uoan Carh
Cal GA
Long Beach Blvd
Motorola
RCA
Amare
Arvin Figee
Deluxa
Craig Colon
SONY
Packard Bell
Maplewood
Hitachi
Teledyne
Zenith
ARVIN
Antinna
Dooley’s Hardware Mart
BLYD
Pratt Ted
Rwase
AL Accutron
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