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Newspaper
Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Feb 17, 1971
Page
3
The Air Force will court-martial two officers and 12 NCOs over mishandling mess funds in Thailand, part of a wider Pentagon probe into kickbacks at overseas messes and service clubs. Trials begin April 15 at Clark Air Base.
The former luxury liner Queen Elizabeth, now SS Seawise University, is being towed from Haiti toward Kingston Jamaica after 26 hours adrift. A boiler leak and broken evaporator left the ship powerless. Captain Kirchhoff reported a safe tow with a crew of nearly 30 and plans to refit in Kingston.
A four page state agriculture report finds Los Angeles County sewage dumps average over 450 pounds of DDT daily during a six month period ending last May, exceeding amounts from California rivers. The study urges a coordinated statewide pesticide monitoring system and identifies municipal, homeowner, and agricultural sources as contributors while noting a shift to organic phosphates and a broader phaseout of DDT.
Interior Secretary Morton denied a Los Padres National Forest oil lease renewal to protect the endangered California condor. The Royalty Oil Corp. lease expired Jan 31 in the Sespe Sanctuary, with biologists seeking more time for research. Condors total 60 to 80, with 7 percent nesting in the sanctuary. In Santa Monica, W C Fields Jr., son of a famed comedian, died at 66 after a long illness.
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