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Newspaper
Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Feb 23, 1970
Page
3
In Butler Alabama two men described as Beatnik types kidnapped Tina Cain aged 3 and Tiffany Cain aged 2 from a trailer home after tying up their aunt Mrs. G W Rozzell. Authorities say the men claimed the girls father owed a $4000 gambling debt in Florida and fled in a cream 1963 car with Texas plates as a major search widens.
A Rapid Transit District bus worth thirty thousand dollars was stolen from outside a Los Angeles restaurant during a rest break. The vehicle reappeared on a mountain road near Mill Creek Summit with a wheel over the embankment. A wrecker recovered the bus undamaged and police seek the thieves who knew the starting sequence.
In Boston a Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts committee urged legalizing marijuana citing enforcement difficulty. The 750 delegates representing 140000 members asked President Nixon for amnesty for draft resisters and approved a resolution opposing public school Bible readings. The report favored no broad removal of restrictions.
Two Democratic senators Kennedy and Bayh propose using the Voting Rights Act as a vehicle to lower the voting age to 18 by law rather than pursuing a constitutional amendment. They circulated a legal memo arguing the legal and political advantages of immediate change, aligning with a White House endorsement of a constitutional route.
Exclusive analysis outlines how the Kennedy and Bayh proposals struggle to win a two thirds vote to end Southern filibusters on the voting rights bill. It discusses shifting debate to voting age 18 and potential House Senate Conference hurdles led by Emanuel Celler and constitutional questions on state voter qualifications.
Chief Justice Warren Burger bitterly denounced a television crew's attempt to cover his Atlanta speech. He said electronic media need "people who can take care of basic manners" and questioned their self-perceived status. The remark came in a phone interview with WSB-TV's Carolyn Linden.
About 27,000 of Kentucky’s 33,000 public school teachers walked out to seek a $6 million salary increase over two years, cutting into classes for roughly 700,000 students. The Kentucky Education Association plans statewide ads and loans totaling over $2 million to support strikers and legal defense funds from the NEA.
President Nixon met the National Security Council and a Defense panel reviewing Pentagon operations. He also planned talks with the National Resources Council, while weekend events included Telsa Nixon's 24th birthday at Camp David. Agnew spoke to the American Bar Association amid protests and a CBS microphone removal incident.
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