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Newspaper
Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Feb 25, 1972
Page
3
The Viet-American War Orphans Committee led by Rev. Molly Bartges at Community Presbyterian Church 3300 Liberty Blvd South Gate collects toys clothing and first aid for eight Vietnamese orphanages. Donations accepted weekdays 9 am to 4:30 pm.
A Long Beach worker reports eight hours of loud noise from hydraulic carts near a new quiet DC 1 aircraft. He seeks OSHA action if noise exceeds 90 decibels, with potential citations and fines after an official investigation.
Readers are urged to include name and contact details for Action Line questions while avoiding original documents. The Independent notes a John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Co plan to place 290 of its 7,000 home office staff on a four day work week as an experiment starting Monday through May 26 without salary changes.
The Senate Armed Services Committee rejected the Nixon administration's request to add 85 million dollars for the Undersea Long Range Missile System this fiscal year and will consider it with 912 million dollars in the regular bill. The panel also deferred 128.8 million for four Boeing 747s as airborne command posts. It approved a House bill authorizing the Navy to lead six submarines and ten destroyers for five years for foreign nations including Spain Greece Korea and Italy.
New York Citibank, the nation’s second largest, announced it was lowering its floating prime rate to 4 percent, the lowest level in nearly 12 years. The reduction affects its most credit worthy corporate customers and takes effect Monday.
A Long Beach man, Lloyd G. Haywood, 62, a rigger foreman at Low Beach Naval Shipyard, was killed instantly when a crane boom bracket fell from the USS New Orleans during work in Drydock No. 1. Haywood had worked at the yard for 19 years at 6115 Huntdale Street.
Prosecutor Marsh Goldstein urged a murder verdict for former officer Manuel Pacheco, arguing the midnight shooting of his wife and wounding of another was deliberate and premeditated. He condemned the taped confession as dramatic and criticized Alfredo Pacheco's testimony, noting the brother's police background. Final arguments and jury instructions were set to continue.
A Welfare Department spokesman said public assistance in Los Angeles County totaled 874 616 in January, up from 860 736 in December 1971. The biggest drop occurred in category four, Aid to Families with Dependent Children, affecting unemployed fathers.
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