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Newspaper
Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Feb 26, 1970
Page
1
Evangelist Billy Graham warned Knoxville crowd that white news media imposes unwanted leadership on Americans and creates heroes from radicals including Black Panthers. He contrasted coverage with a May Knoxville crusade, urging turnout as a counterbalance to national television focus.
Ex columnist Marshall Maslin, 74, once a nationally syndicated writer, mails back his 1917 UC diploma to Chancellor Roger Heyns. He protests the Board of Regents decision to deny Mayor Lindsay an honorary degree and to impose tuition, calling the regents vulgar and their actions a blemish on the university.
The Nixon administration urged ceilings on Medicare and Medicaid to curb hospital and physician charges. Veneman proposed replacing current criteria with rate limits, aiming for hospital cost controls and a 75 percent of 1969 customary charges basis for physician payments starting 1971. Long backed firm action to restrain costs, noting government leverage now covers 37 percent of care. Ball cited a 30 percent claims reduction rate.
Los Angeles City Council committee rejected a request to suspend exploratory oil drilling off San Pedro coast. City officials and conservation groups attended a stormy session. Officials argued drilling by Standard Oil poses no blowout risk while funding implications cited a $2.5 million bonus to the city if rights are withdrawn.
Senator Henry Bellmon of Oklahoma tested positive for tuberculosis exposure during nationwide Capitol Hill screening. An X-ray showed no active disease, but the skin test indicated prior exposure to TR germs. He will undergo a year of preventive anti-TB medication as a precaution amid a wave of cases tied to a drilling controversy and oil lease disputes in tidelands.
Toronto police report three holdup men robbed a Bank of Montreal branch, seizing 52,255 in cash and 84.7 million in checks and securities. A getaway car contained 96,744,170 in nonnegotiable checks. Checks were payable to Ontario Department of Transport and Ontario government for license plates and tax.
Fragmentary text shows scattered prices and times, with mentions of Sunday and a location near Lone Beach. readable data are insufficient to identify a person or event. the fragment resembles a classified listing or ad copy rather than a full news item.
Lawrence F. O'Brien announces he will not accept the Democratic National Committee chairmanship. He cites lack of consensus within the party and says his name will not be presented. Senator Harris has resigned. governors say they were not consulted on the selection. Other contenders include Gordon St Angelo Joseph Crangle Joseph Doorley and Matthew Welsh.
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