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Newspaper
Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Feb 29, 1968
Page
6
TEEN ACTION LINE offers help with problems and rights. Readers are advised to write TEEN ACTION LINE Box 230 Long Beach California 99801 or call 432 3451 between 9 am and 1 pm or 5 pm and 9 pm Monday through Friday for questions of general interest and usefulness.
A reader asks how to obtain the 1869 Charlottesville front page and is told the Daily Progress did not exist yet. The Richmond Times-Dispatch offers the 1869 page for $5, with minimum two pages. A TEEN ACTION LINE query about Supremes photos yields contact to the Supremes Fan Club in Detroit, noting the group’s early names and Motown history.
Long Beach police say California Vehicles Code 12500 prohibits driving a motor vehicle on highways without a license. A sidewalk and parkway count as highways. Police citations require a witness or the driver to be caught, and juveniles appear with parents in juvenile court. Property owners’ property is outside police jurisdiction.
A reader asks for a genuine Australian bush hat. The reply suggests purchasing a Digger hat with badge and chin strap from Bonds Disposal in Sydney or Sterns Surplus Pty Ltd, with prices around AU$10 by air mail or AU$6 by sea. Locally Kerr's Sporting Goods in Beverly Hills sells hats for AU$20 along with kangaroo belts and boomerangs.
A reader from Long Beach asks for price and purchase locations for the Heart's Desire wedding gown by Sally Wallace Co. They are directed to contact Sally Wallace Bridal Consultants, a Dundon Associates division, at 55 W 42nd St, New York NY for full details.
Local letter writer L. W. Artesia blasts Garden Grove for denying Teen Challenge access to the city. He cites the founder’s work with addicts and warns residents that refusing aid could harm local children and reflect on the community.
A UPI survey of 300 Stanford undergraduates found one in five had tried marijuana but nearly all preferred alcohol. LSD and other hallucinogens were far less popular, with about 4 percent of marijuana users using it regularly and 94 percent having tried alcohol.
Washington officials report a general decline in LSD encounters across FDA drug abuse control offices over the past eight months. John Finlator, director of the FDA Bureau, notes no precise figures exist yet. He says prudent judgment supports a decline, but acknowledges education campaigns have limited impact on high school and college students.
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