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Newspaper
Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Jan 07, 1971
Page
1
Johnny Cash taped eight songs for Apollo 11 astronauts Roosa Shepard and Mitchell to play during the January 31 launch. In Tucson Cash filmed a one hour TV special and confirmed the musical interlude for the mission.
Explosions ripped through a major Allied ammunitions dump near Qui Nhon on the central coast of South Vietnam killing three South Korean workers and injuring seven Americans and nine Koreans. The depot held about 15,000 tons of munitions including artillery shells mortars and small arms ammo. Initial blasts occurred around 2 a.m. with fires and shell fragments spreading. some canisters of tear gas exploded too. The site is located a mile and a half west of Qui Nhon, away from residential areas.
A fire bomb was thrown through a window of two Camp Fire Girls headquarters in suburban Pomona causing about 50,000 dollars in damage. Police suspect a link to racial disturbances at Pomona High School nearby. Firefighters contained the blaze in roughly 20 minutes with no injuries reported.
President Nixon began a sunlit stay with exercise and dinners at San Clemente and Palm Springs. Guests included Bob Hope Arnold Palmer Gerald Ford and Henry Kissinger. Nixon may attend a Republican committee meeting in Washington January 15 to back Senator Dole for GOP chairman as Morton is nominated for interior secretary. He also signed a 3550 million foreign aid bill with 155 million for Cambodia.
In San Francisco and Oakland a 29 minute telephone negotiation aired via XGO and KGO helped avert a death by own action. Urban Creech, 69, an unemployed Oakland musician, was traced to a pay phone and taken to Highland Hospital after the four way call included anti death by own action society representatives and the Good Samaritan Home.
HUD proposes a $4 million pilot to place 350 former aerospace workers and Vietnam era veterans into Model Cities projects. Floyd Hyde oversees the plan to retrain and quickly orient unemployed space industry technicians for urban rejuvenation, starting in March with $2,000 per person in wages.
Chrysler Corp. presented a new three-year contract offer to about 120,000 United Auto Workers. The package mirrors the GM settlement but excludes retroactive wage increases, a point that may prolong negotiations. UAW seeks retroactive pay matching Ford’s latest agreement.
President Nixon signs a 550 million aid package for Asia and the Middle East, banning U S troops or advisers in Cambodia. The bill allocates 6255 million for major aid and smaller sums for South Korea Jordan Indonesia Lebanon South Vietnam and other needs. The Senate fought the Cambodia provision for seven months. the House did not approve initially, but the amendment was attached to the final bill.
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