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Newspaper
Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Jan 09, 1970
Page
5
Sik Wing Wong aged 71 and Lee Quon aged 75 Chinatown residents sue in US District Court alleging census mailing lists are middle-class oriented and will miss many poor minorities. Their attorney says about 15,000 Chinatown residents could be affected as counts determine House apportionment and federal aid.
UPI reports the 1970 census form keeps most questions, trims debate over bathing arrangements. Betts seeks narrower mandatory items while defending data use and confidentiality. Enumerators expected to tally about 120,000 workers with pay around two dollars to two fifty hourly.
Arthur Flood phoned City Hall to report his residence lacked water. Zenner Gorder, water utility manager, said a water main break was under repair and quipped that Madison had a Flood without water for the first time.
Female activists from the Women's Liberation Front and Radical Student Union entered the UC Berkeley gym men’s dressing rooms amid a dispute over coed karate classes. D B Van Dalen agreed to discuss a coed course, with one to be offered next quarter, while protesters vowed to return until men only karate is ended. A campus spokesman cited 113 rapes in the area last year and warned of more incidents before spring quarter.
The California Board of Agriculture faced criticism from the state AFL-CIO for opposing the Farm Workers' Organizing Committee boycott of table grapes. A letter to Gov Reagan called the board's move a willful violation of public trust and said the board serves all Californians, not employers in a trade dispute.
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