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Newspaper
Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Jan 12, 1970
Page
1
Former President Lyndon B Johnson and wife Lady Bird greet Leel Nugent who delivered a girl weighing 7 lb 10 oz. This is Nugent and husband Patrick’s second child, joining their son Patrick Lyndon who turns three. Lyndon Johnson’s other daughter Lynde Robb is mother to a one year old. Johnson accompanied Luci to Austin for the Sunday birth.
Washington reports the Supreme Court refused to hear challenges to de facto school attendance zones in Indianola Mississippi, leaving a 5th Circuit ruling intact that zones drawn without race considerations still produced segregated schools. The court also rejected other petitions on various legal issues presented that day.
In Vietnam, Allied forces report 130 enemy killed over two days near the Laotian border and Da Nang, while U.S. casualties reach six dead and 20 wounded. A U.S. command briefing says 50,000 more American troops will be pulled from the war zone within four months, led by the 15th Infantry Division. Da Nang reports heavy fighting with ongoing Viet Cong and North Vietnamese assaults.
Belem Brazil was jolted by a ten second earthquake that shattered windows and sent residents fleeing into the streets. No casualties were reported as of this filing.
Police arrested five men and recovered about 250000 in antique jewels taken at gunpoint December 18 from Forest Lawn cemetery in Glendale. The loot included a 446 carat white topaz and a diamond necklace. Suspects Cono Marino and Anthony Rondinella of Burbank, David Lehman, Ronald Roberts, and Arthur Grant of Los Angeles faced robbery investigations.
Two private planes carrying six people are missing over stormy Northern California. A single engine Cessna 206 disappeared Sunday in the Sierra after reporting icing. Three occupants were unnamed. The other plane, a Piper Cherokee 180 bound from Medford to Napa with three Portland men vanished Friday in the Trinity Alps. Missing men include pilot Bing Christian Sen Will Gale and Joe Dani. Search efforts by three planes and ground units were hampered by snow and low visibility.
Defense Secretary Melvin Laird doubts Hanoi can mount a sustained major offensive during the Tet period. He plans a February trip to Vietnam and cautions that future South Vietnamese battles will face difficulties, though he expects further attacks.
Rep. Craig Hosmer urges a full engineering study of an undersea aqueduct to move surplus water from Northern California to Southern California. A preliminary Reclamation Bureau report suggests potential viability with a 32 foot pipeline costing about 77 dollars per acre foot and a feasibility study priced at roughly 2.2 million dollars over five to six years.
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