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Newspaper
Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Jan 16, 1969
Page
2
A single engine Piper Comanche 180 ran out of fuel and struck a car on a Georgia highway, injuring Mrs Parton while the plane's four Wisconsin occupants escaped unharmed. Pilot William Hasenfus said he landed after running out of fuel. the Partons fled the collision, ducking as the wing sheared off.
In McAllen Texas crowds greet Maj. James N Rowe abducted 62 months ago and freed in a South Vietnam jungle. He declares a need for national unity and recalls meeting a girl after escaping the Viet Cong amid a patriotic town parade.
At Minnesota 150 militants ended a 24 hour occupation of the administration building after President Moos promised concessions. Brandeis saw 64 of 150 Black students in the communications building demanding an autonomous Black studies department as others joined a hunger strike and a boycott. Similar sit ins continued at Brandeis Swarthmore and San Francisco State while Berkeley pressed for an autonomous Black studies department and San Jose State saw tension rise during a sympathy demonstration. White students at Brandeis joined the struggle in support of Black demonstrators.
Dr. Courtney Smith, 52, Swarthmore College president, died of a heart attack in his office. He had been under strain as Afro-American students occupied the admissions office since last Thursday. Smith had planned a three white and one Negro faculty committee to study admissions and policy demands, and was to meet them in a conference room next to his office. Enrollment stands at 1,024 with 47 Black students.
The mangled body of 4 Marine pilot Maj Charles L. Rodgers was found Wednesday near Litton Peak in Riverside County after a Monday RF-4B Phantom crash during a landing at El Toro MCAS. Radar officer 1st Lt Edward Kinsella was found Tuesday, critically injured, in mountainous country near Sitton Peak. Sacramento officials note Reagan signed a bill letting Republican leaders attend Nixon inauguration and delaying the first 1969 Republican state central committee meeting to January 26.
Iowa lawmakers fixate on minis in a session as Marsha Thompson, 19, stands in orange minidress. Secretaries debate etiquette, with Rep William Will defending the fashion and Rep Len Sanders noting the fuss may prompt length adjustments.
A garbled local notice reports the Audit Bureau of Circulation revisiting daily and Sunday circulation figures for a county paper. It mentions corrections, possible changes to sales figures, and scheduling details for the county edition.
A Piper Apache plane with a flying instructor and two students hit a Hawthorne house as Robert Johnson, 16, awoke from a nap on the living room couch. Johnson was uninjured while Mrs. Jean Rose, 47, her two students, were taken to Hawthorne Community Hospital in non serious condition. Rose reported engine trouble before the crash as she neared Hawthorne Airport.
An Alabama town of 822 was evacuated after rail tanker cars derailed and ignited, triggering explosions that produced mushrooming smoke plumes. Four minor injuries were reported as residents were allowed to return home once danger passed. The event involved liquefied gas tankers and derailed freight cars from Alabama Great Southern.
A dense Sacramento summary lists gubernatorial and state Senate actions including honors for Lt. Gov. Roby, Nixon administration appointments, and health and welfare shifts. It notes a Fresno vote approving an amendment to coauthor assembly members, witness anonymity rules, restoration funds for a Los Angeles historic monument, school district restructuring studies, and various policy changes on pornography, highways, student conduct, media ethics, tenancy notices, grain and food production, alcohol transport, blood donation, and gun control.
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