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Newspaper
Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Jan 24, 1969
Page
1
Patrolman Brian Kelly in Bangoy Maine arrested Gerald Pierce 22 and his wife after a car ran a red light and traveled the wrong way on a one way street. Pierce was blind and Mrs Pierce admitted she could not drive and directed him. They face charges of operating without a license.
Mrs. Marian Jennings 40, of Aurora Colorado, arrived late at Los Angeles airport and skipped a United Airlines flight to Denver due to rain and a fur coat, narrowly missing the Boeing 727 crash with 38 aboard. The incident parallels other family news of births and large families in the same day.
Robert L. Butterworth, 21, of Stratford Connecticut paid 18 dollars in Circuit Court after pleading guilty to failing to display license plates. The reckless driving charge for operating the car without a steering wheel on October 7 was dropped.
Former Johnson aide Will Sparks accused presidents of removing whereases from proclamations citing a 1966 National Safe Boating Week notice as the first to drop them. He told an Overseas Press Club audience in New York that the prose became dull and unnecessary and hoped Nixon would not reinstate the device.
South Vietnam Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky arrived to supervise the Saigon delegation at the Paris peace talks. He said peace requires Communist abandonment of expansion by force. Ky will oversee the talks but not sit at the table. first substantive meetings start Saturday. Thieu and U.S. Ambassador Bunker met in Saigon to discuss the negotiations.
Paris recounts a tense investigation into the death of Stefan Markovic as actor Alain Delon, 33, remains in questioning over possible links. Marcantoni, a former convict charged with complicity, is held after extended interrogation while Delon’s wife Nathalie, in Rome, and three aides await further developments.
In Belgravia, thieves pried open the front door of American film producer Sam Jaffe and stole 41 impressionist paintings by Ficws o, Ronnault, Duty, Juan Gris, Leger and Chagall plus a Henry Moore sculpture. The loss is estimated at 336000 dollars as Jaffe and his wife described the break in during a quiet Thursday night.
Washington reports President Nixon seeks a summer White House site along California's Pacific shore south of Los Angeles. He already owns two winter homes at Key Biscayne, Florida, for office and residence use.
A Chicago Hawthorne House blaze on Lake Shore Drive killed four residents and injured eighteen including eight officers. Investigators traced the cause to careless smoking in the Petersons’ 36th floor unit as flames raced through the hall and carpeting. Police identified three victims as Mrs. Peterson, Gerald FitzGerald, and David Shefflin. a fourth remained unidentified. Thousands fled as smoke filled 25 floors prompting heroic rescues and evacuations.
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