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Newspaper
Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Jan 30, 1967
Page
2
A sprawling dispatch details a blizzard’s toll across the Midwest with dozens dead and cities slowly recovering as Chicago clears main streets while side lanes stay buried. In Madrid, violence erupts at the university with police and students clashing, stones flying and several officers injured amid campus arrests.
LAS VEGAS NEV A former high school teacher faced charges of assault with intent to murder and first degree burglary after allegedly beating a man named Jack Wilson with a concrete block in his apartment. Police said Wilson was nearly unrecognizable. The suspect John William Langley lured himself into the police Sunday afternoon while Bethard, present in the apartment, tried to intervene but was pushed away.
Reports from Peipiaton and Taipei say Maoist forces tightened around rebel units in Sinkiang as clashes spread across the vast western region near the Soviet border. Local troops reportedly split, with some officers and army hospitals reporting casualties and defection amid ongoing fighting.
A Seal Beach girl describes a four day captivity after being lured by Allison Gibson. He allegedly forced her to travel to Santa Monica and a Riverside cabin, threatening with a butcher knife, while they endured days in hiding before being stopped by San Diego officers. Her statements detail escapes, payments, and the suspect’s claims of cash woes.
A father and three of his children died when a two story frame house burned explosively just after midnight in Scranton Pennsylvania. The mother and an infant daughter were rescued from a second story bedroom window by a neighbor who used a ladder. Fire officials said an explosion was reported and police found an unmailed letter addressed to Dear Mom and Father from Paul Geary and his four children Erin 8 Danny 3 Paul 2. A neighbor and police recovered bodies from the flames and the scene prompted a note from a radio listener in Riverside seeking contact. The investigation aimed to determine the cause of the deadly blaze and its rapid spread through the residence.
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