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Newspaper
Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Jan 30, 1970
Page
1
A Santa Monica judge dissolved Anne Baxter and Randell Galt's yearlong marriage on grounds of irreconcilable differences. Baxter, 46, receives 75000 alimony over 12 years and 1950 monthly child support for daughters Katrina, Melissa, and Maginel. Galt, 40, a Honolulu developer, has interests in an Esperance ranch and petroleum holdings.
The Pentagon reports nine U.S. aircraft have been downed over North Vietnam in the 15 months since Lyndon Johnson halted the bombing. Reconnaissance planes and one rescue helicopter account for most losses, with three fighters also lost. A Wednesday airstrike against an antiaircraft site followed surface-to-air fire on a reconnaissance plane near Mu Gia Pass. The policy of continuing photo reconnaissance with fighter escorts remains in place despite the halt.
A bomb exploded in a restroom near the balcony of a downtown Saigon theater tonight, blowing a hole through a wall of a U.S. officers' billet next door. Hundreds of young moviegoers fled, some injured. about 250 people were in the theater with no casualties reported at the officers’ billet.
An Escondido attorney, Patrick Stephen Murray Mitton, 48, was arrested at the Brownsville border while attempting to cross from Mexico. He faces charges of grand theft and extortion related to $480,000 in municipal bonds, plus interstate transport of stolen property. Bond was set at multiple amounts totaling $700,001.
Los Angeles Mayor Samuel W. Yorty signaled on Thursday he is on the verge of entering the race for governor. The statement came as he spoke to reporters in Washington.
Former Los Angeles mayor Ye says state needs professional government and hints at entering the California gubernatorial race against Unruh. He criticizes Reagan as amateurish and questions Unruh’s leftward strategy while noting not running for attorney general or Senate. He cites tax reform and finances as key issues. He is in D.C. for mayors conference and Olympic bid talks.
Washington reports that US nuclear experts have tested ideas such as pure fusion hydrogen bombs laser bombs and neutron weapons while delaying some expansion of warhead facilities for existing systems including Safeguard anti missile missiles. The AEC disclosed no details on the new concepts and noted no new weapon system entered the stockpile.
A gunman in a blue Nehru jacket and bell-bottoms robbed Thriftimart at 582% Bellflower Blvd Lakewood of $2,000 Thursday night. He entered by a back door, held a .38 revolver on stock boy David Stanley Ya cons 17, forced him to guide to the manager's office, forced manager Hart Kany 40 to open safes, dumped cash into a bag, and fled after ordering all to stay in the office. The suspect weighed about 140 pounds, with dark brown or black medium-length hair.
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