Navy ends notable career with Pacific Mine Force closure
The U S Navy marked retirement of the Pacific Mine Force at Long Beach as it disestablished 200 billets and created Mine Warfare Forces based in Charleston. Rear Adm Bird led ceremonies. Capt LeBreton received the Legion of Merit. The change shifts command to Rear Adm James Dare and reshuffles flotillas and squadrons across Long Beach, Charleston, and Guantanamo.
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U.S. Navy
PME
Long Beach Naval Station
WI. V. Bird
Pacific Mine Force
Navy
Charleston
James Dare. Bird
Long Beach
Guy LeBreton Jr
Adm
Bird
Mine Force Thief of Staff
Casserly
San Diego
Naval Investigative Service
Notillas
Guat
Mine Forces Battle Group
Battle Crafl
Mine Force
Pacific
Vietnam
Squadron K
Long ‘Pau
Saigon
South China Sea
Birt
Legion of Merit
Capt
LeBreton
Equalization area shift proposed for California districts
State Senator Mervyn Dymally introduced a reapportionment plan to realign Los Angeles County into three districts and move areas including Long Beach and coastal regions to the district represented by George Reilly. The proposal would redraw boundaries to include central LA, Orange, San Diego, Imperial, and Northern California portions, with changes affecting Richard Nevins and John Lynch districts. The plan aims to address population changes and would require committee votes next Thursday.
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Sacramento
Long Beach
Los Angeles County
George Reilly
San Francisco
Mervyn Dymally
Los
Angel Dymally
Senate
Dymally
Richard Nevins
Orange, San Diego
Imperial Counties
Joh W. Lynch
Tulare
Wiliam Bennett
California
Board of Equalization
Venuu
Newark Mayor Says He Has Been Spied On
Newark mayor Kenneth A. Gibson says he believes four to five government agencies have surveilled him since before 1947. In a year marking his first as mayor he notes surveillance mentioned in Newark police, Justice Department reports, and calls it justified by public safety though he opposes indiscriminate monitoring. He adds he has nothing to hide and jokes about opening speeches with “Friends, apes and bugs.” He laments surveillance limits while pursuing more police hires and notes past hiring biases in police work.
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Newark
UPI
Kenneth A. Cibgon
Gibson
Justive
France reels from boldest bank robbery in history
Police across France hunt heavily armed robbers who seized 2.1 million dollars bound for civil service pensions in Strasbourg near the German frontier. Inside help and planned timing aided the heist as masked gunmen used postal uniforms to enter the main post office and escape with the cash by a courtyard transfer. In Cairo, Egypt, former president Anwar Sadat’s father Mohamad Sadak died at age 88 at his residence.
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Strasbourg
France
UPL
Rhine
Rhone
Seares
Infor
CATRO
Egypt
Mohamed Sadak
Anwar Sadat
Cairo
Marine indicted in wife death
A Marine corporal, Mark Allan Johnson, 30, was indicted by the Orange County Grand Jury for the slaying of his wife Connie Lynn Johnson, 20, in their San Clemente apartment on June 16, 1970. Police say Johnson reported the beating on June 17. He was jailed in Santa Ana and faced possible arraignment Friday. Johnson served as a guard at the Santa Ana Marine Corps Air Facility.
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Orange Couinty Grand Jury
Mark Allan Johnson
Connie Lynn Johnson
San Clemente
Clifford Murray
Corporal Johnson
Tie
Johnson
Orange County
Santa Ana
Santa Ana Marine Corps Air Facility
Courtesy bicycles end after vandalized program collapse
The city police department closed its courtesy bike program after ten yellow bicycles placed around the city in March were vandalized beyond repair. Officers hoped the lending bikes would curb theft, but frames, wheels, and spokes were damaged and the program was abandoned.
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Davis
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Independent Press-Telegram
Areetour
Abe
Casulty Company
Rarnante
National Casualty Co
Independent
Press-Telegram
Pine Long Beach
City
State
Annal
Middie
Midale
Ueast
Ifiddte
Accepteonal Casuals Coe
Morting
Telapram
Haw
Morning
OLE Gang Press-Telegram
Pring
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