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Newspaper
Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Jul 03, 1969
Page
5
Washington families of senators and representatives joined a week-long welfare budget study under the National Welfare Rights Organization. The group advocates a guaranteed annual income of 5500 for a family of four, while the wives reported bland meals heavy on bread rice and noodles and scarce lean meat fruit and ice cream.
In Swedesboro New Jersey acting police chief Alvin Holdrich leads a town wide crackdown with 57 new regulations aimed at preserving the quiet, moral town. The ordinance list includes banning kissing in public places attire rules and forbidding horseplay at Lake Narrathon. The measures reflect a re codification of ordinances dating to 1642 when Swedish Flemish settlers founded the town on Raccoon Creek.
The government moved to require air bags in 1971 model cars buses and trucks as an automatic safety device supplementing seat belts. The bags would deploy in a fraction of a second from crash sensors and protect occupants in all seats.
Negotiations are under way to call a nationwide interdenominational conference of Negro clergymen and militants and white church leaders to address the financial crisis facing religious bodies amid Negro financial demands.
A man named Rick Cimino, 39, from Oakland tossed about 350 dollars from a hotel window to around 200 people on Market Street who rushed to collect the money. Cimino said the act was thanks for kind treatment when he lived in the area. The scene followed the United Church of Christ biennial assembly and tied to broader discussions among black church leaders on economic issues and the Black Manifesto.
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