ACTION LINE Q&A on ages and avocados from Long Beach letters
Readers submit questions answered by the Action Line service. Topics include the youngest mother on record, how to grow an avocado from seed with UC advice, whether fish survive freezing, private trash-hauling hours, and Catalina steamship reservations with parking details.
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Long Beach
Calif
S.D
Artesia
John Williams
R. E. Kennedy
Department of Public Service
San Francisco Ave
Help Action Line clarification for donation area
A correction clarifies that East Long Beach District is the primary target for donations not the Central District. The nearby Family Crisis Center at 2240 Atlantic Ave EF, Long Beach, serves the Central District with similar services.
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East Long Beach
Gurs
Family Crisis
Atlantic Ave
Long Beach
Deluge floods New York subway paralyzing transit network
A severe thunderstorm crippled New York City's subway and many transportation facilities during the morning rush. Rain overwhelmed weather equipment, with 2.35 inches reported in Brooklyn in two hours. Brooklyn tunnels flooded, East Side Highway closed, and the stock exchanges opened late as thousands sought other travel.
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New York
Weather Bureau
Central Park
Brooklyn
Manhattan
Queens
Long Island Rail Road
East Side
Brooklyn Bridge
Nixon Panel Recommends Renewed Drilling Off California
A special presidential panel urged resuming oil production and drilling near the Union Oil Co lease in the Santa Barbara Channel to prevent future spills. It says depleting the Repetto reservoir via pumping, including new wells, could take about ten years and remove oil air pockets that threaten leaks. The panel sent its findings to President Nixon and Interior Secretary Hickel for action, focusing only on the Union Oil site amid broader lease-area questions.
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Washington
UPI
California
Nixon
Union Oil Co
Santa Barbara
Walter J. Hickel
Union Oil
Repetto
Hamilton M. Johnson
Tulane University
Johnson
Pompidou Poised For Runoff In French Presidential Race
France heads to a runoff after Georges Pompidou led with 43.95 percent, Alain Poher second with 23.44, and Jacques Duclos winning 21.53. No majority means a June 15 duel with the Communists weighing support and turnout strategies.
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Paris
Georges Pompidou
Alain Poher
Poher
Senate
de Gaulle
Pompidou
Woman seeks business success amid lack of guidance
A woman pursues success in business and laments the absence of a wife to advise her, noting the humor in her predicament and the social expectations surrounding female entrepreneurship.
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Sie
Civil Trials Ruled in Off-Base Crimes
Supreme Court rules in peacetime a serviceman who commits a non military off base crime in the United States must be tried in civilian courts. Five to three decision limits military authorities claim to try such cases. About 85 percent currently go to civilian courts.
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Washington
Supreme Court
United States
Weather summary for tonight and Tuesday in the LB area
The LB area will see night and morning low clouds with local drizzles. It becomes partly sunny in the afternoon with a low around 60 and high near 72. The desert region stays mostly fair through Tuesday with a sharp temperature swing from 95 to 75, highs near 98.
California leads in holiday traffic deaths report
Traffic in the Los Angeles area stretched along freeways as motorists returned from Memorial Day. Despite higher volumes, fatal and crash tolls were lower than previous years, with California reporting 52 deaths by Sunday night per the National Safety Council. An accident near Norwalk claimed a 13 year old girl, Diane J Garcia of Norwalk.
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Dominguez
Link Medina
Peru
Lima
Erik Thamdrup
Andes
Gerardo Alejandro Medina
Lina
Gerardo Lozada
United States
Arkansas
Highway Patrol
Los Angeles-Long Beach
National Safety Council
California
Los Angeles County
Santa Fe Springs
Diane J. Garcia
Davenrich St
Norwalk
Where to Find It Extra gas tax takes effect
A reader guide lists sections and pages for the new penny gasoline tax coming into force, mapping topics from Beach Combing to Vital Statistics across the newspaper.
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Jeane Dixon
George Robbeson
Wilson
Wonen
Vessel Sighted at Reef Off Baja California
The 160 foot Newport Beach luxury yacht Goodwill is reported ashore on a reef 180 miles south of the California Mexican border near Baja California. Coast Guard helicopters found a deck awash with masts above water near Sacramento Reef five miles offshore from Point San Antonio. A list of potential aboard members was released after speaking with relatives. owner Ralph E. Larrabee and guests including Walter Zaiss, Bernie Stark, Robert Comstock, Edward Henderson, Mrs. Patricia Nienhauser, Miss Carrie Graybehr, John Cale, Manuel Montoya, and possibly two others were named.
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Newport Beach
California
Baja California
US Coast Guard
Coast Guard
Sacramento Reef
Point San Antonio
Ralph E
Larrabee
Indusalist
Walter Zaiss
San Clemente
Bernie Stark
Capistrano Beach
Robert Comstock
Edward Henderson
Patricia Nienhauser
Carrie Graybehr
North Hallywood
Neinhauser
John Cale
Manuel Montoya
Newport
Col
Arrests Mark Second Night of Garden Grove Festival Violence
Thirteen youths were arrested after a second night of violence at Garden Grove Strathberry Festival. About 200 officers faced rocks bottles and bricks from a crowd near 1,000. One officer was struck by a brick. cherry bombs were used and Molotov cocktails hurled. Charges include assault with a deadly weapon against officers arson and drug possession.
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Garden Grove
Orange County
Garden Grove City Park
P. H. Corona
Lt. Corona
Corona
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