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Newspaper
Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Jun 18, 1974
Page
5
Nixon pledges U S aid to Jordan as he heads home after a late start to talks with King Hussein. The president’s final discussions ran an hour late, and plans for a side trip outside Amman were dropped while the First Lady viewed local sights.
Details emerge on a missing vessel named Shooting Star after a May day call during Hurricane Connie. Debris, life preservers, and an overturned 13 foot dinghy are reported, with Coast Guard questioning seaworthiness of Shooting Star type boats and recalling inshore rescue craft AVRs from World War II. The Azores stop and Nixon’s Middle East visit are noted as background to ongoing security concerns.
Three alleged members of a baby selling ring surrendered to a Los Angeles Superior Court judge. Former county commissioner Ronald Silverton, 42, attorney Lee Shyakin, 55, and Beverly Minnis, 30, were released on bond and will enter pleas June 28 to charges of illegally selling babies for adoption up to $14,000.
Israeli air force jets bombed and strafed Fatah land targets in southeast Lebanon near Mt Hermon after a kibbutz attack. The raids followed guerrilla cross-border violence from Lebanon that killed three women at Shamir Kibbutz. Five days earlier, the incident coincided with President Nixon’s Middle East visit wrap.
Long Beach police officers chief Duple says a slowdown began on Friday, confined to non felony calls and traffic issues, with 104 percent effectiveness Monday. He notes city and association holding firm at noon Monday, while Mansell seeks federal time and a half. Public warned about parking tickets as slowdown impacts arrests and citations, with 14 arrests and 88 citations Thursday dropping to 2 arrests and 0 citations Sunday.
Army brigades carried emergency supplies of food medicine and blankets to about 578000 flood victims in rural areas 65 miles from Acapulco as tropical cyclone Dolores swelled streams and flooded roads. Nine died destroyed 200 dwellings and left 600 homeless while the port reopened to navigation Monday.
In a Cook County home near Elk Grove, four family members died of gunshot wounds and stabbing. A 17 year old son’s death is pending autopsy. blood, a burned body, and candles were found. Fuchs and wife Ruth, plus son Scott and daughter Lynda aged 14, were identifed. The fifth body showed leg injury from a cord. Jeffery had just graduated high school in Park Ridge.
Prices for whisky and beer rise next month as National Brewing and other brewers increase wholesale prices. National will raise a 24 container case by four cents, a 15 cent hike for a six pack, driven by soaring packaging costs and reflecting nationwide trends.
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