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Newspaper
Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1970
Page
1
Imperial Wizard Robert Shelton says Klan membership is rising across the United States. He cites school integration riots and communism as causes and mentions plans for a nationwide self defense program.
The Soviet Union ordered CBS Moscow correspondent William Cole to leave, saying his activities were incompatible with a foreign journalist's status. Cole, in Moscow since August 1, 1968, will depart within a week, joining Time’s Stanley Cloud expelled earlier this month in what appears retaliation involving other reporters and a Pravda correspondent in New York. There was no official detail on further steps or ties to broader actions.
Rep. Adam Clayton Powell, defeated in a five way Democratic primary, announces a new People’s Party to field his bid for a November ballot. He cites vote tampering claims and names opponents Jessey Gray and Jake Young while noting Charles Rangel won the nomination. Powell, 61, carried 7,832 votes to Rangel’s 8,034.
Jean Jacques Servan-Schreiber, 46, takes a Nancy seat as head of a new political force distinct from Gaullist and Communist strands. His landslide 53.3 percent beat Gaullist Lager Seoucal and Communist Michel Antoine, signaling discontent with de Gaulle heirs' policies.
Evangelist Billy Graham, closing a five day New York crusade at Shea Stadium before 25,000 listeners, urged a national spiritual renewal to ease campus turmoil. He said revival has occurred in dark times and could spread from campus to campus, reducing moral decay, pasteurist excess, and environmental pollution. 125,000 have attended the series.
Lightning sparked about 195 fires destroying 1,700 acres of national forests in Arizona and New Mexico Sunday. Firefighters contained 43 other fires across 170 acres as storms and winds threatened more outbreaks. Northern California saw 1,075 acres burned over the weekend with a 675 acre Beale Air Force Base blaze. No injuries reported.
Tens of thousands of Italian-Americans rallied in Columbus Circle New York protesting FBI and Justice Department probes into Mafia activity. The event featured speakers from community leaders and celebrities with calls for a congressional inquiry and a march on FBI headquarters.
At Iola Wisconsin a motorcycle gang sparked an outdoor rock festival melee. Three people were shot, 45,000 attendees earlier left, and 26 to 49 gang members plus seven women were held overnight in Stevens Point. No formal rape complaints filed, injuries wide in scope.
A fragmented OCR snippet reports an election notice from a Caledonia region with references to a date in October and a postal submission process. The readable names and exact actions are unclear due to damaged text, but the piece indicates an official election notice and delivery timing.
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