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Newspaper
Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Mar 01, 1966
Page
4
Spacecraft Venus 3 claimed landing on Venus while Lovell urged proof. Venus 2 flew by closer than Mariner 2, then entered Liesun orbit. Cosmos 111 launched as unmanned satellite follow ups. Cosmos 110 carried two dogs for future crewed missions.
The City Council voted unanimously to exempt industrial subdivisions from a proposed ordinance banning overhead utility lines, sending the measure back to the city attorney for revision and restoring the original focus on new residential and business districts. The council then rescinded prior action and ordered a revised draft, with officials noting potential effects on annexation and development. The discussion touched on Soviet Venus and Mars space plans, but officials stressed not to hinder industrial growth within the city.
Three of the six Congressmen on the House Armed Services Committee pressed for a broad inquiry into the draft system. They cite 444,793 men projected to be available through next June and possible deferment misuses. The probe would assess authority to induct and seek ways to expand Allied contributions amid Vietnam deployments.
Lt Col Thomas P. Stafford and Navy Cmdr Eugene A. Corman named prime crew for Gemini 9 two to three day mission, as Gemini 4 and Gemini 9 flights stay on schedule. Meanwhile Maj Charles A. Bassett II and Elliot Lee Jr were killed in a T38 crash at McDonnell Aircraft near St Louis, wrecking the planned crew and injuring workers.
A 14 year old Pico Rivera hiker Craig Witham died after slipping 80 feet from a Vogel Canyon ledge in Angeles National Forest. His companion John Abs alerted rangers. mountaineers retrieved the body near Big Tujunga Canyon Road. He died at Glendale Adventist Hospital at 10 20 p m.
The federal government paid $1,000 for the Santa Ana Bus Service in a tax sale bid as bidders offered little more than $200 for 21 buses and five other vehicles. The firm was seized by the IRS to recover $15,000 in taxes. An auction was set for this afternoon to transfer operation to a new purchaser. Mayor Harry H. Harvey called a city council meeting to discuss the bus problem. The company, owned by Clyde Mussack, provided service in Santa Ana and to El Toro MCAS and Huntington Beach via Garden Grove, but it has faced ongoing financial trouble and was shut down after the IRS seizure.
New York based news report says Sargent Shriver, director of the war on poverty, proposes a women’s auxiliary corps parallel to Job Corps. It would enroll unemployed girls 15 to 23 for summer instruction, with ongoing meetings and stipends, expanding beyond the 3,518 girls in six Job Corps centers for youth. The male centers hold 18,788 trainees.
Classified notice seeks assistance for ad placement in the newspaper section. Reads as a general instruction to contact the classifieds desk for advertising space and rates.
A promotional blurb touts Reader's Digest as a simple prescription to spark happiness in marriages children and self esteem outlining cases of wives shocked into joy and Muquatoast as a metaphorical boost.
Robinson A Reid, a longtime figure in Southland banking, is elected president chief executive officer and director of the Bank of Long Beach as it is organized. George A Hart Jr notes controller of currency approval, a headquarters lease at 4201 Long Beach Blvd is signed, vault work underway, and $1.8 million in authorized stock fully paid and deposited with United California Bank. Opening is expected in April.
A house fire in Longmeadow Massachusetts killed Andrea Ste 12 Lori 6 Jamie Dee 3 and babysitter Mrs Alice Hunt about 60 of Springfield. Their parents Mr and Mrs Leonard Rubin were vacationing in Miami. The split level ten room home burned as flames engulfed it.
Abraham Nathan, an Israeli peace envoy, returned from Egypt after a failed attempt to meet President Nasser. He was briefly held by police, released on bail, and traveled with four Bibles and a peace petition. his plane bore the word peace in Arabic Hebrew and English. Nathan defied government orders attempting to fly to Cairo and faced potential charges for leaving the country, contact with an enemy, illegal flight, and aircraft possession.
President Johnson opened the 1966 Red Cross membership and fund drive urging Americans to give generously. He praised the Red Cross for saving lives in Vietnam and feeding and sheltering those in need, saying the nation should be grateful and proud.
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