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Newspaper
Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Mar 02, 1972
Page
6
Describes Senate and House differences in desegregation funding and higher education aid. Senate plan ties funds to integrated, lower isolation schools and includes a 390 million program for Indian education and gender equality in college admissions, scholarships, and faculty positions. House version emphasizes full-time enrollment and differs on grant formula.
The U S Civil Rights Commission chairman Theo dore Hesburgh told the House Judiciary Committee that parental misconduct surrounding school desegregation fuels trouble in newly integrated schools. He warned a constitutional amendment to halt court ordered busing could fail without changes. He cited five recently desegregated districts showing greater student tolerance than parents and urged that desegregation with busing can work. An unrelated Salt Lake City report noted an elderly man handing out $10 bills at a Greyhound station, one girl receiving four before a trip to Stockton California.
An institute spokesman describes a four chamber artificial heart made with reinforced plastic and flocked dacron fibers to contact living tissue. The device aims to replace transplanted hearts, with potential candidates estimated at 10 000 to 100 000 annually. A nuclear powered heart assist system implanted in a calf at Haston City Hospital uses a plutonium heated engine and a heat storage capsule for power.
Lockheed Aircraft Corp earned a profit in 1971, its first in three years, despite heavy losses on the TriStar jumbo jet and the CSA military transport project. The company posted net earnings of 15.4 million or 1.36 a share, with 1971 sales at 2.85 billion, 92 percent to government purchases. Employment fell to about 61,000 by year end, from 74,700, and dividends seem unlikely before 1975 due to indenture and loan constraints.
In Key West the curtain for Orpheus in the Underworld opened as the orchestra fled a flooded pit. Pumps failed and the tide flooded the area below sea level. Musicians rebuilt on dry ground and resumed after a brief delay with altered lines and humor about the flooded basement.
Civic leaders in Long Beach weigh the city’s international image amid limited progress on the International City Club and customs move. Skeptics question Long Beach’s true international status, while slogans like “Tomorrow's City Today” and “City of Progress” echo from Lakewood and Paramount as leaders view Incal attributes with scrutiny.
The hospital asks the community to donate recreation equipment for patient use including table shuffleboards a bowling game and a jukebox through the recreation and volunteer office.
Two local ophthalmologists contacted by ACTION LINE say color television should not increase eyestrain compared with black and white TV. They note physiological factors, not color, govern eye discomfort during viewing.
The board consists of nine regular members and three alternates chosen by lottery from names submitted by the county supervisors. Members receive one dollar per working day, are appointed for three-year terms, and the boards meet four days weekly from September to March. Regular members include Merrill Cate Andrew Tutwiler Vernon Brown Herbert Cameron Marty Albert Leonard Gleckman Edward Macke and Daniel Patacchia. Alternates are Edwin Dow Saul Rosenberg and Demetrio Apodaca. If an appeal is rejected the matter goes to court.
Talks aimed at Vietnam peace stalled after Viet Cong and North Vietnam delegates left a 14 minute session in protest of U S air war escalation. US and South Vietnam had boycotted following a Communist World Peace Congress in Versailles. Communists issued statements denouncing Nixon after his trip to Beijing.
A small rented single engine Cessna 172 vanished after leaving Catalina Island Airport in the Sky Tuesday morning. San Diego area Coast Guard Civil Air Patrol and sheriff's air squadron searched 2700 square miles of Pacific waters and inland terrain by nightfall. Mr and Mrs Richard C Nielson of Chula Vista were aboard.
U S forces report the probable destruction of a North Vietnamese MIG 21L in a dogfight over Laos near the Laotian border amid new strikes in North Vietnam and repeated B52 raids in the central highlands. Two pilots Lt Col Joseph W. Kittinger and Lt Leigh A Hodgdon observed a missile explosion and radar confirmation.
The court ruled candidates affected by redistricting may run in either their former or updated districts. A candidate choosing the old district must relocate before the boundary change takes effect. The decision came after William F P Wenke challenged Orange County Registrar of Voters for his bid as a 1st District county supervisor.
Two Belfast youths were slain amid sectarian clashes between Catholics and Protestants. Security sources cited possible Fianna Bhriann ties, while a gunman on Shankill Road killed a man watching TV with his children. Harry Hayes, 36, survived surgery but was wounded. The incident followed two UDR volunteers shot earlier, marking a third shooting in 24 hours.
China will cover most of its 7.1 million U.N. budget assessment for 1972 but rejects payments for items it calls hostile to the Chinese people or contrary to the U.N. charter. Excluded are the U.N. Commission for the Reunification of Korea, the U.N.-maintained cemetery in South Korea, and old Congo and Middle East peacekeeping debts. France also refuses Congo operation funding.
Police halted a plan to smuggle hashish valued at about one million dollars into North America. Officers seized 220 pounds of the drug in a raid on a Tel Aviv apartment and detained four Israelis aged 30 to 35.
A GM spokesman noted letters will go to current owners identified by state DMV records to outline how to have defective engine mounts corrected. The process will take time as the company mails the notices.
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