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Newspaper
Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Mar 05, 1969
Page
1
Dr Joseph M Daly keeps a cube of his first car, the 1950 model he drove as a child, and will inscribe a plaque with purchase date motor number baled date and mileage 86993 then bury the cube under a pine in his yard. In Paris Viet Cong reject Nixon threats and vow to continue fighting while US diplomat Lodge meets Ky on bargaining positions.
Prince Philip says Britons face excessive government controls and planning permit hurdles on ordinary tasks and travel. He cites a Scottish estate example of needing permission to block a fireplace and limits on taking money abroad. He blames self-interest and system abuse for new restraints.
A $14 million slander suit filed by television producer Jack Douglas targets Roger Janis, his business associate and backer of Douglas travelogues, alleging a January accusation of taking $100,000 from a corporation Janis owned. The suit cites a Pacific Palisades country club as the venue. Comedian Danny Thomas and television producer Aaron Spelling are named defendants in a separate $2 trillion plagiarism case brought by Sutton Koley, accusing the Mod Squad concept of copying Koley’s ideas.
Defense Secretary Melvin R. Laird departed from Andrews Air Force Base with Gen. Earle G. Wheeler to assess the current escalation of fighting in Vietnam. He said he would report findings to the President and Congress and prayed for success of the Paris peace talks. The move follows a renewed offensive by North Vietnam and the Viet Cong.
Washington reports that former President Dwight D. Eisenhower continues to show satisfactory progress and that the pneumonia complicating his major abdominal surgery has been completely cured. He no longer requires nasal oxygen, and his intravenous feedings and medications were discontinued this morning.
In a terse entry readers learn of a second class notice from Pine Beach Post Office. The brief references Entores and a telegram service indicating a local communications update.
In Florida State and New York campuses students led by SDS occupy buildings to protest tuition hikes and racial issues. At Florida State University police arrested nine after a court order halted the SDS meeting. at Rochester Black Students Union members barricaded in a Douglass building.
In Saigon a gun battle wounded no one, but two terrorists were captured after firing on Prime Minister Tran Van Huong’s car. A third attacker fled, and a cl aymore mine on a pedicab was disarmed. South Vietnamese police detained two suspects as U.S. Marines reported heavy fighting nearby in the A Shau valley with at least 117 American deaths and 626 wounded.
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