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Newspaper
Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Mar 18, 1969
Page
1
A Dallas radio announcer reports his phone rang nonstop after a Berlin dispatch listed a 368-2616 number for a smoking cessation message. The Berlin number, not Dallas, led listeners to a 24 minute taped quit guide.
Police seized 134 students and five adults at Malverne High after halls echoed with Black Power chants demanding Negro teachers and counselors and a black studies course. Lincoln Lynch of the New York Urban Coalition was charged with inciting to riot. Most detainees faced trespass counts.
An investment banker seeks 500000 plus 7 percent interest and 400000 punitive damages after alleging he lost 100000 in crooked gin rummy games at the Beverly Hills Friars Club. Defendants include Al Mathes, a Hollywood restaurateur and government witness, and Maurice H. Friedman, a Las Vegas casino developer convicted in related fraud.
The Troubled Carver Junior High School faculty association in Los Angeles voted to return to classrooms amid plans by militants for a boycott. About 100 faculty members resumed duties under conditions including curriculum and counseling changes and a City Board of Education meeting with community representatives. No violence occurred as about half of the 2,100 students attended. Superintendent Crowther called conditions in south central area schools back to normal and said the boycott failed. Pepperdine College stayed closed for a student funeral after a shotgun death on campus. Police arrested two men for possession of firebombs near a junior college in Van Nuys.
Preston Martin new head of the Federal Home Loan Bank board warns a nationwide housing shortage is looming as the prime rate rises to 7.4 percent. He cites tight money, banks' funding strains, and a shift toward mobile homes and savings and loan lending as partly easing the pressure. Patrick Patman urges Nixon to roll back rate hikes to prevent depression. Arthur banks cite ongoing four month rate increases and tighter money, delaying corporate expansion and raising financing costs for homes and consumer items.
A terse press telegram notes a court matter involving Maureen Neneh in California. Officials report no further details at this time, with proceedings pending on an unspecified civil issue.
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