21 Mar 1968
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Newspaper
Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Mar 21, 1968
Page
1
John Cayton, 13, of Santa Monica, got his stray penny back from the city after a meter dispute at a coin shop. The dime he planned to buy could be worth 150 dollars or more, and the city treasurer granted the refund.
Two Long Beach residents and a Garden Grove man died in separate freeway crashes while a Long Beach woman succumbed to injuries from an earlier collision. Scott Lawson of Hawthorne, Marvin Brewer of Garden Grove, and Mae Keogh of Long Beach died. Lawson, a LA city worker, was ejected when his fire department Jeep rear ended and overturned another vehicle on the San Diego Freeway. Brewer, a Sailor returning to San Diego, drifted into a dirt divider and was thrown from his car. Keogh died days after a three car crash on the Long Beach Freeway. An additional fatality was motorcycle rider Orville Norman, age 23, who died after a collision with a Downey driver.
In a Los Angeles court Dyan Cannon testified that Cary Grant used LSD for about a decade, described him as irrational and hostile, and claimed he once beat her for wearing a miniskirt. The psychiatrist supported LSD use but found no brain damage, noting Grant remained a loving father. Cannon seeks $5170 monthly support and restricted access to their daughter Jennifer.
Gerhardt Eisler, once named the No 1 Communist spy in the United States, died in East Berlin at 71 after fleeing the U S in 1949. He later served in East Germany as a party central committee member and chaired the State Radio Committee, dying during a visit to the Armenian Socialist Soviet Republic. ADN reported the death on March 21.
Singer Joan Baez, 27, says she will marry Dave Harris, 22, a former Stanford student and draft resister, before month’s end. The couple, who have toured for antiwar causes and performed at Carnegie Hall, plan political appearances at Boston University and Harvard University in late March and an Ithaca stop in April. Harris refused Army induction at Stanford in January.
A decree issued by the Superior Court in Los Angeles County addresses a case under Decree No ar0s2. Details appear limited in the fragment, with references to proceedings and officials, suggesting an official order or ruling from the local court.
London reports the Bank of England cut its prime rate from eight to seven four per cent, aiming to steady the pound amid Middle East fighting and de Gaulle’s dollar attack. The move follows longstanding devaluation measures and signals renewed confidence in a new gold market system. The U.S. Federal Reserve raised its prime rate from four and a quarter to five per cent, with New York unchanged, as gold fears pressured the dollar.
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