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Newspaper
Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
May 02, 1967
Page
2
Marines storm Hill 881 South of Khe San, reaching northern peak amid heavy fighting. Reports say 726 North Vietnamese killed in a week, 96 Marines dead, 276 wounded. Separately, Brewer declines marriage amid Las Vegas reunion chatter linked to Miss Hilder’s stowaway episode and TV exposure.
North American announces a major leadership reshuffle affecting its Space Division and Rocketdyne unit. Jeff Martin becomes Space Division president, while Ralph H. Ruud advances to executive vice president of the Space Division and William Snelling is named Space Division vice president and assistant to the executive vice president. Storms remains a company vice president on sick leave awaiting return.
Police investigated a series of arson attempts in Long Beach with Molotov cocktails. Fires broke out behind multiple businesses including Texaco on Anaheim Street and a shop at 19th Street and Cerritos Avenue, all quickly extinguished. A Molotov littered parkway near Roosevelt Elementary led to a teacher discovering 11 gasoline bottles. the incidents spanned areas around Pacific Coast Highway, Atlantic Avenue, California Avenue and Aard Street.
A violent clash at Swensen's Market on Atlantic Avenue left five injured as police clashed with teens and students from Reid and Poly High School. Sgt. W. R. Decker and Patrolman Robert L. Elders were treated at St Mary's Hospital. Drug truck driver Craig Hoover was also hit during the melee.
Los Angeles report states Carl Bean Wilson, 20, a Beach Boys member, pleads innocence to charges of draft evasion. The musician denied the allegations and entered his plea as the case moves forward in court.
A terse classified note urges readers that cash is easy to raise by selling articles through the Classified column and provides the phone number HE 2-5959 for contact.
Attorney J B Teitz says defendant Wilson objects to the draft on religious grounds but does not belong to a specific group. He objects to all wars. The entertainer is free on bail.
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