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Newspaper
Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
May 12, 1967
Page
1
Merona A Leone 26 of Scituate and her mother sued Patrick J Me Dosough and two others for 1 million after a Aug 11 1962 collision in Breckton Massachusetts. Leone suffered a skull fracture, coma for over three months, and will need nursing care for life. She was awarded 650000 plus 39,000 retroactive interest.
Clark Gable widow Kay Spreckels Gable, 48, stays at Mt Sinai Hospital Hollywood after a mild heart attack. Attorney Eugene Landau says her condition is excellent with no complications and no cause for alarm. Mrs Gable’s connection to Adolph Spreckles II and past marriages is noted while she remains hospitalized.
Elliott Roosevelt, 56, seeks a second two year term as Miami Beach mayor next Tuesday amid four challengers Melvin Richard Jay DeVez Morris Zucker and Morris Luck Observers say he has gained support by courting both parties conventions and promoting long range planning He canvasses with a pound truck visits supermarkets and signs photos for voters on the spot.
Sybil Christopher and Jordan Christopher celebrate the birth of five pound thirteen ounce Amy in New York City Hospital. Sybil, 37, and Jordan, a 25-year-old musician, wed June 21 1965, a month after she opened a New York nightclub Arthur. The couple met while Christopher led a band at Arthur. Burton later married Elizabeth Taylor after his divorce. Betty Blythe announces June marriage plans to 74-year-old former Warner Bros translator head. Ray Conniff, 51, sued for divorce by wife Ann Marie, 54, citing extreme cruelty. she seeks temporary alimony amid financial needs. Court set hearings for late February.
The State Department of General Services installed a hot line between Gov. Reagan, the state police, and Sacramento police to prevent a repeat of the Black Panther invasion. A buzzer system between the Assembly sergeant at arms and state police is planned, with a $91,302 police budget increase and barriers, CCTV at Capitol entrances, stricter entry rules, and weapons ban proposals under consideration.
Senator Henry M. Jackson said national guardsmen and reservists will need to be ordered to active duty to meet Vietnam manpower needs. He warned the decision must come soon and that more troops are expected to be sent, with 442,000 already in the war zone and a target rise to about 470,000 by year’s end.
In Sacramento a Senate Judiciary Committee approved a bill by Sen. Alfred H. Song to handle minor traffic offenses without juries or publicly appointed lawyers. Advocates say it would ease overloaded courts while opponents warn of downgrading seriousness and blurring the line between offenses and crimes.
More than 400 Princeton University students walked out of George Wallace remarks while he denounced federal intervention and the media. Some demonstrators burned an effigy of Wallace and a Confederate flag. a Nazi salute incident drew jeers and police intervention. Wallace praised the reception, noting it as among his best on a college campus.
The Army rejected defense motions and opened a court martial for Capt How ard B Levy a 30 year old dermatologist from Brooklyn charged with disloyal statements about the Vietnam war. Col Earl V Brown presided as judge and the case tests whether Levy comments harmed troop morale at the base and in Vietnam. The defense argues constitutional free speech protections apply while the Army contends the statements undermine military effectiveness.
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