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Newspaper
Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1967
Page
2
A battalion of Reds swarmed a US platoon near a Cambodian highland stronghold. The fight, a major midday clash, left multiple American casualties as Communist forces used overwhelming fire. Dong Ha’s Marine base faced mortar and rocket volleys with at least 11 Marines killed and 41 wounded.
San Francisco. California auto insurance firms will unify rates for assigned risk coverage starting July 1 under new regulations approved by State Insurance Commissioner Richard Soddls. The Insurance Information Institute cited Snow rate schedules that will raise costs for some motorists and lower them for others. Currently, firms determine assigned risk coverage when applications are approved, not when full premium is paid. Assigned risk insurance covers about 2 percent of motorists.
South Bend Indiana teachers union struck the school system and picketed 47 of 49 public schools while classes ran nearly normally. Fewer than 500 teachers were off the job, according to school officials, with two special education sites not picketed and substitutes and supervisors filling in.
California bills move the governor election primary from June to August in non presidential years. The primary will be the first Tuesday after the first Monday in August. In presidential years the primary remains the first Tuesday after the first Monday in June.
Honky, the champion frog, has disappeared and understudy Tonky will contest this weekend at the Ca laveras County Jumping Frog Jubilee. Forty-Niner Days at California State College Long Beach recalled Honky, later found at Compton Frog Farm and possibly in gourmet circles. Dr Kenneth Maxwell, associate professor of biology and frog training director, believes Tonky will fare well in the Angel Camp finals next Sunday.
Hungarian diplomat Janos Radvanyi defected and sought asylum in the United States announcing to U.S. officials his wish to live permanently in America. His wife and son were granted asylum while a daughter remains in Hungary. Radvanyi, long a Communist, rose through the Hungarian foreign service and was head of the embassy in Washington before defecting.
Two workers struggled to free Palomino from a collapsed concrete culvert box as water seeped into the ditch. He was pulled free after hours trapped under debris and dirt, rushed to Orange County Medical Center in surprisingly good condition despite exposure.
In Hong Kong a large anti-British demonstration pressed the colony’s governor Gov Sir David Trench to respond as about 300 youths and a reported million Chinese march in Peking to protest police actions. The day included a petition delivery at Trench’s residence and a separate rally in Peking with Premier Chou En Lai cited.
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