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Newspaper
Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
May 27, 1969
Page
1
Kathryn Minner, a Broadway and film bit player for decades, died at 77 after a heart attack. Her one famed line in a Dodge commercial contrasted with roles in Dragnet Gunsmoke and Petticoat Junction.
Hugh Young of Cartersville Ga a Baptist missionary at Kyushu University Japan describes Apollo 10 as more exciting than Gemini flights and reveals he slept during splashdown. He plans five year stay in Japan and has not seen his brother in years.
In Milwaukee a jury convicted 12 defendants, an antiwar group including five Roman Catholic clergymen, of arson theft and burglary for stealing and burning about 4 000 Selective Service files. The trial sparked scuffles as bailiffs and spectators clashed. Judge Lawson ordered 18 police to the scene and set sentencing for June 6 with maximum 18 years. Some defendants faced contempt fines or jail for courtroom disruptions.
Black city councilman Bradley leads polls with 53 to 26 margin per Times poll while Yorty gains in Field poll. Final day campaigns hinge on TV appearances as white suburbs and minority blocs shape race over police, race and politics in Los Angeles mayoral battle.
Five fires were set on the Los Angeles City College campus. Steve Frank, national president of VIVA, urged expulsion of BSU and SDS members blamed for violence and property damage. He warned of threats and sought police protection on campus. Kawato and Jazmandarian also reported danger, while Watts centers cautioned about potential campus violence.
Fragmentary text shows a Long Beach California post office reference with unclear dates and figures. The readable bits mention delivery, a name Barry, and assorted garbled phrases, lacking coherent events or structured facts.
LOS ANGELES police report Ursula Thiess’s son Michael Thiess 25 died in his motel room possibly from narcotic overdose. His mother found the body and a German note requested wakefulness. Autopsy scheduled. Thiess had a troubled past including a 1964 Munich poisoning case and later legal issues in the United States.
Berkeley sources report Bishop C Kilner Myers of California calling Governor Ronald Reagan a warmonger. In a chapel service at the Berkeley Pacific School of Religion he denounced police and military actions at the people’s park, likening it to a German 1939 operation and urging accountability for civil and moral violations.
United Press International reports Israeli and Syrian tanks armored cars and troops clashed in the Golan Heights near Quneitra the first such confrontation since 1967. Syria claimed it knocked out an Israeli armored car and silenced two machinegun nests after open fire on an Israeli patrol. The battle lasted about an hour to three hours with no Israeli casualties. Damascus cited Arab commandos linked to Al Salgah amid recent Lebanon clashes.
Henry A. Rago, 53, longtime editor of Poetry Magazine since 1959 and educator, died Monday night in Chicago likely from a heart attack. His death ends a prominent literary career and leaves a void in the poetry community.
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