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Newspaper
Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Nov 01, 1973
Page
2
Malcolm Forbes resumes coast to coast balloon journey with a $5 foot balloon stuck near Curdsville Kentucky. He travels with 16 companions, watched by family including two of his children filming, while a chase plane and helicopters follow the voyage.
Jerry Lee Lewis pleaded guilty to driving while intoxicated in Memphis Tennessee. City Court Judge John Geyz fined him forty dollars jailed him four days and placed him on 864 days probation.
In Chicago Dellinger argued Wednesday that Judge Julius Hoffman provoked protest in the courtroom, seeking dismissal of contempt charges as defense teams prepared for acquittal verdicts. He addressed Judge Edward Gignoux, denouncing justice as harsher than the law, while Royal Martin rebutted Kunstler’s transcript critique. In Cambridge, Archibald Cox was named visiting professor of American history and institutions for next academic year.
More than 1.8 million property tax bills were calculated to raise 2.1 billion in revenues for county, school, city and special district services. About 1.2 million bills mailed to residents and 50,001 picked up by corporations and multi parcel owners. First half due before Bee 10. second half due April 10, 1974. Total levy down 3.7 percent from 1972-73 due to tax base changes. Mortgage holders can request copies of original bills in writing.
SAN FRANCISCO UPI A Cost of Living Council official said federal price controls will be eased for doctors and hospitals. The executive secretary announced changes effective January allowing hospitals to raise prices up to 7 percent or 14 percent with higher fuel and wage costs, and allowing manufacturers to raise incomes up to 34 percent, with service fee limits. Current rules require large increases to be reported and government approval for the biggest hikes.
California senator John Tunney wins Senate Commerce Committee approval for a $340 million federal program to develop smog free automobiles. The plan includes $149 million in grants and up to $200 million in guaranteed loans to spur three years of auto R and D, aiming to clean urban air without EPA mandate.
The Soviet Cosmos 05 satellite reportedly launched with animals and other objects on board as Tass announced. The agency did not specify animal type or other cargos. Meanwhile in Belmont North Carolina a tractor trailer cab plunged into the Catawba River after a bridge collision. the driver remained missing as divers searched an empty submerged cab.
The House passed a 21.3 billion weapons authorization bill despite an amendment banning eight Public Health Service hospital closings. Hearings on hospital cost cuts promised. major systems were largely sidelined during debate. President Nixon seeks to reduce federal hospital support in major cities including Seattle Boston San Francisco New Orleans Baltimore Galveston New York and Norfolk.
Testimony starts today in the murder case of Donald Ray Moore, 103 B Fourth St, charged with stabbing neighbor Paul Stumm, 26. The victim’s body was found last April 26 in Moore’s bathtub after a violent assault.
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