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Newspaper
Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Nov 09, 1967
Page
1
Three men described as about six feet tall and heavyset robbed the First National Bank at Byers. They took 38 557 pounds, with bank secretary Mrs Bonnie Ford and three women tellers plus a customer inside. One robber asked for the safe and appeared polite.
Field Marshal Sir Gerald Templer, 69, was attacked by three men in a churchyard near his London home as he walked his terrier. He fought one assailant with a right jab, police were called, and a doctor found him unharmed. Templer, famed WWII general, led postwar campaigns in Malaya and Kenya and later served as Constable of the Tower of London.
Robert Benjamin Smith, 19, was sentenced to die in the Arizona gas chamber for the Mesa beauty college killings that claimed five lives. Superior Court Judge Laurince T. Wren delivered the sentence in Phoenix noting the harsh motive of publicity. Defense plans an appeal.
The Vatican medical bulletin reports Pope Paul VI’s temperature rose above 100 degrees overnight with mild fever. breathing, pulse and blood pressure remain normal and prostate surgery six days prior is described as healing. Also noted is Cardinal Leger’s resignation as Montréal archbishop to pursue missionary work with lepers, accepted by the Pope.
Richard Burton declined to act as Sir Winston Churchill in a controversial play due to real life links between Elizabeth Taylor and cast members. The production of Rolf Hochhuths The Soldiers, banned in Britain, is being staged at a private club. Burton said it would be tactless given his wife Elizabeth Taylors godfather Lt Col Victor Cazalet died in the Sikorsky crash that the play hints at.
A home-made firebomb targeted the Berkeley Selective Service Center on Grove and Addison streets. The bottle shattered a plate glass window and burned the floor, causing about 2,200 dollars in damage to the floor, an American flag, and furniture. Fire Chief George Stoughton noted the bottle was kerosene fitted and thrown from the sidewalk or a passing auto, with no witnesses named. The center’s file cabinets remained undamaged and no group claimed responsibility.
In Fort Worth Texas Joel V Turnbow, 45, an unemployed trucker, shot his ex wife Marie Turnbow, 42, four times with a .22 caliber pistol during a quarrel and then killed himself in front of three young children. Nine of the couple’s fourteen children lived with Marie. witnesses included 20 year old Nita Turnbow and two sisters aged 3 and 4. The victims’ family described repeated threats and destructive acts tied to the divorce finalized March 3.
UPI reports Surveyor 6 closing in on a near center lunar landing in Sinus Medii Central Bay with a 50 50 chance of a successful soft touchdown. Controllers at Pasadena monitor terminal descent as retrorockets slow the craft from 6000 mph to 3 mph and vernier engines prepare for final hover and ground contact. The mission aims to inspect the lunar surface and relay data for Apollo planning while testing a television camera and chemical kit in a prime funding site for the program’s lunar patrolling.
A Santa Fe freight train derailed just outside Ballico Merced County California leaving 42 of its 64 cars piled in a four tier pyramid. Crewmen in both engine and caboose escaped without injuries as damage was blamed on falling sheet metal pieces causing the cars to derail and stack.
The White House, short of china due to bigger state banquets, orders a full 216 place setting service for 16 years. Designed by Tiffany and Co. with a wildflower theme at the request of Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson and manufactured by Castletown China Inc. of New York.
WALLINGTON UP L text reports 25 lawmakers from Congress plan to attend the North Atlantic Assembly conference in Brussels November 20 to 25. Of the group 18 are official delegates, five are observers, and two are alternates. Observers pay their own way, but may ride on a government plane. The official House delegation includes Hays Findley Rodino Rivers Chirk Arends Chamberlain Bates and others. The Senate delegation lists Sparks Jackson Bayh Mondale Javits Cooper Minit Hansen and Mondale.
UVALDE Tex Vice President and Mrs Hubert He Trumphrey attended the funeral for former Vice President John Garner. Memorials were held at the High School Auditorium and Loyalde Cemetery. Dolph Briscoe Jr and Wipyire Matthew spoke. Schools closed and flights limited as the ceremony proceeded with prayers and scripture readings.
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