Action Line answers reader questions from Long Beach
A compilation of reader queries covers topics from horseshoe luck to teen driver liability and ACLU basics. It details how to shed financial responsibility for a minor’s license, how the ACLU operates, tracing military discharge papers, and refunds from Glen-Mo Division with BBB and postal-inspector guidance.
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Long Beach
Calif
Army
Action Line
A.K.M
National Personnel Record Center
St. Louis
Civil Service Commission
Washington, D.C
Record Center
Glen-Mo
Kansas City
M.E
len-Mo Mivision
Better Business Bureau
Kauffman Advertising Co
Better Business
U.S. Post Office
Navy Frigate Joins Minesweepers To Aid Ill Sailor
A San Diego based Navy frigate Jouett rushed to meet the Long Beach minesweeper Acme about 1,000 miles at sea to provide medical aid to a stricken crewman. A medical team from Balboa Hospital and a helicopter squadron sped to the Jouett to decide if the patient can be moved ashore or treated aboard.
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Pacific
San Diego
Navy
Jouett
ACME
Vietnam
Balboa Naval Hospital
Imperial Beach Naval Air Station
Touett
500 Newark Firemen and Police Sick Call
Newark officers and firefighters staged a sick call strike crippling city services. A Patrolmen's Benevolent Association spokesman reported 9 percent of day-shift officers out sick with various ailments while only a fraction of patrol cars and motorcycles remained in service. Nearly 300 firemen also called in sick to press for higher salaries amid City Hall talks of possible emergency curfew.
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Newark
New Jersey
Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association
Hong Kong
Anthony Imperiale
Hugh J. Addonizio
Citi
Queen Elizabeth sails to Florida on final voyage
The Queen Elizabeth departed British waters for Florida with a skeleton crew as 500 Britons gathered to bid farewell. The 83,000-ton liner ends a 28-year Atlantic career and will become a floating entertainment and convention center at Port Everglades. Commodore Geoffrey Marr called it a sad occasion as a British crew takes the ship to set up a touch of England in Florida.
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ACLU
A.L
M.S
Lakewood
The
American Civil Liberties Union
Roger Baldwin
Jane Addams
Clarence Darrow
Helen Keller
Msgr
John Ryan
Gerald L. K. Smith
Ed Cray
Southern California
Los Angeles
State Supreme Court
Cray
A.L. Wirin
Fifth St
Calif
Port Everglades
Fla
AP Wireahoto
Southampton
Eng
Florida
Tazewell
Cunard
Atlantic
Beverly Hills Party Hatched by Multimillionaire
A wealthy host plans a lavish Beverly Hills gathering for hundreds of elite guests inspired by an Oriental Viceroy style. The event, details pinned to page references for further features, spans cultural and social notes across the edition.
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Beverly Hills
North Vietnam accuses US of bombing raids again
North Vietnam charges in Paris that the United States conducted new bombing raids deep in its territory. Viet Cong orders guerrilla and terrorist action against American and South Vietnamese units, beamed from Radio Hanoi through Hong Kong. Saigon reports give no confirmation of north of the DMZ bombings. A Ha Noi spokesman at the Paris talks says U.S. bombings have occurred for the third straight day, calling them acts of war and violating North Vietnam’s sovereignty.
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Paris
North Vietnam
United States
Hong Kong
Viet Cong
Liberation Armed Forces
South Vietnam
Hanoi
Ha Noi
Democratic Republic of North Vietnam
Arrow and Bullet Strike Home Attack in Douglas
Nancy D Williams, 19, a Douglas Aircraft Co employee, woke to an arrow in her pillow at 3 57 am. A slim 20 year old man with brown hair assaulted her, fired a pistol, and fled. Neighbors alerted police. Williams sustained bruises and swelling. She told officers she would move back home.
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Nancy D. Williams
Douglas Aircraft Co
Miss. Williams
Five Dead in Holiday Accidents Near Salton Sea
Five Southland residents died in holiday vehicle crashes during the start of the Thanksgiving weekend. Included were Garden Grove brothers Randy Heinz 14 and Ricky Heinz 12, Santa Ana resident Ronald Brisbin 31, Stanton resident Lary Murphy 25, and 3-year-old Barbara Jimenez of Compton. Brisbin and the Heinz brothers perished when a four wheel drive overturned near the Salton Sea. Brisbin's 10-year-old son Donnie survived. Murphy died after his car struck a utility pole in Anaheim. Barbara Jimenez was hit by a car on Rosecrans Avenue near Mulberry Street in Compton. the driver, Rexford Rogers 50, was not held.
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Brishin
Henng
Salton Sea
Donnie
Murphy
Ball Road
Gilbert Street
Anaheim
Jimenez
Rosecrans Avenue
Mulberry Street
Rexford L. Rogers
E. Oaks St
Compton
Todays Slogan About Money and Happiness
A brief humorous note claims money cannot buy happiness but can buy misery with comfort, presenting a cynical take on wealth and well being in a tongue in cheek line.
Seven bodies recovered from sunken oil tender near Santa Barbara
Divers pulled seven of nine missing crew from the 170-foot Triple Crown after the vessel capsized eight miles off Santa Barbara while hauling an anchor chain from the Blue Water I platform. Victims include William Thomasson of Torrance and Mark Mills of Newport Beach. two others from Ventura. two from Long Beach. Two crewmen remain missing and presumed drowned. Captain George Gaskill, 34, declined to speculate on cause.
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Santa Barbara Channel
Santa Barbara
Long Beach
Lakewood
Jack William McDaniel
William M. Thomasson
Torrance
Mark von Mills
Newport Beach
Alvin Tean Taylor
Frank L. Calloway
Pacific Saturn
Triple Crown
Blue Waterl
George Gaskill
Sunset Beach
Traffic Toll Climbs at Steady Rate During Holiday Weekend
The AP reports Thanksgiving holiday traffic deaths rose steadily as the long weekend nears, with 258 fatalities counted by 2 pm Wednesday and a target to midnight Sunday. A prior non-holiday weekend of equal length logged 530 deaths, and the Thanksgiving weekend a year earlier tallied 685.
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Associated Press
Halfway Ark
Weather Tonight and Saturday SB Area Update
SB area skies will be clear with increasing clouds tonight and Saturday. Patchy fog along the coast early Saturday with highs near 70. Mountains remain mostly clear with highs around 55. Deserts mostly clear with highs 65 and upper valleys 74, lower valleys cooler.
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Lincoln Library of Essential
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Joanne Gangloff
DMV
Vet Quest
Horn
Rush
Western
Southhampton
Elizabeth
Prince
Wales
London
UPI
Scotland Yard
Prince Charles
Prince of Wales
Harold Wilson
Jeane Dixon
George Robeson
Todd Thomey
North Viet
Saigon
Demilitarized Zone
North
South
N, Viet
A-6
Col
Robert Drunkenmiller
Miss Williams
Linden Ave
Priice
Donald J. Terrell
Gary J. Whinery
Garden Grove
Southland
Ronald Byron Brisbin
S. Ross Ave
Santa Ana
Randy Carl Heinz
Fairview Ave
Ricky
Lary John Murphy
Thunderbird Lane
Stanton
Barbara Jimenez
Mulberry St
L.B. Area
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