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Newspaper
Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Oct 03, 1974
Page
1
MILWAUKEE The wife of evangelist Billy Graham, Ruth Graham, is hospitalized with a broken left heel bone after a fall while visiting her daughter Virginia Tchividjian. Dr Basil Jackson said she has shown satisfactory improvement and may be discharged soon.
Grant Grothen six of Hastings Nebraska got his jacket zipper stuck on a tooth during a school play. It required a dentist to free the zipper. The boy’s father, Neil Grothen, did not know how the snag occurred.
In Oakland a superior court judge ordered Alameda County to pay retroactive child support to Leslie Bacon, daughter of a wealthy Atherton businessman. The ruling denied the county's bid to block payments citing shared living arrangements and accepted that Miss Bacon had not named the child's father. The order includes 1755 dollars retroactive support, 198 pounds in food stamps and Medi-Cal delivery costs. Bacon faced earlier conspiracy and perjury charges in bombings, later dropped.
Henry Kissinger, secretary of state, said he had a hard time placing a collect call from New York to the White House during a late night meeting at the Plaza Hotel with Greek Foreign Minister George Mavros. He joked that if asked to spell his name he would fire them.
Fourteen year old Paul Shu Bert, a Philadelphia Bulletin paper route carrier, saw his bank book credit him with a $9,000,000 deposit after depositing $4. He kept the secret, telling his mother he wanted to keep the bank book and asked no reward.
London judge grants Matthew Williams a divorce on irretrievable breakdown. Williams testifies Elvira left on their wedding day eighteen years ago and has not been heard from since.
Washington action by a House Senate conference committee removes a ban on U S aid to Turkey and Chile while replacing it with language allowing arms aid to Turkey if the president certifies good faith efforts toward a Cyprus settlement. The panel also rejected moves to add 300 million to Israel aid and to slow foreign aid funding.
About 1,700 Van Camp Sea Food Co. employees began voting at 9 a.m. on a tentative labor agreement ending a three week walkout at the Terminal Island plant. Strikers protested relocation plans to San Diego next year and feared job loss. Agreement reportedly includes severance pay and union recognition in San Diego pending a yes vote, with results not expected until late. Picketing continues around 772 Tuna St. plant.
Libya and Mobil Oil announced a $70 million, five year effort to explore Libyan oil with a 35 year framework. The deal splits any discoveries between Mobil and the Libyan government. Libya also urged Arab nations to strike hard against US interests in the region.
Two Swedish authors Eyvind Johnson and Harry Martinson shared the 1974 Nobel Prize for literature. Johnson, 74, cited for his nagrative art and freedom service. Martinson, 70, for poems and works capturing the dewdrop and cosmos. Johnson, a former lumberjack, wrote the Krilon trilogy during World War II. Martinson, an orphan who went to sea, enriched Swedish theatre with poetry and prose.
Carl M Saunders, Pulitzer Prize winning editor of The Jackson Citizen Patriot for 24 years until his 1961 retirement, died Wednesday. He won the 1949 prize for Prayer for Peace advocating a National Day of Prayer.
A group calling itself the New World Liberation Front claimed responsibility for a sudden incident at the Sheraton Palace Hotel in San Francisco, injuring no one. The blast tore walls and flung debris into the lobby as a warning against ITT, with threats of further action unless demands are met.
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