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Newspaper
Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Oct 20, 1966
Page
3
President Johnson drew 30 000 cheering Australians in Adelaide as 72 pacifists led by Daniel Shaw staged a Viet Nam protest. 140 ministers also demonstrated. Johnson praised the crowd despite cold weather and apologized for the chilly night while Holt joked about not becoming prime minister. Police estimated 30 000 along route and 16 000 near the airport.
Joe Lukar siewisz, a 44 year old Detroit man with cerebral palsy who sells newspapers on the East Side, had his bicycle stolen last week. A flood of offers followed after his plight was published and the Detroit Variety Club donated a new $74 bike, replacing the stolen one.
Crowds in Wellington greet President Lyndon B. Johnson with cheers and signs such as All the Way With LBJ as his bubble-top car rolls past. The day is a declared holiday with mass adulation and a few Viet Nam protest signs sprinkled among the festivities. Johnson mingles with locals, pausing to accept the warm reception before continuing to engagements with New Zealand leaders.
Pasadena United Press International reports that a NASA Surveyor 12 mission failed to produce new lunar surface pictures after tape data were processed at Caltech's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The brief lunar visit ended without usable video data, leaving scientists unsure if more images exist.
In South Africa Cape Town a court ruled Dimitrio Tsafendas sane ending the murder trial of Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd Tsafendas 48 was ordered committed to jail and likely moved to a mental institution Tsafendas who killed Verwoerd on September 6 was deemed unable to plead to the murder charge the defense had argued he was mentally disordered.
Two brothers Richard and Charles Longs, longtime Memphis residents, enlisted jointly in the Air Force. Both had been students at the University of Mississippi and lived with their family in Memphis before moving to Akron, Ohio. The men joined the service after their family moved, with their air force paths beginning at the local Memphis recruitment center.
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