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Newspaper
Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Oct 21, 1969
Page
21
Readers can write ACTION LINE Box 230 Long Head Calif 90801 or call 4323451 from 9am to 5pm and 9pm Monday through Friday. Questions chosen for general interest and usefulness are answered to aid rights and daily problems.
A reader asks if low priced gas is really name brands sold cheaply due to avoided advertising. Spokesmen from two major oil firms say cheaper gas is often inferior with lower octane and fewer additives. Independent refineries and small stations sell gas at varying quality and prices, including distress gasoline arriving without buyers.
Summerhill, founded in Leiston Suffolk England nearly four years ago by A. S. Neill, champions student self governance. Since then successor schools have emerged worldwide including The Summerhill Day School at 4074 Vineland Ave North Hollywood directed by Oliver.
Action fine Naskull reports Haskell stating Summerhill rejects adult supremacy and upholds child emotional development over academic focus. Educators encourage reading on the subject, with Neill's Summerhill and Freedom Not License and Summerhill A Loving World by Werb Snitver, available at the Long Beach Library. Further details from the Summerhill Society of California, Los Angeles address.
A reader asks if landlords may rent apartments with unvented heaters. The answer references California Administrative Code section 16838 requiring outdoor venting for gas heaters in residential buildings and advises reporting violations to the city building and safety department or health department with provided contact numbers.
D Fe Long Beach asks about non airline pilot jobs. A R Boone FAA Long Beach office offers briefings on aviation career outlets. The illustrated hook, Career Opportunities in Aviation, is available for further information.
A 50 cent request lists contact points for the National Aerospace Education Council and Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association offering field overviews and airline qualification surveys. It notes Trade-A-Plane in Crossville Tennessee provides extensive job listings with a $1 annual subscription, published three times monthly.
A Pan American Worlds Air jet with 37 aboard was hijacked today from Mexico City and diverted to Cuba. Captain Hudson Gills reported the hijack over Merida Yucatan. The aircraft landed safely in Havana. Flight 541 began at Mexico City International Airport with stops in Merida and Tampa, Florida, then Miami. Nine crew members and 13 passengers were bound for Tampa, Miami, and San Juan, with one infant on board.
A Gulf hurricane named Laurie moves inland along the Mississippi coast as thousands evacuate. The New Orleans Weather Bureau warns of a slow, erratic path with winds near 100 mph and an uncertain landfall area, with Apalachicola, Tampa, and inland towns already affected.
Tonight cloudy with swern in LB area and arily cloudy mountains. Desert regions expect afternoon thunderstorms near the Colorado River with highs from the mid 70s in high deserts to mid 80s in lower deserts.
Czech seaman Jiri Vokrouhlik who jumped ship in San Pedro and fled the Tron Curtain was granted a one year voluntary departure stay by immigration officials. District director George K. Rosenberg waived a hearing and Vokrouhlik left with a sponsor from Sun Valley after spending a night in Long Beach jail.
Soldiers toppled Somalia’s elected leadership in a dawn coup less than a day after President Abdirashid Ali Shermarke’s funeral. The Revolutionary Council sealed the country, closed airports and seaports, ordered business shutdowns, and promised a new, responsible government while guards tightened around ministries and key sites.
In Los Angeles a Superior Court judge blocked the University of California regents from firing Angela Davis for Communist Party membership, calling such action unlawful and dangerous. The regents plan to appeal while Davis remains teaching at UCLA. The ruling drew support and protests from politicians and educators across California.
London police report a bank raid at an East Bud Midland Bank branch where attackers armed with a shotgun and clubs overpowered guards, fatally wounded an elderly man, and escaped with 139200 after seizing cash from a van unloading. The robbers fled in a getaway car.
Tens of thousands of left wing students clashed with police in Tokyo as antiwar protests spread across Japan. Police reported 1,420 arrests in Tokyo, with injuries from Molotov cocktails and incidents at U.S. air bases amid broader demonstrations nationwide.
A brief antique item notes a figurative saying about people living in glass houses. It hints at watchfulness or exposure but provides no concrete events, dates, or identifiable individuals beyond the repeated name Schucel.
Wilkes-Barre Pennsylvania hearing hears district attorney Edmund Dinis testify he ordered an autopsy two days after Mary Jo Kopechne died in the Kennedy Chappaquiddick incident. The father opposes the autopsy and says authorities had their chance.
The notice outlines a classification page layout with sections by color codes and newspaper departments. It lists Geach Combing til Bridge B9 and various pages such as Classified C11 to 15 Comics C10 Crossword C10 Editorial B2 Financial C6 7 Jeane Dixon C1p LAC B3 Obituaries C11 Rabeson B3 Shipping Table B12 Sports C1 in 5 Theaters B2 TV Radio C26 Tides Temperatures B4 Women B4 9 10.
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