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Newspaper
Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Oct 27, 1970
Page
2
A new federal narcotics act tightens penalties for drug trafficking with five drug schedules led by Schedule One for hard narcotics, expands no knock search authority, shifts to licensing for manufacturers, and reduces marijuana possession to a misdemeanor. It includes education and rehabilitation funding and sets six month implementation.
Passengers evacuated via starboard escape chutes after a ground incident on an L A bound flight. One passenger Mrs Helen Roach could not remove knee length pants. Comedienne Helen Forrest described burning stockings and confusion on the tarmac. Captain Marshall said no announcement was made as the fire was contained in the engine.
Readers discuss whether Long Beach can levy a city utility tax on residents outside the city. A spokesman says county strip residents with Long Beach addresses should not pay the tax, and if charged they should pay under protest and seek legal recourse. The note provides contact details for correction and outlines protest options. Also included is a query and answer about the New Orleans Jazz Club of California in Orange County with meeting details and membership info.
Two recipients Alfven and Leloir share the Nobel Prize in Physics. Alfven, born in Lyon, earned a Swedish professorship and founded magnetohydrodynamics influencing astrophysics. Leloir, born in France, works at the Institute of Biochemical Investigation in Buenos Aires after naturalization as Argentine.
Soviet officials investigated a crash described as caused by a freak gust of wind. An embassy spokesman said weather was cloudy but not bad and that the pilot likely made an error after the wind lifted the aircraft above the clouds. He claimed the pilot did not radio the control tower during landing.
A former Manson follower testified in the Tate-LaBianca trial that Charles Manson ordered him to die and he once starved himself hoping to die. Brooks Poston, 21, recalled joining in 1968, learning Manson spoke of death and claimed followers would die, while Manson described Helter Skelter and race wars as parts of a coming apocalypse.
In a middle class Black neighborhood, two men wearing ski masks armed with shotguns forced their way into a home, herding guests to a basement, stripping them, and rifling for money and valuables while threats of lethal violence were issued. Police arrived as victims were dressing. two gunmen remained at large. The raid left multiple victims assaulted and restrained during the robbery.
A Long Beach student was sentenced to 1 to 5 years in state prison after pleading for leniency. Rodney Lee Crane, aged 17 or 18, was convicted of possessing two homemade bombs and was arrested after boasting of a failed bomb at the Long Beach Selective Service office and plans to bomb police HQ. The court, with input from probation and district attorney, imposed the term despite psychiatric notes suggesting immaturity.
An overloaded truck carrying seasonal farm laborers overturned late Sunday in the Nile delta and plunged into the canal. Police say 19 died and 40 were injured. The disaster occurred near Cairo as rescuers rushed to the scene.
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