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Newspaper
Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Sep 01, 1970
Page
2
A garbled OCR passage recounts a misread profile mentioning a man named Vladimir and a horticulturist Sneyd living between North Carolina and Michigan. It references a 1920s immigrant from eastern Poland, Pennington and Nal Nowhet, and hints at an aging figure named Zezyd in a chaotic context.
Former President Lyndon B. Johnson and Mrs Johnson appear on the guest list for a state dinner honoring President Nixon and Mexican leader Gustavo Diaz Ordaz in Coronado California. Bill Shoemaker, Gen Omar Bradley and other political, social, and military figures attend as 600 guests are invited.
Harald M. Agnew, named today to lead the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, began work at 21 on the nation’s first atomic project. He succeeds Dr Norris Bradbury, who retires after 25 years as director. Agnew, 49, has NM Senate experience in the 1950s and follows the path of Robert Oppenheimer. He joined the Chicago Metallurgical Laboratory in 1942, where Enrico Fermi worked on a sustained nuclear reaction. He says nuclear weapons development serves as a deterrent to war.
New York welcomes 7 Bishop James Edward Walsh who has returned after 22 years in Communist China and 12 behind bars. He tells reporters his heart remains with the Chinese people as he reunites with family at Ossining Maryknoll World Headquarters before a two week layoff. The reunion includes his older brother William C. Walsh and several sisters, with fatherly tears and a restrained greeting from Governor?
Salinas Valley lettuce strike enters ninth day as 5,000 UFWOC workers continue picket lines against 40 major growers who refuse union contracts. Interharvest Co signed with the union, 1,000 workers return to fields, and nationwide grape boycott ends with limited union success.
Seven people were hospitalized after a chlorine tank on an open truck ruptured on Interstate 20 east of Atlanta. Six were treated and released, a policeman J R Smith remained hospitalized in fair condition. Traffic was halted for two hours and an evacuation was considered but not carried out. Fulton DeKalb police and fire units plus the 547th Explosive Ordnance Disposal Team from Ft. McPherson responded. authorities noted one tank on the truck ruptured and the cause is unknown.
The Air Force says two metal chunks found in Kansas near Pratt and in Oklahoma near Beaver likely come from Cosmos 316. One piece weighed 150 pounds and the other 240 pounds, each about the size of a car muffler. They will be analyzed in Dayton and returned to Russia if confirmed. The Cosmos 318 decay was predicted along the path where the pieces were found.
AFL-CIO president George Meany charges the Democratic Party is disintegrating and ceding ground to ex- extremists while Nixon aides court workers. He notes the CIO will run its own congressional strategy, may back Republicans, and believes inflation harms GOP chances. Meany defends Vietnam policy and urges unity with the United Auto Workers and Teamsters.
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