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Newspaper
Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Sep 11, 1969
Page
6
Sacramento report says the legislature has dropped plans for a 65 million twin tower Capitol with 24 stories and 2,707 square foot offices. Senate leader Howard Way and Assembly Speaker Robert Monagan reshuffled committees, replacing Randolph Collier as chair.
A World Peace Through Law Conference in Bangkok, with 1,400 lawyers from likeminded nations, urged urgent global action to stop aircraft hijackings. A unanimous three point resolution calls states to deny aid to hijackers, return passengers and crew, and pursue or repatriate hijackers. Charles Rhyne announced a drafting committee to draft a piracy convention.
President Nixon will speak at the 24th session of the United Nations General Assembly on Thursday. White House press secretary Ronald Ziegler said the address may touch on Vietnam and Middle East tensions, with possible private meetings with foreign representatives. Nixon will also attend a Vietnam peace strategy session at the White House and travel to Camp David briefly afterward. The White House announced Scorer Browne, a former Transportation Department official, as a new Civil Aeronautics Board member.
Washington reports the Justice Department filed suit against 22 Mirgin Island gift shops and their trade association alleging price fixing on tourist items. It charges retailers conspired to fix prices limit discounts and cut off supplies for noncompliant stores.
About 95 percent of Folsom's 2400 inmates refused work in a planned strike that closed tomato canning and auto license shops. 120 inmates continued working on essential duties. Pickets targeted California Adult Authority offices in Sacramento.
A railroad tank car carrying ammonia leaked on a Penn Central siding in northeastern Indiana causing the evacuation of about 400 families in a dd block area of the town. The leak was contained within about two hours and evacuees were allowed to return home after the car was moved out of town.
The Navy warns a Senate amendment cutting 377 million from the 1970 military bill could delay a third nuclear carrier Eisenhower, risking a carrier shortfall amid Vietnam era demands. Admirals stress 14 or more carriers are essential, with 16 currently in fleet and ongoing debates on permanent overseas deployment and crew morale.
Washington UPI reports former Vice President Robert H. Humphrey would leave Bethesda Naval Hospital today after a three day stay described as a routine physical examination. An aide said everything is fine.
Fire ripped through Johnny Carson’s seventh floor office in Rockefeller Center, destroying furniture scripts clothes and a portrait of Mrs Carson. NBC workers evacuated video tapes as crews fought the blaze which began around 1 p m no one was hurt Carson said he salvaged only cufflinks as most wardrobe and Emmy award were lost. The cause remained undetermined and the portrait of his wife was the item he most wished to recover.
Senator Walter Mondale charged the Navy clings to an outmoded policy of maintaining 15 aircraft carriers worldwide. He urged halting a half billion dollar nuclear carrier program pending a General Accounting Office review and emphasized the amendment is not anti carrier but seeks a rationale for needed forces in future defense plans.
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