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Newspaper
Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Sep 16, 1969
Page
1
A reader asks for Cerritos City Council quorum requirements to conduct business and whether the council follows Roberts Rules. The inquiry appears in a letter to Action Line, Box 230, Long Beach, Calif. 90801, with contact times provided.
A Cerritos city clerk official notes quorum rules allow business with abstentions, lettered by Robert's Rules. A Long Beach reader asks about the Main Library in Lincoln Park, answering that it opened June 14 1989 in Sheela Park, survived the 1933 quake with damage, moved books to a temporary site, and was rebuilt and expanded in 1987 1989.
The column lists retailers in Long Beach offering red spring parts for baby furniture and strollers, plus repair services. It also covers Biafran relief fundraising via three religious groups and a joint effort by Church World Service and others, with details on donations. It notes No Boza tablets are not restricted and provides deactivation costs for the battleship New Jersey.
A underground hydrogen weapon test near Panute Mesa Nevada produced a 6.0 Richter reading and carved a 700 foot cavern displacing 10 million tons of rock. The detonation was observed by reporters near Las Vegas and seismographs from Berkeley St Louis and Caltech recorded the event.
Los Angeles teachers overwhelmingly approve a one day strike action as a show of solidarity. The vote signals readiness for a coordinated Thursday march. Local offices prepare to address district concerns and update payment timelines.
In Paris the Viet Cong denounces President Nixons plan to withdraw 36000 U.S. troops as a maneuver to appease world opinion while Hanoi demands full withdrawal. Four Texas wives of missing pilots seek news of their husbands, met by Hanoi officials with no appointment.
Albert B. McLemore, skipper of the US destroyer Evans, is reprimanded after a one man court martial found him guilty of negligence in the June 3 collision with the Australian carrier Melbourne in the South China Sea. Two junior officers also received reprimands as the case concluded.
Edward L Morrison 35 owner of Morrison Construction Co and Donna Peck 32 were found shot to death in Morrison's Los Angeles office Monday night in a murder suicide. A necaliber pistol lay near the bodies and a chest wound killed Peck. Morrison, a wealthy bachelor, was to marry Saturday. Detectives say Peck, a tenant in Morrison’s apartment building, apparently killed Morrison then shot herself. Four shell casings were found. one round fired into Morrison appears reloaded. An alarm company employee found the bodies during a routine check after 9 pm.
TONIGHT AND WEDNESDAY forecast shows MOSTLY fair conditions. AREA expects night and morning low clouds with local fog, highs near 73 and a low around 6. MOUNTAINS will be mostly fair with afternoon clouds and fog along coastal slopes, isolated showers in the San Bernardino range southward. Deserts remain mostly fair with afternoon clouds and a few thundershowers in the south. Highs around 86 to 166.
A fragment notes there was no computer that refused to work until it was promised at least two circuit breaks a day, hinting at routines or constraints in a historical setting. The passage mixes a character named Schugiel with a policy about circuit breaks.
WASHINGTON UPI Dean Burch has been chosen by President Nixon as chairman of the Communications Commission. White House sources said the formal announcement would come later. Kansas broadcaster Robert Wells also named to the FCC, while Chairman Rosel Hyde remains in place until a new term begins. James J. Wadsworth resigns to join the International Telecommunications Satellite Consortium.
President Nixon announced 45,000 more U S troops would be withdrawn from Vietnam by December, bringing total withdrawals to 60,000 by December 15. He urged meaningful peace talks in Paris and stressed the right of South Vietnam to determine its own future. The White House and Pentagon prepared unit lists for the pullout as leaders pursue negotiations with the Communists.
A Turkish student in his early 20s using a toy pistol seized a Turkish Airlines plane with six passengers on a domestic flight from Istanbul. He forced the jet to Sofia, where authorities arrested him after it landed. The aircraft then departed for Turkey with 67 passengers and four crew aboard. Officials promised an official communique later.
President Nixon sent condolences to Long Beach on the death of Sherman Ridder publisher of the Independent Press Telegram. He praised Ridder for independent judgment and public service to Long Beach through his newspapers. Tributes flowed from Governor Reagan and California officials.
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