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Newspaper
Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Sep 25, 1969
Page
1
The notice offers ACTION LINE service at Box 230 Long Beach California 9080 and 432-3451 weekdays from 3 am. It invites questions of general interest and helpfulness. A reader asks about a commercial sponge pursuit near San Clemente Island for off duty skin diving.
Readers ask about the commercial value of sponges found offshore while Dr. Williams of Scripps cautions. The column also reports on Nat Love aka Deadwood Dick, his 1907 autobiography, and where to read about him. Community inquiries cover blood bank costs, traffic sign maintenance, and locating small magnifying mirrors.
A brief public safety note from J. W. at Long Beach urges drivers to slow down near entrances and watch for children, signaling the risk of children darting into streets near the shout area.
State Treasurer Ivy Priest announced Farmers and Merchants Bank of Long Beach won the right to purchase 34,010,010 in school construction bonds at 5 percent to fund Elizabeth Hudson Schools in West Long Beach. The bank, sole bidder, offered a lower return to aid local education, saying it fulfills a community responsibility. Other 5 percent bids covered 4,145,000 for San Joaquin Capistrano districts and 628,000 for Valley Oaks Ventura County. Construction is projected to finish by Oct. 1 next year, with Hudson’s pupils reassigned to Garfield Elementary due to facilities shortage.
Cloudy start tonight with hazy sunshine Friday morning clearing. Highs 68 to 73 in LB, mountains sunny with highs near 76, deserts sunny with highs in the 80s and lower valleys around 107.
Paris police report Baron David de Rothschild, 28, was taken to see him while a gunman demanded 360000 in ransom for the son. The attackers fled. Baron Guy de Rothschild, father of the captive, paid the money and retrieved the car after a police stop. The gunman was arrested and money returned to Baron Guy.
Police ordered the arrest of a petty felon today in the mystery killing of Dykes Askew Simmons Jr. who escaped a Mesiean prison last April by dressing as a woman. Simmons, 41, slain outside a tavern Wednesday night, was dubbed the American Dreyfus after his Mexican prison term for murder. Detective Brizendine said the suspect is a local man known to Simmons.
Alfred Hernandez, identified by passengers as a 28-year-old Army veteran, hijacked a National Airlines Boeing 727 with a blonde woman and a baby aboard after takeoff from Jacksonville. He ordered the crew toward Cuba, claimed a bomb, and later surrendered allowing the craft to return to the United States. The flight originated in Newark with 72 passengers and seven crew.
A Southern Pacific Welper diesel crew of three died when five units derailed in a funnel on Cuesta Grade near the central California coast. The front section split in two 50 yards from the tunnel end as acetylene torches worked to cut victims from wreckage. Officials withheld names. the crash halted both daylight trains between Los Angeles and San Francisco.
A three wheeled bus hit a mine along the coastal highway near Duc Pho killing 14 aboard and wounding many civilians. Allied reports say civilians bore the brunt of the day’s casualties with at least 20 dead and 15 wounded, while U.S. ground fire downed two observation helicopters and three Americans were wounded.
A fragment reports that Fienaman plans to let his wife govern at home amid concerns she cannot reign if kept from authority. The remark suggests domestic tension and gender role expectations in the household dynamic.
A Long Beach woman Joyce Sandra Miller 27 who begged a girl fiend to come help me was shot to death in her home Wednesday. Police arrested 45 year old longshoreman J Spike Spicer leaving a North Long Beach bar within six hours on suspicion of her slaying. He offered no resistance. Detectives say an affadavit indicated the struggle followed an argument during which Miss Miller threatened him with a pistol. The body was found slumped in a living room sofa at 226 AW Willey Ave shortly after 4:00 p.m.
Classifieds guide indicates topics on teenage drinking titled Between Parent and Teenager. Mentions pages and sections across many columns including Classifieds C-3 16 and Shipping Table C-3. References to individuals Deane Dixon Earl Wilson and Todd Thomey among others.
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