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Newspaper
Redlands Daily Facts
Location
Redlands, California, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1966
Page
1
The Soviet Union launched Cosmos 121 into orbit using the Cosmos series craft. Tass News Agency reported the Sputnik satellite carries instruments for continued space research begun with earlier satellites.
A compact five day forecast notes today reaching 89 with 57 overnight in Redlands, and a 77 to 53 range last year. It calls for light smog, morning clouds and some drizzle inland, then sun across most areas with coastal clouds moving inland late tonight and Saturday. Five day outlook shows little precipitation, near normal temps, and possible isolated afternoon storms Saturday to Wednesday.
UPI reports American paratroopers of the 1st Brigade 101st Airborne, with support from the 1st Air Cavalry, near Can Tanh in the Central Highlands. By late today they had 565 enemy killed and 20 captured, with kill estimates over 1,000. Brig. Gen. Willard Pearson predicts a kill ratio above 10 to one as Operation Hawthorne continues.
The Alva Cape, laden with naphtha, burned after a collision with Texaco Massachusetts. Coast Guard listed 20 dead, 12 missing, 69 survivors. 41 hospitalized. Fireboats sprayed foam to prevent a reflash as searchers, including NYFD, comb the Kill Van Kull.
In Aguavay Argentina teachers at the Mariano Moreno Commercial School walk out demanding accumulated back wages. They say they have not been paid for almost three years, signaling frustration but restrained action from staff.
Eugene Cernan described his two hour spacewalk as pretty fantastic yet lonely due to a fogged visor. He and Thomas Stafford aborted a Buck Rogers type maneuver test after needing extra effort and a Major experiment was left unsettled. Space agency officials praised the mission as superior with flawless liftoff and pinpoint landing, though the crew reported the ATDA satellite docking issue, likening the malfunction to an angry alligator.
Communist China premier Chou En-lai opened eight day talks with Romanian leaders in Bucharest. Romanian officials led by Nicolai Ceasescu discussed Indo Chinese relations and independence from Moscow. China backed Romania in pursuing independent development and possible changes within the Warsaw Pact.
The article notes France plans to withdraw Nike missiles with warheads from West Germany by October, addressing a NATO era issue. Under the two-key system an American and French officer must unlock warheads. Washington will not permit French use after France exits NATO July 1. Warheads stored near Stetten and Friedrichshafen.
In Saigon a 19 year old girl Tuyet Day Tri set fire to herself at a pagoda to protest government support for Ky and U S policy. A Buddhist boy swallowed poison as part of the protest. Riots and police action followed with tear gas and gunfire. The leader Thich Tam Chau condemned violence amid internal Buddhist divisions over Hue protests.
Washington report says Ronald Reagan, California GOP candidate, will seek votes of individuals rather than blocs. He urges unity, criticizes hyphenated Republicans and Americans, notes civil rights laws were sometimes grandstanding, and ties support for Brown to embracing his philosophy.
Southern California Edison Co. announced authorization of an $80 million offering of first and refunding mortgage bonds. President Jack Horton said Series A bonds are to be bid on Aug. 23 with an application to the California Public Utilities Commission for permission to issue and sell the bonds at competitive bidding, to be filed July 18.
A 2400 strong task force gained intermittent control over a brush fire in Los Padres National Forest. About 65 percent of the 113 mile perimeter was contained at daybreak with full containment hoped by Saturday night. Suppression costs reached about 1.5 million dollars while an emergency camp was set up in the southeast with 250 men airlifted in.
Los Angeles City Council kept property taxes level by cutting over 5 million from Mayor Yorty's proposal. The budget strands included axing City Hall annex, Bln problems study, street sweeping, and parks funding, while raising business license tax 25 percent and adding a new tax on high value property sales to net about 12 million dollars.
Tracy Barnes completed the longest leg of his cross country hot air balloon journey, flying 200 miles on a second night over northern Arizona. He landed 20 miles northeast of Grand Canyon and passed over its main section around 3 a.m., aiming for a daylight crossing the canyon Saturday. The 27-year-old South Carolina businessman began from Ocotillo, California, a week earlier, after first landing near the Organ Pipe Cactus Monument.
Prime Minister Harold Wilson and President Lyndon Johnson will meet in Washington during the second half of July for their periodic exchanges on world issues. They plan to discuss NATO deployment changes after France's pullout, fast West relations, and the Far East including Viet Nam and Britain's role east of Suez.
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