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Kdst- Ayibd jjar -is xi chartered 4Jie seaplane is caught another-plane to jpuca iwp. grange County Westcliff Drive, Newport Golden West Airiinesop- i mOL-jpCJamagedOie Beaehwho-were-returningaine-directioa- almost an-heard-the-top-cf 4he twlnne pleSatarday. to Avalon after a scuba- landed on top of 'them, boat hit the hull of his nwe atop a four-foot swell. Grumman Goose sea- Mt maled- vm lemnu The- pilot of the plane; diving expedition. deputies said.

plane. Investigators from the plane said" the accident To my knowledge, they Long Beach Airport i OWN SUNDAY Southland Newspaper HE -1 161 Classified No. HE 2-5959 WEATHER Partly cloudy the moralag iaeieaslag afternoon cloudiness and rain in the evening. High It. Complete weather! Page A-2.

VOLUME 19 NO. 22 168 PAGES LONG BEACH, CALIFORNIA, 90801, SUNDAY, JANUARY 1 1, T970 as TklngtJto mime Harbor to Have Facelift $30-Million Job Termed Largest in L.B. History By JACK 0. BALDWIN Marine-Editor 432-5451 UAL Drives on Airstrip JL ACTION LINE is your service, solving your problems, getting your answers, cutting red tapedutd standing up for, your rights. To get action, write ACTION LINE, Box 230, Long Beach, Calif.

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LAGOS, Nigeria UR A reliable -military, source said Saturday that-hard-driving 'Nigerian federal troops were on the point of -evemmniag Uli airsfrip; tflfc-ln-Torontor a spokes secessioaist Biafra's sole man for the Canairelief, had already fallen. Diplomatic sources in Libreville, Gabon, reported that relief workers were streaming in from Vital usual 12 to 16. The aircraft evacuated 100 JCA personnel on its return flight, he added, and they confirmed the fall of Owerri. There was no official confirmation from Nigerias federal government, which has been reticent recently about war news. In Geneva, the Biafran news agency Markpress contrary to widespread' rumors," air The Paris newSaper France Sotr said Saturday that UU was within two days of capture.

Nigerian federal television quoted French papers without-comment A war communique late. Saturday confirmed only news earlier reported: The 1st and 3rd divisions had linked up, splitting up r-vw A $30-million project Odd Shod to expand the Port of Q. You once listed a place whan amputees could Long Beach largest exchange single shoes. I am an amputee in need of this such nnrieriftlring in the rvice, and I would appreciate it if you would repeat vQ.vai- Wfitnr nf tho information. C.R.C., Long Beach.

help people with proMems like years. The exchange will provide yea with the names of others with mating es who weald like to exchange dues with yen. This service is available to two-legged children and adults with different shoe sizes who must buy two pairs of shoes in order to get one pair of the Correct sizes, and to amputees who only have' need for one shoe, but must pay for two. You may register with the exchange by sending your name, address, and shoe sizes along with a $3 registration fee and a self-addressed, stamped envelope to The National Odd Shoe Exchange, 141S Ocean Front Walk, Santa Monica, California, M40L harbor wilt Wednesday. We never -before have undertaken 'a project of this magnitude.

It will be a boost the economy of the entire city," said Robinson A. Reid, president of the Board of Harbor Comp miSsioners. The' project will develop ah estimated 2.8 mil- Canadian arm of the Joint Church Aid program, said operations at UU had broken down completely. He said only, one JCA plane got4i Saturday night, compared with the lion annually in new port revenue," Reid predicts. ---When completed-in-1973 the project will result in the development of the largest facility currently committed to a single tenant of any port in the.

world-: in PART OF the project calls for construction of a container terminal for Sea-Land Services, Iric. The present 18-acre ter-, minal used by the company on Pier will be phased out and replaced by a new terminal more than six times larger. More than 11 million cubic yards of channel bottom win be dredged to (Continued PageA-3, Col. 1 (Continued Page A-12, Col-1) New Slide Threatens 8 Homes New earth slippages hit --the. Pt -Fermin section of San Pedro Saturday evening, damaging two homes and threatening six others: The latest fissure opened only yardiiway from fhd massive crack that dam- -aged destroyed seven expensive homes in The fissure was first noticed Saturday morning, became a definite crack by 3 p.m., and by late evening had grown to a width -of 10 to 15 feet It affects four lota, each with two.

homes one in front, one in tiie rear. ACCORDING to Harbor TiMsioirTolteeSgtrerry Leachman the living room and den of a home at 121) Paseo del Mar cracker and tumbled into the fissure' Saturday evening. A home 1201 Paseo del Mar had its hack room demolished and a third house, at 1207, was evacuated by the Larry Tenall JunUxtrsUcejaiiL. link, with the outside world, and that the Niger-. ia-Biafra civil war appeared to be a Climax perhaps nearing its end.

The source said thevitaL crossroads town of Owerri: jamese-civilians atran dom-was denied; Saturday yKoroaBTinilitary lead -err A. Terry RSnbo, now a Mmtoiife hrmi yi hm came across evidence 'of atrocities In 1966 While heading a rgovernmeht-sponsored research pro- ject-He aald thathe took theinforinatiqn tothe De- foise Departmait to 1967 Another Man's Bag Is there a place in Southern California where I might get a free balloon ride and possibly pilot training? Torrance. A- You can ge up, up and away with George Stokes, head of the International School of -Free Ralla-fag, ---17323 Santa Barbara Fountain Valle Jv-Stokes Skid he has no set rate for short-bop sightseeing' rides, and sometimes gives them free if he has to go up anyway. -He is qualified to trail balloon pitots for a Federal Aviation Administration Ucense, charging $495 for orientation and training. 8tokes, who holds two world rec-ordTfor distance and duration, usually flies his propane gas, hot-air balloons from open country near Perris.

Stokes maintains the largest ton-time balloonist sekool in Southern California, but numerous ether balloonists sometimes give' lessons. For their namei and addresses, call tiie Van Nays efflee of the FAA at 785-8624 or the Santa Monica office at Bl-mL Claim Q.Ihavean insurance policywith-tiie-Nationol Co. of. Valley. Forge, Pa.rwhichisto pay $100 a week if Im hospitalized.

I was in the hospital in September and filed all the necessary forms with the insurance "company, but still have received no benefits. They dont give me any information when I call ft Im still off work and need the Can ACTION LINE help? T.C.H., Lakewood. A ACTION LINE contacted Merida Eck, riiiwf q. aminer for the company, who explained that they are Waiting for information from one ef your doctors. We cant proced'tiie clafin until we get all the necessary medicalr Sheadded ithat shewill write-to-yoiB-jmmedietely-eiplaiMiBg-tiidfiay-iH-pfftg.

-thathc-haa-evldaic4fouth-Kerean-troopsto-Vietnam Gvilians Massacre Giarged but nothing was dons about it from San Diego hovers over- stenv.of Wpless ship. Pumping crews were making headway. According to reports, water was down to floor platei (Story on Page A4.) nTiroO service to UU had not been interrupted. Diplomats in were concerned about the fate of an estimated 500 to 1,000 Europeans and-North Americans who might be trapped hi Biafrm if UU fell. Most are working on relief operations.

Relief officials say most agencies have told their. ''-pwplf'toUlYSycffrut at their, own VIET REDS FIRE SAMs AT B-52s it SAIGON (UPI) Sunday Communist tacticians have moved deadly surface-to-air missiles into "LaosfoTThe fiirat time in warplanes, informed Allied military sources said to day. The tohrcei 'SJLidrthree SAMs', were fired it i is tiny guy like' Connecticut Hampshire? It' of like, Tto New rotates rbugged. which (Continued Taiwan to Get 18 FT04Jets. of Viet Denied meroui ratrocities, all- by SouthKorean mariMs; stroyed the enemy.

But ROK troops did not com- wnutjhassacres1- fng your claim count Vietnam irau-Ycn jli ImmisranilnFormation mgr Los Angeles Fire. Chief Richard Ernest, who' October klides7-This one Timover'inore-qufcklr tiuuTre last but ThbwsTno potehtiaToTbe' coming a landslide." New York Tfanea Service The- gtoed to provide the Chinese Na tionallst govenent with a -squadron-of F-ipf Star-. lerce- WASHINGTON-TTJnited StateQaT to tide. Q. I came countryjwan Jmmigradtlrom-Au Jhrough Ellis Island immigration station in New York harbor.

This Was many years ago, and I will be prorince-TOsJalM. overnmentsponsored-ref; From the first, said ugeejeaeazch project 'isS $, colonel, ervn? ences iteeearcn -to- JSoiith 1 a a have troops serving Yietnamhave Reeearch -to- bombers two weeks fromra key junction along quakqs-centered a sub-refugees told1 Minh- TiL-a merged fault in the Pacific uomDers two weeks ago -caused by twin earth- stressed separating tiie SSKJSLSS-1 ians.inlbebattla.arta After tiie civilians were aecured, ROK.troope de- us Srewon they had left-road used by the Coinmu- "aboutfo. miles north of "hilts' to shiittie wariuppUef-hereTMt not-yetknowtf from NorthTto South. Viet- what triggered the latest (Continued Page A-12, 3) nam. No hits were scored, fiippage.

excess-' stocks," while' Congress wrangles-over proposals to. equip the Tai- 1 i wan. armed forces-with the jet fighter bombero. WHERE T0rFIND lT7: Administration -officials confirmed the de-I cision to turn tiie of, 18 planes over to the -(Continued Page A-12, Col. 1) iAFKSTRANGLEHOLD --Chinese -Nationalist air had -been made; but Jhey said ft- ght take several monthsbefore the planes were actually deliv- Jl.emd.

SKIN CONDITIONTMAY be clue to cancer, Page A-10. JJIHYiSECLJtOBERT mCH. revealslaxon plan for massive program to meet critical Shortage of doctors Page A-ll, They saidthetransfer BRAJN-SECRETED HORMONE will be Jested, on hu- man beings forusegainst spectrum of fils. Page EDITOR'S NOTE-Sl? ri a tiny" place' New Jersey, Lunch; Sam the Plumber, Pussy, 7 Gyp, Coriqr Fat, Freddy, -Fat LoulO, Joe the Yak "and'Ftahkie Dapper. Pure Dtoion 7: let dont stink sd good right how:" 7 'Nor it Whats rotten in the Gar- den St4te is not just tiw bouquet from buniing.

tire-' dumps that fringe, the up-per New-Jersey Tumpike. 7 Rather, a state proud New Jersey! Why not New; 7- isduo-tokii Sdddenf geography the Mob, VT many Jerseyans, lives, -4 York to the- -political 4 history was approved by the De- fense Department shortly: before last Nov. 30. The. Nationalist Chinese T' tvers packaging, knd' the provisions- of the to0 r.P rir Tt- city WILL HONOR heroes rf 19W.

B-I 9 L.B.-LAKEWOOD MARCl OF DIMES poster girl not much more than a dot qn fbe map. Rut Washing- fj ton. once, slept there. Abra- Lincoln oncetum- 'e ntered there And now the Mafia lives there And works, thdre, as FBI phone T' tape released last week in the revelations cdme in Jtranscripts of FBI -i elec Benavides nas norne, wun grace more trouDies in her five years than most bear in a Page BA. Pamela Benavides has borne with grace more troubles thatj7; George Washington; tromc and a uicateto the row In crossed the Delaware second such locked.

Riwt gest the Mob maybe Riyei1 aans at Trenton The system ofcounty v- a tr a cr i of anew thls week tiiat others have-crossedr rivers to New Jersey to do in Its' stealingtijenadonsfifti smallest, state any- By Associated Press conversations are not admissable JjjtYldencft-vwu ahd-iwnU-- School Menus Ship Arrivals rrw7. Sl-T" Beach Combing B1 Bridge nassified Cl-li rr-sw- even notices it is miss- -Astheysayjio8sthft. fairpameFellows-witif in; names such as Piggy '4hy jrick 1 Hudson in Brooklyn: Jo- Page A-T, Col. 1) v. Wjfo greeting grouchy-.

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