life with charlie manson - part 1
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8/12/2019 Life With Charlie Manson - Part 1
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L O N G B E A C H C A L I F O R N I A W E D N E S D A Y F E B R U A R Y 3,1971 VO L 34-NO. 2 4 H o m e Delivered Daily and S u n d a y $3.50 Per Month
H ow Charlie Gathered H is Young FlockBy M A R Y N E I S W E N D E R
S t a f f Writer
The saga of a CharlesManson who used guitar,song and kind words togather teen-aged girls intoa hippie tribe w as unfoldedin court Tuesday by one ofthe firs t girls who chose to
ride on the winds withCharlie.
Two of Manson's threegirl defendants —Patric iaKrenwinkeU a nd Leslie V anHouten — had parents re -late the good in them, butonly Manson's parole o f f i -cer had spoken about him,and he had little good tosay.
Then, red-haired 22 -year-old Lynette Alice
Fromme, one of the firstmembers o f Manson'sgirl-oriented cult, took t hestand to tell o f giving upto one man, who, has noevil.
Wearing a jail uniformMiss Fromme smiled andblinked as she entered Los
Angeles Superior Court.Sh e has been in jail since
December charged withconspiring to prevent aprosecution witness fromtestifying.
Born and raised in theSanta Monica area, shewas graduated from Re -dondo Beach High Schooland was in her first se-
mester at El Caraino Col-lege in Torrance when she
me t Manson. In b e t w e e n beingkicked out, I resided withmy parents, sh e said,adding quickly, my fatheris an aeronautical engineerand I come from an uppermiddle-class family.
On this particular night
I didn't have too manyfriends, so I hitchhiked to
Venice, I figured that w asa swinging piece to go, butwhen I got there it wasn't.
I was sitting downcrying when a man walkedup and said, 'Your father,kicked you out of thehouse. W e talked and heasked me to com e with
h i m . I laid no because Iwas in school, and he said
he'd like' me to come, b utcouldn't make up my mindfor me, and started towalk away.
No one had ever treat-ed me like that hedidn't push me — so I
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T H RE E MANSON family girls are escortedfrom the las Angeles Hall of Justice Tuesdayafter Lynette (Squeaky) Fromme,; center,
testified in penalty phase of Tate-LaBiancatrial. Others are Catherine (Gypsy) Share,lef t, and Ruth Ann Morehouse.
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HCentsonJfcclo.a|j udget Calls
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8c R egularWASHINGTON (UPI) -
The new U.S. Postal Ser-vice Tuesday announ cedhigher postal rates effec-tive about May 15, includ-in g a new eight-cent stampfor letters and a hefty in -crease for second classmail to cover the chronicdeficit costs of handlingnewspapers and maga-
zines.
A ir mail would rise from10 to 11 cents, post cardsfrom 5 to 6 cents, thirdclass bulk or so-called junk mail from a mini-mum 3.8 to 5 cents perpiece, special deliveryfrom 45 to 60 cents, andregistered mail valued upto 100 from 80 to 95 cents.
Th e increases, sure toarose protests from thepublishing indust ry , wereannounced by assistantPostmaster General JamesW . Hargrove, wh o saidthey would put the postal
System on a sound finan-cial basis for the first timein many years.
HARGROVE said, how -ever, that the new rateswouldn't necessarily im-prove mail service, and heserved notice that furtherincreases might be neces-sary to f i n a n c e pay in-creases no w u n d e r negotia-tion between the new post-al service and employe un-ions.
for Big Welfare CutsBy BOB SCHMIDT
From Ou r State B ureau
S A C R A M E N T O - G o v .Ronald Reagan, bankingon balancing the 1971-72budget with help from ahostile Legislature, ha sproposed a $6.74 billion
spending program.
The budget gives theDemocratic-controlled Leg-islature three options: ac-cept Reagan's proposalsfor mammoth cuts in wel-fare and Medi-Cal, makeits own reductions in thoseprograms and/or elsewherein the state services, or
raise taxes.
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A s the governor prom-ised in his State of theState message, his budget,announced Tuesday, rec-ommended no new or high-er taxes.
AM O NG TH E ITEMSinthe five-volume, 2,800-page
budget certain to sparkcontroversy are:
N o cost-of-Iiving salaryincreases for state em-ployes.
N o appropriation in-crease for the Universityo f California, a.modest $5.4
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Australia, and we would like to know where we can getsome information on living conditions. R.R ., Long B each.
A . Write to the Australian Consul-General, CrockerPlaza, 1 Post St., San Francisco. Calif. 94104, a nd theyw iU send yo u housing, wage and employment informa-tion as well as requi rements for perm anent ent ry intoAustralia. In some cases — Job s k f f l s they are in need of— the Au st ral ian government wi ll provide up to 35 0transportation assistance for each adult planning to set-tle permanently there. The assistance must be appliedf o r b e f o r e leaving for Aust ral ia . To obtain an applica-tion, write to the Congul-Gcneral's immigration division,and ask for visa an d financial assistance in f o r m a t i o n .
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COLLEGES H IT
Governor's budget putsthe state college system ina deep freeze. Page A-5.
million increase for thestate colleges and a de-mand that the systems ac -commodate, respectively, 4pe r cent and 9 per cent e n-rollment hikes by increas-in g faculty teaching loads.
A reduction in welfareservices permitting a sav-ing of more than 60 0 mil-lion in federal, state andlocal funds.
A reduction in Medl-Calservices, which, combinedwith, the caseload de-crease, resulting from pro-posed welfare eligibilitychanges, w o u l d permi t asaving of more than 2 0 0
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IntoUnited Press International
Soviet and Japanesereports said Tuesdaythat an Allied forcewa s pressing an o f f e n -sive across the SouthVietnamese frontier in-to Laos.
Reliable U.S. sourcessaid th e o p e r a t i o ncalled for 25,000 SouthVietnamese an l 9,000American troops, bu tthe U.S. ground troopswere no t crossing th eborder.
The Soviet governmentnewspaper Izvestia said amajor force of South V iet-namese troops under th edirect command of Ameri-can officers ha d invadedLaos in an attempt to seizeits southern provinces.
Defense Secretary Mel-vin R. Laird declared inWashington that no Ameri-can ground troops arebeing used in L aos andnone would be committedto action there. Whi le hedeclined to discuss the de-
tails of the operation, reli-able U.S. sources said thejob of the Americans wasto clear the way hi SouthVietnam for the SouthVietnamese troops to crossthe border.
T h e . Japanese newsagency Kyodo said 5,000South Vietnamese struckinto Laos Monday aboardhelicopters flown by A mer-ican crews.
In Saigon itself therewas a blackout of newsabout the operation. TheU.S. Military Command embargo on news hasbeen in effect since lastFriday.
Washington sources saidthe 9 , 0 0 0 Americans as-signed to the operation
w o u l d be limited to opera-tions within South Vietnam
• b u t at the same time beIndirectly involved in ef-forts to clear out part of aregion extending into Laoswhere intelligence reportsindicated a Communistbuildup.
The U.S. role in the of-fensive wa s reported to in-volve the clearing of theS o u t h Vietnamese par t of
By H O W A R D BENEDICf
SPACE CENTER, Houston U P ) —Apollo 14's astronauts, streaking to-ward the grip of lunar gravity, inspecttheir landing ship Antares today tomake certain it is ready for a trickydescent to the moon's highlands Fri-day.
In early m orning, A lan B. Shepard
Jr. and Edgar D . Mitchell were o wig-gle through a connecting'tunnel intothe lunar vehicle, leaving Stuart A .Roosa in the command ship KittyHawk. The ships are linked nose to
'nose . ' • • ' ' • ' • ' Inside the lander, Shepard and
Mitchell were to check switch settings,communications and other systems be-
fore returning to the command cabin.The moon, which they described
Tuesday as brownish gray, loomedlarger and larger as their home planetshrank in the distance.
Activity quickened as the astronautsneared their target and A pollo 14 swepttoward a so-called twilight zone inwhich the gravitational influences ofearth and moon are about equal.
A t 7:23 a.m. PST today, the moonwill win the gravitational tug of warand file astronauts will be in the graspo f lunar gravity. They pass this invisi-ble point when they ar e 213,540 milesfrom earth and 33 ,443 miles from themoon.
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Hoodlums Carefully Plotted
Rioting, Pitehess D eclaresBy GEORGE L A I N E
From Our L.A. B ureau
Sheriff Peter Pitehess
Tuesday blamed East L osAngeles, Sunday riot oncareful planning and pro-vocation by a small num-ber of Mexican-American hoodlums.
Pitehess told the CountyBoard of Supervisors thef i f t h march by t he ChicanoMoratorium Committeehad produced only a grimharvest-vandalism, arson,burglary, assault anddeath.
He called for better
leadership from the Mexi-can-American communityand said the moratoriumleaders are doing a gravedisservice to the Mexican-American people.
He said moratoriumleaders h ave, by their ac-tions, brought upon tern-,selves a suspicion muchgreater than mere inepti-
tude.Pitehess w as amon g a
lineup of county officialswho detailed the cost ofthe riot for supervisors.
C h i e f Administrative Of-ficer Arthur G. Will saidtaxpayers must pay at
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M A N D E V I L L E , La .( U P I ) — The escape cap-sule f r o m a secret A ir
Force FB111A fighterbomber, the bodies of itspilot a n d n a v i g a t o rstrapped in their seats,w as f o u n d in a dense pineforest about 3 0 miles northof Ne w Orleans Tuesdaynight.
State police and St. Tam-man y Parrish officialssealed off the area wherethe capsule wa s f o u n d . Th eplane disappeared w hile ona test flight Jan. 8. It sflight pattern reportedly
had taken it as far east asMobile, Ala. Th e plane w asequipped with some of the
most sophisticated naviga-t ional equipment available.The speed capabilities ofthe aircraft are still AirForce secrets.
least $277,000 in overtimefor deputies and firemenand for repairs and re-placements for destroyedor damaged county vehi-cles. Cost of the four pre-vious moratoriums in EastLo s Angeles has exceeded 1.4 million, W iU noted.
Pitehess angrily de-nounced th e Chicano Mora-torium Committee, sayingit accomplished nothin gbut destruction.
LA TER in a press con-ference, Pitehess saidthere was no evidence ofpaid agitators in the Sun-day disturbance, whichleft one man dead, 37 in-jured and more than 90 ar-rested.
Instead, Pitehess said,the rioting was causedentirely by a bunch ofhoodlum Chicanos.
He acknowledged no tear
gas was available to depu-ties arriving at the sceneof the initial looting and ofthe only death in the three
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L TO HOST BE UTY P GE NT G INB y D O N B R A C K E N B U R Y
Staff W r i t e r
The International Beauty Congress,• w h i c h for the past three years has beenstaged in Japan, will return to LongBeach in May .
W . Rober t Pierce, president of theIBC when it last wa s held in L ong Beachin 1967, said the ope ning parade will beMay 23 and the pageant itself will beM ay 26 . A t his request, the City Council
voted unanimously Tuesday to co-sponsorthe pageant wi th th e Japan Beauty C o n -
gress. We ask the city for no funds,Pierce emphasized. All budgetary re-quirements will be provided by the Ja-pan Beauty Congress.
Pierce said that for the past threeyears, th e Japan Beauty Congress h as staged the outstanding, the most spec-tacular beauty pageant in the world.
Last year's pageant, he said, w as t he
feature event of Expo '70 world's fairin Osaka. More than 5 , 0 0 0 persons were
in its supporting cast.Pierce said the Japan Beauty Con-gress w o u l d pay all pageant costs, in-
c l u d i n g use o f th e crcr.i.Pierce said he understands the Har-
bor Department may reinstitute its con-sular corps dinner a s on e event while th epageant was under way.
The International Beauty Congresswas first held in L ong Beach in 1960 as a
sequel to the Miss Universe contest, heldhere from 1952 to 1959, w h e n th e sponsor-
ing Catalina Swimsuit Co. moved it toMiami Beach.Katsumi Ishida, president of World
Beauty Congress, Inc., which had stagedthe IBC eliminations in Japan for fiveyears, asked Long Beach councilmen forpermission to hold the 196t pageant inTokyo. Long Beach retained title to theIB C and was carried in publicity releasesas co-sponsor.
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