Editorial Choices in City Elections Endorsements
The Daily Review presents endorsements for the April 8 municipal elections after careful review. It supports Hayward Mayor John J Purchio and Jack Maltester in San Leandro, backs Al Nahm and Robert Taylor for new blood, and favors Vernon Blichfeldt for industrial zoning and state college value. Also endorses Bruce Michael, John Stevenson, Mayor Leonard Lucio, and Everett Firebaugh, with further candidate analysis promised before election.
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de San Leandro
al Nahm
Robert Taylor
Harold Strauer
Hayward
Vernon Blichfeldt
Bruce Michael
John Stevenson
Fremont
Leonard Lucio
Everett Firebaugh
Newark
G.L
Black Is Not So Black
A writer argues against doom and calls out factors behind unemployment. They claim about 45 million unemployed with two million switching jobs, and suggest many employables are married women whose husbands work. The piece asserts no breadlines or large government spending are needed, urging restraint.
U S Spending Surges to Record High
Washington reports a burst of federal outlays reaching a record 15 billion dollars weekly with projections of higher spending as stimulus plans loom. Officials urge caution on tax cuts citing revenue shortfalls and a potential 33 billion loss from raising personal exemptions.
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Budget Bureau
Rew
Maurie Stans
Congress
Stans
Anderson
Treasury
Census shifts to Jeffersonville for 1960 processing
The Census Bureau plans major processing centers for the 1960 count with Jeffersonville Indiana as a key site. Other centers are to be chosen, each equipped with high speed computers and staffs over 1500. Beginning next year the bureau will hire about 35 000 enumerators crew leaders and supervisors for business manufacturing and mineral censuses ahead of the population count.
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Census Bureau
Jeffersonville
Ind
Stag party films prompt anonymous radio advice
A reader asks Dear Ann about a husband ordering stag party films and adult pictures. The column suggests reporting to postal authorities and notes such material tests legal lines while advising the wife to seek professional help for marital strain.
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Ann
Landers
U. S
Insects Far Outnumber Other Creatures in Diversity
Insects comprise about 85 percent of living creatures with over a million species likely, far exceeding all other animals. The article cites huge beetles and longhorns, giant walking sticks, the Hercules moth, tiny beetles, and Hymenoptera as dominant groups, plus notes extraordinary speed claims and a fruit fly’s record wingbeat count.
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Australia
C. H. Townsend
Language and Word Power Quiz Answers
The quiz provides corrected forms and definitions. It covers subject verb agreement and pronouns, proper pronuncia tion of guerrilla, misspelled word magnesia, gullible meaning, a word starting with e meaning to surround by stratagem, a candy pricing problem, and trivia about John Gunther Maude Adams bicycle speed and the Hawaiian lei definition.
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Answhe
John Gunther
Maude Adams
Council Warns Against Go For Broke Fiscal Policy
Hayward council blasts a local advocate for a Go For Broke approach, arguing it would erase cash basis, water system, capital improvement and equipment replacement reserves, threaten bond ratings, and hinder future growth and emergency needs. The four funds avoid deficits and fund essential services while paying for planned expansions and upgrades. Councilmen Attaway Birgs Phillips Sheridan defend prudent budgeting and call for responsible fiscal management.
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Hayward
Hetch-Hetch
Strauer
Personal Unknown Friends
SYDNEY J. HARRIS recalls a brief encounter with a famed writer and the warmth of his later letter. The piece argues many fear rejection due to shyness or misread signs, urging readers to assume others like them unless provoked to dislike. It notes egocentricity, people thinking of themselves, not others, and the challenge of real connection.
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Jack Maltester
San Leondro
Robert Allen
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Allen
MR. Tweedy
By Ned Riddle
Joseph Martin
Mass
Jerry
MeManger Syndicate
Ann Landers
Mr. N
Mary Lou
Harriet
Strait
Hoor
Eugene Burns
Tually
R.J. Tillyard
Africa
Asia
Europe
Peter Pan
Floyd M, Attaway
F. R. Birgs
Art Phillips Michael D, Sheridan, M.D
Sydney J. Harris
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