Editorial endorses Gerald Desmond for Long Beach city attorney
The editorial mover behind the Committee for Civic Action urges voters to elect Gerald Desmond, arguing the incumbent lacks leadership and cooperation. It cites past failures, praises Desmond’s record on the city council, and states May 10 primary will decide the race.
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Committee For Civic Action
Long Beach
Harry Buffum
Atty
Gerald Desmond
Desmond
United States
J. Oliver Brison
Matheniah Thomas
Reid
T Farnham
Hull
Flemming vs Ike Over Aged Health Aid Dinged
Washington closed-door clash at the Ways and Means Committee exposed a rift between President Eisenhower and Health Secretary Arthur Flemming on federal aid for aged hospital care. Flemming, pressed by Rep Forand and others, avoided stating a clear program, hinting at a White House voluntary plan aligned with private insurers. The exchange questioned administration versus Flemming positions and highlighted executive privilege.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Arthur Flemming
Ways and Means
Flemming
American Medical Assny
White House
Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare
Aime Forand
Rhode Island
Forand
Fleraming
Green
Congressman Green
Congress
Progress Despite Chessman Fares In 1840 Special Session
Gov Pat Brown's 1840 special session produced two major laws of local note. A master plan for higher education establishes a new board to run state colleges, elevating the state college system. Long Beach, as part of the Los Angeles Basin, will gain from smog central hill anti pollution measures. The Legislature is praised for merit based action amid Chessman controversy.
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Pat Brown
California
Cary Chessman
Tno
Long Beach
State College System
State Board of Education
Los Angeles Basin
Central Hill
Eisenhower backs Nixon as GOP nominee over Rockefeller
President Eisenhower publicly and decisively endorses Nixon for the Republican presidential nomination, discounting a Rockefeller bid. He made the stance after a jumbo jamboree in Washington and in defense of his seven year record, warning against rival efforts to sideline Nixon. Rockefeller’s more expansive agenda and past conflicts with Nixon are noted, including civil rights and housing policy differences.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Nelson A. Rockefelt
Nixon
Tucker
Rockefeller
Stassen
New York
Rockfeller Brothers Fund
Russia
North Dakota
John E. Davis
U.S. Senate
Readers Letter on Front Page Defacement and A-Waste
A reader criticizes defacing Humphrey photo in the April 6 Independent and urges unbiased news, while another letter discusses Judge McCarthy's ban on dumping A-waste. The writer warns about radioactivity risks and notes that England already has monitoring agencies. Samuel and Bess Whitman sign off from Corona Avenue.
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Judge McCarthy
Long Beach
England
Strictly Personal Bogeyman Is Gone
A reflection on the abolition of bogeymen in child psychology. The author notes make-believe friends like Cole Rette and cites historical and literary examples from Attila to Talbot. Modern psychiatry moves away from fear as a parenting tool, aiming for a kinder approach to childhood imagination.
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Attila
Bob
Odin
Corvians
Lunsford
England
Lilith
Adam
Eve
Narses
Gibbon
Richard
Sebastian
Dryden
Shakespeare
Talbot
Tower of London
Samuel Butler
AK We
Tarquin
Bonaparte
Victor Emmanuel
Italy
United States
Remember Meen 2) 18 Years Ago School Expansion
Historical notes recount Mark Twain Elementary on Clark Avenue and Centralia Street adding four hundred boys and evil were taken off half day sessions as ten new classrooms opened. The shift reduced half day pupils to 1,300 from 5,000 in 1943.
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Mark Twain
Clark Ave
Centralia St
4,000 Officials Plan Civil Defense Emergency
Washington Rep Albert Thomas proposes a civil defense plan limiting key government workers to 4,000 to 5,000 for attack readiness. He questions the need for more staff, suggesting trimming the rest. In Columbus Harlan Randolph urges passive resistance by Ne rots to seek equal treatment, quipping about Uncle Tom and his cousins.
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Washington
Albert Thomas
D-Tex
Columbus
Ohio
Harlan Randolph
Independent newspaper staff and office locations
The Independent lists publishers editors and managers including Herman M Aidder Daniel H Aidder Harold M Hines and Miles E Sines. It cites national advertising reps Ridder Johns Inc and notes offices in New York Chicago Detroit Minneapolis Los Angeles San Francisco and Washington with current fires of The Independent maintained at those offices.
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Herman M. Aidder
Daniel H. Aidder
Harold M. Hines
Samet
Fifth Avenue
Chicapo Veneer Wrigley
Detroit
Penobscot
Minneapolis
Fouday
Cos Angeles
St. San Francisco
Wwe
Sitter St
Washington News Bureau Post
BOB Albee
The
Independent
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Thad Machrowicz
Michigan
William Green
Philadelphia
Noah Mason
Ilinois
Tom Curtis
Missouri
Ray Tucker
Capitol Hill
Town Meeting
Hubert H. Humphrey
Sife
Josef
Humphrey
Wisconsin
M.S. Osmonson
E. Keynote
Wittner
Kennedy
Samuel and
Bess Whitman
Corona Ave
Bogeyman
By Sydney J. Harris
Barbara
Colerette
Harris
Meen
Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce
Long Beach Harbor Commission
Tom
Templov
Capo
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