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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Apr 11, 1967
Page
5
A fragment from the Long Beach, California edition dated April 11, 1967. It appears as a page label for Page B-2 with no readable body text or story content available in the provided snippet.
The Federal Reserve Board acting unanimously increased the money supply while Congress debated economy related topics. The piece highlights the Fed’s independence and its ability to offset government inertia, noting recent rate cuts to cheaper finance for banks and potential effects on borrowers. It contrasts 1965 tightening with current easing amid inflation and deflation risks.
The vice president returns from a seven nation European tour to a mixed reception. He faced hostile demonstrations yet maintained dignity and purpose, listening to leaders and stressing U S commitments in Southeast Asia to reassure European allies amid shifting postwar influence.
A Long Beach editor argues the Nu Pike attracts families and provides safe entertainment, while police dispute claims of vice there. Readers recall WWII-era joyrides and a local family’s ties to the Pike, highlighting its ongoing role in city life.
Editor argues to repeal capital punishment and replace with life imprisonment. Claims killing a murderer makes society guilty of murder and questions human rights, urging mercy and aligning with divine principle. Signed by Julia Krogrtadt Sang Beach.
Sacramento report details the attorney general presenting a frank 110 page smut report to legislators showing how the industry markets sexual aids and nude imagery. Assemblyman E Richard Barnes has mailed samples to 120 lawmakers and press as part of a crusade against obscene material.
Sacramento notes outline clashes over obscenity laws and a Rumford Fair Housing Act repealer tied to Birch Society politics. Senate moves to credit John Birch Society while shifting authorship. Also reporting on Chapel’s bid for vacant district seat and Long Beach links of Gov Reagan aide Lyn Nofziger.
The piece catalogs pejorative labels used in political discourse, contrasting terms for allies and opponents such as friends versus cronies, organization versus machine, silver-tongued versus windbag, firm versus authoritarian, subsidy versus handout, and advisory intervention versus Red domination, highlighting rhetoric across factions.
A dialogue contrasts individualism and un American labels with terms like dogmas propaganda and indoctrination. It questions voting motives leadership versus bossism, and notes a librarian’s role and the six pointed Star of David in a short exchange about political perception and the Library of Congress.
In Washington a profile traces Adam Clayton Powell's ascent through Harlem roots and his father Adam Powell Sr whose autobiography Against the Tide recounts poverty after the Civil War. It links the elder Powell's Baptist church in Harlem to the son’s political career while detailing ancestral hardship in Franklin County Virginia and early family struggles.
Drew Pearson recounts Adam Sr and Jr, spanning a coal town start in West Virginia to New York preaching at Abyssinian and rising to national office. The piece highlights the saltations of race, faith, and politics, contrasting Adams stand with contemporaries while noting looming congressional questions on equal treatment and admission.
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