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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Apr 25, 1968
Page
10
Miler E. Sines serves as Executive Editor Sterling Bemis is Managing Editor and L A Golling writes the Legislative Editorial Column. The notice lists the editorial leadership of the publication.
A coalition of 20 million women influenced Congress to approve 86 million dollars over three years for national school lunch programs. The Senate overruled its Agriculture Committee, adopting a House bill, while a women’s survey found fewer than two million of 59 million public school children receive free or subsidized lunches. The group, led by Jean Fairfax, urges universal free meals and targets poverty areas, preschoolers, and day care centers, noting urban ghettos lack cafeterias. Washington will hear more from these determined advocates.
The Supreme Court upheld New York state limits on selling harmful printed material to juveniles, urging California to align its anti-pornography bill with that standard. Justice Brennan’s majority cites youth protection. Justice Marshall notes strong state interest. California should move to remove the block on the Senate bill and pursue state action.
Douglas A Kermode discusses race politics and civil rights history, contrasting 1948 Democratic speech by Hubert Humphrey with long critique of white indifference. He questions leadership amid modern civil rights progress and recalls Istanbul’s Golden Horn harbor as a factual aside.
Washington compares Berlin student riots with US racial unrest noting similar overtones. Both reflect law and order breakdowns leading to government instability and possible revolution tied to Weimar era history after Germany's World War I defeat.
Drew Pearson notes that violence has become a normalized force on both sides of politics from 1920s Germany to modern U S civil rights context. He warns that small groups can drive upheaval, with parallels between leftist extremism in Germany and potential Klan fascism in America if law and order are undermined.
Mrs Ethel Caswell aged retired discusses possible benefits of efficiency at home. Paul Edwards a Downey salesman praises efficiency and notes his Virgo birth in September. Jive’s dishwashing tip triggers a wife’s disagreement but a dishwasher could reduce quarrels. Robert Guyer a machine inspector at 1115 Sixth Street finds the idea of an efficiency expert at home intriguing yet unsure about marriage.
James Farmer, a prominent black activist, notes a tale of a woman who builds status while aiming to have a famous author chronicle her genealogy. The writer starts research and discovers that one grandfather was electrocuted at Sing Sing Prison in New York.
Ralph McGill and Dr King era passages explore the myth of the contented slave and the need to confront truth. The piece argues education reshapes Black self perception as an Afro-American with pride, linking gains to literacy and exposure to Africa’s civilizations.
Governor Nelson Rockefeller’s remarks before the American Society of Newspaper Editors drew criticism as perfunctory and crafted by Emmet Hughes. The notes mimic a one-line antithesis style, echoing Eisenhower era cadence with phrases like not turbulent panic but coherent purpose and the affluent society and the afflicted society.
Literary criticism of presidential candidate Rockefeller notes his strong administrative skill but limited natural eloquence. Editors say he relies on staff to craft decisions and that his speech leans on undergraduate rhetoric, raising questions about judgment and vision.
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