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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1967
Page
5
Long Beach editorials and notices from the August 15 1967 B2 page feature updates by Broom publisher Malcolm Epley and Dow Ghi. Editorial commentary reflects California local press tone with community concerns and civic notes.
The essay argues the Hatch Act, since 1939, unduly restricts federal employees including California workers like 250,000 in the state, from political activity even locally. It cites NASA expert Laurence H. Frommhagen urging removal of restraints to reclaim rights and talent. The piece notes historic limits and calls for loosening restrictions.
The Civil Aeronautics Board moves toward a policy that airlines charge passengers for in flight drinks. The rule targets fairness, tying charges to cost and value of service, and would shift drink costs away from nondrinkers toward drinkers, with lower fares reflecting savings.
An Ann Arbor letter criticizes integrationists and federal power while praising local reading programs. The writer cites race tensions, democratic processes, Head Start questions, and urges thrift over loans. He also compliments the Daily Press Telegram for non-sensational crime coverage.
Editor cites a resident from Los Alamitos describing how cockroach infestations in rentals burden families especially single mothers. The writer urges accountability from owners and notes relocation costs may force staying and fighting the issue.
J Edgar Hoover testified to a House subcommittee in 1967 asserting that most riots since summer 1964 began with a minor arrest and a single incident. He warned that communists and other extremists exploited racial tensions and organized agitation to provoke violence and extend unrest.
The FBI director Hoover cites riots in Harlem Watts Cleveland and Chicago as evidence that Communists seek to exploit racial strife to push Marxist goals. He warns of plans for a new People’s Party and notes Stokely Carmichael linked to a secret Negro Marxist group advocating guerrilla tactics.
George Romney offers to withdraw and back Nelson Rockefeller while Rockefeller pledges to help Romney secure the nomination. Romney plans to challenge Nixon in New Hampshire, aiming to leverage barnstorming and major endorsements including Henry Cabot Lodge. poll data show Nixon ahead in New Hampshire.
Drew Pearson notes Romney seeks Ike backing as the Republican nominee and predicts a stronger Romney push in the fall. Separately, merchants harmed by riots press Congress over insurance refusals to pay claims, fueling debates on insurrection clauses, rising premiums, and possible federal underwriting for slum-area coverage.
A reporter’s survey of data from 12 states shows a pattern of clandestine narcotics and liquor selling, dope addiction, glue sniffing, and prostitution in many high schools and even junior high and intermediate schools coast to coast.
From South Boston to Washington state reports tell of teens buying cheap liquor and prostitution to fund drug use. Glue theft, spiked fruit, and pills show widespread access. Officials blame permissive parenting and lack of supervision, urging citizen action to curb juvenile crime and drug use.
Notes on the living language as transcribed during a bus trip with products of the American educational system. Dialogues include questions about origins, purchases, and comprehension as speakers test each other in a travel setting.
An informal diary style chunk mentions Sydney Harris, a query about quitting, a desire to leave, plans to watch the Cubs play the Cardinals, a reference to a Chris reer ale, and a trip by arrowplane to Washington. The tone is casual and muddled with scattered phrases.
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