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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1966
Page
7
Public officials in Sweden consider a radical plan to offer free rides on Stockholm's municipal transit to ease traffic jams. The piece notes long-standing subsidies in many cities, including Long Beach's five-cent transit tax that funded public operation, but argues free fares would not curb car use or traffic.
The California Teachers Association seeks legislation to allow limited use of Spanish to supplement English in public schools under controlled conditions. The proposal, approved by the State Board of Education, targets areas with many homes where only Spanish is spoken, aiming to reduce high dropout rates among Mexican American children and improve self support and citizenship prospects.
Readers react to Pettyjohn’s claim that only Vietnam veterans may voice opinions on policy. The debate centers on free expression versus draft law, with call to protest a shop near Tong Reach and criticism of Arthur Hoppe’s column. The letter from Stanford Calls for Action questions police limits on policing alleged predatory sales. Local voices defend dissent as a constitutional right within a broader public discourse.
A college discussion on why marriage feels hard. The narrator notes a man may think he marries one woman but discovers multiple faces: the woman he thought, the woman she thought she was, and more. The piece explores mismatches between expectation and reality in intimate bonds.
Sydney Harris discusses marital strain arising from multiple imagined personas within partners. He argues two idealized selves on each side should be discarded, preserving the real person and the potential who could be. Resentment grows when couples force reality to fit fantasy rather than adjust to it.
A humorous note on a bantam-weight bandsman who outplayed his heavier instrument while predicting live battlefield television. The sergeant jokes about a roomy tank bought with cigarette coupons as media hype. Weekend football attendance hints at growing sports fan base.
Dykes Askew Simmons Jr a Fort Worth crane operator, on a Mexico trip, is linked to a fatal shooting spree near Laredo. A dentist Raul Villagomez and seven others are involved as investigators trace getaway car and false name tourist raid. Hilda died after describing the killer as a tall blonde American in a light blue Chevrolet.
James Kilpatrick details the 1960 murder case in Monterrey. Texas convict Simmons, using aliases, was found guilty in Nuevo Leon where capital punishment is rare. Prosecution relied on circumstantial evidence, while Oregon Senator Wayne Morse pushes for clemency.
A 1960s press investigation details a 1900 percent profit chain from Navy land gear struts sold to private firms and resold to the Navy. Three Californians were convicted but later acquitted by Judge Sweigert. no action against the Navy was noted. The piece also critiques Selective Service, warning of draft dodgers and proposing reforms and a potential universal service debate.
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