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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1966
Page
11
Daniel H. Ridder of the co publisher firm is noted in Long Beach California on Tuesday December 20 1966. The brief item identifies Ridder as a key figure in the publishing operation and places him within the local business landscape.
A comparison shows Bay Area rapid transit advancing toward partial 1969 operations and a 1971 fully automated system while Southern California faces tougher timelines. The SCRTC has spent 2.6 million on early engineering and met 73 cities to study needs, urging renewed public support and innovative outreach for a nearly 1 billion project.
Excerpts from editor letters discuss Vice Mayor Crow and a Nov. 3 home incident with his wife and three officers. Crow pleaded guilty to disturbing the peace and paid a $10 fine. Writers urge his removal, citing assault on officers and lack of self control, with other comments on politics, policing, and public spending.
State Department arranges foreign junket logistics for Congresswoman Leara Thomas D Texas though her term ends mid trip. Embassy reports show her duties lean toward newspaper work with NHK coordinating much of the Far East stay.
Gov Otto Kerner, cleared by President Johnson, plans to lead a delegation of about a dozen Illinois industrialists from Caterpillar John Deere International Harvester and Moline on a trade mission to Czechoslovakia Poland Yugoslavia and Romania to sell American farm machinery. Export-Import Bank credits would back the effort as part of LBJ policy to ease tensions with the European Communist bloc.
A reflective piece argues that self knowledge emerges through adversity and tough choices between self interest and self sacrifice. It contends living for pleasure can be both harmful and enlightening depending on definition and urges balancing conservatism with useful reform for future growth.
The text argues that clinging to past baggage shapes conduct more than reality, and that expectations distort perception. It warns that mothballed habits like smoking to prove manhood persist, that boredom signals inner resource limits, and that treating people as means erodes identity. It stresses faith, longterm costs of shortterm gains, generational rapport, value of useless knowledge, and questioning inherited ideas as freedom grows.
A column fingered by the author discusses Vietnam Christmas truce lore and the Viet Cong reindeer metaphor while writers doubt the Warren Report. Lyndon Johnson is portrayed as economy minded, identified with a favored political stance.
Paris analysis notes De Gaulle will not accept Britain as European under his terms. He views Britain as non continental, overdependent on the U.S., and tied to Commonwealth trade. Wilson’s bid faces a steadfast veto unless Europe can partner independently with the U.S. and adapt its economy.
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