Long Beach Port Wins Alaskan Oil Channel Promise
Editorial lauds Long Beach harbor commissioners for securing Standard Oil of Ohio as the Alaskan oil conduit. By 1978 1.2 million barrels daily expected through the harbor with Sohia supplying much and the dock project costing about 20 million dollars creating jobs and broader regional economic growth.
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Long Beach Harbor
Standard Oil of
Ohio
Long Beach
California
Sohia
Texas
Midwest
Guns on the Chico State campus spark protest and arming debate
The Chico State campus and city face rising off campus violence. Chancellor Dumke orders arming of campus police as students protest, arguing for safety while urging guns off streets and campuses.
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Chico State University
State University and College System
Chico State
California
Glenn S. Dumke
Tung nuts and federal pork barrels in a hurricane battered tale
A Knight News Service columnist traces a 1975 USDA news release on tung nut crop support despite no local harvest. He calls a Mississippi grower a lone exception, explains Congress required annual announcements, and notes past hurricanes and freezes wiped out most tung orchards while Russians buy tung oil abroad.
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Mississippi
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Commodity Credit Corporation
Agriculture Department
Feist
Pausen
Congress
Perspective on Watergate era press coverage and figures
The piece argues the press largely reported Watergate while courts and Congress led inquiries. It contrasts Nixon with Kennedy Johnson, noting illegal acts by others and a biased press, and laments the era’s historical memory favoring Kennedy and Johnson.
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Woodward
Bernstein
Washington Post
Congress
Merly
Church Committee
Senate
Pike Committee
House
Nixon
Lyndon Johnson
Johnson
Franklin D. Roosevelt
FBI
FDR
Kennedy
Washington
Letters to the Editor on crime and foreign policy tensions
Readers discuss street robberies in Wilmington and Long Beach, urging public action and Realtor involvement in safety. A second letter criticizes Sydney Harris and defends Chiang Kai-shek era China hands, blaming U S officials for misjudgments and arms repurposing.
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IPT
Wilmington
Long Beach
Free
Board of Realtors
L. W. Bodell
Syd
E. J. Hahn
China
U.S. Foreign Service
Far East
State Department
Washington
Chiang Kai-shek
Chiang
Stephen McClain SR
Buena Park
Senator Soaper Appoints Supreme Court Justice
The piece notes the gravity of choosing a Supreme Court justice as a presidential duty and points to Washingtonians’ view of their city as a gossip hub while musing on the notion of gossip and knowledge in relation to the process.
Christmas gifts for Harbor View House in San Pedro
A San Pedro resident describes years of giving gifts to Harbor View House residents. Now retired, the writer invites locals to donate clothes or usable items and offers free pickup at 832-3514, emphasizing no payment or return expected.
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Harbor View
San Pedro
Pet rock craze invites readers to Abalone Cove
The gift this year is a pet rock with a carry case and care booklet. If readers must have one, they can go to Abalone Cove. The piece notes billions of homeless strays and argues they aren’t $4 apiece.
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Abalone Cove
M. J. Hantschel
Long Beach
October influenza campaign thanks city paper for coverage
In Long Beach during a three day flu shot drive 72 percent learned of the clinics from the Independent Press Telegram Radio accounted for 1 percent television 2 percent posters 4 percent flyers 3.5 percent church 2 percent park 5 percent friends and relatives 8 percent and other 7 percent Ben Zinser's articles helped immunize 8557 people and the program has distributed 15000 doses to date Louis E Mahoney M D City Health Officer Beach
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Long Beach
Independent
Press-Telegram
Park
Ben Zinser
Louis E. Mahoney
M.D. Cioty
Remembering Dr Mulford A Playful Doctor Lost to Malpractice Insurance
A reader writes about Dr Mulford, the only physician they didn’t mind visiting for injuries from youth sports and motorcycle stunts. The letter laments his death caused by malpractice insurance and offers empathy for his children.
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Dr. Mulford
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