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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1959
Page
3
The piece mocks Khrushchev’s claims of progress while noting rot in Soviet crops due to broken and unrepaired tractors. It argues government ownership discourages initiative, stable maintenance, and personal investment, leaving vast harvests unreaped while rockets take center stage.
Long Beach and Los Angeles unite to press for landings rights at Los Angeles International for KLM Royal Dutch Airlines. Negotiations with the U S State Department will decide a Los Angeles to Amsterdam service, highlighting regional benefits from local aircraft production and jobs.
The piece notes Democrats wrap up 1959 amid internal strife over policy and race issues, with Nixon and Rockefeller seen as potential 1960 challengers. It highlights rifts between Roosevelt liberals and Southern conservatives, Southern resistance to Kennedy, and looming tensions among Truman Roosevelt Rayburn factions as Eisenhower and Nixon offer new year greetings.
The issue lists independent publisher, co publishers, editors and executives, with Ridder Johns Inc as national advertising rep from New York. Offices at 681 Fifth Avenue and Minneapolis headquarters shown, current ties of The Tribune are maintained at these offices.
In Bangkok Premier Sarit Thanarat and Foreign Minister Thanat Khoman discuss Red China's strategy. Sarit says China will move south, citing Tibet, Southeast Asia moves, and Laos as early targets while stressing Thailand's precarious position, SEATO loyalty, and U.S. support as key to counter pressure.
A reader attacks Dr. Moore for her 376 mile walk and proposed life plans, questioning mental state and motives. The letter questions age, appearance, and publicity stunts, calling her a “psychasthenic” and mocking her goals of living to 100 then another century.
A compact essay tackling how people seek religious comfort and justify flaws. It contrasts righteous posturing with genuine humility, notes parenting effects on sons and daughters, and argues final opinions should be earned, not inherited. It quotes Fox on blunt coaching and discusses capitalism, Marxism, and the Nobel prize as markers of progress or status. It ends by distinguishing psychotherapy as control rather than change.
Long Beach and neighboring Southern California cities moved to adopt a uniform traffic ordinance. City Attorney and Police Chief W H Dewey were authorized to collaborate with the League of Municipalities committee on the project. In other notes a wedding at State Theater featured Helene Korstad and Richard H Dear aboard USS Pennsylvania with Municipal Judge Martin De Vries officiating. A five story Marine Bank building at Ping Ave and Broadway was slated for razing January 2 to clear space for a two story Bank of Italy block. Marine Bank dates to 1914.
United Press International reports Dr. N S Lehrman on a democratic family where the father is president and mother manager. Senator Humphrey outlines a peace program while launching his presidential bid. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr announces a nonviolent movement for racial tolerance and integration across the South.
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