Room for Improvement in Long Beach Editorial
An editorial reviews the January Long Beach city council Economic Development Committee report criticizing how regulations and inspections hinder business and industrial growth. City Manager Sam Vickers and others defend actions, while the Planning Commission also questions, urging constructive use of valid criticism and improvement.
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EDU
Long Beach
EDC
Sam Vickers
Ing
Planning Commission
Long Beach The International City idea expands rapidly
The Long Beach Progress Edition highlights a year of momentum for the International City concept. Projects include an International Commerce and Exhibit Hall, an International Cultural and Art Museum, international publicity efforts, and a 42 million beach program. Port trade missions, international sports events, a trade fair, film festival, and music festival are planned or underway. The article notes broad acceptance and growing activity across individuals and groups, signaling a move toward a united community focus.
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Evey
Long Beach
Port of
Bob Irvin
Convention Bureau
Congress and Chamber of Commerce
International Amusement Park
International Maritime and Commerce Museum
Town Meeting Responds to Police Chief Mooney on Pedestrian Safety
Readers defend elderly pedestrians amid claims of bias in statements by Police Chief Mooney. A letter highlights crosswalk risks, cites drivers ignoring lines, and urges enforcement and added police presence at Broadway and Pacific. Two residents, David Auld and Martha F. Heller, sign.
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The
Independent
William J. Mooney
Hief Mookey
Chief Mooney
Freee
Broadway
Pacific
Mooney
Raps Kennedy on Missile Gap
An Lakewood letter to Town Meeting questions Kennedy’s missile gap claims and past secrecy. The writer argues secrecy is sometimes needed, criticizing exaggerated promises and public trust in the Kennedy administration.
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Raps Kennedy
Pres. Kennedy
Russia
U.S
the Independent
Kennedy
Candy Bar Money Erected Hotel Not By Hershey Family
Editor quotes a reader disputing a February article about candy bar money funding a hotel. The letter denies Miss Hershey’s relation to the family and recalls a Mississippi River town origin with Ben Hershey. The piece questions the source and mentions lumber money and old industry details.
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Miss Hershey
Ben Hershey
Nxt
Muscatine
Lawa
An Nie
Mississippi River
Hershey Mil Tecan
Independent newspaper masthead with editorial staff names
The page lists Ridder family publishers, editors, and executives with office locations in New York Chicago Minneapolis Los Angeles San Francisco and a Washington bureau. It reads as a corporate masthead reflecting the paper’s leadership and affiliates.
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Herman H. Ridder
Daniel H. Ridder
Harold Hines
Asat
Samuel C. Cameron
Geni
Larry Colling
Dtu
Bug
Lal Goluns Sr
Malcolm Emey
Eator Miles E. Ginea
Harry Fulton Ey
Natl
Repesentatives
Ridder Johns Inc
New Yorks
Ferth Avenué
Chicago
A. Wrigley
DYE Ore Opene
Penonacol
Minneapolis
Foshay
Los Angeles
W, &Tm
San Francisco
Sutter St
Washington
Domiemeans
Aibee
Rusk urges nuclear parity to deter both superpowers
Secretary of State Dean Rusk argues that the United States and the Soviet Union must share nuclear parity to avoid temptations to strike. He warns the U S must keep weapons invulnerable to deter a surprised attack and frames atomic arms as a mutual deterrent rather than a massive one. The suggestion sparks Capitol Hill debate over trust and arms policy.
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Washington
Dean Rusk
United States
Soviet Union
Rusl
Capitol Hill
Oil Boom Transforms Long Beach Area 1924 27
The Virginia Country Club golf course hosted a rest oil well in 1924, with 5400 feet drilled and a large cash bonus. By 1925 over 200 wells operated in Los Cerritos, triggering resident relocations. 1926 saw multiple blowouts near Bixby Road and Pacific Avenue, while May 1926 brought oil at Seal Beach and February 1927 sand at Alamitos Heights, marking Long Beach as a major oil field.
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Virginia Country Club
Oil
Los Cerritos
Bixby Road
Pacific Avenue
Seal Beach
Alamitos Heights
Long Beach
Brooklyn Reaffirms Self Esteem By Laughing At Gotham
A column notes nations cast public blame on distinct locales as homes of fools from Nazareth to Gotham. It cites Phrygia Abdera Boeotia Swabia Charenton and ends with Brooklyn as a marker that Americans use to bolster national pride by deriding a rival city.
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Brooklyn
Phrygia
Asia Minor
Abdera
Boeotia
Harris Nazareth
Nazareth
Jesus
Gotham
England
John
Swabia
Germany
France
Charenton
America
Brown Settles for Half Loaf in State Reorganization
Sacramento scene notes Governor Brown's plan to create four new major agencies to consolidate ten departments. Senate debate features Senator Collier proposing a transportation department led by the public works director with no $25,000 salary. Brown backs Collier while excluding tax collection, arguing only an administrator and small staff will coordinate existing agencies to cut waste.
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Sacramento
CNS
Edmund G. Brown
Corrections
Health and Welfare
Agriculture and Resources
Brown
Winton
Petris
Randolph Collier
D-Yreka
Transportation Department
Public Works
Collier
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Town Meeting
David Auld
Alamitos Ave
Ahr Ae
Martha F. Heller
Wm, Price
Crew Pearson
Rusk
Margaret Chase Smith
Maine
Air Force
Jimmy Stewart
Pentagon
Saturday Evening Post
Post
Stewart
Senator Smith
Isenhower
Singer Sewing Machine
General Electric
RGA
Acrojet
Canygair
Russell Bufalina
Sylvania
Italy
Senate
James Webb
Kerr-McGee Oi! Co
Oklahoma
Bob Kerr
Kerr-McGee
Senate Space
Arthur Goldberg
James Mitchell
Mitchell
Labor Department
Harlem
Sam
Sarlem
Adam Clayton Powell
FBI
Richard Nixon
Powell
House Labor Committee
Alabama
John Patterson
Charles Meriwether
Meriwether
Patterson
FHL
Reet Ani
By R. Winston Tucker
Sacramento Scene
Henry C. MacArthur
State Board of Equalization
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