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Newspaper

Independent

Location

Long Beach, California, United States of America

Date

Jan 28, 1959

Page

4

Editorial Responsibility Pinpointed

Sam Roberts, subsidence administrator, had warned of weaknesses in the city subsidence control setup. Harbor Board action since his December report reduces the need for his proposed consolidation of subsidence and petroleum divisions, leaving Port Manager Charles L. Vickers as the lead in coordinating efforts and expediting repressuring in the harbor oil field. The city should study long term oil properties management and subsidence control, with a full departmental approach before the next city election.

Sam Roberts Board of Harbor Commissioners Roberts Harbor Board Charter Harbor Commission Charles L. Vickers Vickers Harbor Petroleum Division Long Beach Aren Alamitos Bay Naples Belmont Shore

C of C Membership Drive Promises Growth for Long Beach

The Long Beach Chamber of Commerce launches a 300 Clubs membership drive with Thursday morning meetings at the Lafayette Hotel to recruit business and professional leaders. Promoters cite tourism as a $63 million annual impact, urging investors to join as a key payroll asset and future city prosperity driver.

Lafayette Hotel Long Beach Chamber of Commerge Chamber

Strictly Personal Why Criticism Depresses Us

Sydney J. Harris argues that people are more hurt by criticism than lifted by praise. He notes a universal sense of inadequacy and urges accepting insecurity as a normal part of humanity, warning against false confidence that masks self doubt.

Sydney J. Harris Thal

Ike stakes on West Coast transportation post

Senate committee chair Warren Magnuson signals a careful review of John Allen the ex congressman from California named under secretary of commerce for transportation The move follows Allen’s past ties to a Chin Bok Hing trust fund tax case and a federal probe that faded after political turnover The piece links Allen to broader GOP ties and a 1950s Teamsters welfare fund scandal involving Hoffa Dorfman and Summerfield with mentions of Nixon and Patterson Chenin

Washington Selote Warren Magnuson Senate Interstate Commerce Committee Ike John Allen California Justice Department Peré King of Northern California Ramblers Chin -Bak Pearson Hing Congressan Allen Berkeley Calif Chin Bok Hing James McGranery Herbert Brownell McGranery Republican Congress Allen James Patterson Connecticut Nixon Wnder Patterson Chin Bok Iling Eisenhower Little Cabinet House Couitiee Jimny Hoffa Michigan ‘Teamsters Homer Ferguson Arthur Summerfield Michigan Howevs Wiliam F. McKennaz Teamsters GOP Clave Hoffman Pon Wint Smith Kansas Charlie Malleck Indiana House Lennte Raelsets Committee John McClellan Arkansas Mundt Goldwater Summerfield Talleck Hoffman Holle

Bethlehem Youngstown Drop Merger Ends Historic Plan

Bethlehem Steel Corp and Youngstown Sheet and Tube Co halted their planned merger, the largest in U.S. business history, to avoid further uncertainty and allow individual planning. Officials say an appeal from an injunction could not be resolved by July 1980. the 1934 announcement drew antitrust opposition under the Clayton Act.

New York Tueatay Bethlehem Steel Corp Youngstown Sheet and Tube Go Dustier Department Antitrust Division

Long Beach’s 100000th telephone goes to Mrs Monroy McKenzie

The 100000th telephone installed in Long Beach was awarded to Mrs. Monroy McKenzie of 5733 East Second Street as announced by C. G. Scott Southern District Manager of Associated Telephone Co Long Beach ranked 21st in the nation for telephones in service Also notes rec commission approval a 709 by 600 foot Water Department land lease near Carson Street for baseball use and 18 city teams with more playing elsewhere 30 years ago growing beauty shops from 85 in 1814 to 825 licensed today Long Beach Beauty Shops Association formed with original Hairdressers and Cosmetic Club members as nucleus Jack P Jones president Bertha J Dyke vice president May Louise Frenzel secretary Bessie Buckwalter treasurer.

Long Beach Monroy McKenzie Second St C. G. Scott Associated Telephone Co United States Recreation Commissioners Water Department Carson 'T Lakewood Village Tnday Long Beach Detter Beauty Shops Association Grup Jack P. Jones Bertha J. Dyke B. A. Gellau May Louise Frenzel Bessie Buckwalter Trvas

Soviet News Echoes Cold War Tensions and Press Control

A retranscribed Soviet press broadcast argues that Western coverage fuels the cold war while Soviet media, tightly controlled by the Kremlin, distorts American policy. It cites Mikoyan rebuttal of American journalism, notes censorship on Russian reporters, and mocks Western broadcasts as biased propaganda.

Washington Amasias Mikoyan Russia Moscow Tass Kremlin United States Khrushchev Madia Eisenhower Rostovstev Truman U. S. SR Tere

Nixon cites lessons from the anti-Communist line

United Press International reports Vice President Nixon advising American businessmen that a principled stand against Communists earns respect. The piece also covers Senator Talmadge criticisms of the Supreme Court and Khrushchev’s economic campaign, plus Ridder family and newspaper staff bylines.

United Press International New York Richard M. Nixon Tabor Janders Aris

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