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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Jul 13, 1961
Page
7
An editorial reflects on General Douglas MacArthur’s birthday lines to FDR and wartime speeches. It notes the praise of valor from foxholes in Bataan and Corregidor, stressing the wartime context that made his words feel accurate and inspiring, though sounding dated today.
The Long Beach Unified School District would be forced to spend 54 percent of its current expense fund on teachers under AB 1786. Failure would risk losing state funds, risking half a million dollars in extra local taxes. The district already budgets 53 percent for teachers and fears disruption of services such as libraries and counseling, plus tighter tax burdens.
The Long Beach International Trade Show starts Friday for three days at Municipal Auditorium. First show, sponsored by the Long Beach Apartment House Association with the Chamber of Commerce Junior Chamber Board of Realtors and International Beauty Congress. Over a hundred booths will feature more than a dozen foreign countries. The event includes entertainment and aims to boost the International City concept, showcase harbor growth, and fuel a larger future trade fair. It could become Long Beach’s biggest annual event and may draw broader participation in coming years.
Washington discusses the aging practice of gerrymandering as state legislatures redraw districts after the 1960 census. California gains eight House seats while New York loses two, with courts wary but poised to rule. Torn by party lines, reforms aim to influence 1962 elections amid Tuskegee and Tennessee cases and North Carolina moves to unseat Rep. Charles R. Jonas.
The article details how House Republicans largely support President Kennedy on proposed higher postal rates, while many Democrats on the House Post Office Committee oppose their own President. It highlights the subsidy to mass magazines like Life Look Time Fortune and Readers Digest, totaling tens of millions annually, financed by taxpayers. It notes individual donors and party alignments, plus ancillary items about Kennedy’s phone habit, a Galbraith propaganda note, and other political anecdotes.
Fragmentary OCR shows publisher Harold Hines assistant Samuel C Cameron and editors Miles Sines Natl Advertising reps Bidder Johns Inc offices listed in New York Chicago Belfait Penobscot Minneanpolis Los Angeles San Francisco and Washington Bureau. May reflect hires and bureaus of The Independent.
Strictly Personal column offers aphorisms on self expectation, humility, and the politics of desire. It contrasts gendered behavior in hat buying, the self fullfilment of prophecy, and the ethics of feeding the poor with conduct advice on brevity and persuasion. The piece notes wealth and change, and argues art lies in shaping wants ahead of satisfaction.
C J Former of 3201 Golden Ave writes a provocative letter arguing against eradicating groups in the name of conservatism. He warns that eliminating different groups leads to enforced sameness, boredom, and social stagnation, urging the value of radical voices.
Mrs Vennice Pierce recalls taking daughter Ruth 21 to Denver jetliner crash. Ruth was among the victims. In New York Ranmare Sobolewski, a Polish sailor injured, fled a Communist ship and said he would rather die than leave his country.
The piece traces sabotage from its French roots in peasant wooden shoes to railroad repair uses. It notes that sabotage originally meant disrupting machinery by throwing in wooden shoes, a meaning later inverted to describe harm rather than fixing tracks. It outlines how the term evolved through labor unrest in France.
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