Council OKs Vote on Bonds for Long Beach projects
City council voted to place a proposed 6.7 million bond issue on the November ballot for public improvements under the Jobs for Long Beach plan. Two ballot questions may be needed for street work and Auditorium expansion, with Ocean Boulevard widening and freeway improvements among the proposals.
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Long Beach
Walhfred Jacobson
O'Melveny & Myers
Ocean Blvd
American Ave
Willow St
Municipal Auditorium
Charles R. Doosey
California Entry Chosen for Miss U S A Final
California entrant Donna Kay Brooks named Miss California in Miss U S A pageant selections at Municipal Auditorium as 15 of America’s belles vie for the universe title. Forty three states were represented with 34 international entrants in the semifinal night, drawing applause from about four thousand spectators.
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U.S.A
Donna Kay Brooks
California
Lone
Florida
Georgia
Ilinois
Louisiana
Montana
Nebraska
New York
South Carolina
South Dakota
Tennessee
Texas
Utah
Washington
Holland
Marcia Validus
Alicia Bobrowska
Miss Holland Photogenic as Miss United States Hopeful Chosen
The event featured Erin OBrien performances and Miss Universe Dancers as judges narrow the field. Corine Rottschafer named Miss Holland as most photogenic while Astrid Lindholm Miss Australia is named most popular. Final decisions set for late week with voting tallies and trophies announced.
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Gularey Co Guugues
Erin O'Brien
Long Beach
Corine Rottschafer
Holland
Astrid ‘Tanda
Lindholm
Australia
Lkke
Astrid Lindholm
Miss Lindholm
Independent, Press-Telegram
Miss Rottschafer
Pe Wee Scar Levant Trial Basis With His Wife
A quirky note reports Pe Wee Scar Levant described as a house broken cobra making a trial basis arrangement with his wife. Separate item notes painful rehearsals as a price of beauty for Miss Universe contestants, read Tuesday.
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Scar Levant
Oklahoma primary yields Edmonson and Nigh in pivotal races
Tulsa County Attorney J Howard Edmondson, 82, defeats W P Bill Atkinson, 52, in the Democratic lieutenant governor runoff as George Nigh, 31, beats incumbent Cowboy Pink Williams, 66. In congressional districts, Toby Morris leads in the Sixth, Herbert Wright Jr. bests William Peterson in the First. Other brief items note a pierced pigeon, Las Vegas guards back to work, a tornado injuring Kenneth Beaver, and California prison population rising to 17,591.
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Oklahoma City
Oklahoma
Tulsa
J. Howard Edmondson
W. P. Bill Atkinson
George Nigh
Pink Williams
Edmondson
Atkinson
Nigh
Williams
Toby Morris
Lawton
Victor Wickersham
Mangum
Herbert William Wright Jr
Tulge
William ‘Peterson
Pierced Bird
Soviet veto blocks Middle East peace aid summit plan
The Soviet Union vetoed a Japanese Middle East peace proposal at the United Nations Security Council, adjourning with no time set for a new meeting. Dag Hammarskjold warned of time running out and planned to expand the UN observer group in Lebanon to 200 officers and 1,000 enlisted men to monitor the frontier and bar aid to rebels, in line with peace efforts.
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United Nations
Soviet Union
Security Council
Council
Middle East
Eisenhower
Dag Hammarskjold
United States
Hammar-I
Skjold
U.N
Leba
Nasser
United Arab Republic
More Ships Ordered to Mideast Area
The Navy will add 12 cargo ships from U S commercial lines and 15 tankers to bolster Middle East sealift. The U S Walker troop transport is active, and the Maritime Administration will provide two more cargo vessels. U S combat troops in Lebanon total 8,000 under Marine and paratrooper units, with 300 support troops already in place and 700 more en route.
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Washington
UPS
Navy
U.S
Middle East
U. S
Near East
U.S. Walker
Maritime Administration
Lebanon
Ike Declares U.N. Showdown Possible in Middle East
President Eisenhower angrily assailed Russia over Middle East actions and said the United States would attend a top level United Nations meeting if it is generally desired. He offered either chiefs of government or foreign ministers sessions, rejected Khrushchev’s emergency five power plan, and urged the UN Security Council as the proper forum for any discussion.
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Washington
UPID
Eisenhower
Russia
Middle East
Nikita
Khrushchev
United Nations
Mideast
United States
Britain
France
India
Soviet Union
Security’ Council
U. S
U.N
Council
Soviet Paper Opposes Plan For U.N. Middle East Conference
Izvestia the Soviet government newspaper voiced opposition to a Western suggestion that a summit conference on the Middle East be held within the United Nations Security Council. It argued the United States can count on a mechanical majority in the council.
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London
Today
Middle East
Security Council
U.S.A
Izvestia
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Council Oks
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By Bob Beckman
Thern Belles
Humphrey Owen
Greater
Los Angeles
Pe Wee
UPI
A. C. Kirkland
Kirkland
Outh
Las Vegas
Nev
Atomic Energy Commission
AEC
Independent Guards Assn
Nevada
Newcomerstown
Ohio
Kenneth Beaver
Beaver
Sacramento
Hammarskjold
Ike
Dretary
James C. Hagerty
Brit
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