Tax increases loom as public urged to cut services
A Long Beach column argues taxes will rise across city, county, schools and state without reduced services. It cites proposed cuts to municipal bond payments, Eldorado Park development, Leach lot purchases, and joint tax assessment as ways to save about 20 percent. The piece calls on taxpayers to protest and vote on eliminations while noting fiscal pressures from higher costs and a growing population.
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Eldorado Park
San Gabriel River
Leach
Long Beach
Rocket Blast Wounds Three At Artillery Center
An Honest John rocket exploded on a launcher at the artillery center in Ft. Sill Oklahoma on Tuesday injuring three officers. Capt. William J. Driscoll sustained facial cuts and Capt. Elbert Lee Butler Jr received cuts on.
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Ft, Sill
Okla
Center
William J. Driscoll
Elbert Lee Butler Jr
Weather and a rocket incident reported with tides and temps
The bulletin lists daily high and low temperatures from multiple cities including Long Beach and New Orleans, plus tide data with specific feet and times. It also describes a rocket training accident at a Fort Hood related facility where Capt Isaac French and others were involved, noting a magnesium warhead detonation and the quick action by officers to evacuate the area.
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United States Weather Bureau
Hehe
Long Beach
Okla
City
Los Angeles
Omaha
Phoenix
Boston
Pittspurgh
Cleveland
St. Louis
Denver
Paul
Salt Lake
Detroit
Fairbanks
Seattle
Miami
New Orleans
Washington
New York
Chicago
Sunse
Isaac French
Driscoll
Butler
Ft. Hood
Tex
French
Robert Kren
Ft. Sill
Frederick V. Rorapaugh
Hooded Prowler Captured in Hollywood Case
Los Angeles police captured 31 year old Joseph K. Mitchell identified as the hooded prowler terrorizing Hollywood Los Feliz and Beverly Hills. Mitchell wore black hood and clothing, was booked on burglary charges, and claimed a prior 12 year sentence for burglary and rape at San Quentin. He boasted of being a champion marathon runner and said he had never been arrested before while prowling.
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Los Angeles
UPI
Joseph K. Mitchell
Hollywood
Los Feliz
Beverly Hills
Beverly Boone
Mitchell
Kay
Kinnaird
San Quentin
Jeghee
Khrushchev Attacks Yugoslavia in Sofia Speech
Khrushchev told Yugoslavia there is only Soviet style communism and warned Tito about Western aid. He attacked Yugoslav Communists in Sofia to a Bulgarian Communist Party congress, with Radio Moscow broadcasting excerpts in English. Tito offered no immediate reply as he vacationed on Brioni.
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London
Nikita Khrushchev
Yugoslavia
Tito
Communist Party
Sofia
Radio
Moscow
Khrushchev
Soviet Bloc
Adriatic
Brioni
Truman in Italy Japan Shifts Trade Policy
UPI reports Tokyo seeks to shift imports from the United States toward developing nations as part of a new trade and economic cooperation plan for Premier Kishi's government. De Gaulle plans a NATO tour this autumn to bolster France’s alliance, while Corsica resumes air service after a 10 day halt amid political unrest. Harry Truman arrives in Naples aboard the Independence for a Riviera vacation and comments on the French crisis, insisting he is a private citizen and hoping France resolves its differences.
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Japan
Tokyo
UPI
United States
Foreign Office
Nobusuke Kishi
Paris
de Gaulle
NATO
France
Marseilles
Corsica
Pilimlii
Naples
Italy
Harry Truman
Independence
New York
Riviera
Truman
Samuel S. Rosenman
Swiss court denies announcing Ortiz Patino death report
CERNIER Switzerland denies he made any official announcement that Joanne Connelley Ortiz-Patino died from sleeping pill overdose. The 27 year old estranged wife of Jaime Ortiz-Patino died July 2 1957 at her Montmollin villa and death was then certified as due to heart failure.
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Cernier
Switzerland
UPID
New York Society
Joanne Connelley Ortiz-Patino
Ortiz-Patino
Jaime Ortiz-Patina
Montmollin
Bedlam at Central High as 100 youths tied to outside interests
UPI reports in Little Rock court that 100 boys, linked to outside factions, sparked eight months of chaos at Central High after integration on September 25. Principal Powell testified about repeated locker searches, fires in lockers, vents blocked by hot air, and fears shaping school operations.
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Little Rock
UPI
U.S. District Court
Central High School
Central High
School‘ Board
Central
Littlenes
Central Ast
Eisenhower
101St Airborne Division
Powell
Inj
Senate OKs Loan of 43 Navy Ships
UPI reports the Senate approved a bill to authorize lending 43 naval vessels to friendly nations in Europe Asia and Latin America. The measure lets the Belleau Wood carrier remain in France until 1960 and would permit loans of two destroyers to West Germany and Japan.
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UPI
Europe
Asia
Latin America
Senate
House
Belleau Wood
France
Aso
West Germany
Japan
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