Editorial endorses freeway pickups as public service
The piece argues that California highway expansion serves public needs, saves lives, and reduces fatalities. It explains the orderly process of planning, hearings, land ownership, and negotiation, noting limited condemnations and GI loan protections, and urges understanding among affected property owners as the freeway system grows toward 1980.
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Division of Highways
Ifornia
San Diego
California
Joint Interim Committee On
Trae
Mundt's 133000 Savings Highlight Virtue Across Senate
The piece notes Sen. Mundt returned 133,072 in unspent office salaries over ten years, arguing the small amount reveals a public virtue. Washington reporters call the fact newsworthy that none of his 13 staff are related to him or his wife and suggest broader implications if other senators mirrored this saving.
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Sen. Mundt
South Datkota
Washington
Treasury
U. S. Senate
Words That Show It's Man's World In Language History
This column notes how language reveals gender bias as many terms once applied to men shifted to women. It cites examples like shrew witch hag and concubine, traces roots to male power and illiteracy among women, and argues language mirrors aristocratic snobbery and male arrogance while reflecting societal structures.
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Lucifer
Piers Ploughman
Chaucer
Foxe
GOP Dixiecrat Coalition Runs House With Iron Discipline
Forty three Republicans in the House align with Southern Democrats in a secret ironclad coalition led by Indiana's Charlie Halleck and Virginia's Howard Smith. They plan regular joint meetings to decide major measures, whip votes, and share counts, while opposing education funding, anti racketeering reform, and several other bills. A separate note covers Mickey Cohen meeting a Texas case involving Candy Barr, a dancer sentenced to 15 years for marijuana possession, and calls for review of the conviction.
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Washington
House of Representatives
Pearson
House
Ike
Cadillac
Charlie Halleck
Indiana
Howard Smith
Virginia
Texas
Gunnata Slusher
Candy Barr
Dallas
Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Lloyd W. Davidson
Candy
Price Daniel
Senate
Candy Bart
Ike's Political Genius Faces Major Rebukes in House
President Eisenhower battles two House rebukes amid party split led by Charles Halleck as the House passes a 1.1 billion Public Works Bill with 350 to 20 vote. The measure funds irrigation, water power, and river projects despite White House opposition and possible Senate veto. House GOP leaders backed the bill in name only, while Democratic majority ensures fate in the Senate. Concurrently, the House Republican Policy Committee backs a measure to curb Supreme Court power over state laws, a move decried by Attorney General Rogers as hazardous.
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Supreme Court
Coalition
Eisenhower
House Appropriations Committee
Charlie Halleck
Otto Passman
Louisiana
Washington
House
Charles Tucker A. Halleck
Indiana
GOP
Hal- Teck
Senate
Army Engineers
White House
House Republican Policy Committee
Howard W. Smith
Virginia
Wiliam P. Rogers
Town Meeting Strauss Case
Reader letters attack Adm. Strauss coverage and fairness in a Republican view. The writer challenges the editorial to reveal alleged actions and scandals linked to Strauss including Oppechenner incident Dixon-Yates affair a nuclear plant in Pennsylvania and his dismissal as AEC chairman.
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Adm
Strauss
Oppechenner
Dixon-Yates
Pennsyle
Mena
AEC
Smog From Los Angeles Flows Into East Riverside Valley
Elmer W. Peck of Riverside City College says San Bernardino Valley receives about half its smog from Los Angeles. Prevailing westerly winds blow pollution east over roughly 200 square miles, with 250000 residents today and projected to reach about 500000 by 1980.
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San Diego
Fallout on thyroid exposed children to higher radiation
Washington UPI reports Dr B Lewis of Caltech said fallout from nuclear tests has given U.S. children thyroid radiation doses one to two times their annual natural exposure. The study notes short lived radioactive iodine targets infants and children, who are more susceptible to radiation induced cancer than adults. Scientists differ on low dose cancer risks, but some urge keeping man made radiation near natural levels.
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Washington
U.S
Lewis
California Agricultural Society Directors Visit for Fair Reports
Long Beach delegates attended a California Agricultural Society meeting at Rancho Los Alamitos with Fred H. Bixby present. Reports covered commercial exhibits and light entertainment at the State Fair. Rehabilitation work on the Hilton hotel was ongoing. A four day strike resumed after a settlement announcement in San Francisco as preparations continued for the Lions convention expected to draw 3,000 delegates and visitors.
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California Agricultural Society
Long Beach
Fred H. Bixby
Rancho Los Alamitos
Hilton Hotel
San Francisco
Quotation highlights on wage controls and Graham Russia trip
Bipartisan warning against wage and price controls plus government allocation powers as a peacetime danger. Thruston Morton argues only in grave national emergency is intervention justified, while Billy Graham declares disapproval of Communism yet affection for Russian people and their moral purity observed in Russia.
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BP United Prise Internet
Philadelphia
Republican National
Thruston B. Morton
Paris
Billy Graham
Russia
Victory for Long Beach in battle over gambling ship interests
Assistant City Attorney George W. Trammell Jr. hailed a federal judge’s ruling denying a temporary injunction against enforcing Long Beach’s city ordinance against gambling ships. Judge Edward Henning refused to block the city from enforcing the ordinance, seen as a win for Long Beach.
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Long Beach
Asst
George W. Trammell Jr
U. S
Edward Henning
Independent newspaper masthead with editor and offices
The text lists staff roles and office locations across cities, detailing publishers, editors, executives, managing editors, and advertising representatives. It notes addresses in New York Fifth Avenue Chicago Wrigley Bidz and San Francisco Sutter Street, among others, and references newsroom bureaus and distribution points.
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Merran H. Fidder
Pollisher Gane H. Risser
Harell M. Hines
Auston
Samuel Cameron
Genk
Larry Ceiven
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