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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1967
Page
6
The reader is shown a masthead listing editorial leadership for a Long Beach California publication dated Tuesday June 20, 1987. Names include publisher editors managers and page editors with roles such as co publisher general manager and editorial columnists.
A study in contrasts emerged from Johnson and Kosygin addresses at the United Nations. Both leaders warned against nuclear war as a danger to all, while Johnson urged broad settlement principles including refugees rights and territorial integrity. Kosygin blamed Israel and Western nations for the Middle East war, arguing future peace requires Arab concessions.
The June issue of Scientific American recognizes Long Beach achievement in arresting land subsidence. Stanford earth scientists Sullivan S. Marden Jr. and Stanley N. Davis recount the repressuring project history and its success. They note that unitization negotiations, while political, were essential to progress, enabling a single ownership approach and shared oil-field equities. City officials and private oil producers co-operated, resolving conflicts over years to allow scientific work to advance.
A Long Beach editor letters urging citizens to honor wartime dead by flying the Stars and Stripes and questioning Monday holiday shifts. Mrs. Maxine Amor shares patriotic views while others propose longer weekends to reduce risk and costs for businesses.
Sacramento report notes GOP senators blocked a bill to end political patronage in the inheritance tax appraisal system. About 150 appraisers earn up to 60000 dollars yearly in estate-related political jobs, funded by widows and orphans. Governors Reagan and Controller Flournoy had called for reform, but lacked legislative backing. Gen Joseph M Kenrick pressed for committee approval, but was shouted down in a voice vote.
Dalwig and fellow Republicans clash with reform advocates over appraiser patronage changes. Flournoy pushes tests for appraisers while Reagan’s administration dampens hope by letting the bill stall. Analysts say real reform hinges on early moves by a new administration and unified GOP pressure. Democrats cite past abuses as warning signs for future attempts.
Washington’s push to aid Egyptian prisoners in the Sinai Desert was stymied by bureaucratic red tape after a Washington Star report. President Johnson weighed a humanitarian impulse against procedural obstacles, with the fate of thirsty captives raised in the discourse.
Drew Pearson recounts how U S efforts to drop water to Egyptian soldiers in the Sinai stalled amid bureaucratic delays at the State Department and Red Cross. Technical details include planes at Wheelus and Rhein Main, jerrycans, and calls for overflight permission, while 50 000 Egyptians reportedly perish in the wastes. The piece also notes a House vote on criminal penalties for desecrating the American flag and cites objections from Emaneus Celler and Julia Don Edwards, Don Conyers.
Washington shows Gov. George Romney failing to spark GOP vigor while Nelson Rockefeller and Charles Percy gain attention among party leaders. Nixon rises, Reagan stirs, and the GOP faces a split with Rockefeller seen as best to beat Johnson, though party habits favor Nixon's hold and Romney's struggle reshapes nomination dynamics.
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