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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1968
Page
9
Letters cite violence in TV Westerns and Kennedy case debates as inspiration for action. Citizens praise police, commend acts of kindness by strangers, and media figures like Mac Epley on KNAC. The mix shows local opinion on crime, race, and civic duty.
Long Beach city officials will propose adding a section of the Alamitos Freeway to the state freeway system from the Pacific Coast Freeway to Artesia. The city would keep the beach segment under its control and cites a projected 90 000 vehicles per day at Shoreline Drive Ocean Boulevard as a key demand driver.
Mansell supports continuing the freeway at least to the Artesia Freeway due to heavy traffic between the Long Beach and San Gabriel freeways. Lakewood Boulevard cannot handle peak loads even with improvements and a signal system. The project would provide new outlets to northern and eastern communities of Long Beach.
The Watts writer Budd Schulberg opened his seventh Douglass House Center at 1021 Lime Ave Long Beach as part of a multicultural poetry event. He urged nurturing untapped talent in ghettos and slums while outlining plans for open readings and future programs. Lance Jeffries, local coordinator, announced weekly sessions for poets and Sundays for writers with library support and appeals for donations.
Five climbers from Los Angeles area plan to tackle Mt Huascaran Peru's highest peak. They depart July 2 to Lima and then Hu aras. The team includes Robert Van Allen and Dick Sykes along with Leon Pimple Dick Jali and Wally Henry. They expect a 13 day climb of about 12 hours daily using 65 pound packs. Crew will recruit two Peruvian porters and publish a detailed account after the expedition.
Long Beach Transit Employes plan an Old Fashioned Fourth of July Picnic at Bixby Park to benefit St. Marys Hospital Heart Clinic. Ticket sales began downtown on Thursday and continue next Thursday and Friday with Ralph Martins Southern California Banjo Band, Three Relations, a beauty contest, square dancing and sack races featured.
A reminder lists a 7 p.m. parent seminar at the Community Service Center on Olive Avenue. The session titled The Educational System and How It Works is sponsored by the Long Beach Community Improvement League.
A photo essay captures everyday scenes from Huntington Beach to San Pedro. An elderly man at Recreation Park in Long Beach talks with a reporter about isolation and a family distance. Beachgoers in Huntington Beach and San Pedro share simple moments as fog drifts in over the promontory.
Dr Frank Stanton a liberal Long Beach physician keeps a dart board in his Rolling Hills home with a Johnson caricature bull's-eye. He calls LBJ too conservative, backs McCarthy, and denounces the Vietnam War as Nazis’ evil. He faces medical criticism for his radical politics.
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