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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Mar 10, 1975
Page
14
A Los Angeles County official argues against allowing strikes if arbitrators’ pay scales are rejected. He urges California to keep pay setting with elected representatives, warning arbitration and mandatory unions harm citizens and public officials while helping arbitrators and organizers.
State Treasurer Jesse M. Unruh urged California bankers to sign a pledge pledging no discrimination against women. Bankers varied with Herb Rasmussen of Bank of Loleta declining yet most signed, while Rasmussen defended legality and fairness. The piece criticizes the pledge as akin to loyalty oaths and calls for an end to the program.
The piece argues CBS paid H R Haldeman about 25000 for an hour interview, raising fears that paid interviews by newsworthy figures blur lines between information and entertainment. It notes BBC practice, contrasts US policy, and warns such payoffs could commercialize public information and undermine trust.
Readers critique the Sasaki-Walker plan for Long Beach shoreline urging no high rise between Alamitos and Cherry and urging the city to follow expert advice. Letters also defend signing names, critique national identity card proposals, and address Leisure World coverage and resident perspectives.
Washington reports detail an unsuccessful CIA assassination bid against Fidel Castro begun after the Bay of Pigs. John Roselli and CIA contacts planned poison and later rifle and explosives attacks. Despite multiple attempts and a supposed rooftop reach, Castro survived, with later speculation tying Oswald to retaliatory theories.
In the editoral drift the writer recalls Frenchman’s Bayou Ark a company town with a store cotton gin and land owned by the Speck family. The Specks own much of the surrounding property while a railroad station and a Speck family house define the place in the 1930s and 40s. The mother served as the railroad agent.
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