AB 487 Would Restore Large Defense Plant Taxes
Editorial argues California Assembly Bill 487 would reinstate local taxes on government owned but privately possessed personal property used by defense firms. It notes prior court ruling removing about 245 million in taxable value and cites support from cities and counties while urging readers to lobby legislators for passage.
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California
Supreme Court
Los Angeles County
Long Beach
Long Beach Unified
Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee
League of California Cities
California Teachers Assit
Boards of Supervisors
Los Angeles
Sacramento
Town Meeting on Justice and Constitutional Interpretations
An editorial critiques a municipal judge who attacks appellate courts while admitting his own constitutional interpretation. It warns against abridging rights for expediency, condemns informers, and laments prejudice shaping laws. The piece argues crime differs from sin and urges judiciary readers to honor the Constitution.
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Bert Resnik
Nepotism Protest Letter to Congress by Los Alamitos Resident
A Los Alamitos resident, Mrs. Dougherty, urges public action against nepotism in federal hiring. She advocates competitive civil service for all federal jobs and says she will mail copies to her congressman to prompt action.
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Civil Service
Dougherty
Los Alamitos
Strictly Personal on Proximity and Conflict in Jet Age
A critique of aviation promises arguing faster travel deepens not bonds but discord. The author warns that physical closeness does not ensure harmony, urging spiritual understanding to prevent wars. Modern tech enables killing from afar, raising questions of why we pursue rapid travel at all.
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America
Saul
Navy Memo Sparks Fear of ICBM Gap with Russia
Washington report outlines a secret Navy memo arguing the U.S. will fall behind the USSR in intercontinental ballistic missiles by 1961 to 1963. It cites an estimated 5,000 Soviet ICBMs in 1963, warns of a dangerous deterrent gap, and notes hidden Polaris plans as a mobile sea-based response.
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Washington
Navy
Capitol Hill
Army
Gol
John C. Nickerson Jr
Nickerson
Eisenhower
United States
Russia
U. S
U.S.S.R
John Coyle
Thomas Phipps
Coyle
Phipps
Ussr
Harbor changes predicted by Navy engineers plans sinkage by 1963
Navy engineers report harbor will gradually slide and sink with a minimum 14 foot drop by 1963 per Harbor Commission. The Long Beach area recalls 20 years since initial plans for an All States Society formed at a Junior Chamber of Commerce dinner, with a March 29 organizational meeting slated. Contemporaneously Long Beach officials urge passage of a state bill to bar gambling ships along the California coast as Johanna Smith and Montfalcone anchor offshore.
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Navy
Harbor Commission
Junior Chamber of Commerce
Long Beach
Frank F. Merriam
California
Johanna Smith
Montfalcone
Inflation Forges Chain of Trouble
Washington leaders confront the loss of control over money and credit fueling inflation. Treasury and the Federal Reserve study the causes, while back door spending and debt projections threaten a $72.5 billion need next year and a possible $300 billion national mortgage.
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Washington
World Leaders Cite Crises and Hopes in Quotes
United States senator Javits urges a one year extension of unemployment aid with a call for a concrete floor under distress. Chancellor Adenauer expects a summit with US France the UK and USSR to last months. Guinea premier Touré promotes an independent United States of Africa. Mansfield calls for presidential leadership in the Berlin crisis.
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Onal Washington
Jacob K. Javits
R-Ny
Hannover
Germany
Konrad Adenauer
United States
France
England
Soviet Union
Conakry
Guinea
Sekou Toure
Republic of Guinea
United States of Africa
Washington
Senate
Mike Mansfield
Berlin
Independent derman Ridder publishers staff listing
Current files of the Independent are maintained at offices including Ridder Johns in New York Chicago Detroit Minneapolis Los Angeles San Francisco Washington and other locations. The listing names publishers editors and advertising representatives with department roles and office addresses.
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New York
Fifth Avenue
Chicago
Wrigity
Detroit
Penabacet Biro
Minngapake
Fenday
Los Angeles
Weath
San Francisco
Gutter St
Washington
Newa Area
Cen
Cmsie
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Time Magazine
Bolivia
I. Lee Landerman
la Paz
Bethesda
Naval Hospital
Lunderman
Time
Christian Herter
Henry Luce
Landerman
Mountain Republic
Doug Dillon
Livingston Merchant
Roy Rubottom
Walter Robertson
William Rountree
Nixon-Luce
Rhode Island
Richard Nixon
Clare Boothe Luce
Albert
Poli Dr
Larry, Lonardo
Marie Jamele
Edith Duke
Mathilda West
Christopher del Sesto
Ray Tucker
Tucker
Uncle Sam
Fort Knox
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Federal Reserve Board
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Appropriations Committee
Budget Bureau
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