Council Should Act Now to Save Air Force Base
Editorial urges Long Beach City Council to press the Air Force to retain the Municipal Airport base. It notes public opposition and base supporters, mocks belated action, and calls for direct negotiations with the Air Force before transfer date while criticizing Congress for delaying decisive steps. The piece questions election-year motives and warns time is slipping away.
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Long Beach
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Mhs
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Congress
Washington
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Air Force
Long Beach Voters May Approve Exhibit Hall Funds
Long Beach voters face a May 10 municipal primary on a measure to authorize an additional 775,000 from the Tidelands Oil Fund for an Exhibit Hall at the rear of Municipal Auditorium. Prior votes approved 4,425,000 for the project, and approval would enable prompt action once legal clearance arrives.
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Long Beach
Tideluju Oil Fund
RAY TUCKER Ike Nixon Silent on Negro Access to Private Places
Washington reports sharpened racial issue in American politics ahead of next November's contest amid Negro sitdowns at lunchrooms and President Eisenhower's stance. The piece notes Supreme Court hesitation, Congress debates, and potential federal action on desegregation in private facilities.
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Nixon
Washington
Eisenhower
Supreme Court
Nol
District of Columbia
Labor
Mitchell
Congress
White House
Senator Kennedy
Massachusetts
Marjorie Lawson
Rockwell
Ben-Gurion
Israel
New Hampshire
Iris
Bridges
Central Intelligence
Dominican Republic
Florida
Santo Domingo
Spectre of China A-Bomb May Force Pact at Geneva
Drew Pearson notes that a Chinese hydrogen bomb threat and France's test push push the United States and Soviet Union toward a Geneva pact. He cites Eisenhower era moratorium tensions, Gates defense aims, and State Department fears of a Chinese nuclear breakout. Khrushchev's Paris trip cancellation and De Gaulle's firm control are also linked to the looming crisis.
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Geneva
France
Eisenhower
Khrushchev
Kremlin
Defense Department
Instancce
Defense Gates
Gates
State Department
de Gaulle
Communist Party
Russia
Peiping
Hotel de Ville
Paris
Schrushchev
Bomb bomb scares prompt tougher penalties urged
Washington reports push to stiffen punishment for false bomb scares on planes. Sen. John Marshall Butler proposes raising max penalties to 1000 dollars fine and five years in prison to 5000 dollars and five years. Airlines cite cost and delays from hoaxes, with 200 to 600 incidents cited over years.
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Washington
UPI
Ai Transport Assn
ATA
John Marshall
Butler
R-Md
The Independent Publisher and Staff Directory Update
The Independent lists publisher and staff roles with Harold M. Hines as publisher agent Samuel C. Cameron as Gent manager Larry Colling Jr business manager L.A. Collins Jr editorial columnist Malcolm Eyray executive editor Miles E. Lines managing editor Harry Fullen editorial page editor and Ridder Jahnk national advertising representatives with offices in New York Chicago Minneapolis Los Angeles San Francisco and Washington.
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Herman He
Anlel H. Ridder
Harold M. Hines
Agst
Samuel C. Cameron
Larry Colling Jr
L.A. Collins Jr
Malcolm Eyray
Miles E. Lines
Harry Fullen
National Advertising Representatives
Ridder Jahnk
Tog
New York
Nune
Signal Hill Fire Protection and Mutual Aid Question
A reader from Signal Hill asks if leaving the county fire district leaves residents protected and whether a Mutual Aid Agreement with Long Beach ensures help for fires beyond Signal Hill Fire Department capacity. The editor has addressed prior pieces on fire department arrangements.
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Signit Hill
Long Beach
Signal Hill
George R. Ketchum
E. 23Rd St. Signal Hill
When Do Women’s Rights Become Men’s Wrongs
A satirical critique arguing that the push for women’s rights has created a backlash. The author cites a New Jersey case of a husband jailed for stealing from his wife and questions whether wives also bear fault in domestic finagling. He imagines forming a committee to appeal to the Supreme Court and humorously lists various alleged wife misdeeds.
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Sydney J. Harris
Luther
New Jersey
U.S. Supreme Cou
Capt
Dreyfus
Sacco
Vanzetti
Billy Mitchell
Babylon
Pine Ave traffic plan eyed to create shopper district
The Long Beach planning commission instructed director Werner Rudhti to study one way streets downtown as a potential measure to transform Pine Avenue into a shoppers delight. Pacific Electric announced a May 15 motor coach service replacing the Hals-Hurtle line, serving Willowville to East Long Beach and Lakewood Village Belmont Shore by bus. William Wrigley Jr visited Long Beach, inspecting property and discussing further investments as part of his $20,000,000 California holdings.
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Pine Ave
City Planning Commission
Werner Rudhti
Long Beach
Moto
Halshow
Newport Beach
Willowville
Lakewood Village
Belmont Shore
Pacific Electric
William Wrigley, Jr
California
Quotes on peace, segregation protests, and weather research
Washington urged people to meet face to face to share ideas for peace. NAACP official Wilkins warned protests will increase in the South to end discrimination as decades pass. Admiral De Florez called for greater U.S. funding for weather research to study potential control of atmospheric storms.
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Eisenhower
New York
Luis de Florez
Naval Research
U.S
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