Editorial Five-Year Delay Ends for Long Beach Armed Services YMCA
The Long Beach editorial urges immediate final approval for the Armed Services YMCA project after courts allowed construction. It argues delays benefited opponents and commercial interests, notes past voter support in 1954, and stresses YMCA leasing is the accepted path. It lauds the YMCA’s record and calls the City Council to authorize bids next week.
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Long Beach
Armed Services Ymca
Armed Services
Tideland
A. Curtis Smith
Supreme Court
Gested
Armed Services Ymca Board
Navy
YMCA
Armed Service Ymca
Armed Forces Day Displays At Long Beach Installations
Long Beach area hosts Armed Forces Day weekend through static displays demonstrations and open houses. The event highlights the defense arsenal and military presence shaping the local community, with divers aerial refueling Nike station open houses and naval carrier activity reflecting shared national interest.
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America
Long Beach
Nike
Nuclear bombs for peaceful work only case study
The Atomic Energy Commission invited businessmen to buy nuclear bombs for peaceful use with units priced at $500,000 each. Descriptions showed potential applications like blasting canals and powering plants. A Carlsbad underground test was planned to assess heat retention and feasibility for long term energy use, pending approval.
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San Francisco
UPI
The
Atomic Energy Commission
Alaska
Livermore
Calif
Radition Laboratory
AEC
Charles E. Violet
Livermore Labortory
Carlsbad
Strictly Personal Fine Art Pays Best in the End
Sydney J. Harris argues that true art outlasts commercial hits. He cites Shaw on masterpieces fighting for survival, contrasts lasting works with fleeting Broadway hits, and notes long term value seen in Shakespeare, Homer's Iliad, and Beethoven over time.
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Basil Rathbone
A.a
Kremlin Secrecy in Strauss Testimony Sparks Debate
Washington observers clash over Adm. Lewis L. Strauss cross examination as secretary-designate. Critics ask if he deceived the president and Congress and if executive privilege could block congressional knowledge. Strauss refuses to disclose Dixon-Yates details, prompting fears of a Kremlin-like secrecy standard.
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Washington
Lewis L. Strauss
Hugh Scott
Philadelphia
Thomas Dewey
Strauss
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Senate
Commerce
Kremlin
Admiral Strauss
Lea Clinton Anderson
New Mexico
White House
Truman
Br. Wallace Graham
Dixon-Yates
Teapot Dome
Senate Interstate Commerce Committee
Attorney General
Eisenhower
Wenzell
Dizon-Yates
Adolphe Wenzel
Bankers
Budget Bureau
William Mitchell
Mitchell
Kefauver
Tennessee
Senator O'Mahoney
Wyoming
O'Mahoney
Atomic Energy Commission
Commission
Congress. “and I Say To You, Admiral, and I Say To You, Mr. Mitchell
46th California Federation of Women's Clubs Opens
The 46th annual convention opened at Municipal Auditorium with 2000 members present, led by Ebell club of Long Beach as hostess. Mother Nature gifted Long Beach a large sandbar along Alamitos Bay peninsula, about a mile long and 100 yards wide, from the breakwater northeast to Pico Avenue. The Club California Casa Real property on Ocean Boulevard was sold to Long Beach oilman Thomas A. O’Donnell for 200000 dollars, accepted by the creditor trustee in Los Angeles.
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California Federation of Women's Clubs
Municipal Auditorium
Ebell Club of
Long Beach
Mother Nature
Alamitos Bay Peninsula
Pico Ave
Club California Casa Real
E Ocean Blvd
Thomas A. O'Donnell
Los Angeles
Egghead politics rise as nonprofessionals gain ground
The piece contrasts intellectual eggheads with practical politicians as independents and activist groups surge in influence. It notes Eisenhower era clubs, Democratic reform networks, and nonprofessional organizers claiming wins in Congress, with liberals backing candidates and organizations like the National Committee for an Effective Congress and Democratic Action shaping the political landscape.
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Washington
Americans
Democratic Action
National Committee For
Congress
Afl-Cio
Democratic National
Paul M. Butler
John Sherman Cooper
Kentucky
Hugh Scott
Pennsylvania
Alexander Wiley
Wisconsin
Eisenhower unveils $100 million atom smasher plan
President Eisenhower announces a two mile long atom smasher project costing 100 million dollars. He frames it as a keystone of American security and advances toward a just peace, highlighting science and technology as national priorities.
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New York
Eisenhower
Independent newspaper masthead fragment shows publishers and editors
A corrupted OCR block lists Herman Ridder publisher Danal Ridser co publisher Mareld name variants, executive editors, page editor, and advertising representatives. It also mentions Ridder Jenna Inc offices in New York and Los Angeles with address fragments and states Independent are maintained at the end.
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Herman MB. Ridder
Danal H. Ridser
Publiaher
Mareld “2 Mines
Agrt
Sarciet C. Carsrom
Larry Cohime Jr
Bus
LA Collins Br
Toriad Cohemnist
Maxcum Lowy
Estar
Miles E. Snea
Anaging
Carter Harry Furtea
Joriet
National Advertising Representatives
Ridder Jenna, Inc
Etic
New York
Fifty Avenue
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