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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
May 16, 1961
Page
2
LAC argues February Labor Department data show 8.632 million government workers, 2.17 million federal and 6.642 million state local, out of 5 million nonagricultural jobs, up 344,000 year over year while private unemployment doubles. He notes high costs, pensions, and expanding bureaucracy threaten future generations and urges local protests against federal growth.
Young people from about 20 Southern California universities and colleges, many from Long Beach, will compete in the seventh Intercollegiate Oratorical Contest finals and state rally of the Southern California Women’s Christian Temperance Union at the First Methodist Church in Los Angeles. The theme is Youth Will Mold America’s Future. Local lead is Harriet C. Maynard of Long Beach WCTU Federation. Mary A. Buckle serves on the prayer committee and Clara Fay oversees bus reservations for a Long Beach charter leaving at 8 am Friday.
Cmdr. Alan B. Shepard Jr. returned to postflight sessions at Langley Field Virginia after his historic May 5 spaceflight. He met with Project Mercury engineers to discuss future flights and reviewed films from the mission with Dr. Robert Voas Jr. The psychologist questioned him about his actions during the flight while officials noted needed checks on Atlas missile equipment before further Mercury flights.
Boston case centers on Bernard Goldfine who admitted wilfully evading $790000 in federal income taxes during his gifting era. He changed from innocent to guilty after a lawyer arranged a possible mental competency finding. Sentencing postponed while a court appointed psychiatrist evaluates him.
In Hamilton Basse’s Holiday guide, Part II explores surprising places near the Arctic Circle. It notes Finland’s famed vast bookshop, Norwegian resistance to Nazi surrender, and segments on Riviera travel, New York Cloisters, Mexico City, Cornwall, Niagara Falls, and other topics including menus, fashion, angling, and cultural guides.
CAPETOWN The queen's birthday public holiday on the second Monday in July will be renamed family day after South Africa leaves the British Commonwealth and proclaims a republic on May 31.
Independent published daily except Sunday at Sixth and Pine Avenue Low Beach California entered as second class matter March 27 1954 at Long Beach California adjudicated by Superior Court Los Angeles County class postage delivery single copy.
An OCR fragment advertises rooms at The Muntingtom Hotel on Ocean Glade with private baths and complete hotel service. It mentions water, filling the best of a remarkable travel view and a phone number for contact, though many words are garbled.
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