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Newspaper

Independent

Location

Long Beach, California, United States of America

Date

May 23, 1959

Page

2

LAC Opposes Expanded Impacted Area School Aid

The letter argues against expanding federal aid to school districts in impacted areas where many government workers live or work. It cites Long Beach and other regions profiting from payrolls while warning such subsidies expand federal funding and state dependence. It supports resisting further gifts to schools and retaining local control.

Hosmer Congress U. S Long Beach Congressman Hosmer LAC

Tragic Ontario Fire Claims Burk Family of Seven

Mrs. John Burk, 26, sobs beside the charred remains of her home in Ontario. Fire killed her husband Robert, 26, and four children Barbara 6 Terry 4 Bobby Lynn 2. She plans to move to Webb City Missouri, birthplace of their families. The blaze started near a couch as Robert watched TV. he worked long poultry truck hours. Mrs Burk, pregnant, had been working a restaurant shift to help make ends meet.

Missouri Webb City Bob

Living Costs Hit Record Again on Tax Increases

Washington AP reports rising state and local taxes pushed the cost of living to a record 122.9 percent of the 1917 49 base in April. Taxes enacted or planned could lift costs further this summer while wages and purchasing power remain strong for factory workers.

Washington Labor Department

Congress moves to release AT and T antitrust report

A 350 page study accuses American Tel and Tel and Western Electric of flagrant antitrust foul play and lobbying. The panel, chaired by Manny Celler, faced obstruction from Republicans McCulloch Miller and Meader and Democrat Rogers before the report was released to public view. The inquiry links Brownell Pope Price and a Statler Hotel meeting to a lenient consent decree undermining the DOJ case.

Washington House Judiciary Committee American Telephone and Telegraph Republican Congress William McCulloch Ohio Wiliam E. Miller New York Public Utilities George Meader Michigan Meader Byron Rogers Denver Manny Celler Brooklyn Rogers American Tel and Tel Western Electric Justice Department Celler Manny Brownell T. Brooke Price Bayard F. Pope Ma Tine Midland Corporation of Pope Price Statler Greenbrier White Sulphur Springs W. Va New York Telephone Co Statler Hotels Keating New York Republican Miller

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