Engle Eyes Customs Boost to Fight Drug Trade
Senator Clair Engle urged Congress to give 1.6 million dollars to train and hire more customs agents. He warned of dire staffing shortages at U.S. seaports and across California, describing only four undercover agents and 28 enforcement officers in the Los Angeles harbor area and a token force statewide.
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State Board of Corrections
California
Clair Engle
D-Calif
U.S
Congress
Engle
Los Angeles - Long Beach
Wilmington
San Pedro Harbor
Senate Appropriations Subcommittee On
Treasury
Long Beach Hosts Successful First Annual Music Festival
The May 21-27 Long Beach Music Festival marked the city’s first large scale concert series. It drew wide turnout, featured a Concert of New Music with 590 attendees, and earned praise from Mayor Edwin Wade as one of the best things to happen in Long Beach.
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Long Beach
Long Beach Music Council
Vnca
Edwin Wade
Business Diplomacy Moves Into U S Foreign Aid Field
Washington notes a new field of diplomacy born from large scale foreign aid shaping economies worldwide. The shift, termed business diplomacy, blends profits, subsidies, and labor trends with policy aims, drawing mixed responses from Canada, Cuba, and Latin America as it reshapes global trade and investment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
United States
Tucker
Dean Rusk
Canada
Cuba
Fidel Cistro
Kennedy
Africa
Argentina
Can Department of Agriculture
Harris Fights FCC Reform and Chiang Kai-shek Snub
Rep Oren Harris pushes back against Minow led FCC reform while detailing past Harris committee actions. In Taipei Madame Chiang Kai-shek snubs Ladybird Johnson and Jean Kennedy Smith during a breakfast visit amid talks. Johnson urges Thailand focus over South Vietnam and backs expanding Thai army with US aid, criticizing Diem as unreliable.
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Prident Johnson
Chiang Karshek
Formosa
Chiang Kashek
China
Ladybird Johnson
Washington
Jean Kennedy Smith
Chiang Kai-shek
Madame Chiang
Taipeh
Johnson
Ladybird
Jean Smith
Ward
Smith
Kennedy
Thailand
South Vietnam
Southeast Asia
Diem
STRICTLY PERSONAL Parks for Men Or for Rules
Harris argues New York City parks ban folk singing reflect the administrative mind that treats public enjoyment as interference. He warns parks shift from public pleasure to rigid procedures, risking limits on dancing and fun in the square under Ordinance 639-B Subsection 2.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Washington Square Park
America
Catalina Island trips by amphibian plane and steamship
Lillian Maxwell describes travel to Catalina Island via amphibian aircraft landing on water at Long Beach Municipal Airport and a return by the Catalina steamship docking at Wilmington Harbor. The piece highlights water landings, island tours, casual dress, on board amenities, and the memorable experience of travel between Long Beach and Catalina.
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Catalina Island
Catalina
Long Beach
Wilmington Harbor
Wilmington
Lillian Maxwell
Euclid Ave
Texas Senator John G. Tower Election Victory Cited
A Dallas based note quotes John G. Tower as the first Texas Republican elected to the Senate with remarks that candidates do not win elections, the people do. The item also reports concerns from Chicago about Memorial Day weekend traffic fatalities rising above last year’s record pace and notes Eichmann mass murder trial proceedings in Jerusalem with defense and prosecution timing commentary.
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Dallas
Tex
John G. Tower
Texas
Chicago
Howard Pyle
National Safety Council
Jerusalem
Robert Servatius
Adolf Wachmann
Eichmann
Independent newspaper masthead fragment note
Fragmentary OCR lists staff and office addresses for The Independent including publishers editors and managers, with scattered names and locations such as New York Fifth Avenue and Los Angeles addresses, hinting at a historic masthead capture.
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Herman A. Ridder
Daniel H. Ridder
Harald M Hines
Samuel C. Carveran
Larry Colina
Bus
L.A. Callinn Lee
Malcolm Epiry
Miles E Sunny
Natl Advertising
Rennerdong Ime
New York
Fifth Avenue
CAG Meson Weigley
Data CI Pen
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Dillon
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John J. Walliams
Delaware
Lbs
Nore
Taery
Mexico
Bolivia
Senegal
The
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Wisconsin
Billen
Europe
France
Germany
Britain
Rusics
Ros Manning
Drew Pearson
Rep. Harris
FCC
Oren Harris
Arkansas
Interstate Commerce Committee
Federal Communications Commission
Newton Minow
Pearson
Harris
Bernard Schwartz
Harris’ Committee
Richard Mack
Miami
Channel 10
Mack
Sherman Adams
Bernard Goldfine
Warris
White House
Robert Choate
Boston Herald
Tn Secure
Channel 5
Ls, Court of Appeals
Traveler
Nate
Minow
Government Operations Committee
Tanis
Bilt
Stewart Udall
Udall
Wallace Bennett
Utah
Bennett
J. K. Evans
Senair
Rodney Markley
Ford Motor Company
Salt Lake City
Markley
Blaine Peterson
Senator Bennett
Peterson
Ford
Town Meeting
Duke Ak Fant
Ioan
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