Navy action urged to halt subsidence at Long Beach shipyard
L A C argues failed voluntary measures endanger the Navy shipyard and thousands of workers as subsidence continues. A suit may be needed to enforce unitization of the Wilmington oil field and inject water to stop subsidence, protecting harbor access and national defense. The column urges quick, compulsory federal action.
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Navy Shipyard
Des Euals
Washington
Navel
Long Leach
Long Beach
Wilmington
Navy
Justice Department
L.A.C
Town Meeting Air Traffic Editorial Critique
A reader criticizes a Sunday column on air traffic and condemns push by Lakewood and Long Beach chambers. The letter urges attention to residents of Long Beach and questions the airport project’s handling.
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Lac
Long Beach
Lakewood
Coremeres
Long Beach tensions over liquor licenses and oil decisions
Historical notes recount Long Beach actions on liquor license revocations sought by the United Church Brotherhood, state control for City Lines buses, and oil permits by General Petroleum and Superior Oil. Letters criticize air traffic growth, subsidence, freeway billboards, and the Willow and Lakewood drilling case, urging council restraint and highlighting community concern.
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Tong Beach
Racetrack Nook
Long Beach
Ucals
Darton
General Petroleum Corp
Harbor District
Superior Oil Co
Bixby Knils
Los Alamitos Naval Air Station
Willow
Lakewood
Early Express Service Began in 1838 by William F Harnden
The Independent notes the first express service in the United States started in 1838 by William F Harnden transporting small parcels between New York and Boston. It lists publisher Herman H Ridder and staff positions, and details the current office and advertising representative addresses across major cities.
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United States
William F. Harnden
New York
Boston
Bold Thinking Needed to Meet Soviet Challenge
Washington urges sweeping changes in American prejudice to build a new democratic defense system. Leaders warn that clinging to “egghead,” big business, isolationist, and entangling-alliance biases could doom collective security. Senator Bridges stresses total mobilization of people and resources.
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Washington
United States
Russia
London
Eisenhower
Harold MacMillan
Sen
Lyndon 8. Johnston
Senate
FDR
Adlai E. Stevenson
Ben Franklins
Thomas Jedison
Khrushchev
Congress
Macmillan
Longest Parade Echoes Grand Review of Union Armies
A claim marks the Grand Review of the Union Armies on May 23 to 24, 1865 as the longest parade in American history. About 200000 troops reportedly passed before President Johnson over two days, a feat framed in retrospective notes.
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Johnson
Midland Man skull oldest evidence of early Americans
A skull unearthed near Midland Texas named Midland Man is cited as the earliest human remains in the Americas. Radiocarbon or dating suggests the bones are at least 12,000 years old and possibly 20,000 years old, indicating ancient habitation of the continent.
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American Continents
Midland
Tex
Strictly Personal Smugness Breeds Hypocrisy
Sydney J. Harris argues that labeling smoking and drinking as vices to judge others reveals self righteousness. He recalls a teacher in Iowa who, while abstaining, notes the town’s gossip and smug moral policing harm morale and hint at broader moral failures.
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Sydney J. Harris
Luuncheon
Iowa
Danger of Carbon Monoxide Fumes in Winter
Dr Jordan warns carbon monoxide risks rise in cold weather as homes and garages stay closed. Small exposures cause headaches dizziness and nausea while large doses can render victims unconscious quickly. Chronic poisoning is not supported by evidence.
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Surances
Blue laws and dangers of carbon monoxide in colonial lore
The piece weighs the myth of 1640 blue laws from New Haven noted by Samuel A. Peters. It warns modern readers about carbon monoxide hazards from gas heaters and closed garages, stressing rapid emergency response, ventilation, and preventive care, with a sidelong note on the Peregrine falcon’s reported speed.
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New Haven
Connecticut
Samuel A. Peters
Peters
Wes England
Questions and Answers from a historical quiz page
A multi question item covers topics from U S dollar redesign to the Old Guard designation, monarchs buried abroad, sugar from wood, Athelstan, and the U S seal device. It notes the dollar’s new design this year, the Old Guard praise by Lt Gen Winfield Scott, five monarchs buried abroad, German sugar from wood in 1926, Athelstan as first king to call himself King of All Britain, and the 1776 committee for a U S seal design with approval in 1772.
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Old Guard
Winfield Scott
Aruel
Athelstan
Britain
United States
Continental Congress
Benjamin Franklin
John Adams
Thomas Jefferson
Congress
White House shakeups and Sputnik drills unfold
Drew Pearson reports White House staff turmoil with Jim Magerty leaving and Bernard Shanley’s departure to run for the New Jersey Senate. He notes James Killian’s talks with Russian scientist Alexander Alexandrov, U.S. efforts to study Sputnik and nuclear strategy, Nixon pushing for emergency mobilization, and Khrushchev’s timing on Sputnik II amid Soviet purges and Zhukov’s removal.
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Washington
White House
Sputnik
Jim Magerty
Bernard Shanley
Ike
Senate
New Jersey
James Killian
A.D. Alexandrov
London
USA
Alexandrov
Peasson
State Department
Arthur Largan
U. S. Information Agency
Nixon
Hisenhower
Russia
Eisenhower
Sherman Adams
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