Signal Hill Recall Election Tests Contract City Policy
An editorial views Signal Hill Tuesday recall as a test of popular opinion on municipal contracting with the county for police and fire services. Four of five councilmen face recall as challengers pledge to restore independent departments, with the vote deciding whether the city remains in the contract program amid past court battles and political turmoil.
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Signal Hill
Hill
California
Lakewood
Paramount
Party Delinquency Threatens Deep South Convention Seats
The Democratic National Committee may withhold prime 1960 convention seats and hotel rooms from nonpaying Deep South states Alabama Florida Georgia Kentucky Mississippi South Carolina Tennessee and Texas in a move described as a loyalty test. With a $934000 debt, the plan could exile the South to marginal lodging and bare facilities at the Sports Arena, forcing reliance on alternative arrangements.
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Democratic National Committee
Deep South
Washington
Alabama
Florida
Georgia
Kentucky
Mississippi
South Carolina
Tennessee
Texas
National Committee
Four Day Week Bid in Sixties Labor Debate
Washington notes outline a push by Walter Reuther for a 32 hour four day week with full pay to offset automation losses. The piece links union strategy to the steel strike, imports, and broader political battles ahead of a presidential election.
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Ray Tucker
Washington
Walter P. Reuther
Afl-Cio
George L. Meany
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McClellan. Kennedy Committee
Reuther
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Department of Commerce
Europe
Germany
Japan
Congressional
Congress of the United States
England
Johnson’s Rise and Doubts as Presidential Hopeful
In Washington headlines Lyndon Baines Johnson, Senate majority leader, emerges as a leading but handicapped candidate for the Democratic nomination. His influence across factions, political maneuvering, and southern roots frame strong prospects yet raise doubts about a Dixie leader securing the presidency.
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Washington
Lyndon Baines Johnson
Senate
Congress
Johnson
Senate Rpublicans
House
Sam Rayburn
Capitol Hill
Eisenhower
Stevenson
Kiwanis Luncheon Highlights Long Beach Pioneers
A 16 year lookback notes Kiwanis International California-Nevada District luncheon at the Wilton Hotel with Burton S. Galleher Jesse S. Holton and former Gov Frank F Merriam as 30 year members. Additional items recall 20 year milestone a flood channel oil drilling bridge at Long Beach Boulevard North Long Beach and 30 year permit for Pacific Electric car barns at 10th St and Loma Vista Drive costing 34000 with ramite construction.
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Legion of Honor
California-Nevada
Kiwanis International
Wilton Hotel
Long Beach
Long Beach Boulevard
Orear Hauge
Pacific Electric Railroad
10Th St
Loma Vista Drive
City Building Department
Nudist trend sparks motorists to join sunbathers
British Sunbathing Association official Douglas Gibson notes nudist growth as motorists see people bathing nude and join in. Senate critic Mansfield laments Defense Dept science duplication and czars. Keating forecasts voters seeking a leader to handle Khrushchev.
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London
Douglas Gibson
British Sunbathing Association
Peale
The Semantics of Skin-Deep Complaints and Human Flaws
A collage of social aphorisms contrasts blunt phrases about character with comments on gender bias and vanity. It questions sincerity versus hypocrisy in everyday talk, noting how people label insights and justify faults, while quoting Voltaire and musing on aging, greed, and human imperfection.
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Voltaire
Generals Profit in Alabama Real Estate Scandal
Washington generals Medaris and Barclay tied to a South real estate deal that yielded about 140000 in under two years. Land bought December 1957 for 35000 sold August 1958 for 175000 enabling FHA loans to Folmar and Flinn. Investigators from the House and Home Finance Agency probe the profits and Republican ties in Alabama.
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Washington
John B. Medaris
Army
South
John A. Barclay
Army Ballistic Missile Agency
Huntsville
Ala
Alabama
Etowah County
Gadsden
Carl B. Thomas
Eisenhower
Thomas
Claude Vardaman
Alabama Power Co
C. R. Holliman
Federal Housing Administration
Carl Wiegand
Holliman
Vardaman
FHA
Thomas and
Folmar and Flinn
Republican National
Roy L. Stone
Madison County Board of Commissioners
Fulmar and Flinn
Folmar
Flinn
House and Home Finance Agency
Independent Office List of The Independent Staff and Offices
The Independent lists its staff including Herman H Ridder publisher Danial H Ridder co publisher Harold M Hines general manager Samuel C Cameron genial manager Larry Cetting Jrue manager L A Colling Sry Editorial columnist Malcolm Eply executive editor Miles E Sines managing editor Harry Fulton editorial page editor and national advertising representatives Aldder Johns with offices at New York Chicago Detroit Minneapolis Los Angeles San Francisco and Washington. The current ten officers are maintained at these offices.
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Herman H. Ridder
Danial H. Ridder
Harold M. Hines
Samuel C. Cameron
Geni
Larry Cetting Jr Bue
L. A. Colling
Los Angeles
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Washington News Buray
Albee
Independent
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