Immunized S B Controversy Guided Polio Fight in 1960
An editorial argues that mixed strategies for polio immunization in the Los Angeles area, including dollar clinics and free services, helped curb the outbreak. It credits public push for Salk vaccine access, notes Long Beach's relative safety, and urges continued public interest in immunization campaigns.
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Los Angeles
Orange Counties
Long Beach
Dollar Clinic
Los Angeles County Medical Assa
Mobile Dollar Clinic
Fitting Recognition for Earl Burns Miller House
Long Beach Memorial Hospital honors Karl Burns Miller with the naming of a new staff residence. Miller, Sully Miller Co. founder and longtime leader, helped spur postwar hospital expansion in Long Beach. The Earl Burns Miller House will memorialize his work to improve city health facilities and hospital access.
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Long Beach Memorial Hospital
Karl Burns Miller
Long Beach
Miller
Sully Miller Co
Earl Burns Miller
Memorial Hospital
Railroad walkout seen as threat to Kennedy Johnson bid
In Washington, Pennsylvania Railroad strikes and potential labor disputes through November 8 are viewed by Democrats and labor leaders as a serious risk to the Kennedy Johnson ticket. The piece notes the impact during Labor Day, hints at possible Taft Hartley injunctions, and discusses AFL CIO tensions and political fallout before the election.
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Washington
Pennsylvania
Kennedy
Afl-Cio
Michael J. Quill
Transport Workers
Los Anges
Strikes and Slim Orders Hold Steel Down
Steel Magazine notes light order books and rail strikes in Pittsburgh and Cleveland Lorain slow September production. Ingot rate fell 14 percent this week after 53 percent last week due to Labor Day curtailments while finished steel demand shows a cautious upturn. AFL CIO voters push union bloc efforts led by Frank Thompson Jr. and George M. Harrison amid labor-management tensions over control, automation, and job classifications across rail, auto, aviation, shipbuilding, and electrical sectors.
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Cleveland
Steel Magazine
Pennsylvania Railroad
Pittsburgh
Cleveland-Lorain
5Steelmen
Democratic Registration Bureau
Frank Thompson Jr
New Jersey
Afl-Cio
George M. Harrison
Independent newspaper staff and office listings
The Independent returns current files at its offices with publishers editors and managers named. Offices listed include New York Chicago Detroit Minneapolis Los Angeles San Francisco and Washington Bureau with street addresses and building names referenced.
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Herman
Ridder
Daniel H. Ridatt
Harold M.hines
Aset
Samuel C. Cameron
Larry Catling Jr
L.A Collins Sr
Malcolm Eptey
Miles E. Hines
Harry Patton
Natl
Ridder Johna Inc
Netw
Yorks
Fier Avenue
Chicago
Wrigley
Detroit
Penobscos
Minneapolis
Foshay Tower
Los Angeles
6Th St
San Francisco
Sutter St
Washington
AMHSE
Independent
Nixon Campaigners Seek Clergy Help In Catholic Issue
Nixon seeks to distance from anti Catholic attacks while quietly urging Billy Graham to speak on religion. Moody visits Washington on Nixon’s request but says no religion discussion occurred. Collings pressure Texas Baptists to back Nixon amid Catholic race tensions. Debates over religion haunt the 1960 race.
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Jack Anderson
Washington
Nixon
Billy Graham
Graham
L. Nelson Bell
Bell
Jess Moody
Owensboro, Ky
First Baptist Church
GOP
Thruston Morton
Moody
William Stover
Stover
Morton
Kentucky
Bert Combs
Texas Gas Transmission Co
Shoreham Hotel
Dr. Bell
Texas
Carl Calling
Lyndon Johnson
Collins
Baylor University
W. R. White
Abner McCall
Kernedy
Town Meeting Corrects Site Selection Error
Editor notes an Aug 31 Independent misreport claiming a proposed site north of Ocean Blvd for the auditorium annex. The writer clarifies the proposal was north of the auditorium and south of Ocean Blvd near the entrance, referencing ballot Prop T from Nov 1958, and recalls Prop T failed by two thirds not reached.
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Independent
Ocean Blvd
Denying Raise Is Skilled Work in Cold Office Ruse
A satirical piece on how workers face firm resistance to raises in corporate culture. It mocks how bosses deploy the no, the pie slice, and Horatio Alger tropes to fend off pay increases. The tone lampoons male and female tactics and the futility of negotiation.
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Bke
Harris
Society of Corporation Treasurers
Construction permits and civic improvements in Long Beach
The first step toward the J. J. Newberry Co store at 433 Pine Ave received a $365,000 permit for the project by J. E. Howard and Louis Dunn. The site will replace the Dobyns Building housing KGER. City council authorized paving Spring Street, widening Redondo, and Broadway projects before the rainy season. Rao land G. Swarfield was elected to the State Bar of California Board of Governors and will be inducted in Pasadena later this month.
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J. J. Newberry Co
Pine Ave
J. E. Howard
Louis Dunn
Dobyns Bldg
KGER
Spring St
Junipero Ave
Lakewood Blvd
Redondo Ave
Anaheim
State Sts
E. Broadway
Redondo
Nieto Aves
Raoland G. Swarfield
Long Beach Bar Association
State Bar of California
San Francisco
Pasadena
Congo crisis and US political tensions headlined in brief
Ka tanga Province leader Moise Tshombe accuses Congo Premier Patrice Lumumba of massacres. In Washington, HUAC chair Francis E Walter denounces officials for hiring defectors to Russia, calling it a gross dereliction of duty. In Gettysburg, Rev Robert A Macaskill urges Christians to resist communism, warning of global threat.
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Elisabethville
Congo
Moise Tshombe
Katanga Province
Patrice Lumumba
Washington
Francis E. Walter
House Committee On Un-American Activities
Russia
Gettysburg
Robert A. Macaskill
Eisenhower
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Bemon Mitchell
Willian Martin
Oregon
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Porter
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Ollo
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Wong Teh-chuan
Lei Chen
Formosa
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State Department
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Minnesota
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