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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Sep 15, 1959
Page
1
A LA Colson column offers a defensive yet probing view on Khrushchev’s U S visit and the moon rocket claim. It notes skepticism about Soviet propaganda, warns against appeasement, and argues Americans should greet the leader with reserve to influence his stance. The piece reflects Cold War tensions and hopes the trip reduces danger rather than inflames it.
The City Bureau of Franchises postponed action on bus service proposals for the Douglas Aircraft Co plant for the second month. No company or union spokesmen attended. legal and union talks are pending while Parking facilities near Veterans Memorial Station ease plant congestion. The bureau also delayed a Union Pacific 35 year franchise renewal request and debated insurance and bond requirements.
Washington The weary 86th Congress struggled to adjourn early as a civil rights foreign aid bill stalled progress. The Senate and House still differed on the measure, the last major block to adjournment, with no clear timetable for a final vote after a 64 to 25 Senate approval of a two year extension for the Federal Civil Rights Commission and funding for foreign aid.
Leopoldo Canizales Sandoval, son of a Mexican customs official, failed to appear in federal court in San Diego on a conspiracy to smuggle 45 pounds of marijuana seized near Calexico. His codefendant, Jose Ramon Cicochea Hurtado, remains jailed on a $10,000 bond. The father posted bail for his son as the hearing proceeded in El Centro.
A male polar bear named Goofus killed his female companion at the San Francisco Zoo. The animals arrived from Detroit about a month ago. UPI reports the incident occurred Monday and involved John Long as the source.
Fragmentary OCR text describes an event in Long Beach with multiple garbled names and dates. Key readable items include a Long Beach reference and a March date, but many proper nouns are unreadable, making specifics uncertain. The record notes a court or county context and a delivery or site mention without clear facts.
President Eisenhower signed a law authorizing burial in national cemeteries for members of the Armed Forces Reserve components and the National Guard who performed services of a military nature.
The fourth annual Navy Relief Ball will be at Municipal Auditorium on September 25, ending a fund raising drive by the Long Beach Navy Relief Society Auxiliary. Dancing will run from 9 PM to 1 AM with Grin Tucker and his orchestra providing music. Proceeds from donation tickets aid service families in financial distress. Grand prizes include an MG sports roadster, automatic washer, dryer, deep freeze, portable TV, and an hi fi set. Door prizes include electrical appliances. Tickets available at naval facilities or at the door the night of the ball.
President Eisenhower signed a bill Monday changing the Roosevelt Dam in Arizona to the Theodore Roosevelt Dam. The action formalizes the renaming in federal records and acknowledges the early 20th century project.
Fragmentary OCR text appears to reference local public notices or classifieds near Huntington Beach with garbled lines naming places and events, offering no clear action, date, or authoritative entities for a complete summary.
Picketing and a student boycott marked the racial integration of five white Queens schools as 363 Brooklyn slum children joined pupils from Bedford Stuyvesant. More than 900 of 2300 white students stayed away. signs reading Blacks got home appeared but were removed. The transfers came as a Board of Education plan to ease overcrowding across borough lines.
In Los Angeles the city council’s call for bids on oil drilling rights at Chavez Ravine drew no written bids. An estimated 100 million dollar deposit was believed to be present, but the audience offered no bids when asked by Assistant City Clerk John Schwartzlose.
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