Editorial Traffic Planning Headway Tr Is Gratifying
City Traffic Engineer Robert Dier notes a thorough study of extending one way streets in the central business district with a dedicated engineer at work and potential installation before Christmas. The plan requires bus reroutings and approvals from the public utilities commission, along with channelizing, signal studies, and comprehensive traffic counts to ensure safe operation and minimal errors.
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Robert Dier
Dier
Alamitos Ave
Broadway Bridge
Belmont Shore
Long Beach
Government Officials Do Have Hearts
Government officials in Washington, led by Congressman Craig Hosmer, moved fast to stop the deportation of German-born Mrs Wayne Nesbitt, wife of American veteran Wayne Nesbitt, reuniting them in the United States ahead of a Monday deadline. Visa chief Roland Welch, Allan Devaney, Calvin B. Spencer, and Hosmer aide Mrs Case coordinated with Canadian officials to secure entry, aided by journalist Virginia Kelly, delivering a humanitarian success and commendable public service.
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Washington
Long Beach
Canada
Germany
Craig Hosmer
Hosmer
Roland Welch
Visa
U. S. State Department
Allan Devaney
Immigration
Calvin B. Spencer
U. S
Wayne Nesbitt
Russians Run Country by Eleven Men at Geneva
Peter Edson reports American experts in Moscow believe the new Soviet system is run by many leaders rather than a single dictator. They note power has shifted from ideology to decision making, with unclear authority among Bulganin Khrushchev Molotov Zhukov and others. Predictions for Geneva remain uncertain.
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Washington
Nea
Geneva
Russia
United States
China
ENSON
India
U.S
Stalinay
Neece
Moscow
Stalin
Commmunist Party
Varduath by METCALFE True Companionship
Poem reflects on true companionship beyond neighborly friendliness. It emphasizes love, sympathy, sacrifice, and understanding that binds mind and heart, enduring through hardship and weather, shaping the human condition. The speaker notes sincere effort and shared life as a measure of success.
Eisenhower backs Red China ban from UN Security Council
President Eisenhower explained that Red China's admission to the United Nations is incompatible while its troops remain in Korea. He cited ongoing aggression, UN branding, and the need for North Korea unification under UN auspices, warning admission would threaten U.S. and Allied positions and foreign aid.
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Washington
China
North Korea
United Nations
Peiping
U. M
Security Council
Fresi- Gent
Eis
See Hower
Lawrence
Korea
Red China
Pasenhower
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Soviet Union
U.N
Geneva
Cho En-Lai
DLN
Krishna Menon
India
Eisenhower
United Nations Commission
America
Ternal
Germany
Formosa
U. N
U. S
Europe
Moonlight Made Real in New Mexico Test Tubes
A whimsical note envisions scientists in New Mexico crafting moonlight from sodium in a rocket. The piece jokes that moonlight will be sun reflected on ionospheric particles, with playful references to romance and science, imagining PG&E Moon Company distributing moonlight through pipes.
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New Mexico
Xanadu
Pacific Gas, Electric and Moon Company
Just Folks by E A Guest
A reflective poem of isolation as a person remains at home while family is away. The speaker laments lack of appetite and neglects chores, recalling childhood treats like cold salmon. The poem captures summertime solitude and a lingering hesitance to resume daily duties.
Long Beach sports and maritime notes from the past
A Long Beach timeline recalls the fiftieth anniversary Southern California PGA event at Recreation Park with thirty pros, a Nippon Yusen Kaisha liner docking at Terminal Island carrying 400 Orient-bound passengers, and a whaling firm at San Clemente Island. Fire losses tally 1836 dollars and a protest opposes a bathing beauty parade as indecent. An ironic note asks if rolled-up windows hinder a motorist’s right to dangle an arm.
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Nippon Yusen Kaisha
Terminal Island
Orient
Whaling Flrst
Mexico
Long Beach
First Presbyterian Church
Soaper Comments on Davy Crockett Frontier Myth
Senator Soaper reflects on childhood legends of frontier heroes as Time moves forward. He jokes about the small scope of Crockett’s era and hints that modern youths face a wider expanse of interplanetary ideas beyond the old frontier myth.
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Davy Crockett
Public Forum on Design, Faith, and Politics Letters
A reader recounts a Griffith Observatory discussion contrasting belief in a designer with atheistic views. The piece links astronomy, planetarium spectacle, and the Psalmist assertion of God’s glory to a debate about creation and chance. A second letter questions Democratic press portrayal and peacemaker Ike. MERVIN D. RANAGAN, 543 W. Broadway.
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Ress-Telegram
Griffith Observatory
Hollywood
Jupiter
Callagtlan
el Jardin
Eisenhower a Reluctant Peacemaker
The excerpt notes praise for Dwight Eisenhower while suggesting he was pressured into accepting the role that brought him vast publicity. It references Walter George and others who allegedly influenced his position and public profile.
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Eisenhower
Ike
Walter George
Press Telegram Publisher and Staff Directory Update
Current files of The Press Telegram are maintained at multiple offices including Harold M Hines assistant to publisher Samuel and H F Burmester general manager with editor Malcolm and Washington News Bureau. Advertising representatives Ridder Johns Inc cover New York Chicago Detroit Minneapolis St Paul Los Angeles San Francisco and comic advertising from Metropolitan Group Inc.
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Harold M. Hines
Samuel , Cameron
H. F. Burmester
Malcolm
Eplocive
National Advertising
Ridder-Johns, Inc
New York
Ee Wrigley
Detroit
Minneapolis
Foshay
St Paul
Eaut 4Th St
Menses S
Los Angeles
Wilshire Blvd
San Francisco
Sutter St
Press-Telegram
Comic Advertising
Metropolitan Group, Inc
Answers Powdered Coal Pipeline and Other Queries
Readers submit questions to the Long Beach Preset Telegram Information Bureau seeking facts on powdered coal transport by water mix, plastic artificial eyes, Naturel Bridge Virginia dimensions, West Point Class of 1915 generals, world chess champion, Canberra population, and shrews poison. Answers note coal slurry, plastic eye development, bridge details, Eisenhower et al, Botvinnik, Canberra population about 30,000, and shrew venom rarity with one fatal species.
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Long Beach
Burea
Eye St
N. W
Washington
D. G
Virginia
RLA
New York
Broadway
Trinity Church
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