Long Beach Port Development Program Is Logical and Imperative
The Long Beach Port's current major projects total about 3.26 million dollars with a future plan to add 80 to 100 million dollars in improvements. The port handled nearly 6.5 million tons of commerce in 1980 valued at around 810 million dollars, surpassing 1945 wartime peak. The harbor features include the world’s longest pier, the largest transit shed, and extensive deep water frontage. Future blueprints call for Outer Harbor expansion adding over 500 acres of filled land to boost facilities, underscoring the port’s critical economic role locally and nationally.
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Port of
Long Beach
Long Reach
Atreeta
Arabia
Harbor Department
Farmer Training Proposal Cuts Costs for Nation
The author argues long term Uncle Sam subsidies to farmers waste money. They claim 14 years of aid should fund farmer education instead, teaching fertilizing, terracing, winter cover crops, pond building, and other practices. A degree in farming is suggested to reduce costs and benefit the country, saving about 285 million dollars annually.
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Sam
Plenty of Room for Newcomers in California
California attracts many migrants with 25 000 people moving monthly while housing strains keep total population around 11 million. The comparison highlights U.S. sparsely populated status against Japan and Germany in the era. A remark on Italy’s large area housing 42 million. The piece ends noting youth and a Hollywood stereotype.
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California
Japan
America
Germany
Iran
Italy
Tiny Nations Tie In To Korea War Effort
A Belgian Luxembourg battalion joined United Nations forces in Korea as a token contribution from small nations. American reporters praise international troops including Turks, Puerto Ricans, and Scots for their performance while France operates in Indochina and Britain in Malaya. Every bit counts against Communist aggression.
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United States
United Nations
Korea
Freedom
Indochina
Malaya
Evangelistic Upsurge Reflects Growing Public Interest
A Long Beach evangelist claims Americans are listening to the gospel more than any time in 50 years. Publishers report a surge in religious books, churches draw larger crowds, and a recent meeting drew about 1500 attendees with many converts.
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Long Beach
Korea War Stalemate Seen as Better Than Defeat
General MacArthur and Senator Johnson discuss Korea stalemate as the near front holds, with no clear end in sight. The piece argues stalemate is preferable to defeat but insufficient long term, noting the artificial Sino-US framework, and calls for a future settlement by nations with a vested Korea interest.
Truman Defies Debate Over Korea and Europe Deployments
President Truman and his cabinet clarified U N policy by stating Korea crossing the 38th Parallel is not open to revision and six more U S divisions will be stationed in Europe The move ends debate sparked by Attlee and signals U N forces will advance as militarily necessary The article argues the Chinese army is limited and a ceasefire or collapse may follow, while highlighting Soviet pressure and the cost of the war to the United States
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Washington
Truman
38Th Parallel
Korea
U.N
Defense Marshall
Congress
Europe
Attlee
U. N
America
Far East
Moscow
U. S
Marshall
Spain as Atlantic defense ally eyed by Acheson
Secretary Acheson told the Senate that linking Spain into the Atlantic community's defense plan could be valuable despite Franco's totalitarian regime. The discussion noted Spain's strategic position and military strength, alongside international scrutiny of Franco's ties to Nazi Germany and fascism.
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Acheson
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Spain
Spa
Franco
Nazi Germany
Britain
France
Europe
Mediterranean
Atlantic
Just Folks by E A Guest Quatrains
Thought Just to make it snappy Then it seems to me If the home's not happy Happiness can't be. If I had been born a girl Stead of writing verse Had my name been May or Pearl I might have been nurse. Although outside are sleet and fog And akles grow glummer In every garden catalogue It's now midsummer. I do not a great failure view What, if I could, I would do But know I've failed when I don't do What, when I can, I should do.
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Jong Last
Chiang Kai-shek
Moss
Korea
U.N
Russia
China
Mao
U. N
May
Pearl
Akles
Voice of America
Press-Telegram
Dean Acheson
Voice
Radio
Moscow
America
Fress-Telegram
Fort Knox
Don Kahler
Anaheim
Long Beach Draft Boards Assign 160 Men for March
Ten years ago Long Beach learned 160 local residents would enter service on March 17 after draft boards announced plans. Jimmy Cagney sought romance on screen as a local trend. Thirty years ago the Credit Association joined the Chamber of Commerce, and Riverside invited regional leaders to discuss hydroelectric power development.
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Long Beach
Jimmy Cagney
Metropolitan Water League
Ralph H. Clock
Long Beach Credit Association
Chamber of Commerce
Businessmen’s Bureau
Riverside
California
Public Forum Letters on Foreign Policy and Aid
Readers react to editorials in the Press Telegram. Letters urge Britain, America, and India aid, critique Voice of America, and question gold reserve policy. Contributors include R. H. Hadow Los Angeles consul, Doris L. Cole Huntington Beach, Don Kahler Indian, and William H. McCance.
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Press-Telegram
Great Britain
Britain
China
Far East
California
Miss Cole
America
R. H. Hadow
Hlb.m
Los Angeles
The Sky Belongs to God in All Its Moods
A reflective verse on the sky as God’s realm, shifting through joy and sorrow. It speaks of rain as tears and sunshine as gladness, thunder and lightning, night’s silver gaze, and the sky’s role as a backdrop for lovers. The poem concludes that the sky belongs to God and moves by His will.
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Soviet Union
Manchuria
Yalu River
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Korean
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Associated Press
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Gibraltar
E. A. Guest
Long Beach Press
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Presse Telegram
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Newman St
Huntington Beach
India
Government of India
William H. McCance
Cedar Ave
George Clerk
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