Long Beach School Bond Election Set For Nov 2
Long Beach voters will cast two ballots on November 2, one for the national election and one for a local school bond. County officials approved pairing the school district vote with the general election to save costs and encourage participation. The Long Beach Public Schools report growing enrollment has made additional classrooms essential, with about 4000 students on double sessions this September and 500 new classrooms needed in five years. The school administration will provide full information to voters to help them make an informed choice.
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Long Beach urged to conserve as water bonds fund system
Long Beach’s 52,000 metered users will receive a water department notice urging conservation. The city has adequate water from wells and the Colorado River, but needs storage and distribution facilities financed by recently approved bonds. Atlanta wins national noise abatement award led by the Women’s Chamber of Commerce.
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Santa Barbara
Atlanta
Women’s Chamber of Commerce
Officials Who Lobby With Tax Money Problem in Washington
Washington column argues the lobby issue stems from misuse of public funds by the administration, urging accountability for officials who lobby with taxpayer money. It calls for local grand juries to indict officials who use government resources to influence legislation and notes public opinion access remains essential.
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Congress
Department of Justice
House
National Labor Relations Board
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Bar of Justice
Wallace speech stirs Berlin tensions and polarizes leaders
In a tense postwar moment Wallace's third party rally clashes with Dewey Dulles backing new Berlin talks. Dulles shifts from hard line to informal Moscow negotiations while Clay, Marshall, Bohlen pursue coordinated Western policy and German reconstruction amid Kremlin aims.
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Lucius D. Clay
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Berlin
Charles Bohlen
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Clay
France
Germany
United Feature Syndicate, Inc
World peace hinges on UN police and Cold War ends
Dewitt Mackenzie argues the United Nationsarmaments panel cannot restrict weapons until a UN police force is agreed, atomic energy is controlled, and Germany and Japan are bound by peace treaties. He notes the cold war and worldwide communist expansion hinder any lasting peace and warns against assuming real peace while communism gains power globally.
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Time and Tide
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Considerable Difference in Liquor Control Measures
California Supreme Court refuses to strike the second liquor control amendment from the ballot. The two measures, while similarly titled, present distinct provisions and voter confusion is likely. The first favors local veto power to bar licenses. the second limits local control to minors, lighting, and sanitation with state oversight remaining.
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Southern California Businessmen’s Association
Public Forum Letters on Stadium Plan and Bond Issue
Readers discuss city council stadium project and legality of bond issues requiring 51 percent voter approval. George Livesy criticizes predeces sor schemes while John G. Spielman calls for oversight and a city manager report before proceeding. Also note urging clothing donations for Save the Children Federation to aid needy children ahead of winter.
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Mission St
San Francisco
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John R. Voris
Press-Telegram
Finland
Holland
France
Greece
Austria
Just Folks and Summer Signs in One Brief Page
A compact verse column by E A Guest reflects on praise and memory with lines about kindness and gentleness. It contrasts moral traits with a note on timing and closure. The piece ends noting that dances vary in form and a public sign urges people to Stay Off the Grass.
Salute to the States pageant advance sale reported
Ten years ago yesterday Jack King reported to the Junior and Senior Chamber directors that 2000 tickets had been advanced for the Salute to the States pageant. Eleven producing wells in the harbor district were yielding about 2300 dollars daily to the municipal treasury. Twenty years ago today fifty thousand people passed through turn stiles as the Pacific Southwest Exposition opened its second day and was expected to peak at seventy five thousand on Sunday. Conservation of natural resources was discussed by the California Development Association board at the Pacific Coast Club. Thirty years ago today Daniel Gilfeith er, famed as the Grand Old Man of the Screen, returned home to the Elks Club from Santa Barbara after appearing in a film with Marguerite Fisher. Mrs. C C Darrow opened her new home at Gladys Avenue and 10th Street for a card party hosted by the British Ambulance Society.
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California Development Association
Pacific Coast Club
Daniel Gilfeither
Elks Club
Santa Barbara
Marguerite Fisher
C. C. Darrow
Gladys Ave
10Th St
British Ambulance Society
Poor Boy and a Summer Cold in Rural Maine
A humorous monologue laments a summer cold as a social comic sketch. The speaker jokes about dialect and class, notes a coworker at a loan company knows about a second mortgage on the car, and laments how illness disrupts vacations and daily life, forcing isolation and home remedies.
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Betty
Diners and elephants at the circus tale
A young man visits the circus HQ and tests a trained elephant. The animal places money in a high wall box, with a joke about not having to walk to the bank since the keeper has a new automobile. The elephant returns the money only if taught.
Cigarettes sales soar after war rise in 1946
A Denver Post report cites Federation of Tax Administrations that America’s 145 million people smoke nearly one billion cigarets daily. Factory-made cigarette production climbed from 172 billion in 1939 to 352 billion in 1946, more than doubling, with consumption still increasing.
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America
Federation of Tax Administration
Denver Post
The Last Straw in Margate England
A 1948 feature contrasts Save the Children relief work with a Margate family sleeping five in one bed. The piece wryly notes cramped urban life, overcrowding, and the resilience of a breadwinner who finds extra room on a crowded bus.
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England
General Features Corp
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