Long Beach Considers 18.4 Cent Tax Hike and 20.94M Budget
City Manager Sam E. Vickers proposes an 18.4 cent tax increase to 1.804 per 100, targeting a 20,938,592 operating budget for the new fiscal year starting July 1. The plan shifts funds, expands services with population rise, and flags a 200,000 contingency for later pay adjustments while noting salary demands from the City Employes Assn cannot be funded within the proposed totals.
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Sam E. Vickers
Vickers
Mareh
Cie
Jona T
Mansell
Long Beach
Willyater
United of Our
California
Virn
Nideland Oil Fund
Public Improvement Fund
Rash of Earth Tremors Shake Monterey Area
A series of minor earthquakes shook the Monterey California area from early morning with the last shock at 10:07 a.m. reported by UC seismograph stations. The quakes, centered about 120 miles south of Berkeley, are considered not to have special significance by university scientists.
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Donner Wee Ae
Monterey
Calif
University of California Seismograph
Berkeley
Actress Marie McDonald to face arraignment over drugged crash
Hollywood reports actress Marie The Body McDonald will be arraigned on charges she crashed her convertible into three cars while under the influence of drugs and resisted police with screams, kicks and bites. Earlier she sent word she was too ill to attend the court hearing.
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Hollywood
Marie
McDonald
Truman Sits Up in Recovery After Operation
President Truman shows signs of improvement after gall bladder and appendix removal. doctors report stable temp and ongoing careful monitoring. He plans to leave hospital after about ten days as he recovers in Kansas City. Meanwhile a separate shooting near the Huff home results in minor neck wound to Clarence L. Hutt. weapon misfired while boys played with revolver under a mattress. father owned pistol and the family had warned against entering the bedroom.
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Kansas City
Harry S. Truman
Geraldine Blakemore
Uate
Wallace Graham
Truman
Blakemore
Graham
Mr. Truman
Kin
Clarence L. Hutt
Maddox St
C. W. Hinis
Dewaine
Fred Raleigh
Gale Ave
Hull
Nevada probe urged into child marriages by Tonopah case
Las Vegas district attorney demanded a full police probe into alleged irregularities after two Los Angeles girls aged 14 and 16 married in Tonopah Nye County. Det B J Handlen said the couples faced license hurdles in Las Vegas, traveled 190 miles to Tonopah, and learned they could obtain licenses with parental approval after the fact. The girls returned home with their mothers, while the two boys pled guilty to prowling and were jailed 15 days.
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Las Vegas
Nev
Los Angeles
Nevada
Dist
William Crowell
Nye County
Tonopah
B. J. Handian
Justice of the Peace
Gene Miley
Northridge
Priscilla Grif
Fith
Canoga Park
Lester Bickmore
Diane
Reseda
Handlen
Battle Shaping for Railway in Guatemala
Anti communist Guatemalan rebels push to control the PuerSt and Barrios Guatemala City railway linking the capital with its Caribbean port. The drive threatens a 45 mile section inside Honduras near Morales to Gualan, with a major battle forming around Zacapa. Rebels claim 18 towns recaptured in the struggle to oust President Werbez Guzran. The focus remains the railway, Guatemala’s only main line from Caribbean to Pacific.
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Tegucigalpa
Honduras
Puer- St. Barrios
Guatemala City
Morales
Gualan
Washington
Radio
Dex
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Aides discuss Hiss pension denial clash in Congress
The Eisenhower administration opposes denying pension to Alger Hiss and other federal workers convicted of felonies. Rep. Clardy and Rep. St. George condemn the stance as inconceivable while the Budget Bureau and Civil Service Commission defend contract rights and opposed changes. Hiss, with 14 years of service, would receive $709 annual retirement starting Dec 1, 1966.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Todas
Alger Hiss
Tig
Congress
Rep
Clardy
R-Mich
Rep. St. George
R-Ny
Bureau
Budgnt
Civil Service Commission
House Civil Service
Hiss
State Department
Lewisburg
Hissues
Budget Bureau
United States
Commission
Ren. St. George
Smith Wins Maine Primary Against Jones Big Margin
Senator Margaret Chase Smith of Maine coasted to renomination with a crushing margin over Robert L. Jones. With 613 of 626 precincts reporting, Smith had 96,159 votes to Jones 19,203. Jones carried only four precincts, one being his home Biddeford, and void of votes in many others. In the fall, Smith faces Democrat Paul Fullam.
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Fortland
Maine
Margaret Chase Smith
Sen
McCarthy
R-Wis
Robert L. Jones
GOP
Jones
Biddeford
Mrs. Smith
Wisconsin
Sen. Smith
Paul Fullam
Levees Rush Ahead as Des Moines Braces for Flood
Des Moines prepares for the greatest Des Moines River flood in history as a new levee system protects central city areas north of downtown. The crest is expected late Wednesday to 1-5 feet above the June 1947 flood. Elsewhere in Iowa, Boone and Webster City see record stages while Sioux City and Fort Dodge report easing conditions and towns evacuate or isolate amid rising waters.
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Dodge City
Des Moines
Fort Dodge
Iowa
Sioux City
Mason ‘City
Fort Dedge
Boone
Webster City
Floyd
Turin
Cherokee
Isolated Long Beach Women Missing Near War Center
Two Long Beach insurance women, Antoinette Oster and Marie Clements, were isolated in Puerto Barrios Guatemala near the war activity center. They were due in New Orleans by Monday 5 pm but had not arrived four hours later. Their daughters reported messages saying the pair were safe, with the wire sent from Puerto Barrios where government troops moved to stem anti-Red forces.
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Long Beach
Puerto Barrios
Guatemala
Antoinette E. Oster
Livingston Dr
Marie Scott Clements
Cedar Ave
New Orleans
Audrey Bolinger
Nancy _Alward
Fashion Ave
Clements
Oster
Local Newspaper Page Index and Section Listings
A catalog of section and page references across the issue including Beach Combing Bridge Classified Comics Crossword Editorial Financial Obituaries Radio and TV Shipping Tables Tides Temperatures and Women pages listed by page numbers for navigation.
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Boyle
Weather Outlook with Low Clouds and Fog
Considerable low cloudiness and fog tonight and morning through Wednesday, with hazy afternoon sunshine. The period brings slightly cooler temperatures and periods of reduced visibility, affecting outdoor plans and travel.
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