Community letters warn of dangerous Sixth Street crossing
Readers from St Anthony’s urge action after editorial on a busy crosswalk near the gym and schools. Principal Sister Therese notes hundreds of students daily and dangerous speeding by drivers, calling for local officials to address safety. Other letter discusses transport tax and urging civic input.
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St Anthony’s
Sixth Street
Ateast
St. Anthony
Sister Marie Therese
Olive Ave
Editorial asks how standings on council manager system
The piece urges voters to question every city council candidate about support for Long Beach’s Council Manager form of government and about Proposition B-1. It defends the system’s stability and warns against changes that could invite chaos. It urges voters to seek clear positions on Council Manager governance and on Proposition B-1.
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Long Beach
Legislative Department
California Water Plan Weighs On Voters
The Good Opinion notes outsiders see Southern California as a leading growth region. The proposed 1.75 billion water development program is only a plan for now, and voters will decide if it moves forward or stalls.
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California
Cooperative Consumer
Southern
Southern California
Satellite advances spark debate on weather and progress
Senator Soaper notes Tiros satellite confirms suspicions about clouds behaving similarly on both sides of the sky. Deeper srowdrifts are listed among new scientific goals. Congressmen trumpet progress as opposition is kept at bay. Americans show waning interest in politics, yet rally around spring exhibition baseball results.
Danish ships in port as war disrupts Pacific shipping
Twenty years ago the Danish liner Etta from Copenhagen drew attention amid Nazi blitzkrieg disruptions to Pacific coast trade. Hulda Maersk remained docked with sailing dates indefinite. A plan to remodel City Hall proposes four skyscraper sections, 15 to 20 stories high, comparable to Los Angeles City Hall, as part of a bold utilities redevelopment.
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Copenhagen
Denmark
Norway
Public Utilities
City Hall
Los Angeles City Hall
Johnson Leads Drive to Prevent Kennedy Stampede
In Washington, Senator Johnson moves toward a more open presidential bid as Kennedy faces a stubborn bloc of about 400 Southern votes. Johnson's rising prominence reshapes Senate leadership debates and pressures Kennedy to counter Southern resistance and Catholic concerns with strong campaigning in West Virginia, the farm belt, and the Pacific Northwest.
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Sen. Johnson
Texas
Senate
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Kennedy
Massachusetts
Johnson
Preeson
Los Angeles
West Virginia
Farm
Pacific Northwest
South
Sen. Smathers
Florida
Smathers
Atee
Affairs of State New Employer Paid Ride on State's Gravy Train
An analysis by Irving H Perluss shows California unemployment claims from January through March 1960 averaged 6.02 percent of covered employment. The state’s extended benefits drain the unemployment insurance fund, with test estimates as high as 43 million dollars. The 1959 liberalism act pays extended benefits when unemployment reaches six percent, shifting costs to employers. Critics say unemployment insurance funds idle workers while jobs remain scarce, noting investigations support this trend.
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Irving H. Perluss
Department
MacArthur
Edmund G. Brown
California
Passenger Ticket Tax Discriminatory
A wartime measure kept a passenger ticket tax in force after WWII. Congress imposed a levy on tickets for common carriers including buses, railroads, and airlines. The tax, meant as a temporary device, persisted for years, affecting civilian travel while aiming to support aviation modernization and jet conversion.
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Congress
Do Hippos Sweat Blood and Sacred Shapes Explained
The hippo does not sweat blood. Its skin secretes thick pinkish droplets that resemble blood to protect it from drying and cracking while in and out of water. The triangle and square hold symbolic meanings in ancient and Christian contexts, with the triangle linked to divinity, the square to worldliness, and the circle to eternity.
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God
Press-Geleotim Long Beach Fort Cali
Long Beach California edition behind the masthead shows press and advertising staff names and bureau locations. The snippet lists publishers editors managers and advertising representatives across New York Detroit St Paul Los Angeles and San Francisco with addresses and offices.
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Geleotim
Long Beach
Cali Fort
Richer-Jonas, Inc
New York
Fit Avenue
Whiakey Ride
Detroit
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