Lakewood voters urged to reelect leaders amid growth plan
Experience counts as Lakewood nears adulthood with a new general plan to guide growth while keeping the city’s character. A county task force will study police costs, and the election of Mayor Mark Hannaford and Vice Mayor Charles Schweitzer is pitched as crucial for fiscal and service continuity.
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Lakewood
Lakeood
Los Angeles County
Mark Hannaford
Charles T. Schweitzer
Hannaford
Schweitzer
Martha Mitchell roils Arkansas Gazette with Fulbright plea
Martha Mitchell urged crucify Fulbright in a provocative call to the Arkansas Gazette. She defended her stance as not political, though her outburst against Senator Fulbright and past remarks about antiwar protesters drew attention. The piece teases the late hour of her call and the effect on editors and public figures.
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Martha Mitchell
The
Arkansas Gazette
Fulbright
G. Harrold Carswell
Social Security boost may not lift many here much
Financial columnist Sylvia Porter notes a 15 percent Social Security increase nationwide totaling 1 billion dollars this month. Yet in Long Beach many retirees receive little benefit above the national average, with October retirees averaging 105 dollars monthly now rising to 120.75, and area checks likely lagging the national figure due to local demographics and state welfare deductions.
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Sylvia Porter
Congress
Porter
California
Hugh Burns
Reagan
A Hundred Years With Our Eyes Shut on Racial Change
The essay criticizes post Civil War neglect of black Americans and the 1877 compromise. It argues northern abdication allowed Jim Crow, caste ideas, and ongoing racial injustice to persist while noting modern progress and continued participation of African Americans in society despite systemic challenges.
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Rutherford B. Hayes
Sammel Tilden
Hayes
India
Penhoulder
America
Steinbéck
California
Reagan
Delano
Cardinals
White Sox
Africa
Agnew Mitchell
Nixon
Carswell
Nixon retains power to shape court
New York editors discuss the Supreme Court reorganization amid the Carswell controversy. They note Nixon can still influence future court composition, warn against politicizing the court, and propose a retirement mandate at 70 plus broader reforms for all branches. The piece highlights aging justices and the need for institutional change beyond one seat.
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Supreme Court
Senate
Carswell
Nixon
Earl Warren
Hugo Black
William Douglas
John Harlan
Burger
Brennan and
Marshall
Franklin Roosevelt
Mixon
Editorial Letter Calls BYU Tied to Racism
A reader blasts a Cal State Long Beach editorial for supporting BYU athletic ties. The letter denounces Mormon doctrine as racist, urges CSULB to sever relations with BYU, and claims the church’s theology endorses racial inferiority. It also references housing discrimination concerns involving Black movers in Long Beach.
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Long Beach
Brigham Young University
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Mormons
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the Forty-Niner
Cal State Long Beach
Mormon Church
Gal State
Long Beach State
Fair Housing Foundation of
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James Reston
Committee of Nine
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Haynsworth
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