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Newspaper
Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Apr 26, 1974
Page
14
The College Entrance Examination Board reports a 9.4 percent rise in fall costs across the U S for college education pushing four year private campus living to about 4039 dollars next fall. California public institutions remain cheaper but inflation strains students. The piece urges greater federal aid and explores alternating study and work patterns to ease affordability.
Librarians grant a temporary amnesty through Saturday allowing overdue books to be returned without fines. If adopted by all patrons, the library could gain about 50,000 books by week’s end and both staff and readers would feel better about the gesture.
Letter writers urge an end to whaling citing whales as intelligent social mammals with air breathing lives and family bonds. They call for a 0 year moratorium to allow recovery and note substitutes for whale byproducts, then commend California research on culture and education influencing equality in schools.
City Manager John Mansell rejects a new terminal at Long Beach Airport arguing only three commercial flights exist. He urges maintaining status quo on airline service despite calls for enhanced business and public access and suggests residents near busy airfields should relocate if upset.
In Jackson Mississippi the third in a series notes Blacks returning to the South as economic opportunities and urban decay shift migration patterns. A Philadelphia carpenter, Arthur Preston, buys land in Virginia, planning a rural retirement aided by Social Security and self-sustaining farming. He praises the South as safer and more neighborly than the North.
The piece reviews how aerospace firms Rohr and Boeing face heavy losses in urban rail car projects, the federal role in transit aid, and the risk of overengineering. It notes eight city pilots, rising costs, and mixed progress as the South grapples with race, migration, and integration, including figures like Andrew Young and Gov. William Waller.
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