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Newspaper
Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1960
Page
7
A reader accompanies an editorial critique of Senator Stuart Symington’s defense reform plan. The piece contrasts a current balanced chart with a proposed reorganization, debating efficiency, bureaucratic reduction, and potential impacts on service separation and funding. It questions feasibility and political support from military leaders.
A shopper fatigued by Christmas excess contemplates the season as materialism grows. The piece urges the community to aid financially strained mothers and fathers by adopting a family through Christmas Cheer, with contact numbers Hemlock 53884 and Ike Inck 666243.
A turbulent take on the incoming Kennedy administration’s foreign policy team. The piece critiques the nomination of Michigan’s former Governor G Men von Williams as Assistant Secretary at State for Atti van Affi and laments past Eisenhower era policies. It argues for a career diplomat with Africa expertise to lead meaningful change.
Post election surveys by Gallup show Catholics shifting to Kennedy, with 78 percent in 1960 voting Democratic compared to 62 percent for Nixon in 1960 on Catholic lines. Protestant Democrats also moved Republican, while Catholic support varied by income and region. Professor Fenton analyzes census-based Catholic shares to explain Kennedy’s strength and notes the religious issue helped more than it hurt.
The fragment reflects a quotation about the value of giving over taking, citing Henry Ward Beecher on wealth. It frames thoughts as seal of children and favor of the poor, suggesting virtue through generosity rather than material gain. No clear event or person is fully identifiable.
A collection of fragmented phrases comments on gender, holiday crowds, health advice, diet emphasis, smoking filters, turkey as a seasonal fixture, rising living costs, and social exclusion. The text reads like garbled OCR with multiple topics and distorted names.
Doris Fleeson reports that after the January convening of the new Congress, Republicans rally for greater power in the November 1962 elections. The piece notes gains, party leadership shifts, and potential candidates including Summerfield, Bhi, and Hall, with Rockefeller’s 1962 re election outlook and Nixon’s position.
In Long Beach era history, Abel Stearns and John Temple from New England bought Rancho Los Alamitos for 5500 in old hides and tallow. Fioneraa died a year after purchase, leaving Francisco and a friend in charge. Dona Maniela da Cota had 12 children, Rafaela married John Tempte of Pueblo de Los Angeles. Temple and Stearns later wed Spanish girls and became partners, with Temple nicknamed Dondian. Abel Stearns was 40 when he married Arcadia Randini, a 14-year-old. The marriage drew local controversy as premature by some standards. Their Los Alamitos purchase aided Arcadia’s summers.
A quiz style excerpt lists Eisenhower appointees five or more and names Warren Harlan Brennan Whittaker Douglas plus Black Frankfurter and Douglas and Truman appointee Clare. It also covers Tom Sawyer first published 1876 and Huckleberry Finn 1884, Lidice destruction in 1942, Argonne isotope work, and 1955 Virgin Islands divorce residency rule in the Supreme Court.
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