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Newspaper
Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Feb 14, 1962
Page
3
Gallagher resigns after seven months heading 17 state institutions with 108000 students and a 32000 dollar salary. On March 1 he returns to his old post at Ily College with 32700 students in enrollment. He calls his California tenure exhilarating yet costly to his wife and himself.
Two LSTs will bring 800 U S engineers to Thailand on February 20 for a Thai American road construction project officials said. Dr Roy E Simpson California State College trustee resigned suddenly prompting comments from Louis H Heilbron Theodore Meriam and Herman H Ridder who praised Gallagher as an educational leader.
The article reports on a press conference where President Kennedy discusses U2 spy plane issues, the fate of Francis Powers, and related Cold War topics. It notes parental reunion details, economy challenges with job creation, and Kennedy’s remarks on space, Cuba, Viet Nam, and nuclear arms control. The piece references Glenn, Rockefeller, and international diplomacy during the era.
Rep Craig Hosmer called on Governor Edmund Brown to back California’s Colorado River Board against proposed reclamation projects in Colorado and New Mexico. The board favors a moratorium until the Arizona California water rights suit decision and an Interior Department water inventory. Hosmer cited past overrules by the governor that hindered delegation unity against upstream projects risking Southern California water. Your for rent signs come down fast when you use Classified Dial Hi 2-5959.
Los Angeles disc jockey Hunter Hancock, 45, convicted of evading taxes on 318000 income, is scheduled for federal sentencing and probation hearing February 26. He was found guilty by a jury after failing to report income from 1956 to 1958 earned from record companies for playing songs on local radio. Hancock testified he received 100 dollars a month from one firm for four daily plays and reported that as income, while treating cash from other firms as gifts.
In Thomasville Georgia women entering the city association's inaugural bowling tournament faced a dress rule banning clothing above the knee. Officials clarified the rule referred to shorts, requiring garments to be knee length to participate.
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