Room for Improvement in Long Beach Business Rules
An editorial critiques the Long Beach Economic Development Committee report on regulatory barriers to business and industrial expansion. It notes construction permit counts, inspections, zoning rules, and calls for constructive use of criticism. City Manager Sam Vickers and others defend administration. planners pause, then align with defenses, while suggesting room for improvement.
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EDC
Long Beach
Sam Vickers
Ing
Planning Commission
North
Long Beach International City Idea Grows in Progress Edition
The Long Beach Progress Edition highlights the International City concept with projects under way. Plans include an International Commerce Exhibit Hall, Cultural and Art Museum sites, and an International Maritime and Commerce Museum funded by a $42 million beach program. Voter approval, trade missions, and events such as film and music festivals show rising acceptance and activity across groups and individuals.
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Long Beach
Part
Convention Bureau
Miss Tnternational
Congress and Chamber of Commerce
International Amusement Park
International Maritime and Commerce Museum
One Short Step to Chaos Senator Says
Senator Vaughn excerpts on political skepticism and social labels amid wartime duties and governance. The column lampoons public figures and policy debates from Kennedy to Eisenhower and notes rising price fixing prosecutions while musing on international prestige and home life.
Press-Geleoram Long Beach Calif Publisher Ridder and staff
The Long Beach press paper lists Merman Hy Ridder as publisher with Gavriel H. Ridder and Harold M. Hines as co publishers. Samuel C Cameron serves as general manager. Executive staff include Milex, Lines Manapins editor Harry Karns and Editorial Page Editor Comte. Advertising representative Metropolitan Gravy, Inc.
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Merman Hy Ridder
Gavriel H. Ridder
Harold M. Hines
Samuel C. Cameron
Ceilins
Matcalm Eoley
Milex
Manapins
Harry Karns
ICA and UNESCO Appointees Familiar With Tasks
Doris Fleeson notes Henry Labouisse and Marietta Tree named to ICA director and UNSC US representative roles. Article reviews Labouisse’s Middle East work and Tree’s civil rights advocacy, plus political context in the 1960s. It mentions Congress, Africa, Asia, and Middle East challenges, plus a Kennedy-Rusk decision stage.
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Poyrereu Yaruan Uascue
Henry R. Lubmuige
International Cooperation Administration
Marietta Peabody Tree
United States
Human Economic and Social Council
United Nations
Democratic Party
Labouisse
U.N
Middle East
Congress
John Falter
Henry M. Jackson
Washington
ICA
Falter
Oil Boom Sweeps Long Beach In The 1920s
Early 1920s Long Beach saw rapid oil development with the Virginia Country Club test well and over 200 wells by 1925 in Los Cerritos. Gas blasts at Bixby Road and Pacific Avenue terrified residents, while profitable oil arrived in Seal Beach in 1926 and Alamitos Heights in 1927, cementing Long Beach as a major oil field.
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R. Winston Tucker
Virginia Country Club
Oil
Los Cerritos
Seal Beach
Alamitos Heights
Long Beach
Academy award sweepstakes seen by family in Long Beach
Public letters describe a contest co sponsored by Independent Press Telegram and praise a six month theatre pass. Margaret Bassett recalls a trip to 20th Century Fox Studios in Burbank with movie stars and lunch during filming of High Time.
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Independent Press-Telegram
Long Beach
20Th Century Fox Studios
Burbank
Press-Telegram
Hing Crosby
Dick Bymex
Tuesday Weld
Margaret H. Bassett
Wilmington
234Th St
Affars About State Student Capitol Trips Wasteful Expenditures
Opinion criticizes statewide student trips to the Capitol as costly and wasteful. It argues these excursions burden local and state taxpayers, offer little educational value, and should be cut by denying attendance subsidies. The piece calls for restricting funding and limiting trip sizes.
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California
Kennedy
Sacramento
State
School Taxes And Public Education Controversy
Edward Jamison argues that public school taxes should reflect support for all education, including non public schools. He cites constitutional principles and the First Amendment, warning that federal education bills may grant broad control to the NEA and threaten parental rights and private schooling.
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Sludgepump
Frances Pierce
Congress
Marshall
NEA
Edward ‘J
Jamison
Stanley Ave
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Soaper
Bill Vaughan
Congo
Hever
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Ike
Dad
Jack Kennedy
Lyndon Johnson
Walt Alston
Dodgers
Leo du Yocher
A Bebee
Queen Elizabeth
Philip
Leo Durocher
Ee Marl
Soule Ben LI
Big Joe
Geleoram
Calin
Comte Atvertisin
Metropolitan Gravy, Inc
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Eure
Arate Jahan
Iicage Se Titiler
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Renepscot Bi Sinescotts
Anele i Francisca
Aa Wiath & Ie Suner
Prast-Tefearam
White House
Herve, Tees
DORIS _FLEESON
Unesco
Mrs. Tree
New York City
Human Rights Commission
Eleanor Roosevelt
Eleanor Roosevelt, Then In Mrs. Tree
State Rusk
Cherry Avenue
Atlantic
Orange
Harding
South Streets
Walnut Avenue
63Rd Street
Myrtle Avenue
59Th Street
William Breen
EL 65Th St
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Henry C. MacArthur
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Senate
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Department of Education
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