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Newspaper
Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Jan 07, 1958
Page
6
Editorial notes the Long Beach Freeway will finish this summer linking Long Beach to the Los Angeles metro area. The piece highlights construction history, funding, and broad regional cooperation across government, noting 1913 origins and a 49 million dollar project milestone.
President Eisenhower’s $74 billion budget aims at a slight paper balance but future deficits loom amid an economic decline. Economists distrust optimism, predicting only a later upturn and warning Congress will challenge the administration’s budget amid recession and an election year.
A confused verse records two schedules and late secrecy about meeting times and dates. It contrasts romantic plans with the public debate on the budget and presidency, noting discontent from financial journals about foreign policy and tax revenues. The piece implies pressure from rivals and allies over economic policy and national standing.
The piece argues money cannot fix a flawed education system nor justify permanent federal control. It calls for thorough investigations by Congress, critiques the one billion scholarship plan, questions incentives, lack of chemistry and physics coursework, and the role of teachers and states in science education. It cautions against overreacting to the Sputnik era and urges a well rounded, talent driven system with state and local funding supplemented by philanthropy.
A satirical column mocks media fears about television and youth culture. It jokes about educators doubting TV harm, Dulles caricature, and the appeal of tangible play over toys. It critiques social norms, politics, and teen tattoo curiosities while lampooning public discourse.
A poem follows about a man who delays action while others work. He dreams of wealth and prosperity, counting on someday to strike it rich. Neighbors labor as he prophesies future success, aging without changing his fate, still insisting another year would make him wealthy.
Long Beach fog disrupted air traffic as flights were diverted from Long Beach Municipal and Inglewood to Burbank. Councilman Raymond C Kesler traveled to Washington D C to push release of Army cases linked to oil drilling at the Municipal Airport. State highway officials discuss adding Los Coyotes and Las Cerritos diagonals to the system. County Highway Dept unveils plan to extend Long Beach Blvd south from the flood control channel to Willow Street, paving 70 feet wide at an estimated cost under $500,000, per Supervisor Fred T Beatty.
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A whimsical piece features Ivan the turtle and Yankee Rabbit in a comic race to a distant zagan with a self winding watch, a stopped second hand, and a punchy closing note about traffic safety ideas and urban planning. Robert R Thompson signs a letter about road design and efficiency.
Faul Coffeldt urges readers to carry Jesus teachings into 1958. He cites Do unto others, love enemies, bless persecutors, pray for spiteful, and judge not. The brief column invites daily practice of these resolutions for the new year.
A PRESS-TELEGRAM note urges fog light installations for safety on Lakewood Blvd from May's Department Store to the traffic circle. It warns dense fog creates near zero visibility and risks repeated deadly incidents, criticizing council inaction until crisis.
Questions and answers cover uranium appearance and density, animal group names for "herd," native “walking-cat” fern propagation, and honey production requiring bees. Uranium metal is bright like silver but tarnishes quickly and is very dense. The word herd applies to horses, cattle, camels, elephants, deer, sheep, swine, goats, seals, and whales. The walking-cat fern spreads by leaf tips forming new plants, and bees are essential for honey production as enzymes in their bodies transform nectar.
Press Telegram imprint notes publisher Harold M. Hines assistant to publisher Samuell Cameron Gens manager Leay Collins Jr bus manager H F Burmester editor Malcolm Epley executive editor Miles E Sines Washington News Bureau chief Albee Building national advertising representative Ridddy Jenny Inc lists offices in New York Chicago Detroit Minneapolis St Paul Los Angeles San Francisco and San Mateo current files of The Press Telegram kept at these offices advertising rep Metropoliten Group Inc
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